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The challenge was to design a fully functional weekend dwelling within a mere 20-square-meter footprint, achieving uncompromising comfort alongside complete energy autonomy in local climatic conditions. The cabin is situated at the edge of the Zlatý Roh vineyards, approximately 3 km above the ECK restaurant. Perched above Devín Castle, the site offers an expansive view across the vines toward the sunset over the Austrian Alps. The location carries a strong atmosphere, and our architectural intent was to create a sanctuary that provides security in every season while maintaining an immediate and uninterrupted connection with the surrounding landscape.

Architecture is traditionally chronicled through the persistence of the solid. We define the discipline by the weight of the lintel, the mass of the pier, and the resistance of the wall. Even when lightness is invoked, it is usually understood as a subtractive act, the thinning of a section or the precarious reduction of a load. Yet there is a parallel history, less visible and harder to isolate, in which the primary material of construction is not what occupies space, but what moves through it.

External Reference, led by Carmelo Zappulla, unveils its collaboration with Mahou San Miguel creating 'Plaza Mahou', the first and only brewery- branded space in Spain to produce beer inside a sports stadium. Located right in the emblematic Santiago Bernabéu stadium with exclusive direct views of the Real Madrid pitch, this space of over 1,000 m2, including the restaurant and terrace, is expected to receive around 400,000 visits per year.

Bangalore is a city of layered identities. The city's climate, its slow rhythm, and textured neighbourhoods add a humane quality to how we inhabit spaces. With the influx of faceless, sterile, glass buildings, most workspaces respond by mirroring the anonymity of the structures they occupy.

We believe architecture should speak for itself visually, conveying its principles simply by looking at it.  We also believe residential architecture should be tailored to the client, not just their brief, but also their personality. With the Playfair project, we got lucky. The clients were adventurers at heart, outdoor people, even Australian MTB champions. Somewhat tamed by years of raising children in suburbia, they sold their 5-bedroom house and bought an empty plot near the beach. This was going to be just for them, and it was never going to look like the other houses in the street. In fact, they would probably be just as happy in a tent. To enable future adventures, the project had to be delivered on a strict budget.

The educational proposal of the Neighborhood School is based on a sense of belonging to the place. The project materializes this premise through open and highly integrated spaces, where students' activities engage with the surrounding facilities, while the school space welcomes the community, establishing itself as a new urban facility for the neighborhood.

Connected by two bridges, the new training pool hall of the Public Swimming Pool Großfeldsiedlung forms a contemporary, climate-responsive extension to a 1980s swimming complex — demonstrating how ageing public infrastructure can be expanded with minimal footprint and a clear architectural identity.

House Among the Trees is the result of a collaboration between two studios: Wrzeszcz Architekci, responsible for the architectural design, and mode:lina™, which developed the interior concept and design. The shared ambition was to create a cohesive environment where architecture, interior space, and the surrounding landscape complement one another. The building was designed by Borys and Mariusz Wrzeszcz, while the interiors were developed by the mode:lina™ team with Anna Kazecka-Włodarczyk as lead designer and Jerzy Woźniak as co-author of the concept. The house was built on a plot densely filled with tall pine trees. From the outset, the project assumed that the building should not compete with its surroundings but instead become a natural extension of them. The architecture takes advantage of the site's potential, opening the house widely towards the landscape.

"The story of architecture is not wrong," argued Lesley Lokko in her introduction to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, "but it is incomplete." For most of the 20th century, architectural history spoke in one tongue: a singular, dominant narrative centered on a handful of movements, names, and cities, whose reach and influence appeared universal precisely because alternative voices were rendered inaudible. Design movements, however, rarely traveled intact across borders. They were frequently absorbed, resisted, reinterpreted, and transformed depending on geography, politics, economy, climate, and available materials. What arrived in one place as doctrine bec

Each year, the ArchDaily Next Practices Awards highlights emerging studios that are expanding the scope of architecture through new methods, materials, and ways of working. Selected from a global pool, these practices reflect a shift away from singular definitions of the discipline, engaging instead with broader questions of construction, environment, and social impact. Rather than operating within fixed categories, many of these studios position themselves across fields, combining design, research, and production to respond to contemporary conditions.