Architecture
Alki Lookout: SHED Reworks a 1910 Seattle Cottage Around Puget Sound Views
SHED Architecture & Design reorganizes a 1910 West Seattle cottage around views, storage and color, with an exterior mural by Stevie Shao.
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Casa Malonic by HW Studio Hides the Pacific Before Revealing It
Casa Malonic by HW Studio in Zihuatanejo uses a closed street edge, circular courtyard and deep shade to delay the Pacific view and make the landscape part of the journey.
Urbanism & Planning
Whistles Turns 50 by Making Its Customers Part of the Brand
Whistles marks 50 years with 50 customers, a London open-casting campaign and a refreshed visual identity built around participation rather than nostalgia.
Architecture
Chicago’s Griffin Museum Is Redesigning How Visitors Enter Its 1893 Building
Chicago’s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is redesigning how visitors enter its historic 1893 building, with a new north Welcome Hall and a restored south entrance.
Architecture
Anna Ortiz Paints Shifting Borderlands Through Myth, Landscape and Memory
Anna Ortiz uses saturated landscapes, jaguars, reflections and volcanic horizons to explore borderland identity, transformation and cultural memory in Shapeshifter.
Architecture
What Architects Miss When They Look at Buildings Through Photographs
Architectural photography does more than document buildings. A new reading of recent photobooks asks what architects can learn from framing, time, use, construction, typology and the ordinary life around architecture.
Design
Leisurama’s Prefabricated Promise of Mid-Century Vacationing for All
Leisurama Homes and postwar vacationing It’s 1965 in Culloden Shores, Montauk, a small beach community at the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, and a crop of identical homes have sprouted up. They are…
Archive & Research
ISOCARP Women in Planning Awards 2026 Nominations
ISOCARP’s 2026 Women in Planning Awards invited nominations across three pillars ahead of a standalone awards and planning day in Glasgow.
Materials
Vineyard Residence in Buellton Uses a Compact T-Shaped Plan
Clayton Korte’s Vineyard Residence in Buellton, California, uses a compact T-shaped plan, weathering steel, stucco and broad glazing to connect the home with a 50-acre vineyard.
Architecture
Elia Zenghelis Helped Build OMA. His Bigger Legacy May Be the Architects He Taught
Elia Zenghelis helped found OMA, but his larger influence may have come through decades of teaching and shaping how architects think about cities and images.
Construction
Junior Architects Rethinks How Design Education Should Work
Junior Architects examines how early design education, civic literacy and less hierarchical studios could broaden architecture and who gets to shape cities.
Art
Matthew Blackburn Turns PlayStation Nostalgia Into Contemporary Still Life
Johannesburg painter Matthew Blackburn mixes PlayStation controllers, cereal and familiar 2000s objects with the visual language of classical still life.