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The Icelandic Pavilion at the 20th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will present SOAK: Rituals of Collective Belonging, an exhibition examining Iceland's bathing culture through the lens of architecture, public space, and social interaction. Commissioned by Halla Helgadóttir, Iceland Design and Architecture, the project is curated by Marcos Zotes, partner at Basalt Architects, and developed through a multidisciplinary collaboration between Basalt Architects, design studio Gagarin, and artist Rán Flygenring. SOAK marks the second Icelandic participation in the Architecture Biennale selected through an open call process, foll

In 2021, ArchDaily (Mexico) published a residence designed and built for themselves by architects, Brenda Nelson & Tom van den Bout of NV/design.architecture, when they relocated from Brooklyn, New York to Oaxaca, Mexico. Tom's parents soon elected to build a house across the street, Casa Cielo. The house was completed in 2025.

On June 3, 2026, Herzog & de Meuron was selected to revitalize the Palace of Congresses building in Tirana, Albania. The project was designed along with collaborators Julian Beqiri, Marsela Demaj, Michel Desvigne Paysagistes (MDP), ARUP, LDK, Gentian Shkurti, SUEB Industries sh.p.k., The Space Factory Ltd, MBBM, and KLAR sh.p.k. The Palace of Congresses (or Pallati i Kongreseve) was built during the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and opened in 1986 to host the Congresses of the Party of Labour of Albania and other official activities. The International

How can architectural design become an active tool for conservation? By considering nature as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, a harmonious connection with it frames the countless interrelationships that exist among humans, living organisms, and natural cycles. Designing with the landscape means learning to coexist with its temporal dynamics without controlling its processes. Traditions, ecology, and the past and present of a place all contribute to creating spaces that interpret their communities.

Śhālā Twam, meaning "a space for you," emerged from a simple yet urgent question: within the rapidly densifying urban condition of Kerala, can even a modest private plot become a shared cultural and ecological resource for the neighbourhood?

At the heart of the Talence university campus — one of the largest in Europe — the reconstruction project for the CROUS student restaurant aims to restore this facility to a central role in student life.

What makes a home resilient? Extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent around the world. From power outages, hurricanes, and earthquakes to wildfires, floods, and droughts, the world is experiencing a process of transformation and adaptation that requires collaboration among diverse disciplines. The role of architecture in the built environment reflects an opportunity to rethink how homes perform under changing environmental conditions—not only by anticipating the unexpected. Designing for resilience means thinking holistically, considering material choices, energy systems, landscaping, and construction details that anticipate disruption and help homes recover quickly. It involves creating architecture that evolves with the

Suzhounan Railway Station: A "Hexagonal"Station-city Synergy Multi-level Transportation Hub. On December 26, 2024, Suzhounan Railway Station, the nation's first "hexagonal" Multi-level transportation hub complex, officially commenced operations. Located in the Fenhu High-Tech Zone of Wujiang, Suzhounan Railway Station serves as the external gateway hub for the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integration Demonstration Zone. It is a shared cross-shaped hub station for both the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou High-Speed Railway and the Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo High-Speed Railway. The station building covers a total area of 40,000 square meters, with a station yard layout of 4 platforms and 12 tracks (including 2 platforms and 6 tracks for the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou High-Speed Railway, and 2 platforms and 6 tracks for the Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo High-Speed Railway). The intercity railway and urban rail transit run parallel within the same underground space, with the four lines fo

The farm shop and café nestle within a tunnel of tamarind trees, letting the natural canopy remain the true architecture. A gable roof is split into two gestures: one curving softly, sheltering the café with crafted intimacy; the other stretched long and straight, clad in free-form black slate, filtering light like overlapping leaves.

The project consists of the rehabilitation of an 18th-century rural house, located in the village of Abadim, in the Minho region of northern Portugal. The property is made up of a set of buildings arranged in a lush landscape, with views of the Serra da Cabreira.