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Mexico City Architecture City Guide: 38 Projects From Tenochtitlan to the 21st Century

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Mexico City Architecture City Guide: 38 Projects From Tenochtitlan to the 21st Century

A newly published, geographically organized guide surveys 38 projects across Mexico City, pairing historic landmarks and Mexican Modernism with contemporary cultural and social-infrastructure work. It is a useful editorial reference, though it is a curated guide rather than a report of a newly built project or development.

Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Organizations
Michan Architecture — Architecture; credited for Chapultepec Forest Scenic Garden; PARABASE — Architecture; credited with Michan Architecture for Chapultepec Forest Scenic Garden; Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos — Architecture; credited for Palmas 555; LEGORRETA — Architecture; credited for Torre BBVA Bancomer; Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners — Architecture; credited for Torre BBVA Bancomer; David Chipperfield Architects — Architecture; credited for Museo Jumex; Rojkind Arquitectos — Architecture; credited for Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI; arquitectura 911sc — Architecture; credited with Fernanda Canales for Elena Garro Cultural Center
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ArchDaily
Vivos xPoint, USA.

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Bunkers and Arks: Escaping the Future We Built Ourselves

A newly published architecture feature examines the conversion and commercialization of military infrastructure as private survival housing, connecting adaptive reuse to wealth, risk, and the social assumptions embedded in who gets protected.

Location
Survival Condo Project, Kansas; Vivos xPoint, South Dakota; and other examples discussed internationally.
Organizations
Survival Condo — Operator and official project website for the Survival Condo Project, discussed as a converted missile silo offering luxury shelter residences.; Terra Vivos — Organization associated in the article with the Vivos network of underground shelters, including Vivos xPoint.; Maedebach & Redeleit Architekten — Architects credited by ArchDaily for Bunker Complex in Brandenburg, an example pictured in the article.; B-ILD — Architecture practice credited by ArchDaily for War Bunker Refurbishment, an example pictured in the article.
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ArchDaily
The Palm Jumeirah.

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Flat Land, Hidden Water: Architecture on Reclaimed Ground

A newly published architectural essay examines how reclaimed land shapes urban design, landscapes, infrastructure, and resilience, using examples including Battery Park City, Governors Island, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and Dubai’s artificial islands. It offers editorial context on a significant waterfront-planning issue, rather than announcing a new project.

Location
Not provided
Organizations
ArchDaily
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ArchDaily
Skanderbeg Square, Tirana.

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Freedom and Architecture: Anneke Abhelakh on The Albanian Files

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
Source
ArchDaily
Necessity as Invention: Ireland’s Laboratory of Renovation

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Necessity as Invention: Ireland’s Laboratory of Renovation

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.
Organizations
Donal Colfer Architects — Architects, Ballymorris House; Wrkshop Architects — Architects, The Urban Cottage; Architecture Republic — Architects, Plastic House; TAKA — Architects, House 1 + House 2; Courtney McDonnell Architects — Architects, Griffith Avenue House; Jake Moulson Architects — Architects, D2 Townhouse; Carr Cotter & Naessens — Architects, Hanging Gardens Office Building; Denis Byrne Architects — Architects, Hanging Gardens Office Building; Peter Molloy Photography — Photography
Source
ArchDaily
Isivivane, Freedom Park, Pretoria, South Africa.

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From Garden to Monument: Liberation Landscapes in African Cities

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.
Source
ArchDaily
Building on Volcanic Ground: Architecture’s Response to Volcanic Landscapes

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Building on Volcanic Ground: Architecture’s Response to Volcanic Landscapes

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
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ArchDaily
Amman city image accompanying the guide.

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Amman Architecture City Guide: 11 Projects in a Capital Shaped by Migration and Stone

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
Source
ArchDaily
View from tower, Al Zubarah Fort, Qatar.

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From Seasonal Escape to Permanent Elsewhere: Movement and Architecture in the Gulf

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
Source
ArchDaily
Book image accompanying the ArchDaily launch announcement; a specific image caption was not verified.

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Glossário para a Cidade do Nosso Futuro com Esperança — Rio launch

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.
Extraction of laterite bricks for the building of Schorge Secondary School.

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Time as a Building Material in Francis Kéré’s Architecture

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
Source
ArchDaily
Brutalist Asia surveys concrete architecture across 28 countries

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Brutalist Asia surveys concrete architecture across 28 countries

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
Chromatic Architecture and selected colourful buildings featured by its authors.

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Chromatic Architecture reframes colour as an intrinsic architectural system

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
Source
Dezeen
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