Editorial
Curated content from our expert editorial team
Resource City: Sustainable Architecture Reimagines Waste Infrastructure in Cairo
Resource City frames sustainable architecture as a vertical recycling hub linking waste, work, education, markets and public life in Cairo.
Sound Waves: An Opera House That Opens Its Stage to the Baltic Sea
A shortlisted proposal for Tallinn's waterfront dissolves the boundary between auditorium, public hill, and Baltic horizon.
Anahata: A Modular Pilgrimage Village That Breathes with the Crowd
Triangular modules scale up and down across a mountain valley, replacing permanent infrastructure with adaptable pilgrimage architecture.
Continental Shelf Recycling Habitat: Architecture Grown from Ocean Waste
A speculative underwater settlement transforms a submerged sinkhole and accumulated marine debris into the foundation for modular, expandable habitation.
Tsunami Convergenics: Turning Catastrophic Ocean Forces into Underwater Housing Infrastructure
A speculative underwater settlement off the coast of Onagawa, Japan, treats tsunamis and typhoons as energy sources rather than threats.
Aquatic Alveolus: Underwater Architecture Modeled on the Human Body
A shortlisted entry for EHC Pacific reimagines subsea living as an interconnected organism of pods, tunnels, and energy systems.
Tallinn's Pearl: A Shell-Shaped Opera House Rising from the Baltic Harbor
Martin Thüring's competition entry distributes an opera house across five interconnected organic volumes on Tallinn's waterfront.
Immersion: An Opera House Born from Ripples, Sound Waves, and Coastal Terrain
Paulina Walachowska's conceptual opera house translates wave propagation and acoustic geometry into a walkable public landscape.
Submersion: A Modular Kit for Building Communities Beneath the Ocean
A scalable underwater habitat system organized around repeatable hubs, standardized connections, and renewable infrastructure for long-term subsea living.