At the Aranya Community in Beidaihe, Vector Architects has been quietly building a waterfront narrative, one civic room at a time. After the Seashore Library and the Seashore Chapel, Restaurant
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In the rugged foothills of Corsica’s Alta Rocca region, Amelia Tavella Architectes has breathed new life into the Convent Saint-François, a historic monument dating to 1480 in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano. Long abandoned
Barozzi Veiga’s Szczecin Philharmonic pairs a crystalline aluminum and glass façade with a golden main hall rooted in local craftsmanship, combining expressive roof geometry, acoustic fragmentation, and a formally autonomous civic landmark.
Humo House in southern Chile reshapes an 11-metre cube into a split-volume home balancing openness and shelter, with timber slat cladding, triple-height public space, and a larch-trunk table that merges kitchen and dining.
Armand Nouvet completes two social housing residences on Orteaux and Pajol streets in Paris, using timber detailing, verandas, and a double envelope facade with a Trombe wall strategy to improve comfort through low tech design.
This all-faith chapel uses 100 timber planks as a semi-transparent curtain, an eccentrically placed roof to frame changing daylight, and locally sourced materials including site stones, local-sawmill timber, and blacksmith-made U-profile metal elements.
A timber stable by f+g Architectes in France integrates into its landscape through passive design and a restrained material palette.
MPavilion 1 reframes Australian outback typologies as a summer cultural venue in Melbourne, pairing a 12m x 12m steel frame with a glazed roof and responsive skin to deliver shade, shelter and civic warmth.
A deep look at the reconstruction of Prague’s former InterContinental Hotel, from forensic concrete diagnosis to artisan replicas, restored artworks, greener infrastructure, and a new cultural public realm.
Holy Redeemer Church in Las Chumberas, Tenerife, is a raw concrete complex inspired by volcanic geology, shaping daylight around the sacraments and using picón stone to achieve opera-house acoustics.
