Jean Nouvel   Belgium   The project to renovate the railway station includes, in its 250,000 square meters of offices, retail spaces and conference center, a V-shaped building over the train tracks and several structures stretching along Fonsny Avenue.  The V-shaped office

Jean Nouvel   Brazil   A 93-meter high residential tower, with a hotel and apartments, becomes a vertical extension of the adjoining Matarazzo park; a series of terraces form luxuriant green surfaces, planted with the same species that grow in the park.  Designed as a tree

Jean Nouvel   France   The only visible portion of the building in the landscape is a narrow band of 200 meters and amber tones; there, a clay ramp enclosed in polished concrete walls leads to the recreation of the Paleolithic cave and its paintings... [+]

Jean Nouvel   China   South of the island of Hainan, the hotel emerges over an artificial topography that connects it with the beach and with a public park; a glass facade of 150 x 400 meters is wrapped up with a platform of pools and restaurants with views of the bay.  A

Jean Nouvel   Netherlands   As if it were a large boat docked at the port, the building emerges over a layer of water that reflects its glass facade, the stainless steel structure that adds rhythm to it, and the 45 flags of European countries located at the entrance to the inst

Jean Nouvel   India   With views of the city and the sea, the 57-story apartment block symbolizes the spirit of Indian cities and their striking colors through the repetition of lacquered glass elements on the facade, configuring a large mashrabiya... [+]

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   France   The new looping station for the extension of the Paris metro encloses a central covered space and connects the three municipalities around it – Bondy, Bobigny, and Noisy-le-Sec – as well as the two levels located at either end of the canal... [+]

Kengo Kuma   France   The station, which evokes the railway tracks and the passage of time with the wood frames of its curtain wall, extends the adjacent public space and also houses complementary programs that will reactivate social and cultural life in the district.

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   France   A pergola of panels inspired in the lively colors and patterns of African fabrics unifies the exterior volumes and the plaza. The central space, clad in the same material and with four zigzagging stairs, receives natural light through a large skyligh

Dominique Perrault Architecture   France   Located at different height, two disks of 58 and 66 meters in diameter configure a lightweight roof that marks the entrances to the station hovering over a central void that connects the city with the train tracks buried 50 meters deep... [+]

Cristián Izquierdo   Chile   The floor plan of this house designed by Cristián Izquierdo, sitting on a dune facing the sea in Morrillos (Chile), adopts a cross-shaped arrangement that allows using it in different ways during the year. Sometimes it is a large vacation residence f

KOZ architectes   France   In a Parisian working class neighborhood, the social housing block has been refurbished using only wood: volumes at different height look onto a south-facing garden that becomes an area of transition between the public and private space... [+]

Dellekamp Arquitectos   Mexico   The pavilion is based on a triangular grid system made of prefabricated modules of certified pine wood, laminated and with metallic joinery, which permits a quick assembly and adaptation to different locations and programs... [+]

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   Raised on a concrete platform that protects it, the building strives to adapt to its context and preserves the existing trees through the repetition of a basic unit: a pillar from which four cantilevered beams jut out at different heights... [+]

Toyo Ito, Contemporaries   Japan   Within the Home-for-All initiative, a relief project for the coastal area of Japan struck by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011, the plan offers a protected space for play consisting in a laminated wood structure that holds a roof formed by two inver

Bruno Fioretti Marquez   Switzerland   The gym, kindergarten, and primary school are organized around a series of voids – the sports fields, playgrounds, and entrance plaza – that are shaped through the repetition of different trapezoidal modules, of irregular forms and built in wood... [

Sebastián Irarrázaval   Chile   The library project resulted from a public-private initiative whose mission was to reconstruct the city after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated the ctiy in 2010.

Rossetti + Wyss Architekten   Switzerland   The basic structure is inspired in traditional agricultural construction, rising in the form of 36 stacked blocks to house a workshop in its interior. The volume is built using the same amount of timber that regrows in Switzerland every 18 minutes...

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The port of Amager Island, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, has over the years become a magnet for enthusiasts of extreme sports. The team directed by Bjarke Ingels (Copenhagen, 1974) is building in this industrial area what’s considered to be the cou

Photography of building models brings together two architectural representation systems to express what a project wants to become. Its importance as graphic element, as dissemination tool, and its documentary value as bearer of a legacy that has some

The American artist Kai Caemmerer invites, through his work, to reflect on the urban space, the continuous growth of cities, and the relationship of photography with both: how photography can decipher landscapes, transform ordinary scenes into someth