Nadav Kander photographs the traces of power as atmosphere rather than spectacle. From the Yangtze River to Central Asian nuclear test landscapes and the Thames Estuary, his restrained images examine scale, visibility, and aftermath. This essay reads Kander’s work as a method for architects, artists, and scholars.
A sculptural steel cafe beside Luoyang Museum features a wave form roof inspired by Chinese mountain ranges and a reflective stainless steel facade.
Haniyasu House by AATISMO in Kamakura reimagines a 58 year old wooden house as a two family residence rooted in earth and craft. Using site soil, bisque fired clay and oxidised metal plaster, the project merges architecture, pottery and landscape into a contemporary settlement.
HW Studio designs a quiet house in Morelia where a central void and stone garden shape daily life through light, shadow, and stillness
Espai Corberó sits in Esplugues de Llobregat, just outside Barcelona. It is not simply a residence. It reads as a long act of making: concrete arches, courtyards, stair runs, and
Stella is a fourteen storey office building in Nagpur, India, designed by Sanjay Puri Architects as a climate responsive alternative to the fully glazed tower. Built on a compact urban plot, the project integrates semicircular decks, aluminum louvers and planted terraces to reduce solar heat gain and enhance natural light and ventilation. The layered façade creates shaded microclimates while delivering 5,575 square metres of office space, demonstrating how passive design strategies can shape contemporary commercial architecture in extreme heat conditions.
Cateto Club Marbella reinterprets 1960s Costa del Sol nightlife through geometry, light, and material in a contemporary interior design.
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
Designed by 2m26 and Onomiau for Villa Kujoyama, Yachō is a minimalist tea room in Kyoto that references Sen no Rikyū through tatami proportion, candlelit lanterns, a fire pit, and burnt cedar cladding.
In Milan, NOÏ reimagines a former comic store as a layered interior where a tea house and pilates studio coexist through material contrast and spatial continuity.
