Architecture in numbers15/08/2026
Daily edition — 15/08/2026
Anthropic asks Wall Street to believe in $200 billion. Louisville turns a car park into a park.
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Fifteen stories about how money, landscape, regulation, housing, robots and competitions are changing architecture and work.
Cities15/08/2026
Louisville has a plaza on top of a car park. Now it wants to turn it into a park
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Competitions15/08/2026
This international competition does not ask for a building: it asks for a drawn idea
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How it is built
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Design
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Why an imperfect surface can explain how a space was made
Timber, plaster, earth and handmade tiles preserve joints, marks and variation. Irregularity becomes information when it comes from the material rather than industrial imitation.
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Nvidia cuts its backing for OpenAI's Ohio data centre to below $120 billion
The commitment under discussion had reached $250 billion. The revision shows how a gigantic facility depends on financial guarantees before the first server is installed.
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AI and technology
Z.ai will delay its cybersecurity model before releasing the weights
GLM-5.3 identified vulnerabilities close to a restricted Anthropic model, but lagged far behind at turning them into attacks. Sensitive functions will use verified access.
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Seriously?
Nearly ten million investors tried to buy shares in robot maker Unitree
Retail demand exceeded the available allocation by more than 8,000 times. The company reaches the market with profits, a $9 billion valuation and few mature uses beyond research and demonstrations.
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AI and technology
Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding and agent workflows
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Databricks reaches a $190 billion valuation because companies still do not have AI-ready data
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