Architecture of Tomorrow
Speculative and adaptive architectural designs exploring how buildings and cities evolve with changing needs and environments.
IwamotoScott Lands a Three-Winged Steel Pavilion and Lookout Tower on the Rural Edge of Chengdu's Future City
A trefoil of stainless-steel wedges on Chengdu's rural fringe frames the airport, a science city and a river park around a glazed courtyard crystal.
DATA architectes and THINK TANK Stitch Eight Paris Buildings into One Mixed-Use Block on Rue La Fayette
A 10,300 m² retrofit in Paris keeps eight mismatched buildings, threads them with a glass stair tower and makes a cobbled courtyard its heart.
BBP Arkitekter Adds a Seven-Sided Brick Tower to a 1918 Copenhagen Villa for an After-School Club
In Amager, Copenhagen, Tidsmaskinen joins an unrestored headmaster's villa, a greenhouse link and a gabled tower into one ensemble for children.
Archiland Shapes a Sprawling New City Center for Tianjin Around the Promise of Vibrant Public Space
In Tianjin, Archiland frames a new urban center as a sprawling field of activity, testing whether large scale and everyday vibrancy can coexist.
Atelier d'More Sets an Oval Glass Tower with a Louvered Spine into Nantong's Orthogonal Nengda Business District
In Nantong's Nengda Business District, a curving glass tower wrapped by a climbing louvered spine answers a grid of offices and the Nengda Tower.
Tallinn New Opera: A Layered Metallic Roof Hovering Over an Oval Stage on the Waterfront
Florian Jesch turns transparency, lightness and freedom into a cantilevered roof, a glazed base and an oval auditorium core facing a marina.
The Tower: An Opera House That Gives Its Ground Back to the City
Lyric Barnik and Chris Qiu stack Tallinn's opera program vertically, compressing its footprint to liberate the waterfront as civic space.
The Triangle Onion: Peeling Back Layers to Find an Opera House Inside a Public Landscape
A shortlisted opera house proposal stacks triangular planes into an explorable terrain of ramps, terraces, and curved performance volumes.
TOP-OF-ART'sy: An Opera Complex That Becomes Tallinn's Waterfront Public Ground
A shortlisted entry for Opera by the Sea distributes cultural programming across linear volumes, bridges, and a newly created island on Tallinn's shore.
NON GRAMME: A Cinema Where Architecture Becomes the Screen
On Piotrkowska Street in Łódź, a perforated facade dissolves the line between projected image, audience, and city life.
The Musturak Paradise: A Senior Co-Living Neighborhood That Trades the Care Home for the Souk
Shortlisted at Co-Life, a 2050 vision for Temara places elderly residents among souks, mosques, workshops and children rather than institutional walls.
Architecture Of Time: A Steel Frame Built to Outlast the Programmes It Was Designed to Hold
An open steel frame carries plug-in concrete volumes, letting a building of workshops and markets absorb technologies that do not yet exist.
