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Since opening in late 2025, the Ismaili Center has become a spiritual home and an urban destination in Houston. The design of the center was led by Farshid Moussavi Architecture, with DLR Group as the architect and engineer of record.
Farshid Moussavi, who is also a professor of practice at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, transforms familiar materials through precision and craft, creating architecture that feels accessible and rooted in its place.
Here, in a conversation with METROPOLIS’s senior editor Francisco Brown, she reflects on designing beyond symbolism, discussing how geometry, materiality, and openness shaped a building intended to endure for generations.
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#ProjectOfTheDay: TIBO by CARAZO ARQUITECTURA
Tibo is a low-impact retreat on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, with prefabricated timber pavilions tucked among existing trees and curved, leaf-like roofs that provide shade while allowing the forest to remain the dominant presence: hubs.la/Q04Czbyh0
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A 19th-century manor house sets the scene for a striking architectural contrast: hubs.la/Q04Cx-4h0
📍 Germany
Project by: Marc Demailly
The Synergy Innovation Zone Landscape Tower in Chongqing takes the form of a rising moon, with a slender steel structure and spiraling staircase that gradually reveal panoramic views of Mingyue Lake and the surrounding mountains: hubs.la/Q04CxZXB0
📍 Chongqing, China
Project by: gad
Photos by: Bai Chuan
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Villa Arrebol is organized around a lush central courtyard that preserves existing trees, bringing greenery into every room and creating a cool, shaded retreat behind an enclosed street-facing façade: hubs.la/Q04CqNww0
📍 Mérida, Mexico
Project by: Más que Arquitectura Estudio
Villa Marieta is organized around a tree-lined boulevard, with a double-roofed community building, rainwater-fed planting beds and shaded balconies that draw on the conviviality of traditional Brazilian villages: hubs.la/Q04CqNw30
📍 Manaus, Brazil
Project by: TROOST + PESSOA Architects
Most architects still take the maker’s word for it, but a third-party standard for vinyl producers gives specifiers something firmer to go on.
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✍️ Sam Frew
We’re excited to share the first interview in our new series featuring the minds behind the 15th Architizer A+Awards jury.
This year, the A+Awards celebrate the people behind architecture: the ideas, judgment, skills and care that shape the spaces we inhabit. We wanted to go beyond the finished projects and hear directly from the architects shaping the profession today.
We’re kicking things off with Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, who shares her thoughts on architectural generosity and why the small, everyday decisions that make people feel welcome matter so much.
Read the full interview: hubs.la/Q04CrL4p0
The Strasbourg Metropolitain Council Chamber gains nine circular skylights that pierce the existing ceiling, bringing natural light into the semicircular assembly hall while preserving its original leather wall cladding and historic artwork: hubs.la/Q04CqNvX0
📍 Strasbourg, France
Project by: Antonelli + Herry Architectes
#ProjectOfTheDay: Fonte d'Amore by MOFA Studio
Fonte d'Amore transforms a 600-square-foot courtyard into a five-story surrealist sculpture, where a Trevi-inspired fountain meets Gaudí-like stone arches shaped through computational design and hand carving: hubs.la/Q04CqMsS0
📍Delhi Division, DL, India #ArchitizerAwards
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Promenada is a four-story aparthotel in Władysławowo defined by crisp white façades, horizontal lines and a rooftop metal pergola, giving its 26 apartments a restrained architectural presence near the Baltic coast: hubs.la/Q04CqNpn0
📍 Władysławowo, Poland
Project by: ARCHMONDO Piotr Kowalczyk
Photos by: Jakub Certowicz
The renewal of Qiongkushitai Village preserves its traditional Kazakh timber houses, using subtle interior upgrades and locally sourced materials to adapt the historic settlement for tourism while retaining its rural character: hubs.la/Q04Cfz8W0
📍 Xinjiang, China
Project by: Slow Coral Design
The LS House follows the slope with an L-shaped plan, hiding its two-level layout from the street while opening the lower social area onto a pool and landscaped garden: hubs.la/Q04Cfzdj0
📍 Bragança Paulista, Brazil
Project by: Padovani Arquitetos
What a night in Paris! We celebrated the 2026 Vision Awards winners with an inspiring keynote from Thomas Heatherwick, conversations with the people behind the work, and a room full of incredible talent from across architecture and visualization.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the evening special, and to our partners and collaborators at RELEASE [AEC], Chaos, Morpholio, NADKA and SCAWO3D for making it possible.
Congratulations to all our winners! The future of architectural imagery is in good hands.
Read more about the event: hubs.la/Q04CgJXW0
#ProjectOfTheDay: LG Corporation Headquarters by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
SOM renovates the LG Corporation Headquarters with a sculptural wooden staircase that opens the lower levels to daylight, improves circulation and creates a new social heart within the 1986 building: hubs.la/Q04Cfz8B0
📍Seoul, South Korea #ArchitizerAwards
The Latécoère Neighborhood transforms a former industrial site into a mixed-use urban district, stitching the surrounding neighborhoods together through permeable streets and a continuous landscape of gardens, terraces and green roofs: hubs.la/Q04Cfz3V0
📍 Toulouse, France
Project by: Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés
Photos by: David Aubert
CThe SAP Labs Munich Campus is arranged as three staggered volumes around a five-story atrium, where a rust-red spiral staircase links research and office spaces with public areas: hubs.la/Q04Cfz1P0
📍 Garching, Germany
Project by: SCOPE Architekten
Photos by: Zooey Braun
