Architecture
Design and planning of buildings, spaces, and environments that shape how people live, work, and interact.
Balzar Arquitectos Wraps an 1890 Valencia Apartment's Plaster Salons in Curved Oak and Travertine
In València's Ciutat Vella, a 200 m² flat keeps its cherubs, cornices and mosaic floors while dark oak volumes carve out new private rooms.
TJAD and DCA Arrange a Huizhou-Inspired Art Museum on a Triangular Grid Beside a Hefei Campus Lake
On the Anhui University of the Arts campus in Hefei, white render, slate and pitched roofs pinwheel around skylit courtyards on a triangular grid.
BBP Arkitekter Adds a Seven-Sided Brick Tower to a 1918 Copenhagen Villa for an After-School Club
In Amager, Copenhagen, Tidsmaskinen joins an unrestored headmaster's villa, a greenhouse link and a gabled tower into one ensemble for children.
TROP : terrains and open space Lace a Nine-Metre Shanghai Sunken Garden with White Mesh Stairs
At Yanlord Arcadia in Shanghai, a 590 m² sunken courtyard becomes a three-level social stair wrapped in white metal mesh that lets light and rain in.
ONA Wraps a Mendoza Foothills House in Curved Board-Formed Concrete and Turns It Inward to a Walled Lawn
In Chacras de Coria, Mendoza, a 170 m² single-storey L-shaped house turns its back to the street and opens north to a private lawn.
Architekt Andreas Gruber Scatters 23 Dark Timber Chalets Across a South Tyrolean Forest Edge
In Molini di Tures, Amonti Chalets breaks a resort into a hamlet of gabled timber houses, with parking, storage and services pushed into the slope.
Klumpner, Ceresuela-Wiesmann and Restrepo Raise a Timber Canopy for a Barranquilla Social Housing District
In southwest Barranquilla, a 2,200 m² cultural center built around one long A-frame timber roof gives a new housing district its first civic room.
Kéré Architecture and HK Architekten Stack a Timber Daycare into a Vertical Playground on Munich's TU Campus
On a former parking lot at TU Munich, a five-level timber kindergarten for 60 children links its floors by slide and ends in a rooftop meadow.
RHO Turns the Top Floor of Berlin's AXIS Building into a Colour-Coded Loft for Design Hotels
A 1,335 m² headquarters near Berlin's Ostkreuz uses five-metre ceilings, steel, felt and saturated colour to blur the line between office and loft.
Vão Tilts Colored Walls Beneath an Exposed Truss Roof to Stage a Brazilian Exhibition on the Body
In Brazil, Vão stages Explicit Bodies, Hidden Bodies with slanted maroon, orange and red walls that turn a 550 m² truss hall into a run of thresholds.
Atelier Diving Bell Stitches a Hangzhou Food Court Together with a Louvered Steel Canopy
In Hangzhou's Liangzhu Culture Village, a 1,400 m² food court renewal uses canopies, tree benches and props to turn a passage into a place.
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos Carves a Las Rozas House from Five Obliquely Cut White Cylinders
In Las Rozas, five intersecting white drums divide a 370 m² home by function, their sliced tops posing as pitched roofs toward the Guadarrama.
