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A 15-meter lot became the test case: Ys Housing swapped the driveway for a shared courtyard, splitting four Reservoir townhouses into two street-facing pairs. https://t.co/nwboDSSPdU

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WERCK Workshop rebuilt a 75-square-metre Berlin apartment around a central core inspired by an apartment tower in São Paulo, nearly 10,000 kilometers away. https://t.co/r2ej06bsTQ

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No central core, no hidden shaft — a double-helix staircase carries the entire structural load of this 19.8m wetland tower in China, built from 24 prefabricated steel modules. https://t.co/uyKMKqy5Z7

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Six Carrara marble figures stood outdoors in Jujuy for a century. The building Pelli Clarke raised to shelter them is made largely of glass. https://t.co/b96tIzAQHM

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Two materials build this entire Saint-Denis bakery: cast-in-place concrete and 2 cm blue mosaic tile. Nothing else does structural or decorative work. https://t.co/4jQHxwVLfm

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A brick wall in the garden that holds up nothing. StudioAC calls it the remnant of an interior room, and it gives the sculpture court its only edge. https://t.co/pBfu2HL7NA

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The folds are not a finish. They are the structure. Guillaume Bloget's Sharp kayak has no frame: a double aluminum wall makes it rigid and unsinkable. https://t.co/epPE0unxL7

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One piece of joinery in Mimosa Apartment holds the library, the art objects and the divide between zones, and it changes color halfway up: white at eye level, yellow where it meets the ceiling. https://t.co/3kwbrfCl2W

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MARS Studio split an active Beijing underpass with mirrored glass — half stays a walkway, half becomes a 108 sqm restaurant that never stopped being a bridge. https://t.co/v4LyXTq3n6

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Studios at 730 Stanyan start at $583 a month. OMA and Y.A. studio's 160-unit building at the entrance to Golden Gate Park calibrates every rent to San Francisco's area median income, family-sized units included. https://t.co/GpcLn1rWj9

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Six colored rooms, one continuous loop, and not a single new wall: ASAP-ZT Pitro Sammer's Vienna renovation lets material transitions do the work walls usually do. https://t.co/DTD2wJ6mqv

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A line of polished concrete runs from Studio 163 Architects' Falkland Road extension straight out into the garden, folding upward into built-in planters at the edge of the patio in Kentish Town, London. https://t.co/dMhKvuk3g5

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Bien Urbain folds a nursery school roof into four sheds the architects call gills, ventilating every Montfermeil classroom without rising above the existing ridge line.
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A black-stained timber interior blacks out its own perimeter so a single glazed wall can carry the view. Zly Architekt hides a 25-person sauna inside a mobile shipping container in Bratislava. https://t.co/YGfgamGM3n

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Sixty tonnes of material shipped from Japan, a Takashi Murakami artwork, and a rollercoaster running overhead — all inside 2,000 sqm at Tivoli Gardens. https://t.co/JsHJx07nA5 @Tivoli

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A single concrete core carries the loads, the seismic bracing and the services in R2A architectes' two-family house near Sion. The facades attached to it hold up nothing at all. https://t.co/veyS8YZU12

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Particleboard-reinforced walls and steel door frames give Studio Bright's SDA Housing Project in Melbourne a durability that doesn't need to look durable. https://t.co/mGBOdg0Gea

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Clay plaster, Portland stone, timber, oak: EBBA Architects brings Istanbul's Cup of Joy to Marylebone across two floors, with an opaque-glass ceiling built to recall a courtyard.
https://t.co/DxALrvwmjp

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@Bugatti's Destrier drops every wing and vent from the track-only Bolide, leaving a one-meter-tall sculpture on 20/21-inch wheels. Third Programme Solitaire commission, still packing the 1,600 PS W16.
https://t.co/P6QxnyYm5H

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A green café in Kuwait folds a second retail brand into its own walls — no partition, just geometry doing the work. https://t.co/tXRGUDi56J