For today’s edition, we’ve got a bundle of interesting articles, insights, and trends just for you. Let’s take a look:

• Liu Jiakun has been announced as the laureate of the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor in the architecture field.

• Can AI truly dream? Can you dream better than AI explores the creative potential of AI and how it’s challenging our traditional ideas of imagination and design.

• Olson Kundig’s 10 unique projects showcase how their designs blend innovative architecture with nature, creating spaces that feel deeply connected to their surroundings.

• The Anne Frank Museum renovation offers a powerful example of how thoughtful renovations can honor history while enhancing the visitor experience.

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2025 Pritzker Prize Winner Liu Jiakun, a Chinese Architect Who Combines Utopia with Function

Liu Jiakun, a renowned architect based in Chengdu, China, was recently awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, widely regarded as the highest honor in the field.

Can You Dream Better Than AI?

This new era of Artificial Intelligence in Architecture breaks free from every notion of conservative constraints and opens wild, dreamy doors to unchartered territories.

10 Unique Projects by Olson Kunding

Olson Kunding Architects was founded in Seattle by Jim Olson in the 1960s. The architecture firm, established on simple principles, emphasized that buildings should act as bridges between nature, culture, and people, with designs aimed at positively influencing human life.

Anne Frank Museum Renovation, Respect To the Former Space: Part 1 & 2

The Anne Frank Museum has undergone two renovations in its history. This article explores the similarities in design decisions.

Rietveld Schröder House – A Biography of the House

The international release of Rietveld Schröder House – A Biography of the House sheds fresh light on the famed Utrecht house and its visionary creators. This monumental, 896-page volume beautifully illustrates publication challenges and long-held beliefs by revealing that Truus Schröder’s influence was far more profound than previously recognized.

10 Stunning 3D Printed Chairs Elevating Modern Design

These 3D printed chairs—born from the precision of machines and the vision of designers—shatter the limits of traditional craftsmanship, emerging as sculptural marvels that blend sustainability with striking innovation.

10 Modernist, Minimalist, and Futuristic Cafes

Coffee is not just a drink; it is an opportunity for people to reconnect in a space. For this reason, cafes nowadays compete with their architectural designs that define their brand identity and the meaning behind it.

The World’s Longest Horizontal Skyscraper: The Crystal

The Crystal, located in Chongqing, China, is called the world’s longest “horizontal skyscraper.” It stretches 300 meters across the tops of four skyscrapers at the Raffles City complex.