Casa 144º and the new hillside house ask whether restraint is true luxury—or costly engineering made to look effortless.
A Himalayan glacier collapse exposes the limits of static resilience. Architecture must design for cascading floods, landslides and mass evacuation.
Simon Weckert’s Digital Camouflage turns clothing into digital resistance—and asks who public space is really designed to serve.
As America turns 250, design becomes a battleground over who belongs, who speaks, and whether a shared symbol still exists.
When restoring vintage superyachts costs more than new build, is it preservation—or luxury performance?
Air-conditioning is now a climate, health and justice battleground as cities overheat and comfort becomes infrastructure.
Parametric insurance, climate risk, and AI are turning homes into continuously priced assets—and reshaping who can afford resilience.
Heatwaves are forcing offices to rethink cooling as architecture, economics, and carbon collide. Can productivity stay humane without hotter cities?
A Portland supermarket reborn as a library hub shows why big-box shells are becoming civic infrastructure, not demolition fodder.
Performing arts venues are becoming flexible ecosystems as architecture, finance, and programming collide in a new survival model.
