Opening tomorrow for London Design Festival, the display offers a focused material and production story pairing six Japanese craft traditions with internationally recognized designers. A small-capacity hands-on workshop on September 14 creates an immediate attendance opportunity.
Location
Simon Sainsbury Gallery, Room 64b, V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom
Organizations
Craft x Tech — Exhibition producer; Tangent — Founding design studio; Victoria and Albert Museum — Host venue; London Design Festival — Festival partner
The current U.S. festival offers time-sensitive editorial access to architecture tours, heritage programming, professional discussions and home visits, with several ticketed events beginning September 12.
Location
Multiple venues across San Francisco, California, United States
Organizations
Center for Architecture + Design — Festival host; AIA San Francisco — Collaborating organization and ticketing administrator
A refined Japanese mountain retreat that treats privacy, seasonal occupation, timber structure and landscape as one composition. Its bent single-storey plan, low panoramic openings, preserved woodland and restrained material palette offer a strong residential case study, newly documented with professional photography.
Location
Yatsugatake plateau, Nagano Prefecture, Japan; exact locality and address are not publicly disclosed.
A compact Los Angeles infill project tests an unusual vertical ADU model: two independently accessible homes occupy perpendicular vaulted volumes while retaining the option to function as one dwelling. Its combination of density, household flexibility, prefabrication and expressive metal construction warrants editorial review.
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States
Organizations
Qastic — Architecture and construction/design-build. Mahdi A Bakhshian is credited as principal in charge; the design team includes Milad Hasanabadi, Hooman Faali, Elahe Andami, Farzad Farahani, Taraneh Iranpour, Sedigheh Jafarinik and Arshin Akrami.; NAST Enterprises Corp. — Structural engineering, with Hooman Nastarin credited by Qastic.; PE Engineering — MEP engineering, credited by Dezeen; the exact legal entity and official website could not be independently identified.; Mohamad Momen Abadi — Finishing consultant credited by Dezeen; also included in Dezeen’s collective project-photography credit.; Sayeh Moomsaz — Finishing consultant credited by Dezeen; also included in Dezeen’s collective project-photography credit.; Sara Mazrae — Visualization, credited by Qastic and Dezeen.; Romina Nikfarjam — Visualization, credited by Qastic and Dezeen.; Luis Ramirez & Family — Client, identified by Qastic.
Public tours this weekend create a narrow access window to examine Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s long-delayed Rio museum before full completion. The project’s transformation of the Copacabana promenade into a vertical cultural route makes it a major Brazilian architecture story.
Location
Museu da Imagem e do Som Copacabana, Avenida Atlântica, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organizations
Diller Scofidio + Renfro — Design architect; Índio da Costa — Local architectural execution, as publicly credited; Fundação Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro — Museum operator; Secretaria de Estado de Cultura e Economia Criativa do Rio de Janeiro — Government project sponsor; Fundação Roberto Marinho — Project and museological partner
The national-stage deadline is tomorrow, creating a final opportunity to flag a student competition focused on steel architecture, sustainability, climate and landscape. It is also a potential pipeline for identifying emerging Argentine practices.
Location
Argentina; national university competition
Organizations
Cámara Argentina del Acero — National organizer; Alacero — Regional competition organization
A materially rigorous residential renovation that turns a difficult circular, low-light room into an intimate club-like dining space. Its combination of red travertine, curved oak joinery, bespoke furniture and contrasting light and dark reception rooms offers a strong study in warm modernism and crafted interior architecture.
Location
East Sussex, England, United Kingdom; private residence, with the precise locality withheld
Organizations
Anam Design Studio — Interior architecture, interior design, bespoke furniture and joinery design; Daniëlle Siobhán — Photography
A timely example of architecture reconstructed as ephemeral public memory: 2,977 individual drone lights formed the Twin Towers at a claimed 1:1 scale while connecting New York’s annual Tribute in Light to the THINK team’s unrealized World Cultural Center proposal. The official credits also sharpen Dezeen’s framing: Addison Mehr and Sky Elements led production, Yan Paul Dubbelman was designer, and DRIFT, Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz served as artistic advisors.
Location
New York Harbor, New York City, United States; Dezeen reports that the drones launched from Governors Island.
Organizations
Addison Mehr — Creative director and executive producer; Sky Elements Drones — Producer, drone-show production and flight operations; its official project page also credits the Sky Elements Creative Team with show design and its content team with media production; Yan Paul Dubbelman — Designer; DRIFT — Artistic advisor; Shigeru Ban — Artistic advisor, credited personally in the official announcement; Dean Maltz — Artistic advisor, credited personally in the official announcement; New York Foundation for the Arts — Fiscal sponsor and nonprofit partner; IDEKO — Federal and city permitting, safety and security operations; 9/11 family, survivor and responder community representatives — Shaped and reviewed the artwork’s creative approach; named participants included Brenda Berkman, Tim Brown, Terry Strada, Jim Smith and Genevieve Siller; 9/11 Families United — Community organization represented in the advisory group by president Terry Strada; Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund — Major funding support; Blavatnik Family Foundation — Major funding support; Pershing Square Philanthropies — Additional funding support; Office INK New York — Post-production, according to the Sky Elements project credits
Sa Casa pairs below-market rental housing with prefabricated mass timber, adaptable plans, water reuse and Mediterranean ecological infrastructure—an unusually substantive convergence of affordability, construction innovation and decarbonization.
Location
Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain
Organizations
Stefano Boeri Architetti — Architectural design; Entidad Estatal de Vivienda, Casa 47 — Client and public-housing entity; SOCOTEC Spain — Local architect and sustainability strategy
The transfer permanently protects a seminal prototype of British High-Tech architecture and places a formerly private modernist house into public and educational use. A one-day public opening tomorrow is an immediate access opportunity.
Location
22 Parkside, Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
Organizations
Richard and Su Rogers — Original architects; National Trust — New owner and conservation steward; Bloomberg Philanthropies — Endowment supporter; Sigrid Rausing Trust — Endowment supporter
Opening during London Design Festival this weekend, the limited collection offers a materially focused reassessment of Breuer's Isokon furniture and challenges the familiar idea that Modernist plywood should remain visually unadorned.
Location
Béton Brut, Unit 2, 30 Felstead Street, London E9 5LG, United Kingdom
Organizations
Isokon — Manufacturer; Béton Brut — Collaborating gallery, presenter and exclusive retailer; Marcel Breuer — Original designer of the four 1936 furniture pieces; London Design Festival — Festival platform
An immediate South Florida awards story with a September 9 ceremony at The Breakers and a strong regional slate spanning civic, institutional, preservation, residential and interior design.
Location
The Breakers, Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Organizations
AIA Palm Beach — Awards organizer; birse/thomas — Architect, Oculus; LEO A DALY — Architect, Miami Dade College School of Justice and Rinker Business Hall; Foster + Partners — Concept architect, Rinker Business Hall; REG Architects — Architect, House of Refuge restoration; Peacock + Lewis — Designer, Woodfield Country Club Bistro
The formal planning submission advances one of London's most closely watched adaptive-reuse projects: converting a Grade II-listed telecommunications landmark into a publicly accessible hotel and visitor destination while retaining its primary structure.
Location
BT Tower, 60 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 4JZ, United Kingdom
Organizations
MCR — Owner, hotel developer and operator; Orms — Architect; Donald Insall Associates — Heritage consultant; Newmark UK — Planning consultant; Edit — Project development manager; London Borough of Camden — Planning authority
ArchDaily’s newly published retrospective creates a timely opening to examine how one of the past decade’s most spectacular climate-adaptation visions evolved from a Garuda-shaped offshore city into incremental coastal defenses and a more restrained open-sea-dike strategy. The subject is newly relevant because Indonesia continued advancing a broader North Java Giant Sea Wall program in 2026, raising important architectural questions about infrastructure, land creation, ecological protection, displacement, and development finance.
Location
Jakarta Bay and the northern coast of Jakarta, Indonesia
Organizations
Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Republic of Indonesia — Executing agency for the 2014 master plan and participating national authority; Ministry of Public Works, Republic of Indonesia — National flood-infrastructure authority and joint implementer of NCICD Phase A; Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta / Dinas Sumber Daya Air — Local project authority and implementer of designated Phase A coastal-defense segments; Netherlands Enterprise Agency — Dutch government program administrator and official project-record publisher; Witteveen+Bos — Lead consultant, project manager, and integrator for the NCICD planning consortia; KuiperCompagnons — Urban planner responsible for the Great Garuda spatial concept in NCICD I; master-plan illustration contributor; Grontmij, now part of Sweco — Consultant on the 2014 NCICD master plan; later strategy, environmental, and social work is credited to Sweco; Deltares — Hydraulic analysis, land-subsidence modeling, and capacity building; Ecorys — Economic and cost-benefit analysis; Royal HaskoningDHV — Technical and institutional consulting during NCICD II; RebelGroup — Financial analysis during NCICD II; Triple-A Consultants — Urban integration and Jakarta Coastal Defence Strategy consulting; PT Bita Bina Semesta — Social and environmental assessments
The Tampa campus project is a major Florida urban-development milestone combining student housing, research, hospitality, dining and public activity within a 30-acre public-private district next to USF’s new stadium.
Location
North of Fletcher Avenue and east of North 46th Street, University of South Florida Tampa campus, Tampa, Florida, United States
Organizations
University of South Florida — University and project partner; ACE Fletcher, LLC — Public-private development entity; Capstone Development Partners — Development partner; Aureate Development — Development partner; Ellison Development — Development partner and master-plan participant
One of the field's highest-profile international honors has gone to the Polish-American architect, creating a timely opportunity to reassess a career shaped by museums, memorials, cultural memory and emotionally charged urban interventions.
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Organizations
Japan Art Association — Awarding organization; Studio Libeskind — Daniel Libeskind's architecture practice
The newly released design is a major U.S. sports and civic-development story: a privately financed arena serving three professional teams, conceived as a contemporary successor to Philadelphia's Spectrum and targeted for 2030.
Location
Historic Spectrum site, South Philadelphia Sports Complex, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Organizations
Philadelphia 76ers — Team and project partner; Philadelphia Flyers — Team and project partner; Comcast Spectacor — Project partner and Flyers owner; Populous — Design architect; Moody Nolan — Design architect
The annual specification forecast has broad influence across interiors, architectural coatings and product marketing, with three coordinated palette systems for residential and professional applications.
Location
Not provided
Organizations
AkzoNobel — Color research and parent company; Dulux — Paint brand and consumer application program; AkzoNobel Global Aesthetic Center — Trend forecasting and palette development
The deadline closes the project-submission stage for South Florida’s principal AIA chapter awards and provides an immediate opportunity to monitor the region’s forthcoming awards pipeline.
The completed project is a rare contemporary test of structural stone at high-rise scale, replacing conventional reinforced structural framing with an exposed volcanic-stone exoskeleton.
Location
317 Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom
Organizations
Groupwork — Architect; Webb Yates Engineers — Structural engineer; Petra Heights — Development; Mortimer Surveyors — Development enquiry agent
The findings provide unusually broad evidence of design’s economic scale and the growing importance of designers working inside sectors beyond traditional design businesses.
Location
United Kingdom
Organizations
Design Council — Research publisher and UK national strategic advisor for design
The completed Brazilian airport renovation is a strong public-infrastructure and mass-timber story: prefabricated wood allowed expansion without stopping airport operations while doubling passenger capacity and adding civic and commercial uses.
Location
Dr. Leite Lopes State Airport, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
The opening is a major adaptive-reuse and institution-building story: a 1912 industrial building has become the region's first permanent contemporary-arts center, creating new cultural infrastructure in Central Asia.
Location
Building B, 6 Amir Temur Street, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Organizations
Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent — Cultural institution and operator; Studio KO — Architectural transformation; Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation — Project commissioner and supporting foundation
The international furniture-design competition has an imminent September 16 submission deadline. Its special 25th-anniversary brief focuses on manufacturing futures and is open to students, professionals and independent creators.
The competition-winning proposal offers a rigorous preservation story: a substantial new museum is buried beneath a historic moat, using reconstructed water infrastructure and a choreographed descent to expand the Royal Danish Collection without competing with the Renaissance castle.
Location
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
Organizations
AART — Lead architect; Fogh & Følner — Architect; VEGA Landskab — Landscape architect; Artelia — Engineer; Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces — Client
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