7 Unbuilt Houses Shaped by Site, Climate, and Constraints

Casa Patio / NAHE Architects. Image © NAHE Architects

Residential architecture continues to offer a productive ground for unbuilt exploration, revealing how architects respond to site, climate, and constraint at the scale of the domestic. In this Unbuilt edition, submitted by the ArchDaily community, the selected projects bring together a range of proposals that reconsider the house not as an isolated object, but as a spatial system shaped by its environment. These works position architecture as a framework that negotiates between ground, material, and inhabitation, often emerging directly from...

The House of the Green Pond / aceboXalonso studio

© Germán Saiz architects: aceboXalonso studioLocation: Madrid, EspañaProject Year: 2025Photography: Germán Saiz

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BIG Reveals Design for Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, United States

Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Image © bloom images

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with William Rawn Associates (WRA) and HASTINGS Architecture, has revealed the design for the new Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC), a 307,000-square-foot cultural complex planned for Nashville's East Bank, with construction expected to begin in 2027 and completion anticipated in 2030. Located along the Cumberland River, adjacent to Cumberland Park and Nissan Stadium, the project brings together four performance venues within a unified architectural framework, establishing a new civic anchor that extends the cultural life of...

Навигация на улице Истикляль в Стамбуле

В Стамбуле есть шумная пешеходно-магазинная улица Истикляль. Там любопытно сделана навигация. Есть такие вот схемы всей улицы целиком:

Но есть ещё клоузапы отдельных кусочков:

Странно, конечно, что на клоузапе улица как бы обрывается, но всё равно выглядит клёво:

По мере того, как идёшь по улице, клоузапы сменяют друг друга, а в правой части подсвечивается, где ты относительно всей длины. Кстати, тут улица уже не обрывается:

В правой части, конечно, не хватает ещё каких-то ориентиров кроме начала и конца.

Если посмотреть в другую сторону, улица, конечно, переворачивается:

Нумерованная легенда на первой фотке и сложные выносные линии на последующих, конечно, отстой, но всё равно подход хороший.

Фотографии из поездок в сентябре и октябре 2022 года. Слетайте в Стамбул!

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Pom - Two Residential Buildings Block III / zanderroth

© Simon Menges & Nino Tugushi architects: zanderrothLocation: Potsdam, GermanyProject Year: 2024Photographs: Simon Menges & Nino TugushiArea: 2345.0 m2

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I illustrated this 2025 calendar for all the buyers of the 'Blue Dragon's Room' NFT.

ZGF Architects Nears Completion of Los Angeles Air and Space Center Housing Space Shuttle Endeavour

Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center by ZGF Architects, 2026. Image © Mike Kelley

The California Science Center is a dynamic destination where visitors of all ages can explore the wonders of science through hands-on exhibits, live demonstrations, innovative programs, and large-format films. The Center and IMAX Theater are located in the historic Los Angeles Exposition Park, where an expansion has been under construction since June 2022. The new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, designed by ZGF Architects, is a 200,000-square-foot addition that will nearly double the Science Center's...

Maarten Baas creates clock made of people for Schiphol Airport

Dutch designer Maarten Baas enlisted 1,000 volunteers to form the hands of The People's Clock, which provides a choreographed representation of the passage of time at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.

Ten years after creating a smaller clock with hands drawn on in real time for the Dutch airport's Lounge 2, Baas was invited back to install The People's Clock as a focal point in Lounge 1, which serves intra-European travellers.

Both clocks involve a real-time 12-hour performance, but whereas the original piece depicted Baas on his own drawing and redrawing the clock's hands with...

EU Mies Awards 2026 Announces Winners in Both Architecture and Emerging Architecture Categories

Charleroi Palais des Expositions. Image © FIlip Dujardin

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission have announced the winners of the 2026 edition of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards, selected from a total of 410 nominated works. The 2026 Architecture Prize goes to the renovation of the Charleroi Palais des Expositions in Belgium by AgwA and architecten jan de vylder inge vinck, while the Emerging Architecture Prize is awarded to Temporary Spaces for the Slovenian National Theatre Drama in Ljubljana...

Beyond the Street: Climate, Commerce, and the Evolution of Hong Kong’s Elevated Networks

Footbridge network in Chai Wan, Hong Kong. Image © Jonathan Yeung

In 2012, Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook offered one of the clearest documentations of a condition that many residents experience intuitively but rarely name: Hong Kong's dependence on elevated, second-storey urbanism. Through drawings and careful mapping, the book captured how the city's pedestrian networks are routinely lifted above the street—separating people from traffic, extending commercial frontage beyond ground level, and negotiating a hilly topography where "flat" circulation is often an engineered achievement. Since its publication, these systems have...