Sanjay Puri Architects   India   The Mumbai-based firm founded in 1992 by Sanjay and Nina Puri has built this spiral-shaped community center, crowned with a green roof, that gives views of the surrounding desert in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Located in Moolwas, it was designed t

Norm Architects   Denmark   Facing the Kattegat strait, which links the Baltic to the North Sea, this cedar-clad house presents gabled green roofs, coated with several Sedum species, that change color with the seasons, in mimicry with the environment. Referencing Denmark’s trad

Kengo Kuma Taisei Design Planners Architects & Engineers   Japan   This wellness center doubles as a medical facility for staff of KaneKa, which specializes in environmental technology. The 625-square-meter building combines with green roofs that fold and touch ground, besides different systems developed by KaneKa,

MVRDV   Taiwan   The firm MVRDV, in collaboration with LLJ Architects, has built a fruit and vegetable market in the east part of the city of Tainan. Reinventing the typology of markets, the building gives views of the surrounding landscape from an undulating accessi

Kengo Kuma Javier Villar Ruiz   Spain   The building takes advantage of its location in Logroño, at the point where the pilgrim route to Santiago enters the city, to create a public staircase connecting the street to a garden roof that serves as a deck for views of La Rioja's capital and t

andramatin   Indonesia   A remote Javanese region has equipped itself with a small aerodrome to attract those wanting to escape the massified international circuits and uphold a more sustainable tourism model. The terminal evokes the constructions of the local tribes with i

MAIO   Spain   The refurbishment project proposes a landscaped roof based on a new topography. This garden is covered at specific areas in the tradition of orangeries and greenhouses, turning the vegetation into the key component of the design...

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   The compact campus envisioned to go up over an old Citroën factory will seal the merger of two hospitals in the suburbs of Paris, and serve as a center for medical university practicums. Conceived as a superposition of neutral trays that are easily a

Bailorull +ADD Arquitectura   Spain   This office block was designed by the practice of Manuel Bailo and Rosa Rull, with the advice of the project management consulting firm H.A.U.S. Healthy Buildings. Containing an area of 15,411 square meters and taking up the entire length of the site

Os 3 arkitektura   Spain   The extension is a volume with a frame of cross-laminated timber panels, clad in larchwood louvers and held up by the loadbearing walls of a 19th-century villa beside it, in the Basque town of Usurbil, Gipuzkoa province. The intervention stretches on

CEBRA Architecture   Denmark   Skamlingsbanken is a lateral moraine that was formed during the last ice age (22,000-25,000 years ago). Belonging to the Danish municipality of Kolding, this visitor center is embedded in the ground, forming another hill in the rolling landscape. Mea

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   In the Baiyun Central Business District of the city of Guangzhou, the company Infinitus China has inaugurated its new main offices. Containing close to 186,000 square meters, the complex – named Infinitus Plaza – comprises two buildings interconnecte

3XN Zhubo Design B+H Architects   China   Close to Yanzi Lake, in the heart of Shenzhen’s Pingshan District, stands this 42,000-square-meter museum whose curving and fluid forms evoke a river. A fruit of the collaboration among the firms 3XN, B+H Architects, and Zhubo Design, the building is

Gradolí & Sanz arquitectes   Spain   The building lies on the edge of the Valterna residential area, on a stretch of land located between the dwellings and the En Dolça ravine, which separates Valterna from the expansion area of La Pinada, of the same property as the school. The first d

Carme Pinós   Spain   Located at the foot of the Serra de Tramuntana, close to the town of Pollença, in the southernmost tip of Mallorca, Son Brull is a five-star hotel located in an old Jesuit monastery from the 18th century, and which was carefully restored in 2003 by i

studio raro   Italy   On the outskirts of a small municipality in the Trentino region, the ecology farm called La Dolce Mela occupies a property in a picturesque valley known for its cultivation of apples; a place which in the course of time has become a popular destinati

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Canada   The extension of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec sits amid the other three existing institutional buildings creating a complex on the edge of the park. The project tries to establish new relationships between the green areas and the adjac

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The construction of a large leisure facility like this casino entails the need to distribute – in a single building – the services and uses associated with the gambling areas, restaurant, kitchens, car park, conference hall, and facilities. The proje

MOS Architects   United States   Four features stand out in this series of cabins scattered within the woods: the folded weathering steel outside and the plywood interior, a slightly off-center stove, a large thick living roof landscaped like the surroundings, and their square windo

Sou Fujimoto Architects   France   Located in the historic axis that connects the heart of Paris with La Défense, this project – designed by Sou Fujimoto with Manal Rachdi – integrates the complexity of the plot and circulations through a permeable design... [+]

Aires Mateus   Portugal   The great Alqueva Lake, located on the frontier of Extremadura and the Portuguese Alentejo, is the largest artificial lake in Western Europe, with an area of 250 square kilometers and more than 1,160 kilometers of interior coast. Since the inaugurati

Aires Mateus   Portugal   Known for the famous medieval castle after which it is named, the municipality of Leiria spreads by the banks of the Lis River. This compact single-family house goes up on a hill on the outskirts of the city, on a site in a high position overlooking

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Switzerland   The Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet is located within the famous luxury watch manufacturer’s historical complex of workshops and factories. It reflects the innovative spirit of the firm – which has successfully maintained its autonomy as a family enter

Esteban Domínguez   David Gómez   The citizen of the 21st century demands to live in an ever more ecological and sustainable environment, where transportation is provided with vehicles that pollute less, where the air that one breathes is cleaner, where large parks and gardens abound

Un tapiz verde de césped artificial cubre el nuevo Centro de Educación Infantil y Primaria de Roldán, una pedanía del municipio de Torre Pacheco situada cerca de Cartagena. Resultado de un concurso celebrado en 2008 y ganado por el murciano Estudio H

Built in 1971-1975 as headquarters for an insurance company that had decided to move out of London, the futuristic, sinuous, dark glass skin of Willis Faber & Dumas fitted with astonishing ease into the medieval core of Ipswich, a small town in t