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Dubliner Niall McLaughlin awarded Royal Gold Medal for architecture
Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for exclusive competitions, offers and theatre ticket deals I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Irish architect Niall McLaughlin has been…
Architecture firms are already putting Trump's name on their Dulles airport concepts
In December 2025, the Department of Transportation (DOT) put out a call for design concepts for new terminals and concourses at Washington Dulles International Airport. The DOT claimed Dulles had fallen into disrepair and was “no longer an…
Round pegs, square holes: Why GPGPUs are an architectural mismatch for modern LLMs
The saying “round pegs do not fit square holes” persists because it captures a deep engineering reality: inefficiency most often arises not from flawed components, but from misalignment between a system's assumptions and the problem…
Framing Life Through Voids and Verandahs: The Architecture of pk_iNCEPTiON
Founded as a practice working across architecture and community-focused projects, pk_iNCEPTiON is based in Maharashtra, India. The studio, one of the winners of the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Awards, works on rural schools, houses, libraries…
Civic Architecture Opens to the City as Global Attention Turns to Africa: This Week's Review
This week's news compilation opens with two international commemorations, the International Day for Clean Energy and the International Day of Education, alongside a major archaeological discovery in Fano, Italy, where excavations have revealed a…
Níall McLaughlin Receives the 2026 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Irish architect, educator, and writer Níall McLaughlin will receive the 2026 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. Awarded on behalf of His Majesty the King, the Royal Gold…
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Bhavitha Mandava Studied Architecture in India. Then, Her Modeling Career Took Off in a Subway Station in N.Y.C. (Exclusive)
Bhavitha Mandava went viral in December after opening the Chanel Métiers d'art show in New York City, which took place inside a subway station Mandava was born and raised in India and moved to New York City to earn a Master's degree at New…
Dubliner Niall McLaughlin awarded Royal Gold Medal for architecture: 'I am delighted and honoured'
The Dubliner said he was delighted to receive the 2026 Royal Gold Medal for architecture – a high honour in the field that is bestowed on behalf of the King. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced on Thursday that Mr…
QXMP Labs Announces Activation of RWA Liquidity Architecture and $1.1 Trillion On-Chain Asset Registration
New York, United States, January 28th, 2026, Chainwire QXMP Labs announced that it has registered approximately USD $1.1 trillion of certified real-world, in-ground assets on its proprietary Layer-1 blockchain, QELT. The announcement follows the…
Why 1-second polling doesn't scale (and the architectures that do)
I've watched this pattern destroy startups repeatedly. A team builds a crypto portfolio tracker, polls prices every second. Works perfectly at 50 users. Then they hit 10,000 users. AWS bill jumps from $200 to $18,000 in one month. App slows to a…
When Serverless is MORE Expensive: 5 Architecture Patterns That Should Use ECS Instead
I watched our AWS bill jump from $2,400 to $8,900 in a single week. The culprit? A 'serverless' Lambda-based data pipeline that we'd been told would save us money. The irony hit hard: we'd spent months migrating away from containers specifically to…
I've just seen the future of British art
People deal with midwinter blues in different ways. Some hibernate in front of Netflix. Others seek sunnier climes. Me? At the risk of sounding eccentric, I like to visit New Contemporaries, the annual, open-submission exhibition showcasing…
Inside Volkswagen's Push To Build Software-Defined Cars In China
Volkswagen Group has reached an inflection point in its China strategy with the delivery of its China Electronic Architecture (CEA), a technology that underpins the company's transition to software-defined vehicles in the world's largest automotive…
Wayfair Lessons In Driving Millions Of Dollars In Savings With AI
Wayfair, an e-commerce powerhouse Wayfair is a leading e-commerce company specializing in furniture and home goods, connecting a global network of 20,000 suppliers with millions of customers. With over $10 billion in annual revenue, the company…
Top architects on the biggest challenges they'll face in 2026
For designers of the built environment, it's necessary to take a long view. Years or even decades can go into the design and construction of a single project, and the best built projects can stand for centuries. But the business of designing…
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