Island Architecture & Climate
A village scale of hospitality.
At HOSHINOYA Taketomi Island, Rie Azuma uses walls, thresholds and separate rooflines to give a contemporary resort the spatial intelligence of a village.
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Adaptive Reuse & Historic Hospitality
The cloister with a next chapter.
At Santo Estevo in Galicia, a former monastery has become a hotel without making its cloisters irrelevant. The attraction is the conversation between different uses of the same building.
Museum Architecture & Natural Light
A room that teaches you to see.
At Canova’s Gypsotheca in Possagno, Carlo Scarpa made daylight part of the collection. The building changes how the plaster sculptures can be understood.
Domestic Architecture & Technical Heritage
The work behind an open room.
Villa Tugendhat’s apparent ease has machinery behind it. Seeing both the living space and the technical floor makes Mies van der Rohe’s Brno house more interesting, not less.
Adaptive Reuse & Hospitality
A second life inside Breuer’s concrete.
Hotel Marcel turns a former office building by Marcel Breuer into a place to stay. Its strongest proposition is that preservation and demanding new performance can be pursued together.
Public Architecture & Living Traditions
The building that borrows the shore.
Löyly’s timber envelope is a screen, a silhouette and a set of places to look out. Avanto’s Helsinki sauna gives an everyday tradition an unusually public architectural form.
Civic Architecture & Shared Resources
The library that makes room to stay.
At Vennesla, twenty-seven timber ribs do more than shape a roof. Helen & Hard’s library turns a public service into a place people can inhabit together.
Architecture & Public Ground
The museum that gives the roof to the city.
Amos Rex puts its galleries underground and makes their roof a public landscape. Helsinki gains an art museum without losing the life of the square above it.
Housing & Collective Stewardship
The residents who kept the idea alive.
Walden 7 is more than a striking red building. Its residents’ account reveals an architectural experiment that survived through repair, organisation and continued habitation.
Architecture & The Ethics of Restoration
Repair without erasing the break.
Berlin’s Neues Museum shows another way to bring a damaged building back. Old fabric and new intervention remain distinguishable without making the place unusable.
Civic Architecture & Continuing Use
A town hall you can stay with.
Alvar Aalto’s Säynätsalo Town Hall brings public life, a courtyard and places to stay into one brick ensemble. Its architecture can still be encountered through use.
Museums & Daylight Architecture
A building that filters the sky.
Peter Zumthor’s Kunsthaus Bregenz is more than a glass box. Its envelope turns daylight into part of the experience of looking at art.