Stockholm apartment by Note Design Studio A brown cashmere coat, a pair of sand-coloured shoes and a piazza in Rome influenced Note Design Studio\'s renovation of this 1930s loft apartment in Sweden. The renovation is the first residential project by the Stockholm studio, which is better known for it
Ghent house extension by Atelier Vens Vanbelle Columns and struts modelled on tree trunks and branches frame this extension to a home in Ghent, designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle to feel like a continuation of the garden. Clients Hans and Delphine asked the local architecture studio to create an exte
Top-heavy house by Archi LAB A large white box is raised on stilts to create the upper floor of this house in Japan, sheltering a smaller ground floor and entrance from the heavy snowfalls that Hokkaido Prefecture experiences in winter (+ slideshow). The house shares a plot with the client\'s parents
Montreal featuring 30 glowing seesaw A team of Canadian designers and artists has created an installation in Montreal consisting of 30 illuminated seesaws. Toronto-based Lateral Office and Montreal-based CS Design – in collaboration with engineer EGP Group – placed 30 seesaws of varying
Go Bang House by Takeru Shoji A patio-like corridor surrounds the ground-floor rooms of this house by Takeru Shoji Architects, replicating a traditional space in Japanese farmhouses known as a doma (+ slideshow). Go Bang House is a residence for a family of three, located in a semi-industrial area b
Wooden home by Yoshichika Takagi Corrugated plastic surrounds a sunroom at one end of this timber-framed residence by Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi, which also features a pair of house-shaped bedrooms (+ slideshow). Takagi designed House in Shinkawa for a residential neighbourhood in Sapporo,
Curving concrete staircase Photograph by Sebastien Normand The Centre National des Arts du Cirque (CNAC) has been located on a 19th-century circus site in Châlons-en-Champagne, north-east France, since 1985. Marseille firm Caractère Spécial and Parisian studio NP2F Architectes won
Wandel Lorch completes chapel with bulging brickwork in Hamburg docklands The Ecumenical Forum is the first chapel in the city\'s HafenCity quarter, a former industrial area along the Elbe river that is currently undergoing major regeneration. To help the building blend with the surrounding architect
Courtyard house in Tijuana by T38 Studio The property, referred to as HDJ89, is the 12th infill project the firm has designed in Tijuana\'s HDJ district. Each side of the 3,175-square-foot (295 square metres) building is made from a six-part concrete frame. Windows of differing sizes are inset in a b
Tom ford flagship miami store Situated on the corner of a busy Miami street, the shop ispart of a new building by Aranda/Laschthat houses four luxury retailers, including French fashion brand Lanvin and Swiss luxury watchmaker Omega. The architecture studio– whichrecently designedlooping Raili
​ Takeru Shoji Architects tops a timber-clad Japanese house with a \"big hat\"  Japanese firmTakeru Shoji Architectsdesigned the two-bedroom wooden residence, named OH! House, for a family of four in a residential area ofNiigata, Japan. The bedrooms are spaced across the ground f
KYODO HOUSE by studio Sandwich Japanese studio Sandwich used three truckloads of timber to create the sculptural facade of this Tokyo house that also boasts a two-storey-high library and an indoor swing (+ slideshow). Sandwich architects Yuichi Kodai and Lee Yoshitaka designed Kyodo House to be as s
Tiny writer\'s studio by Architensions provides a creative refuge in Brooklyn Tucked awayat the bottom of a Brooklyn garden, this tiny cedar-clad pavilionwas designed as a retreat for a pair of writers. Brooklyn-based firm Architensions has created a minimal space with carefully placed views and plen
Monash University dormitories by BVN Architecture When BVN Architecture was designing the new dormitories for Monash University, they focused on the residents’ experience rather than just ensuring they met the spatial requirements.
Vietnamese shophouse by MM++ Architects Vietnamese studio MM++ Architects has squeezeda contemporary shophouse intoa four-metre-wide site in Ho Chi Minh City, witha facade that opens and closes like a giant shutter. NamedTownhouse with a Folding-up Shutter, the four-storey residence takes its cues f
SYAP\'s House in Yokkaichi has a roof angled upwards like the lid of an open box The roof of thishouse in Japan is tiltedabove a band of glazing, allowing light to permeate the interiorwhile also making the structurelook like a box witha lifted lid(+ slideshow). House in Yokkaichi was designed by Tok
National Ecology Center botanic greenhouses by Grimshaw and Samoo Located in Seocheon, the Ecorium visitor centre was designed in collaboration between the New York office of Grimshaw and Korean architecture firm Samoo,and was intended as an exhibition of the world\'s climates. The complex is made up
Lakefront Austin home by Aamodt Plumb Architects The 6,000-square-foot (557 square metres) family home, called Modern Texas Prefab, is situated on a scenic site bordering a lake in Austin, Texas\' state capital. Aamodt Plumb Architects –which has offices in both TexasandMassachusetts – di
Stark concrete house by ISM Architecten Koen Pauwels and Wim Van Der Vurst of Antwerp-based ISM Architecten designed the property for a young couple with two children, who had purchased an oddly shaped plot in a residential area called Grimbergen. From the street, TDHHouse appears as a monolithic co
crystalline concrete home by atelier tekuto Volcanic ash is mixed into the concrete shell of this angular house in central Tokyo, which was designed byAtelier Tekuto for a pair of chemists(+ slideshow). The Japanese firmdeveloped a type of \"environmentally friendly\" concrete for R Torso C, which use
Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of ceramic tablewarewith handles to help store them in compact spaces and carry hot food. The Totte range of circular plates and bowls is available in three different sizes, and in white, brown, pink, green and blue versions. Each piecefeatures a recta
Chilean housing block by MAPA The three-storey building is covered in brick cladding, which is intended to \"generate a new grain, referring to the mouldings and stucco details of classical buildings nearby.\" Regular terracotta-coloured bricks were split diagonally to create small triangular prisms &
Little House Big Terrace by Takuro Yamamoto Architects One side of Little House Big Terraceabuts a residential block, while the other borders a carpark. To ensure privacy on the overlooked plot, Tokyo-basedTakuro Yamamoto Architectsmade all street-facing walls windowless. Instead, all glazing faces
hotel khan © Yoon Joonwhan © Ryoo Inkeun From the architect. Hotel KHAN is located on the verge of Nambu District Office of Education intersection just over the bridge away from Yeouido where connects to the Seoul-Inchon Highway. © Yoon Joonwhan Mixture of scenery is what makes this l
Floris Schoonderbeek\'s Groundfridge chills food without electricity ​ ​ this sphericalrefrigeratorby Dutch designer Floris Schoonderbeek is buried underground, keeping food cool without using electricity. Schoonderbeek\'s Groundfridge for Dutch brand Weltevree is based on traditional root
Lakeside home designed by Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architetti The firmdesigned Casa Dem for one of its three directors,Jérôme de Meuron, his wifePaola and their seven-year-old child. Itis setinto a steep slope beside the architects\' studio in Caviano – a region on the eastern shoreli
Shanghai arts space by Archi-Union Photograph by Shengliang Su Shanghai-basedArchi-Union Architects designed Fu Space asa non-profit centre for art, architecture and community projects. Photograph by Shengliang Su Its location close to the Huangpu River and just a couple of blocks from the historic
Tehran apartments by Ayeneh Office Andarzgoo Residential Building was designed by Ayeneh Officefor a site near Andarzgoo Boulevard – a lively, upmarket area in the north of the Irani capital. The block stands on a narrow alley near other buildings of varying heights and materials, so the archi
Osaka house by Alphavile architects The Kyoto firm named the project Spiral Window House after the succession of openings that are staggered across the walls. The positioning of the windows is designed to give views of the river, which flows from Lake Biwa through the city to the sea via Osaka Bay.
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Twisted art museum by BIG Described by Ingels as an \"inhabitable bridge\", theKistefos Museum will span the Randselva river that winds through the centre of the Kistefos Sculpture Park near Oslo. The sculpture park was established in the late 1990s on the site of a former paper mill, and hosts contem
Warehouse in portugal Joao Mendes Ribeiro was commissioned to design the Ademia office and warehouse buildingby Antonio Albertino in an industrial area of Coimbra, a medieval city on the edge of the Mondego River that was once Portugal\'s capital. The priceless artworks were part of a pop-upexhibitio