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Architecture and design firm Zaarchitects received 2nd prize for their hotel design in New York called Heart of the District.  Instead of using the hotel to separate…

Asian Cairns is a proposal for Shenzhen, China by architect Vincent Callebaut.  With Shenzhen and Hong Kong growing together to total approximately 20 million…

A narrow space winds through the center of the House in Sayo by FujiwaraMuro Architects.  As it moves through the home, it transforms its function from relaxation to study to reading to…

The KAUST Breakwater Beacon has become a symbol for the…

Rock It Suda is the name of the pension - or weekend getaway - created for the bassist of the Korean band by the same name.   Instead of the typical form of a European…

On a large organic mango farm in the countryside of northeastern Thailand, Steve Areen built his own Dome House.  The home is constructed of…

The Hollenbeck Replacement Police Station was designed to exemplify the station's efforts to create an open, community-serving police force.  It also honors the community's tradition of artistic expression, and strengthens the…

House & Garden is a five-storey residence in Tokyo designed by Ryue Nishizawa, one half of Japanese architectural partnership…

The Golden Moon is a temporary architectural structure built for the 2012 Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Wonderland.  The pavilion by local firm LEAD explores the…

Architecture firms HHF and Burckhardt+Partner were awarded second prize for their…

Za Koenji Public Theater is the work of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Toyo Ito.  Located in the Suginami…

Edgeland House sits on a rehabilitated brownfield site, an effort to heal the scars of the site's industrial past.  It raises awareness about the diminishing natural landscape by creating a balance between the industrial zone on one side and the…

Montaña Mágica Lodge is located within the Huilo Huilo Private Natural Reserve in Chile.  Its unique volcano-like shape is covered in stone partially overgrown by greenery, and spews water from its…

Axis Mundi offers a conceptual alternative to the MoMA Tower in New York, New York, one of the largest skyscraper projects in one of the most overbuilt parts of…

Wall House 2 is an extraordinary intersection of architecture, cubist painting, and surrealist sculpture.  It employs the vocabulary of Le Corbusier in the way it explores the relationship between inside and outside.

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The Leaf Chapel is a small wedding chapel tucked into the grounds of the Risonare Resort in Kobuchizawa, Japan.  Architecture firm…

House 77, in the very center of "Bairro Norte" in Póvoa de Varzim shares the city's memories and revitalizes a rich legacy of fishing and the sea.  Designed by Portuguese firm dIONISO…

Located in the extreme north of Norway, in a land of inhospitable beauty, the Havøysund Tourist Route aims to be as timeless as the…

The Orange Cube is a vibrant 6,300-square-foot structure on the edge of the Saône River in a converted industrial zone in Lyon, France.  Surrounded mostly by grey buildings, the bold design by Paris-based architecture practice Jakob +…

Amidst a block of more traditional houses in Bilzen, Belgium, Narrow House stands out with a display-box-like facade that houses sculptural balconies.  Brussels-based architect Bassam El-Okeily collaborated with fellow Belgian…