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12/18/2025

🧱The Church of Cristo Obrero y Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, designed by Uruguayan engineer-architect Eladio Dieste and completed in 1960, stands as a profound synthesis of structural ingenuity and spiritual architecture. Located in Estación Atlántida, the church is celebrated for its expressive use of reinforced brick masonry, forming undulating walls and a catenary-inspired roof without the use of ribs, columns, or beams. Dieste’s signature “Gaussian vaults” demonstrate how minimal material use, when shaped with mathematical precision, can yield maximum spatial and emotional impact.

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This masterpiece of modernist architecture combines local craftsmanship with advanced structural design, redefining the function of brick beyond its traditional purpose. Light filters softly through high-level glass slits and a perforated brick bell tower, animating the sacred interior. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the church continues to inspire architects and engineers worldwide, offering a timeless lesson in economy, beauty, and structural expression through modest materials.

📸 Gonzalo Viramonte

12/18/2025

▫️CHA Talk Tea House, also known as Sihan Tea House, is a 100 m² renovation project by AIR Architects completed in 2020 in Hangzhou, China, within Dajing Lane, a preserved Southern Song Dynasty urban fabric. The project addresses the architectural challenge of inserting a contemporary tea house into a historic context while preserving typological continuity, spatial hierarchy, and material restraint.

The mixed wood and concrete structure is organized over two levels, with the ground floor functioning as a retail tea space and the upper level accommodating two private tea rooms. These upper spaces are differentiated by scale and use, one designed for collective tea gatherings and the other reserved for individual ceremonial practice. The architectural strategy prioritizes proportion, enclosure, and sequence rather than formal expression.

The façade is deliberately minimal, shifting architectural emphasis to the performance of the light-transmitting curtain wall. Selected through extensive material research, this envelope moderates daylight, filtering and diffusing it into the interior to establish a controlled luminous environment suited to ritual and concentration. Through this calibrated use of structure, light, and material, the project articulates authenticity as an architectural condition rather than a stylistic gesture.

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12/18/2025

A proposed policy by the U.S. Department of Education could remove architecture from the federal list of professional degrees beginning in 2026.

This reclassification would affect student loan eligibility for B.Arch and M.Arch programs, potentially limiting access to a long, studio-intensive, licensure-dependent education. Professional organizations, educators, and institutions have raised concerns about how this shift could impact affordability, diversity, and the future pipeline of licensed architects in the United States.

As definitions of “professional education” evolve, the question of who can afford to study architecture becomes increasingly critical.

💬 How might this policy shape the paths students choose when considering an education in architecture?

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12/18/2025

Tilling and Tale in Time, YUNNAN by AUBE Conception is a cultural exhibition center in Mangshi, Yunnan, China. It blends regional cultural elements with modern design and features a steel framework with expansive glass curtain walls. This design creates a unified space that brings the natural outdoor scenery indoors.

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The roof, composed of diamond-shaped and triangular elements, forms a peacock-tail-like structure, appearing to float in the pastoral landscape. The center fosters cultural and tourism innovation by integrating multiple functions, including exhibition spaces, a library, dining areas, and leisure facilities. The design harmonizes with the environment, utilizing temperature differences for efficient rainwater drainage and air circulation, enhancing the building’s thermal efficiency.

📸 彭子野

12/18/2025

MVRDV Completes the Pujiang Platform, an Earth-Covered Timber Retreat

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12/17/2025

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Bring your AI visuals to life with RunDiffusion: End-to-End AI Visuals for Architecture, a hands-on session that empowers architects and designers to explore RunDiffusion and transform references into mood boards, material studies, and dynamic visual stories.

Led by architectural designer Alex Wilson, this workshop teaches how to build a reference-driven mood board, craft a tight prompt scaffold, and run controlled iterations on materials, form, and tone using seeds, batches, and presets for repeatable results.

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12/17/2025

The Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition, designed by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, features a monolithic skin that functions as a dynamic surface twisting toward the center of the Futian Cultural District. It includes an outer layer of perforated metal panels and an actual climate envelope made from insulated glass.

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The building's main level is 10 meters above ground and serves as a platform connecting adjacent buildings. Visitors access the main level via ramps to reach the "Plaza," which provides access to cultural event rooms, a multi-functional hall, auditoriums, and a library. A central "Cloud" on the Plaza housing amenities like a café, a book store, and a museum store on multiple floors, and connecting exhibition rooms with bridges and ramps.

📸 Duccio Malagamba

12/17/2025

Sympathetic architecture begins with attention.✨

It responds to context, scale, and materiality not to impress, but to support everyday life. Natural light, greenery, and tactile surfaces are used deliberately, placing human comfort before visual spectacle.

Across cities, this approach appears in quiet but powerful ways: wildlife crossings that reconnect ecosystems, beach ramps that welcome everyone, pedestrian signals that move at a humane pace, benches that transform into shelters. These are not iconic gestures, yet they redefine how space is lived and shared.

More than a style, sympathetic architecture is an attitude. One rooted in empathy, accessibility, and the belief that good design improves daily life through thoughtful, meaningful choices.

💬 Where have you noticed architecture that truly cares for everyday life?

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12/17/2025

10 Futuristic Cities Set to be Built in The Coming Years Around The World

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12/16/2025

Ernan Boutique Hotel by Kalbod Studio Revives Historic Castle in Iran. Read more 👉: https://parametric-architecture.com/ernan-boutique-hotel-kalbod-studio/

12/16/2025

Inverse Ruin by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh reconstructs absence by suspending what time usually erases. 🏛️

At the Herakleia Archaeological Park in Policoro, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh reimagines a lost Dionysian temple not by rebuilding its foundations, but by suspending what time usually erases first. Roof fragments, upper walls, and column sections hover above the site within a steel grid, allowing visitors to walk beneath a carefully staged “ruin” while the authentic remains stay grounded below.

This inverted reconstruction exposes an uncomfortable truth: ruins are rarely neutral. They are curated images shaped by memory, ideology, and romance. By reversing the natural order of decay, the installation reframes the temple as a sculptural volume and invites a critical reading of how history is preserved, displayed, and imagined.

Architecture here becomes a question rather than an answer.✨

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📸 Roberto Conte

12/16/2025

✨Ts VEIL Restaurant by Studio KHOA VU is a 300 m² renovation project located on a narrow corner site in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2. Instead of demolishing the existing three-story villa, the design preserves the original concrete frame, slabs, stairs, and roof. A new double-layer facade wraps the structure, combining precast concrete panels with a steel-supported expanded metal mesh. This veil creates a soft visual barrier, filters sunlight, and offers varying degrees of openness while maintaining privacy and connection to the surrounding streetscape.

Designed for Vietnam’s tropical climate, the facade encourages natural ventilation and includes a misting system to cool the air around the building, reducing the need for mechanical cooling. Inside, the space features a palette of glass blocks, exposed concrete, and raw steel details, creating a restrained, tactile atmosphere. The project reflects a thoughtful balance between old and new, using simple materials and passive strategies to adapt an existing structure into a contemporary restaurant space.

📸 Chuong Nguyen

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