‘Thresholds between indoor and outdoor are blurred through colonnades, terraces and sliding glazed screens,’ writes Julia Cabanas of the OmVed Gardens in London, UK by Studio Charlotte Harris.
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‘To Comunal, collective decision‑making is paramount,’ writes Selene Patlan in profiling founders Mariana Ordóñez Grajales and Jesica Amescua Carrera who are shortlisted for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture.
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In honour of International Women’s day, we want to highlight some of the incredible women celebrated in this year’s W Awards issue, including winners for the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture and Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture 2026, Barbara Buser and Lubaina Himid
Recipient of the Prize for Research in Gender and Architecture 2026, Stalled! is a design and research project offering the tools for a public toilet revolution in the context of resurgent discrimination.
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Winner of the 2026 Jane Drew Prize for Architecture Barbara Buser’s ‘commitment to reuse is ingrained, inclusive and wide reaching, affecting many – if not all – of those who live and move within the city,’ writes Vera Sacchetti.
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Winner of the 2026 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture, Lubaina Himid’s ‘work is a product of the act of carefully looking at rooms, places and the world around her,’ writes Huda Tayob.
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The W Awards issue is here! 🌟 We are pleased to present the winners and shortlisted architects of the 2026 edition. www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...
‘The technical capacity to facilitate Tuvalu’s digital reincarnation is inseparable from the material operations that facilitate its loss,’ writes Marina Otero Verzier in the closing essay of the Coast issue.
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‘Central to its work is the assembly of diverse forms of knowledge and the cultivation of communities,’ writes Felipe Walter of Columbia based practice APLO, founded by Pedro Aparicio-Llorente in 2021.
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‘With its exposed concrete armature, the Halle aux Poissons currently stands as a relic of a disappearing world,’ writes Manon Mollard, of Encore Heureux’s reinvention of the Halle aux Poissons in Le Havre, France.
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‘Since the jungle always wins, the strategy is to ensure that the huge project remains silent, and then shouts where it needs to,’ writes Juan Carlos Cano of the Parque del Jaguar in Tulum, Mexico by Colectivo C733.
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‘Yu’s influence on the trajectory of landscape architecture and urban planning in China and around the globe is undeniable,’ writes Timothy A Schuler in a Reputations of Kongjian Yu, founder of Turenscape and originator of the ‘sponge city’.
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‘Late‑stage accountability cannot unsink a town,’ writes Julia Cabanas in this issue’s Outrage piece, reporting on corrupt authorities that have left vulnerable Philippine communities with failing flood defences.
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From camps in Iraq to a cultural memory centre in Bangladesh, this week’s reading list explores building for impermanence.
Seven pieces that trace how architecture navigates the political, spatial and temporal complexities of refuge, now free to read online:
‘Situated within a 100‑year floodplain, the park is set to protect 110,000 New Yorkers,’ writes Peter Lucas
on the East Side Coastal Resiliency project in New York City by BIG and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects.
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‘Why would an architect want to design something that resists utility?’ asks Lara Chapman of the pier pavilion in Sydney (Warren), Australia by Besley & Spresser
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‘Seagrass is not a miracle material but one that points to a new type of building, rooted in local ecologies, regional practices, land stewardship and communal care,’ writes Debika Ray on the future of the ancient building material.
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'The settlement has forged its identity in its centuries-old coexistence with the sea,' writes Carlos A Pita Abad on Creus e Carrasco and RVR Arquitectos’ harbour and beach rehabilitation on the coast of Porto do Son, Spain.
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‘The Hôtel de la Paix stands both as a reminder of that hopeful period and a symbol of its broken promises,’ write Jeanne Autran-Edorh and Fabiola Büchele on the ruined modernist landmark on Lomé's Atlantic seafront in Togo.
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‘Whether for a beachside coffee or storage during an environmental catastrophe, this building in its new incarnation will provide more than a public toilet’ writes Eleanor Beaumont of DK-CM’s Camber Sands welcome centre
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‘Different bodies and morphologies of fish produce different architectural structures, embedded within the ecological continuum between water and land,’ explains André Tavares in the Coast issue keynote.
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The Coast issue is here! 🌊
Over a billion people worldwide live within 10km of a coast; a colossal pressure placed on the narrow ribbons where the land meets the sea.
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‘The facade becomes a living, ever-changing surface, rooted in memory yet distinctly contemporary,’ writes Qinxue Wang on Studio MK27’s Block House in São Paolo, Brazil.
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‘Here, on Decatur Island, a wooden structure is built into the 45-degree hillside, gently resting on a steel frame,’ writes Hadeel Eltayeb of Trestle Cabin by The Miller Hull Partnership in Washington, US.
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‘Parin + Supawut pursued a systematic process of disassembly, assessment for salvaging, redesign and reconstruction within the original two-storey volume and cruciform footprint,’ writes Angus Taylor of Patch House, in Samut Prakan, Thailand.
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‘The garden and building emerged during construction, contributing to a sense of resolution with the site, positioning the project as a precedent for rural architecture,’ explains Lena Lali of the New Architecture Writers on Hop Cottage in Kent, UK by AOMD.
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‘SAAD’s holiday home in Hokkaido articulates the sequential experience of its inner spaces and associates them with the natural context in elegant simplicity and clarity,’ writes Chisei Ye from the New Architecture Writers.
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‘Sitting among the contours of the Serra de São Mamede in the eastern Portalegre district of Portugal, Atelier Landauer’s house-studio is a seamless addition to the natural environment’ Writes Efua Boakye from the New Architecture Writers of the House-studio in Castelo de Vide, Portugal:
