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Arquitectonica and Farrells Weave a 230,000 m² Mixed-Use District Around a Thousand-Year-Old Temple in Hangzhou
Winland Center channels Hangzhou's silk heritage and traditional courtyard planning into a canal-side development beside the ancient Xiangji Temple.
Neo Architects Folds a 63-Square-Meter Chapel Around Light, Water, and Sacred Geometry in Pretoria
On the Doxa Deo Campus in Brooklyn, Pretoria, two curved walls and a cantilevered roof create a sanctuary scaled to intimacy.
Spaceworkers Installs an Analog Augmented Reality Inside an 800-Year-Old Portuguese Church
Glass panels, pine flooring, and lines of light transform the Panteão dos Almeida in Abrantes into a fully reversible museum.
Five Studios Reimagine the Parthenon as a Living Canvas in Melbourne's NGV Garden
Temple of Boom builds a one-third-scale Parthenon from glass-reinforced concrete and lets Melbourne's street artists transform it over nine months.
Pablo Millán Restores a Forgotten Chapel in Porcuna as a Pantheon of Light and Stone
A three-pronged intervention recovers sixty centuries of material history inside a ruined Andalusian hermitage through archaeology, restoration, and restra
UnIADA '26
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allmannwappner Liberates Cologne Cathedral from Decades of Urban Clutter Through Radical Subtraction
A 45,900 square meter reworking of Cologne's cathedral precinct strips away postwar infrastructure to let the Gothic icon breathe again.
Trahan Architects Wraps Louisiana's First CLT Structure in Handmade Italian Brick for Loyola's New Chapel
A circular sanctuary of translucent terra-cotta and Southern Yellow Pine rises on Loyola University's century-old New Orleans quad.
Perform Design Studio Spirals a Rest Station into the Coastline of Hainan's Shenzhou Peninsula
A 235-square-meter conch-shaped pavilion in Wanning dissolves the boundary between public infrastructure and tropical landscape.
Link Architectes and FAB Architects Assemble a Village-Scale Town Center in Rural France
A cluster of modest volumes forms a new civic heart for Saint-Georges-Haute-Ville, mediating between the Central Massif and Saint-Étienne.
UnIADA '26
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LR-Architetti Raises a Pink Brick Church from the Ruins of an Earthquake in Pegognaga
A terracotta and timber sanctuary near Mantua transforms seismic destruction into an architectural palimpsest of layered memory.
