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With the evolution of technology in the industry, it puts into question the role of artisans in the construction of the design space to the extent that the trades are disappearing. Rojkind Arquitectos

Our clients wanted a glass house. The difficulty was that they wanted this house placed on a visually exposed 50’ x 100’ city lot that they owned in NE Portland. This posed the challenge of designing a glass house with privacy. Waechter Architecture

Born from an extreme transformation of a typical 90s bungalow, the “Maison Terrebonne” is located on a vast wooded plot of land. la SHED architecture

A project to transform the 13,700-square-meter of both buildings in Travesera de Gràcia and Amigó St into offices to rent, luxury apartments and a hotel for the British company Travelodge. Octavio Mestre Arquitectos

An innovative reconsideration of school buildings and their role within the urban realm and the community, can provoke different ways of inventing the present and of planting seed for a better future. C+S Associati

NEXT architects and Rudy Uytenhaak architects worked together to design a new town hall for Bloemendaal municipality. Their design builds on the history of the property, the Bloemenheuvel country estate. NEXT architects

Yalla Yalla! - studio for change creates with 1200 green vegetable crates the design for the exhibition Helden der Stadt (translates as Heroes of the City), which is on display at the Ernst-Bloch-Centre in Ludwigshafen, Germany, from 20 May to 31 July, 2015. Yalla Yalla! - studio for change

The Sailing Center, recently completed by Woodhouse Tinucci Architects, is Northwestern University's (NU) most direct connection between the campus and its advantageous location on the shoreline of Lake Michigan. Woodhouse Tinucci Architects

The G family home in Sorengo, on the edge of Lugano in Ticino, is the category of villa that Palladio put forward as a contrast with the town house.
 The site, a long narrow strip of land on a steep slope, is part of a hilly area, bordered on its sho SCAPE

For its latest completed project, Powerhouse Company has brought a post-war shopping center back to life in Heerlen, a city in the southern Netherlands. Commissioned by Dutch real estate investor NSI in 2012 by invited competition, Powerhouse Company has transformed ’t Loon shopping complex... Powerhouse Company

Four fifth-year students, Ashley Clark, Morgan Acino, Stephen Durham, and Will Gregory, recently completed the new (and first-ever) library for the town of Newbern, Alabama. Rural Studio

The Wood Shed project is situated along the coast, a short drive from Taipei in Taiwan. The project is designed as an adaptive reuse project around an existing shed structure, repurposing all of the existing structure. HAO / Holm Architecture Office

Krueck + Sexton Architects have completed a 375,000 square foot, highly sustainable Federal Office Building located at 2030 S.W. 145th Avenue in Miramar, Florida. Krueck + Sexton

The building is located in the historical center of San Candido, a small touristic village in the Dolomites. In the first three stories it houses a department store while the upper three storiess have been transformed from a partly underused attic space into four large, independent apartments for... Plasma Studio

Roof House is a project that completely transforms an existing villa beautifully situated on a large site filled with trees in Fredensborg, Denmark. LETH & GORI

Few young architects under the age of 30 can boast of two completed commissions in their portfolios like Ondrej Chybik and Michal Kristof, the founders of Chybik+Kristof Associated Architects. Their first commission – a modular cafeteria for KOMA MODULAR in Vizovice – was... Chybik+Kristof Associated Architects

The primary objective for this tiny cafe in the heart of downtown San Francisco was to bring epicurean level coffee at a rate and speed to meet the Financial District’s demands while simultaneously revitalizing a stretch of sidewalk that has been fallow for over twenty years. jones | haydu

Kilimanjaro Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organization (KWIECO) was founded in 1987 in Moshi, Tanzania. It provides advice on legal, health, social and economic issues to women. Hollmen Reuter Sandman Architects

The business community today operates dynamically, impulsively and diversely. Office environments must respond to the constant changes in working groups’ organizations, to their production processes and to the needs for personal comfort and technology development. dekleva gregorič architects

Vaulted Willow is an architectural folly exploring lightweight, ultra-thin, self-supported shells through the development of custom computational protocols of structural form-finding and descriptive geometry. The project's aim is to resolve and delineate structure, skin and ornamentation into... MARC FORNES/THEVERYMANY

After a very fast construction period of only two months a spectacular new pavilion shines in the heart of Rotterdam. Mei architects and planners designed this new McDonald's pavilion on Coolsingel Rotterdam. Mei architects and planners

Stuttgart's Steimle Architekten recently completed a three-story urban villa with a small courtyard, a deck atop the garage, and a lap pool. The architects sent us some photographs and drawings of the S3 City Villa. Steimle Architekten

Designed by Tokyo-based Love Architecture, House in Yagumo combines a rich sense of nature with Tokyo’s big-city setting. Architect Yukio Asari incorporates natural elements like light, shadow, and breezes into his designs and utilizes organic building materials, rooting his work in... Love Architecture Inc.

Designed by UNStudio and DP Architects, the academic campus for the Singapore University of Technology and Design reflects an in-depth understanding of the changing requirements of learning institutions today. UNStudio

With this project for fifteen new classrooms serving year seven to high school, the challenge was to place a new five-story contemporary classroom building in very close proximity to some of the oldest school buildings in Brisbane.

Master plan for a new city development including the erection of the new mainline Vienna railway station. Working in a planning team with Atelier Ernst Hoffmann and Atelier Albert Wimmer. Theo Hotz Partner was responsible for the station roof. Theo Hotz Partner Architekten

New Museum MORE (Museum for Dutch Modern Realism), designed by Hans van Heeswijk Architects to showcase the Netherlands’ biggest collection of modern realist art, opened on 2 June 2015, with critics praising its light but exuberant minimalist architecture. Hans van Heeswijk Architects

Unique bridge designed to house bats: "There is no other bridge like it that is specifically designed to house bats," claims Herman Limpens, international expert in the field of bats from the Mammal Society. NEXT architects

Located at a major high-end commercial district at the intersection of Changde Road and Nanjing West Road in Shanghai, a new façade is created for the fashion house Ports 1961's flagship store. UUfie

This holiday house for a family of four is located in the north of Portugal. It's shape is defined by the same number of individual volumes. They have similar dimensions but distinct orientations. PROD Arquitectura

For more than 30 years, HPP Architects have been designing, planning and building offices on the Kolde-Ring Campus in Münster for LVM Insurances. The latest office tower on the campus, designed jointly by HPP and Duk-Kyu Ryang, can be viewed as a culmination of this ongoing work. HPP Architects

The Velenje "Promenada" is an important city space and a vital city thoroughfare. It is one of the central axes of the centre of Velenje, a young town designed in the 1950s, based on the Modernist ideal of the garden city; as such, it is unique in the Slovene space. ENOTA

The two lecture halls are faithfully superimposed over the layout of the existing parking lot, while clearing around itself a smooth space, manageable and comprehensible by its users. Atelier Zündel Cristea

This 118,000 sq. ft. (11,000 m²) office building recently completed construction in the El Golf section of Santiago. Handel Architects

The Cermak – McCormick Place station serves the country’s largest convention center and a stretch of the Green Line that has been without a station since 1978.

New York-based writer Fred Bernstein traveled to Milan for the opening of the Expo Milano 2015 – themed "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" – and sent us reviews of three pavilions: Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. Fred Bernstein