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Buildner is pleased to announce the results of its Architect’s Chair Competition Edition 4, an annual international competition that invites architects and designers worldwide to submit designs for a signature chair. Following in the footsteps of iconic figures like Charles and Ray Eames, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and Arne Jacobsen, participants are tasked with creating custom chairs that reflect their unique design philosophies and visions.

New renderings released by WEISS/MANFREDI reveal updated plans for the ongoing transformation of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, a comprehensive redesign that integrates the museum, landscape, and active excavation areas into a continuous public and research-oriented campus. Alongside the design update, the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHM) has announced the creation of the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research, a new initiative supported by the Samuel Oschin Family Foundation, which advances the site’s long-term redevelopment. The transformation project is led by WEISS/MANFREDI as design lead for the museum and park, with Gruen Associates serving as executive architect and landscape architect, and Kossmanndejong (KDJ) responsible for exhibition design. Fundraising efforts are ongoing, with the project positioned for completion ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

The recently inaugurated exhibition matière en résonance (“resonant matter”) brings together a wide range of models and a curated selection of photographs to present sauerbruch hutton‘s ongoing exploration of timber. The exhibition starts from the premise that while the age of concrete defined the twentieth century, the early twenty-first century has seen a worldwide resurgence of timber, a much older building material. Timber is presented as offering “a different version of modernity” and as the subject of renewed interest that reawakens long-standing collective imaginaries. Over more than two decades, the Berlin-based architecture practice has explored the possibilities of timber construction, from façade elements to load-bearing structures and modular systems. The exhibition reflects the results of this sustained investigation, reinforcing both technical innovation and the embodied qualities of timber across a diverse range of European contexts. The exhibition will be on view from 3 to 28 February 2026 at the Galerie d’Architecture de Paris.

steinbauer architektur reinvigorate 200-year-old home Steinbauer Architektur reimagine a historic farmhouse known as HÄUSL. in the small settlement of Waidmannsbach in Lower Austria for contemporary life. The project transforms a nearly 200-year-old rural home, situated between a stream and a spruce forest in the limestone Alps. The removal of improvised additions and addition of a […]

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steinbauer architektur reinvigorate 200-year-old home Steinbauer Architektur reimagine a historic farmhouse known as HÄUSL. in the small settlement of Waidmannsbach in Lower Austria for contemporary life. The project transforms a nearly 200-year-old rural home, situated between a stream and a spruce forest in the limestone Alps. The removal of improvised additions and addition of a […]

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Many of the spatial ideas we now associate with contemporary architecture, collective use, and bodily experience did not originate in buildings alone. In Latin America, these ideas were often explored first through art, at a moment when artists were actively questioning how space could be occupied, shared, and experienced beyond traditional forms.

the facade uses thermally modified engineered bamboo as a ventilated rainscreen.

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