Wulf Architekten creates school sports centre with zigzag roof informed by the Alps
Wulf Architekten has created a sports centre for a school in Überlingen, Germany with a lattice facade and a folding zigzag roof that was informed by the mountains of the surrounding Alps. More
Anna and Eugeni Bach create Barcelona apartment building with bright yellow balconies
Architecture studio Anna and Eugeni Bach has designed Seven Lives, an apartment block in Barcelona that references its surroundings but has been given a playful modern touch with vibrant balconies and an adaptable layout. More
Mecanoo designs Macau Central Library with light-filtering facade informed by books
Mecanoo has unveiled its design for Macau's new central library, which will have a gridded, light-filtering facade that opens up like a book to a public square. More
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Florian Busch embeds branch-shaped holiday home in Japanese forest
Tokyo studio Florian Busch Architects has designed a cedar-clad holiday home on stilts with rooms that branch out into the surrounding forest. More
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Snøhetta to add sky-facing auditorium to Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo
Snøhetta has unveiled its plan to redesign and extend the museum dedicated to Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo. More
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Alvisi Kirimoto designs affordable housing complex with perforated metal balconies
Rome-based studio Alvisi Kirimoto has created an affordable housing complex with a brick facade and perforated metal balconies to help regenerate a neighbourhood in Barletta, Puglia. More
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Ryunosuke Okazaki creates couture dresses informed by Jōmon-era pottery
Tokyo-based designer Ryunosuke Okazaki has created a collection of couture dresses in bold colours and shapes that are informed by Japanese Jōmon-era pottery and the Shinto religion. More
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Studio Anton Hendrik Denys designs Belgian office informed by 1960s colour schemes
Studio Anton Hendrik Denys and Steen Architecten have transformed an industrial office building in Belgium by cladding it in corrugated metal and adding colourful graphic interiors. More
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Monoarchi designs gridded facade with colourful accents for school in China
Monoarchi has designed a campus building with a geometric facade wrapped around a number of small courtyards for an experimental school in Hangzhou, China. More
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Beyond Space designs colourful office around reconfigurable grid system
Beyond Space has created a flexible office interior for a security company in Amsterdam using a colourful grid system that allows the user to change the layout when needed. More
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Batek Architekten uses stacked volumes to create Berlin duplex townhouse
Local studio Batek Architekten used stacked cubes to design RHE42, a four-storey Berlin townhouse that looks to repurpose unused space in the city. More
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Masquespacio creates colour-blocked interiors for Bilbao student housing
Valencia-based creative studio Masquespacio has completed an open-plan colour-blocked interior with a community feeling for the Resa San Mamés student accommodation in Spain. More
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Construction begins on MVRDV's Pyramid of Tirana renovation
Work has begun on the conversion of the 1980s brutalist Pyramid of Tirana in the Albanian capital into a youth-focused cultural hub. More
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Studio Marco Vermeulen designs cross-laminated timber Dutch Mountains skyscrapers
Studio Marco Vermeulen has unveiled its design for The Dutch Mountains, two connected hybrid skyscrapers made from cross-laminated timber and concrete in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. More
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UNStudio designs Munich apartment block with reconfigurable interiors
Amsterdam-based UNStudio has unveiled its Van B residential building in Munich, which will have plug-in furniture modules so that its apartments can be reconfigured. More
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Huisu Jo designs modular Hook lamp informed by Seoul's Dongmyo market
Industrial designer Huisu Jo has created a hooked steel lamp that references the hangers and makeshift hook mechanisms used at Seoul's Dongmyo outdoor market. More
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Jonathan Tuckey Design creates school theatre clad with red cement
Jonathan Tuckey Design has designed the David Brownlow Theatre for a school in Berkshire that was informed by Renaissance architecture and constructed using cross-laminated timber and red composite cement panels. More
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Declerck-Daels Architecten clads multi-use office in patinated copper
Architecture studio Declerck-Daels Architecten has renovated an early 20th-century home in the Belgium town of Ingelmunster into a multifunctional office clad in green-patinated copper. More
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Ten escapist hotels featuring luxury cabins nestled in the countryside
A new wave of hotels is offering guests the chance to sleep in individual cabins set amid spectacular landscapes instead of in a traditional building with corridors. Here's our selection of 10 of the most interesting cabin hotels. More
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Micha Weidmann Studio designs graphic identity and packaging for AZ Factory
Micha Weidmann Studio has created a playful graphic identity for fashion designer Alber Elbaz's new venture, AZ Factory, based on the designer's signature style. More
