Kengo Kuma   China   A wavy skin of textile appearance wraps this 134 meter-tall office building located in the district of Hongkou, in Shanghai. The tower contains 95,000 square meters of office space in 29 stories (private units in the higher floors, shared workplaces

Kengo Kuma   China   Distanced from the urban center, on a gently sloping site, the building rests on the upper level, which extends by means of a bridge to maximize the views; in this way, the upper floors, which are larger, are devoted to customer care...

Kengo Kuma   France   A facade built with aluminum strips placed horizontally folds to mark the accesses and wraps, in one single terraced volume, the three functions of the building: congress center, symphony concert hall, and 150-room hotel...

Kengo Kuma   China   Designed as venue for the World Buddhist Forum, the ensemble comprises three pieces – the entrance, a 350-meter route, and a large hall – that, adapting to the slope of the quarry that used to occupy the site, introduce visitors into Zen culture...

Kengo Kuma   Philippines   The project is conceived as an open-air void that links two busy streets; devoted to indigenous culture and organized around a large space with replicas of different environments, the museum will become a new landmark and a public park for the city..

Kengo Kuma   Denmark   More than a building, the project is an urban proposal, and is devised as an element capable of stitching two areas – the historic core to the east and the new city to the west – now divided by a transportation barrier and creating a civic center...

Kengo Kuma   Italy   The project refurbishes an old industrial complex by attaching several volumes with a pitched roof, and frees up part of the ground floor to establish contact with the sea; a brick facade with different degrees of density unifies the ensemble...

Kengo Kuma   Thailand   On an idyllic beach south of the Taiwanese island of Koh Samui, the project adapts to the beauty of the landscape taking up the spaces between the rocks, which become part of the life of the inhabitants thanks to the concave form of the villas...

Kengo Kuma   Spain   Along with a spring of medicinal waters, south of the island of La Palma, the complex adapts to a depression in the terrain to reduce its visual impact on the environment; the roof of metallic sheets stretches out as if it were another element of th

Moreau Kusunoki   Finland   The project proposes a seamless transition between indoor and outdoor spaces. The concave-roof pavilions are connected by a series of garden patios that favor direct contact with the context; a lookout-tower rounds off the complex. The building is cl

AGPS Architecture   Finland   The complex is organized in two parts: one at harbor level connecting the building with the city and its industrial flavor, offering views over the port; and a second one that hovers over the former and contains the large open-plan exhibition spaces.

Asif Khan   Finland   A slightly curved textured glass skin wraps the entire building, increasing its transparency as one goes up and filtering sunlight to precisely adapt its degree of intensity to the different conditions the interior spaces need...

Fake Industries Architectural Agonism   Finland   The proposal ‘47 Rooms’ reuses the wood structure of Makasiini terminal to build a shed that preserves the original geometry and the views; the halls have independent climate conditioning, using an innovative system called ‘thermal onion’...

haas cook zemmrich STUDIO 2050   Finland   ‘Helsinki Five’ proposes a large central space encircled by five wood-clad towers connected by bridges that offer new views over the port, also giving access to the stacked boxes that house the exhibition halls of the museum...

SMAR Architecture Studio   Finland   Departing from the idea of the museum as a curatorial controlled space, here public space is brought inside via an interior street that goes through the building and which citizens can make their own, functioning as an impromptu street lab...

Carlos D. Monedero   Spain   País Pandereta analyzes the real estate bubble in Spain through a detailed study of the residential developments that emerged after the urban action programs (Programas de Actuación Urbanística or PAU), undertaken in Madrid in the years before the ho

Foster + Partners   United Kingdom   To improve traffic conditions in the city, in 2007 London approved Crossrail, the largest infrastructure project in Europe, comprising 40 stations and 42 kilometers of new tunnels connecting London from east to west. Norman Foster was commissioned to

Moving between graffiti, wall art, video art, performance and other expressions of urban art, the work of Suso33 (Madrid, 1973) reivindicates public space as the center of artistic life and as the essential milieu for communication between artist and

The work of Manuel Álvarez Diestro (Santander, 1972) proposes meditating on the place that man occupies on earth, and reflects the disastrous consequences of human activity, but also the beauty underlying the transformed landscapes. Diestro has carri