News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named the ten winners of its annual Small Project Awards, including a concept for a house in the desert with four bedroom towers (above) and a concrete playground pavilion with hidden chimneys (below). More »
Architecture
AIA Small Project Awards
Studio for a Composer by
Johnsen Schmaling Architects
This rusted steel cabin in Wisconsin woodland is a practice studio for a musician designed by Milwaukee office Johnsen Schmaling Architects. More »
China Wood Sculpture Museum
by MAD
Chinese studio MAD has unveiled the first photographs of its icicle-shaped museum for wooden sculptures in Harbin, northeast China (+ slideshow). More »
Paolo Soleri
1919-2013
Coach Omotesando
by OMA
OMA's new Tokyo store for American accessories brand Coach is a glazed cube with a herringbone-patterned display system (+ slideshow). More »
Statoil regional and international
offices by A-Lab
Five aluminium-clad volumes are stacked up like a pile of horizontal skyscrapers at this office complex outside Oslo by Norwegian studio A-Lab (+ slideshow). More »
IJburg Villa by
Marc Prosman Architecten
This timber-clad house by Dutch office Marc Prosman Architecten was one of the first to be constructed on an artificial island in IJburg, Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More »
UNStudio to relaunch as "open source"
architecture studio
Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse rooftop
to open as art space
The La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science
by Lyons
This science facility in Melbourne by Australian firm Lyons has a tessellated facade based on the hexagonal geometry of a molecular structure (+ slideshow). More »
Work starts on Herzog & de Meuron's
Naturbad Riehen swimming pool
Cassell Street House
by b.e. Architecture
Slabs of travertine in two different shades create horizontal stripes across the facade of this house in Melbourne by b.e. Architecture (+ slideshow). More »
Tree Art Museum by
Daipu Architects
Sloping exhibition rooms fold around curvy courtyards and a fish pond at this art gallery in Beijing - the first completed project by new studio Daipu Architects (+ slideshow). More »
Critics reject "clumsy" proposals for
earthquake-hit Christchurch cathedral
Foster's Apple campus nearly
$2 billion over budget
News: the estimated cost of Apple's Foster + Partners-designed campus in Cupertino, California, has reportedly spiralled from $3 billion to nearly $5 billion over the last two years. More »






