MVRDV   China   The new bridge will connect the old town of Zhujiajiao, a quaint old village with numerous canals, with new residential developments, maximizing the space for pedestrians and including a grandstand overlooking the water to foster social activities by

MVRDV   Germany   An interactive facade of fritted glass with photovoltaic cells features a pixel map of the city and contains information on its history and its people. The office building opens up to the square with a restaurant, cafeteria, and meeting areas... [+]

MVRDV, Diamond Schmitt Architects   Netherlands   Next to St. John’s Cathedral, the new theater dresses its atrium with The Garden of Delights, which can be perceived through the glazed facade as a stained glass window. Its two auditoria can be united in a single space or operate independently... [+

MVRDV   Netherlands   With an area of 29,000 m², the complex includes 240 new homes and 1,700 m² of commercial program. The roofs welcome vegetation and the installation of solar panels, and their geometry favors natural light and views at street level... [+]

MVRDV   Netherlands   The complex shows a large exterior glass facade that interacts with the corporate buildings nearby, and establishes a contrast with the vegetation-covered terraces that define the residential area, achieving a more human scale... [+]

MVRDV, Dewan   United Arab Emirates   The project is part of a large-scale development for the creation of the ‘Makers District’, the future heart of Abu Dhabi. Consisting of seven medium-height towers around a plaza, it contains 76,000 m² of housing and 15,000 m² of commercial spaces...

MVRDV, Dewan   South Korea   The tourist center contains a retail complex of 3,600 m² and a night club of 6,200 m², housed inside two pieces of concrete whose design addresses the forms of the surrounding buildings, turning their facades into echoes of the environment... [+]

MVRDV   Germany   The former army base becomes a residential enclave, with a hill that marks the center and includes retail and communal spaces, and four high-rises that shape the word ‘HOME,’ welcoming new population to the neighborhood... [+]

MVRDV, BCVA   Denmark   This masterplan aims to transform the famous artificial island – which was once home to a salt distillation plant and newspaper paper storage – into a mixed-use complex, developed with a phasing strategy to avoid interfering with daily activity... [+

MVRDV, BCVA   Poland   Mlode Miasto is a palimpsest of the history of the Polish city of Gdansk, and the project foresees the construction of a new mixed-use district on it, the identity of which is built around heritage, configuring a rich network of public spaces. The 40

EM2N Architekten, Sergison Bates architects, noA architecten   Belgium   The old, iconic showroom becomes the main entrance to this complex where artistic production replaces industrial one, adding three new volumes of auditorium, museum, and archive, and redefining the circulation system as a public and exhibition space.

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Belgium   The use of subtraction as a strategy to order, connect, and generate new possibilities in the spaces, is reflected in the outdoor corridor that divides the factory into two parts: a new connection between the museum and the showroom, and the emptying

6a architects, OMA, AgwA   Belgium   All the exhibition spaces complementary to the museum are gathered under the same roof: the peripheral gallery, open to city; the garage, for temporary exhibitions, experiments and large-scale events; the showroom; and the Interstitial Museum... [+]

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, JDS Architects   Belgium   The proposal echoes industrial production by incorporating a gantry crane on the east-west axis – this crane will permit transferring heavy works arriving by truck or boat – as well as mobile elements that facilitate a flexible configuration of the s

51N4E, Caruso St John Architects, Thomas Demand, l'AUC   Belgium   The project proposes the creation of a series of architectural pieces which order and hierarchize the gigantic interior of the complex, providing the museum with the spaces it requires to house its diverse collections, exhibitions, and programs... [+

Lhoas & Lhoas Architecture, O&O Baukunst   Belgium   The new piece frees up a large portion of the complex, permitting a flexible and non-regulated use. This new volume contains logistics spaces, offices, auditoria, and a museum designed as a massive and solid monolith with four monumental slabs... [+]

Christ & Gantenbein, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   A latent symbol of a declining automobile industry, the Citroën showroom and workshop form an urban island that dominates the north of the ringroad alongside the Brussels canal. The project is intended to revive the importance of this place and resto

HYBRIDa   Spain   This standardized system – based on a polymeric compound reinforced with thermoplastic fiber and generated by pultrusion – is capable of varying with the programmatic requirements of the architecture, generating non-predetermined forms... [+]

DOSIS   United Kingdom   Manufactured from opaque and transparent PVC, this inflatable pavilion generates a reconfigurable space: an initial bubble of 65 m² can be transformed into a multi-room measuring 400 m² and reaching a height of up to 8 meters... [+]

Piuarch   Italy   The pavilion’s envelope is a prestressed plastic mesh that lets the air flow through and natural light come in, which helps keep energy use to a minimum. Built for Expo 2015, the structure is conceived to be easily dismantled and reassembled elsewher

Studio Arthur Casas   Brazil   The facade of the hotel is covered with a series of perforated pieces or polycarbonate resin caps (cobogós) that are fire and sun resistant, produced by injection of the material under pressure in steel molds, and fixed in folding frames... [+]

Selgascano   Spain   The center is on the boundary between the town and the country, between the artificial and the natural. It was necessary to choose one of the two sides, and from the outset the second option was chosen. This forced to rest the buildings on a much low

Foster + Partners   France   Known for its rich historic and artistic heritage, Narbonne, founded by Romans in 118 BC, was once a major port. Today it is a vibrant city, with an impressive legacy of buildings, ancient relics, and archaeological sites. At the gates of the city, n

Displayed in the latest edition of ARCO, Madrid 666 is a narration in which reality and fiction converge, a multifaceted exercise based on the construction of a modern myth. Devised by Arturo Garrido, architecture student from the Madrid School of Ar

Based in Hong Kong, the young architect and photographer has brought together his training and his passion in a search for the order and rhythm present in landscape. The abstract and poetic compositions of the traditional fishing structures he discov