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The most comprehensive architecture database online. Thousands of projects with plans, sections, and photography. Essential first stop for any precedent search.

Strong editorial coverage of contemporary architecture with high quality photography. Good for finding visually distinctive projects and current discourse.

Community platform with student portfolios, school profiles, and practice coverage. Useful for finding emerging work and student-level precedents.

Filter ArchDaily projects by drawing type. Most projects include floor plans, sections, and site plans alongside photography.

Spanish-language sister site to ArchDaily with strong Latin American coverage. Excellent source for projects not well documented elsewhere.

Curated European architecture database with strong focus on drawing quality. Excellent for finding lesser-known but rigorously documented projects.

Academic journal archive with architecture, urbanism, and planning publications. Use your university login for free access. Essential for dissertation research.

One of the oldest architecture publications, with strong critical writing and historical coverage. Good for contextualising precedents within broader discourse.

Critical theory and architectural discourse. Useful for finding intellectual frameworks and positioning your precedent analysis within contemporary debates.

Spanish-based platform with high editorial standards. Strong on experimental and research-led projects that don't always surface on larger databases.

Italian architecture and design magazine with decades of archives. Particularly strong on Italian rationalism and European modernism for historical precedents.