Architectural Review - May 2026 Magazine

A crater nearly a kilometre wide has opened in the Siberian forest, as the permafrost melts for the first time in 650,000 years. The crater is releasing thousands of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere; but it also contains evidence of the Earth’s history. In this issue, Dima Srouji traces entangled histories in the ground of Gaza, while buildings around the world radically rediscover the ground as a building material.