Kengo Kuma   Japan   A local company took the initiative of developing this cultural project as a coworking space and cafeteria. The structure and finishes are completed with cross-laminated timber panels, of which Okayama Prefecture is the largest producer in the countr

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   In addition to serving lunch menus at tables, an establishment located on the town square provides a home-delivery service to facilitate the everyday life of elderly residents. The quintessential space for socializing in small municipalities, the bar

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   As part of the expanding military academy at Karlberg Castle in Stockholm, the present historical context and the new building’s relation to the 17th century park are the starting point for this project. The new mess building is conceived as a freest

Tham & Videgård   France   Winning proposal in the competition of the City of Paris for the Denfert Building located at the site of the former Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital in the 14th arrondissement, the new 7400sqm building will mark the entrance to the new Saint-Vincent-de

Selgascano   Spain   The architecture firm led by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, in collaboration with the designer Andreu Carulla, has transformed an industrial space built in the early 1950s into a restaurant. The building previously harbored a repairs garage and the bar

Zooco Estudio   Spain   The Cantabrian Maritime Museum (MMC) in Santander was built between 1975 and 1978, following a design by Vicente Roig Forner and Ángel Hernández Morales. The interior is distributed in three floors around a central patio crowned with a vault of concr

Manuel Cervantes Estudio Jorge Ambrosi Taller Héctor Barroso   Mexico   Located in the state of Nayarit, west of the country, the proposal rests on the ground with a succession of staggered terraces, which alternate layers of water with vegetation, and allow enjoying both the mountain views and the Pacific seascape...

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   Peru   Despite being based on one same module of 6x6x5.40 meters, each one of the five volumes holds a specific use and offers a unique atmosphere in which to experience the act of eating at a restaurant.

Estudio DIIR   Spain   At Fortuny 47 in Madrid one finds an 80-square meter eatery called Greta Salad Bar. The objective of the project was to convey an identity linked to healthy values, through a design that floods the spaces with the color green. Different greenish tone

E2A   Switzerland   Europaallee is by far the largest real estate development in the heart of Zurich and lies just beyond the main train station. The site is the final of eight new constructions and is directly adjacent to the multicultural – and rather infamous – distr

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   Built over different periods starting in the 15th century, the Paredes-Saavedra House is a small-size urban fortress within the walled area of the city of Cáceres. The building is organized on three floors around a small asymmetrical interior atrium

Junya Ishigami + associates   Japan   In Ube, a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, stands this cave house with a small restaurant included that was built for a chef. When the restaurant is closed, its dining area doubles as a family room and the owners’ children can do their homework there.

MOCA estudio   Spain   This eatery designed by MOCA estudio (Carlos Moles Romero, Adrián Sánchez), is at Santa Engracia 54, in Madrid's Chamberí neighborhood. On the ground floor of a listed 1925 building, it has a floor area of 300 square meters, 180 of which is the publi

Magén Arquitectos   Spain   The Miralbueno-El Olivar sports complex has its origin in the purchase of two estates, in the 1960s, and the project to build two swimming pools and a park, commissioned to the architect from Zaragoza José Romero. Later on, the farmhouse was enlarged

Jean Nouvel   China   Split up by a covered central passageway connecting two streets – Ma Dang and Dan Shui – in Shanghai’s Huangpu district, this complex contains 25,000 square meters of office space and 15,000 of commercial units. The location is in what was part of th

Esrawe Studio   Mexico   This is the fifth branch, in Mexico City, of the famous Tori Tori chain of Japanese restaurants. It is located on the ground floor of a corporate building in the modern business district that gives it its name, Santa Fe, and in addressing the culinar

Vector Architects   China   The restaurant is situated behind the library by the same architects, very close to the sea. We initiated the design process by investigating how best to create a coexisting relationship with the massive and solid library volume. The idea was that, i

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   Conceived as an ‘urban technofarm,’ Run Run Run is a politically driven infrastructure that seeks to turn the street into a “playing and training field” and provoke human encounters in places and activities traditionally belonging to the realm of the

Kengo Kuma   Japan   A succession of translucent acrylic cylinders resting on wooden bars surround the different spaces of the Nacrée restaurant and serve as support for bouquets of flowers that seem to float on the air.

E2A   Switzerland   The planar building – a slender volume 75 meters long, 15 meters wide, and with 12 levels – can be interpreted as a solitary gesture. The orthogonal form of the plane dialogs with typologies present in the surrounding urban fabric, which is character

VTN Architects   Vietnam   The province of Son La, north of Vietnam, is an area with abundant nature of untouched forests and beautiful mountainscapes. Even with its strong cultural and natural beauty, there was little development or accommodation for tourists to recognize the

MVRDV   Poland   Right at the intersection of two major urban axes rises this iconic tower of mixed uses that include offices, hotel accommodation, a restaurant, and retail spaces within the plinth.

Snøhetta   Norway   Located at the southern end of the Norwegian coast, the building holds on to the craggy shore, immerses itself in the water, and rests on the marine floor, five meters below the North Sea level.

With great success Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design, aka Concéntrico, has for nine years now filled the northern Spanish city with imaginative ephemeral installations aimed at rethinking the urban environment and public spa

We have our star chefs – and of course our sports stars – but would be at a loss to think of other such clear cases of stardom within the ‘Brand Spain.’ And as far as Spanish chefs go, it is hard to find a success story coming close to that of José A

Eating is a natural thing to do but it is also a cultural activity, and this would to a large extent explain the exquisite attention and care that the leading chefs are in the practice of putting into the construction and design of their kitchens a

The search for powerful identifying images has made it increasingly usual for professionals of very different fields to join hands, hence the alliance between chef René Redzepi – owner of Noma, one of the world’s top restaurants – and the architect B

Maybe the lethargy that has taken over our bodies after so much submission to the dictates of the mobile phone has led to the fashion of the even-harder, in a search for radical experiences brought to extremes. This would perhaps explain construction

Eduardo Prieto   In the beginning there was the kitchen; the kitchen was fire; and fire was the house. Later, the three worlds that had since time immemorial been one thing began to separate: fire lost its visibility, hidden as it was in the stove or oven, and the ki

La vocación multidisciplinar de la cocina de Ferrán Adrià ha inspirado, sin duda, el proyecto que Cloud 9, el estudio liderado por Enric Ruiz-Geli, ha presentado recientemente para albergar la nueva fundación que, en 2014, continuará con las activida

En la población navarra de Cadreita, cerca de Tudela, el restaurante Marisol amplía sus instalaciones con una pieza prismática recubierta de juncos de acero verdes, un icónico cierre permeable que actúa tanto de control solar como de filtro térmico y

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