ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1040433/arquivo-deconstruction-and-material-reuse-for-a-circular-architecture Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Susanna Moreira https://www.archdaily.com/1040433/arquivo-deconstruction-and-material-reuse-for-a-circular-architecture The construction industry today faces an unavoidable paradox: the urgent need for sustainable solutions for the future of cities collides with the exhaustion of the term "sustainability" itself, often reduced to a hollow commercial label. In this scenario, Arquivo – one of the winners of ArchDaily's 2025 Next Practices Award – emerges as a facilitator and mediator between different stakeholders in the construction field through disassembly – or rather, de-construction – and the reuse of building elements. Etymologically, if "construction" derives from the Latin construere (to heap up, assemble), the prefix "de-" imposes a conceptual inversion: it is not about destroying, but about disassembling with intelligence to understand the logic of the parts.

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