This Pavilion Works Like Giant Venetian Blinds That Anyone Can Adjust
Every garage door opener sitting in a car visor does one boring job: raising and lowering a single panel between a car and the weather….
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A Backyard Greenhouse That Moonlights as an Outdoor Living Room
Most backyard greenhouses ask you to choose a side. Either you’re hunched over seedlings in a cramped glass box, or you’re lounging on a deck…
16 Modules, 1 Plaza, and a Student Project That Earned Its Spot
It doesn’t happen often that a temporary structure actually stops you mid-step. Paso Nara, a curved plywood pavilion now sitting at the intersection of Avenida…
Swan-shaped Pavilion Turns A Forest Retreat Into Biophilic Beauty
Pavilions are often designed as architectural statements, structures intended to stand apart from their surroundings and immediately capture attention. The Swan Pavilion proposes a different…
Vipp’s New Catskills Pavilion Is a Sculpture You Can Sleep In
Not every building earns the word “sculptural” without some heavy editorial lifting, but the Vipp Pavilion in Upstate New York is the rare case where…
Beijing Just Built a Library That Opens and Closes Like a Shell
Most public spaces do one thing: they sit there. They look the same in the morning as they do at noon, and they expect you…
These 4 Solar Pavilions Prove That Public Cooling Can Be Free
Heat is one of the most underestimated side effects of climate change, particularly in cities where built-up surfaces trap warmth long after the sun has…
Michael Jantzen’s Garden Retreat Has 30 Panels to Rearrange by Hand
Most garden structures ask one thing of you: sit still and enjoy the shade. A pergola is a pergola, a gazebo is a gazebo, and…
Lie Under This Solar Roof and Watch the Sun Move in Real-Time
Most solar infrastructure is treated as background hardware, panels on roofs or fields that quietly feed the grid while public life happens somewhere else. That…
This Solar Pavilion Powers the Grid and Charges Phones from Its Seats
The typical park pavilion or bus-stop canopy offers shade but little else. A roof on posts that sits in the sun all day, casting shadows,…
Observation Pavilion Sends a Camera Up While You Stay on the Ground
Climbing an observation tower involves a lot of steel and concrete just to stand a few dozen meters higher and take in a view. The…
192 Sliding Blocks Let Anyone Sculpt This Pavilion Into New Shapes
Most architecture, even the wildest parametric forms, is fixed the day it opens and stays that way until it is renovated or demolished. Michael Jantzen…