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October 2026Woodworking Network
Pella and Manufacturing Month: Made-to-Order Windows and Doors Run Into a Staffing Wall
As part of Manufacturing Month, Pella Corporation put its production workforce in the spotlight: every window and door the company makes is built to order, which means it depends on the skill of its workers no less than on its machinery. The company ranks 5th in the FDMC 30.
October 2026Woodworking Network
Court Halts USDA Reorganization: What It Means for the Forest Industry and Mass Timber
A federal court in San Francisco has barred the U.S. administration from continuing the reorganization of the Department of Agriculture, including the Forest Service. For the timber construction market, this is a question of access to raw materials, forestry programs and applied wood research.
October 2026ArchDaily
Architecture Between Land and Water: Bayou Lessons for Sustainable Design
ArchDaily publishes an analysis of how architects can learn from slow-moving bayou waterways — the unique ecosystems of the Gulf Coast. The piece reminds us: a bayou is neither a swamp nor a marsh, but a dynamic environment with fluctuating water levels, requiring a distinct approach to development.
October 2026ArchDaily
OODA transforms a Prague block into a permeable mixed-use complex with a central square
Portuguese studio OODA has unveiled new visuals for the Kodaňská 1441 project in Prague: an existing urban block opens inward, gaining municipal social housing, commercial spaces and a landscaped central square.
October 2026ArchDaily
Renovation of a 1970s House by the Sea: Pitched Roofs, Bold Geometry and Colour in a Contemporary Interpretation
Terres terres studio has updated a detached 1970s house in a coastal residential area, drawing on local architectural motifs — pitched roofs, expressive geometric volumes and colour accents.
October 2026ArchDaily
UN-Habitat on the housing agenda as sauerbruch hutton completes a timber-hybrid building in Berlin
In ArchDaily’s weekly review, two themes converged: UN-Habitat housing initiatives tied to the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the completed Berlin project by sauerbruch hutton, built using a timber-hybrid system.
October 2026ArchDaily
The Attic as Full-Fledged Living Space: Architects Propose Designing the Roof and the Room Beneath It Together
ArchDaily examines how an unused volume beneath a pitched roof becomes a bedroom, a study or a children's room — provided the roof and the space below are treated as a single system rather than two separate elements.
October 2026ArchDaily
Azenya Villas in Nuwara Eliya: four compact gable-roofed cabins on a slope in the tea highlands
KWCA — Kosala Weerasekara Chartered Architects has designed a cluster of four small villas in the central highlands of Sri Lanka: a minimal building footprint, vertical development instead of spreading out across the land, and a simple gable form as a response to the economic crisis and tight budget constraints.
October 2026ArchDaily
Architecture as a Water Catchment: How Buildings Harvest Water from the Air
ArchDaily examines the shift from centralized water supply to atmospheric sources: fog, air humidity, and condensation. When water harvesting is integrated into architecture, surfaces, structures, and open spaces become part of the water system.
October 2026ArchDaily
Sofia Announces Open International Competition for a New Academic Building at William Gladstone School
On October 5, an open international architectural competition for the concept of a new academic building for the 18th William Gladstone School — one of the oldest and largest schools in Bulgaria — will be launched. Architects and design teams from Bulgaria and other countries are invited to participate.
October 2026ArchDaily
“Humanist Modernism”: Maciej and Stanisława Nowicki Exhibition Opens in New York
On October 1, the Center for Architecture in New York opens the exhibition Humanist modernity: Maciej and Stanisława Nowicki, about two key figures in Polish and American architecture. The curator is Kacper Kępiński, deputy director of NIAiU; a public talk and a curator-led tour are scheduled for the opening.
October 2026ArchDaily
SHIFT 2026 in Matosinhos: Landscape as a Tool for the Socio-Ecological Recomposition of Territories
From October 16 to 17, 2026, the fourth international conference on architecture and sustainability, SHIFT, will take place in Matosinhos, Portugal. The curator of this edition is Brazilian architect and urbanist Fernando de Mello Franco, who proposed the theme “Continuities — Socio-ecological recomposition through landscape design”.
October 2026ArchDaily
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio Unveils "Borrowed Earth": Rammed-Earth Columns from Local Soil in Art Omi's Sculpture Park
On October 24, a new commissioned work by Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO opens at the Sculpture & Architecture Park (Art Omi) — a composition of rammed earth drawn from local ground. The project is built on ideas of impermanence, participation and the slow transformation of material over time.
October 2026ArchDaily
Pinamar Announces National Ideas Competition for the Revitalization of Avenida del Mar: What It Means for Timber Public Spaces
The College of Architecture and Urbanism of the Province of Buenos Aires (District 9, CAUBA9) and the Municipality of Pinamar have opened submissions for the National Ideas Competition for the renewal of Avenida del Mar on the section between Quintana and Del Juncal streets. The challenge is an integrated urban, landscape and public solution for the coastal artery of the Argentine resort town.
October 2026ArchDaily
Architectures of Ageing in Place
An ArchDaily feature on the development of timber architecture and mass timber technologies.
October 2026ArchDaily
"A Long View": Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Publishes a Book on 15 Private Houses from 2016–2026
ArchDaily has presented the book "A Long View," in which the firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson showcases fifteen private residences in the United States and Canada built between 2016 and 2026. The publication captures the geographic expansion of the practice and its new materials, as well as the emergence of a new generation of the firm's architects.
October 2026ArchDaily
Burden Museum & Gardens: A Welcome Pavilion as an Architectural Threshold Between Campus and Landscape
Eskew Dumez Ripple designed the 6,500 sq ft (approx. 604 m²) Burden Museum & Gardens Welcome Center with 3,000 sq ft (approx. 279 m²) of covered outdoor space — a restrained volume embedded in the landscape that serves as the formal entrance to the LSU AgCenter museum and botanic garden campus.
October 2026ArchDaily
Loungueira House: A Compact Pontoatelier Home on the Site of a Demolished Structure — with a Preserved Guava Tree
Brazilian firm Pontoatelier completely demolished the dilapidated and poorly built structure and replaced it with a compact home for the client's son and his family. The building footprint was maximized to the greatest possible extent within the required regulatory setbacks, while the existing guava tree was preserved on the site.
October 2026ArchDaily
Lion Green Road: South London residential quarter wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2026
The UK’s top architectural award has gone to the Lion Green Road project in Coulsdon — 157 apartments across five blocks, commissioned by Croydon Council and bringing private and social housing together on the site of a former car park.
October 2026ArchDaily
Renovation of the TAFA District in Tianjin: Mix Architecture Revives a 'Dormant' Old Town Beside the Academy of Fine Arts
Mix Architecture is reconstructing the core zone of the TAFA district next to the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. The project was launched against the backdrop of a 2022 agreement between Hebei District and the academy on campus development and the comprehensive renewal of the surrounding historic fabric.