architectureFriday, July 17, 2026
Today's architecture coverage is dominated by residential projects that dissolve the boundary between building and landscape. From Swedish farmstead reinterpretations to Balinese rotated squares, architects are treating nature as a co-designer rather than a backdrop.
Several projects today share a quiet obsession: making the garden part of the floor plan.
Note Design Studio's Villa Österlen reinterprets traditional Swedish farmsteads as a contemporary holiday home, using the rural landscape as both setting and inspiration. Two outlets covered it, signaling wider interest in contextual modernism.
Alexis Dornier's Villa Suki in Bali rotates a square plan 45 degrees to create triangular gardens, making nature integral to every room. The project explicitly references Japanese modernist principles.
RCAB Studio's Beyond The Courtyard House in Jakarta turns a compact corner site into a light-filled home by opening up to a secret garden, using the adjacent park as borrowed landscape.
Two pieces look at the evolution of stadiums and the afterlife of historic structures.
This survey of 15 landmark stadiums traces the typology from ancient Greece to Gulf mega-structures, part of a Future Stadiums series. Useful for understanding how engineering and spectacle have shaped the spectator experience.
The rest of the day's news covers firm operations, adaptive reuse, and a notable preservation campaign.
Operation Hope's adaptive-reuse plan for a historic church in Connecticut retains the stone structure while adding a linked new building and accessibility upgrades, with commissioners weighing materials and tax credits.
This Cantilevered Forest Home in Washington Hovers Above The Treeswww.yankodesign.com
Kéré Architecture Builds a Vertical Playground in a Munich Kindergartenwww.azuremagazine.com
A Biophilic Masterpiece on Martha’s Vineyard Lists for $22.95 Milliongaleriemagazine.comInside a 12th-Century French Church Reborn as a Striking New Art Foundationgaleriemagazine.com
Artist Jean-Marc Bustamante enlisted architect Charles Zana for his first project in Arles, transforming a deconsecrated landmark into the newly opened Fonds Bustamante The post Inside a 12th-Century French Church Reborn as a Striking New Art Foundation appeared first on Galerie
Architecture faculty win Landmarks awardsource.washu.edu
Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, Constance Vale and Chandler Ahrens — all architecture faculty at the WashU Sam Fox School — have won a Most Enhanced Award from the Landmarks Association of St. Louis. The post Architecture faculty win Landmarks award appeared first on The Source .
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EL POLI . La Unión meii estudio @meii_estudio . photos: © Hiperfocal In La Unión, the municipal sports centre is much more than a sports facility. Known by everyone as El Poli, it is one of the town’s main meeting places—a space where sport, leisure and everyday social life come
folded yellow volume reorganizes genova apartment’s interiors like a game of tetriswww.designboom.com
bump studio reorganizes the home through color, geometry, and custom sculptural elements. The post folded yellow volume reorganizes genova apartment’s interiors like a game of tetris appeared first on designboom
How to scale an architecture firm without full-time hiringbetterpros.com
You already know the workload justifies more capacity. The question is whether a permanent hire is the right way to add it, or the most expensive way to solve a problem that comes and goes in waves. The post How to scale an architecture firm without full-time hiring appeared firs
‘A poem to the prairie’: new life for architecture as sculpturewww.theartnewspaper.com
Designed by the American Modernist architect Herb Greene, the Prairie House in Oklahoma is the subject of a new preservation campaign
Toronto’s Biidaasige Park to expand with 10 new acreswww.canadianarchitect.com
From Canoe Cove and the expanded Water’s Edge Promenade to new public art and gathering spaces, this is a major milestone in reconnecting the city to its waterfront. The post Toronto’s Biidaasige Park to expand with 10 new acres appeared first on Canadian Architect .
We finally know why one of Budapest’s most popular landmarks won’t be open for a whiledailynewshungary.com
According to Budapest’s 12th District Municipality, the latest engineering surveys revealed that problems identified shortly after the building's completion in 1910 have gradually worsened over the decades. Continue reading
Crew Architects unites light and dark in this Edinburgh projecthomesandinteriorsscotland.com
This was a beautiful house with a beautiful garden – but there was no connection between the two. Now, with an extension and a new layout, the two parts of this Edinburgh home are united at last
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