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El Mayab Sports and Cultural Center by Taller de Arquitectura Miguel Montor in Mexico The project conceives of public infrastructure as a form of “urban acupuncture” in underdeveloped contexts. More than just a sports facility, it creates a hybrid system that combines a stadium, a cultural space, and a gathering place. Sloping roofs, platforms, and terraces organize the program and anticipate future growth in the surrounding area, integrating the topography, local materials, and community dynamics. #Photography: Bryan Arellano To learn more about the project, follow the link https://lnkd.in/e3sjZn2H

SSdH, a Melbourne-based practice founded in 2020, treats existing buildings not as constraints but as the primary material of design. Working across renovation, extension, and adaptive insertion, the studio reads original structures, their brick walls, exposed columns, and accumulated layers, as active design resources. Through deliberate use of color, material legibility, and structural honesty, their work achieves spatial richness without excess, advancing a position where more architecture is produced through more considered engagement with less. SSdH positions architecture as a collaborative process, shaped through engagement with clients, builders, and the existing fabric itself. They do not pursue decorative excess or total replacement; instead, the studio works with the accumulated character of the original site. Current works, including the restoration of an old mill in Saint Romain, France, continue this trajectory, extending their methodology into larger adaptive reuse frameworks. Across all scales, SSdH advances an architectural position defined by attentiveness to what already exists, where more architecture is achieved through more considered engagement with less. This article is presented by Buildner. As sponsor of ArchDaily's 2025 Next Practices Awards, Buildner—the world's leading architecture competition organizer—helps architects get what they enter competitions for: recognition, opportunity, and progress. Read more about this topic on ArchDaily  Written by: Miwa Negoro Image: Dunstan © Pier Carthew

Slope House by SOURCE Architecture Studio in Poland In a rural landscape, the planning regulation becomes the starting point for one of the project's most inventive moves: a roof that extends beyond the building, folds toward the ground, and transforms into a walkable hill. Rather than simply covering the interior, it descends gradually toward the ground, transforming into a walkable fifth elevation. Part terrace, part hill, the surface becomes a place for informal gatherings. Inside, the house opens around a private courtyard that acts as the spatial core of the project, bringing light and nature deep into the house. #Photography: Nate Cook Photography Discover more about the project here https://lnkd.in/gbA72K2a

Cobe and ArchDaily invite you to the launch of the guest-edited edition of Cobe Notes x ArchDaily on June 10, 2026 at 11:00 AM at Cobe Bookcafé. Under the theme Thresholds, the event will take place in connection with 3daysofdesign and explore architecture as a space of transition, where negotiation, uncertainty, and transformation meet. Register through the link to attend: https://lnkd.in/dX4QjjWz

Distilleries have never been purely industrial. Unlike many industrial programs traditionally concealed behind neutral façades and enclosed spaces, contemporary distilleries often expose their production processes as an essential part of the architectural experience. The heat of stills, the vapor of distillation, and the paths traced by raw materials. These processes carry a sensory richness that contemporary architecture is increasingly choosing to expose rather than conceal. From Heatherwick Studio’s Bombay Sapphire in England to Neri&Hu’s Chuan Malt Whisky Distillery in China, ten projects show how production and spatial experience can coexist, turning fabrication into a system that articulates different ways of relating production to landscape. By exposing processes, framing landscapes, and materializing technical and cultural knowledge, these buildings move beyond a strictly industrial logic and begin to construct sensory experiences rooted in place, revealing through architecture distinct ways of understanding the territories in which they are embedded. Read more about this topic on ArchDaily Article: Oil, Glass, and Identity: The Spirit of Space: 10 Distillery Projects Where Production Shapes Architecture Written by: Diogo Simões Image:  Destilaria Bombay Sapphire / Heatherwick Studio © Iwan Baan

Carpenter's Home by Primary Architects in China Hao Tang Village is activated through the “Eight Artisans” initiative, where renovated residences and new workshop spaces form a network that repositions craftsmanship within daily rural life. The project operates as the core of this system, combining exhibition, cultural tourism, and study programs while linking craft production to local economic continuity. The design extends the hillside logic into the roof, aligning with the residential edge and resolving level differences through the structure. #Photography: DONG Image See the full project through the link https://lnkd.in/eAfMXWue

For centuries, architecture has been defined by unmoving permanence. A building is assumed to be fixed, its walls and foundation immobile in space. But a growing number of architects are now challenging this assumption by incorporating movement into the very fabric and tectonic structures of buildings. When roofs hinge, walls slide, and entire structures respond to their occupants, something remarkable happens: the architectural spaces become an active component of daily rituals. These moments of opening, closing, shifting, and translating spaces ground buildings in the present moment and demand active engagement from users. The architecture becomes less of an object or a monument and more of a choreography of participation. These five projects treat movement not as incidental, but as an essential condition of the design. A pavilion that unfolds like a shell during public readings in China. Nomadic canopies pedaled through the streets of Preston. A cabin in the Pacific Northwest where a massive window wall slides open by hand. Across scales and contexts, these works treat motion as a design tool that turns inhabitation into an active, participatory ritual. Read more about this topic on ArchDaily Article: When Architecture Moves: Kinetic Design and the Rituals of Space Written by: Olivia Poston Image: Shell Book Pavilion / LUO studio. Image © Yumeng Zhu

Juriquilla House by Estudio Mero in Mexico Organized around a central courtyard, the project integrates the floor plan, climate, and vegetation within a semi-desert environment. Its terracotta-colored walls establish a material connection with the landscape and contrast with the immediate surroundings. The living space adapts to the topography through split-level design, while the openings and sliding panels regulate lighting, cross-ventilation, and the continuity between the interior and exterior. #Photography: Dane Alonso Take a closer look at the project through the link https://lnkd.in/eRmWZzab

Modern housing in Latin America was never only about shelter. As Argentine architectural historian Ramón Gutiérrez has argued, popular housing is "the great unresolved subject, one that usually does not appear in histories of architecture." In Latin America, this absence is significant. Across the 20th century, expanding cities turned housing into one of the clearest ways to imagine urban change, and modernism entered not only plans and drawings, but apartments, neighborhoods, streets, and domestic routines. In Mexico City, Bogotá, and Rio de Janeiro, ambitious modernist projects proposed new ways of organizing collective life and met resistance from the cities they sought to transform. Tlatelolco displaced 70,000 residents to make way for a new urban model. Ciudad Kennedy's superblocks were gradually overtaken by informal commerce. Pedregulho's shared laundry facilities were quietly ignored. These were not failures. They were the city speaking back. So the questions modernism raised around housing, collective life, and urban growth have not disappeared. They have changed shape. Displacement, informality, and the tension between what cities plan and what cities become remain present across Latin America. These projects did not resolve those tensions. They made them visible, and many of them remain unresolved today. Read more about this topic on ArchDaily Article: When Modernism Meets Local Resistance: Housing and Urban Friction in Latin America Written by: Daniela Andino Image: Pedregulho, Rio de Janeiro. Image © Pedro Mascaro

Cheshm Cheran Bazi Playground by ZAV Architects in Iran Set within an olive orchard, this project transforms an existing agricultural metal framework into a multi-level play space. Circular platforms are positioned around the trees, creating connections between ground level, canopy, and the surrounding landscape. Rolled metal profiles and perforated plastic flooring define the lightweight structure, allowing light, air, and shadows to pass through the playground. #Photography: DJI, Parham Taghioff, Persia Photography Center Discover more about the project here https://lnkd.in/ezr336BA