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In 2021, a collaboration between the Italian architecture studio Mario Cucinella Architects and WASP, an Italian 3D-printing company, led to the development of TECLA: a house 3D-printed entirely from raw earth. Five years later, the technology behind it has grown, quietly spreading across several continents and design practices. By controlling the speed, angle, and path of the extruder nozzle, architects are able to create more than just walls. Throughout the years, they have been experimenting with how to shape the 3D-printed material into detailed surface motifs, reintroducing relief, texture, and intricate patterns directly into the structure. In this way, they are attempting to bridge earth-building traditions with digital computation, in an era where code is starting to influence form and material expression in architecture.

Machan, meaning 'platform' in Bangla, captures its essence: a platform or structure that supports and connects. It stands at Ershad Maidan, one of Korail's few open spaces. Paraa worked with Korail's youth, community leaders, students, and creative collaborators to transform the site into a shared stage for expression. Over 60 participatory workshops and residencies shaped the design, bringing together residents and young designers through storytelling, model-making, and hands-on construction. 

This is a residential project for a detached house in Kinuta, Setagaya Ward. The street in front of the site was dotted with large Japanese red pine trees and houses from the good old days. From the first time I saw the site, I wanted to design a house that feels like a natural part of the landscape.

Haeridan-gil is a place where the layered time of an ordinary residential neighborhood has been transposed into a cultural streetscape through renovation. In these alleys, where old Western-style houses are reinterpreted with distinct sensitivities to weave new narratives in every crevice, the value of architecture is reduced not to physical scale, but to a matter of attitude and attunement. At the sharp, acute-angled intersection where these alleys converge, "Koma" establishes its presence upon a precarious boundary.

The Cali Foothills Integral Corridor transforms the last gap between the city and the mountain into a landscape infrastructure capable of initiating the consolidation of a new urban forest and restoring ecological continuity between the urban fabric, the Cristo Rey Ecopark, and the Farallones de Cali National Natural Park.

Before João Dias and Patrick Carton designed furniture, they were designing machines built to exceed 200 mph. The former McLaren Automotive designers worked on vehicles including the W1 hypercar and Speedtail, where proportion, aerodynamics, and engineering all contribute to a car’s emotional pull. With the Ennua Element 01, they’re applying that same thinking to something decidedly more stationary.

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The Element 01 is not, as you might suspect at first glance, a simple table or mere bench. Dias and Carton describe it as a work of functional art, with sweeping lines and a carbon fiber structure that reveal its automotive roots. Much like a supercar, its form isn’t simply expressive: Every line and material choice has a job to do. 

“The most direct carryover is how we treat proportion,” the duo told Design Milk. “Every line has to justify itself; nothing is added for decoration alone.” 

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At Element 01’s core is its carbon fiber frame, which serves as the primary structural element in much the same way a carbon fiber monocoque does in a supercar. Rather than designing the sculptural form first and engineering it afterward, Dias and Carton developed the two in tandem from the outset. The carbon fiber isn’t a veneer or shell around an underlying frame; it is the frame itself.

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Made entirely in the United Kingdom, the piece layers Bridge of Weir leather over BioPRO, a protein-based foam developed from collagen recovered during the company’s leather-making process. Precision-machined metals range from titanium and aluminum to brass and gold, all integrated with the exacting tolerances Dias and Carton carried over from automotive design.

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Launched in mid-June, Element 01 is limited to just 199 individually numbered pieces, starting at approximately $145,000. Each work is commissioned specifically for its buyer, giving them the chance to work with Dias and Carton on specifying materials, finishes, and colors that best suit the collective vision. Carbon fiber can be left with a natural visible weave, tinted, or fully painted, while leather and metal finishes can likewise be customized.

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According to the founders, Element 01 is the first in a series called “Element by Ennua,” with future pieces taking different forms, sizes, and functions while maintaining the same aesthetic and attention to detail.  

“Each new Element has to earn its place,” the founders explain. “If we can’t make a genuine case for why it needs to exist, we won’t build it.”

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Learn more about Element by Ennua at ennua.com.

In a new part of Lagoa da Prata, Minas Gerais, the headquarters of Patrimonium occupies a corner and meets the horizon. Completed in 2024, the 1,883.72 m² building welcomes a team of approximately 200 people. Its vertical presence accompanies the city's growth and gives a face to an urban centre beginning to take shape.

Casa Limoneros draws from the vernacular architecture of Valle de Bravo through a contemporary interpretation. Its pitched, clay-tiled roofs recall the region's distinctive building tradition, while the material palette establishes a restrained dialogue with the surrounding landscape.

Located in São José do Rio Preto, in the interior of São Paulo, this 680 m² (7,320 sq ft) residence was designed by Solange Cálio Arquitetos for a couple of doctors and their two daughters, accommodating both their daily routine and frequent visits from their eldest daughter, who lives abroad.

The project consists of the design of a frontón (Basque pelota court) and multi-purpose spaces in Aguilar de Codés, a medieval town in Navarre. The proposal seeks to integrate the building into its surroundings, located on a challenging site in the village center.

HAIN is located at the foot of a vineyard, adjacent to a biodiverse landscape along the River Havel. Designed as storage and production facilities for the vineyard, these buildings go beyond simply protecting the environment—they actively contribute to the regeneration of the climate, natural ecosystems, and the built environment.

What is the purpose of architecture? How may it enrich human life and collectivity?

Architecture of Life is the first English-language essay collection from the world-renowned architectural duo known for Fuji Kindergarten and the Roof House, among numerous other works. Beyond drawings and photos, this book embraces a philosophy that is simultaneously radical and obvious: how to make comfortable spaces and places that enhance the human experience with freedom, dignity, and joy.

Drawing on the authors’ own life experiences, as well as the careers of those who have inspired them. introducing cultural and philosophical concepts from Japan and elsewhere, these essays cumulatively

The AA Visiting School Samarkand, Imagined Skies, takes place at the Observatory of Ulugbek, a machine built to observe the sky, serves as a departure point for participants to engage with broader issues of climate change, heritage, and astronomy.

The School’s agenda explores the intersection of climate change and heritage through the medium of vision. Supported by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, the ten-day workshop explores through the different layers of the Observatory of Ulugbek how we perceive the world and how we choose to represent it. Participants are invited to collaboratively interact with archival material, research, artistic practices,

The Arts and Crafts movement is often remembered as an architectural style defined by handcrafted details, an intimate scale, natural materials, and a rejection of excess and industry. Its influence is frequently traced through visual characteristics that continue to appear in contemporary architecture and interiors, from exposed timber and crafted joinery to an emphasis on texture and permanence, yet reducing the movement to an aesthetic vocabulary overlooks its far more significant contribution. For William Morris, Philip Webb, John Ruskin, and their contemporaries, architecture was a question of how things were made, who made them, and whether the process of making could cultivate dignity, meaning, culture, and beauty.

Shenzhen Bay Culture Square sits at the heart of Houhai, Nanshan District, Shenzhen — the innovation core and headquarters hub of the Greater Bay Area. On one side rises a dense cluster of skyscrapers; on the other, the site meets Shenzhen Talent Park, the open bay, and continuous stretches of mangrove wetlands, looking out toward Hong Kong.

The Türkiye Pavilion has announced "Spolia Futures" as its official exhibition for the 20th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, which will take place from May 8 to November 21, 2027. Commissioned by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the exhibition will be curated by ba-be commons, a research collective composed of Başak Eren, Asya Ece Uzmay, Beril Sarısakal Erkent, and Ece Yetim. The proposal was selected through an open call and two-stage evaluation process to represent Türkiye at the 2027 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale. The proposal examines spolia, traditionally understood as the reuse of architectural elements, as an evolving architectural method rather than solely a historical practice.

The listed Mösli School Complex is characterized by a clear orthogonal structure and is set within a generous, tree-lined landscape on the northern edge of Ostermundigen. Four compact pavilion buildings are arranged around a central courtyard framed by covered walkways, forming the spatial heart of the ensemble.

Every year on August 9, and since 1994, UNESCO has commemorated the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. The United Nations has not yet adopted an official definition for the term 'Indigenous peoples,' but considers, for social recognition, self-identified non-dominant groups of society, with distinct language, culture, and beliefs, organized in separate social, economic, and political systems. From a territorial perspective, the UN understands the term through historical continuity with pre-colonial or pre-settler societies, and the group's strong links to territories and surrounding natural resources. The persistence in maintaining and reproducing ancestral environments and systems is also recognized as an element of identity, encompassing other designations such as first peoples/nations, aboriginals, or ethnic groups. Following the occasion's aim to raise awareness, in this article we present contemporary reflections, regional cases, and interviews about ancestral constructive knowledge and how it can build the future.

In 2021, the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) released a survey regarding the number of cultural and social facilities in Brazil's cities. The findings were alarming: only 29.6% of Brazilian municipalities had cultural and social facilities such as museums, while theaters and concert halls were present in only 23.3% of cities. This overview speaks volumes about the scarcity of such spaces in Brazilian cities. In this context, when a women's cooperative in Maranhão or a volunteer group in Bahia decides to build their own cultural and community facility, the gesture not only fills a material gap but reclaims, on their own initiative, a right that should be guaranteed by public policy.

The site sits within a neighborhood where houses continue block after block. Here, in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, I had the opportunity to design my own house. What does it mean to create a rich dwelling within Japan's typical, densely packed residential areas? Standing on the empty lot, I noticed a gap of open sky between the surrounding houses, with clouds floating above.