‘The building is an Albert Kahn hangar wrapped in the skin of a Romanesque church,’ writes Michael Snyder on the tequila factory in Jalisco, Mexico, designed by Estudio Macías Peredo and Atelier ARS. Read the full building study in the Industry issue:

Industrial spirit: tequila factory in Jalisco, Mexico by Estudio Macías Peredo and Atelier ARS

In Jalisco, Atelier ARS and Estudio Macías Peredo root tequila production in the landscape

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Welcome to the AR’s Substack!

Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires.

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‘Extractivism is a continuum that spans from slavery and colonialism to fossil fuel exploitation,’ writes Imani Jacqueline Brown in this issue’s Outrage. Read the full essay in the July/August issue:

Outrage: continuum of extractivism in Cancer Alley

Building petrochemical facilities on former plantation sites exemplifies extractivism’s continuum

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Pick up your copy of the Industry issue 🏭 currently on newsstands and available to order from the AR online shop, and pictured here in Café Vins in Soho, London! In the comments below, pick up your copy from the AR’s online store. shop.architectural-review.com/products/ind...

‘Psychological considerations influenced the choice of site and the orientation of every part of the building,’ writes Philip Morton Shand in a piece from AR September 1933. The sanatorium is part of the Aalto Works, now inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Read the full building study:

Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Paimio, Finland by Alvar Aalto

Philip Morton Shand doubted Paimio Sanatorium would be ‘the most revolutionary hospital building erected within the last decade’; almost a century later, it remains unrivalled

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‘Thread’s interventions might be read as part of a broader project to reframe the narrative surrounding this post‑industrial landscape,’ writes @laxmiandrews.bsky.social , on the adaptation and restoration Boston Lodge Works in Gwynedd, UK. Read the full building study in the Industry issue:

Back on track: Boston Lodge Works in Gwynedd, UK by Thread

Following the listing of North Wales’ slate landscapes, the Boston Lodge Works rail engineering site has been adapted by Thread to welcome visitors

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Zhemchug, revisited by Oliver Wainwright in the AR’s Universal housing issue, has been inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, alongside nine other modernist buildings and urban complexes in Tashkent. Read the revisit, free for registered users: www.architectural-review.com/essays/revis...

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’This bold vertical neighbourhood was the heady 1970s vision of Ofeliia Aidinova, one of the few female architects to rise to prominence in Soviet Uzbekistan,’ writes @ollywainwright.bsky.social in his revisit of Zhemchung in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. www.architectural-review.com/essays/revis...

‘Factories became more than utilitarian structures: they were sites where workers enacted revolutionary beliefs,’ writes Shirley Surya on the history of China’s Third Front Construction. Read the full essay in the Industry issue:

How to hide a factory

Built under the threat of war, China’s Third Front Construction recast the country’s mountainous interior as a landscape of industrial production

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Swimming Pool, Wembley, by Sir Owen Williams, from The Architectural Review, 1936.

‘The decline of Milan’s industrial economy triggered a broader decline in culture, architecture and urban development,’ writes Mariana Siracusa in a city portrait, on the influence of financial capital on the decline of industry in Milan. Read the full piece in the Industry issue:

From Pirelli to property in Bicocca

The uneven urban legacy of Pirelli’s old industrial district speaks of Milan’s shift towards financial capitalism

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Some art, design, and architecture magazines care about their art direction, and it shows.

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To mark 130 years of The Architectural Review, Margaret Howell has personally selected five magazine covers from the archive, available to purchase as limited-edition prints. shop.architectural-review.com/collections/...

Editorial in @social.architectural-review.com - “increasingly, public space is a backdrop for what is happening online“ - very relevant to the fascistic discourse and violence we are seeing in the public realm, fomented and then recycled online www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...

AR June 2026: AR Public

This issue celebrates public spaces around the world recognised in the third edition of the AR Public awards.

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"People may be physically present in public space, but they have retreated to the digital." "The online world is pressing up against the public realm. The spaces of the city are increasingly sites for digital content." Write @social.architectural-review.com editors in the June issue.

Paris, partial demolition, renovation, and conversion of a car park into a social housing complex with 80 units. 👇👀 (ph. by NZI architectes) www.nzi.fr/transformati...

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‘The building looks safe and solid, yet most inhabitants are on waiting lists for a permanent social home, ’writes Manon Mollard on the transformation of a multi-storey car part into affordable short-term housing designed by NZI Architectes in Paris, France Read the full building study:

The Architectural Review, Special Number - Plants Indoors, May 1952. Designed by Frederick Henri Kay Henrion with inner drawings by Gordon Cullen. designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #fhkhenrion #britishdesign #henrion

Morning all. Photographer Tim Street-Porter. “Workers' housing and industrial cooling towers, Teesside," Part of a series published in The Architectural Review September 1969.

‘A perfect setting for a sport whose governing bodies have stopped trying to cover up the fact that they are primarily running an extremely lucrative business,’ writes Marianela D’Aprile in an Outrage, on how this year’s World Cup mirrors American suburbanism. Read the full Outrage here:

Outrage: the American suburbanisation of football

This year’s World Cup is a grim mirror to the financialised infrastructure and commercial soullessness that haunts American suburbanism

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‘The result resembles a stacking and linking of Le Corbusier’s Dom‑Ino system, but with more variation, playfulness and complexity,’ writes Christophe Van Gerrewey on Manufakture in Brussels, Belgium by BAUKUNST. Read the full building study in the Industry issue:

The belly of Brussels: Manufakture in Brussels, Belgium by Baukunst

A new building by Baukunst on Anderlecht’s slaughterhouse site contributes to the vision of Brussels as a productive city

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AR Reading list 090: football Curated from the AR archive, these five free-to-read stories ask what football leaves behind once the final whistle blows – and what architecture can reveal about one of the world’s most powerful cultural forces

Reading list 090: football

These five free-to-read stories look beyond the spectacle to examine football’s wider architectural world

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‘Together, the three practices triangulate in a formidable, climate justice pincer movement,’ writes Eleanor Beaumont of Tipping Point East in London, by Material Cultures, RESOLVE Collective and Yes Make. Read the full AR exclusive with more unseen images in the Industry issue:

No waste land: Tipping Point East in London, UK by Material Cultures, Resolve Collective and Yes Make

At Tipping Point East in London, Material Cultures, Resolve and Yes Make have created a centre for material reuse under the spectre of rampant redevelopment

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🏭 The Industry issue is here! As the shape of industry changes in cities and landscapes, Dieter Rams insists: ‘We must engage ourselves with less, but more useful, more environmentally friendly and more fascinating things.’ Read the full editorial: www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...

‘All the buildings, including the factories, are built of timber: timber insulation, timber clad, on oak piles,’ writes Steve Webb in the Industry issue keynote, imagining what the building industry might look like in a post-carbon world, in 2126. Read the full Keynote in the Industry issue:

Factories of the future

The building industry in a post-carbon world is slower, less wasteful and in the service of the public good

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‘The early utopian, neo‑anarchist vision of a democratic, unmediated internet is very dead,’ writes Zach Mortice in the AR Public issue keynote. Read the full essay in the AR Public issue: www.architectural-review.com/essays/unsoc...

‘Plečnik’s Ljubljana has become a selling point that the city hopes will become a central European parallel to Gaudí’s Barcelona,’ writes Miloš Kosec in a revisit of the Ljubljanica riverbanks in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Read the full revisit in the AR Public issue:

Revisit: Ljubljanica riverbanks in Ljubljana, Slovenia by Jože Plečnik

Jože Plečnik’s interventions in Slovenia’s capital resist commodification despite the swelling pressures of tourism

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Reading list 089: power struggles in US architecture This Fourth of July marks the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. In this reading list, the AR turns its attention to eight stories that investigate the complex power struggles and inherited imperialism in the US

Reading list 089: power struggles in US architecture

Eight free-to-read stories that explore power struggles in US architecture

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Subscribe before 23:59 BST on Sunday 5 July to receive the AR Industry issue. This month’s issue explores industrial production at a moment of transformation as cities address post-industrial legacies and landscapes negotiate architectures of AI. subscribe.architectural-review.com/SUBS4SUN/

‘Black Star Square is a reminder of a vision of public space in the face of Accra’s current sore lack of public parks,’ writes Lloyd G Adu Amoah, in a revisit of the monument in Accra, Ghana. Read the full revisit in the June issue:

Revisit: Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana by Victor Adegbite

The recently renovated square celebrating Ghana’s independence is a rare example of public space sorely lacking in Accra

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‘That the Kowloon City social condenser is still publicly owned confounds the market priorities of Hong Kong,’ writes Ying Zhou, revisiting the Kowloon Municipal Services Building in Hong Kong, now facing the threat of demolition in the region’s overheated real-estate market. Read the full revisit

Revisit: Kowloon City Municipal Services Building in Hong Kong by Palmer and Turner

The Kowloon City Municipal Services Building in Hong Kong is under threat in overheated real‑estate market

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‘Aidia Studio proposed an expanded facility that can be used more frequently and flexibly than just for the once-a-year feria,’ writes Suleman Anaya of Parque Quintana Roo in Chetumal, Mexico by Aidia Studio, shortlisted in the AR Public awards 2026. Read the full building study online:

Parque Quintana Roo in Chetumal, Mexico by Aidia Studio

Aidia Studio’s ambitious festival grounds outside Chetumal remain in search of public life

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