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The Tasting Tongue - Art Installation / Studio Deng

December 08

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Architects: Studio Deng
Area: 10 m²
Year: 2025

Residential House Weert / De Nieuwe Context

December 08

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Architects: De Nieuwe Context
Area: 275 m²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: FETDETERRA

The Aesthetics of Power: Soviet Modernism Meets Uzbek Tradition in Tashkent’s Palace of Peoples’ Friendship

Subscriber Access | December 08

Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan and one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, has long been shaped by a hybrid culture. Located at a strategic point along the Silk Road, the city developed an architectural tradition defined by inner courtyards, domes, decorative ceramics, and Islamic geometric patterns. The annexation by the Russian Empire in the 19th century introduced administrative buildings, orthogonal squares, and straight avenues, creating a dual urban fabric — between the “old” Eastern city and the “new” European one — in which contrasts and overlaps became the norm.

During the Soviet period, when Tashkent became the capital of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and received intense migration from across the union, the city was transformed into a modernist showcase. The coexistence between Islamic heritage and the ideology of socialist progress found a new inflection point with the 1966 earthquake, whose destruction triggered a large-scale reconstruction effort involving architects from across the USSR. Massive housing complexes, cultural institutions, and monumental buildings emerged, reinterpreting local motifs through ideological and technological language. It was in this context that the Palace of Peoples’ Friendship took shape.

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House Comet / GAISS

December 08

+ 17

Architects: GAISS
Area: 175 m²
Year: 2024

The Future of Cities: How Can We Build Differently to Promote Resilient and Low-Impact Environments?

December 08 | In Collaboration

How does the construction sector shape the future of cities? What challenges does it face? At the crossroads of demographic, social, energy, and climate pressures, the construction sector is changing fast. Professionals, institutions, and citizens are working together to build environments that improve health and well-being, encourages durable and place-responsive solutions, cut carbon emissions, withstand climate risks, and provide affordable, high-quality housing.

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Tracing Frank Gehry’s Architectural Legacy Through His Most Influential Works

December 08

Following the news of Frank Gehry's passing at age 96, renewed attention has been directed toward a career that significantly shaped architectural discourse from the late 20th century onward. Over more than seven decades, Gehry developed a design language defined by material experimentation, iterative model-making, and an interest in fluid, expressive forms. His work ranges from early residential interventions in Southern California to major cultural institutions that have contributed to the identity of cities around the world. Together, these projects outline a trajectory that intersected with shifts in fabrication technologies, museum typologies, and urban redevelopment strategies.

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Stefan Żeromski Theatre / WXCA

December 08

+ 18

Architects: WXCA
Area: 10887 m²
Year: 2024

Shigeru Ban Named Recipient of the 2026 AIA Gold Medal

December 08

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced on Thursday, December 4, 2025, that architect Shigeru Ban is the recipient of the 2026 AIA Gold Medal. The award is the AIA's highest individual honor, recognizing individuals whose work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. On this occasion, the Japanese architect's work was highlighted for its inventive use of renewable materials such as paper and timber, his innovation in timber architecture, his commitment to social service through design, and his 30 years as an educator at universities including Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia. Previous honorees include Deborah Berke, the first female dean of the Yale School of Architecture, in 2025; David Lake and Ted Flato of the San Antonio–based practice Lake|Flato in 2024; and civic design leader Carol Ross Barney in 2023.

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Beyond Universal Models: The Turn Toward Situated Architecture

Subscriber Access | December 08

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.

Situated architecture describes this shift. It refers to design approaches in which form, program, and materiality emerge from the specific environment that produces them: its microclimates, cultural structures, and everyday rituals. Rather than beginning with universal templates, these practices start with observation, prototyping, and direct engagement with local dynamics. This logic is visible in the climatic and material experiments of TAKK in Spain, such as Portable Garden and 10k House, which operate as lightweight prototypes tuned to thermal and ecological gradients; in Studio Ossidiana's Art Pavilion M, shaped by layered soils and ecological cycles in the Netherlands; in Izaskun Chinchilla's reinterpretations of vernacular objects and her later experiments with 100 Sillas and 3 Salones Urbanos; in the narrative-driven domestic spaces explored by Common Accounts; and in Raumlabor's urban interventions that respond directly to the specificities of post-industrial Berlin.

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Ibaté Building / Studio Arthur Casas

December 08

+ 24

Architects: Studio Arthur Casas
Area: 21082 m²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: +55design, Boobam, By Kamy, Elight, Etel, +16Herança Cultural, Jorge Zalszupin, L'oeil, LD Arti, Lattoog, Lumini, Luxalum, Luxalum, Luxsim, Marcenaria Inovart, Micasa, Pair Store, Srta Galante, Studio Objeto, Vallvé, Wentz-16

Casa Legato / Hugo Kohno Architect Associates

December 08

+ 18

Architects: Hugo Kohno Architect Associates
Area: 196 m²
Year: 2025

Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies / CCBA Designs

December 08

+ 17

Architects: CCBA Designs
Area: 28620 m²
Year: 2013

Tehrani Taxi Terminal / Moloudi Architecture

December 08

+ 12

Architects: Moloudi Architecture
Area: 1330 m²
Year: 2025

Vizafogó Kindergarten Budapest / Archikon Architects

December 08

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Architects: ARCHIKON ARCHITECTS
Area: 1962 m²
Year: 2019
Manufacturers: AGROB BUCHTAL, Tubadzin, Alex bútor, Balázs-Diák, Baumit Creative Top, +5Eibe, Ikea, Tarkett, Thermowood, UGP-5
Professionals: Ékiterv Mérnökiroda Kft, PHQ Kft, Kartel60 Bt.