Architectural Design
POSThe practice of designing buildings and spaces that balance aesthetics, functionality, and environmental context.
Desvão Atelier Raises an L-Shaped House in Sesimbra and Crowns It with a Terracotta Roof Lookout
Near the Arrábida hills in Sesimbra, Portugal, a single-storey white house folds around a patio and turns its flat roof into a terracotta terrace.
Čechvala Architects Stacks Three Aluminium-Clad Volumes Beside a Danube Branch in Bratislava
In Bratislava's Sihoť district, RDH House sets solid corrugated aluminium walls toward neighbours and full-height glazing toward the river.
FCC Arquitectura Bends a Garden-Roofed House into a 16-Meter Slope in Northern Portugal
In northern Portugal, AP House embeds 521 square meters of concrete and glass in a steep hillside, hiding its bulk under a garden roof facing west.
Seaside Opera: A Walkable Roof Turns Tallinn's Waterfront into a Civic Stage
Jaakko Kaarala's Estonian National Opera House proposal fuses performance venue, public promenade, and harbor landmark into one sweeping form.
Linna Diamond: A Translucent Opera House Grown from Tallinn's Linnahall Ruins
A crystalline steel framework suspends an intimate auditorium above Linnahall, turning backstage operations into public spectacle along the Baltic Sea.
Design Systems for Architects: What Graphic Designers Know That Architects Can Borrow
Exploring how the systems-thinking behind graphic design can help architects create more coherent, adaptable, and human-centered built environments.
The Soaring Bird: An Opera House Shaped by the Flight of Estonia's Barn Swallow
Four angular wings extend from a central auditorium on Tallinn's waterfront, translating avian movement into architectural geometry.
Would You Rather: Freud's Psyche Becomes a Branching Forest of Architectural Choice
Three paths through Little Red Riding Hood's forest translate the Id, Ego, and Superego into spatial sequences of temptation and consequence.
Little Red Riding Hood: Architecture as Narrative Through Fear, Light, and the Forest
A conceptual project translates an eight-kilometre fairy tale journey into spatial density, distortion, and the semiotics of danger.
Imposition: Architecture as Fairy Tale, Where the Forest Itself Deceives
A reinterpretation of Little Red Riding Hood turns Schwalmstadt's woods into a psychological landscape of choice, emotion, and illusion.
Beyond the Portfolio: Building a Digital Brand for Architecture Studios
Why leading architecture studios now design two experiences, one online and one in the physical world, and how to communicate expertise long before the first client meeting.
WIDOARQUITECTOS Carves a Monumental Studio from a Five-Meter-Wide Lot in Cuernavaca
A 150-square-meter office building on a narrow 5-by-15-meter plot uses vaulted ceilings, courtyards, and raw materials to project quiet strength.
