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Journals 2466
TETRO Arquitetura Splits a Bahia Hillside House into Four Blocks Beneath a Light-Filtering Wood Roof
In Itacaré, on Bahia's southern coast, four blocks step down a seaward slope while a biriba wood screen turns tropical sun into moving shade.
KPF Wraps a Taiwanese Waste Recycling Plant in a Public Fern Garden, Exhibition Hall and Roof Terrace
In Xiulin Township, Eastern Taiwan, TCC's DAKA recycling center puts its waste pit on public view and layers learning spaces around the machinery.
OAD Wraps a Riverside Holiday Home near Riga in Thatch, Charred Timber and Saturated Interior Color
A summer residence and sauna guest house on a riverbank outside Riga, Latvia, where Baltic thatch meets blue stairs and tinted glass.
Inrestudio Wraps a Three-Household Hanoi Home in a Double Skin Pierced by a Hundred Windows
Beside the Red River outside Hanoi, a terracotta double envelope turns wall thickness into desks, shelves, balconies and room for three families.
Tengbom Builds a Red-Clad Archive with a Timber Atrium for the National Archives of Sweden in Härnösand
In Härnösand, Tengbom pairs vast column-gridded archive halls with a warm glulam atrium, giving a 35,000 m² state repository a human-scaled public face.
Paraa Raises a Perforated Brick Platform for Shared Community Life on an Open Ground in Dhaka's Korail Settlement
A 332 m² brick lattice building at Ershad Maidan, shaped through more than 60 workshops, turns an open ground in Korail, Dhaka, into a shared stage.
Kenta Hirayama Architect & Associates Lifts Daily Life Above an Atelier on a Pine-Lined Tokyo Street
In Kinuta, Setagaya, a 145 m² gabled house defers to its red pines and older neighbors, placing workshop and bedroom below and daily life under the roof.
U.GA Architects Wraps a 51 m² Glass Wedge Around a Red Spiral Stair at a Busan Alley Junction
On Busan's Haeridan-gil, a two-storey glass and steel shop rises from an acute corner site, crowned by a red roof terrace and cylindrical stair tower.
Edward Conde Serna Arquitectos Threads Elevated Walkways Through Cali's Foothills to Seed a New Urban Forest
A 57,000 m² park on Cali's mountain edge in Colombia uses raised steel boardwalks to reconnect the city with the Farallones and grow an urban forest.
Gustavo Penna Wraps an Accounting Firm's Corner Headquarters in Lagoa da Prata with 12 Kilometers of Brise-Soleil
In Lagoa da Prata, Minas Gerais, a prestressed concrete office tower sheds most of its columns and filters daylight through a continuous slatted skin.
Quaterna Arquitectos Lays a Clay-Tiled House Along a Valle de Bravo Hillside Above a Stream
In Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Casa Limoneros pairs pitched clay-tile roofs with board-formed concrete, timber ceilings and courtyards cut into pine forest.
Solange Cálio Arquitetos Lifts a Timber-Clad Bedroom Volume Over Stone and Glass in São José do Rio Preto
A 680 m² family home in inland São Paulo state stacks a slatted upper box on a glazed, stone-anchored base, planned around routine and return visits.
Verne Arquitectura Sinks a Timber-Roofed Pelota Court into the Medieval Fabric of Aguilar de Codés
In Navarre, a semi-buried frontón replaces a ruined house in Aguilar de Codés, keeping its stone face while a timber truss sifts southern light.
undjurekbrüggen and AFEA Stack Fieldstone, Clay and Raw Larch into a Concrete-Free Vineyard Store in Werder
At the foot of a vineyard on the Havel in Werder, a 33 m² wine store of fieldstone, rammed earth and undried larch treats its walls as habitat.
MAD Architects Buries a Shenzhen Culture Complex Beneath a Park and Lets Granite Pebbles Break the Surface
In Shenzhen's Houhai district, a 188,000 m² cultural complex hides most of its program under walkable roofs and answers the glass skyline with stone.
Fiechter Salzmann Extends Werner Künzi's Listed Mösli School in Ostermundigen with Concrete, Spruce and Red Steel
In Ostermundigen near Bern, a kindergarten and day school wing lengthens a heritage-listed complex using precast concrete, regional spruce and red steel.
Ukei Shimada Wraps His Own Suginami House in Chain-Operated Shitomido Shutters and a Green Tile Courtyard
A 112 m² architect's own home in Suginami, Tokyo, where hinged timber shutters, a green tile courtyard and shifting volumes break up a flat suburb.
FMD Architects Sinks a Melbourne Family House into Its Slope Beneath a Garden Inspired by Babylon
In Melbourne's north-east, Babylonia Residence sinks 928 m² of timber, concrete and stone into a slope beneath a suspended rear garden.
Office Canopy of Architecture Retrofits a Tiled Shaoxing Block into an Open-Source Community Commune
In Shangyu's old city centre, a 4,416 m² renovation stacks a library, canteen, shops and kiosks into one porous public building.
SHROFFLEóN Wraps an Alibag House Around Courtyards, a Pool and a Rock-Formed Canopy
A 20,000 sq ft house in coastal Alibag where travertine, timber and shaded courtyards let landscape, water and a rock grotto do the spatial work.