Architects: Burdifilek Location: New York, United States Project Team: Diego Burdi, Paul Filek, Jeremy Mendonca, Jacky Kwong, Daniel Mei, Edwim Reyes, Anna Nomerovsky, Anthony Tey, Daniela Cerchie, Tom Yip; Callison Architecture, Inc.: David Curtis Design Team: Joe Fresh Design Studio Area: 17,783 s
Architects: Studio Kalamar Location: Jesenice, Slovenia Architect In Charge: Andrej Kalamar Area: 2980 sqm Year: 2009 Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Kalamar, Miran Kambič Jesenice Administrative Centre is part of the Ministry of Public Administration project which aims to combine all state adminis
The interactive artwork ‘Lotus Dome’, by artist and architect Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde, was opened in Sainte Marie Madeleine Church in Lille, France. The project, which will be on view until January 13, 2013, is a living dome made out of hundreds of ultra-light aluminium flowers th
Architects: Tony Fretton Architects Location: Tower Bridge, London, UK Design Team: Tony Fretton, Jim McKinney, David Owen, Chris Snow, Daniel Buckley, Guy Derwent, Yuichi Hashimura Structural Engineers: Structure Workshop Services Engineers: Serge Lai Engineers Client: Historic Royal Palaces Area:
Michael Van Valkenburg Associates (MVVA) and Thomas Phifer & Partners have been announced as winners of an international competition set to transform 15 blocks of the neglected Waller Creek in downtown Austin, Texas, into a vibrant local attraction. Co-sponsored by the nonprofit Waller Creek Con
Architects: Covachita Location: San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, México Architect In Charge: Fernando Aguilar, Roberto Nuñez, Ana Cantú, Diana Treviño Area: 50 sqm Project Year: 2012 Photography: 18·26 Agencia de Fotografía The workshop project was born from the idea of finding alternativ
The Wall Street Journal announced Wang Shu as architecture’s “Innovator of the Year 2012”, commending his “deceptively simple” vision that is “drafting a new architectural blueprint for his country”. The 49-year-old Chinese architect, whose work has been described as China’s “new r
Architects: Nadamoto Yukiko Architects Location: Yoichi, Japan Architect In Charge: Yukiko Nadamoto Photographs: Seiya Miyamoto “Roji” is a cafe and residence for a young couple in Yoichi, a small seaside town in Hokkaido, Japan. Roji means “alley” in Japanese. In the Roji project, there i
Architects: Cannatà & Fernandes Location: Guimarães, Portugal Design Team: Riccardo Cannatà, Dario Cannatà, Bruno Silva, Marta Lemos, Nuno Castro, Francisco Meireles, João Pedro Martins Year: 2010 Area: 1387.03 sqm Photographs: Dario Cannatà, Luis Ferreira Alves, Pepe Barbiere The building
Architects: UID Architects Location: Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan Design Team: Keisuke Maeda Year: 2011 Area: 104.16 sqm Site Area: 130.24 sqm Total Floor Area: 262.85 sqm Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda This old steel-frame building was built about 40 years ago. The building was build when client’s paren
The winning proposal in the Daegu Gosan Library competition, by architect Gorka Blas, conceives the library as a cultural and social space for the local community. For this purpose the project focuses in obtaining a functional, attractive and confortable facility that constitutes an essential elemen
Sou Fujimoto Architects have shared with us their first place proposal for the Beton Hala Waterfront Centre in Belgrade, Serbia. Contrasting the medieval fabric of the capital city, Sou Fujimoto’s “floating cloud” intertwines an array of social and transportation programs into an organized tan
Architects: Number TEN Architectural Location: Winnipeg, Canada Year: 2011 Area: 1,000 sqm Engineering Consultants: Crosier Kilgour & Partners, MCW/AGE Engineers Landscape Architecture: Scatliff+Miller+Murray Photographs: Brent Bellamy The towering elm trees and gentle meadows of Winnipeg’s As
Architects: Höweler + Yoon Architecture Location: Chengdu, China Year: 2012 Area: 20,000 sq ft Photographs: Yihuai Hu, Courtesy of Höweler + Yoon Architecture Sky Courts is a 20,000 sqf corporate club house that incorporate short-term housing, office space, and entertainment facilities utilizing t
Architects: Nuno Flores + Sofia Neves Location: Parafita, Montalegre, Portugal Architects: Nuno Flores + Sofia Neves Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Nuno Flores Project Area: 100 sqm Client: Custódio Pinto Montes e Ana Moura Alves Landscape Architecture: Daniel Monteiro Along a slope, four water mi
Beginning on October 16th, 2012, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, France, will be celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Dome designed by architect Ferdinand Chanut and glass artist Jacques Gruber in 1912. 100 years under the Dome will be held at the flagship store of the boulevard Haussmann, a