A pitched roof returns to Copenhagen, and the neighbours approve
Leth & Gori's infill housing argues that context is not costume; it is a load-bearing idea.
By Jonas Krag · 9 minA generation of civic architects is trading monumentality for porches, courtyards, and rooms that forgive. We spent a week inside Oslo's quietest big building to find out what changed.
Read the essayLeth & Gori's infill housing argues that context is not costume; it is a load-bearing idea.
By Jonas Krag · 9 minFrom Alicante to Kigali, the oldest material on site is passing the newest codes.
By Priya Nair · 7 minConservator Elena Duarte on patina, honesty, and why she distrusts renderings.
By M. Okafor · 12 minForty years of U-Bahn design, ranked by daylight per passenger.
Data essay · 6 minCecilia Puga's smallest building may be her most argumentative.
By T. Alarcón · 8 minRenderings sell buildings; plans tell the truth about them. A close reading of four plans that changed housing.
By Amara Sowole · 14 min"We keep photographing buildings empty, then wondering why we design them lonely."
Yusuf Adeyemi · from "The unpeopled render", July 2026
Renata Klee · Housing
D. Whitfield · Practice
Amara Sowole · Criticism
H. Lindqvist · Drawing
With contributions from Tatiana Bilbao, Lesley Lokko, and a photo essay on the vanishing genkan.
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Writers, photographers, and one very patient surveyor across 11 countries.
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Built works visited in person; no project is published from renders alone.
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