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Global Snapshots

Major projects to watch, emerging opportunities to track, and innovative developments offering inspiration for architectural practice worldwide.

Foster + Partners joins €4m robotics project

The SWIFT-BUILD research programme will test AI-controlled robotic construction through a full-scale, multi-storey timber pavilion

Romania makes construction pay for architectural culture

An investment levy has created a permanent funding stream for publications, exhibitions, education and research, linking development directly to architecture’s public life

Marina Square gives the megacomplex a second life

PLP Architecture and DP Architects will transform the 1980s Singapore landmark through large-scale adaptive reuse, intensification and live-site construction

Berlin’s SEZ turns exhibition into preservation campaign

An exhibition on Berlin’s disputed leisure complex shows how architectural communication can become an active part of deciding what survives

Expo 2030 Riyadh builds a vast design supply chain

With 230-plus pavilions planned beneath a six-million-square-metre masterplan, Riyadh’s World Expo is emerging as a major international market for architects

Meghalaya embeds architects in its bamboo economy

A six-month government-backed residency puts 15 designers, architects and engineers inside local bamboo enterprises to develop products, buildings and new economic opportunities

Arada takes its Gulf development model global

The UAE developer is building a residential pipeline across Australia and London, combining international expansion with local acquisitions and increasingly integrated delivery.

La Colectiva: architects become developers, clients and residents

Eight households in Buenos Aires have created a cooperative building where collective ownership, shared space and controlled resale values challenge conventional assumptions about how housing is developed and commissioned