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From Ecologies to Everyday Life: Reflecting on Architectural Exhibitions in 2025

Daniela Andino — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This past year marked a period of introspection for architecture. As 2025 unfolded, the discipline, confronted with evolving environmental and social realities, entered a broader turning point in how it understands its role and how users engage with it. Throughout the year, exhibitions shifted focus away from buildings as isolated objects toward a broader understanding of relationships between ecology, equity, everyday life, and collective imaginaries. Across institutions and cities, they operated less as showcases and more as discursive platforms: places where architecture was not only presented, but also imagined, questioned, and collectively redefined.

Beyond Universal Models: The Turn Toward Situated Architecture

Daniela Andino — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Specificity has re-emerged as a central language in architectural discourse. In an increasingly globalized field, where projects often follow familiar models regardless of context, architects are now turning toward approaches rooted in the particularities of each site. This renewed attention to context reflects broader social, climatic, and political pressures: cities are facing extreme heat, ecological challenges, shifting demographics, and new forms of collective life that demand responses grounded in their immediate conditions.

The City as a Laboratory of Processes: A Decade of Urban Experimentation with Concéntrico

Jonathan Yeung — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:30:00 +0000

As cities continue to develop, we are seeing ever more well-planned, thoroughly executed, and tightly regulated approaches to shaping urban centres and their surrounding spaces—for better and for worse. As codes, restrictions, and guidelines improve and tighten, urban environments become safer, more balanced, and less prone to surprise. Yet the flip side is that highly managed districts can drift toward over-order and sanitisation, shedding the messy, accretive character that once produced alleyways, residual spaces, and unexpected sequences of movement—conditions often born from ongoing community improvisation in the grey zones of regulation.

Centre de Congrès Rabat / Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000

As a relatively young institution, the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique solidified its identity with the architecture of its second campus in Rabat. Phase one of the masterplan opened in the autumn of 2024 and includes a conference centre hosting events of all different types, capacities, and participants, e.g. faculty lectures, industry conferences, and public performances. Beyond the provision of these facilities, the brief wanted the building to contribute to the overall character of the university and the quality of life on its campus.

Round About Baths / Leopold Banchini Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Cars dancing endlessly round and around, drawing inaccessible circular spaces punctuating our cities, looking for meaning. What about roundabout what?

Bofill Taller de Arquitectura Reveals Construction Images of the Royal Arts Complex in Riyadh

Antonia Piñeiro — Wed, 07 May 2025 05:30:00 +0000

Barcelona-based architecture studio Bofill Taller de Arquitectura was commissioned to design the Royal Arts Complex (RAC) by the Royal Commission for Riyadh City in 2019. Currently under construction, the 320,000-square-meter building complex comprises thirteen structures, each contributing to the promotion of artistic expression. The project is located within King Salman Park, a 13.3-square-kilometer park being developed on the site of Riyadh's former airport. The broader development includes mixed-use projects to transform the area into a major recreational district. The overall masterplan also features a stadium by Populous, planned for the FIFA 2034 World Cup.

Cap Cotet Health Center / BAAS

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The project arises from the desire to qualify the interior space and to integrate naturally with the scale of the environment. The entire program is located at street level, in a scheme of two lines of consultations framing a higher room that receives north light from a high window.

Ricardo Bofill Passes Away at 82

Nicolás Valencia — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:12:00 +0000

Ricardo Bofill, the Spanish architect founder of Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA), designer of the iconic Walden 7 and more than 1,000 projects in forty countries, has passed away at 82 in Barcelona on Friday, January 14, as officially announced by his own firm through a statement.

Museo Oliva Artés / BAAS Arquitectura

Valeria Silva — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 02:00:00 +0000

The recovery and transformation of an old industrial building from 1920 into a museum, highlighting its special configuration in three naves and its interior textures, adding new layers that adapt it to the new use. The Oliva Artés industrial building was to be demolished in 2008 in the context of the new construction of the Central Park of Poble Nou, which planned to cut the continuity of the historic Pere IV street to which the building is closely linked. A few days before the entry of the excavators a neighbourhood association dedicated to the industrial heritage of Poble Nou convinced the City Council of the need to preserve the building, which at that time was in a state of structural ruin.

Spotlight: Ricardo Bofill

Finn MacLeod — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 03:30:00 +0000

Ricardo Bofill (born 5 December 1939), a graduate of the Barcelona University School of Architecture and the School of Geneva, and the founder of interdisciplinary firm Taller de Arquitectura, is renowned for his extensive body of work and ever-changing design aesthetic. His career has spanned over 50 years, encompassing more than 1000 buildings in cities ranging from Lisbon and Boston to Tokyo and St. Petersburg. His architectural approach has evolved over the decades and has permeated dozens of countries worldwide.

Modern Morocco: Building a New Vernacular

Eric Baldwin — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Modern Moroccan architecture is reinterpreting vernacular traditions. Taking its name from the Arabic al-maġhrib, or the “place the sun sets; the west”, the kingdom is a sovereign state home to numerous examples of Islamic design, as well as detailed art and ornamentation found within geometric patterns, friezes and open courtyards.

7 Architects Who Weren't Afraid to Use Color

Zoya Gul Hasan — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Some architects love color, some are unmoved by it, some hate it, and some love to dismiss it as too whimsical or non-serious for architecture. In an essay on the subject, Timothy Brittain-Catlin mentions the “innate puritanism among clients of architecture,” architects and their “embarrassment of confronting color,” and how “Modernism tried to ‘educate out’ bright colors.” So, while the debate on color in architecture is far from being a new one, it is not finished, and probably never will be.

15 Eye-Popping Projects That Don't Apologize For Using Color: Photos of the Week

María Francisca González — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

This week, colorful projects are here to steal the show. Few architects have dared to use color in their works, however, when done so the results can be incredible. Here is a selection of 15 images from prominent photographers such as Gregori Civera, Julien Lanoo and Subliminal Image that show us the huge potential of color.

10 ArchDaily Projects That You Can Book Through Airbnb

Niall Patrick Walsh — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:00:00 +0000

ArchDaily and Airbnb were both founded in 2008, but for two very different reasons. Since then, ArchDaily has amassed a vast database of tens of thousands of buildings, located in cities and countries all around the world. Meanwhile, Airbnb has revolutionized the way in which we explore these countries, and use these buildings, even if just for one night.

Ricardo Bofill's Red Wall Through The Lens of Gregori Civera

Begoña Uribe — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:00:00 +0000

Photographer Gregori Civera worked in collaboration with Pablo Bofill to photograph the magnificent work of his father Ricardo Bofill. The Red Wall, La Muralla Roja is a housing project located within the La Manzanera development in Spain's Calpe. The building makes clear references to the popular architecture of the Arab Mediterranean Area, a result of the architects' inspiration by the Mediterranean tradition of the casbah.

Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique / Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Valentina Villa — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 04:00:00 +0000

Benguerir is only seventy kilometres from Marrakesh. Fes and Meknes aren’t far away either, cities whose winding medinas are among the most beautiful in the world. And can we ignore the white avenues of Casablanca, shaped by the art deco movement? The gardens of Rabat? The oases of the Draa Valley? The ksour and the earthen palaces south of the Atlas? No; it’s impossible to build on Moroccan soil as you would on the Chinese steppe or in the Las Vegas desert.

14 Shades of Red: Projects to Fall in Love With on Valentine's Day

Piedad Rojas — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Happy Valentine's Day!

We've affectionately rounded up 14 projects that use the power of the color most associated to love, passion, joy, sexuality and intensity: red