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Arquipeo Building of the Year 2026 is not a tower. It is a five-storey office complex in a flood-prone industrial district of São Paulo, wrapped in perforated steel, lifted above the ground plane, and organised around courtyards and terraces instead of a sealed slab. On 4 November 2026, Architectural Record named it Building of the […]
The Liverpool School of Architecture new building opening on 5 November 2026, led by alumnus Anton Lesser, completes an O'Donnell + Tuomey extension that students and staff helped choose from 18 practices in 2019.
The Zaha Hadid Foundation Clerkenwell opening turns her former Bowling Green Lane studio into a free public gallery — Studio KA's refurbishment, the Architecture of Performance show and an archive finally open to everyone.
The London Museum Smithfield opening on 28 November 2026 returns the Victorian General Market to public use after three decades, in a Stanton Williams and Asif Khan design built around the Smithfield General Market restoration.
The Irish Design Excellence Award 2026 shortlist puts a sewage plant, a satellite film, a housing-crisis video game and a racehorse sensor in the same race for Ireland's new national design prize. The winners are announced in Kilkenny on 7 November.
The International High-Rise Award 2026 finalists — ZIN in Brussels, AGE 360 in Curitiba, Tencent Tower in Guangzhou, 88 Walker in Sydney and One Pearl Bank in Singapore — argue that a tall building now earns its place by reuse, shared space and public life, not height. The winner is announced in Frankfurt on 3 November 2026.
The Nouala pavilion at Majorelle Garden opened on 29 October 2026: a demountable reed-and-thatch pavilion by Salsabil El Ouazzani in the Villa Oasis garden, housing an exhibition on the garden's birds.
The Phius passive house design competition 2026 named The Faircliff — 125 permanently affordable homes in Washington, D.C. — its Best Overall Project, as passive standards move from pilot houses into affordable, senior and social housing.
The Australia National Architecture Awards 2026 winners, announced in Brisbane on 29 October, gave three prizes to Yitpi Yartapuultiku in Port Adelaide and honoured a University of Queensland plant laboratory that began as a windowless box.
The Design Museum Gent reopening on 3 October 2026 made it Belgium's largest design museum, with a new wing faced in more than 82,000 bricks pressed from the city's own waste.
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