Issue 01 · Autumn 2026 · Six buildings, no photographs
Weight, light, and the line between them.
An architecture quarterly set on a twelve-column grid. This issue: a tower the city tried to demolish, a house with four holes in it, a library you fall down, a chapel without a door, a defence of the humble stair, and a pavilion nobody asked for.
Contents
Six articles, roughly four hundred words each. Footnotes sit in the margin where there is room for them, and below the paragraph where there is not.
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No. 01: The Weight of Concrete
Halle Nord was meant to be demolished in 1998. Twenty-eight years later the city has learned to lean on it.
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No. 02: A House With Four Courtyards
On a plot too narrow for a garden, the Keller house turns inward four times and comes out lighter than its neighbours.
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No. 03: Reading in Section
The Bibliothek am Hang has no floors, only a single stepped slope. The librarians say it has changed how people browse.
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No. 04: The Chapel That Refuses a Door
On a pass above Andermatt, a concrete gable with a single red slot asks visitors to decide for themselves whether they are inside.
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No. 05: Stairs as Argument
A stair is the only part of a building that tells you what the architect thinks of your body. An essay on treads, risers and persuasion.
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No. 06: The Pavilion Nobody Commissioned
Three students built a timber box on a disused rail siding in Chur. Two summers later the city is trying to work out how to pay for it.
Editorial
We do not print photographs. A photograph tells you what a building looked like at eleven in the morning on the day the photographer came. A drawing tells you what the architect meant. We prefer to argue with intentions.
— Ilse Brandt, Editor