Mainifesto - White House Ballroom Tests Executive Power - hero

The White House ballroom fight turns preservation into a test of executive power, public memory and who gets to reshape America's symbolic architecture.

Mainifesto - Should Museums Preserve Work When Reputation Collapses? - hero

The cancelled John Galliano exhibition raises a harder question: can museums preserve difficult legacies without turning context into endorsement?

Mainifesto - The Floating City Wants to Be Infrastructure - hero

Freedom Ship revives the floating-city fantasy—and exposes the political, climate, and social stakes of architecture untethered from land.

Mainifesto - When Architecture Refuses to Consume the Site - hero

Casa 144º and the new hillside house ask whether restraint is true luxury—or costly engineering made to look effortless.

Mainifesto - Designing for the Day the Landscape Moves - hero

A Himalayan glacier collapse exposes the limits of static resilience. Architecture must design for cascading floods, landslides and mass evacuation.

Mainifesto - When Landscape Becomes the Building Material - hero

Architecture is leaving the object behind. Explore a future where terrain, vegetation and memory generate buildings as ecological stitching.

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