Siana Architecture

Explore curated projects, city guides, and architectural stories from around the world.

Siana Architecture is an editorial atlas: we document significant buildings across the world's cities, write about them with the care of an editor and the eye of an architect, and place every one of them on a map you can actually use.

The interactive map

Every project we publish is pinned on the Atlas, our interactive map. Filter by city, material, era or architectural style, then open any pin to read the full entry.

Cities we cover

City guides pair an essay on the place with the buildings worth walking to. We currently cover 9 cities.

• Barcelona - Spain, Modernisme, mosaics, and the unfinished cathedral of a dream.
• Berlin - Germany, Where History Meets Contemporary Design
• Chicago - United States, The birthplace of the skyscraper.
• Copenhagen - Dinamarca
• Lisbon - portugal
• Madrid - Spain, Madrid: donde la tradición y la modernidad se encuentran.
• Mexico City - Mexico, Barragán's color and the weight of volcanic stone.
• New York - USA, The city that nevers sleeps
• Porto - Portugal, Granite, fog, and the precision of Siza.

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Featured buildings

Each entry carries the architect, the year of completion, the materials and the context that makes the building worth the detour.

• 8 House - BIG, 2010, Copenhagen, A neighbourhood you can bike to the roof of
• Caixaforum Madrid - Herzog & de Meuron, 2008, Madrid, Contemporary culture on the traces of the past
• Casa Batlló - Antoni Gaudí, 1906, Barcelona, The house of bones and dragons
• Casa da Música - OMA / Rem Koolhaas, 2005, Porto, A concert hall carved as a white meteorite
• Casa Luis Barragán - Luis Barragán, 1948, Mexico City, Silence, colour and light made habitable
• Champalimaud Centre - Charles Correa, 2010, Lisbon, A threshold between science and the sea
• MAAT - Amanda Levete (AL_A), 2016, Lisbon, A wave you can walk over
• Mercat de Santa Caterina - EMBT, 2005, Barcelona, An old market under a wave of colour
• Museo Soumaya - FR-EE / Fernando Romero, 2011, Mexico City, A silver hourglass of sixteen thousand tiles
• Robie House - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1910, Chicago, The Prairie School's clearest sentence
• Royal Danish Opera - Henning Larsen, 2005, Copenhagen, A floating roof on the Copenhagen harbour
• Sagrada Família - Antoni Gaudí, 1882, Barcelona, A cathedral still becoming itself

From Practice

Essays, criticism, interviews and field notes on architecture and the cities that hold it.

• The Drawing That Thinks Back - Generative tools promise infinite variation. What they ask in return is a new kind of authorship.
• On the Patience of Stone - Why the slowest buildings often outlast the fashions that surround them.
• The Museum That Forgot Its Street - A new cultural landmark dazzles from the water and turns its back on the city behind it.
• A Conversation With the Last Brickmaker - Forty years at the kiln, and a quiet argument for materials that age in public.
• The Slow Return of the Courtyard - Across three continents, architects are rediscovering the oldest trick for cooling a city block.

Practical guides for architecture practices:

• Barcelona: la línea curva como manifiesto - De la curva orgánica de Gaudí al gesto de cubierta de EMBT, Barcelona ha tratado la línea curva no como ornamento sino como tesis: la materia obedece…
• Lina Bo Bardi, In Her Own Light - The architect who treated concrete as an invitation rather than a barrier.
• The Best Brutalist Architecture in Berlin of 2026 - A walking route through azulejo facades, hillside miradouros and the quiet genius of the pombaline grid.

Read everything in Practice

About Siana Architecture

We believe the most interesting building in any city is rarely the most famous one, and that the best way to understand a place is to walk it slowly, with someone pointing. No ads, no clutter, no infinite scroll. More about what we do.