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Gateira is a hamlet placed on a beautiful hill planted with vineyards, pines and olive trees with splendid views over the southern tip of Serra da Estrela, the highest point in mainland Portugal. Camarim Arquitectos

Commissioned by Huis&, ANA designed a series of four dwellings with workspaces. The environment will transform from an industrial are into a combined living and working area in the next years and possesses no prototypical living qualities yet. Therefore focus was put particularly on internal... ANA architecten

Extensively restored by HPP and added with new halls, the Kongresshalle am Zoo Leipzig (Congress Hall Leipzig) reopened last year. HPP Architects

The François-René project, on Châteaubriand Avenue in Montreal’s Rosemont-Petite-Patrie neighbourhood, boasts six exceptional, thoroughly contemporary residences. Maître Carré, Architecture Open Form

Swarovski’s first company daycare center for children has been completed in cooperation with Regina Dahmen Ingenhoven. The building is located in Wattens, Austria, the main location of the traditional company and joins it’s premises in direct extension of the already existing Veil... Regina Dahmen Ingenhoven

Built in 1881, in Vermoim – Vila Nova de Famalicão, the Igreja Velha Palace was for many decades the mansion of an important farm, baroque style with two castellated towers and an attached chapel, the neo-gothic style S. Francisco de Assis chapel. Visioarq Arquitectos

The concept design for the Cultural Center of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) derives from the habitation wheel of the first geostationary space station described in Noordung's 1929 book. Sadar+Vuga

Construction has completed on Sawtooth in Lake Oswego. Waechter Architecture (WA) was given the task of designing a compact 8-unit apartment complex whereby each individual unit would have optimum privacy, as well as natural light and a view.  Waechter Architecture

On 12 May 2008 the devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province of China destroyed thousands of lives within minutes. Among the buildings that collapsed was the Beichuan Middle School in which more than 1000 pupils and teachers died. The government decided to build the National Earthquake... Eduard Kögel

PLP has unveiled a masterplan and architectural design for a large complex at the heart of a metropolitan centre in the Pearl River Delta. Located at a very prominent junction within the central business district, the project comprises four buildings. PLP Architecture

The Fashion Gallery has been remodeled by Kuehn Malvezzi and the architectural and lighting installations by Lichtvision represent the perfect stage for this extraordinary fashion collection. Lichtvision

Paolo Venturella & Cosimo Scotucci propose a glacial glazed museum. The museum takes shape by the deformation of the classic courtyard typology, according to functions and context. Paolo Venturella, Cosimo Scotucci

Located on the outskirts of Paris, the conversion of this 1800m2 former storage facility completes a long term reflection with management and users on the complete redevelopment of the premises allowing the company to welcome its subsidiaries on a site location strategically situated nearby the... FUSO atelier d’architectures

If you want that your garden gives you the best of himself and do grow quality food, it ‘s obvious and fundamental to turn the entire food farm project towards the sun. So we didn’t want to use any artificial lighting to supply power to plant vegetable gardens and a maximum of diversity. ABF-lab Architects and Engineers

The Windhover Contemplative Center is a spiritual retreat on the Stanford campus to promote and inspire personal renewal. Using Nathan Oliveira’s meditative Windhover paintings as a vehicle, the chapel-like center provides a refuge from the intensity of daily life. aidlin darling design

Pauhu pavilion was realized as a voluntary project as a part of Tampere Architecture Week, in Finland, bringing together architecture and design students and professionals in addition to number of different sponsors. Toni Österlund & Lisa Voigtländer

The Hague Central Station has been transformed by Benthem Crouwel Architects into a light-filled, capacious, easy-to-read building where all public transport systems converge at the heart of the city. Benthem Crouwel Architects

The Du Tour Residence is a renovation project. This Laval home, designed by an architect in the ‘60s, has belonged to the same family for decades. Its very special character and distinctive details were to be retained. Architecture Open Form

In recent China, the rapid development accelerates the competition among cities and thus causes the continuous extension of highway networks towards countryside, surrendering the right of way to vehicles, and invading rural life and the local lifestyle. ADARC

The immediate proximity of the future heart of the city constituted of businesses and dwellings forces us to sanctuarize the square of the City Hall and to distinguish an external extension, a place which offers dignity and readability to the City Hall. ECDM

a residential high-rise in vienna offering a “vertical street “ for the people living there colourfully designed by the austrian artist heimo zobernig. querkraft

The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, has officially opened a new urban landmark on the skyline of Mexico City - BBVA Bancomer’s new headquarters today. The 50-storey office tower is the first completed building by LegoRogers, a collaboration between international architectural... LegoRogers

The new metropolitan landscape of Paris: This reinventer.paris project offers a unique opportunity to transform the metropolis at a highly strategic spot: the Boulevard Périphérique (ring road). Jacques Ferrier Architecture, chartier dalix architectes

The idea for this flexible and reusable building prototype came about as our reaction to the unique Chinese phenomenon in the recent decades’ building frenzy – the production of vast amount of flamboyant but short-lived temporary buildings, especially those sales pavilions for real... OPEN Architecture

Here are a couple recently completed bus stations with distinctive canopies, both designed by World-Architects member firms.

To mark the city’s 375th anniversary in 2017, the Borough of Ville-Marie will offer Montréal residents and visitors a revamped, friendlier Place Jacques-Cartier that will host lively activities year round. Atelier VAP

The 15-story office building resembles a giant stair, in which each tread is a large roof terrace and each riser is a two-story-tall glazed common room. DARK Arkitekter AS

Nestled on a spectacular dense hill with magnificent old pine trees and facing the East Sea of the Korean coast, the new Seamarq hotel at Gyongpodae is a one of a kind boutique hotel composed of two main buildings and supporting facilities scattered throughout the site. Richard Meier & Partners Architects

They say there is only one life and so one must live it fully. The Katyal family epitomizes this philosophy to the core and clearly expects its design home to showcase it just as flamboyantly. Studio archohm

The construction of the residential tower The Cube in Beirut is finalized. Orange Architects designed the iconic tower for the Lebanese development corporation Masharii. Orange Architects

The new planning measures leave the villa's historical park untouched and thus keep open the possibility of a careful and gradual development with respect to its historical condition. Levin Monsigny

This new iconic landmark is located on the Chalmers University campus in Gothenburg, Sweden and acts as an incubator for the stimulation of innovations in the construction sector as well as hub for collaboration between private, public and academic sectors. White arkitekter AB

Nested on the edge of the River Seine in Paris, these housing units are now possible thanks to "La Loi Alur," a new legislation that allows urban "enheightement." Malka Architecture

The CTRI is a new research building on the site of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Cégep (equivalent to a Junior College) dedicated to recycling industrial residue and other underutilized resources.  Groupe Conseil Trame / BGLA

As the first new-oriental style boutique hotel in Shenzhen, Duoduo Group cooperates with YANG Hotel Design Group to build this HUI HOTEL. Hotel is located beside Shenzhen Central Park which has a one-thousand meters green belt, close to Huaqiang Nort YANG Hotel Design Group

The design of our project was developed to focus on three strong intentions structured by the heirloom of this singular parcel. ECDM