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On a meadow just outside the village of Nuglar-St.

Between 1983 and 1985, Martin Parr took a medium format camera and a flash to New Brighton on the Merseyside coast and made The Last Resort, among his earliest work in colour.

In the grounds of a 19th-century mansion in Ghent, where trees screen a main road, BLAF Architecten builds GjG House from reclaimed brick, its plan bending to miss every trunk.

From a house in Kentfield, California to a bookshop in Odessa, Alec Soth made I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating, a book of portraits taken in the rooms where the sitters live, published by MACK.

On the granite shore at Leça da Palmeira, north of Porto, Álvaro Siza set Casa de Chá da Boa Nova low between the rocks, its tiled roof barely clearing the stone.

At the foot of a vineyard beside the River Havel in Werder, Germany, undjurekbrüggen builds HAIN, a pair of agricultural volumes caged in fieldstones salvaged from a road that no longer exists.

In Parada do Monte, in the interior of Minho in northern Portugal, Nuno Brandão Costa buries most of A House in Ruins below ground so the stone shell that once held a family of eleven keeps the skyline.

In a curved 1970s block in the Athens suburb of Kifisia, Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects removes every internal partition, leaving joinery rather than walls to decide where one part of the home ends.

In a tightly built residential quarter of Kyoto, Alphaville Architects builds 24mm Plywood House, a two-storey home for one household divided by a single folded sheet of structural plywood.

In the Salle Poma at Kunsthaus Biel / Centre d'art Bienne, Mimosa Echard rebuilds the white cube as a conceptual cave for Dolls' Theater, where Times Square screens meet prehistoric handprints.

Out on the far reaches of Cape Cod, in Truro and Provincetown, Aperture republishes Joel Meyerowitz's preface to Cape Light, the book that came out of two summers and an 8-by-10-inch view camera.

On the Pacific coast of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Aranza De Ariño builds Casa Viento as three board-formed concrete volumes that choreograph wind, shade and light rather than enclosing space.

Tomoaki Uno Architects has completed the Yomogidai House, a wooden dwelling located in a quite residential area about 20 minutes east of the city of Nagoya in Japan.

On a corner plot in Nagoya, Tomoaki Uno Architects builds Shironishi Office as a box of bare steel left to rust, part workplace, part hobby room, part indoor ball court for the client's three children.

In Helsinki, Didi NG Wing Yin builds In Between Wood and Fire from 10 x 10 cm construction lumber, splitting, carving and charring ordinary building timber into five pieces that keep every crack.

In Melbourne, Office MIJI arranges A Courtyard House as four quadrants on a loose nine-square grid, each tuned to its own light and climate and gathered around a central kitchen that opens straight onto the garden.

Sent for twenty days to the sub-tropical prefecture of Miyazaki, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, Mark Power came back with MIYAZAKI, a colour study of leisure laid over heavily engineered ground.

In the wooded park of the Serralves Foundation in Porto, Álvaro Siza has extended the museum he completed in 1999 with the three-storey Álvaro Siza Wing, an angular white volume slotted between the trees.

On Largo de São Domingos in Porto, inside a 16th-century building, Álvaro Siza has made a tiled mural of musicians for Cozinha das Flores, the restaurant Space Copenhagen wrapped in coppery plaster and dark wood.

Along the route Abraham Lincoln's funeral train took from Washington DC to Springfield, Illinois in 1865, Alec Soth made A Pound of Pictures, a road trip through American image-making published by MACK.

At the end of the south jetty of the port of Leixões, out in the Atlantic off Matosinhos, Luís Pedro Silva Arquitecto has coiled a white tiled cruise terminal around a sea sciences research centre.

At Galerie Molitor in Berlin, Apophenia brings Laura Langer, Lisa Jo, Marina Xenofontos and Niloufar Emamifar into a raw concrete building that keeps rewarding the urge to connect unrelated things.

In Haikou, the coastal capital of Hainan Island, One Plus Partnership lines the lobby of this cinema in red brick, bending it into waves that rise from the floor and hang overhead.

South of Guadalajara, on a plot squeezed between party walls, V Taller strips out the partitions of an existing house and rebuilds Casa Azaleas as a stack of connected voids that plants now climb through.

On a travertine plateau at the edge of Porto’s Rotunda da Boavista, OMA set Casa da Música, a faceted white concrete block whose two shoebox halls were carved out of its solid mass.

On a terraced hillside on the Greek island of Tinos, Kelly Spanou strips a 115 square metre keli back to stone and concrete, then sets a monolith of kitchen and dining at its centre.

In Athens, OFAA folds 5 mm sheet into 010 Aluminium Lounge Chair, a seat whose structure and surface are the same continuous plane, held up by geometry rather than joinery.

The concrete volume is part of a house extension designed by Fala Atelier that is situated in a lush garden in Porto.

Fala Atelier’s latest project, titled 'Fireworks in White', was captured by photographer Willem Pab in a photo series, where this daring architectural expression, located in Porto, embodies the studio’s signature minimalist and geometric style.

In the heart of Porto, a structure once relegated to the realms of office and warehouse utility has undergone a metamorphosis under the discerning eye of Fala Atelier, emerging as a residential enigma titled 'the house with many faces.'

Nuxui by Nic Hamilton is a generative series which examines the passage of time—from simple 3D fragments to abandoned infrastructures.

Lina Scheynius's photography stands out for its intimate and diaristic approach, focusing on themes of personal experiences, nature, and human intimacy.

In Esplugues de Llobregat on the edge of Barcelona, sculptor Xavier Corberó spent decades pouring the arched concrete labyrinth of his house and studio, a single work he never finished.

Sandstone brick and board-marked concrete meet a flame zone bushfire rating in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where Bokey Grant grounds a house on rock and reaches it by a single bridge.

Among the grey tiled roofs of a Suzhou farming village, a matte-black gabled volume rises beside a retained white house, its bookshelves rising two storeys to conceal four guest rooms above the reading floor.

Above Thornton in Victoria's Cathedral Ranges country, JAK Architecture builds a fire-prone retreat in board-formed concrete and timber, its concrete end wall cut by a single circular window.

In Lisbon's Marvila district, once the city's industrial engine and now its creative quarter, extrastudio transforms and extends a modest 1893 house into the first of the homes it calls casas poveras.

Four generations of one family have gathered above a secluded Donegal beach, and Pasparakis Friel gives their memories a form clad in roughcast render and grass-green frames.

On a rise at the edge of Berau, with the Southern Black Forest opening out below, Klaus Keller Andy Keller Kathrin Keller Architekten gut a historic barn and split it vertically into two houses around a planted atrium.

Along the Dnipro, the river that runs through the middle of Ukraine, Eugenia Skvarska and Kalpesh Lathigra made Unofficial Dnipro, a record of two summer road trips from Kyiv to Zaporizhzhia.

In the village of Les Ponts-de-Martel, in the canton of Neuchatel, Frundgallina converts a shuttered 18th-century inn into the Maison de la Tourbiere, an interpretation centre for the surrounding peat bogs.

After the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in Tohoku, Rinko Kawauchi photographed around the disaster rather than at it, and the material world came back without its human arrangement.

In Nantes, Barreau Charbonnet cuts solid timber into blunt, brutalist stools and benches, then grooves them with cell-biology motifs that glow in the dark, made for the Abstral Claustra show at Galerie Mira.

The series began in 2021, when steel supply failed and Tim Teven pressed and bent the one size of tube left in the studio.

A single ribbon of brushed metal, bent so that base, seat and backrest are one piece.

On a hilltop square in Biot, in the south of France, Atelier EGR sinks the Biot Municipal Building Extension below ground and hands its roof back to the village as a paved belvedere over the valley.

Across two decades in his hometown of Buffalo, New York, Gregory Halpern builds King, Queen, Knave, a book published by MACK that treats a city's winters, fires and returns as one long game.

At the new Magnum Gallery and Bookshop on Impasse Delaunay in Paris, In Plain View gathers prints and archive material by Martin Parr, the first exhibition of his work since his death in December.

Behind an oxblood wall and two steel-framed windows in Porto, Porto Architects gives an online wine merchant its first shop, a circular white room of 90 square metres built from three terraces of shelving.

Working from EDXXKAT, the studio finishes the Roses Lace boutique in deep glossy black, then cuts the walls open with white illuminated niches that hold each silk and velvet dress as a separate exhibit.