Architectural Experience
How architecture shapes human perception, emotion, and interaction within built environments.
Offhand Practice Folds a Natural History Cabinet of Curiosities into a Concrete Shell at Aranya Guangzhou
A 155 m² specimen shop at Jiulong Lake, Guangzhou, where walnut cabinetry and collected antiques sit inside raw concrete without pretending to be old.
Caspar Schols Raises a Kinetic Steel Meditation Box Seven Meters Above a Dutch Meadow
In the Netherlands, De-Vice is a 10 m² weathering steel tower where participants slowly open an enclosed box to the landscape through movement.
Raulino Silva Turns His Grandparents' 1936 House in Rural Vila do Conde into His Own Architecture Studio
In Bagunte, Portugal, a granite family house gains white marble-floored rooms and a walled gravel courtyard without pretending the new part is old.
SP(R)INT STUDIO and Nissen Richards Studio Turn a Mývatn Visitor Center into a Window on Volcanic Iceland
In Mývatn, North Iceland, a light-touch interior refit lets lava fields, pseudo craters and the lake carry the exhibition rather than compete with it.
Atempo Arquitectura Turns a Cuenca Family House into a Multi-Unit Residence Crowned in Brick Lattice
In Cuenca, Ecuador, a 415 m² family home becomes a residential complex where scrolled ironwork, terracotta lattice and a skylit stair keep memory alive.
House of EM Debuts with a Stepped Danish Brick House on a Plateau Above the River Teme near Ludlow
Near Ludlow in Shropshire, a four-bedroom house in long Danish brick, chestnut and concrete borrows mid-century calm and a castellated detail.
Embrace Architects Wraps a Three-Level Kew House in Curved Render, Bronze Arches and Arched Glazing
In Melbourne's leafy Kew, Thomas Residence turns arches, rounded corners and a central stair into a 1070 m² study in soft classical rhythm.
extrastudio Paints an 1893 Lisbon House Ultramarine and Cuts It Open into a Triple-Height Home
In Lisbon's Marvila district, the first of extrastudio's casas poveras extends a modest 1893 house in single-day lime plaster and bare scratch coat.
A Parallel Architecture Turns an Abandoned East Austin Auto Parts Warehouse into a Courtyard Workplace
In East Austin's Cesar Chavez neighborhood, a kept concrete shell and a pecan-shaded courtyard turn a dead auto parts warehouse into offices.
Spaces Architects@ka Bends a Delhi House into Continuous Curves Shaped Around Commissioned Art
In Ashok Vihar, New Delhi, a 9,000 sq ft house on a 240-square-yard plot treats its walls, ceilings and stairs as surfaces for bespoke art.
Architects Collaborative Builds a Noida House That Opens Like a Rajasthani Storytelling Box
In Noida, a three-storey family home on a 300 sq m plot uses louvred timber, tinted courts and arches to unfold room by room like a painted Kavad.
ARCHETONIC Wraps a Roma Suite Building in Operable Green Fins Beside a Mature Street Tree
On Calle Colima in Mexico City's Roma, ARX pairs board-formed concrete, local clay brick and movable metal fins around twin light courtyards.
