Architecture Industry News
A collection of Architecture latest news, analysis and best practices from top business influencers and the world's most trustworthy sources.
Seven Finalists Announced for the 2026 EU Mies Awards for Contemporary European Architecture
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the seven finalist projects for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Awards, supported by the European Union's Creative…
What is context engineering? And why it's the new AI architecture
Context engineering is the practice of designing systems that determine what information an AI model sees before it generates a response to user input. It goes beyond formatting prompts or crafting instructions, instead shaping the entire…
Here's your chance to shape the London Festival of Architecture 2026
Receive our daily digest of inspiration, escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By…
First House: The Kite by Architecture Architecture
It's genuinely hard to say which of our projects claims the mantle of “first house.” Our practice began, as many do, with an array of smaller commissions: a single bathroom, a garden balustrade, carports; house-adjacent warm-up…
Why We Keep Blaming Prompts Instead of Architecture
A quiet pattern after Moltbook—the industry protects the surface layer so it doesn't have to rebuild the foundation. About a month ago, I wrote a piece on dev.to called Tech Horror Codex: Substrate Sovereignty. It was an experiment—a…
Designing TikTok: Short Video Platform Architecture
When ByteDance launched TikTok in 2016, few could have predicted it would become the fastest-growing social media platform in history. With over 1 billion active users consuming millions of short videos daily, TikTok's architecture represents one…
:strip_icc()/102828480_preview-1e3213f210b743068181bcf70d239132.jpg)
The 7 Cozy Bedroom Trends Designers Say Will Define 2026
Let 2026 be the year your bedroom gets some attention. Bedrooms are often static in their design because the furniture is expensive, and we don't spend as much time in our bedrooms (when we're awake) as we do in our other living spaces. A…
Maslow Saw Vibrant City Life as an Unrealized Goal
As America's most populous city ushers in the new mayorship of African-born Zohran Mamdani, the time seems opportune to highlight Abraham Maslow's own viewpoint on optimal urban life. He warmly recalled to a California business group, 'My father…
'We can learn from the old': how architects are returning to the earth to build homes for the future
From afar, the low-rise homestead perched in the Wiltshire countryside may look like any other rural outpost, but step closer and the texture of the walls reveal something distinct from the usual facade of cement, brick and steel. The Rammed Earth…
The future of apps is voice
Like it or not, there's no turning back: apps and operating systems will steadily gravitate toward voice-first interactions. But here's the thing: none of the points I'm about to make mean that you will be forced to talk to your devices against…
AI Impact: Is OpenClaw an iPhone moment-or just Gopher?
Is OpenClaw an iPhone Moment—or Just Gopher? I watched thousands of people discover this week that the future of AI isn't a product—it's a utility bill. The viral ascent of OpenClaw, plus spinoffs like the AI-only social network…
Systems' Hack and RAMSA's Palmer Memorial Institute Plan: This Week's Review
This week's architecture news brings together a series of announcements that reflect how the discipline is engaging with larger structural and institutional frameworks. The OBEL Foundation's introduction of Systems' Hack as the theme for its 2026…
Qualcomm, Arm bear brunt of memory shortage as smartphone chip sales disappoint
Feb 4 (Reuters) - Memory shortages will constrain sales of cell phones for some time, hurting demand for chip industry companies like supplier Qualcomm and chip architecture designer Arm Holdings, executives and analysts said on…
The Agentic Commerce Revolution
For 30 years, digital commerce has been a destination. We “go to” a website, a marketplace, or an app. In this single, bundled environment, we handle discovery, comparison, and checkout. The entire architecture of the web, from…
This gem of British modernism just hit the market
Receive our daily digest of inspiration, escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By…
Receive a Daily briefing on Architecture Industry News
Get Started