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A total art museum lasting just a day

The claustrophobic comfort of Pod Design's Showtime House

Bonaldo wins the Good Design Award for its new showroom

Carlos Ferrater: a playful approach to architecture in the landscape of Castellón

A middle-earth between nature and culture

Masseria Cimino: from the ancient Roman city of Egnatia up to the present

The Central Bank of Iraq and Zaha Hadid Architects sign the agreement for the new Central Bank of Iraq Headquarters

    London, UK - Zaha Hadid joined H.E. Dr Sinan Al-Shabibi, Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) at a ceremony to sign the agreement between the CBI and Zaha Hadid Architects…

Masseria Cervarolo: in search of peace and quiet

When architecture exploits the potential of snow

Renzo Piano has designed the extension to another great museum

Masseria Alchimia: the perfect union between past and present

Giovì Relais: the charm and fascination of bygone days

Vancouver: a tribute to the past designed for the future

Skidmore, Owings & Merril pass through the eye of a needle

A union of the historical and the contemporary in the Bufi Resort

Home Delicate Restaurant by Logica:architettura

Sandstone, ceramics and glass: the ingredients for a perfect winery

Mi-Sha in Milan a dimension beyond time and space

Digging so as not to compete with the landscape

Olson Kundig Architects was asked to expand the spaces of Mission Hill Family Estate, a winery producing great wines in one of the most beautiful and uncontaminated regions of Canada. Since its first…

Plays on light and geometries on the Norwegian National Tourist Route

La Bodega Antion: like the vine clinging to the ground

The J. Marino Pascual & Asocs studio has designed the winery, Bodega Antion, in Elciego the Spanish province of Alava. The initial intention was to shape the extremely irregular original plot…

Héctor Esrawe and Michel Rojkind's Tori Tori Restaurant

Considered one of the best Japanese restaurants in Mexico City, the Tori Tori Restaurant, designed by architect Michel Rojkind and designer Héctor Esrawe, has quickly become an icon of interior…

A traditional winery that looks to the future

Portuguese design office Castanheira & Bastai Arcquitectos have carried out careful work on designing the Winery Casa da Torre, in the heart of the hills in the north of Portugal, where they make…

Mocha Mojo: Mancini Design's 1970's coffee house

Mocha Mojo Cafè; is a coffee house designed by the German studio Mancini Design, which has its base in India. The project harks back to 70s furniture and wallpaper which dwelled on early modernists…

Erick Van Egeraat presents his new 'Sumatrakontor' in Hamburg

The new Sumatrakontor designed by Erick van Egeraat in HafenCity, Hamburg has been completed. An important expansion project with ambitious expectations is under way in the part of the city which…

Montreal's sustainable “machine for living in”

Sid Lee Architectures M9 development is located in Montreal, in the commercial and economic heart of Quebec, the French-speaking region of Canada. M9 phase 1 is the first born of a 4-phase multifunctional…

Sensitivity and transparency in the house designed by Susanna Cots

Barcelona designer Susanna Cots has called her project “Pure white”. It is an interior design project "Vivienda en Almuñecar" a house located in Almuñecar in the province…

24H architecture models the “crown” of Nijmegen's Hatert district

The social housing project designed by 24H architecture is located in the city of Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. The multi-storey building comes within an urban renewal area which involves the Hatert…

Aichinger House: ‘dressed’ by Hertl Architekten

Hertl Architekten has converted a former restaurant consisting of two connected wings into a dwelling, Aichinger House. The biggest challenge facing the architects was to renovate and expand one of…

Mima House: your own 'customised' house

The three young Portuguese designers from MIMA Architects started from the intention to plan a dwelling that would directly answer a fundamental question underlying modern lifestyles. How can architecture…

Flexibility and a mix of functions characterise the Parisian social housing

The ZAC Claude Bernard residential complex designed by Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes is located in a recently developed area to the north of Paris. The new building contains 93 apartments,…

A small triangular riverside house in Horinouchi

MIZUISHI Architect Ateliers riverside house in Horinouchi, Japan is an extremely small unusually shaped house. The building, which is located on the corner of a triangular plot between the road and…

41 social dwellings: linearity and sinuosity combined with colour

The project 41 social dwellings created by Manuel Garcia de Paredes and Fernando Pino (Paredes Pino Arquitectos) in Madrid seems to have been created from the common saying “make a virtue of necessity”. The…

All the winners of the AIA 2012 awards

After having revealed that Steven Holl had been awarded the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has just announced all the winners of the Institute Honor Awards. These…

ARX Portugal Arquitectos design “house in Leiria”

The house designed by ARX Portugal Arquitectos is located in a panoramic point in the outskirts of Leiria, in Portugal. The House in Leiria project comes directly from how reality is observed.…

Design studio Ina Matt ‘dresses’ The Exchange hotel in Amsterdam

The Exchange, which opened in Amsterdam last December is a new concept of hotel devised by Otto Nan and Suzanne Oxenaar. Indeed, the rooms have been dressed by ex-alumni of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute…

Mario Cucinella Architects' “green” and self-sufficient school

Work on the first ecological school in the Gaza territory is about to begin. The project was unveiled by architect Mario Cucinella within the framework of the technical table held in Ramallah in 2010.…

Croatian architects Studio Up designs Hostel Golly±Bossy in Split

The “Savo” building is located in the city centre of Split in Croatia. After having been converted into a shopping centre at the beginning of this century, it finally found its definitive…

'Learning by playing' with R studio

The Spanish architecture office Rstudio had to tackle many difficulties when designing the Pio Baroja Nursery school project in Valencia. Some of them were due to the schools position close to…

A night on a boat on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London

New Years Day saw the official opening of A Room for London, a temporary installation on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, in Londons Southbank Centre. The project by David Kohn Architects and artist…