A substantial new publication and interview examine how international architecture has shaped Albania over two decades, while raising questions about political patronage, development, and the role of architecture in the country’s transformation.
Location
Albania; the book documents projects across the country, including Tirana.
Organizations
Lars Müller Publishers — Publisher; Haller Brun — Book design
ArchDaily’s seven-project editorial examines how renovation can turn constraints in Ireland’s inherited building stock into design opportunities. Its documented examples range from a 43 m² Dublin cottage to an urban block in Limerick, offering a useful adaptive-reuse case study rather than a newly announced project.
Location
Ireland; projects in County Wexford, Dublin and Limerick.
A timely critical essay reads African memorial parks and gardens as active civic landscapes shaped by occupation, memory, ecological change, and the formalization of liberation histories. It offers a useful lens for coverage of public space and landscape beyond conventional monument-focused narratives.
Location
Examples discussed include Freedom Park in Lagos, Nigeria; Freedom Park in Pretoria, South Africa; and Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi, Kenya.
Organizations
Wolff Architects — Architecture and research practice; credited for the Liberation Gardens research referenced in the essay.
A newly published ArchDaily feature compares built projects that respond to volcanic terrain through siting, structure, locally sourced materials, ecological restoration, and preservation. Its timely editorial value is the cross-project examination of how architecture engages landscapes shaped by ongoing or historic geological change; the featured buildings themselves are mostly previously published projects.
Location
Not provided
Organizations
Altitude 80 Architecture — Architect, Gîte du Volcan; Atelier Épicéa — Co-design architect and landscape specialist, Gîte du Volcan; Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP — Architect, Tree Hut on Volcano; Br-Arquitectos — Architect, Volcano House; Craig Steely Architecture — Architect, Lavaflow 7; Paul Weiner | DesignBuild Collaborative — Architect, Lava House; SP(R)INT STUDIO — Designer, 2024 intervention at Stöng ruins; Loris Gazut — Photography, Gîte du Volcan
A newly published architectural city guide presents Amman’s built environment through the relationship between successive migration waves, local limestone, topography, and changing architectural ambitions. Its value is as an editorially useful survey, not as an announcement of new construction.
Location
Amman, Jordan
Organizations
Foster + Partners — Architect, Queen Alia International Airport; Dar Al-Handasah — Credited for Abdoun Bridge; landscape architect for Queen Alia International Airport; Engicon-Praxis — Credited for King Hussein Business Park; Khammash Architects — Architect, Royal Academy for Nature Conservation; credited for Wild Jordan Center; Ssangyong — Credited for Housing Bank Center (Al-Iskan Bank); Uraiqat Architects — Credited for Al Rawda Mosque; Jordan Museum — Credited project organization for Jordan Museum
An essay connects Gulf seasonal pastoral movement and Qatari museum interpretation to contemporary urban megaprojects, offering a useful heritage-and-urbanism lens rather than announcing a new project.
Location
Gulf region, with discussion of Qatar and Saudi Arabia
Organizations
ArchDaily — Publisher of the essay; National Museum of Qatar — Museum whose gallery interpretation of seasonal movement is discussed; NEOM — Developer/promoter of THE LINE, discussed as a contemporary comparison
A newly published interdisciplinary urbanism title connects climate change, city–nature relationships, and urban policy; its Rio launch was a timely local editorial opportunity, though the event has already passed.
Location
Livraria da Travessa de Ipanema, Rua Visconde de Pirajá, 572, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organizations
Rio Books — Publisher of the book; ArchDaily also identifies Rio Books as an event organizer.; Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) — Academic affiliation of editor Thereza Carvalho; its graduate architecture and urbanism program announced an earlier book presentation.
A richly illustrated architectural essay examines how Kéré’s projects develop over time through local materials, community participation, iterative construction and adaptation to changing needs. It offers a useful account of design as an ongoing process rather than a fixed plan.
Location
Projects discussed are in Burkina Faso, including Léo and Koudougou.
Organizations
Kéré Architecture — Architecture practice credited for the projects discussed; Iwan Baan Photography — Photography
The newly shipping volume directly challenges Western-centered histories of Brutalism through regional scholarship and more than 150 photographs. Its continental scope and mix of canonical and little-published buildings make it suitable for a review, excerpt or editor interview.
Location
Not provided
Organizations
Blue Crow Media — Publisher; Bob Pang — Editor, architect and researcher; Derek Lamberton — Editor
The new RIBA Publishing title offers a timely critical and historical framework for colour beyond surface decoration, with potential for a visually strong book review or interview with its authors.
Location
Not provided
Organizations
Adam Nathaniel Furman — Author and designer; Kate Mazade — Author and architecture writer; RIBA Publishing — Publisher
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 annual report provides unusually comprehensive evidence about who enters, remains in and exits the U.S. architecture licensure process. It offers a strong basis for a reported profession story rather than a simple data recap.
Location
United States
Organizations
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards — Publisher and architectural licensing organization
