Junya Ishigami + associates   The topographic design aims to reactivate an area that is highly affected by the unstable weather and the uneven exploitation of its resources, offering a landscape of variable morphology that is organized by the different water levels...

Junya Ishigami + associates   Netherlands   The project includes a new visitors’ center, a floating stage and several greenhouses for the 19th century Dutch park, famous for its flora and fauna, but also for the many artistic events and exhibitions it holds throughout the year...

Junya Ishigami + associates   Japan   Underneath a firm structure that follows the standard module of a Japanese tatami, this home for the elderly reconciles current and traditional architecture, reusing whole parts of houses that are abandonded or ready to be demolished...

Junya Ishigami + associates   United Kingdom   The project reduces the houses to a minimum unit, however private and comfortable, inviting a new everyday lifestyle presided by nature. A large garden surrounds the house and becomes, as the architect says, the true luxury of the house...

Junya Ishigami + associates   Japan   A house inside another house: a glass shell of operable glass on the roof and the facade delimits the plot, containing a garden and a freestanding house. It looks like an ambiguous dwelling space in which the users are inside and outside at the same

Junya Ishigami + associates   The table weighs 700 kilograms and spans 9.5 meters with a three-millimeter-thick aluminum board. To achieve this it inverts its bend curve and is stabilized with several objects that are strategically placed on its surface...  

Snøhetta   France   Like a crack in the ground, the project finds its place along the boundary of two different landscapes: the wooded hill and the valley. In this partially burrowed position, the exhibition spaces recreate the experience of exploring a cave...

Jean Nouvel   France   The proposal tries to reduce the presence of the building to a single artistic gesture. It conceals all the spaces under the forest except for a narrow band of 200 meters that at night lights up, taking on amber hues that herald its presence from the

Josep Lluís Mateo   France   A gentle slope leads visitors from a large outdoor space to the interior of the building. Once inside, a series of translucent screens nuance the intensity of the shadows, making reference to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave...

Auer Weber Architekten   France   The building’s form is carved out of a stone prism, faceting the surfaces and perforating the interior to let natural light come in through courtyards and skylights, which organize the indoor exhibition itineraries...

Zuloark, Manuel Domínguez   Spain   Very Large Structure is the proposal of the recently graduated Manuel Domínguez, of the collective Zuloark, for his thesis project: a huge mobile structure that traverses the Spanish plateau interacting with the land along its course. It is conceived

Francisco Mangado   Spain   Located in the old part of Oviedo, the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias custodies more than 12,500 works distributed in three historic buildings. The value of the collection as well as the climate control, storage and accessibility requirements of mus

Five artists who use paper to create their designs – Béatrice Coron, Mathilde Nivet, Peter Callesen, Ingrid Siliakus and Stephanie Beck – are displaying their work in the exhibition ‘Architectures de papier’, on show at the Cité de l’architecture &am

Pioneer in the field of nighttime photography, Ogle Winston Link (New York, 1914-2001) is known for his photographs of trains using artificial lighting techniques. His career began as a photographer at an advertising agency, but in World War II he wa