This issue of the architecture magazine C3 features Small Galleries and five distinctive new projects.

The Small Galeries chapter, Anti-Transparent Architecture, spotlights four small-scale exhibition spaces tucked within dense urban settings. These compact yet resonant spaces stand on their own amid extreme spatial constraints, offering an experience of “invisible architecture” that is tactile, layered, and sensorially rich precisely because it resists transparency. Projects include Space Woon Gallery and Gguggum Art Center.

The section on five distinctive new projects features a courtyard house inspired by classical Mediterranean villas (Catalunya, Spain); a marine research center envisioned as a passage to the hidden world beneath the sea (Mazatlan, Mexico); a museum that reclaims the industrial legacy of a former sugar factory (Granada, Spain); three glass pavilions rising atop preserved steel structures (Shanghai, China); and a business center that gently nestles into the rolling foothills of its site (Sangju, Korea). 

This issue of the architecture magazine C3 features Small Galleries and five distinctive new projects.

The Small Galeries chapter, Anti-Transparent Architecture, spotlights four small-scale exhibition spaces tucked within dense urban settings. These compact yet resonant spaces stand on their own amid extreme spatial constraints, offering an experience of “invisible architecture” that is tactile, layered, and sensorially rich precisely because it resists transparency. Projects include Space Woon Gallery and Gguggum Art Center.

The section on five distinctive new projects features a courtyard house inspired by classical Mediterranean villas (Catalunya, Spain); a marine research center envisioned as a passage to the hidden world beneath the sea (Mazatlan, Mexico); a museum that reclaims the industrial legacy of a former sugar factory (Granada, Spain); three glass pavilions rising atop preserved steel structures (Shanghai, China); and a business center that gently nestles into the rolling foothills of its site (Sangju, Korea).