AR October 2025: Borders

Bodily flows, food and waste transgress borders daily, undermining the very idea of citizenship writes Christina Varvia

A cluttered tourist trap facing fresh waves of development, the former border crossing between East and West Berlin sits uneasily between disneyfication and memorialisation, w...

A campus in northern Rwanda, designed by MASS Design Group to facilitate research into the local endangered gorilla population, promotes conservation efforts thwarted by cross...

Sadar + Vuga’s renovation of Nova Gorica train station, on the boundary between Italy and Slovenia, connects the two countries in a historic spatial reconciliation

Amid the region’s fast-changing geopolitical condition, architects grapple with questions of common infrastructure, energy and defence

Randa Maroufi’s film Bab Sebta exposes the spatial and embodied interventions that construct border regimes in Spain’s exclave in Morocco

On the 40th anniversary of the Schengen Area, a new book argues that the EU more closely resembles colonial Europe than a borderless utopia

In the turbulent borderlands between Thailand and Myanmar, a new school building for displaced children hopes to instil a sense of rootedness

A hospital designed by Architectural Pioneering Consultants in Burtinle, on the disputed border between Somalia and Ethiopia, overcame multiple obstacles to serve both locals ...

In arguing that freedom arises from the possibility of action in the public realm, the philosopher and political thinker advocated the construction of a pluralistic world

Working across both sides of the Mexico–US border, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman is providing dignified neighbourhoods for migrants to live in

Recent demolition of Muslim homes in Indian cities entrenches the borders of  partition

Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman | Architecture Pioneering Consultants | Simple Architecture | Hannah Arendt | ABCD Collaborative | Insitu Project | Vide Terra | Sadar + Vuga...