Architecture
Twenty-ton treehouse under construction in Sweden
News: Finnish studio Rintala Eggertsson Architects is constructing a twenty-ton treehouse for Swedish hotel Treehotel. More about Twenty-ton treehouse under construction in Sweden
News: Finnish studio Rintala Eggertsson Architects is constructing a twenty-ton treehouse for Swedish hotel Treehotel. More about Twenty-ton treehouse under construction in Sweden
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has revealed a proposal for a snowflake-shaped ski dome that would be the biggest in the world, with three kilometres of slopes arching over a river in the Danish city of Randers. More about Skidome Denmark by CEBRA
News: UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected to design the new national stadium for Japan. More about Zaha Hadid to design Japan National Stadium
This may look like a pair of barns in a field, but its actually the new home that Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed for the Parrish Art Museum on Long Island (+ slideshow). More about Parrish Art Museum by Herzog & de Meuron
A museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid for Michigan State University opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). More about Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects
Architecture studio Neri&Hu has opened a design gallery, shop and event space in a former colonial police station in Shanghai’s Jingan district. More about The Design Republic Commune by Neri&Hu
Buro Ole Scheeren has unveiled a pair of skyscrapers with concave walls for Singapore's historic Kampong Glam district. More about DUO skyscrapers by Buro Ole Scheeren
Courtyards punch through the walls and roof of this bungalow that Japanese studio Kazuya Saito Architects designed for an elderly couple in Sendai (+ slideshow). More about House Yagiyama by Kazuya Saito Architects
Dutch designer Chris Kabel has wrapped this house and studio in Amsterdam with a facade of perforated hexagons that catches the light like a hanging sheet of fabric. More about Bent by Chris Kabel with Abbink X de Haas
To create a full-length running track inside this refurbished gym in the Czech Republic, Prague studio QARTA Architektura added a translucent extension that projects out on stilts (+ slideshow). More about Tyršův Stadion by QARTA Architektura
This ridged limestone house by Athens studio decaArchitecture faces out over the edge of a cliff on the Greek island of Milos (+ slideshow). More about VNC House in Milos by decaArchitecture
The top floor rooms of this house in Japan by Tato Architects are contained inside sheds that sit on the roof (+ slideshow). More about House in Yamasaki by Tato Architects
Travellers visting the Mexican town of Tepoztlan can spend a few nights, months or even years at this three-armed concrete guesthouse by architects Cadaval & Sola-Morales (+ slideshow). More about Tepoztlan Lounge by Cadaval & Sola-Morales
This home on a golf course complex in Belas on the outskirts of Lisbon consists of five smaller houses connected by interior passages.(+ slideshow) More about House in Belas by CHP Arquitectos
This student housing block in Norway by MEK Architects is named MySpace, as the architects imagined the building as a social network where each of the 116 residents can get to know one another (+ slideshow). More about MySpace student housing in Trondheim by MEK Architects
This thatched visitor centre by architects Wingårdhs sits beside the shallow waters of Sweden's Lake Tåkern, the annual nesting habitat for over a hundred species of bird (+ slideshow). More about Tåkern Visitor Centre by Wingårdhs
Our second story this week about Japanese architects no.555 features a low-budget house inspired by animals' nests beside a rice field in Matsumoto (+ slideshow). More about MYZ Nest by no.555
This police station in eastern Spain by architects Daniel Martí and Natàlia Ferrer has perforated aluminium walls that let arriving visitors take a peek at what's going on inside (+ slideshow). More about Police Station in Xixona by Daniel Martí and Natàlia Ferrer
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 about Wine Museum in Lavaux by Mauro Turin Architectes
Following the sad news that experimental architect and artist Lebbeus Woods passed away last week, here's a look back at some of his early drawing projects from the 1980s. More about Lebbeus Woods: Early Drawings