Month: April 2026

Milan reactivates its role as a global design capital this week as Milan Design Week 2026 has began on April 20, followed by the opening of the 64th edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano on April 21 at Fiera Milano, Rho. Rather than a single event, the week unfolds as a layered system in which the fair and the city operate through different temporalities and spatial conditions. From early openings across urban districts to the formal start of the fairgrounds program, the staggered calendar reinforces a continuous flow of activity that extends across institutions, infrastructures, and public space.

On the outskirts of Wiesbaden, directly adjacent to the city forest, this historic apartment unfolds as a sequence of clearly articulated rooms shaped by a remarkably intact original fabric. The spatial character is defined by finely detailed stucco ceilings, ranging from restrained to floral, paired with herringbone parquet in the connecting rooms and wooden floorboards in more private areas. Dark door and window frames, original built-in elements, and subtle traces of former uses lend the interiors a layered depth and establish a strong narrative foundation for the project.

The United Nations’ International Mother Earth Day, observed annually on April 22, aims to “promote harmony with nature and the Earth.” In light of the urgency posed by climate change, it seeks to raise awareness of the challenges of preserving all forms of life supported by the planet. It is a call to the global community to safeguard biodiversity while striving to balance economic, social, and ecological systems. Crimes against biodiversity include large-scale practices such as deforestation, land-use change, intensified agriculture, livestock production, and illegal wildlife trade, all considered by the UN to be accelerating factors in the destruction of the planet.

ArchDaily is looking for a Projects Team Lead to guide the curation and strategic development of one of the platform’s core content pillars: built projects. This role sits at the intersection of editorial and architectural judgment, data-driven strategy, and team leadership, shaping how architecture is selected, presented, and amplified to a global audience.

Architectural history often advances through iconic gestures or technological breakthroughs, yet some works remain influential precisely because they resist spectacle. Built between 1972 and 1974 in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, the Van Wassenhove Residence stands as one of those quiet but decisive projects. Conceived as a single, continuous concrete volume set within a wooded landscape, the house challenges conventional ideas of domestic comfort, privacy, and spatial hierarchy. Its presence is direct and uncompromising, yet it avoids monumentality, positioning itself instead as a lived structure shaped by everyday rituals and long-term inhabitation.

A reversible stainless-steel intervention within Yerevan’s oldest preserved interior from the 1930s. Lumen Coffee 1936 revives a former bookstore, revealing the “Oriental Art Nouveau” wooden setting and creating a refined dialogue between heritage and contemporary design.

In architectural discourse, the notion of the “local” is often associated with regionally rooted building knowledge—materials, structures, and craftsmanship shaped by long-term interaction between human practices and the environment. In contemporary China, however, the idea of local construction is frequently reduced to two recognizable paradigms: rural architecture employing traditional materials and techniques, and hybrid practices that juxtapose local materials with industrial systems. Such interpretations overlook a broader and more pervasive reality.

The site has an area of 35m² with a frontage of 3.6m for a young family located on Tran Cung Street, which was established in 2005. This street is spread over villages (“Làng”) Hoang 1, Hoang 2, and Hoang 4 of “Xã Cổ Nhuế”, which is now Co Nhue 1 ward, Bac Tu Liem district, Hanoi City.

Set on an area of approximately 2,400 m², in a gated community, this residence emerges from a direct relationship with the landscape. Located at the end of a cul-de-sac, the front of the lot opens up to a preservation area with a spring, allowing the house to be practically surrounded by the existing vegetation.