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24/09/2025

🌍Prishtina Sustainable Design Week 2025
From September 29 – October 3, Prishtina becomes a stage for architects, designers, entrepreneurs, and citizens to reimagine how creativity and responsibility shape our future.

Over five days, the city will host conversations, exhibitions, and collaborations that explore design not only as a tool for efficiency but as a catalyst for culture, community, and well-being.

For Architecture Wave, this is more than an editorial story, it’s personal. Our co-founder and editor-in-chief, Ariana Kuqi, was born and raised in Prishtina. Returning to her hometown through the lens of global design discourse marks both a professional and deeply human milestone.

Join us as we follow the ideas, people, and projects that will define the first edition of Prishtina Sustainable Design Week.

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From September 29 to October 3, 2025, Prishtina will host the first-ever Sustainable Design Week, a citywide festival where creativity meets responsibility. Over five days, the capital will become an open platform for architects, designers, artists, and citizens to explore how design can spark cultu...

24/09/2025

Balancing on a 100% slope, this Barcelona residence turns gravity into its design partner. Raised lightly on minimal concrete supports, the structure hovers above slate rock, creating sharp cantilevers while preserving the terrain beneath.

Inside, a sculptural spiral staircase in coral red becomes the focal point, contrasting with serene interiors washed in natural light from full-height glazing. With a budget of €400K, the project proves that architectural excellence emerges not from excess, but from precision, imagination, and respect for site.

Casa Magarola Designed by
📸 José Hevia

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23/09/2025

Your nervous system doesn’t care if your home is trendy. It cares if it feels safe.

In our latest article, we break down how clutter, light, sound, and even color shape the way your body reacts to a room. Some interiors ground you. Others drain you.

If you’ve ever walked into a room and instantly felt drained, or alive, this explains why.

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Your home doesn’t just reflect your personality. It shapes your nervous system. From the color on your walls to the amount of clutter in your hallway, every design choice speaks directly to your brain and body. Some spaces calm you, ground you, and support your well-being. Others can trigger stres...

23/09/2025

Your nervous system doesn’t care if your home is trendy. It cares if it feels safe.

In our latest article, we break down how clutter, light, sound, and even color shape the way your body reacts to a room. Some interiors ground you. Others drain you.

If you’ve ever walked into a room and instantly felt drained, or alive, this explains why.

🔗The article is live now on www.architecturewave.com
Save this for your next project, your body will thank you.

22/09/2025

Once a Cretan settlement, today a retreat where history and hospitality intertwine.
Stone pathways lead to suites that preserve the village’s original character, timber beams, thick walls, and courtyards shaded by olive trees.

The layout recalls a slower rhythm of life, where community once gathered and time stretched with the seasons. Now, travelers find the same sense of rootedness, with gardens and a pool offering pause from the Mediterranean heat.

Moments here unfold between heritage and comfort, whether wandering to Arkadi Monastery, exploring Margarites village, or simply watching the light shift across limestone walls.

📍 Crete, Greece
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21/09/2025

This vacation villa is designed as a study in green. Across its courtyards and interiors, the palette is consistent yet layered, emerald tiles, striped fabrics, painted ceilings, and lush vegetation create continuity throughout the project.

The architecture draws from Mediterranean and Moorish influences: arched thresholds, patterned surfaces, and water features that anchor the atmosphere. Interiors extend the same language with tiled kitchens and geometric floors, maintaining a dialogue between indoor and outdoor spaces.

The result is a cohesive concept where color is not decoration but structure, shaping the identity of every room and courtyard.

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20/09/2025

In the heart of the desert, architecture becomes a dialogue with silence.
embraces adobe walls, timber beams, and hand-troweled textures that hold both shadow and light. The interiors invite slowness, linen sheets warmed by the sun, woven pendants casting gentle patterns, water reflecting the tones of stone.

Beyond the walls, saguaros rise like sculptures, and the horizon glows with the rhythm of dusk and dawn. Here, landscape and shelter are inseparable, each shaping the other into a lived atmosphere.

This is desert charm reimagined, not as ornament, but as a way of life.

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19/09/2025

Behind a weathered façade in Mérida, a serene courtyard unfolds into layers of light, water, and stone.

Floating stairs lead through a vertical garden where raw walls meet lush greenery. A hammock drapes over a pool like a gesture of pause, while the rooftop offers silence framed by cactus and sky.

It is a house that speaks softly—blurring the line between architecture and atmosphere, reminding us that stillness can be designed.

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18/09/2025

The Jaipur Rugs Tennis Championships

A court becomes a canvas.
Rugs as lines of play, patterns as rhythm, movement as story.

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18/09/2025

Can simplicity restore our balance?
In a Swedish woodland retreat, remind us that design can be medicine.

Oak underfoot, linen against skin, plaster walls softening daylight. Every detail is chosen for how it feels, not just how it looks. Here, architecture becomes atmosphere: light and shadow create rhythm, textures ground the body, and calm is carried long after you leave.

This isn’t a cabin in the forest. It is the forest mirrored inside.

📍 Sweden
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What if a home could remind us how to breathe? The Forest Retreat by Norm Architects sits quietly among pine trees and valleys, offering not escape but connection. Here, light, texture, and silence become the architecture of balance, inviting the body to rest and the mind to unclutter.

18/09/2025

Can simplicity restore our balance?
In a Swedish woodland retreat, remind us that design can be medicine.

Oak underfoot, linen against skin, plaster walls softening daylight. Every detail is chosen for how it feels, not just how it looks. Here, architecture becomes atmosphere: light and shadow create rhythm, textures ground the body, and calm is carried long after you leave.

This isn’t a cabin in the forest. It is the forest mirrored inside.

📍 Sweden

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17/09/2025

Concrete. Jungle. Water. Silence.
Here, architecture becomes a threshold between form and wilderness. Brutalist geometry dissolves into the lush rhythm of the tropical forest, where walls of concrete frame cascades of green and water.

Every room opens into a living painting, a composition of shadow, light, and foliage. What could feel heavy instead feels alive: surfaces breathe, thresholds extend into nature, and silence carries its own architecture.

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