Architectural Promenade
Designed routes and pathways that structure movement through spaces, connecting architecture with landscape and experience.
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.
REAL Architects and Challenge Design Plant a Timber Gridshell Seed at the Heart of Shanghai's West Bund
On Shanghai's Xuhui Waterfront, a 230 m² glazed timber lattice dome anchors a terraced garden and lets its structure do all the talking.
MARS Architectes and ciguë Layer Offices, Housing and Event Spaces into a Historic Marais Block on Rue Pavée
In the Marais, Paris, two historic mansions and their industrial additions gain a glass courtyard facade, rooftop homes and offices, with no era erased.
SAOTA Folds a Planted, Branching Roof over a Hillside House in the Los Angeles Bird Streets
Above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Helix Residence lets a sculpted, planted roof act as facade, landscape and privacy screen over a hillside site.
Atelier 56S Wraps a Brick Cultural Center Around a Courtyard Facing the Church in Val d'Oust
In Val d'Oust, Brittany, a 575 m² brick and timber pavilion gathers a media library, performance hall and village life around a sheltered courtyard.
Vari Architects Turns the Roof Above Its Own Chongqing Studio into a Three-Tier Public Market
A 4,000 m² rooftop market in Chongqing that stacks shops, walkways and a sky garden on a retained concrete frame, run by the architects who built it.
Felipe Hess Arquitetos Splits a São Paulo House into Three Blocks and Threads Patios Through a 60-Meter Lot
In Jardim Paulistano, Casa Praça threads patios between three pink-walled blocks, pushing family life deep into a narrow lot and away from the street.
En Obra Arquitectos Turns Its Back on Pinamar's Streets to Open a Concrete Pavilion to the Pines
In coastal Pinamar, Alamos House pairs a stone and timber street front with a board-formed concrete pavilion that dissolves into pine forest and pool.
Atelier Orzan Folds the Doorways of a Le Havre Enfilade into Built-In Furniture
In Le Havre's Costière district, a 55 m² ground-floor flat keeps its brick vaults while olive panels and okoumé joinery redraw every threshold.
PPAA Extends Rafael Moneo's Logroño City Hall into Its Plaza with a Lattice of Metal Frames
A temporary grid of slender poles and frames in Logroño's Plaza del Ayuntamiento borrows Moneo's rhythms and lets pedestrians complete the architecture.
Montalba Architects Threads Garden Courtyards Through a Single-Story Beverly Hills House Under Layered Rooflines
A 7,000 ft² hillside home in Beverly Hills where overlapping roofs, clerestories and woven courtyards favor shade and calm over spectacle.
Plan:b arquitectos Rounds Off a Planted Housing Tower and Gives Its Steep Medellín Slope a Public Stair
In Medellín's Provenza neighborhood, 23 Living pairs curved, planted concrete balconies with a stepped public path that cuts across its sloping block.
Piertzovanis Toews Sets a 15 m² Pavilion of Sliding Doors into a Swiss Village Meadow
In Nuglar-St. Pantaleon, a pale green timber pavilion born from an open letter to the council opens to its meadow through translucent sliding panels.
DRM Arquitectura Extends a Suburban Buenos Aires Building in Timber to Create a Drive-Thru Ice Cream Shop
In Remedios de Escalada, Argentina, a timber frame and sloping roof extend an existing building so cars and pedestrians share one ice cream stop.
Tadu Arquitetura Turns Rio's First Granado Factory into a Food Hall Built Around a Brick Courtyard
In downtown Rio de Janeiro, five historic buildings on Rua do Senado become three restaurants and leisure rooms that leave the old fabric on display.
Cerron Arquitectos Lines the CASACOR Peru 2026 Entrance with Bamboo Canopies Shaped Like Flower Petals
In Santiago de Surco, a 120 m² sequence of lashed bamboo canopies turns the Jockey Club access road into a shaded threshold between city and exhibition.
Felipe Hess Arquitetos Turns a Blind Stone Wall to the Street and Opens a Brazilian House onto a Courtyard and Canal
A canal-front house in Brazil hides behind painted stone and planting, then opens to an olive-tree courtyard, a reed-ceilinged porch and a curving pool.
E PLUS DESIGN Stacks a Chongqing Shopping Complex into a Terraced Hillside Beside Green Heart Park
At LUXERIVERS in Chongqing, a 22,535 m² retail and art complex steps down toward Luxi Lake as planted terraces, open atriums and public stairs.
say architects Builds a 140 m² Shenzhen Footwear Flagship Around Louvered Timber Cabinets and a Lounge
In Shenzhen Bay Phase II, PANE's new flagship trades the sneaker wall for timber shutters, stone columns and a generous rest area built for lingering.
Pequeño Atelier de Arquitectura Contemporánea Stacks Boxes over a Garden Setback in Zapopan
On the slopes of the Primavera Forest near Guadalajara, a 2008 house of stacked volumes turns a mandatory side setback into the garden every room faces.
