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BAT Architecture BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group Amenabar STRUNOR

Located at the foot of Mount Ulía in San Sebastián, GOe-Gastronomy Open Ecosystem has opened its doors as a new international hub for gastronomy, innovation, and collaboration, and while the finishing touches are still being made to the rooftop park and surrounding landscape, the building is already alive with activity, hosting a range of events from science-driven food talks to hands-on cooking workshops 🍽️

Designed for Basque Culinary Center, GOe brings together chefs, researchers, and entrepreneurs to explore how food can shape a healthier and more resilient future. The building is wrapped in Corten steel, composed of stacked volumes that shift with the hillside to create a stepped terraced roof for the public. Along these cuts and recesses, large openings reveal the kitchens, labs, and classrooms inside, positioning GOe as an open and accessible environment where the daily life of the building remains visible from the outside. 📸 Francisco Tirado

BAT Architecture BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group Amenabar STRUNOR

"Goetheanum, by Rudolf Steiner (1928).

Dornach, Switzerland.

via @ilcontephotography

Vietnamese Architect Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn Wins the 2025 Diversity in Architecture-DIVIA Award

(read more on archdaily)

The Diversity in Architecture (DIVIA) Award 2025 has been awarded to Vietnamese architect Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn, founder of Tropical Space, in a ceremony held on 10 May 2025 at the European Cultural Centre, in Palazzo Mora in Venice. The award includes international recognition and a €10,000 prize, honoring women architects whose work contributes to cultural diversity and inclusion in architecture.

‘The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House.’ 

Tate Modern  | 1 May – 19 October 2025

Photo by Jeon Taeg Su, Detail of “Nest/s.”

v/ https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/do-ho-suh-walk-the-house/

Time to Play.

Liu Jiakun Pritzker prize 2025

M'Zab Valley

A traditional human habitat, created in the 10th century by the Ibadites around their five ksour (fortified cities), has been preserved intact in the M’Zab valley. Simple, functional and perfectly adapted to the environment, the architecture of M’Zab was designed for community living, while respecting the structure of the family. It is a source of inspiration for today’s urban planners.

Outstanding universal value

Located 600 km south of Algiers, in the heart of the Saharan desert, the five ksour (fortified villages) of the M'Zab Valley form an extraordinary homogeneous ensemble, the mark of a sedentary, urban civilization in the desert, the bearer of an original culture which, through its own genius, has managed to preserve its cohesion over the centuries. Consisting of the ksour and palm groves of El-Atteuf, Bounoura, Melika, Ghardaïa and Béni-Isguen (founded between 1012 and 1350), the M'Zab Valley has retained virtually the same settlement pattern and construction techniques since the 11th century, dictated as much by a specific social and cultural context as by the need to adapt to a hostile environment.

Each of these miniature walled cities is dominated by a mosque whose minaret acts as a watchtower. The mosque was conceived as a fortress, the last bastion of resistance in the event of siege, and included an arsenal and a grain silo. Around this building, essential to community life, are houses arranged in concentric circles up to the rampart. Each house constitutes a fixed cubic cell, illustrating an egalitarian social organization based on respect for the family structure, whose intimacy and autonomy it strives to preserve. At the beginning of the first millennium, the Ibadites used local materials to create a vernacular architecture in the M'Zab that, thanks to its perfect adaptation to the environment and the simplicity of its forms, continues to serve as an example and lesson for contemporary architecture and town planning.

Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François / Amelia Tavella Architectes. Image © THIBAUT DINI

EU Mies Awards 2024 Announces 40 Shortlisted Projects

Plato Contemporary Art Gallery / KWK Promes. Image © Juliusz Sokołowski |

EU Mies Awards 2024 Announces 40 Shortlisted Projects

CALL FOR ENTRIES 2024 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers | Dirty

COMPETITION SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Thursday, February 15, 2024, 11:59 p.m. ET

All entries must be submitted through the League’s digital competition portal.

CALL FOR ENTRIES Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the 2024 Architectural League Prize competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2024. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000. 

Established in 1981 to recognize visionary work by young practitioners, the Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, lecture series, and exhibition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects + Designers Committee.

#Exhibition#Paris

Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai Breath of an Architect.

From December 9, 2023 to April 21, 2024

Manna Hotel / K-Studio | Arcadia, Greece

Photographs:Ana Santl

 Originally built in the late 1920s, the Manna Sanatorium received patients with tuberculosis who hoped to heal from the benefits of living within the arcadic woods for almost a decade. Designed by Swiss architects, it stirred away from the neoclassical current of the moment in the area. Despite the idyllic location, the introduction of penicillin in 1938 made sanatoriums obsolete, forcing the abandonment of Manna at the mercy of looting, with its parts being repurposed in nearby constructions.

Treetop Walk Hamaren Activity Park / EFFEKT

Architects: EFFEKT | Year: 2023 | Photographs:Rasmus Hjortshøj

Master Plan, Phase one | Chad Wright, 2011.

Photography by Lynn Kloythanomsup of Architectural Black

Espacio artístico Filux Lab / Workshop Diseño y Construcción © Tamara Uribe. Image |

Grand Palais Ephémère / Wilmotte & Associés Sa / Paris / France |