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‘House M was an opportunity to reflect on and articulate a way of family cohabitation that counters a cultural imaginary and the stereotypical projection of the family’ writes Jaime Chu, of Atelier About Architecture’s reimagination of a townhouse in Beijing, commended in the AR House awards 2025.

‘Despite its large scale, it forgoes ostentation in favour of a modern design that defers to the surrounding landscape,’ writes Suleman Anaya of Casa 720° by Fernanda Canales Arquitectura in Reserva Peñitas, Mexico.1/

‘Mirrors on the lake‑facing sides of the rooms double the views; when the curtain is drawn back, the lake appears twice – as reality and reflection,’ writes Malin Zimm of 25 Columns by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen in Dalarna, Sweden. 1/

‘The interior feels warm yet remarkably serene. The air is saturated with the scent of sugi; the wide boards create the sensation of being enveloped by living trees,’ writes Erika Sawaguchi of ICADA’s Live Sawn House in Saitama, Japan.1/

Highly commended in the 2025 AR House awards, Tuckey Design Studio’s Rammed Earth House demonstrates the viability of unstabilised rammed earth construction in the UK’s temperate maritime climate. 1/

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‘In the history of architecture lie clues to how you can make new architecture,’ explains Alexander Turner of Studio MUTT, the Liverpool-based practice founded by Turner, Graham Burn and James Crawford. 1/

‘One-Aftr creates frameworks for gradual change,’ writes Florence Wright in a profile on the Seoul and New York based practice, founded by Joon Ma and Ryu Ahn.1/

‘The pavilion is a small museum of the ground,’ explains Ophélie Dozat of Materra-Matang on their garden pavilion within the grounds of the French Embassy in Rome.1/

‘The project’s material language advances a manifesto of circularity,’ writes Chloe Shang, on L’Atelier Senzu’s public interior strategy for the redevelopment of The Grand Palais, Paris. 1/

‘Here, happenstance became part of the design,’ explains co-founder Sohei Kuma on KUMA&ELSA’s house by the temple in Saitama, Japan. 1/

Following an 8.0 magnitude earthquake in 2007, Villacurí’s school in Peru was destroyed. For 15 years, lessons persevered in temporary structures. Betsaida Curto Reyes, founder of Estudio Copla, was appointed with Ander Bados Sesma as design leads to rebuild it with non-profit All Hands & Hearts. 1/

‘The end goal is really to make all this information accessible,’ explains Glenn DeRoche, on DeRoche Project’s approach to pioneering prefabricated rammed-earth material systems in Ghana 1/

‘We spend a lot of time visiting the places where our materials come from,’ co-founder Andrew Linn explains of Washington DC based practice BLDUS 1/

‘The interventions are left open to interpretation, standing as infrastructures for public life rather than structures with prescribed uses,’ writes @laxmiandrews.bsky.social , on Atelier Wo Land’s regeneration of Yangshantou, China. 1/

If an architect’s workspace can embody their ethos, there are few finer examples than 3ME Arquitectura’s studio in Guanajuato, Mexico. ‘We see the studio as our biography,’ co-founders Enrico Hernández Cervantes and Augusto Valentino Hernández Cervantes explain. 1/

‘The unexpected details are a signature – confident flourishes that reveal a fluency in material craft,’ Julia Cabanas writes of the Peter Davey Prize-winning practice, Atelier Régis Roudil Architectes.1/

Highly commended in the AR Emerging awards 2025, Pihlmann Architects bring a pragmatism to site, and a will to make process visible, driven by material curiosity. 1/

Winners of the AR Emerging awards 2025, ARB Architects are deeply committed to research for its own sake, letting buildings grow slowly from the close reading and archiving of each site 1/

The winner of the AR Emerging awards 2025 is ARB Architects – congratulations!

Pihlmann Architects are highly commended in the AR Emerging awards 2025 – congratulations!

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 AR Emerging awards Peter Davey Prize, selected by the editors, goes to Atelier Régis Roudil Architectes – congratulations!

‘When intervening, what should be the balance between showing people what architects think they need and meeting people where they are?’ reflects Jaime Chu, revisiting the AR Emerging 2009 winner, Bridge School by Li Xiaodong Atelier, in Xiashi Village, Fujian Province, China. 1/

‘Abaineh planned a constellation of interconnected terraces, meandering through the eucalyptus forest,’ write Brook Teklehaimanot Haileselassie and Michael Bekele Deribe, revisiting the AR Emerging 2002 highly commended project, treehouses in Addis Ababa by Ahadu Abaineh. 1/

‘The biosphere offers an experience at once sensorial, ecological and architectural,’ writes Florian Heilmeyer, revisiting the AR Emerging 2001 distinction prizewinner, Biosphäre Potsdam, by Barkow Leibinger. 1/

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‘Depicted as an enemy, the body of a traveller is visualised as a separate and distant object that can be expelled, tortured or have its most vital needs ignored’ examines Christina Varvia in this issue's closing essay on borders and the ‘expanded body.’ 1/

‘The paradox of memorialising a former military border post is that meaning shifts depending on where you stood – physically, as well as politically’ writes Sophie Lovell in this issue's Revisit piece on Checkpoint Charlie, the former crossing between East and West Berlin. 1/

‘Conservation efforts in this transborder region suffered further devastating setbacks following the Rwandan genocide’ writes Aimable Twahirwa on Mass Design Group’s wildlife conservation Campus in Kinigi, Rwanda; a facility rebuilding research and conservation capacity across the region. 1/

‘The project reframes a border that was originally drawn as a line into a layered condition whose thickness can be inhabited’ writes Tomà Berlanda on Sadar + Vuga’s renovation of Nova Gorcia train station. 1/

‘By never changing its seating arrangements, the House has moulded the British Constitution,’ wrote Maurice Hastings in 1950, as Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's Chamber opened after the Blitz. 1/

‘Could we imagine spatial strategies so that the borderland is no longer being designed as a non‑place fenced with wires, but as a landscape with its own meaning natural forms of defence?’ questions Martynas Germanavičius, reviewing the Latvian pavilion, at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 1/

‘These are people concealed by and subsumed into commodities, their bodies obscured and contorted in stress positions for the hopes of a better life,’ writes Abiba Coulibaly in a review of Randa Maroufi film Bab Sebta. 1/

‘You could just get on a train from here to Prague, Amsterdam, Vilnius, and on none of these trains would you be expected to produce anything other than your ticket to prove your right to be there,’ writes Owen Hatherley in his review of Europe without Borders: A History by Isaac Stanley-Becker 1/

In the AR’s Health issue earlier this year, we covered the 2025 Stirling Prize winning Appleby Blue Almshouse by Witherford Watson Mann Architects Read the full building study here:

‘The adobe construction might symbolise rootedness and, by extension, the sense of the space being a safe haven,’ writes Pirasri Povatong on the Hway Ka Loke School, in Mae Sot, Thailand by Simple Architecture. 1/

‘The building stands out as a beacon of hope, providing a lifeline to those fleeing civil strife,’ reflects Peter Muiruri on the District hospital in Burtinle, Somalia designed by Architectural Pioneering Consultants. 1/

In this month's Reputations piece, Jan-Werner Müller explores how philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt invites us to reconsider boundaries, and her advocacy of the construction of a pluralistic world

‘The provocative models built by the pair are remarkable in their creativity and scope – and in the fact that they exist at all,’ writes Michael Snyder on Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman’s approach to designing dignified neighbourhoods for migrants on both sides of the Mexico-US border. 1/

‘The recent demolitions are different: this is an overt, extralegal, paramilitary and highly mediatised mode of dispossession’ writes Nitin Bathla, reporting on the rise of ‘bulldozer justice’ in India – the destruction of minority citizens’ homes encouraged by the ruling far-right coalition 1/

On the borders of Syria, Iraq and Turkey, the persecuted Yazidi community finds sanctuary in earthen structures that may someday return to the ground.These community centre and housing prototypes in Bersive and Chamishku camps, Iraq, designed by Insitu Project, ABCD Collaborative and Vide Terra 1/

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Far from ‘a static line on a map,’ a border ‘is best understood as an elastic regime that extends and thickens across space and time,’ writes Harsha Walia, in the opening keynote essay of the AR’s October issue. 1/

‘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/