Daily edition — 12/08/2026
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Architecture, cities, design, technology, opportunities and the business behind them.
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Competitions
Baltimore will pay for twelve ideas before choosing three gateways
Design Baltimore: Gateways distributes $450,000 and pays all twelve finalists. It sends an important message: competing is still work even when only three proposals are built.
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Jobs and opportunities
BIG Barcelona is looking for more than architects who design
Visualisation, delivery management, design assistants and technical roles appear together in its current openings. The list reveals what a large practice needs to turn an idea into a building.
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AI and technology
IBM is renting 2,000 chips so companies are not tied to one model
A $240 million agreement with Together AI creates inference capacity for open models. The promised advantage is not training the largest system, but changing models without rebuilding an entire application.
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Cities
Cali is turning 2.6 kilometres of urban edge into forest
The Integral Foothills Corridor connects neighbourhoods, water, planting and movement through 57,000 m² of public space. It does not hide the slope; it uses it as climate infrastructure.
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Design
Do Ho Suh sews houses that can travel inside a suitcase
His textile replicas reproduce switches, corridors, doors and stairs at full scale. Architecture loses its weight to reveal what remains of a home after someone leaves.
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Architecture around the world
Dhaka builds a public square where a dump once stood
Machan occupies only 332 m² inside Korail, a settlement of more than 80,000 people. Over sixty workshops with residents turned a small intervention into a stage, classroom and meeting place.
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An archive does not store paper: it maintains a climate for decades
Sweden’s new National Archives separates concrete repositories from public timber spaces. Its form follows an invisible requirement: preserve temperature, humidity, security and access without asking the same thing of the whole building.
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Architecture you need to see
This waste plant ends in a library overlooking the Pacific
KPF turns a recycling centre for the cement industry into a public route, garden, seed bank and viewpoint. The spiral does not hide the factory; it shows how industry crosses the landscape.
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Watch, listen and read
Wim Wenders filmed Zumthor in 3D so cinema could recover depth
From Inside Out runs for 114 minutes through the Swiss architect’s buildings, models and process. It tackles an old problem: how to show space without reducing it to a collection of façades.
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This week
This week, Bali gathers 25 models to separate biophilia from decoration
Jia Curated opens in Sanur from 13 to 17 August. Architecture in Scale asks nature, water and climate to form the project’s structure, rather than simply its image.
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