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12/11/2025

🌉The Foot and Bicycle Bridge in Albi, designed by in collaboration with .brussels, is a 200-meter-long steel structure attached to the existing SNCF railway viaduct. Located on the edge of the UNESCO-listed Episcopal City of Albi, the bridge connects the Castelviel and Pratgraussal neighborhoods, improving pedestrian and cyclist mobility across the Tarn River. The design features a triangular metal box section with widened viewing points, a pastel-blue glossy underside, and filigree stainless steel railings.

The project is part of a broader urban strategy to support sustainable mobility and enhance public access to peripheral areas. The viaduct remains in operation while the bridge introduces new spatial and visual connections within the city. The intervention includes landscape integration at both ends, designed by MSA, to contribute to a network of small public spaces that support the management plan for the historic city center.

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12/11/2025

The mind loves to invent motion where none exists, and Roy Lichtenstein knew exactly how to lure it into a delightful trap. 🌀

🏡 House I (1999), installed at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, is a masterclass in spatial illusion. Built from painted aluminum and conceived during the final years of Lichtenstein’s career, the piece twists architectural expectation into a perceptual puzzle. As you walk along the curved path in front of it, the “inside-out” geometry snaps, flips, and seems to rotate in mid-air, a static object behaving like an animation.

It’s architecture as a cognitive glitch: a reminder that space is never just what it seems, but what the eye and brain negotiate together.

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12/10/2025

🏛️Architecture has always shaped couture, but few moments make the connection as explicit as Gianfranco Ferré’s 1992 “Palladio” dress for .

Trained as an architect at the Politecnico di Milano, Ferré translated the language of classical orders into a garment that feels both sculptural and ethereal. The gown’s flowing white chiffon and georgette form a soft, column-like silhouette, while the beaded neckline and sleeves echo the volutes of an Ionic capital. Every detail behaves like an architectural gesture, structure expressed through ornament, geometry softened into movement.

Fashion becomes a spatial study, a wearable reinterpretation of proportion, rhythm, and tectonics that still resonates in today’s computational approach to form-making.

12/10/2025

🌿Designed by , the Tanatap Canopy Garden Café and Restaurant in Bekasi, Indonesia, merges indoor and outdoor experiences with a floating double multi-axial concrete structure above a lush garden. Inspired by the tropical almond tree canopies, the design incorporates passive, low-energy solutions to counter the high thermal environment of Bekasi, where temperatures often reach 35°C. The open layout allows natural ventilation, while the juxtaposition of pigmented concrete and translucent elements enhances views of the garden, creating an elegant and calming atmosphere.

The design emphasizes a unique visitor experience, where floating concrete shades create different lighting effects throughout the day. The seamless integration of architecture with nature invites guests to interact with the tropical environment, making it an ideal space for relaxation and community connection.

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12/09/2025

🏗️Façade installation is now underway at ’s new Shenzhen campus, a major project by that rethinks how a tech headquarters can shape urban life. Designed as four interconnected towers rising 200 meters, the 185,000-square-meter complex is conceived as a fluid, hyper-connected workplace with uninterrupted floor plates, a dramatic 20-storey vertical lobby, and atrium spaces that visually unite teams across the towers.

By placing the service cores on the exterior, ZHA opens the interior to panoramic views of Shenzhen Bay, creating bright, flexible spaces that encourage collaboration. At ground level, the tapered tower forms carve out generous civic areas, including a landscaped plaza, cultural spaces, retail, dining, and a public walkway that cuts diagonally through the site and links directly to the metro station.

Precision-engineered external louvres reduce solar heat gain while emphasizing the towers’ smooth, sculptural geometry. Targeting LEED Gold, the campus uses advanced 3D modelling and energy-management systems to optimize environmental performance.

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12/09/2025

’s Spring-Summer 2025 collection, presented at the Grand Palais in Paris with a set design by . The runway featured two large, interlocking ‘C’s’ in white, positioned at the center of the venue. The layout created a structured path for the models, highlighting the collection’s fluid silhouettes and detailed craftsmanship.

The presentation marked 110 years of Chanel’s history, incorporating precise tailoring and lightweight fabrics.✨

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12/08/2025

✈️Beijing Daxing International Airport, completed in 2019, stands as one of the most technically sophisticated aviation projects ever built. Designed by , the terminal reimagines how millions of passengers move through a megahub by organizing the entire experience around a single, fluid central space. Its star-shaped plan brings every gate within easy reach, reducing walking distances and turning circulation into a clear, intuitive journey.

The sweeping roof shell, marked by branching structural ribs and daylight-filled skylights, creates a continuous interior landscape where geometry, engineering, and light work together at an unprecedented scale. Beneath its sculptural form, advanced systems manage airflow, energy performance, and passenger flow in one of the world’s busiest air corridors.

💬Which part of this project captures your attention most: the structure, the geometry, or the spatial experience?

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12/08/2025

🛖What happens when architecture grows from material intuition instead of formal rules?

by .azulik explores this question through environments shaped by craft, ecology, and cultural memory. Emerging from the brand, the studio brings together architects, computational specialists, engineers, and an R&D team to create spaces that reconnect human experience with nature. This year also marks two decades of the AZULIK vision, a milestone that reflects the long-term evolution of their philosophy and practice.

Their projects, from the elevated walkways and nest-like structures of Azulik Tulum, to the sculptural galleries of SFER IK, to the hand-crafted, earth-rooted forms of Azulik Uh May, treat architecture as a living interface between art, ancestry, and landscape. Built through tactile, ancestral techniques and natural materials, each space replaces rigid geometry with fluid, organic lines shaped by movement and perception.

Guided by the pillars of Ancestry, Nature, and Art, Roth designs environments as holistic experiences rather than static objects, atmospheres defined by texture, ritual, and a renewed sense of connection to our surroundings.

💬Which aspect of their approach resonates with you most: the materiality, the geometry, or the philosophy behind it?

12/07/2025

⭕The Catenary And The Arc by and , is a temporary installation occupying the courtyard of Flores & Prats’s cultural center, created for the Insòlit Festival in July 2019 in Mallorca, Spain. Welcomed more than thousands of visitors in the first week, the design seeks to promote the beauty and the heritage of the Balearic Islands’ ancient courtyards.

The installation creates geometric contrasts between the existing stone arches and the catenary curves, which are steel mesh structures hung in the opposite direction of the arches. This formal duality creates an interaction between compression and tension, opacity and semi-transparency, and weight and lightness. One element resists gravity; the other fights with it. Three large catenaries made of light steel mesh, covered with recycled plastic cups, change how visitors perceive the space and create a lighting game when sunlight hits. The cups reflect a warm red glow into the courtyard, creating a living canvas with light and shadows. The installation aims to bring back the courtyard culture of the 14th century in a modern way. It makes these areas visible again through experimental behaviors.

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12/07/2025

✨Sharifi-ha House, designed by and completed in 2014 in Tehran, reinterprets traditional Iranian spatial adaptability with a contemporary approach featuring a dynamic façade that transforms in response to seasonal and functional needs. The house features three rotating volumes that pivot to create either an open, extroverted space with large terraces in summer or a closed, insulated structure during winter. This adaptability echoes traditional Iranian homes, where distinct summer (Taabestan-Neshin) and winter (Zemestan-Neshin) living spaces provided comfort throughout the year. The rotating boxes not only redefine the building’s aesthetic but also influence interior lighting, ventilation, and spatial experience.

These movable rooms—including a guest suite, home office, and breakfast area—allow the residents to modify their living environment based on occupancy and use. The turning mechanism, inspired by theatrical stage designs and engineered with precision in Germany, enables smooth rotation while maintaining structural integrity. A central void, connected by suspended bridges, ensures natural light reaches deep into the interior, even when the façade is in its closed configuration. By integrating cutting-edge engineering with cultural references, Sharifi-ha House reimagines residential architecture as a dynamic, responsive system.

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12/06/2025

🌿 Chicken Hero Pavilion by

Built in the hilly garden of Urban Forest Jakarta, this 900 m² pavilion takes a direct, hands-on approach to tackling food waste through backyard poultry farming. Designed as a public space and working prototype, the tunnel-like structure, nicknamed “The Chicken Coop”, offers inclusive access to education and entertainment while showing how local food systems can work. With Indonesia facing serious food loss challenges, the project turns organic waste from nearby restaurants into chicken bedding, compost, and fresh eggs, reconnecting communities with food production in a simple, effective way.

Made with reclaimed bamboo and passive design strategies, the pavilion was active for four weeks, processing food waste, creating compost every three days, and distributing 40 eggs daily to the same restaurants. It’s not just about architecture, it’s about sparking small, local systems that reduce reliance on centralized sustainability models. RAD+ar’s pavilion questions how cities and neighborhoods can produce less waste, more food, and stronger local networks, all while creating a space where people and chickens share more than just ground.

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12/06/2025

In memory of Frank Gehry.

A lifetime of defying expectations leaves behind a catalogue of work that still feels electric. From rippling titanium surfaces to gravity-teasing geometries, Gehry didn’t just design buildings, he expanded the imaginative bandwidth of architecture itself.

Today’s carousel looks back at some of the projects that defined his restless curiosity and fearless experimentation. Each one is a reminder of how radically he shifted the conversation, opening the door for generations of architects to explore form in motion, embrace digital craft, and chase ideas that once seemed impossible.

His influence lives on in every studio that refuses the obvious and reaches for something stranger, braver, and more expressive.

Rest in peace to the architect who taught the world that buildings can move.

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