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Riyadh’s Next Great Upgrade Is a City Designed for Everyday Life
Parks, walking routes, sports spaces and connected neighborhoods may become Vision 2030’s most meaningful contribution to daily life in the capital.
Jul 28, 2026
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London Design Festival 2026 Is Taking Shape Across the City
The September festival is beginning to reveal its citywide program, where districts, installations and small studios matter as much as headline landmarks.
Jul 28, 2026
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Gulf Architecture's Bold Decade: GCC Skylines Transform
Neom, Qiddiya, Red Sea Project. The GCC is building at a scale that rewrites the architectural conversation. These aren't buildings. They're competing visions for the future.
Jan 14, 2026
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The Bench With the Extra Armrest Is Not Being Thoughtful About Your Posture
Sloped ledges, studded window sills, armrests in the middle of a bench, blue lighting in a toilet. Defensive design is usually described as deterring antisocial behaviour, and it works by making a place slightly worse for everybody.
Sep 2, 2026
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A Beijing Studio Put a Restaurant Inside a Live Highway Underpass and Left Half of It to the Public
MARS Studio split the space beneath a working road bridge in Tongzhou with a wall of mirrored glass. One side is a 108 square metre dining room. The other stays an open corridor for anyone walking or cycling through.
Aug 29, 2026
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90,300 Empty Offices Are Becoming Flats, Which Is Four Times the 2022 Number and Still the Hard Way to Build
Office to apartment conversions rose 28 per cent this year and now make up nearly half of all planned adaptive reuse in the United States. The pipeline is real. So are the reasons most office buildings cannot be converted at all.
Aug 22, 2026
