Daily edition — 13/08/2026
A battery becomes a square. Wall Street finances the buildings that support AI.
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Fifteen stories for understanding how energy, money, craft, technology and cities are changing architecture.
Architecture by the numbers13/08/2026
Wall Street no longer finances buildings alone: it finances the system that makes them necessary
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Learn architecture in 2 minutes13/08/2026
Everyone wants handmade buildings. Almost nobody wants to pay what they cost
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Unusual architecture
Open models now account for 6.1% of enterprise AI spending
Open-model platforms rose from 4.5% to 6.1% of business AI spending measured by Ramp. The share is small, but it makes closed providers compete on control and deployment too.
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Under construction
Mori House organises privacy with courtyards and thick walls
Aires Mateus and MA+Co organise a home as a sequence of courtyards, thicknesses and voids. The construction reveals how structure and route create privacy without conventional corridors.
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Competitions
San Francisco offers up to $150 million for an idea capable of changing the city
Boundless San Francisco will fund finalists before selecting one to three projects. Its first phase closes on 11 September and accepts applications from international organisations.
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Jobs and opportunities
OMA is hiring architects in New York and publishing the salary
The practice offers $83,000–105,000 for an architect/designer and up to $140,000 for senior profiles. Transparency supports comparison between responsibility, experience and the real cost of the city.
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Cities
Water Stories designs the Colombian landscape around water
AR–AR Martínez Arquitectura y Paisaje connects shelters, paths and vegetation with runoff and seasonal cycles. Water stops being scenery and becomes territorial structure.
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Design
Amass redesigns everyday objects without erasing how they were made
The studio works between folk craft and industrial production, turning joints, moulds and processes into visible parts of design.
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Architecture around the world
Taller General operates in Ecuador as a collective studio
The team links housing, research and construction through a collaborative structure that rebuilds itself around each project.
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Architecture you need to see
This apartment uses colour as if it were another wall
Gurgel Dalfonso Arquitectura organises Apartment Matisse through chromatic planes, furniture and light. A few images explain how a surface can change depth and route.
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Watch, listen and read
Eight projects show how to design spaces for young people
ArchDaily's selection crosses different contexts and avoids treating youth as a universal user. Education, housing, culture and public space translate common aspirations through local needs.
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This week
The MAK Center examines the future of the Sixth Street Viaduct
The MAK Center presents research on the Sixth Street Viaduct and what happens beneath its arches. The session takes place today, 13 August, at the Mackey Apartments.
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