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10 Years Later: Revisiting MVRDV’s Rotterdam Markthal
“Flabbergasted” was the initial gut response of City of Rotterdam planner Emiel Arends, upon reviewing MVRDV‘s initial design concepts for the city’s new Markthal. “It was like, what are you doing?”...
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London’s Raw House Reframes Living with Art
For all but the very wealthiest of London’s prospective homeowners, buying a house means making compromises – and plenty of them. With sky-high property prices and an ultra-competitive market,...
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6 Outdoor Furniture Collections to Create an Inviting and Modern Oasis
After months of being cooped up inside, the arrival of warmer weather comes with the desire to spend more time outdoors. Find the perfect spot to worship the sun with any one of these six dining and...
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WorkAC’s North Boulder Library Gives “Iconic” New Meaning
When WorkAC responded to an RFP in 2018 for the design of a new library in North Boulder, Colorado, the New York firm put community feedback above flashy form-making. Whereas other competitors...
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Liu Jiakun Wins 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Chinese architect and writer Liu Jiakun has been named as the winner of the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize, becoming the 48th annual laureate of the profession’s most coveted award. Celebrated for...
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This year, we’re working to bring you the best in architecture and design content — wherever you are. Azure is now available on Apple News, bringing in-depth features, cutting-edge projects, new...
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A Design Competition Reimagines the Spine of Toronto’s Downsview Airport
Two decades ago, Toronto’s Downsview Airport felt like the edge of the mental map. Yet, when nearly 500,000 visitors flooded the runway for 2003’s “SARSStock” benefit concert, a leftover site was...
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In Oaxaca, the Kymaia Hotel is One with the Landscape
Mere steps from the ocean, and enveloped by mangroves, wetlands and gardens bursting with native flora, the newly opened Kymaia Hotel is at one with its surroundings just outside of Puerto Escondido...
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Letter from Pasadena: Mimi Zeiger on the Los Angeles Wildfires
The Los Angeles wildfires — social, urban, environmental catastrophes — mark a bitter, ash-tinged end of the Western imaginary. In the Pacific Palisades and in Altadena, the American dream of a...
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StudioAC Creates a Zen Oasis Within a Toronto Semi
On Lansdowne Avenue, a north–south arterial road near the Junction, the building stock is mostly modest two-storey brick builds dating back to the turn of the 20th century. When a semi by local firm...
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Designing North: A New Generation of Architecture in Iqaluit
For too long, the top-down approach to delivering architecture to Canada’s remote communities has largely been an abysmal failure. Much of the problem, to be sure, derives from the astronomical cost...
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A German Collective is Writing Adaptive Reuse into European Law
THE PROJECTS OF BPLUS.XYZ sometimes have quirky names — Antivilla, Mäusebunker (Mouse House), Casa Storta (Crooked House) — which befit their transmogrified forms. Through the renovation of often...
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Elias Khuri and Aziza Chaouni on Re-envisioning Arab Architecture
In January 2025, the World Monuments Fund placed “Gaza Historic Urban Fabric, Palestine” on its Watch. The inclusion of the region’s already damaged or imperilled heritage sites — such as Great Omari...
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In Mumbai, urbz Charts a Participatory Future for “Homegrown Urbanism”
WEEKS AHEAD OF OUR CALL, I try to bridge the 12,000-kilometre distance and learn as much as possible yet keep an open mind. The Internet makes it hard. When I Google “Dharavi,” autocomplete...
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Toronto’s University Health Network Takes on the Housing Crisis
In June of 2021, the University Health Network — a consortium of hospitals in downtown Toronto — announced that it was doing something health organizations rarely do: building homes for high-needs...
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Super Bowl Champion Michael Bennett Moves From Football to Furniture Design
In 2014, five years into his NFL career, defensive lineman Michael Bennett became a Super Bowl XLVIII champion playing for the Seattle Seahawks. For most athletes, such an accomplishment is already a...
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Out Now: Mar/Apr 2025
“I’m really focused on trying to bring design and all that it has to offer into the spaces I grew up in, so that people have a better sense of what they can be,” says Michael Bennett, who runs Studio...
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4 Architecture Books to Round Out Your International Women’s Day Reading List
1 Women Architects at Work Female architects long lived in the shadows of their male counterparts — even many of the icons of the Modernist movement only came into the spotlight relatively recently....
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Toronto’s Audi Haus Celebrates a New Era of Exhilaration — and Design
In 2015, Omar Gandhi officially became a car guy. “It was an Audi that did it,” he says. While the renowned Canadian architect “grew up admiring the refined simplicity of the brand,” his first...
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In Memoriam: Ricardo Scofidio, New York’s Iconic Dreamer
MoMA. Lincoln Center. The High Line. Hudson Yards. Ricardo Scofidio, the renowned architect who died on March 6 at the age of 89, put his mark on New York’s most important cultural icons, past,...
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