“Everyone Dreams in a Render”

Inside a $65M brutalist mansion, Travis Scott reflects on space, structure, and how architecture shapes experience

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Yagmur Baydır
January 23, 2026

Dear PA reader,

Inside a $65 million brutalist mansion, Travis Scott reflects on space, materiality, and why architecture, like music, is ultimately about shaping emotional experience. At the 2025 Hong Kong–Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale, Exporting Aesthetics uses fully automated AI workflows to generate speculative towers, reframing architectural authorship from drawing buildings to designing systems.

A rare basilica attributed to Vitruvius offers a direct architectural link to ancient Roman theory, revealing how classical principles continue to inform contemporary spatial thinking. MASK Architects introduces a solar-powered crown in Fiji, turning clean energy into a civic landmark. Sphere Entertainment Co. has unveiled plans for a second U.S. venue at National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., expanding the footprint of its iconic orb-shaped performance and experience spaces beyond Las Vegas.

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