Innovative Architecture
Architectural projects and concepts that test new forms, materials, and approaches to building, from adaptive reuse to speculative urban design.
Bayside Haven: A Stepped Hong Kong Tower Hollowed by an Atrium to Hold Nature at Its Core
A residential tower in Hong Kong treats people and nature as intertwined forces, then tests that idea through a carved void, lofted units and living walls.
LEVIATHAN: A Single Spine Threading Separate Rooms Into One Sculpture
Timber ribs, a red stepped landscape and a dark chamber of light slits hang off one continuous spine, testing where sculpture ends and architecture begins.
Architects Collaborative Stacks a Seven-Level House onto an Irregular 270 m² Plot in New Delhi
In New Delhi, The House of Thirds turns a skewed five-sided plot into a seven-level home of sunken courts, timber shutters and carved daylight.
YUARCHITECTS Rewraps a 1999 Beijing University Tower in Scalloped Granite Fins and Curved Glass
In Beijing, a renovation for the Beijing Institute of Technology trades a dated hotel-and-conference tower skin for a deep rhythm of stone and glass.
Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects Strips a 1970s Kifisia Apartment and Rebuilds Its Rooms Out of Joinery
In a circular 1970s block in the Athens suburb of Kifisia, an 80 m² flat swaps fixed walls for joinery that opens, folds and conceals on demand.
Stechina, Di Napoli and Francesconi Lift IAPSER's Concrete Headquarters on Stilts Beside a Riverside Park in Paraná
In Paraná, Argentina, a 9,013 m² exposed concrete frame opens its ground floor to the park and climbs through glass toward views of the river.
CSWADI Wraps a Chengdu Fusion Research Center Around a Funnel-Shaped Sichuan Light Well
In Chengdu's Tianfu New Area, a 38,000 m² ring of louvred offices for fusion scientists gathers around a funnel skylight and planted atrium.
Nests: A Woven Tower That Stacks Places to Rest High Above a Restless City
A column of tangled, spherical pods turns the bird's nest into a vertical refuge for sleep, standing apart from the glass towers around it.
Trondheim School of Architecture: A Banded Copper Landform That Puts Its Bet on the Skin
A shortlisted school for Trondheim wraps a flexible, student-centric program in layered copper fins and a woven glass canopy across a sculpted site.
TIFHEM: A Sunken Tolerance Center in Malta That Manufactures Its Own Rainbows
A triangular Maltese site becomes an open plaza over two buried levels, where water, sunlight and curved glass paint shifting colour across rooms.
Mirrors don't lie: A Trondheim Architecture School That Hangs a Reflective Block Over Its Own Entrance
Faceted mirrored soffits, an indoor street of timber huts and copper-toned cladding test how a school for architects can watch itself being built.
Point of Inclusion: A Vine-Draped Threshold Where Amsterdam's Locals and International Students Meet
A flexible space in Amsterdam that slows visitors down, passing them through pergolas, a planted courtyard and a library gallery before they meet.
