Month: March 2026

the japanese engawa is reworked in accra, ghana, as the limbo museum’s unfinished concrete structure sees an installation by TAELON7.

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the japanese engawa is reworked in accra, ghana, as the limbo museum’s unfinished concrete structure sees an installation by TAELON7.

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This project is born as a retreat space, conceived from introspection. A personal and private spa in the mountains of Tapalpa, where the architecture deliberately renounces the idea of a façade: there is no gesture towards the outside, no frontal composition. The building seeks not to be seen, but to be inhabited.

chilean architect smiljan radić clarke receives the 2026 pritzker architecture prize for his atmospheric, material-driven architecture.

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Buildings associated with death, conceived or inspired by funerary rituals and practices, have given rise throughout history to some of architecture’s most significant achievements. The desire to preserve memory has always inspired the design of funerary spaces that explore territories of ambiguity: between earth and sky; light and matter; the telluric and the ethereal; the present and the timeless. In their materials, textures, scales, and forms, these buildings resist the passage of time and assert themselves as timeless constructions.

Buildings associated with death, conceived or inspired by funerary rituals and practices, have given rise throughout history to some of architecture’s most significant achievements. The desire to preserve memory has always inspired the design of funerary spaces that explore territories of ambiguity: between earth and sky; light and matter; the telluric and the ethereal; the present and the timeless. In their materials, textures, scales, and forms, these buildings resist the passage of time and assert themselves as timeless constructions.

This 2008 Colonial in Vienna, Virginia, had a kitchen that felt stuck in the past. Short white cabinets and a busy tile backsplash clashed with the home’s updated interiors. The homeowners, who had previously worked with Winn Design + Build on a spaci…

drawing on the tradition of the architectural folly, the pavilion reimagines the historic garden typology as a contemporary gathering space.

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