🔭 AlUla Manara Observatory by Heatherwick Studio in AlUla, Saudi Arabia
AlUla Manara Observatory is a proposed astrotourism and research destination within AlUla’s Dark Sky Park. Inspired by galaxies and the region’s sandstone formations, the project integrates observation decks, exhibition spaces, a planetarium, and research facilities into sculptural stone-clad forms that emerge from the desert landscape.
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An architect in Maharashtra studied how ants regulate temperature inside a mound and built a house that works the same way.
The Anthill. Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra, India. Kaushal Tatiya Architects. 650 square metres. 2026.
Curved brick balconies stack around a double-height living space, with perforated brick courses informed by traditional jali screens creating ventilation and dappled light throughout. Courtyards, skylights, and layered terraces move hot air upward and pull cooler air through the section without a mechanical system running. The brick was laid in varying textured patterns across the curved facade, herringbone and stack bond alternating as the surface rises, so the wall is both structure and ornament and climate system simultaneously.
“I wanted the building to appear as though it had emerged from the ground over time rather than being artificially imposed on the site,” the architect said.
Those children climbing the perforated wall and sitting in the circular window are not decoration. The building made space for them without being asked. That is what people-centered architecture actually means, not a tagline, a decision made in every brick course.
Any architect building in Africa’s tropical climate today who still cannot tell you how their building breathes has no business holding a pencil.
Kaushal Tatiya Architects | The Anthill | Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra | 2026 | Photography: Avesh Gaur
Spain Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka📍📍 — architecture inspired by a hidden ocean current 🌊
Designed by -Enorme Studio, Smart and Green Design, and Néstor Montenegro Mateos.
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I like this apartment plan.
Each living space is dual-aspect, and easy to cross ventilate.
The kitchen in the middle, splits the space in terms of function, but also forms a larger balcony.
There is a decent lobby!
By Think Architecture in Kilchberg, Switzerland
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
Fue construido en 1773.
No tiene electricidad.
No tiene motor.
No tiene baterías.
Y aun así, sigue funcionando.
El Cisne de Plata es una obra maestra de la ingeniería que lleva más de 250 años moviéndose únicamente mediante resortes y engranajes de latón.
A veces, la cúspide de la ingeniería se alcanzó mucho antes de la invención de la electricidad.
Le dije a mi madre que no entendía por qué me afectaban tanto las cosas y me contestó “tu mundo es tan pequeño que cualquier cosa que pasa en él es grande”.