Installations
Temporary and permanent structures designed to occupy, transform, or activate spaces through immersive physical experiences.
TETRO Arquitetura Splits a Bahia Hillside House into Four Blocks Beneath a Light-Filtering Wood Roof
In Itacaré, on Bahia's southern coast, four blocks step down a seaward slope while a biriba wood screen turns tropical sun into moving shade.
Quaterna Arquitectos Lays a Clay-Tiled House Along a Valle de Bravo Hillside Above a Stream
In Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Casa Limoneros pairs pitched clay-tile roofs with board-formed concrete, timber ceilings and courtyards cut into pine forest.
undjurekbrüggen and AFEA Stack Fieldstone, Clay and Raw Larch into a Concrete-Free Vineyard Store in Werder
At the foot of a vineyard on the Havel in Werder, a 33 m² wine store of fieldstone, rammed earth and undried larch treats its walls as habitat.
Office Canopy of Architecture Retrofits a Tiled Shaoxing Block into an Open-Source Community Commune
In Shangyu's old city centre, a 4,416 m² renovation stacks a library, canteen, shops and kiosks into one porous public building.
Eduardo Garretti studio Tops a Century-Old Guadalajara House with a 25 m² Rooftop Pavilion of Steel and Bamboo
A 25 m² terrace in Guadalajara's Colonia Americana pairs black steel folding doors with bamboo blinds, timber rafters and a pergola wrapped in vines.
Public Architecture and Design Extend UBC's Biodiversity Centre with a Brick Wing around a Garden Courtyard
On Vancouver's Point Grey campus, a pale brick addition gives researchers labs, collections and classrooms that open onto a planted courtyard.
REAL Architects and Challenge Design Plant a Timber Gridshell Seed at the Heart of Shanghai's West Bund
On Shanghai's Xuhui Waterfront, a 230 m² glazed timber lattice dome anchors a terraced garden and lets its structure do all the talking.
González Olsina & Vega Arquitectos Build a Black Concrete Temple to Wine Among the Vineyards of Los Chacayes
In Los Chacayes, Argentina, La Vigilia Winery stages wine's slow time through black concrete volumes, weathering steel, hard shadow and Andean views.
Anna Koukolová Architekti Splits a Weekend House in Krámy into Charred Spruce Volumes Beside a Garden Pond
Near the Brdy Highlands in Nové Dvory, Czechia, a 123 m² timber retreat pairs charred spruce, board-marked concrete and plywood interiors on a slope.
MARS Architectes and ciguë Layer Offices, Housing and Event Spaces into a Historic Marais Block on Rue Pavée
In the Marais, Paris, two historic mansions and their industrial additions gain a glass courtyard facade, rooftop homes and offices, with no era erased.
IDIN Architects Keeps a Retirement House on the Ground and Lifts Its Pool Toward the Khao Yai Hills
In Nai Mueang near Khao Yai, CN House keeps every bedroom at grade for ageing owners and sends the pool and lounge upstairs toward the mountains.
FAMM Arquitectura and Sulkin Askenazi Build an Inward-Looking Retreat Around Trees and a Creek in Nosara
In Nosara, Costa Rica, a 29-key adults-only hotel trades distant views for preserved trees, a creek, thatched pavilions and quiet plaster courtyards.
IwamotoScott Lands a Three-Winged Steel Pavilion and Lookout Tower on the Rural Edge of Chengdu's Future City
A trefoil of stainless-steel wedges on Chengdu's rural fringe frames the airport, a science city and a river park around a glazed courtyard crystal.
Austin Sandy Architects Turns a Dark Danville Ranch House Toward Its Garden with Oak, Concrete and Glass
In Danville, California, a chopped-up vintage T-plan ranch becomes a family home of oak slat screens, concrete floors and glass walls facing the garden.
Raulino Silva Turns His Grandparents' 1936 House in Rural Vila do Conde into His Own Architecture Studio
In Bagunte, Portugal, a granite family house gains white marble-floored rooms and a walled gravel courtyard without pretending the new part is old.
Marcela Carranza Arquitectura Lifts a Single-Level Home for Elderly Owners above a Steep Costa Rican Slope
In San Mateo de Alajuela, a 268 m² timber and glass house rests on slender steel stilts, leaving the hillside, its water and its trees largely untouched.
Studio KRAFT Stacks Timber Treehouses Along the Edges of a Crowded Budapest Schoolyard
In Budapest's Terézváros, a timber playgarden climbs the courtyard edges so 500 children keep their sports court and gain quiet places to retreat.
Lacks of clarity in the relations of the different proposed spaces.
Immature conceptual thinking. A great idea but design outcomes are a disappointment.