‘Dominant societies have a long way to go to learn to live with nature’, writes Martha Dillon in her closing essay in the Forest issue. In the essay, Dillon examines the ongoing expansion of the wildland–urban interface, or WUI, where human settlements meet flammable forests and brush. 1/

‘The housing revolution that both the planet and its inhabitants urgently require will not be provided by the private sector,’ writes Eleanor Beaumont on social housing in Barcelona by Urbanitree; the tallest timber building in Spain.1/

‘The project demonstrates the great passion, deep knowledge and respect for the raw material and its supply chain shared by both the architects and Küng,’ writes Giulia Scotto on Küng Holzbau carpenters’ office in Alpnach, Switzerland designed by Seiler Linhart Architekten.1/

‘A seemingly perfect fusion of the bourgeois dream of a city-centre villa with a garden and an apparent solution to urban growth in the post-anthropocene era,’ writes Davide Tommaso Ferrando in this issue’s Revisit piece on the Bosco Verticale development, Milan, designed by Boeri Studio in 2014 1/

‘Feel‑good furniture comes from feel‑good wood, which comes from feel‑good forests,’ writes Erin Putalik, unpacking how IKEA’s sustainability messaging masks designed obsolescence and a deeper cycle of disposability.1/

‘Lintianshan’s history, and its inhabitants’ relationship with the surrounding forest, is much deeper than the town’s 20th-century logging infrastructure suggests,’ writes John Lin on the cultural implications of the transformation of Taiwan’s former forestry town, by Yen Partnership Architects. 1/

‘These settler forests are fragile, as flammable as they are foreign,’ writes Sufi Boise in this issue’s Outrage piece, reflecting on the recent forest fires around Jerusalem and the Israel military-occupied West Bank. 1/

‘Life spills into the lane at night, when children play freely, untroubled by the passage of vehicles,’ writes Oonib Azam, reflecting on the ‘ecostreets’ in Karachi, Pakistan, designed by Yasmeen Lari and her team at the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan. 1/

‘The structure’s possibility for relocation is a key element of the design itself’ writes Ana Karina Zatarain, on the Sian Ka’an reforestation nursery in Quintana Roo, Mexico designed by Alessandra de Mitri and Roberto Rodríguez.1/

’I last saw Sebastião Salgado at his busy studio and office in Paris, in 2023. Gracious and welcoming, we sat and talked as he explained the incredible progress of the Instituto Terra, which he had set up with Lélia Wanick Salgado in 1998,’ remembers David Campany in this month’s Reputations piece.

‘In January this year, the Yawanawá hosted the fifth edition of the important Indigenous Ayahuasca Conference,’ writes Guilherme Wisnik in the opening building study of the Forest issue. 1/

‘Instead of seeing the forest as a place that lacks the city, perhaps it is the very concept of the city that must be widened and transformed’ writes Paulo Tavares in the Forest issue keynote. 1/

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‘The remnants of collapsed earth walls were combined with fresh soil to be newly rammed into aluminium formwork by volunteers and students’ writes @reubenjbrown.com on Project Plum Grove 1/

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‘By providing a live lab for mineral and plant-based construction methods, the project aims to contribute to the body of documentation required to move these practices out of the fringes and into the mainstream’

The aesthetic language of the Hedeskov Centre is ‘rooted in the resources of the surrounding landscape and the building traditions it could support’ writes @laxmiandrews.bsky.social on the transformation of a schoolhouse in Rønde, Denmark by Djernes & Bell

‘All new additions were constructed on site by the AMAA team – no contractors’ writes @reubenjbrown.com on the remodelling of the lower floors of the town hall in Arzignano, Italy into a café.

‘Joints, nails, bindings and bolts are left exposed to illustrate how the building comes together’ writes Chloe Shang on the transformation of a disused tannery in Debrecen, Hungary.

Artel31’s barn conversion in Uffington, UK ‘learns something from the pragmatic resourcefulness that sustains farming life’ writes @laxmiandrews.bsky.social 1/

‘Karamuk Kuo faced the challenge of navigating a rich architectural context while responding to the faculty’s desire to expand its pedagogical capabilities’ writes Julia Cabanas on Cannady Hall, a new addition to the Rice University campus in Houston, Texas 1/

‘Carefully attuned to the grain of the old, and unpretentious about what is new, this house preserves memory while inviting comfort and functionality,’ writes Chloe Shang on a barn conversion in Sohland an der Spree, Germany, by Dorschner Kahl Architekten. 1/

‘The kiosk has become a proxy entrance, a way of announcing the business’s presence in a neighbourhood dominated by offices and hotels’ writes Julia Cabanas on the coffee stand by G Architects Studio for traditional confectionery brand Suetomi in Kyoto

‘Thoravej 29’s ‘off-the-shelf’ raw structure was still replete with idiosyncrasies and challenges to overcome to enable its full reuse; the architects’ deft navigation forms the essential dexterity of the new architecture’ writes @reubenjbrown.com on NGO Bikubenfonden’s new HQ by Pihlmann Architects

‘This is an architecture that tosses you between eras like a funfair attraction,’ writes @isabelleregnier.bsky.social of Bernard Tschumi’s @lefresnoy.bsky.social art school. 1/

‘Ricardo Bofill and his Bofill Taller de Arquitectura began work on La Fábrica in the early 1970s, at the height of a gloomy period often referred to as la Barcelona grisa, or grey Barcelona,’ writes Rafael Gomez-Moriana in the New into Old issue. 1/

‘What needed to be preserved was not the architecture of the historic centre, but rather, in her words, the alma popular da cidade (popular soul of the city)’ writes Francesco Perrotta‑Bosch on Lina Bo Bardi’s transformation of colonial‑era buildings in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. 1/

‘The Accra Community Centre has stood as a symbol of change during Ghana’s first 68 years of independence, and continues to adapt to the city’s needs and changing circumstances’ writes Julia Gallagher and Lois Quartey on the Accra Community Centre, designed by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew.

Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia Sofia ‘now exists in a fraught middle ground between sacred and secular space’ writes @jenhattam.bsky.social 1/

‘After driving past the Burger King and exiting the highway, a meandering minor road acts as a portal to another geography and epoch: open vineyards as far as the eye can see, and a 400‑year‑old château right in the middle.’ 1/

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‘The disused ice-making facility, built in 1954, had immense potential,’ writes Suleman Anaya. ‘A lofty ground floor opened to the street and to the vacant plot next to it. Even more impressive was the erstwhile freezing chamber directly above, hidden behind thick brick and concrete walls.‘ 1/

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The gigantic structure of Charleroi’s Palais des Expositions, erected in 1954 amid the industrial region’s post-war rebuilding efforts, have been renovated by AgwA and AJDVIV. In October last year, the doors of the Grand Palais, as it is now called, finally reopened its doors. 1/

‘The outdoor space has become an essential part of living and caring’ writes Christophe Van Gerrewey on Monnikenbos in Zoersel, Belgium. 1/

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‘Given the extensive history, it was important for Yang’s team to make a light impact on the site’ writes Jacob Dreyer on the Li Hongzhang ancestral hall pond in Nanjing, China by School of Architecture, Southeast University and AESEU. 1/

‘In contrast to modern urban renewal’s practice of violently top‑down, large‑scale demolition and reconstruction, as in the case of Baishizhou, Nantou’s six bricolage houses offer an alternative’ writes Jaime Chu on six rehabilitated residential buildings in Shenzen, China by ARCity Office 1/

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‘The tenants note that visitors often mistakenly enter their office while looking for the parking payment machine,’ writes Giulia Scotto of an office space nestled within a car park in a rapidly growing innovation district outside Basel. 1/

‘The taxi driver had to make several calls on our way from Ramallah to Bethlehem. “And the container?” he asked. “Is there a lot of traffic?” We couldn’t hear the reply, but we knew he was referring to the military checkpoint north‑east of the city – an infamous bottleneck on the road to Bethlehem.’

In this issue’s Typology essay, @tmowilkinson.bsky.social takes us through the evolution of petrol stations, from ‘a series of giant shells’ in North Carolina to ‘a Chinoiserie nightmare in Beckenham’.

‘As the landscape is commodified, Indigenous modes of knowing and inhabiting the land are at threat,’ writes Tomà Berlanda on Norway's Scenic Routes programme. Read the full essay in the Roads issue and online: www.architectural-review.com/essays/takin...

‘This newly completed project holds promise for a future that has yet to materialise,’ writes Felipe Walter on the second in a series of roadside service centres by El Equipo Mazzanti and ContraFuerte in Antioquia, Colombia. 1/

‘The Minhocão closes at night and all weekend. At these times it becomes São Paulo’s de facto beach, perfect for running, cycling and dog‑walking, and during the daytime, sunbathing’ writes Richard J Williams on the ‘big worm’ expressway that is both road and well-used public park. 1/

‘Global negotiations such as COP are failing to encourage or support countries to break from history and take a new path’ writes @marthadillon.bsky.social on the construction of the Avenida Liberdade road in Belém. Read the full Outrage piece here: www.architectural-review.com/essays/outra...

Mines d’aigua – literally ‘water mines’ – are subterranean infiltration galleries dug to capture groundwater in dry Mediterranean climes such as Spain’s. 1/

‘Robert Moses certainly was not the only public official to disfigure the old city by ramming highways through it,’ writes Andy Battle in the Roads issue. ‘But he did so on the grandest stage, at a mid-century moment when everything that happened seemed to happen in New York first.’ 1/

This article by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social is so good and so full of architectural culture that reading it is one of the best things you can do today:

The Luxembourgish architect, theorist and planner Léon Krier has died aged 79. Learn about Krier’s life and career, and his famously traditionalist planning of Poundbury, in the AR: