Category: Architecture, Design & Culture

World Architecture Day 2026 places housing at the centre of architectural responsibility under the theme “Housing is a Human Right. Build It.”

A concise archival overview of how water, energy, redundancy, storage, and repairability can help buildings maintain essential functions during infrastructure failure.

French-Moroccan artist Myriam Lemon draws on Tangier, family memory and everyday Moroccan life across ceramics, painting, illustration and tufting.

SHED Architecture & Design reorganizes a 1910 West Seattle cottage around views, storage and color, with an exterior mural by Stevie Shao.

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.

Whistles marks 50 years with 50 customers, a London open-casting campaign and a refreshed visual identity built around participation rather than nostalgia.

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.

Anna Ortiz uses saturated landscapes, jaguars, reflections and volcanic horizons to explore borderland identity, transformation and cultural memory in Shapeshifter.

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.

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…

ISOCARP’s 2026 Women in Planning Awards invited nominations across three pillars ahead of a standalone awards and planning day in Glasgow.

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.

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.

Junior Architects examines how early design education, civic literacy and less hierarchical studios could broaden architecture and who gets to shape cities.

Johannesburg painter Matthew Blackburn mixes PlayStation controllers, cereal and familiar 2000s objects with the visual language of classical still life.

Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Omai is set to go on view at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles from September 14, following conservation study and its joint acquisition with London’s National Portrait Gallery.

In Folded Memories, Los Angeles artist Estefania Ajcip uses layered paintings, plywood, papier-mâché, light and family photographs to revisit childhood separation between Guatemala and Los Angeles.

Transform 1012 is converting a 35,000-square-foot former Ku Klux Klan hall in Fort Worth into an arts and community center designed by Studio Barnes, ch_studio, GFF, and JIMA Studio.

The Japan Mint’s International Coin Design Competition 2026 is open to eligible students worldwide, with entries due by September 16, 2026. The program awards prizes for original coin designs submitted under the competition rules.

The un Design Award is an annual international design competition initiated in Washington, D.C., by the International Competition Association (ICA). Under the theme “The Self is the World,” it is open to professionals and…