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Mahachai Residence occupies a riverside plot on the Tha Chin River, on land once occupied by the owner's boat-repair warehouse. Rather than erase this history, the house is conceived as a day-use villa, a place for the owner to rest, take in the river, and watch it turn gold at sunset, quietly carrying the memory of the site's working past into its structure and materials.

Prukpirom House Renovation transforms a family home that has stood for more than 29 years. Located on a generous site surrounded by mature greenery, the existing house offered opportunities to expand and reorganize the living spaces while retaining its relationship with the garden.

Situated on the shores of Los Molinos Lake and surrounded by a dense eucalyptus forest, La Negrita embodies the desire for a peaceful retreat amid a beautiful, playful atmosphere with its own unique microclimate.

The Haras House is a single-story residence built on a trapezoidal lot. The "C" shaped volume organizes the spaces around a central courtyard, which features a garden, a porch, and a 25-meter lane, integrated into the resident's daily routine. The design prioritizes privacy and the direct relationship between internal and external spaces.

Located within a 1930s residential building, Casa MG reinterprets and elevates some of the period's most distinctive and iconic architectural features, making them a recurring design language at the heart of the apartment's spatial reorganization.

In the heart of the wooded surroundings of Vught, a unique childcare centre has emerged: Mowgli Childcare Centre. The project combines playful architecture with a strong connection to nature, creating an inspiring environment for young children.

Practically every history book records 1961 as the year man first reached space, an achievement that placed the Soviet Union at the center of the space race. What not everyone knows is that Yuri Gagarin's journey began in a seemingly unlikely place, more precisely in Kazakhstan. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Gagarin set off beyond Earth, inaugurating not only a new era of space exploration but also a history of technology and ambition that would transform this landscape.

On the hills of Turin, EX. designs an unfinished house conceived as a domestic device rather than a completed object. A rough concrete perimeter frames an open, adaptable interior where architecture and landscape continuously overlap.

The birth of the Wiki World Forest Store stems from the ongoing natural architecture practice carried out by Wiki World. Although we have always insisted on building with the zeroprint concept and 100% timber structures, along with the birth of one wilderness home after another, there is always wood that inevitably becomes waste. Who wants to be abandoned leftover scraps? So we wondered: could waste materials be used to build a house? Could leftover scraps also have unrealistic fantasies and be turned into interesting wooden products? Therefore, we planned this building and the products inside it. The Wiki World Forest Store is located at the entrance of Merryda Wiki World-Secret Camp, at the edge of a forest. Pure wood and glass are connected, and the recyclable concept does not require more complex craftsmanship.

Gutiérrez Café opened its doors in August 2025, in the Pocitos neighborhood of Montevideo, with an architectural design that places both design and product quality at the heart of the experience. More than just a coffee shop, it is a space carefully conceived to articulate a sensory and urban experience, where architecture becomes an integral part of the gastronomic offering.

In a large plot of land very well chosen by this beautiful family, the initial request and main importance for the project was to maximize the open areas and prioritize greenery.

The intervention transforms an area previously occupied by a narrow sidewalk and a large parking lot into a new public space for Comillas. Rather than refurbishing an existing promenade, the project creates a new seafront, reclaiming an exceptional stretch of coastline for pedestrians and incorporating it into the town's network of public spaces.

The project is based on total prefabrication in reinforced concrete. Modular panels make up all the building elements: façades, roofs and interior partitions. The typification of elements made it possible to speed up and simplify the construction, while emphasising the building's image.

With the Hönggerberg Data Center (HRZ), Penzel Valier has created an integrated building for ETH Zurich's digital infrastructure in which structure, building services, and design were conceived together from the outset. It houses the server, storage, and communication systems of IT Services and various departments. Complementing the Central Campus data centers within ETH's long-term digital strategy, it replaces several dispersed, outdated facilities and is designed for future expansion.

As cities change, so do our expectations of them. People are asking for more caring spaces: public places open to all ages and genders, nature within reach of every social class, and settings that foster connection. Few design intentions hold these together as well as spaces for children. This selection of unbuilt projects submitted by ArchDaily readers showcases different approaches to care-based architecture. Schools, daycare centers, a library, a youth center, and a new model for orphanages take on the mission of providing a safe and stimulating environment for children at every stage of their development. Not yet built but carefully designed, these proposals offer a glimpse into spaces for play, learning, and calm that fuel creativity in design for people of all ages.

House is Tinos is the renovation and extension of a 115-square-metre residence on the island of Tinos, developed across two levels that follow the natural inclination of the terrain. The project works with the building's existing irregularities, material imperfections, and traces of different periods of construction, embracing these conditions rather than attempting to erase them.

UN-Habitat has announced the five recipients of the 2026 Scroll of Honour Award, recognizing contributions to adequate housing and sustainable urban development in Brazil, Myanmar, Pakistan, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom. This year's winners include a housing organization working with communities affected by conflict and displacement, a researcher developing building materials from local and mining residues, an Indigenous village in Brazil, a public housing agency in Pakistan, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Selected from 101 nominations submitted across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, the recipients represent a range of approaches to addressing housing and urban development challenges.

OASIS is rooted in the singular geography of the Plaine du Var, a transitional landscape between the city, the river, the Mediterranean and the hills of Nice. At the meeting point of Grand Parc Méridia and Avenue de l'Université, the project establishes a dialogue between human settlement and nature, urban density and living systems.

Colburn's 100,000-square-foot campus expansion, designed by Frank Gehry, will open on September 25, 2027, with an event in the new 1,000-seat Terri and Jerry Kohl Hall, a round concert hall. Colburn is a school of music and dance in Los Angeles, on a downtown campus that welcomes an estimated 10,000 people weekly. The institution provides performing arts education, and more than 500 music and dance performances open to the public each year. The first images of the design were released in 2022. The expansion triples the facilities currently dedicated to dance and will house Colburn's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute. The building, finished in a metallic pink coating, is located adjacent to Colburn's Grand Avenue campus in downtown Los Angeles and is expected to reach substantial completion in summer 2027.

Reclaimed land is often presented as new ground: flat, available, and ready for architecture. It promises cities more space where space is scarce, allowing them to extend waterfronts and build cultural districts. Sometimes, these newly claimed lands may also develop into financial centers, create parks, and imagine futures beyond the limits of existing land. Yet reclaimed land is never simply land. It is an engineered surface, produced through fill, seawalls, drainage, and soil stabilization — a long-term negotiation with the water it claims to have displaced.