Architecture Article

New York’s Brooklyn Museum has announced the extension of its neoclassical building, a New York City–designated landmark, to include new galleries dedicated to its historic African art collection. The project to renovate and create permanent galleries was designed by the Brooklyn-based architectural firm Peterson Rich Office (PRO), with prior experience in contemporary exhibition spaces, in consultation with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners on the museum’s historic preservation. The project transforms previously underutilized spaces that served as on-site storage, marking a new milestone in a series of renovations of an institution with over 200 years of history. For the first time, the museum’s Egyptian art galleries will connect to the new African galleries, uniting North Africa with the rest of the continent to offer visitors a cohesive vision of Africa’s rich artistic legacy.

At the edge of most cities, beyond the ring roads and interchanges, a different kind of architecture is taking shape. It is not designed to be seen, visited, or remembered. It does not gather people; it moves things. Inside, thousands of parcels travel continuously, being sorted, lifted, scanned, and dispatched with minimal interruption. These buildings rarely enter architectural discourse, yet they are among the most consequential spaces of our time. The defining typology of the 21st century is increasingly the warehouse.

the london-based collective expands the role of the architect, shaping conditions for architecture to evolve over time.

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The design and realization of the “Xiaojiahe Green Dynamic World”project in Haidian District, Beijing, represents far more than the successful construction of a large-scale open space dedicated to sports; it stands as a groundbreaking practice in the revitalization of urban derelict land, through the view of social governance. The project embodies a rare facet of public space development within Beijing’s urban renewal—one characterized by a populist and thematic approach—and reflects an entirely novel model for the adaptive reuse of underutilized urban sites that has yet to be fully explored.

Summerhill Village is a project that carefully crafts a community through design accessibility. It challenges conventional models of social housing by placing community, sustainability, and dignity at the centre of its design.

with prewood, VUILD tests modular timber construction in tokyo through a system designed for disassembly and reuse on narrow urban sites.

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Frissón is a hybrid cultural space in Rome’s Pigneto, designed by On Form Studio — Michele Marincola, Ivan Spadaccini, Giovanni Inglese, and Andrea Signorotto. Conceived as a listening bar, bakery, and cultural platform, the project explores how architecture and interior design can support a contemporary ecosystem centered on music, conviviality, and artistic production.