Commercial Buildings
Naso Hides a Sunken Listening Bar Behind a Mexico City Restaurant Kitchen
In Roma Norte, a 40-square-meter room wrapped in red fabric and orange light turns music listening into a spatial ritual.
Ippolito Fleitz Group Treats a Wuxi Mall's Interior as an Urban Landscape in Coppery Red Metal
Three sculpted atriums, 360 shops, and a stainless-steel Moon Garden anchor a new retail destination on the banks of Wuxi's waterfront.
ASKA Turns a Patchwork of Stockholm Storefronts into Fantastic Frank's Pistachio-Green Showroom
Near Tegnérlunden park, a 160-square-meter ground floor unit fuses working-class traces with a real estate agency's bold new identity.
RHO Wraps a Berlin Social Media Agency in Concrete Waffle Ceilings and Sheer Light
Enkime's 1,000-square-meter headquarters occupies a glass-fronted industrial courtyard building along the Spree in Charlottenburg.
Barde vanVoltt Stacks Six Residences Over a Chukum-Lined Café in San José del Cabo
A boutique mixed-use building in Baja California Sur pairs Mayan-rooted materiality with sculptural balconies and desert-tuned climate strategies.
EktraArhitectura and Fain Design Studio Turn a 19th-Century Pharmacy into a Coffee Shop in Cluj-Napoca
Inside the vaulted ground floor of Palatul Széki, brushed steel counters meet restored Gothic joinery from 1893.
MRDK Turns a Montréal Magazine Store into a Stainless Steel Social Condenser
Bar Edicola channels the spirit of Italy's neighbourhood kiosks through a monumental counter, teak walls, and vivid red flooring in downtown Montréal.
Sher Maker Turns a Chiang Mai Shophouse into a Fenceless Bar and Garden for the Neighborhood
On Ratchapakinai Road inside the old moat, a 285 square meter renovation dissolves walls to stitch a jazz bar's legacy into the street.
pfeffermint AG Folds the Geometry of a Piadina into a 35 m² Zürich Bar
La Piada brings matte aubergine walls, vintage car colors, and a circle-and-semicircle motif to a tiny piadina spot in Kreis 1.
Ruhaus Studio Carves a Stone-and-Timber Oasis into a Shenzhen Shopping Mall
OASIZ inserts rough-hewn stone and laminated timber into a 177-square-meter retail shell, pushing back against Shenzhen's concrete monotony.
OMA Transforms Istanbul's Ottoman Imperial Shipyard into a 12,000 m² Luxury Retail Landscape
Beymen Tersane inserts freestanding galleries into a centuries-old Golden Horn arsenal, returning a lost waterfront to the city.