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The RIBA Stirling Prize 2026 winner is Lion Green Road in Coulsdon, a 157-home council-commissioned scheme by Mary Duggan Architects with RUFF Architects that turns a sloping former car park into five brick blocks around shared green space.
The Baaka Cultural and Art Centre Wilcannia was named a joint INDE.Awards 2026 Learning Space winner on 27 October 2026, recognised for turning a fire-damaged store into a rammed earth Keeping Place, galleries and language rooms on Barkandji Country.
The Hoskins Building Australian Timber Design Awards Grand Prix went to a cross-laminated timber Passivhaus school in Wollongong that beat Sydney Fish Market, tests four times tighter than Passivhaus requires and can be taken apart without screw fixings.
The Buttermarket Stephen Lawrence Prize 2026 win honours a neglected Grade II listed market in Redruth, Cornwall, brought back to life as a fully accessible home for food traders, artists and small businesses.
Korean Pavilion Catabolism urban shrinkage is the design brief for Venice 2027: hyper-shrinkage, vacant plots and buildings taken apart and reused, instead of built bigger.
The Espace Riopelle pavilion opening in Quebec City gives Jean Paul Riopelle a three-storey home at the MNBAQ, with visible storage, a restoration lab, and a circular gallery for his largest work.
Snøhetta's Shanghai Grand Opera House opened on 17 October on the Huangpu River — 146,786 square metres, three halls, 4,200 seats, and a spiralling roof built as public space, not just cover.
Parsons architecture students built full-scale accessory dwelling units from a single biogenic material each — fiber, mineral or timber — for an exhibition running to 31 October 2026. Their wager: New York's ADU wave, projected to supply roughly 30% of new housing under City of Yes, doesn't have to be built from plastic.
Installation began on 19 October 2026 on around 30 tonnes of glulam roof frames at Sunshine Coast Airport — the defining feature of a A$170 million terminal that will be Australia's first mass-timber engineered terminal when complete.
In February 2026 the Sagrada Família's central tower topped out at 172.5 metres, making Gaudí's basilica the tallest church in the world. The cranes, however, are staying — the main entrance façade has not been built yet.
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