Mecanoo   Luxembourg   Factors like the features of the site and budget determined the compact design in which the manipulation of the topography rationalizes the complex program. The skylights and the glazed facade bring in sunlight and frame the views... [+]

Mecanoo   Netherlands   Perfectly integrated into the existing street pattern and inspired in the wooded landscape of the Veluwe area, the station is protected with a roof formed by wood triangles that, like a canopy of leaves, lets light pass through... [+]

Mecanoo   United Kingdom   With a palette of simple and honest materials, the articulation of the form and a clear structural expression on the facade, the design seeks to create a flexible environment for learning and research that reveals what happens inside... [+]

Mecanoo   Germany   Next to Frankfurt am Main Central Station, a new mixed-use complex of 58,000 m² is built with two volumes joined by a podium. The tallest, reaching 140 m high, has a dynamic shape generated by the changing geometry of its balconies... [+]

Mecanoo   China   Public life in the city of Shenzhen thrives in semi-open spaces, so the center takes the shape of a 150m tower that breathes and lets in sunlight, opening up at street level and inviting pedestrians into a square filled with vegetation... [+]

Mecanoo   China   The dynamic digital facade evokes the clouds in traditional Chinese paintings. The building marks the entrance to the commercial district of Qianhai, and symbolizes its innovative drive. The planted terraces bring users contact with nature... [+]

Mecanoo   China   Inspired by the textile production of the international company, the tower – 238m tall – is covered with a bronze metal grid, interrupted by a succession of stepped terraces that offer panoramic views of Shenzhen Bay... [+]

Mecanoo   China   Inspired by the small-scale urban fabric of Chinese historic cities, the project uses a permeable grid that allows pedestrian connections inside and outside. The design is divided into two towers and a network of plazas and plant-filled terraces... [

Mecanoo   Taiwan   A large bracket stretches horizontally, establishing a narrow connection with the environment; on top of it, the perfect cube that contains the archives is protected, like a precious object, by a facade of natural stone and thin aluminum slats... [+]

Mecanoo   Taiwan   Based on the visual language of the railway tracks that currently interrupt transit in the city, a new layer of transportation lines will link up with the existing ones to generate a linear park integrating new functions... [+] 

Dorte Mandrup   Norway   The village of Andenes, 300 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, is on the Norwegian island of Andøya, in an area frequented by whales on their migratory journeys. Here the Danish studio Dorte Mandrup will be building a seaside viewpoint for watching w

Snøhetta   Norway   The building starts out from two axes – a circle with a reflectant surface where the sea meets the mountains –, and another vertical one, shaped like a cylinder, where visitors can learn about the life of whales also in the deep sea waters... [+]

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Norway   The materials used, the experiences that take place inside the building, and the design of the roof as a stormy sea, where the waves clash to let light inside, invite visitors to immerse themselves in the dramatic natural environment of the site... [

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter - RRA   Norway   The building is integrated in a park connected by paths, establishing a relationship with the city of Andenes. The program is laid out over four levels, one of them underwater so that visitors can observe the seabed through the windows... [+]

Moshe Safdie   Singapore   Based on the geometry of a torus, the gridshell, supported by 14 tree-like columns, stems from an edge-beam that surrounds the whole airport starting at the fifth floor, marking the transition of the cladding, which goes from aluminum panels to glass

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Designed by Zaha Hadid before she died on March 2016, Leeza SOHO contains the world’s tallest atrium (194,16 meters), which whirls around the building upward. Rising in the Chinese capital’s Fengtai business district, the tower contains 172,800 squar

Archismith Co.   Thailand   The building is a box whose image varies depending on how much sunlight falls on the facade, built with 20.000 rectangular glass blocks with extended edges or wings, which allows reducing the width of the grouting to 2mm... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Netherlands   Located in the center of Rotterdam, the Timmerhuis is a new building for the city hall that accommodates services, offices, residential units, shops, and parking. Attached to another municipal building from 1953, the new building adjusts to its neigh

Belzberg Architects   United States   The existing building is revitalized with a new facade; a triple-layer curtain wall formed in three phases: a topography obtained by gravity, a pattern based on the design of each panel accentuating their form, and the transition from opaque to trans

Trahan Architects   United States   The center, which aims to illustrate the French Creole lifestyle of Magnolia Mound – a plantation established in 1791 along the Mississippi River – is completed with translucent glass profiles that make the building blend with the landscape... [+]

Broissin   Mexico   Conceived as an invitation to think about privacy in the social networks and also about intimacy and security in the built environment, the project proposes a tree house constructed with thick glass panels instead of timber as usual... [+]

Heatherwick Studio   China   Following the success of the UK Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the studio came into contact with clients in Asia and was invited to design a large mixed-use development – including residential, hotels, retail, and commercial units – on a

Born in 1961, the British landscape architect, documentalist and writer Nicholas Bonner has lived over the past twenty years in Beijing, base from which he organizes cultural exchange programs with North Korea. His interest in the art of this country

The shine of the colors, the geometries of the landscapes and the almost tactile textures make the images of Tom Hegen (Königsbrunn, 1991) look like impressive abstract paintings, when they are actually objective documents of reality. The photographe