KJETIL TRÆDAL THORSEN / SNØHETTA THE ARCHITECT WHO GAVE THE BUILDING BACK TO THE STREET When Architecture Stopped Being an Object — and Started Being a Landscape for Everyone By Arindam Bose    | Architect / Designer Spotlight | BeEstates Intelligence | Part 25 | OCTOBER 2026 ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ Last week in this series found Peter Zumthor in a village in the Swiss Alps, working with thirty people and no website, building a body of work so small it fits in a single volume and so atmospherically present that buildings he completed in the 1990s are already listed as protected monuments. His principle: architecture as the art of presence . The first few seconds of entering a space, before the mind has formed an opinion, when the building either makes you feel that you are exactly where you should be — or it does not. This week the series moves from the solitary to the collective. From the studio of thirty to the practice of th...