Noted architect Thomas Kligerman celebrates the magic of summer, exploring the seaside setting and design of secluded cottages facing the Atlantic along the Rhode Island coast
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Contextual Interventions and an Embrace of Heritage: Explore the Architecture of 24 Grados in Honduras
How can architecture restore relevance to forgotten places? What dialogues can emerge when buildings and landscapes are treated not as blank slates, but as layers of memory, identity, and potential? For the Honduran architecture firm 24 Grados, these questions shape an approach rooted in adaptation, reuse, and contextual design. Their projects range from the restoration of old Spanish plazas and cultural centers to interventions in natural parks and coastal villages in Honduras. Each one is grounded in the belief that design can reweave relationships between people, place, and heritage.
https://www.archdaily.com/1029256/contextual-interventions-and-an-embrace-of-heritage-explore-the-architecture-of-24-grados-in-hondurasMoises Carrasco
The Best Interviews of 2025: Architecture’s Year of Reflection, Repair, and Optimism
In 2025, the architectural field has been marked by a dense calendar of exhibitions, a measured slowdown in construction across multiple regions, and a period of reflection that scrutinizes the impact of intelligence (artificial and natural)—both on professional practice and workplace culture, as well as its use as a pedagogical tool. Over this calendar year, ArchDaily has published more than 30 interviews in a range of formats—Q&As, in-person conversations, video features, and more. These exchanges have engaged themes of sustainability and nature, housing and urban development, AI and intelligence, adaptive reuse and public life, and have closely followed major exhibition platforms including the Venice Biennale, Expo 2025 Osaka, Milan Design Week, Concéntrico, and others.
https://www.archdaily.com/1037009/the-best-interviews-of-2025-architectures-year-of-reflection-repair-and-optimismJonathan Yeung
Designing for Tomorrow: Nature-Positive Solutions in Urban Environments
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The future of urban planning and architecture is promising if the world, collectively, looks beyond the concept of mere sustainability and instead embraces a nature-positive approach. As global population growth drives rapid urbanization—requiring humanity to build the equivalent of a city the size of Madrid every week for decades to come—the construction sector faces a defining challenge: how to build durable, energy-efficient, and resilient urban environments in harmony with natural ecosystems.
https://www.archdaily.com/1035817/designing-for-tomorrow-nature-positive-solutions-in-urban-environmentsRene Submissions
Can the Floor Beneath Us Shape How We Learn, Focus, and Feel?
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For over 125 years, Tarkett has been manufacturing linoleum flooring based on its original 1898 formulation. Trusted by architects worldwide, this natural floor covering is a benchmark in sustainability, durability, and timeless design. Today, Tarkett Linoleum is not only known for its heritage but also for its innovative application in modern architecture — particularly in the education sector. Learn more about the impact of Lino Materiale by Tarkett on today's spaces.
https://www.archdaily.com/1033536/closer-to-nature-tarkett-linoleum-in-educational-architectureRene Submissions
From Coast to Countryside: 15 Rural Hotels in Portugal
Tourism in Portugal began to develop in the late 1950s, initially centered on key destinations such as the Algarve coast, Lisbon, and the religious hub of Fátima. This focus made tourism largely a coastal activity. However, rapid growth and overburdened infrastructure in these areas led to saturation and a crisis in the sector. To address this, efforts were made to promote alternative destinations, appealing to a new wave of tourists looking for more sustainable, authentic, and locally immersive experiences.
https://www.archdaily.com/1023920/from-coast-to-countryside-15-rural-hotels-in-portugalCamilla Ghisleni
Designing in Harmony with Nature: Architecture in Urban Wetlands and the Pursuit of Territorial Well-Being
What does it mean to design while considering the rhythms and cycles of nature? What social relationships and connections with the natural environment can cities foster today and in the future? In the face of a triple environmental crisis driven by climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, along with zoonotic pandemics, increasing mental and emotional health issues, and digital hyperconnectivity, Fundación Cosmos proposes to explore learnings, experiences, and tools aimed at connecting people with their territories. Through nature-based urban planning, the intervention in urban wetlands presents an opportunity to enhance, learn from, and conserve natural and cultural heritage in pursuit of a sustainable and resilient future.
https://www.archdaily.com/1027467/designing-in-harmony-with-nature-architecture-in-urban-wetlands-and-the-pursuit-of-territorial-well-beingAgustina Iñiguez
From Iran to Argentina: 9 Unbuilt Contemporary Residences Exploring Form, Context, and Identity
Across geographies and generations, architects are rethinking the idea of home, balancing personal expression, contextual sensitivity, and material clarity. These contemporary residential proposals, submitted by the ArchDaily community, reveal how the house continues to evolve as both an architectural statement and an intimate landscape for living. From the sculptural and futuristic to the grounded and vernacular, they explore how built form balances between identity, environment, and lifestyle in an increasingly complex world.
https://www.archdaily.com/1034921/from-iran-to-argentina-9-unbuilt-contemporary-residences-exploring-form-context-and-identityNour Fakharany
Age of Nature: New DAC Exhibition Explores the Future Relationship Between Architecture and Nature
Opening on World Architecture Day, October 6, 2025, "Age of Nature" is a new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center (DAC), on view until May 17, 2026. Presented in DAC's largest exhibition space, the show examines how architecture can evolve to support both human life and biodiversity, addressing one of the most pressing challenges of the time: redefining the relationship between the built environment and the natural world.
https://www.archdaily.com/1034831/age-of-nature-new-dac-exhibition-explores-the-future-relationship-between-architecture-and-natureReyyan Dogan
Interiors of Pastry Shops and Bakeries: Design Strategies that Integrate Functions, Users, and Materials
What is the link between architecture and pastry? What design strategies are applied in the contemporary interiors of bakeries and pastry shops? While architecture can serve as inspiration for the design of forms and configurations of edible elements, it also contributes the techniques of descriptive drawing, architectural composition, and staged planning to the culinary language. Focusing their thinking on people and their needs, both disciplines strive for precision, with interior design being a broad field where the use of figures, colors, materials, and various equipment can be explored to enhance user experiences.
https://www.archdaily.com/1020692/interiors-of-pastry-shops-and-bakeries-design-strategies-that-integrate-functions-users-and-materialsAgustina Iñiguez
The Brazilian Pavilion Examines the Amazon’s Ancestral Infrastructures at the 2025 Venice Biennale
The Brazilian Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, open since May 10, 2025, is curated by Plano Coletivo, a group formed by architects Luciana Saboia, Eder Alencar, and Matheus Seco. Titled "(RE)INVENTION," the exhibition represents Brazil through a multidisciplinary approach that connects architecture, nature, and social infrastructure. Presented at the Giardini pavilion, the project is organized by the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo in collaboration with Brazil's Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The exhibition reflects on the recent archaeological discovery of ancestral infrastructure in the Amazon to examine the socio-environmental contradictions of contemporary cities. It invites visitors to learn from ancestral knowledge and explore the interdependence between humans, land, and nature as a foundation for more sustainable futures.
https://www.archdaily.com/1024091/architecture-as-a-cultural-artifact-brazil-announces-participation-in-venice-biennale-2025Nour Fakharany
Form Follows the Existing: 15 Homes Designed to Preserve Local Trees
The preservation of the environment and the harmonious integration of the built and natural elements are fundamental principles in contemporary architecture. Various design strategies are employed to achieve this balance, ranging from the revival of vernacular techniques to the use of advanced technologies. However, this concern goes beyond the choice of specific construction systems or innovative materials; it also manifests in the design approach that ensures the preservation of the site's natural elements. In this context, we present 15 homes designed to protect local trees, showcasing how architectural decisions can adapt to nature rather than impose on it.
https://www.archdaily.com/1025714/form-follows-the-existing-15-homes-designed-to-preserve-local-treesCamilla Ghisleni
The Continuous Project: A Case of Iterative Placemaking in Long You, China
The architect's role has traditionally been relatively well-defined: design a building, direct the project, coordinate logistics, and guide construction through to completion. As specialised fields have proliferated, together with a rapidly changing social economy, the practice of architecture has diversified, opening multiple paths for how architects can contribute to society.
Since the 1980s, one of the most consistent shifts may have been the separation between the "design architect" and the "architect of record." Where a single office once carried a project from concept to completion, internationalisation—alongside cross-border work, licensure regimes, procurement models, and liability structures—has encouraged a split. Design teams increasingly set the conceptual and schematic direction, then hand over the design development to local record architects for technical detailing, approvals, and site execution. The model has clear advantages—sharper expertise, efficiency, and often profitability (or services offered at reduced fees)—but it also segments the profession and can distance authorship from delivery.
What, then, might the next shift be, and what new synergies could redefine the architect's role? How should architects adapt to the changing professional climate? One promising trajectory is a turn from singular, permanent objects toward ongoing placemaking—iterative, context-specific programmes that prototype, test, and refine spatial ideas in public. Rather than producing one large, iconic work that fixes a site for decades, this model privileges cycles of making, use, evaluation, and adjustment at the community scale.
https://www.archdaily.com/1034118/the-continuous-project-a-case-of-iterative-placemaking-in-long-yau-chinaJonathan Yeung
From Japan to Saudi Arabia: 8 Unbuilt Hospitality Projects Redefining the Future of Hotels and Resorts
In contemporary architecture, hotel design is no longer defined solely by luxury and accommodation. Instead, it is becoming a platform to explore questions of identity, ecology, and cultural meaning. Beyond providing rooms and amenities, hotels today aim to create immersive experiences that connect travelers to local traditions, landscapes, and communities. In this curated selection of unbuilt hospitality projects, submitted by the ArchDaily community, speculative and competition-winning proposals offer a glimpse into the future of hospitality, where sustainability and storytelling are as central as comfort and style.
https://www.archdaily.com/1033568/from-japan-to-saudi-arabia-8-unbuilt-hospitality-projects-redefining-the-future-of-hotels-and-resortsNour Fakharany
A Natural Childhood: How Architecture Connects Landscape, Culture, and Play
How do nature and landscape dialogue within spaces designed for children? How are architecture and urban design capable of shaping natural atmospheres that integrate practices of play, participation, and exploration? From participatory projects that involve children in the design process to built environments that incorporate furniture adapted to their needs, the conception of spaces for childhood entails the creation of places for encounter, learning, and coexistence. At times, these spaces are able to strengthen the relationships between interiors and exteriors, connecting their users with nature and the surrounding environment. Depending on their cultures, customs, and histories of attachment to place, several contemporary projects deploy tools and strategies that integrate architecture, nature, and pedagogy to form broad experiences of learning, play, and discovery.
https://www.archdaily.com/1033387/a-natural-childhood-how-architecture-connects-landscape-culture-and-playAgustina Iñiguez
Of a Feather: The Hidden Architecture of Bird Watching
Around the world, a passionate community of bird watchers, from novice observers to seasoned ornithologists, is drawn to the subtle movements, distinct calls, and remarkable migrations of birds. This global fascination has led to the creation of thoughtfully designed spaces by architects and designers, enhancing the bird-watching experience while respecting the ecological landscapes in which they are placed.
https://www.archdaily.com/1032626/of-a-feather-the-hidden-architecture-of-bird-watchingOlivia Poston
From Vietnam to Poland: 6 Unbuilt Residences Immersed in Nature
Across diverse climates and landscapes, architects are reimagining the home as a place deeply rooted in its surroundings, where architecture and environment work together to nurture well-being. This curated selection of unbuilt residences, submitted by the ArchDaily community, are conceived as sanctuaries, offering respite from the pace of urban life and drawing on the restorative qualities of greenery, water, and open air. Nature is utilized as an active presence, shaping courtyards, guiding circulation, and influencing the choice of materials and colors.
https://www.archdaily.com/1033157/from-vietnam-to-poland-6-unbuilt-residences-immersed-in-natureNour Fakharany