Dutch office MVRDV and French architects de Alzua+ have won a competition to re-masterplan the French town of Villeneuve d'Ascq and are proposing a building that cantilevers over a motorway. More »
The Beam by MVRDV
and de Alzua+
Tag: cantilevers
The Beam by MVRDV
Aggrenad hotel
by AND
Korean architects AND imagined this hotel on Geoje Island as a hand of outstretched fingers, with rooms and balconies pointing out in different directions (+ slideshow). More »
Nest and Cave House
by Idis Turato
The trend for extreme cantilevers continues with this house in Croatia by architect Idis Turato, where one floor dramatically overhangs the other. More »
Wine Museum in Lavaux by
Mauro Turin Architectes
Swiss studio Mauro Turin Architectes wants to celebrate the history of the Lavaux wine-making region in Switzerland by cantilevering a museum from the side of a mountain (+ slideshow). More »
Busan Cinema Centre
by Coop Himmelb(l)au
Architects Coop Himmelb(l)au have completed a film and theatre centre in South Korea with a steel and glass cantilever that's wider than the wings of an Airbus A380 (+ slideshow). More »
Porsche Pavilion
by HENN
View Hill House by
Denton Corker Marshall
One storey hangs precariously over the other at this isolated hilltop house in Australia by architects Denton Corker Marshall. More »
Huludao Beach Exhibit Centre
by META-Project
Beijing architects META-Project have completed an exhibition centre at the beach of a former fishing village in China that is now developing into a summer holiday destination (+ slideshow). More »
Baeza Town Hall by Viar Estudio
Patchy timber shields the glazed upper storeys of this extension to a historic town hall in southern Spain by architects Viar Estudio. More »
House in Senri
by Shogo Iwata
Slideshow: the cantilevered upper storeys of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Shogo Iwata hover above a driveway. More »
Northface by Element
The top floor of this periscope-like wooden house in Stavanger, Norway, cantilevers northwards towards the sea. More »
Observation Tower by UNStudio
Phinney Modern by Elemental Architecture
The top-floor living room of this Seattle house projects across the garden in a twisted cantilever. More »
Moscow School of Management Skolkovo
by Adjaye Associates
Here are some photographs of the Moscow School of Management by architect David Adjaye, where four buildings precariously cantilever over a large circular base. More »
GMS Grande Palladium by Malik Architecture
Pointed cantilevers project above an office block that is sandwiched between a corporate complex and a slum in Mumbai (photographs by Edmund Sumner). More »