Application Deadline for the 5th GAD Academy Certificate Program Extended to November 23
We are excited to announce the launch of the 5th GAD Academy Certificate Program, our professional training platform for recent graduates in architecture and design.
This 6-month full-time, project- and practice-based program is designed for graduates looking to expand their skills in architectural theory, computational design, and innovative design applications.
Conducted within GAD’s professional office environment, the program offers participants valuable hands-on experience and direct engagement with real-world architectural practice.
Program Content:
Orhan Kuşku – Revit and Enscape
Gökhan Karakuş – Architectural History and Theory / Cultural and Critical Thinking in Architecture
Konuralp Şenol – Rhino + Grasshopper
Ertaç Vural – Building Materials and Techniques
Eda Esen – Graphical Design in Architecture in Adobe
Damla Savran – Interior Design + Render
Muhammed Oral – Parametric Design + 3D Print
Yusuf Cavdar – Hostscapes: Architecture and the Culture of Hospitality
İdil Öztürk – Business Development
Applications are open until November 23. Interested candidates should submit their CV and portfolio to [email protected]
Ma Yansong Builds a Science Museum that Floats
In Haikou, MAD‘s founder creates a museum without columns that connects all galleries with one single spiral .
The Hainan Science Museum, designed by @mayansong_mad and his firm MAD, has opened to the public on the edge of Wuyuan River National Wetland Park. Since its trial opening, it has welcomed more than 350,000 visitors in four months, with peak days drawing more than 5,800 people.
Rather than organizing science into fixed, segmented halls, the museum turns circulation into part of the learning experience. A continuous spiral ramp connects the galleries, allowing visitors to move through themes of ocean, deep space, rainforest, geology, local ecology, and everyday science.
Hainan Science Museum, Haikou, China
📷 @archexist , Moden Wang, Yang Siyi
credit: @madarchitects
The Xinchang Globular Center in Zhejiang Province features a rooftop running track, football pitch and viewing platform accessible throughout the day.
The 120,000 sqm complex below includes a 5,000-seat arena, training halls, commercial spaces and a 19-story athlete hotel, all contained within a single flowing structure.
The facade uses perforated aluminium panels inspired by surrounding mountain forms and water movement, creating shifting patterns of light throughout the day.
Since opening, the venue has already hosted the China Badminton Masters and National Table Tennis Championships, positioned as both a competition space and an everyday public destination.
📸 Photos by Chen Xi Studio / line+ studio
#running #architecture #china
credit: @runneralerts
Waterfronts are some of the most active and valued parts of cities, where public life, movement, and program naturally converge. In Baltimore’s downtown, The Helm responds by treating the harbor edge as a civic destination built around connection, access, and shared use. Porosity leads to prosperity: the project introduces a porous indoor-outdoor structure that brings together market, entertainment, leisure, and commercial programs as one continuous public realm.
At its center, a monumental oculus opens the building to natural light, forming an open-air amphitheater that organizes public activity. Sweeping curves and archways define the form, while blurred boundaries between interior and exterior encourage fluid movement. As an extension of the streetscape, The Helm creates a layered civic framework where program and public life are continuously intertwined.
Renderings: @secchi.smith
Credit: @odanewyork
the Happy Spot under the Light Rail adapts residual urban space beneath elevated transit infrastructure into a multi-functional public park. The project integrates sports courts, fitness equipment, play zones, and landscape areas within a continuous linear layout.
Distinct color fields and graphic floor patterns organize the different activity zones while increasing visibility and spatial clarity.
Learn more about this project in the link in bio 🔗
#architecture: VIASCAPE design 📍#China
#photography: Shan Liang
CREDİT: @archdaily
On May 7, Gokhan Avcioglu joined the final review jury for the Spring 2026 studio led by Şulan Kolatan, assisted by Jamie Latimer, at Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
The final jury brought together an international group of architects, educators, and researchers including Tom Verebes, Mariel Collard, Hina Jamelle, Amir Ashtiani, Kerim Eken, Alper Derinboğaz, Ferda Kolatan, and William J. Mac Donald.
Focusing on the adaptive reuse of Istanbul’s historic Haydarpaşa Train Station, the studio explored the relationship between memory, infrastructure, archaeology, urban transformation, and contemporary cultural production. The studio also addressed concepts such as adaptive reuse, spolia, and layered urban memory through Istanbul’s Byzantine and Ottoman heritage. During the review, students presented projects developed through their research and site investigations conducted throughout the semester and during their Istanbul field trip.
The studio approached Haydarpaşa not only as an architectural landmark, but also as a multilayered urban condition shaped by collective memory, migration narratives, ecological systems, and ongoing discussions surrounding public access and future urban use.
Bringing together academia and professional practice, the final reviews created a platform for extensive discussions on adaptive reuse, urban resilience, and the evolving role of architecture within historic cities.
Architecture practice Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) has designed the Minamisanriku Memorial 311, part of the reconstruction plan for Minamisanriku, which suffered extensive damage in the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.
The master plan for this artificial site, elevated 10 meters above sea level, is based on three concepts: uniting the town with the sea, the mountains with the shrine, and creating a pleasant and walkable street. #architecture #arquitectura @kkaa_official #photography #fotografía @keishinhorikoshi #metalocus
Credit: @metalocus
alberto rubio has been designing these villas on the cliffs of mallorca since 1984, and the concept has never changed. each one starts with the same image: a bird perched on the edge of a cliff, about to take flight over the mediterranean. the result is less a house and more a sculpture you get to live in.
credit: @ig_interiors
The 70s Austrian Architect Breeding Living Creatures.
In post-war Austria, Günther Domenig develops an architectural language rooted in the radical wing of the « Grazer Schule », where architecture becomes a form of existential inquiry. In dialogue with European Brutalism and figures such as Walter Förderer, his work departs from the functionalist neutrality of post-war modernism toward a more fragmented and tension-driven approach. Shaped by an environment still structured by religious and educational institutions, his architecture introduces a sense of instability into spaces traditionally associated with order and discipline.
The Mensa of the Pädagogische Akademie in Graz, developed with Eilfried Huth within a complex linked to pedagogical and religious frameworks, operates as a spatial disruption rather than a neutral dining facility. Its folded geometries and broken continuity generate an environment where collective use is reorganized through spatial intensity. In the Zentralsparkasse bank in Vienna, the interior becomes openly infrastructural: ducts, systems, and structural elements are exposed and composed as a visible network, producing a dense, almost bodily spatial condition.
Domenig’s work can be read as a sustained attempt to destabilize architectural certainty. Form is treated as something in flux, shaped by internal forces rather than external order. order. The result is an architecture where structure, program, and perception remain in constant friction, producing environments that feel less like resolved objects than active spatial conditions: almost as if they were mutant-walking creatures. 🖤✨
📸 Credits: Picture Desk, Gerhard Maurer, Walter Oberbramberger, Keith Collie / RIBA Library Photographs Collection, Stefan Olah.
credit: @1day1architect
Renowned German painter and sculptor Georg Baselitz has passed away at the age of 88.
A pioneer of Neo-Expressionism in the post-war era, Baselitz reshaped contemporary art with his signature practice of painting figures upside down. His death was confirmed by his longtime gallery, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
He leaves behind a profound legacy spanning more than six decades, redefining the boundaries of contemporary art. 🖼️
