Portuguese architects Comoco have added a weathered steel cafe and a wooden gazebo on the hill of a castle in the town of Pombal. More »
Pavilions
Mirror House by MLRP
Funhouse mirrors are mounted on the gabled ends of this playground pavilion in Copenhagen, as well as behind the doors. More »
Steilneset Memorial by Peter Zumthor
and Louise Bourgeois
Architect Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century (photographs by Andrew Meredith). More »
Shore Vista Boat Dock by Bercy Chen Studio
A waterfall is one of the features of this cylindrical boathouse in Austin by Texan architects Bercy Chen Studio. More »
Movie: Pabellon Ultraligero Centrifugo
by Clavel Arquitectos
This movie by photographer Cristobal Palma shows how children playing on roundabouts generate electrical power for three twirling parasols at an installation by Spanish studio Clavel Arquitectos in a Shenzhen public square. More »
Genesis by David Adjaye at Design Miami/
Visitors to this year’s Design Miami/ fair could climb into the hollow belly of a wooden pavilion by architect David Adjaye. More »
A Separate Place by Jesse Randzio
and Architectural Association students
This pod-shaped woodland retreat floats on a net between the trees in Dorset, UK. More »
Taichung Infobox by Stan Allen
New York architect Stan Allen constructed this pavilion of bamboo scaffolding at a former airport in Taichung, Taiwan. More »
Rollercoaster by Interval Architects
Chinese studio Interval Architects have completed a pavilion that snakes around a school square in Beijing like the tracks of a roller coaster. More »
Yucca Crater by Ball-Nogues Studio
You can clamber down the inside walls of this ramshackle timber basin in the desert by Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio into a surprise swimming pool. More »
Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion
by Snøhetta
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion
at the University of Stuttgart
Polygonal timber plates give this pavilion at the University of Stuttgart a skeleton like a sea urchin’s. More »
The Patient Gardener by Visiondivision
A circle of trees will frame an hourglass-shaped hut for Milan that won’t be complete for 100 years. More »
Frieze Art Fair Pavilions by Carmody Groarke
London architects Carmody Groarke arranged temporary timber pavilions around the trees in Regent’s Park for this year’s Frieze Art Fair. More »
Konstantin Schmölzer
at Vienna Design Week
Vienna Design Week 2011: Austrian designer Konstantin Schmölzer has squeezed a wooden tower into the space between a green wall and glass atrium at Jean Nouvel's Sofitel hotel for Vienna Design Week.