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Vanessa Baernthol presented her Fall/Winter 2026 collection, titled SPHERE, during Berlin Fashion Week, showcasing her renowned architectural approach to fashion and a strong commitment to sustainable practices. This latest collection explores layering as both an artistic and functional endeavour, setting the stage for a thought-provoking intersection of fashion and architecture. The runway show took place at the Schinkel Pavillon, an art gallery in Berlin-Mitte, where its architectural clarity and intriguing interplay of structure and transparency provided a fitting backdrop for SPHERE.

For the traveler who finds romance in a curved wall, chases good lighting, and believes a space should quietly seduce, a good design-led vacation rental is the destination as much as the location around it. These are homes chosen for how they look, feel, and linger in our memory-where architecture, interiors, and setting shape the experience of travel itself. Across the sun-washed corners of Italy, Spain, Portugal, and beyond, today's most compelling rentals are as

Lead without authority. You may not have direct reports, yet you shape architecture, quality and the roadmap. Your leverage comes from artifacts, reviews and clear standards, not from title.I started by publishing a lightweight architecture template and a rollout checklist that the team could copy. That reduced ambiguity during design and cut review cycles by nearly 30 percent

Few cities in the world exude as much elegance as Paris, where every boulevard seems to have a story and every building appears a work of art. The City of Light has a way of capturing the imagination of even the most seasoned traveler-its allure magnified by its architectural beauty, from the symmetry of its avenues flanked by Haussmannian buildings to the wrought-iron flourishes of Belle Époque balconies.

Once a Najdi settlement defined by mudbrick walls and courtyard houses, Riyadh has undergone one of the most radical urban transformations of the 20th and 21st centuries. The discovery of oil reserves, the consolidation of political power, and the rapid expansion of infrastructure reshaped the city from a regional capital into a sprawling metropolis almost within a single generation. As a result, Riyadh's urban fabric is marked by discontinuities, fragments of vernacular architecture coexist with mid-century institutional modernism, and a rapidly evolving contemporary skyline.

The Nobel Foundation has revealed the first design proposal for the new Nobel Center, a public cultural and educational institution dedicated to science, literature, and peace. Designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, the project will be constructed along Stadsgårdskajen at Slussen in Stockholm, with construction scheduled to begin in 2027 and completion planned for 2031. Conceived as a permanent home for the activities surrounding the Nobel Prize, the building aims to make the work of Nobel Prize laureates accessible to a broad public

Some seem to defy gravity, rise to unimaginable heights, and traverse difficult terrains. These iconic bridges are engineering marvels that offer tourists immense exploration opportunities. While they were built to serve as links between two points and enhance transportation, adventurers cannot help but admire the technical prowess involved in their construction and the scenery these bridges create. From being considered impossible to construct

Beneath the visible surface of cities lies an invisible architecture. Subways, tunnels, water systems, data cables, and bunkers form a dense network that sustains urban life while remaining largely unseen. The ground beneath our feet is not a void but a complex territory that holds the infrastructures, memories, and anxieties of our age. In recent years, as land becomes scarce and climate pressures intensify, architects and urbanists have turned their gaze downward, rediscovering the subterranean as both a physical and conceptual frontier.

WooJung Park + 22 Category: Churches, Memorial Center Architects: Woojin Lim, Yunseok Kwak (AEV Architectures) + Jungim Yoo + Yunhee Lee (TONN Architect) Participating Artists: Andrea Roggi, Ignazio Campagna, Jeeyean Shim, Soon-phil Maeng More SpecsLess Specs WooJung Park Text description provided by the architects. A Place of Memory and Reconciliation Created by Light In the tranquil village of Mangyeong, located three hours south of Seoul, a deeply meaningful commemorative space has been established.

React Native's JavaScript bridge was a well-known performance bottleneck for years. Under heavy UI pressure (fast scrolling, frequent re-renders), teams could hit dropped frames and visible "blank" rendering while work moved across threads and through serialization. Meta's New Architecture (JSI, Fabric, TurboModules) changes that baseline. By replacing the legacy bridge with direct, C++-backed interop and a new renderer, React Native closes much of the historical performance gap for many real-world apps.

Conceived as a small contemporary temple dedicated to body care, the project by Kresta Design by Lucas and Hernández-Gil frames wellness as a civilizing gesture: beautifying, protecting, and ritualizing everyday practices. The space subtly nods to the classical world, with a soft vertical light and a dense, calm ambience evoking the serenity of Roman thermal baths, interpreted through a modern lens. Metal and wooden niches introduce an almost liturgical rhythm, their measured repetition recalling the minimalist discipline of Donald Judd.

As the year winds to an end, we cannot move forward without remembering who we've lost. David Lynch, a filmmaker so revolutionary that his style became a new standard. Frank Gehry, the sculptor of skylines. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the multi-hyphenate force of Indigenous aesthetics. Alonzo Davis, who was one of the first Black gallerists in this country and didn't stop there. Koyo Kouoh, who would have been the first African woman to direct the Venice Biennale. And so many more.

Spanning expansive volumes and standalone series, artists offered compelling glimpses of the world, from Christopher Herwig's vibrant documentation of South Asia's trucks and tuk-tuks to Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze's daring portraits of bamboo scaffolding workers navigating the heights of Hong Kong. The year also brought haunting aerial compositions by Reuben Wu, who combined drones, lasers, and long exposures to mesmerizing effect, alongside a collection of unusual houses around the world, documented in a book published by Hoxton Mini Press.

Bunkhouse Hotels presents their new Houston locale, Hotel Saint Augustine, named after Saint Augustine, the patron saint of printing because of his extensive writings on and early dissemination of the catholic faith.

Oslo is also one of Europe's greenest capitals, with over two-thirds of it comprising forests, lakes or parks. The nature here, though not as dramatic as the otherworldly landscapes of Norway's north, is still incredibly scenic with pretty islands dotted around the glassy Oslofjord and moss-strewn, fairytale forests. It feels like a city where you can live well, unburdened by tourists and distinctly cosmopolitan, though still very much in line with the Norwegian philosophy of friluftsliv or 'open-air living'

Our 32nd annual Gold List collects our editors' current favorite places to stay and ships to sail (all vetted by our team of contributors and editors around the globe). They're memorable for many reasons: service that made us feel like Hollywood stars; architecture that transported us to 1920s London or 18th-century Lake Como; and meals in Vietnam, in Australia, and at sea that we know will inspire Proustian responses.

In the far north of Norway, above the Arctic Circle where daylight stretches-or vanishes-for months at a time, a former cod liver oil factory has been thoughtfully revived. On the island of Henningsvær in the Lofoten archipelago, Trevarefabrikken-once an industrial outpost and later abandoned-has found new life as a hotel, restaurant, and cultural space shaped by community effort and the careful hand of London-based Tuckey Design Studio.

Alan Lee Burkett passed away on Oct. 23, at the age of 68, surrounded by his loving family and friends. Alan was a beloved husband, father, brother, uncle and friend. Alan loved to row in the bay, swim in the ocean, backpack in the wilderness, ski in the backcountry, ride his bike anywhere, enjoy the art of word play and spend time with family.

Each year, the AD100 issue is our love letter to the extraordinary minds shaping the way we live,

Norihito Yamauchi + 33 More SpecsLess Specs Norihito Yamauchi Text description provided by the architects.