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‘It is a scene of everyday pageantry: precisely the kind that JA Projects seek to celebrate’ writes Jyotsni Bhattacharyya of the Queens Market in London, designed by JA Projects, shortlisted for the AR Emerging awards 2026. Read more about the practice:

‘HEMAA Architectes is driven by a conviction that architecture must be ecologically and socially conscious and deeply rooted in place,’ writes Jyotsni Bhattacharyya of the Paris-based practice, shortlisted for the AR Emerging awards 2026. Read the full profile:

All eight Manplan issues of @social.architectural-review.com are now digitised and available for subscribers. Possibly, really "the bravest moment in architectural publishing". And, btw, were they available as reprints I would definitely be up for it. www.architectural-review.com/archive/camp...

‘Beyond the framing of external scenery, he understands the image as a curation of a lifestyle intended for the house,’ writes Chisei Ye, of the Plywood House designed charly jolliet architectes, shortlisted for the AR Emerging awards 2026. Read more about the shortlisted practice:

‘Their scattered geography enables them to approach burdened histories with “a certain freshness”,’ Angus Taylor Wong writes of the Peter Davey Prize-winning practice, A-A Collective Read more about A-A Collective:

Highly commended at AR Emerging awards 2026, Rodríguez + De Mitri begin every project by asking how little architecture is enough. Read more about the highly commended practice here:

Winner of the AR Emerging awards 2026, Atelier Julien transforms existing built fabric by drawing new potential from conditions and materials already at hand. Read more about the winning practice here:

‘Architecture can be process and possibility rather than immutable object,’ writes Manon Mollard, of the raised settlements designed by Kashef Chowdhury in Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Chowdhury won the AR Emerging awards in 2012. Read the full building study in the Emerging issue:

For Karoline Leavitt, prison, police and private property are the ideals that founded the US. Despite they are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it’s hard to claim that she not, in fact, right. Anjulie Rio in @social.architectural-review.com www.architectural-review.com/essays/outra...

The winners of the AR Emerging awards, announced on Thursday, will be presented with a trophy made of 90 per cent construction waste, designed by Kenoteq Join the AR at the Architectural Association in London to meet the shortlistees. Tickets are free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ar-emergin...

‘Half building, half landscape, it occupies the middle of the site: more part of the ground than pointing to the heavens,’ writes Maik Novotny of the rammed earth forum in Traunstein, Germany, designed by Anna Heringer. Read the full building study in the October issue:

‘Brendeland & Kristoffersen proved that a low‑cost, high‑density method for building housing is possible,’ writes Feliks Ulvåen Isaksen, revisiting Nyhuset by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Arkitekter who were shortlisted for AR Emerging in 2005. Read the full revisit in the Emerging issue:

Lifting the lid on the United States issue on 10 October. Join us at Citygroup in New York City where the editors will lift the lid on how the issue was made before turning New York’s architecture critics on the criticism. Spaces are limited – RSVP here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-archit...

‘For decades across the United States, flood‑prone homes have been bought up and demolished,’ writes Noah Gotlib in the closing essay of the US issue, on the communities retreating from flooded lands across the country. Read the full essay in the US issues:

‘The project has transformed the site from the epicentre of ruin to a destination of respite,’ Page Comeaux on the Bastion wellness centre and housing in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States by OJT. Read the full AR exclusive with more unseen images in the United States issue:

AR Reading list 092: who built the ‘American dream’? www.architectural-review.com/archive/read... Curated from the AR archive, these seven free-to-read essays question who has been free to make a home in the US, and what courage it took for those who were not. Register today and read for free:

‘Softwood framing was a kind of democratisation of architecture,’ writes Paul Preissner of the building method now ubiquitous in the US Read the full essay in the US issue:

‘Like Los Angeles, it is sprawling and polycentric, informal but cosmopolitan, with a genuine openness to discovery,’ writes Christopher Hawthorne on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California, by Atelier Peter Zumthor. Read the full building study in the September issue:

‘This is a moment of ethical reckoning for a field that has long partnered with law enforcement and the carceral system to design prisons and spaces of detention,’ writes Anjulie Rao in this issue’s Outrage. Read the full essay in the United States issue:

‘Access to Puerto Rico’s beaches has become increasingly restricted, altering the way people experience a place that has long been central to the island’s identity,’ writes Coral Murphy Marcos on the accelerating privatisation of the archipelago’s most fundamental public space. Read the full essay:

‘Public works are less solutions than receptacles for possibility: frameworks whose meaning and usefulness are continually shaped by the people who inhabit them,’ writes Ana Karina Zatarain on the Emma S Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin, Texas. Read the full building study:

‘Her role as an art teacher and architect enabled her to actively promote the possibilities for better living for African Americans,’ writes Jacqueline Taylor in this issue’s Reputations piece on Amaza lee Meredith. Read more about Amaza Lee Meredith’s life and work:

First in, last out. I’ve been writing about the @obamafoundation.bsky.social Presidential Center for almost a decade, and my @social.architectural-review.com is the last to join the critical pile-on taking aim at a building that perfectly represents the ego and cynicism of the 44th president.

‘The campus is a reflection of Obama’s presidency: possessed by the urge to retreat into aphorisms of hope and change,’ writes Zach Mortice on the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Read the full building study featuring exclusive images:

‘The dichotomies between manmade and natural, horizontal and vertical, inside and outside that make Fallingwater unique are preserved,’ writes Catherine W Zipf in a Revisit of Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright in Pennsylvania. Read the full Revisit in the United States issue:

In the United States issue Keynote, Daniel Jonas Roche explores how the transformation of the White House and its surroundings in Washington DC is a mirror to the desperate death throes of the United States’ 250‑year‑old imperial project. Read the full Keynote in the United States issue:

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