ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1042497/vancouver-architecture-city-guide-20-projects-behind-north-americas-most-livable-city Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Hana Abdel https://www.archdaily.com/1042497/vancouver-architecture-city-guide-20-projects-behind-north-americas-most-livable-city As the overview of the FIFA World Cup 2026 cities continues, we move on to what is currently the most livable city in North America, Vancouver. Dubbed the city of glass by artist Douglas Coupland, who was referring to the downtown's dominant steel-and-glass architectural aesthetic, the city actually boasts diverse architecture, from 20th-century Edwardian buildings to unique 21st-century modernist sites.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1032934/designing-with-smoke-the-chimney-as-architectural-and-environmental-instrument Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000 Olivia Poston https://www.archdaily.com/1032934/designing-with-smoke-the-chimney-as-architectural-and-environmental-instrument Chimneys are among the most quietly persistent elements in architectural history. Yet their presence persists in nearly every cultural and climatic context, serving as a technical feature and a spatial, atmospheric, and symbolic device. It populates dense city skylines and anchors rural horizons alike, its vertical silhouette as ordinary as a window or a doorframe. This apparent ordinariness is deceptive. The chimney is one of the few architectural components that links the intimate scale of interior life with the expansive forces of the environment. For architects and designers, the necessity of the chimney presents a choice: to let it recede quietly into the building's functional fabric or to amplify it as a central, expressive element that shapes a project's identity.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/885928/10-wonderful-winter-cabins-the-best-photos-of-the-week Sun, 24 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +0000 María Francisca González https://www.archdaily.com/885928/10-wonderful-winter-cabins-the-best-photos-of-the-week December 21 saw the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. The season is an excellent time to take architectural photographs in a unique and different landscape, with a blanket of snow providing a reminder of the delights of nature. Here, we present a selection of 10 cabins captured in winter by prominent photographers such as Tim Bies, Fernando Alda and Pasi Aalto.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/804081/the-architectural-league-announces-emerging-voices-of-2017 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000 Osman Bari https://www.archdaily.com/804081/the-architectural-league-announces-emerging-voices-of-2017 Each year, The Architectural League of New York awards its prestigious Emerging Voices award to eight practices across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, whose work “represents the best of its kind, and addresses larger issues within architecture, landscape, and the built environment."

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