Chaves House is not only a response to a place—it is a mediation between architecture and nature. NOARQ saw the site’s fragility as a design opportunity, turning a seemingly unbuildable plot into a home that hovers lightly above the earth. Its form is born from respect: for water, for light, and for the land it inhabits in Portugal
This year’s best international architecture and interiors are revealed as the 2026 World Architecture Festival shortlist is announced. Celebrating the most outstanding new completed buildings, interiors and landscape designs from around the world
E.Wedel Chocolate Factory Warsaw, Poland design by architecture studio WWAA. This exhibition takes visitors on a journey from the cocoa bean to Wedel’s iconic packaging, revealing the remarkable expertise, creativity and human effort behind flavours that generations have come to cherish
Alcalá de Guadaíra Youth Centre, 17 km southeast of Seville, Spain designed by Felipe Retuerto + Dunar Arquitectos. In contrast to the enclosed nature of the pre-existing building—the former municipal market—the Casa De La Juventud project proposes an open, accessible and permeable place, capable of connecting the different levels of its surroundings and becoming part of the network of public spaces in the town centre
SAGA Space Architects has revealed EcoNeo, a 35 m² digitally fabricated summerhouse that brings the studio’s space-habitat thinking back to Earth. Designed around the same principles that guide architecture for extreme environments – compact living, resource efficiency, and human well-being in Denmark
RoTo Architects, Los Angeles, USA – buildings, architecture, houses – California building designs: L.A. design studio, USA architectural projects
The concept for the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is rooted in the meeting of water and earth, recognising this ever-changing boundary as a place of origin, movement and transformation. Rather than designing a singular architectural object, Mecanoo‘s design was conceived as a landscape shaped by natural forces
Valckensteyn, Rotterdam’s first mass timber residential building, provides 82 affordable rental homes in Pendrecht. Designed by Powerhouse Company for housing corporation Woonstad Rotterdam, the project reinterprets the former Valckensteyn, a postwar residential building
The Glasgow School of Art will apparently announce that fire-ravaged art school will not be rebuilt as it was — replaced instead by a modern block behind a retained façade. This wolrd-famous building by celebrated Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is of great significance for Scotland’s design heritage
