Grafton Architects   Ireland   From its original location, the University of Limerick has expanded over the years and is now situated on both sides of the River Shannon, the longest and largest in Ireland. The University’s expansion provided the location for the new Medical School

Batlleiroig   Spain   At the foot of the Collserola mountains, this university residence for the British company Vita Student is located in Barcelona's Pedralbes neighborhood. All of its 274 rooms face the exterior. The ventilated facade presents a greenish ceramic finish

Studio Jan Vermeulen Tom Thys Architecten    Belgium   A fruit of a collaborative endeavor of the Brussels-based firms Studio Jan Vermeulen and Tom Thys Architecten, this assisted-living facility for dementia patients is located on the outskirts of the Belgian city of Kortrijk, in the province of West Fl

O&O Baukunst Bruther   France   The strict structural rhythm creates a module capable of accommodating different programs –housing, garages, and public or commercial spaces– and offers the possibility of reversing all of them to in the future adapt them to the needs of the campus..

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Germany   The new guest house integrates architectural topics of the vicinity – solitary positioning, staggering or repetition – to generate a volume of flowing contours and sculptural quality. Loggias and terraces permit a direct relation to the exterior...

Sou Fujimoto   Japan   The privileged site is on a southwestwardly slope facing the sea in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. The programme, consisting of a rehabilitation facility for mentally disabled people, required an ambiguous atmosphere between the intimacy

Martín Lejarraga   Spain   The Cartagena-based practice of Martín Lejarraga has turned a couple of palatial 19th-century buildings at Calle Duquesa 21, in Granada, into a university dormitory. All the while respecting heritage and pursuing an image of continuity, the intervent

Toshiko Mori   Senegal   The New York practice of architect Toshiko Mori was commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the non-profit organization American Friends of Le Korsa (AFLK) to give the remote Senegalese town of Fass a school that can serve 300 childr

Kengo Kuma   Switzerland   The 700 rooms of the Grand Morillon student residence in Geneva are organized in two volumes perforated by a footpath that ascends gradually from the ground level, giving access to the shared programs.

Sergison Bates architects   Belgium   The new residential building for people affected by early-onset dementia is part of a network of care facilities set within a park, including a community center housed in an Art Deco villa. It provides an intermediate scale and a new urban edge to th

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Austria   Ocupying the old site of Wiener Molkerei (Vienna Dairy), close to the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Wiener Prater park, this student residence recreates the essence of the late 19th-century architecture that characterizes the up

LAN Architecture   France   The population of the neighborhood of La Chapelle in Paris is as varied as its architecture. Haussmann-era buildings stand next to warehouses and light industry workshops bordering those of the SNCF along the tracks leading into the Gare de l’Est. It

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... [+

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   Burkina Faso   Situated in the rural countryside of Boulkiemdé province, the Noomdo Orphanage lies approximately 2 kilometers outside Koudougou, and is home to more than fifty children between the ages of six and seventeen. Mimicking the nearby residential compound

Eduardo Souto de Moura   The terrain is formed by three hills that rise 20 meters above the level of the desert: the Al Hosn residence – a patio-house that takes inspiration from the Alhambra –, the campus with the student residence, and the teachers’ villa with the spiritua

Aleph Zero Rosenbaum Gustavo Utrabo Pedro Duschenes   Brazil   Raised on the initiative of the Fundaçao Bradesco in 1973 and located in the rural zone of Formoso de Araguaia, in one of Brazil’s central regions, Fazenda Canuanã is a small cluster of buildings that serves as a boarding school, and within it, the B

Alejandro Aravena ELEMENTAL   United States   The student hall at St. Edward’s University offers accommodation and services for students on the university’s campus outside Austin, Texas. Won in an international call for ideas, the brief asked for 300 beds, communal facilities with dining rooms,

Harquitectes   Spain   On the same plot where the Vallès School of Architecture goes up, the project won a competition in which three challenges were posed: to provide accommodation for architecture students, to achieve the Minergie Swiss energy certification (staying belo

OFIS Architects   France   This 192-unit student residence in Paris occupies a very narrow lot, presenting a random-looking wooden facade on one side and a triangulated metal wall on the other.

Irene Brea Martínez   Netherlands   Facing the artificial Ijssel lake and on reclaimed land, the four front pieces make up the dwellings, while the rear piece, which wraps around them, conforms the social center in a private-public gradient, from water to earth.  The same building, whi

Mecanoo   Netherlands   With its double ceramic and botanical facade, three small towers contain 186 room modules that were preassembled in the factory and set up on site on a structural steel grid.

Aires Mateus   Portugal   Located in the municipality of Alcácer do Sal, some 90 kilometers from Lisbon, this building gives an original answer to the situation of the elderly in Western societies. This is an even greater challenge these days because of the gradual aging of t

MBM arquitectes   Spain   THE HOUSE of the Xuklis is a residence for  the relatives of children diagnosed with cancer and under treatment in Barcelona hospitals. The project, an initiative of AFANOC (association of relatives and friends of children undergoing oncological trea

Un muro perforado acoge el conjunto de viviendas para personas mayores en Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, diseñado por los lisboetas Aires Mateus. Posado sobre un encinar cuya pendiente entierra parcialmente el programa, el edificio se pliega en torno a un