A $691,000 Seattle ADU tests the promise of backyard housing. What is optional design spending, and what does an independent dwelling really cost?
When wealthy owners raze usable homes, who pays the carbon bill? Two arguments on demolition rights, adaptation, and architects’ responsibility.
Denmark’s MIND Museum raises a difficult architectural question: can preserving psychiatric history make room for patients to challenge its official story?
Korea’s planned 2027 Venice pavilion confronts urban shrinkage. Can cities consolidate infrastructure without abandoning the residents who remain?
The Blue House in the Azores makes ocean-plastic cladding seductive. Weathering, maintenance and particle shedding must decide its environmental credibility.
Berlin’s Living Archive tests whether exhibition design can preserve techno’s collective possibilities—or turn a living scene into industrial nostalgia.
Crearctive turns a shop into four apartments. But spatial efficiency only succeeds when daylight, privacy, ventilation and usable space survive the conversion.
Giona Bierens de Haan’s It All Remains pits car reuse against material recovery. When does saving an object save resources—and when does it trap them?
Schemata Architects’ Linden House raises a harder question for rainforest hospitality: who benefits when wellbeing becomes a reason to build?
A £4.9 million London workshop conversion exposes the tension between saving industrial architecture and preserving space for urban production.
