Month: September 2025

Earthy tones and tactile materials characterise Toybox, a 160-year-old Portuguese-style home in Goa, restored by Indian practice Grounded. Toybox is situated on a site close to the banks of the river Moira, in the quiet village of Aldona in Goa. Now owned by Grounded founder Anjali Mangalgiri, who renovated the house to sell it, the […]

Architecture studio BIG has completed a building at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles made of “a series of parallel building volumes side by side” that surrounds a central atrium. Commissioned in 2020, the Robert Day Sciences Center is located on the eastern side of the Claremont McKenna College Roberts campus and contains spaces, labs […]

International studio MASS Design Group renovated and adapted six derelict factory buildings into a mixed-use community hub in New York’s Hudson Valley. The new Scenic Hudson Northside Hub was completed this summer, revitalising the former Standard Gage Factory in Poughkeepsie, New York. “Scenic Hudson’s Northside Hub represents MASS’s commitment to adaptive re-use as the lowest […]

A pastel colour palette, metal canopies and furniture informed by children’s block games lend a playful feel to Gyöngyszem Kindergarten in Budapest, Hungary, renovated by local studio Archikon. Archikon renovated and modernised the kindergarten, which occupies one of a series of prefabricated community structures built along a tree-lined path in the 1960s as part of […]

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled the 90-metre-long, four-storey-high Humanise Wall as the centrepiece of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Revealed at the opening ceremony of the biennale, which Heatherwick is general director for, the twisted wall is located in Songhyeon Green Plaza park in central Seoul. Named Humanise Wall, the giant steel […]

Architect Terry Farrell, best-known for the postmodern MI6 and TV-am buildings, along with his high-tech collaborations with the late Nicholas Grimshaw, has passed away at the age of 87. Farrell passed away yesterday, according to an announcement by his London studio, Farrells, this morning. “It is with deep sadness that, on behalf of his family, […]

Open Architecture has risen quickly to become one of China‘s most influential studios and is now set to design a major exhibition in Sydney. In this interview, married founders Huang Wenjing and Li Hu explain their unusual approach. Since establishing its Beijing office in 2008, Open Architecture has developed a reputation for experimental buildings that […]