The first new Futuro produced for Finland in roughly six decades raises unusually rich questions about authorized architectural reproduction, prefabrication, plastics, conservation and how modern icons can re-enter production.
Location
Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, Helsinki, Finland
Organizations
Jan van Dijs — Architectural heritage specialist and project lead; JR van Dijs — Historical rehabilitation practice associated with the project lead; Matti Suuronen — Original Futuro House architect; Helsinki Design Week — Exhibition partner and venue programmer; Marimekko — Interior installation collaborator; Vibeke Rohland — Print designer for the Marimekko interior
An immediate South Florida development opportunity with a September 3 submission deadline. The city-owned site and combined design, finance, development and management brief could produce a consequential model for mixed-income workforce housing in an expensive, transit-accessible municipality.
Location
5890 SW 69th Street, South Miami, Florida
Organizations
City of South Miami — Property owner, project sponsor and procurement authority
A thoughtful second-phase intervention in an award-winning coastal house, showing how an architect can revisit its own recent work to improve circulation, garden access and weather protection while maintaining material continuity on a sensitive SSSI site.
Location
Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex, United Kingdom, within the Rye Nature Reserve Site of Special Scientific Interest
Organizations
RX Architects Ltd — Architect; Myriad Construction Ltd — Main contractor; Chartwood Design Ltd — Bespoke joinery; Ideal Work — Flooring system and finish; KEIM Mineral Paints Ltd — Mineral paint finish for brickwork; Richard Chivers Architectural Photography — Photography
The Argentine municipal project combines adaptive reuse, audiovisual preservation, public cinema, digital restoration, education, and artist residencies—an unusually complete civic program built around regional moving-image heritage.
Location
Centro de Experimentación Audiovisual, Colón 1133, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Organizations
Municipalidad de Avellaneda — Owner and operator; Dirección General de Arquitectura, Municipalidad de Avellaneda — Architecture; Secretaría de Planificación, Municipalidad de Avellaneda — Planning and project collaboration
This is unusually strong evidence that architectural design itself can act as public-health infrastructure. The randomized trial connects passive cooling, insect screening, sanitation, smoke control, solar power and rainwater collection to measurable reductions in three major childhood diseases.
Location
55 villages in rural Mtwara Region, Tanzania
Organizations
Ifakara Health Institute — Research partner; University of Oxford — Research partner; Royal Danish Academy — Architecture and research partner; Ecohomes Company Limited — Prefabrication and construction contractor
The live relocation of an intact historic keep is an exceptional preservation and construction story. It demonstrates how traditional building-moving knowledge, public participation and long-term masonry conservation can converge in a nationally important heritage project.
Location
Hirosaki Park and Hirosaki Castle, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Organizations
City of Hirosaki — Project authority and event organizer; Hirosaki Park — Historic site and event venue
