‘Half building, half landscape, it occupies the middle of the site: more part of the ground than pointing to the heavens,’ writes Maik Novotny of the rammed earth forum in Traunstein, Germany, designed by Anna Heringer. Read the full building study in the October issue:

‘Brendeland & Kristoffersen proved that a low‑cost, high‑density method for building housing is possible,’ writes Feliks Ulvåen Isaksen, revisiting Nyhuset by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Arkitekter who were shortlisted for AR Emerging in 2005. Read the full revisit in the Emerging issue:

The October issue revisits radical housing project by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Arkitekter, and new and ongoing work by Studio Anna Heringer and Kashef Chowdhury, with writing by Manon Mollard, Maik Novotny and Feliks Ulvåen Isaksen.

📣 The AR Emerging issue is here, celebrating the 10 practices shortlisted for the AR Emerging awards 2026 🎉 The work of the latest cohort to join the Emerging alumni includes experiments in rammed earth, rural projects learning from local building types and urgently needed third places.

‘For decades across the United States, flood‑prone homes have been bought up and demolished,’ writes Noah Gotlib in the closing essay of the US issue, on the communities retreating from flooded lands across the country. Read the full essay in the US issues:

‘The project has transformed the site from the epicentre of ruin to a destination of respite,’ Page Comeaux on the Bastion wellness centre and housing in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States by OJT. Read the full AR exclusive with more unseen images in the United States issue:

‘Softwood framing was a kind of democratisation of architecture,’ writes Paul Preissner of the building method now ubiquitous in the US Read the full essay in the US issue:

‘Like Los Angeles, it is sprawling and polycentric, informal but cosmopolitan, with a genuine openness to discovery,’ writes Christopher Hawthorne on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California, by Atelier Peter Zumthor. Read the full building study in the September issue:

‘This is a moment of ethical reckoning for a field that has long partnered with law enforcement and the carceral system to design prisons and spaces of detention,’ writes Anjulie Rao in this issue’s Outrage. Read the full essay in the United States issue:

Subscribe before Sunday to receive the AR Emerging issue. The October issue revisits the work of finalists recognised in historical editions of the AR emerging awards. It also includes the work of 10 early career architecture practices from around the world.

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‘The successful completion of such a beautiful space demonstrates the value of rooting an architectural commission in process rather than product,’ writes Emily Conklin on the Tekαkαpimək Contact Station in Maine, designed by Saunders Architecture and Reed Hilderbrand Read the full building study:

‘Access to Puerto Rico’s beaches has become increasingly restricted, altering the way people experience a place that has long been central to the island’s identity,’ writes Coral Murphy Marcos on the accelerating privatisation of the archipelago’s most fundamental public space. Read the full essay:

‘Public works are less solutions than receptacles for possibility: frameworks whose meaning and usefulness are continually shaped by the people who inhabit them,’ writes Ana Karina Zatarain on the Emma S Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin, Texas. Read the full building study:

‘Her role as an art teacher and architect enabled her to actively promote the possibilities for better living for African Americans,’ writes Jacqueline Taylor in this issue’s Reputations piece on Amaza lee Meredith. Read more about Amaza Lee Meredith’s life and work: