Zaha Hadid Architects

The classical interpretation of Rome as a palimpsest of architectural layers—Baroque buildings atop Renaissance and medieval structures, themselves atop their Roman predecessors—includes a final layer of verticality: ceilings of painted trompe l'oeil arches, heavenly vaults, and celestial chambers populated with ascendant saints, martyrs, and putti. From the very beginning of her career, Zaha Hadid sited her buildings in the air, floating buildings on shadow, light, and seams of space that lifted volumes above the ground, relating her work to another tradition—Rome's. Hadid, and the city's architects of the Renaissance and Baroque that preceded her, aspired to the air, the skies, and the heavens.

Mackay + Partners

Comporta is the New Hamptons. Developing a new type of Eco Resort, Luxury beach living that focuses on the land, its local materials, and the community, using innovative processes and materials to bring a sustainable lifestyle community to life. 

Mackay + Partners

The island's natural wealth lies beneath the surface. Their response is to submerge the research hub in the bay and discover more about the richness of the seas, whilst the new works above ground blend into the landscape. This will give the prison structure a new life, support the researchers, and atone for its past. The underwater research hub will focus on defining and testing the current Impact of Global climate change on the island and the surrounding seas. The sea, through desalination, will provide a freshwater source for the Eco Community of researchers and staff. 

 ARX

It is the only hospital aimed exclusively at children neuropathologies in Italy. Its design responds therefore to a unique challenge, and it is innovative in both architectural configuration and advanced technologies contents. The building embraces the surrounding nature through the unconventional star shape and thanks to its transparent facade that interacts positively with the solar radiation through a spiral brise-soleil. The plan configuration also allows the introduction of internal green spaces and passive devices highly energy efficient, consistent with the environmental sustainability. The building can become a model able to inform policies and a continuous source of data in the field of autism, open to scientific and public communities. The issue of neuro pathologies, related to the growth age, transcend national boundaries, and it is therefore an opportunity to share a common vision and research pathways, internationally.

2Portzamparc

The design of the museums at Shenzhen Antuo Hill is based on its own history, local values, urban context, and human needs. Through various targeted interventions in the surrounding environment, site A is integrated with nature, while site B is linked to the urban structure. Integrating the green core into the city brings refreshing air and helps cool the city to reduce the urban heat island effect, air pollution, and public health problems. All together to create a comprehensive ecological and cultural artistic network.

2Portzamparc

The Suzhou Cultural Center is part of a series of flagship projects undertaken by the city through the Wujiang Lakefront Masterplan. As the flagship of this brand-new district, the city is developing an exceptional site of over 100,000 square meters located at the intersection of China's third-largest lake and the main urban axis of the new city. The initial intention of the project was to unite two facilities (the opera house and the museum and conference complex) in a sweeping north-south movement. This conception of duality as complementary draws on the Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang, symbolized here in a movement that continues the explorations of projects undertaken for Nara (Japan International Convention Center), Luanda (Uganda Cultural Center), and Nanjing (Jiangsu Grand Theatre – China).

 Irving Smith Architects

The Scion Innovation Hub achieves embodied carbon zero at completion and is on track to meet the RIBA 2030 target. It uses engineered products made from sustainably sourced pine and incorporates thoughtful consideration of operational performance. Te Whare Nui o Tuteata invites researchers, the timber industry, and the broader community to engage with timber research and innovation. The building serves as a working prototype for future development and marks a milestone in New Zealand’s path toward carbon zero by 2050.

 Irving Smith Architects

Three small buildings and the spaces between provide a second home for a young family within a forest clearing overlooking Golden Bay. Two buildings are inhabited: the larger for the family, the smaller for friends or the kids, with peripheral decks to connect to the clearing and fly roofing to protect from the eucalypt trees and collect rainwater. The third building provides independent amenities to the external spaces which are controlled in volume by the placement of buildings within and to the edge of the clearing, allowing camping, friends, frisbee… Materials are chosen for their blending to the surrounding bush and dappled forest light.

Archi+

Winnow reflects on the quiet power of constraint. Within a 3.3m-wide site, light, air, and section shape a layered domestic landscape—where limitation becomes clarity, and a compact home unfolds as a calm, climate-responsive and intentional way of living.

AP Valletta

AP is working on the rehabilitation and extension of the most important museum on the island, hosting Caravaggio paintings among other prestigious artifacts. Besides restoring and reusing the neglected and under-utilised historical spaces annexed to the Cathedral, the team designed an extension like a monumental reliquary to house a very precious set of tapestries. The presentation will focus on the recently completed stone-clad facade of this Museum extension and its relationship with the complex historical urban context in which it sits, and the spirit of the collection which it will host.

Valentino Architects

The VIP Terminal at the Malta International Airport offers an alternative to the main terminal experience - one that is composed, efficient, and intentional - reflecting the building’s operational purpose. With full concierge service, the terminal allows travellers to bypass standard airport procedures in favour of a quieter, more personal journey.

Javier Villar Architectural Designers | JVAD

This shop tries to create an appropriate context where the outdoor goods on sale can be understood and explained by staff demonstrations and workshops. The space is divided into a “landscape area” conceived as real nature, provoking a feeling of being outdoor; and a “display area” expressed as architecture bringing a feeling of being indoors and from where we can enjoy observing the landscape. Visitors are invited to walk around both areas. This dichotomy is formalized through a strong diagonal line that, deliberately ignoring the geometry of the existing structure, clearly defines the border between these two areas, overwriting the limit between the inside and outside of the existing architecture itself. Due to this string separation, the green in this project is not a garden but rather a landscape.

C&K Architecture

Inspired by the geological morphology of the islands, the project fragments a singular block into three smaller blocks, creating a layered and permeable architectural expression. Defined by layers and terraces, the exchange between interiors and exteriors, light, vegetation, views and privacy, the development offers a contemporary and luxurious residential experience that contributes uniquely to Malta’s skyline.

Ajmi Mimita international

The building establishes a dialogue between Palestinian identity — rooted in Palestinian architectural and cultural heritage — and an architectural contemporaneity that expresses our era. This new building, which has become a strong landmark within the neighborhood through its sobriety and massiveness, extends over a 5,000 m² site. The main ceremonial entrance is accessed from the forecourt of honor facing Boulevard de la Terre. This administrative and diplomatic building rises over two partial stepped levels (partial ground floor + 2 stories, with a basement). A central volume crowned with a majestic arch marks the main entrance. The volumetric composition is sober and refined; openings are located only on the side façades in order to emphasize the solemn and official character of the project. As the ultimate welcoming space, the central hall is overlooked by a glass roof adorned with a mashrabiya inspired by the motif of the Palestinian keffiyeh. A strong contrast is expressed throughout the project between the exterior massiveness and opacity, and the abundance of interior light provided by the skylight. A true well of light, this key sequence of the project creates a powerful atmosphere through an interplay of shadows and light.