#WorldBuildingOfTheWeek - JUUL by HA-HA transforms the remains of a fire-damaged church in Rotterdam's Heijplaat neighborhood into four contemporary timber homes, preserving its historic brick walls and foundations.
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📸 © Aiste Rakauskaite
#JUUL #HAHA
The Green Field Factory of Karupannya Rangpur Limited in Bangladesh, designed by Nakshabid Architects, has won the 2026 RIBA International Prize.
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📸 1,2 Mud Canvas; 3,4 City Syntax
#RIBA2026 #RIBAInternationalPrize #NakshabidArchitects #waofficial
With affordable housing in short supply and industrial buildings standing empty, smartvoll proposes transforming a former industrial site in Salzburg into affordable apartments.
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Images: © smartvoll, Aestheticastudio
#smartvoll #Salzburg #waofficial
#WorldBuildingOfTheWeek – ODA has completed a 150-meter residential tower as part of the transformation of Rotterdam's historic Postkantoor into a mixed-use development.
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📸 1,3,4© Ossip van Duivenbode; 2©Andrew Campion
#Rotterdam #odanewyork #waofficial
Five years after winning an international competition, Foster + Partners and architect Luis María Uriarte have completed the expansion of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (Bilbao Fine Arts Museum).
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📸 Nigel Young
#Bilbao #FosterAndPartners #waofficial
Community-driven architecture in Iran offers refuge amid the US-Israel War. Gelan Architects and DAAZ Office explore how their projects have become spaces of community, identity, and safety.
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📸1,4 Deed Studio; 2,3 Neel Studio
#GelanArchitects #DAAZOffice
Munich is advancing sustainable urban development with its "Climate-Neutral Munich 2035" initiative, combining ecological, economic, and social goals.
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📸 1, 3 © Studio Olaf Becker; 2 © Peter Neusser; 4 © Michaela Stache
#waofficial #ClimateNeutralMunich
#SwissBuildingOfTheWeek — Kolabor’s kindergarten and day school in Laupen uses wood and clay to create a healthy indoor climate while demonstrating the potential of circular building.
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Photos: © Damian Poffet
#Kolabor #Laupen #waofficial
MALBA museum in Buenos Aires has announced a major expansion by Frida Escobedo Studio, more than doubling its exhibition space. The underground extension is expected to open in 2029 or early 2030.
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Renders: Frida Escobedo Studio
#waofficial #MALBA
A new German-Architects series, “Munich Tomorrow,” explores how Munich is tackling housing shortages, limited school space, and the urban heat island effect.
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📷 01 Florian Holzherr · 02 Markus Lanz · 03 Michael Heinrich · 04 Florian Ludwig
#SelectedProject — Office in Hashima by PERMANENT + Atelier Nagara is a new corporate headquarters rooted in the rural landscape of Hashima City, Gifu, Japan, with a flowing roof and gardens connecting inside and outside.
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📷 Kenta Hasegawa
#AtelierNagara
Anna Puigjaner, architect, researcher, cofounder of MAIO and Professor at ETH Zurich, has been named the 2026 recipient of the prestigious RIBA Charles Jencks Award for her contribution to architecture.
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📷 1 José Hevia | 2 Anna Mas
#RIBA #waofficial
"auruBOROS: Urban Memory and Collective Dream" by Plastique Fantastique for Bulgari, installed at the High Line during NYFW. World-Architects visited and took some pictures before it was taken down after September 20.
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📷 John Hill
#auruBOROS #waofficial
#WorldBuildingOfTheWeek - Brick Tower by ASA Studio is a mixed-use building in Kigali,Rwanda, designed to accommodate the city’s growing population using local materials, low-tech construction and passive design.
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📷Gaël Vande weghe
#waofficial #ASAStudio
#WorldBuildingOfTheWeek — Known for transforming shipping containers into architecture, LOT-EK, together with WAACC, designed the soon-to-open Black Schoolhouse in New Orleans, a new community and educational space.
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📷 Neil Alexander
#waofficial #LOTEK
MoMA curator Martino Stierli’s “Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa” explores modern architecture and political independence. On view through January 2, 2027.
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📷 John Hill/World-Architects
#waofficial #MoMA #ArchitectsOfLiberation
Zurich-based collective dorsa + 820 combines architecture and experimentation, with current projects including the “Sandy” school in Visp and the “Blauer Wolf” residential complex in Basel.
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Images: © dorsa + 820
#waofficial #dorsa820 #SwissArchitecture
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, designed by MAD Architects, is set to open in Los Angeles on September 22. The 300,000-square-foot museum will feature some 30 galleries dedicated to storytelling through images.
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📷 Hufton+Crow
#waofficial #LucasMuseum
Expo City Dubai is transforming the former World Expo site into a permanent urban district. Through adaptive reuse, climate-responsive design, and smart technologies, it aims to turn the UN SDGs into everyday urban life.
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Renders: 1,4 © Hansinok;2,3 © HISM
#GermanBuildingOfTheWeek - The Museum of Historic Oberamteistraße by wulf architekten saves Reutlingen’s historic half-timbered houses from collapse with a timber structure clad in cast glass shingles.
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📷 © Brigida González
#waofficial #wulfarchitekten














































































