Architecture
Casos de Casas’ plastic-clad house designed to adapt to all the Spanish seasons
Five sprawling volumes make up Barcelona home by RTA-Office
Refurbished Paris swimming pool features blue bleachers and an outdoor sunbathing deck
Landmark architecture helps turn Miami into the “capital of Latin America”
Forest home by Sanaksenaho Architects features black walls and a bean-shaped roof
Pombal Castle visitor centre offers a peek through a historic stone wall
EFFEKT to transform abandoned train engine depot into street sports centre
Bandesign clads a Japanese cafe in mirrors to reflect a row of cherry trees
“Chinese architecture will benefit” from CCTV building, says Rem Koolhaas
MVRDV’s Pushed Slab office block has a huge hole in its middle
Heneghan Peng’s Greenwich architecture school has a restrained exterior and a modern interior
Tokyo house bridges the rooftops of a dental surgery and garage
Rough-sawn pine used to build low-cost Hostal Ritoque in Chile
Domo Dom house by Tadeusz Lemanski arches up to face the sky
Leaning Shanghai towers declared “safe to live in” by inspectors
RCA graduate Olivia Wright to convert vandalised bottle kilns into pottery preservation centre
Stirling House is a Sydney home clad with rough timber boards
Fifty of the world’s tallest unfinished skyscrapers will “never complete”
Lakeside sauna by Partisans designed as a cavernous wooden grotto
Frank Gehry defends MAD’s Lucas Museum for Chicago as judge suspends work
AZPML, Lacaton & Vassal and Kuehn Malvezzi to redesign Montreal’s natural science Biodome
Spiralling underwater cities could make oceans inhabitable by 2030
Sparrenberg Castle visitor centre by Max Dudler boasts striated concrete walls