Caruso St John Architects   Switzerland   One single piece groups all the apartments maximizing the open spaces; their location to the east of the plot and the facade composition emphasize the qualities of the environment, farmlands with few buildings, mountains to the north, and prairies t

Caruso St John Architects   Switzerland   Renovating the north and west buildings offers the opportunity to bring out the strengths of the place, improve the connection among spaces, transform the new children’s house, and provide an affordable and welcoming space for the families who live t

Caruso St John Architects, Adam Caruso, Peter St John   Switzerland   The building is located in a former industrial area that is being transformed into a new quarter for living and working, and takes up the whole perimeter of the plot leaving an interior courtyard-park connecting all the public spaces at street level.

Caruso St John Architects   Czech Republic   Situated on a narrow plot and conceived as a constellation of buildings, the Česká Spořitelna headquarters are inspired by Hamburg’s Kontorhäuser district to develop a campus that shares proportions and material qualities to create a coherent image..

Caruso St John Architects   Switzerland   The project to transform these old barracks in Zurich into two new schools offers an opportunity to give the monument, its open spaces, and its rooms a new use, and to see this major building in a different way: as if it were a house within a garden.

Caruso St John Architects   Switzerland   The project replaces an old building from the 1980s with another starting from a wood structure that is organized around a network of landscaped terraces. The facade composition contributes and adapts to its streetscape and surroundings...

Caruso St John Architects   Switzerland   On a site over a major traffic infrastructure, the facades of the exhibitions pavilion evoke the tunnels that run beneath the site and that, together with the change of material and the different textures, offer a strong urban image upon entering the

Caruso St John Architects   Germany   The research campus is made up of three structures that will replace the existing hangars adjacent to the company’s historic factory building. At the heart of the project is the new ‘garden building’ that will provide flexible spaces for different u

Barozzi Veiga   Belgium   The Jewish Museum of Belgium is located in the historic Sablon district of Brussels, in a 19th-century academic-style building that has undergone several transformations over the years. The project for its renovation provides new facilities in a clea

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   This mixed-use complex, which combines residential areas with spaces for art, culture, and work, respectfully blends the industrial brick architecture that was reconstructed during the postwar years with an extension in red concrete...

Pinearq - Albert de Pineda   Romania   A scheme drawn up by Albert de Pineda’s Barcelona firm Pinearq – in collaboration with the local office Dico si Tiganas – is the winning entry in the competition to build a hospital specialized in transplants within the heterogeneous historical quart

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   A carpet of green hills stretches on the south side of the square, and on it rest a caleidoscopic building that reflects the context and wooden bleachers for multiple uses. The blue pavement takes inspiration from the sea, recalling the meaning of ‘S

AZPML, UKST   South Korea   Evoking the traditional roofs of Hanok and surrounded by a garden with architectural fragments and vegetation, the museum reuses parts of obsolete railway infrastructures to reduce the impact of the construction on the environment... The winning desi

Archwerk, Formafatal   Costa Rica   Overlooking Hermosa Beach from a Costa Rican jungle slope, five small shelters adapt to the site by levitating over the ground. Designed by the Czech firms Archwerk (Martin Kloda and Hana Procházková) and Formafatal (Dagmar Štěpánová), they are part

noa*   Italy   At the foot of the imposing Sciliar massif in the Dolomites, the popular Parc Hotel Florian has been expanded, with ten new suites grouped in a stand-alone two-floor complex that emulates tree houses. In order not to break the continuity of the surro

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter - RRA, ASP Architecture   France   Raised high over the Swiss village of Breitenbach, near the German border, this hotel is designed as a reinterpretation of a traditional Scandinavian place of retreat in nature. Wooden volumes dot the hillside and are diluted in the Alsatian landscap

Holon Arkitektur   Norway   The five triangular cabins, with panoramic views of the North Sea, are raised on four steel columns to avoid leaving any trace on the landscape. Their triangular shape and flat cut is carefully planned to withstand the strong winds of the area...

Levelstudio   Kazakhstan   Located 3,200m above sea level, this modular glamping is one of the highest altitude hotels in the world, and was built in under five months. Each cabin is assembled from three modules made of a steel frame and aluminum sandwich panels with stone woo

Sou Fujimoto   Hungary   Inspired in the worlds of nature and of music, the Japanese studio won in 2014 the competition to build the House of Hungarian Music, to be built in Budapest’s largest park. An undulated disc, pierced by random openings, is elevated on slender suppor

Sergio García (Guadix, Spain, 1967) is one of the most prominent comic book artists in Europe, and also a professor in the field at the universities of Granada – his alma mater – and of Angoulême. Through a selection of his most representative works

For more than 25 years, Fernando Moleres (Bilbao, 1963) has used documentary photography as a means to tackle issues he finds interesting and troubling, as can be seen in his series ‘Melting Landscapes’ and ‘Anthropocene,’ the term used to describe t