This black and blue sports centre in Western Australia was designed by ARM Architecture as a pixellated cluster of chunky cubes (+ slideshow). More »
Wanangkura Stadium
by ARM Architecture
Public and leisure
Wanangkura Stadium
Dalian International Conference Center
by Coop Himmelb(l)au
Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au has completed the Dalian International Conference Center, a contorted steel building in China with conference halls bursting through its facade. More »
National Convention and Exhibition Centre,
Tianjin by GMP Architekten
GMP Architekten has won a competition to design a 1.2 million-square-metre exhibition centre for Tianjin, China (+ slideshow). More »
David Adjaye to design fashion
outlet in east London
SportPlaza Mercator
by VenhoevenCS
This leisure centre in Amsterdam by Dutch architects VenhoevenCS was designed as a fortress covered in plants (+ slideshow). More »
BIG and RAA to design Lego
visitor centre in Denmark
Cairns Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre
by Charles Wright Architects
This mirror-clad visitor centre by Australian firm Charles Wright Architects was designed to be invisible amongst the surrounding trees of the Cairns Botanic Gardens in Queensland. More »
Elevated Sports Court by
Guzmán de Yarza Blache
Students arriving at and departing from this school in Zaragoza, Spain, often obstructed sports games in the playground, so architect Guzmán de Yarza Blache decided to lift one of the sports courts up out of the way (+ movie). More »
Sugamo Shinkin Bank, Ekoda
by Emmanuelle Moureaux
Designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has brought her trademark colour spectrum to a fourth bank branch in Japan by surrounding the facade with brightly coloured sticks (+ slideshow). More »
Black Maria by Richard Wentworth
and GRUPPE
British artist Richard Wentworth has collaborated with Swiss architects GRUPPE to build a pop-up wooden auditorium in the atrium of Central Saint Martins art and design college in London (+ slideshow). More »
Messe Basel New Hall
by Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog & de Meuron has added three new halls to the Messe Basel exhibition centre in the north of the Swiss city where the architects are based (+ slideshow). More »
The Exhibition Hall
by OMA
OMA has revealed designs for a department store in Kuwait City that draws inspiration from the galleries of a traditional Arab market. More »
Cathedral of the Northern Lights by
Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Link Arkitektur
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has paid homage to the northern lights by constructing a titanium-clad cathedral that spirals up towards the sky (+ slideshow). More »
Binissalem School Complex
by RipollTizon
Bold blocks of colour at ground level contrast with the white upper storeys of this school in Mallorca by Spanish architects RipollTizon (+ slideshow). More »
Cafe Cross by FORM/
Kouichi Kimura Architects
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects references ecclesiastical architecture with this cafe in Hyogo, Japan, which has a concrete steeple (+ slideshow). More »