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22/06/2026

Fachwerk. Germany’s half-timbered building tradition. Most of the Fachwerk buildings of Marbach am Neckar were rebuilt after a devastating town fire in 1693. The wood stiffens over time, requires regular maintenance, and the beams do tend to sag.

Andrew Maynard Kevin Hüi

18/06/2026

The Gibson Art Museum, SFU Burnaby by Hariri Pontarini Architects with Iredale Architecture, 2025. Built in keeping with Arthur Erickson’s original 1963 campus vision, five galleries radiate from a central hearth beneath bleached glulam timber ceilings. The first museum SFU has built specifically for art.

Andrew Maynard Kevin Hüi

Gibson Art Museum @ hariripontariniarchitects Iredale Architecture

15/06/2026

UCCA Dune Art Museum in Beidaihe, China by OPEN Architecture, 2018. Buried beneath a sand dune on the Bohai Sea coast, 300 kilometres east of Beijing. Ten interconnected galleries carved into the sand, some lit from skylights above, others opening directly onto the beach.

Andrew Maynard Kevin Hüi OPEN

11/06/2026

Would these work in the West? An unmanned self-pour beer pavilion in the middle of Beijing’s busiest shopping street. No staff, no ID check, no bouncer. Just scan, pay, pour and drink on the street.

Andrew Maynard Kevin Hüi

08/06/2026

Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver by Arthur Erickson with landscape by Cornelia Oberlander, 1976. Concrete post and beam construction reinterpreting the longhouse architecture of the Northwest Coast First Nations. Thank you for taking us there.



04/06/2026

Hotel Siro, Tokyo by Mount Fuji Architects Studio, 2020. A hotel where every floor is connected by a different staircase, each cantilevering out from the facade in galvanised steel. No two flights are the same.



01/06/2026

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby by Arthur Erickson with Geoffrey Massey and landscape by Cornelia Oberlander, 1965. A brutalist campus perched on Burnaby Mountain, designed as a single interconnected megastructure. Concrete terraces, covered walkways and cascading levels replace the traditional campus quad.



28/05/2026

Christi Auferstehung Church, Cologne by Gottfried Böhm, 1970. A sculptural brutalist concrete church with a concrete and brick interior bathed in deep red light from full height stained glass windows.



25/05/2026

Look up at the canopy next time you’re at an older Japanese train station. The structures are often decommissioned railway rails.



21/05/2026

Luce Memorial Chapel, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan by I.M. Pei and Chi-kuan Chen, 1963. One of Pei’s earliest completed works. Four curved concrete shells rise from the floor and meet at a glazed apex, with no internal columns. The diamond coffering on the walls is the same surface as the roof.



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