How can architectural design become an active tool for conservation? By considering nature as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, a harmonious connection with it frames the countless interrelationships that exist among humans, living organisms, and natural cycles. Designing with the landscape means learning to coexist with its temporal dynamics without controlling its processes. Traditions, ecology, and the past and present of a place all contribute to creating spaces that interpret their communities. Landscape architecture can draw inspiration from birds, plants, and other natural elements to shape the complex, dynamic network of ecosystems and human activities that make up the environment.

• architects: Bhoomija Creations
• Location: Thrippunithara, Ernakulam, Kerala, India
• Project Year: 2024
• Photographs: Prasanth Mohan, Running Studios
• Area: 2755.0 ft2

• architects: BPM Architectes
• Location: Talence, Bordeaux, France
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: 11H45
• Area: 3820.0 m2

What makes a home resilient? Extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent around the world. From power outages, hurricanes, and earthquakes to wildfires, floods, and droughts, the world is experiencing a process of transformation and adaptation that requires collaboration among diverse disciplines. The role of architecture in the built environment reflects an opportunity to rethink how homes perform under changing environmental conditions—not only by anticipating the unexpected. Designing for resilience means thinking holistically, considering material choices, energy systems, landscaping, and construction details that anticipate disruption and help homes recover quickly. It involves creating architecture that evolves with the environment, is worth preserving, and endures for years and generations.

• architects: CCTN Design
• Location: Suzhou, China
• Project Year: 2024
• Photographs: AOGVISION
• Area: 72000.0 m2

• architects: SO
• Location: Khao Yai, Thailand
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Soopakorn Srisakul
• Area: 750.0 m2

• architects: Paulo Moreira Architectures
• Location: Cabeceiras de Basto, Portugal
• Project Year: 2021
• Photographs: Ivo Tavares Studio
• Photographs: Courtesy of Paulo Moreira Architectures
• Area: 320.0 m2

• architects: Lopez Gonzalez Studio
• Location: Xalapa, Mexico
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Cesar Bejar Studio
• Photographs: Zaicks Moz
• Area: 316.0 m2

• architects: Actual Office
• Location: London, United Kingdom
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Building Narratives
• Area: 600.0 m2

Architects are accustomed to being credited for buildings long after construction ends. Names remain attached to projects through photographs, publications, and histories, often decades after the original drawings were produced. Buildings, on the other hand, rarely remain faithful to that narrative for long. Families grow, technologies change, businesses emerge, and daily life introduces demands that no plan can fully anticipate. Over time, architecture accumulates modifications, repairs, additions, and improvisations that gradually distance it from its original form.

Few projects confront this question as directly as PREVI Lima. Conceived in the late 1960s as Peru's Experimental Housing Project, PREVI invited an international group of architects to develop housing prototypes capable of accommodating growth over time. The project is often remembered for its ambitious roster of designers, which included figures such as James Stirling, Aldo van Eyck, and Christopher Alexander. More than fifty years later, the neighborhood has become a record of resident decisions, revealing a form of architecture designed to remain unfinished.

• architects: Weber Arquitectos
• Ubicación: Valle de Bravo, México
• Año Proyecto: 2025
• Fotografías: Ariadna Polo

Architectural schools usually leave lasting marks on their students, shaping their style and critical inquiry long after formal education has ended. For example, SCI-Arc, founded in 1972 and based in downtown Los Angeles, is an institution recognized for its culture of experimentation, critical investigation, and creative independence, building a reputation based on the idea that architecture should be understood as a field open to dialogue with art, technology, design, and contemporary culture. The diversity of trajectories of its alumni demonstrates how this environment can generate distinct professional approaches, but united by the same willingness to explore new possibilities.

OMA has completed the Hangzhou Prism, a large-scale mixed-use development in Hangzhou's Future Tech City district, China, following a design and development process that began in 2016. Commissioned by Xinhu Real Estate Group and led by OMA Partner Chris van Duijn, with Michael Hadjistyllis serving as project architect, the project combines residential units, a hotel, offices, commercial spaces, and public amenities within a single building volume. Marking OMA's first completed project in Hangzhou, the development occupies a central site within one of the city's emerging innovation and business districts.

From June 12 to December 20, 2026, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, will be hosting a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the career of Frank Gehry (1929-2025). Titled The Century of Gehry, the exhibition presents to the public original large-scale models, sculptures, drawings, furniture, and other works documenting the architect's notable, and at times controversial, postmodern architecture. The exhibit covers from early experiments to iconic buildings such as the architect's house in Santa Mónica, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The Serralves Museum occupies a building designed by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira in 1991. The exhibition is housed in the new wing that bears his name.

It is afternoon in the summer, and the nave of the Sagrada Família is saturated with warm colors. Shafts of amber and crimson sweep across the stone floor, shift as a cloud passes over Barcelona, then deepen again. Around you, visitors slow without quite realizing it. Some raise their phones — not to capture the architecture, but to step into the light itself, positioning themselves in a pool of orange or gold as if the colours were something you could wear.

They are, without knowing it, doing exactly what Gaudí intended: surrendering, however briefly, to the sensation of being bathed in something larger than themselves.

• architects: Reincarnation
• Location: Baroicha, Bangladesh
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Prantography
• Area: 6800.0 ft2

• architects: TOUCH Architect
• Location: Khet Bang Khae, Bangkok, Thailand
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Jinnawat Borihankijanan
• Area: 340.0 m2

• architects: VCD Lab
• Location: Zhaoqing, China
• Project Year: 2026
• Photographs: Courtesy of VCD Lab
• Area: 71200.0 m2