Shanghai’s Jing'An Investment Center shows how towers now swallow heritage into density. Smart compromise—or polished urban branding?
Zaha Hadid Architects becomes ZHA—what the rename reveals about authorship, legacy, and institutional continuity in architecture.
Taipei’s drone exhibition turns the skyline into a temporary civic screen—wonder, commerce, airspace, and urban memory collide.
Sophie Ebrard frames bullfighting as evidence and complicity, forcing photography to confront ritual, violence, and moral spectatorship.
As cities densify, reuse is replacing demolition as the smartest urban strategy—ecological, financial, and fiercely political.
Student proposals and policy essays are turning adaptive reuse into a code reform battle over climate, carbon, and existing buildings.
Smartphone Free Childhood turns nostalgia into a design argument: children’s attention now needs protection, ritual, and offline limits.
Can the courtyard and threshold revive apartment life? Bahār in Mashhad points to a denser, more social housing model.
Dataland’s Los Angeles opening forces museums to decide if AI art is authorship, craft, or just tech validation.
Bao Fast Foods turns fast food into a modular brand system. Can speed, consistency, and local adaptation coexist without losing soul?
