Editorial
Curated content from our expert editorial team
Tinker Project: Sustainable Architecture Reimagining Cairo’s Informal Skyline
Tinker Project reimagines Cairo’s informal skyline through sustainable architecture, transforming brick, recycled wood and steel into urban optimism.
NEW WAVE: Sustainable Architecture Reimagining Barcelona’s Eixample Hyperblock
NEW WAVE reimagines Barcelona’s Eixample through sustainable architecture, green hyperblocks, pedestrian routes, and adaptable urban living.
The Zabaleen Melting Pot: Sustainable Architecture Reimagining Cairo’s Recycling Community
The Zabaleen Melting Pot turns Cairo’s recycling culture into sustainable architecture for education, ecology, public life, and exchange.
An Urban Social Network: Redesigning Barcelona's Blocks Around Everyday Life
A distributed network of collective spaces across Barcelona's superblocks weaves ecology, accessibility and social infrastructure into one spatial system.
Symbiotic Pack: A Foldable Modular Balcony Inspired by Space Station Logic
A retrofittable balcony system that folds, connects, and redeploys along building facades to restore outdoor living in dense housing.
SEATHECITY Opera: Where a Square Meets a Circle on Tallinn's Waterfront
Veronika Ruppert's shortlisted opera house uses two geometric figures to negotiate the threshold between city grid and Baltic horizon.
HYPERBLOCK: A Catalogue of Strategies for Growing Barcelona Upward
Vicky Daroca's Editor's Choice entry layers nine flexible massing systems above Cerdà's 133-metre grid without erasing the city beneath.
Tidal Survival: A Biomimetic Habitat That Glows, Moves, and Breathes Beneath the Ocean
Nicholas Miller's shortlisted EHC Pacific entry reimagines underwater habitation as a mobile, bioluminescent organism rather than a rigid capsule.
Synergize: Rewiring Barcelona's Cerdà Grid into a Cooperative Urban Network
A shortlisted Hyperblock entry dissolves block boundaries to create 800-metre pedestrian districts within Barcelona's iconic grid.