Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has revealed plans to overhaul a former factory on an industrial site in Tbilisi, Georgia, and add a series of colourful housing blocks alongside it. The studio recently won the competition to design the Loco Park masterplan, which will add housing, green spaces and community spaces to the Georgian capital. Aiming…
ryue nishizawa designs landfill observation platform in japan Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa, co-founder of SANAA with Kazuyo Sejima, creates an observation platform at Oono Development’s managed landfill. Part of Final Disposal Site – A Landscape Created by Nature, Industry, and People, the installation invites visitors into a working industrial landscape and makes a normally…
Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide | Eyal Weizman | Penguin | 2026 | $38 Google’s recently updated satellite imagery makes plain the scale of destruction wrought upon Gaza and its built environment since 2023. Historically unprecedented levels of aerial bombardment have reduced everything in sight to a relentless grayscale landscape of rubble. Palestinian scholars like…
A NEW GREEN DISTRICT FOR TBILISI Italian architecture studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has won an international competition to transform a former Soviet-era locomotive factory in Tbilisi, Georgia, into a new residential neighborhood. Named Loco Park, the masterplan reimagines a 73,600-square-meter industrial site as a network of residential buildings, public parks, pedestrian routes, and community…
A cluster of interconnected volumes in dark limestone and cedar gradually descend down a narrow and steeply sloping site overlooking Lake Zurich at House on a Slope by Swiss studio Think Architecture. Drawings and exterior Previous Next Drawings and exterior Close Ground floor plan First floor plan Section The two blocks are connected by a…
URSELMANN INTERIOR DESIGNS CIRCULAR DÜSSELDORF APARTMENT Located within a 1939 residential building in Düsseldorf, Germany, this apartment renovation by local practice Urselmann Interior is engineered entirely for circular disassembly. The studio established take-back agreements with nine manufacturers: Pfleiderer, Granorte, Shards, Søuld, ClayTec, STRAMEN.TEC, Tarkett, Bosch, and Vitra, ensuring that interior building products can be…
bosco colto campus co-director marco navarra In and around the forests of Santo Pietro, near Caltagirone in southeastern Sicily, is Bosco Colto, the ecological regeneration project established in 2022 by Makramè APS. Through interdisciplinary programming, the organization explores the Bosco di Santo Pietro area and develops new ways of inhabiting and caring for the…
DATÇA SUMMER WORKSHOP BUILDS TIMBER-and-fabric pavilion Designed and built as part of the Datça Summer Workshop 2026, a collaborative initiative between İstanbul Bilgi University, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, and Wentworth Institute of Technology, guided by design-build tutors including Sebastián Erazo and Stefano Pugliese, the Karaköy Timber Extension is a 55-sqm civic intervention in southwestern…
A zigzagging path tops the demountable Pilen viewpoint in Denmark, created by engineering firm Arup to give the public views of the construction of the vast Fehmarnbelt Tunnel. Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is an 18-kilometre-long road-and-rail tunnel being built underwater between Rødbyhavn in Denmark and Puttgarden in Germany to improve links between continental Europe and Scandinavia. Drawings…
OROCO STUDIO RECONFIGURES 40-SQM APARTMENT IN MADRID RS19 is the renovation of a 40-sqm apartment in Madrid’s Palacio neighborhood, designed by OROCO Studio. Conceived as a first home, the project explores how a limited surface can accommodate everyday life while creating a sense of openness and spatial generosity. The intervention rethinks the existing layout…