SAWA wins BNA Building of the Year 2026. Jury describes circular timber residential building as a “turning point for the city”. The tallest wooden building in The Netherlands. Residential tower in Lloydquarter, Rotterdam, built entirely in CLT (cross-laminated timber), design by Mei architects and planners
Habitat is a new live-work campus in Culver City, Los Angeles, designed by SHoP Architects with Steinberg Hart as executive architect and RELM as landscape architect. The architectural design emphasizes shared public landscape and architecture that is responsive to local climate and the area’s history
ZHA announces the Nest encompasses a diverse range of apartments around a community park. The Cascades’ design comprises a new 120-room hotel wing, a 60-metre extension of the hotel’s existing swimming pool, as well as a new residential wing in Tirana, Albania
Valkhof Museum Nijmegen building design by UNS architects: Dutch architecture for contemporary art and archaeology in the Netherlands. It has been reimagined for a new era
Designed by The Miller Hull Partnership, the new U.S. Consulate General Mérida has achieved LEED Gold Certification, exceeding stringent federal performance goals while serving the needs of American citizens and visa applicants from Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. The new campus draws upon the dual influences of the historic Maya and colonial eras
Casa do Alpendre was developed, by Vasco Burnay Arquitectura, from a “blank slate” on an empty plot in Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal. This place is characterised by a wide architectural diversity, lacking a uniform language or any evident relationship between the buildings
Villa VICUS is a single-storey family house, design by Sebastian Nagy Architects, in Nitra, Slovakia. The design grew from a simple request: to create a house that would open the view from every living space while supporting the natural rhythm of everyday family life
When Dan and Sandra Wilson, both designers, first walked into Loops Penthouse, Seattle, Washington, they were already familiar with the building, and they were intrigued by the listing images. “It looked like a Miami nightclub from the 80s” they recall
The Hangzhou Prism designed by OMA/Chris van Duijn completes. Commissioned by Xinhu Real Estate Group for the Future Tech City district, this modern building is OMA’s first built project in Hangzhou, China.
At the edge of a wooded property in Mirabel, Canada, the Du Corail Residence settles into its surroundings with deliberate restraint. This contemporary single-family home designed by studio Entre Quatre Murs over four years of development
The Gavión House, Córdoba, Argentina, was conceived by AR Arquitectos as an introspective piece of contemporary architecture, organized around the experience of movement and the construction of spatial sequences
The Alvar Aalto Foundation and the Louis Kahn Estonia Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), creating a framework for long-term collaboration in the fields of architecture, research, education, and cultural exchange. The agreement reflects a shared commitment to advancing architectural knowledge, fostering international dialogue, and promoting educational and cultural initiatives between the two institutions.
Wutopia Lab has completed the Whale Gate in Shangqiu, Henan, China. Positioned within a water landscape and partially concealed by trees, the structure appears as a blue biomorphic object emerging from the garden rather than a conventional residential entrance
