Donceles has languished in the shadow of exclusive beach resorts, and the designers think new residents could bring life back … More
Category: Urbanism
Meet Slava Balbek: defender, designer, optimist behind the RE:UKRAINE project
The 38-year-old Kyivan sheds these titles while fighting against demolition of historic buildings, preparing rescue kits and creating an emergency … More
Songs from the cellar: Ukrainian creators bare their hearts ahead of Triennale Milano
“Sorry, there are no designers here in Ukraine. There are soldiers/volunteers/civilians.” Approximately one week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv-based architect … More
Puutalo Oy and Finland’s Little Boxes
Born out of a necessity engendered by war in 1940, the Puutalo Oy Housing Consortium was established in Finland to … More
Uzbek pavilion curators Christ & Gantenbein on Mahallas and the future of urban living
2021 marked the first time the Republic of Uzbekistan participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale. Titled Mahalla: Urban Rural Living, the … More
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio applies an urban sensibility to projects from private homes to research centers
Architect Tatiana Bilbao grew up in the center of Mexico City, in the Colonia Cuauhtémoc, not far from her current office. The city’s vast … More
Four Standout National Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale
For the 17th Venice Architecture Biennial, curator Hashim Sarkis posed the question “How will we live together?” During the year … More
Beatrice Galilee’s Anthology of Radical Architecture
Curator and self-described “organizer of things” Beatrice Galilee’s new book Radical Architecture of the Future (Phaidon, 2021) is a condensed encyclopedia of Galilee’s … More
Taller Capital creates useful solutions from the bottom up
Mexico City–based Taller Capital (TC), led by architects José Pablo Ambrosi and Loreta Castro Reguera, is inconspicuously rehabilitating the Mexican urban fabric with public space projects in marginalized areas.
From the ground up: the battle to transform Ukraine’s unloved buildings with cutting-edge design
Hundreds of buildings stand unoccupied in modern Kyiv, but most architects and developers still prefer to build from the ground … More
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