Every house has a story to tell. This issue revisits five houses that have new things to say, from a 1920s building in Beirut defying demolition to Gaudí’s Casa Batlló and its extensive commercial ecosystem. The new issue also presents the six winning and commended houses of the 2025 AR House awards, spotlighting projects spanning material experiments in rammed earth to adaptive reuse in suburban Beijing. Read the full editorial and issue contents
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Reading lists, awards and reviews
AR Emerging
It is often the experimental work of architects at the beginning of their careers that addresses the most pressing challenges facing the planet. The November issue revisits three such projects, recognised in historical editions of the AR Emerging awards, by Li Xiaodong, Barkow Leibinger and Ahadu Abaineh. This issue also features profiles of the 15 finalists of the 2025 AR Emerging awards, including architects who mine existing buildings for their materials, experiment with bio-based building systems such as rammed earth and cork, and breathe new life into neglected corners of the city. Read the full editorial
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Borders
The border is best understood, as Harsha Walia explains in the opening essay of the AR’s October issue, ‘as an elastic regime that multiplies and thickens across space and time’. It operates at multiple scales, defining certain citizens as ‘desirables’ and the rest of the world as ‘undesirables’. From disputed hospitals and conservation conflicts to razed neighbourhoods and refugee camps, partition transforms places and lives. Yet, as Christina Varvia reminds us, ‘our bodies do not have any borders. Our presence is planetary’. Read the full editorial
