A short-run intervention at a major modernist landmark is open now and ends November 22, making this a time-sensitive opportunity for architectural criticism and on-site coverage.
Location
Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
Organizations
Fundació Mies van der Rohe — Pavilion manager and venue; Josep Ferrando Architecture — Architect, as credited in the story title
A completed hybrid timber tower in São Paulo is directly relevant to Brazilian construction innovation; the “tallest” distinction and technical claims warrant independent verification.
Location
São Paulo, Brazil
Organizations
Crosslam — Engineering and project delivery, as reported
The appointment links adaptive reuse of a villa with a new contemporary-art institution in Dubai, offering a meaningful project to track through design development and opening.
Location
Jumeirah 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Organizations
Elie Khouri Art Foundation — Client and institution; Counterspace — Architecture studio; Sumayya Vally is the credited architect
A major New York preservation and civic-rebuilding project pairs the retention of historic fabric with a new, all-electric community center, public art and the return of five displaced neighborhood organizations.
Location
70 Mulberry Street, Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Organizations
Grimshaw — Architect and design firm; New York City Department of Design and Construction — Project lead and public agency; New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services — City agency involved in the project; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs — Commissioned the Percent for Art installation; Hunter Roberts Construction Group — Construction manager
The U.S. pavilion’s announced focus on builders, earth-based materials, and material histories connects a prominent international exhibition to Miami’s architecture school and offers a timely angle on labor, craft, and fabrication.
Location
United States Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
Organizations
University of Miami School of Architecture — Reported commissioner, organizer, and curator of the U.S. Pavilion exhibition; La Biennale di Venezia — Biennale exhibition organizer
A significant South Florida cultural expansion will add a second museum site and 30,000 square feet of exhibition, education, and public-programming space, with an opening currently projected for late 2027.
Location
Miami Design District, Miami, Florida, United States
Organizations
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami — Client and museum operator; Gensler — Architect and renovation design lead
A permanent, participatory artwork is integrated into a major mixed-use development, bringing an unusually large sculptural intervention into the everyday public realm of Mexico City.
Location
Antara, Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico
Organizations
Arte Abierto — Commissioner and presenting art organization; SOMA Group — Commissioner; Sordo Madaleno — Architect of the Antara development and design collaborator
A significant new intervention to a historic memorial makes previously overlooked wartime service visible, combining conservation with contemporary memorial architecture and a civic beacon of light.
Location
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Organizations
Oshinowo Studio — Architect and design studio; Commonwealth War Graves Commission — Commissioning organization
A 31,000-square-foot public learning center combines flexible literacy spaces with a substantial courtyard learning landscape. The project is nearing completion, but public reporting and official project sources differ on the opening/program-launch timing, so the timeline merits careful editorial verification.
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Organizations
Multistudio — Design architect; Design Plus Architects — Architect of record; New Mexico Higher Education Department — Client, as credited on the architect’s project page; New Mexico General Services Department — Client, as credited on the architect’s project page
A major new cultural building in Western Sydney opens November 7, with a public festival and a same-day program about the building’s design and construction. Its scale, civic significance and credited design team make it a timely architecture story.
Location
Powerhouse Parramatta, 34 Phillip Street, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Organizations
Powerhouse — Museum and project client; opening-program presenter; Moreau Kusunoki — Lead designer; Genton — Local architect; Arup — Engineer; Lendlease — Construction partner; Infrastructure NSW — Project participant in the official design-and-making program
A major design biennial is activating a historic neighborhood as a living heritage district, bringing contemporary commissions into restored houses, courtyards, and public spaces. Its opening days are underway, creating an immediate opportunity for press access and coverage.
Location
Fereej Al Asmakh and Msheireb Downtown Doha, Doha, Qatar
Organizations
Qatar Museums — Biennial organizer; Design Doha — Biennial platform and program organizer; Ashghal — Partner powering the public design commissions
A major construction milestone on the Miami River advances a large two-tower project whose architecture, interiors, landscape, and cultural-club program will reshape a prominent waterfront site.
Location
24 SW Fourth Street, Miami, Florida, United States
Organizations
Fortune International Group — Developer; KAR Properties — Developer; Tyko Capital — Construction lender; Walker & Dunlop — Financing adviser; Coastal Construction — General contractor; Rafael Viñoly Architects — Building design; Bryan O’Sullivan Studio — Interior design; Faena Design Studio — Interior design; Sasaki — Landscape architecture
A contemporary residential intervention within a protected postwar landmark offers a timely preservation-and-interiors story, balancing new hospitality uses with the retention of original fabric.
A large cross-border transport gateway by Aedas integrates passenger clearance, rail connections, public space, and a complex stacked mobility strategy at the Shenzhen–Hong Kong boundary.
Location
Futian District, Shenzhen, China
Organizations
Aedas — Architect and joint-venture design lead; Shenzhen CAPOL International & Associates Co., Ltd. — Joint-venture design partner; Shenzhen Transportation Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. — Joint-venture design partner
The designer’s first museum exhibition brings together work from across her practice with new site-specific installations, making the show a substantial design and spatial experience rather than a product launch.
Location
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich, Switzerland
Organizations
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich — Exhibition venue and organizer; Mathmos — Collaborator and manufacturer of Column Lava Lamps
A live international call provides a concrete opportunity for architecture and cultural practitioners, with a near-term submission deadline and a substantial total program budget.
Location
Basque Country, Spain; sixth Mugak/ International Architecture Biennial, October 2027–February 2028
Organizations
Basque Country International Architecture Biennial (Mugak/) — Biennial organizer and call administrator; Basque Government Department of Housing and Urban Agenda — Organizing public body
A major South Florida cultural expansion now has a defined design, construction timeline and public-program brief. Its waterfront location and relationship to St. Petersburg’s broader Center for the Arts vision make it locally consequential.
Location
The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Organizations
The Dalí Museum — Client, museum and project announcer; The Beck Group — Design-build architect and contractor; PBK — Consulting architect; Yann Weymouth is credited as consulting architect
The newly reported completion of a 45-storey Shenzhen tower merits a review because the architect’s own project page still lists it as under construction. The discrepancy is material, while the project’s naturally ventilated offices and public-facing cultural podium offer substantive design coverage.
Location
Futian Free Trade Zone, Shenzhen, China
Organizations
RSHP — Lead architecture practice; SH-STIC, Shenzhen-Hongkong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone Development Co., Ltd — Client, as named by RSHP; CCDI Group — Local design institute; structural, MEP and landscape consultant; EFC — Façade consultant, as named by RSHP; PUDI — Lighting consultant, as named by RSHP; China Railway Construction Engineering Group — General contractor, as named by RSHP
The proposal raises substantial questions about architecture, settlement planning and the long-term infrastructure of displacement; its scale and claims merit careful editorial scrutiny.
Location
Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda
Organizations
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) — Architecture and masterplanning, as reported; to.org — Initiative partner, as reported
The reported museum project combines adaptive reuse of a large midcentury industrial building with a new design institution devoted to Charles and Ray Eames; its 2028 construction and 2030 opening targets make it a substantial forthcoming cultural project.
Location
Novato, Marin County, California, United States
Organizations
The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity — Museum and cultural-campus organization; Herzog & de Meuron — Lead architect, as reported by Wallpaper*; EHDD — Collaborating architecture firm, as reported by Wallpaper*; Field Operations — Landscape architect, as reported by Wallpaper*
A major stadium proposal with consequences beyond football: the 71,500-seat venue is part of a larger urban regeneration plan, and its design raises questions about how the clubs intend to carry San Siro’s atmosphere into a new building. The announcement is timely, but delivery remains subject to planning approvals.
Location
Milan, Italy; planned beside the existing San Siro stadium
Organizations
Foster + Partners — Architect; MANICA — Stadium design; FC Internazionale Milano — Project club and co-announcer; AC Milan — Project club and co-announcer; Generali — Stadium naming partner
The proposal reframes a refugee settlement as long-term urban infrastructure, combining housing, livelihoods, public space and local resource systems. It is a substantial urban-design story with important questions about implementation and community participation.
Location
Bidi Bidi, Yumbe District, northern Uganda
Organizations
Bjarke Ingels Group — Architecture and urban-design lead; to.org — Client and project partner; Buro Happold — Project collaborator; Local Works — Project collaborator; local expertise; Beauty & The Bit — Project collaborator
A timely editorial opportunity to engage with housing, displacement, and the meaning of home across multiple contexts; the free-streaming window is a concrete near-term access deadline.
Location
Online; Copenhagen screening announced for October 29, 2026
Organizations
ArchDaily — Streaming platform and publisher of the reviewed announcement; IKEA — Film funder; UN-Habitat — Previously presented the film as part of its Housing for All campaign, according to the reporting
A significant South Florida development combining a major hospitality brand, a waterfront Coconut Grove site, and a locally based architecture practice; its street-level relationship to the neighborhood merits further design scrutiny.
Location
2545 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida
Organizations
Raffles Hotels & Resorts — Hospitality brand and project announcement partner; Accor — Parent hospitality group; Accor One Living supports development, design, and operations; Mast Capital — Developer; BH Group — Developer; Brandon Haw Architecture — Lead architecture; Douglas Elliman Development Marketing — Sales and marketing, as identified in the announcement
The Palma hotel offers a substantive adaptive-reuse and low-carbon construction story: a protected historic building is paired with a seven-storey CLT addition and a programme intended to connect hotel uses with neighbourhood life.
Location
El Terreno, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Organizations
OHLAB — Architecture and interior design; Grupo Piñero — Client; HIMA — Structural engineering; INGENIO — Building services engineering; Egoin — CLT timber structure; Plus Aurea — Passive House consultant; PGI — LEED consultant; Tafor — Acoustic consultant; Ambient Acoustics — Acoustic consultant; INTROVL — Sound and lighting consultant; Ibasa — Sound consultant; Verdsatile — Landscape design; Amor — Landscape construction; Huguet — Producer of terrazzo elements using recovered demolition material; Studio Roses — Graphic design and initial branding
