Vol XIV

Ark Journal Volume XIV spotlights a quiet yet powerful shift in contemporary architecture and design — a new wave of creatives that seeks not to erase the past, but to build on it. With deep respect for histories embedded in buildings and local crafts, they work with existing structures, valuing continuity over rupture.

Volume XIV travels the world to amplify creative voices: a jeweller in Tokyo, a Singaporean artist assembling ancient stones into monumental furniture in Bali, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House in Los Angeles. Our Case Study, shot at BIG's new Copenhagen headquarters, brings together objects of raw natural materials in sync with their concrete surroundings.