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A basil leaf on a steak: what Rotterdam Rocks! asks a building to swallow
Barnabas Calder's Dezeen critique of MVRDV's €240m Shift Embassy, read from the building's side — why a leafy facade is accounting, not decarbonisation.
Terafab: What It Would Feel Like to Be the Largest Building Ever Poured
Musk's 100M-sq-ft, $16.8B Terafab reads as the world's largest building — but at 1 TW of compute the heat load, not floor area, decides if it's even physical.
Remise Rosa: a CLT body that rose on a Zurich freight yard in five months
Hello Wood's 2,500 m² Remise Rosa stood up on a Zurich freight yard in five months via CNC-prefabricated CLT — and why the real win is the model, not the speed.
The Singing Roof: What Sou Fujimoto's House of Music Feels When Freddie Moves In
Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music hosts a Freddie Mercury tribute — and shows why every hall is tuned to one number: reverberation time. A PAZ acoustics read.
Tor Alva: The White Tower That Grew Its Own Skeleton in Concrete
ETH Zurich's Tor Alva stands on 32 printed concrete columns in Mulegns. The real win is reinforced thin-walled printing — here's the lesson for your desk.
Before a building can feel itself, someone must learn to build the system
PAZ opens Building System Specialist Title XIV on 1 Sept 2026 — five months, six hours a week, teaching Grasshopper-and-Archicad system-building over manual drawing.
The Parthenon Just Got Two New Stones — and a Lesson in As-Built Memory
Two marble blocks close a 220-year gap on the Parthenon — and show why readable geometry, open protocols and re-scan discipline outlive any vendor cloud.
ABB Will Wake an Oerlikon Hall in 2031 — Who Owns Its Nervous System?
ABB's CHF 80m Zurich Oerlikon headquarters protects the listed fabric — but nothing protects the control stack. Write the open-protocol clause into the brief.
Windows Are Where My Skin Leaks: Why PAZ Runs a FensterFit Session on 15 July
PAZ Academy's free 30-minute Archicad Power Session on 15 July 2026 tackles window workflows — parametric openings, schedules that update themselves, less rework.
When the Scan Has to Show Its Work: CORTEX and the Building That Diagnoses Itself
CORTEX's traceable-reasoning benchmark for 3D CT scans maps straight onto smart buildings: why your BMS must cite the sensor evidence behind every alarm.
