Commercial Buildings
Design and architecture of retail, hospitality, and commercial spaces that serve public and community functions.
MVRDV Wraps Urban Revivo's Beijing Flagship in Colour-Shifting Roof Tiles and Moon Gate Windows
On Sanlitun West Street in Beijing, a 4,120 m² flagship borrows roof tiles and moon gates to stage fashion between two very different retail villages.
Studio Font Scatters a Pink Concrete House into Fragments Across the Baja California Desert
Near Todos Santos, three pink concrete guest rooms and an open pavilion of crossing roofs turn a 630 m² off-grid house into a deliberate ruin.
Tchoban Voss Architekten and Barcode Architects Gather Dresden's Scattered City Offices into One Stadtforum
On Dresden's Ferdinandplatz, a stone-gridded civic block with a bronze-finned crown wraps offices around two green courtyards and opens a new square.
say architects Builds a 140 m² Shenzhen Footwear Flagship Around Louvered Timber Cabinets and a Lounge
In Shenzhen Bay Phase II, PANE's new flagship trades the sneaker wall for timber shutters, stone columns and a generous rest area built for lingering.
Jordi Herrero Turns Can Oliver, a Medieval Palace in Palma, into a Hotel That Lets Its Walls Tell the Story
In Palma's old town, a 12th-century palace becomes a 5-star hotel where black steel insertions sit against layered stone, brick and bricked-in arches.
Tadu Arquitetura Turns a São Paulo Street Corner into a Red-Awninged Pasta Bar Built for Shared Tables
In Itaim Bibi, São Paulo, Marmotta Pasta Bar fuses brand, facade, dining room and kitchen into one red-and-timber room that opens to the street corner.
Ariel André-GOLEM Turns the Diriyah Biennale Foundation's Public Programs Building into a Pastel Civic Living Room
In Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, a 960 m² public programs building trades gallery austerity for looping sofas, velvet play walls and reconfigurable tables.
Atelier Guo Bends One Long Roof Along a Flood-Control Canal for a Restaurant Beneath a Guilin Cliff
In Yangshuo, Guilin, a 380 m² restaurant follows a flood-control canal beneath a cliff, its tapered piers imprinted with the bamboo grove beside it.
Felipe Hess Arquitetos Pushes a São Paulo House to the Edge of Its Corner Lot to Free a 600 m² Garden
On a 1,000 m² corner lot in São Paulo, a brick, timber and concrete house claims only 40% of the ground and turns every room toward one continuous garden.
Snøhetta Reworks Longyearbyen's 1951 Community House into the World's Northernmost Fine Dining Room
In Longyearbyen, Svalbard, a 120 m² interior of red linoleum, two-tone oak and layered moiré textiles answers polar night and midnight sun.
Hello Wood Stacks a Pink Timber Food Hall, Beer Garden and Tree Houses onto a Former Zürich Freight Yard
On an abandoned rail yard in Zürich West, a three-level CLT complex of terraces, tree houses and blue steel stairs turns street food into civic theatre.
HCCH Studio Wraps Two Stalled Black-Box Theatres on Shanghai's West Bund in Aluminium Mesh and Fins
On a former cement factory site by the Huangpu River, a shell left pending for a decade becomes bars, shops and a live house through modest moves.
