Danish architectural studio 3XN recently has completed the head office for Danish law firm Horten in Copenhagen, DK. The project has been developed as an energy saving building which is featuring the three dimensional façade in fiberglass and travertine, it acts as a screen against the sun while still providing a view to the water. + [...]

Austria-based Söhne & Partner Architekten has designed the Hotel Caldor located in Münchendorf, Austria. The perforated façade panels serve as a main feature, it is not only shading the spaces inside the hotel but also abstractly symbolizing the hotel logo. + Project description courtesy of Söhne & Partner Architekten Self check in “This how you sleep today. Self [...]

In Maracon, Switzerland, it is a beautiful and contemporary house by Swiss architectural practice Localarchitecture sitting in the Swiss countryside, it was designed to respect the morphology and scale of the other constructions in the village. The project is inspired from traditional architectural forms and codes and is reinterpreted to the use of the building and [...]

Hanover House by Kraus Schoenberg Architects is the refurbishment and extension project on the rooftop of a Victorian warehouse building located in Bradford, United Kingdom. The sculptural aspect of the roof silhouette is no mere architectural fancy, but reflects the roofscape of the surrounding buildings and has been used to form the living spaces. Kraus Schoenberg Architects + [...]

Madrid-based architectural firm Moneo Brock Studio has designed the Termas de Tiberio project to accommodate the thermal baths in Panticosa, Spain. + Project description courtesy of Moneo Brock Studio Our project for a new building to house the thermal baths clearly attempts to reinterpret the thermal tradition at Panticosa. The Balneario had developed in the [...]

Spanish architect Jordi Badia, founder of BAAS architects has designed the Can Framis Museum located in the 22@ District, Barcelona. The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings which are connected by a new linear block. A new courtyard therefore is formed to define an entry plaza to the project. With “Can Framis” we [...]

In Suwon – Korea, Dutch architectural practice UNStudio designed a showroom to exhibit the residential urban and façade design for I-Park City development which covers approximately 33.5 ha and includes 88 apartment buildings. + Project description courtesy of UNStudio The Model House for I-Park City is a showroom to exhibit the residential urban and façade design for [...]

American architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has designed the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center located in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. The center was organized as an U-shape to form a central courtyard, the roof tilts upward and away from the courtyard, its jagged edges celebrating the peaks of the Teton Range beyond. + Project description [...]

Spanish architect Francisco Mangado recently has completed the Avila Congress and Exhibitions Municipal Centre located in Ávila, Spain. The project was inspired by the nature of landscape, it was designed as a sculpture carved out of the terrain. The project combines two different geometries: the most orthogonal and elongated space contains the auditoriums and main halls, [...]

Australian landscape design firm ASPECT Studios has completed the Bondi to Bronte Coast Walk Extension in Calga Reserve & Waverley Cemetery, Sydney NSW Australia. The walk has been designed to traverse the cemetery by elevating the boardwalk above the Eastern cliff tops, this is to minimize the damage to the cemetery monuments and heritage walls [...]

Italian architecture practice Bottega Studio Architetti & Giocosa Palitto Architetti recently have completed the Parma #33 project located in Torino, Italy. The facade in Via Parma 33, has been transformed to a “skin” Corten steel. There are 4 balconies protruded from the facade towards the street, serving as poetic elements with the words of “UNO [...]

Italian architect Giorgio Comoglio recently has completed the renovation of the Ex Sellerie, which is located in the area of the ex military arsenal in Turin, Italy. The task of the project is to increase the original building’s floor area and height. The minimal form of perforated steel envelope has been introduced to integrate the existing [...]

Axelrod Design has designed the eHouse which  is located in Tel Aviv. The beauty of the eHouse is the marriage of livability and minimalist/Mediterranean design sense. In plan, the house is defined by two axes; one running lengthwise through the main living space and one perpendicular from the main entrance to the staircase. The longitudinal axis [...]

Spanish architect Francisco J. del Corral del Campo recently has completed the semi-detached house – House Zafiro located in Huetor – Vega, Granada, Spain. Next to the low-lands (Vega) of Granada, still a rural zone with spread constructions, we propose a volumetric disintegration as an answer to the compact volumes of the new housing placed on [...]