Tbilisi’s operable steel skin rethinks security, light, and domestic openness—while reviving the aesthetics of fortification.
Adaptive reuse may rescue theaters and cinemas—but at what cost to memory, gathering, and civic life?
Hainan Science Museum shows how museums now choreograph movement, curiosity, and atmosphere—not just facts.
Why sawtooth roofs are reappearing in forests: industrial form softened into ecological rural architecture with sharp new ambitions.
Why enclosed courtyards are returning as a smart domestic response to heat, density, privacy, and microclimate.
Xintiandi Dongtaili shows how Shanghai malls now absorb street life, civic memory, and the politics of public culture.
A Belgian artist’s house becomes a layered retro-futurist interior, mixing Bauhaus colour, midcentury style and contemporary intervention.
Brick, earth, cork, timber and wood-based structures are reshaping low-carbon design—and reigniting the fight over vernacular authenticity.
Copenhagen’s floating community space raises a bigger question: can amphibious architecture become everyday civic infrastructure?
As homes become ecosystems of rooms, gardens, and rituals, design is judged by choreography—not just efficient floor plans.
