Type: | ArchDaily

Itchimbía Housing / Mejía Narváez Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Itchimbía transforms a void in Quito's Historic Center into six homes that reveal the city through a gradual journey, where material and light make the passage of time perceptible.

FM House / Dado Castello Branco Arquitetura

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Located in the Laranjeiras gated community in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, the house needed to accommodate a comprehensive program on a tight lot, without losing its direct connection to the landscape. "Incorporating such a complete program on a limited plot of land was a real challenge," says Dado Castello Branco.

Sima House / Dosorozco

Valentina Díaz — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Casa SiMa starts with a simple premise: the site possessed its own order before architecture arrived.

Bachour Café / Estudio Guto Requena

Valeria Silva — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 13:00:00 +0000

The architectural project draws inspiration from French boulevards and the aesthetic richness of Brazilian design, exploring contrasts between opulence and warmth, tradition and innovation, craft and technology. The concept incorporates references to Art Nouveau — a movement that emerged in Paris during the Belle Époque at the end of the 19th century, a period of great cultural effervescence marked by organic lines, fluid forms, and natural inspiration. These elements are reinterpreted in the design, creating a composition that blends tropicality and technology.

Pavilion in the Oaks / Mork-Ulnes Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The clients approached Mork-Ulnes Architects with a desire for a flexible space that could provide a meditative, spa-like experience for exercise, yoga, and quiet contemplation, as well as a place for social gatherings with their extended family and friends.

Kerena Funeral Services / MYT+GLVDK

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The fleeting nature of life has been the starting point for Regina Galvanduque and Andrés Mier y Terán in their new architectural, furniture, interior design, and graphic identity project called Kerena.

Neuweilerstrasse Development / Volpatohatz

Cristina Popescu — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 10:00:00 +0000

VOLPATOHATZ won a competition for the design of an apartment building in Basel, Switzerland. The competition proposal, juried by architect and professor Harry Gugger, includes seven apartments over five levels, plus a basement for bikes, plants, and storage.

Argyle House: The Story Behind Edinburgh’s Brutalist Landmark

Camilla Ghisleni — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Rising from the rocks that form the base of Castle Rock in Edinburgh, Argyle House stands in stark contrast to the city's most iconic landmark. Built in the late 1960s, this angular, grey building is a quintessential example of post-war Brutalist architecture. A geometric concrete structure stripped of ornamentation that has recently become an unlikely star on screen, serving as the backdrop for the series Dept. Q, based on novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. Yet the 11-story complex, which once housed government offices and now homes promising startups, continues to divide opinion. On one hand, its imposing presence challenges the historic urban fabric; on the other, its architectural significance makes it an important part of the city's modern heritage.

Capsule Retreat / East Architecture Studio

Pratik Mour — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Overlooking the coniferous forests of Mount Lebanon, Capsule Retreat is a modern home that beds into an ancient landscape of sandstone outcrops and alpine villages. Paying close attention to the flesh of the site, the design process sets aside aesthetic sensitivities in favor of a more physiological reading, one that acknowledges the stratification embedded in its materiality, where incompleteness and low-tech building technologies found in rural settings were the starting point to weave in design practice as context.

JSWD Wins Competition to Design Mixed-Use RIYMAR Towers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Reyyan Dogan — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 06:30:00 +0000

German architecture practice JSWD has been selected to design RIYMAR Towers, a proposed mixed-use development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following an international invited architecture competition organized by Malcolm Reading Consultants on behalf of RIYMAR Real Estate. Located near the intersection of King Fahd Road and Olaya Street, adjacent to the Riyadh Gallery complex, the project is planned as a new development combining residential, hospitality, office, retail, and leisure functions. The project is positioned within the broader urban transformation outlined by Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, which includes objectives related to tourism, cultural development, hospitality, and increased homeownership.

Maison de l'Environnement et de la Biodiversité / Bulle, Poirier & Justman Architectes

Cristina Popescu — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 06:00:00 +0000

On the edge of a municipal estate in Mitry-Mory, between farmland and the town center, the Maison de l'Environnement et de la Biodiversité occupies a former go-kart track, framed by grassy embankments and already reclaimed by a beekeepers' association and its hives. Next to the communal restaurant and the archery range, the city wished to create a community venue dedicated to environmental education: a multipurpose hall, a honey house, and a covered terrace, within a compact footprint of 225 m².

SHAU’s Microlibraries Initiative Expands with a New Project in Jakarta

Antonia Piñeiro — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 05:30:00 +0000

A new microlibrary project by Indonesian studio SHAU is under construction in Jakarta. The Microlibrary Taman Puring is part of the microlibraries initiative designed and organized by SHAU Rotterdam-Bandung (Florian Heinzelmann and Daliana Suryawinata), in collaboration with the City of Jakarta and the Microlibrary Foundation, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to expanding a network of sustainable, multifunctional community reading spaces across low-income neighborhoods in Indonesia. SHAU's first project, Kampung Mrican Phase 1, received the highest prize in the social architecture category of the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025, funding that made possible the realization of this second one.

What Architecture Brings Together: Encounters at Open House Valencia 2026

Valentina Díaz — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Architectural mediation is also a form of spatial and urban production. Open House Valencia offers a way of understanding it as a relational practice capable of introducing new dynamics into the everyday structure of the city. Its urban dimension takes shape through a temporary infrastructure that redistributes attention, access and urban rhythms, bringing together spaces that usually remain outside the scope of shared experience.

Casa Tranquilo / DADO

Pratik Mour — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Casa Tranquilo is a 10,000 sq. ft. villa in Verla Canca, North Goa, set within dense forest. Our inspiration was not a building or a style but a philosophy of slow living: a home where the day is marked by birdsong and the changing light through the trees. We let the existing forest guide the design, so that every tree that could be saved was woven into the plan and the house feels like it grew from the forest floor rather than being built on top of it.

LYNK&CO Motorsport Experience Center Chengdu / MUDA-Architects

Xiaoyin Kuang — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Translating the language of automotive performance into architectural space forms the starting point of the LYNK & CO Motorsport Experience Center (MEC). Located at the heart of Tianfu International Circuit in Chengdu Eastern New Area, adjacent to the main grandstand, the project forms part of Geely's Mintimes Spaceport development.

Built99 Brings Together 99 Practices in a Survey of Contemporary Indian Architecture

Rene Submissions — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 01:30:00 +0000

Multigenerational homes, educational buildings, and workplaces raise different questions about how architecture accommodates everyday life in India. Across the projects featured in Built99, these questions inform decisions about spatial organization, relationships with the landscape, daylight, and materials.

Mekong Breeze House / Re: Edge Architecture

Pratik Mour — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Mekong Breeze House celebrates Cambodia's tropical spirit — where sunlight dances through patterned terracotta screens, and the river breeze flows freely under and through operable windows, sliding panels, and open spaces. Designed in harmony with nature, its U-shaped formation embraces the landscape and the view of the Mekong, preserving existing trees and creating a living sanctuary of comfort, culture, and calm.

Casa de las Lavanderas / Raúl Sánchez

Cristina Popescu — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Barcelona's Eixample bourgeoisie once washed their clothes in the wells of Calle Aiguafreda, one of the city's most picturesque streets today. Narrow two-story houses accommodated the washerwomen and their families, who went out daily to their wells to hand-scrub clothes they only ever touched to wash.

ELL House / SUITE

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Built with stone, raffia, and local solid hardwood, the expansion of the ELL House in Paraty adds a new volume to a 1980s home without erasing the simplicity of its original architecture.

BALSA (Self-Sufficient Boat for Laboratories and Services in the Amazon) / CASA [Ciudades Auto Sostenibles Amazónicas]

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Amazonian living is characterized by the geographical dispersion of its communities and high territorial mobility. In the Peruvian low jungle, river transport is the main connection between riverside populations, but long travel times and high costs make accessing basic services difficult. Furthermore, the small size of many communities limits the state's capacity to provide permanent infrastructure for healthcare, education, identity registration, and other essential services. Consequently, the Amazon region concentrates some of the lowest indicators in the country regarding access to education, healthcare services, and development opportunities.

Culto Café / Luiz Solano + TLR.C

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Located in the Jardim Paulista neighborhood, on the ground floor of the Raddar studio, this compact 19-square-meter space unfolds almost as an extension of the sidewalk, serving as a connecting element between the outdoors and the architecture studio.

House in the Woods / Tom Lontine Architect

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Set within a sloped, wooded site overlooking the Connecticut River, House in the Woods by Tom Lontine Architect is a 4,400-square-foot residence designed for a pair of hardworking professionals seeking a quiet home to age in place. Low-slung and clad in dark-stained cedar, the house is embedded into the hillside to minimize its visual impact and heighten the sense of immersion in the surrounding forest.

Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center / AUX Architecture

Andreas Luco — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Founded in 1908, Vista Del Mar is a 114-year-old non-profit organization that began service to the community by founding the first cottage-style orphanage in Southern California. Today, they provide a trauma-responsive continuum of services to empower children, youth, and families in Southern California to lead fulfilling lives.

Ex Macello di Treviso / TIXA Studio associato

Cristina Popescu — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The project transforms Treviso's former slaughterhouse into a day center for people in vulnerable circumstances, building on the building's layered identities.