From a reflective spiral staircase rising in a museum to an enclosed staircase puncturing the roof of a house, we continue our Review of 2025 with 10 of this year’s best staircases. Shanghai Grand Opera House, China, by Snøhetta Earlier this year, architecture studio Snøhetta revealed images of a dramatic spiral staircase roof taking shape over
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A floating plaza designed by Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and US firm Höweler + Yoon Architecture has anchored in Belém, Brazil, following its residency at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Named AquaPraça, the 400-square-metre plaza was transported to Belém at the mouth of the Amazon River, where it formed part of the Italian Pavilion at the COP30 climate conference
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Architecture studios RSHP, Hassell and WW+P Architects have created the five stations for the Metro Tunnel rail network in Melbourne, designed to provide enjoyable spaces for commuters. Set to be fully operational in February 2026, Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel aims to ease congestion on the City Loop underground infrastructure by connecting the Sunbury line in the west
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Architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Greater Bay Area Sports Centre in Guangzhou, China, which includes curved stadiums for sporting and cultural events. Located in a 70-hectare waterfront park in Guangzhou’s Nansha district, the centre includes a 60,000-seat stadium, a 20,000-seat arena for basketball and indoor events, and a 4,000-seat aquatic centre with a
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Architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Greater Bay Area Sports Centre in Guangzhou, China, which includes curved stadiums for sporting and cultural events. Located in a 70-hectare waterfront park in Guangzhou’s Nansha district, the centre includes a 60,000-seat stadium, a 20,000-seat arena for basketball and indoor events, and a 4,000-seat aquatic centre with a
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Work has begun on a looped Christian landmark named the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, which was designed by UK studio Snug Architects to rise over 50 metres in Warwickshire. Snug Architects designed the sculptural, ribbon-like structure as a Möbius strip – a continuous concrete band that curves and twists in a loop. The Eternal Wall
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Italian architecture firm Novembre Studio has completed a polycarbonate padel centre at Milan’s CityLife development, which was designed in response to the adjacent CityWave office by BIG. Named the Golden Goose Arena, the 12-metre-tall sports centre contains seven indoor padel courts, a cafe, lounge area, clothing shop, as well as two outdoor padel courts. Clad
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A video of London’s Olympic velodrome, designed by local studio Hopkins Architects, has gone viral on social media for echoing fart-like sounds while fireworks exploded nearby. Passerby Matt McClafferty captured the footage of the unusual sounds coming from the velodrome, now named Lee Valley VeloPark, last Thursday as firework displays went off in celebration of Bonfire
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Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron and local studio PBDW Architects have completed a “quasi-invisible” renovation of Marcel Breuer’s brutalist 945 Madison Avenue for auction house Sotheby’s. Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW Architects aimed to preserve the building, which was built in 1966 for New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, while updating the interiors
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Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron and local studio PBDW Architects have completed a “quasi-invisible” renovation of Marcel Breuer’s brutalist 945 Madison Avenue for auction house Sotheby’s. Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW Architects aimed to preserve the building, which was built in 1966 for New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, while updating the interiors
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