Foster + Partners   Sweden   New Slussen is one of the largest urban transformation projects in Sweden. The design seeks to create a dynamic urban quarter, responding to its historic context and transforming the labyrinth of traffic in the new city center. New public spaces and

Foster + Partners, ArchitectsHafeez Contractor   India   Designed with the highest sustainability standards, the new administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh is organized by an urban grid with a green spine running through its length. The project includes the Legislature Assembly and the High Court complex

Foster + Partners   United States   With a form that is a pure expression of the function, the tower is divided into three stacked volumes, with the core placed to the rear. Standing alongside icons by Mies, Saarinen, and Johnson, it is the first office block to go up on Park Avenue in

Foster + Partners   Canada   With 80 floors and 306 in height, the tower is a clearly articulated building that differentiates the commercial units at lower levels from the apartments above. The structural frame is expressed on the facade, becoming a distinctive addition to the

Foster + Partners   Spain   The introduction of stepped timber floors within an industrial building from 1905 creates terraces sheltered by a historic roof. The structure allows for spatial flexibility and integrates lighting and ventilation. The project also includes a new cou

Foster + Partners   Luxembourg   Open and flexible, the building is arranged in two wings that enclose the central atrium. The entire volume is wrapped by a distinctive orthogonal facade and roof which emphasizes the efficient structural grid and gives the building a unified industr

Foster + Partners   China   Norman Foster’s firm has won the competition to design the new offices of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The location is Shanghai’s Xuhui Riverside area, with views of the Huangpu River and the Pudong CBD. Thought out from the inside out, a gr

Foster + Partners   Switzerland   InnHub La Punt is a new centre for innovation in the heart of the Engadin valley that seeks to bring new visitors together with the local community to increase prosperity, create new jobs, and revitalize local crafts and produce. It is based on the i

Foster + Partners   United Kingdom   The refurbishment of original structure, designed by Cedric Price with Frank Newby and Lord Snowdon in 1962, provides a new walk-through home for the zoo’s troop of Colobus monkeys and includes a new education and community center...

Carmody Groarke, TRANS Architectuure, RE-ST   Belgium   A rich museum devoted to design culture takes up an entire block in the Belgian city’s old quarter that will be rearranged and completed with a sculptural volume crowned with a lookout. Besides a new landmark, the extension aspires to be a benchmark

Assemble, Czvek Rigby   Belgium   This hybrid construction of timber frame and concrete floor slabs steps away from the ‘white cube’ with a structure that expresses its materiality. The bays of ceramic tiles afford a decorative and painterly quality harmonious with the historic conte

FELT architectuur, Monadnock, aNNo architecten   Belgium   The proposal consists of a volume of two parts: a pedestal that matches the grain of the street and the scale of passerbys; and a tower that acts on the scale of the city and joins the skyline; both are connected by the folds and colors of the facade

BEL Architecten   Belgium   The prominent location, in a charged historical context, advised to stack the program in a slender tower that connects with its surroundings via a sun-filled terrace separated from the neighboring buildings by a garden, and with panoramic rooftop vie

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   The project for an extension of the Design Museum Ghent is composed by a stacking of various geometrical figures. Together with a concrete slab defined by the perimeter of the site, the stacking offered a variety of spaces on each floor. While the ma

NL Architects   Netherlands   Built with Wachenzeller Dolomite – very similar to the stone of the church and the town hall –, the facades are interspersed with immense surfaces of optimized triple glazing that keep temperature constant inside the building and make it energy effic

Atelier Lorentzen Langkilde   Norway   Located in the Arctic Circle, the project transforms and connects the two existing buildings, and dialogs with them through color and the pattern of the faceted facades of Jura Stone of the new volume, whose angles capture the changing northern light

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   This twenty-room hotel rises in an environment dotted with small lakes and a handful of preexisting structures that have been transformed to adapt to new uses...

José Manuel López Osorio   Spain   Photographs from the early 20th century have allowed to rebuild the castle using sandstone ashlar pieces with carved headers to let light pass through; a substructure anchored to the concrete cores of the interior of the towers stabilizes the new wal

Bernardo Bader Architekten   Austria   The building engages in a dialogue with its surroundings through strategically positioned windows and the facade’s irregular rows of pieces of local granite and gneiss. The very profound facade is formed by a loadbearing double inner layer, with its

GRX Arquitectos   Spain   Bordering with Albacete, Murcia, and Almeria bot located within Granada province, the municipality of Puebla de Don Fadrique belongs to the comarca of Huéscar, at the foot of La Sagra peak. The Granada-based GRX Arquitectos – Álvaro Gor, Carlos Gor,

gmp Architekten   China   In the Chinese province of Jiangsu, in the eastern part of the country, Changzhou is a 2,500 year old city with a dense network of rivers that is becoming the new industrial and technological hub in the prosperous Yangtze River delta area. There in C

While the architecture, cinema, or the graphic arts of the Russian avant-gardes have been studied in great detail, other disciplines such as interior design or furniture design are still largely unknown, as is the history of their evolution from the

Fascinated by the surrealist structures of megacities and urban landscapes, as well as by modernity and its environmental and social consequences, photographer Ryan Koopmans, born in 1986 in Amsterdam and raised in Vancouver, studied at the Universit