Bathing, Heat and Public Life
Bathing architecture is defined by thresholds: between exposure and privacy, heat and cold, enclosure and landscape, individual retreat and collective use. In the projects gathered here, these conditions are not treated as secondary aspects of
Contemporary Learning Environments as Social Infrastructure
Educational institutions are commonly defined by programme: kindergarten, primary school, secondary school, vocational school or university. Yet the architecture of learning increasingly has to accommodate much more than instruction. These buildings are also places of
Facades: How Buildings Face the Street
A façade is the part of a building that belongs to everyone who walks past it. These ten projects, from a small commercial building in Seoul to a residential tower in Le Havre, show
The Visual Presence of Wood in Houses
Wood becomes architecturally significant when it extends beyond individual elements and begins to operate as a continuous surface. Across façades, ceilings, walls, screens and built-in elements, its grain, colour and directional pattern
Textures in Interior Design
In these eight interiors, colour and material do more than finish a room. They set its mood, help organise its plan and tie it to the place outside. Interior design is easily
Rethinking Familiar Furniture
Few furniture typologies have been interpreted as persistently as the stool, chair, sofa and table. Their functions are established, their proportions familiar, and their design histories already contain countless variations. Yet this familiarity also makes
Curved Accents in Contemporary Houses
A single curve can change the character of an entire house. Set against straight walls, grids and planar roofs, one rounded element introduces softness, movement and a clear point of architectural emphasis.
Jurtin Hajro
What is still worth creating is what cannot be calculated. A building can satisfy every demand of area, light, and energy and still leave the person inside it untouched. People are not only bodies
Stora Enso CLT in XLam City Top by CBD: Extending the Existing
In XLam City Top, lightweight timber construction becomes part of a larger strategy for extending, strengthening and retaining an existing building. The project brings together CBD’s structural engineering expertise and Stora Enso CLT
Tania Monics and Rafaela Vieira
We believe it is worth creating connections that carry something forward. PIETRA began with the image of stones shaped slowly by time, an observation of nature translated into an object for one of our most
Maria & Pepi Freund
We live in a time when almost anything seems possible. Technology is becoming faster, smarter and increasingly part of our everyday lives. But the more that becomes possible, the more important another question becomes
New Layers in Old Rural Houses
Renovating rural architecture does not have to mean returning it to an imagined past. These projects preserve the material, spatial and constructive character of existing buildings while introducing contemporary ways of living.