Architecture and design projects

Deloitte Adelaide by Woods Bagot is a layered workplace bringing people together through connection to people and place, while imprinting Adelaide’s DNA into the design. Designing a site to welcome clients, graduates and workers, Woods Bagot approached the project as a curation of innovation, sustainability and celebration of local artists and makers. The project’s open...

The twentieth century saw new developments, of varying quality, filling land and replacing older buildings in Australia’s cities to meet the demands of a growing population. While the pressure to accommodate growth continues, today’s environmental crisis requires a different approach that must work with these built legacies as the starting point. Retention or minimal bui...

Dubai’s Jebel Ali racetracks are set to be transformed into a vibrant, walkable district with Bjarke Ingels Group’s (BIG) upcoming masterplan. The A.R.M Holding Mega Project proposes an urban framework that foregrounds landscape, public space, and social infrastructure, aligned with the city’s ambitions for more sustainable growth. The approach centers on improving r...

The clients came to us having seen the house in Highgate Cemetery,’ recalls Eldridge London’s associate director Mike Gibson. That award-winning project, created back when the studio was a partnership between Nick Eldridge and Piers Smerin, looms above the historic North London burial ground, unashamedly modern in form and material. This project called instead for a cont...

As the Wyoming winter thaws, this serene, natural-feeling retreat in the skiing area of Teton Village comes into its own. This property was created for a family based in Miami who have roots in Brazil (the property is called ‘Caju’ after a Brazilian fruit with an orange shell that recalls the home’s steel exterior). They love the outdoors; a passion that is not necessar...

A massive green roof supported by a huge column looks like a canopy, making it almost impossible for anyone to ignore this extraordinary and enormous storefront. The entire door header stands 5.7 meters tall and 8.7 meters wide, with green gilded tiles covering the upper part of the header, almost taking up half of the facade. People's attentions were immediately drawn ...

Designed and built entirely by self-taught designer-builder Anastasiya Dudik, this 1,707-square-foot structure redefines what it means to build intuitively, responsively, and artistically. Rooted in what Dudik calls future primitive design, HATA draws on ancestral architectural logic - curved forms, thermal mass, elemental materials - while addressing the future-facing ...

NINHO — João de Barro Module by BIRI and MACH arquitetos at the Vila Ninho School fosters community participation and adaptable learning spaces in Brazil. Located in the Cerrado region of Minas Gerais, the space utilizes a modular grid and natural materials to create flexible and engaging educational environments, exploring the role of the physical environment in pedagog...

The current school is characterized as a single-storey building that extends over the entire location in two wings. Due to these low buildings, the function of the building is difficult to read, and there is no clear recognition of an entrance. In the school, the group rooms are adjacent to long corridors without a 'heart' or meeting space. The design was developed from ...

The house repeats the spare behavior of the desert in material and form. A subtractive process left a wind-protected court to the east and provided an opportunity for an elevated basin of water that mirrors the dimensions of the living space. The distant view of the city profile on the water calls out its ephemeral nature and delicate relationship with water. Entry to th...

The design of the home was inspired by the idea of a chapel, and was built in a generous garden that originally belonged to the neighbouring chateau in the South Bohemian village of Kamenná Lhota, Czech Republic. The design respects the traditional elongated form of houses with gabled roofs, drawing on the vocabulary of local agricultural buildings. Perforated masonry,...

The building was designed to blend seamlessly into this natural setting, and was inspired by a forest path. Major tree species, rocks, and water flows were scattered across the site to reawaken memories of nature, while a green roof has also been added. Three courtyards connect with the surrounding landscape, blurring the visitor’s perception of interior and exterior s...

In planning, client hoped that the office would have relationship with the local community, such as being open to the local community and creating a casual atmosphere that everyone feel welcome. The second floor of the existing rental housing was set back by 910mm (half of the Japanese module = Hangen). In addition, an investigation of the building’s frame revealed that...

The building is strategically located on an eight-acre site along the Coal Creek trail, a well-loved bike and running path that connects many of Boulder County’s communities. This location provides quick and easy access for product testing and year-round employee commuting. The headquarters showcases a flexible and intentionally raw canvas that offers a subtle backgroun...

MVRDV, the Dutch architects known for their playful, audacious transformations, have turned this brutalist relic of oppression into an effervescent hub for youth, creativity, and—perhaps most symbolically—free thinking. With steps added to the building’s sloping façades, allowing the people of Albania to literally walk all over it, and a constellation of vibrantly colou...

Designed as part of a local revitalization initiative, the Pavilion serves as both an artistic landmark and a social space, embodying movement, transience, and the island’s enduring spirit, faced as it is with the shifting tides of urban migration and rural abandonment. With its kinetic, wind-driven blades, the structure blurs the boundary between art and landscape, serv...

To give them another, less institutional option, a 6,500-square-foot food hall recently opened on the ground floor. The narrow, elongated space, whose only obvious asset was enclosure on three sides by Viñoly’s elegant curtain wall, formerly housed retail food and beverage operations that had become dated and underutilized. It is now a serene and luminous café, carefully...

The 152,250 square-foot campus is aiming to be the largest net zero educational facility in the country once it is completed. Lady Bird Johnson Middle School, the eighth middle school for Irving ISD, will serve approximately 900 students, grades six through eight. This facility will incorporate geothermal HVAC, passive solar interior daylighting, an efficient building en...

‘As you may see, Rotterdam is not Rome. It is not Paris, and definitely not Amsterdam. We are different,’ says Robert Simons, vice mayor of Rotterdam’s port and economy. ‘We do have a rich history which allowed for our architectural journey to take a different turn. After the Second World War, our city centre was destroyed. From this, Rotterdam decided to make a bold dec...

“Slick, yet unapologetically gritty” – these are the words that Sydney-based interior design studio And Alpha use to describe the design ethos for their newest fitout of Toby’s Estate Coffee Roasters. Nestled along Rose Street - arguably Fitzroy’s most quintessential spine - the new espresso bar explores form and flow within the context of a typical Fitzroy warehouse ten...

The University of Melbourne’s official merchandise store is a little lion of a fitout that roars quite loudly despite its small footprint. The shop occupies the northern end of a wing of a nineteenth-century heritage building, and the designers have played with a series of contrasting elements in the base building ranging from historic leadlight windows, newly installed ...

Thank goodness, then, that the namesake foundation of philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil had the foresight to assemble a force field of sorts around the 30-acre campus of the Menil Collection, the Houston art museum it operates. By buying and holding multiple parcels to stave off undesirable development, the foundation ensured that the Menil’s galleries, which i...

Costa Navarino in the Greek region of Messinia welcomes a new collection of luxury villas which settle into verdant olive groves and lap up the ocean vistas of the Mediterranean. Designed by Greek architecture firm K-Studio, these villas finely balance contemporary looks with sustainable architecture, allowing for the residences to gently nod to their idyllic, rural cont...

In the natural landscape of the Albanian Riviera, amidst rocks, steep slopes and dense underbrush with pine trees and cypresses, Bofill Taller de Arquitectura has realised a project that weaves a deliberately anti-mimetic dialogue with the natural context, re-proposing the articulated configuration of the Arab kasbah already explored in a deconstructivist key in the comp...

Once home to a prominent Swiss industrialist family, the interior transformation reflects both the building's historical significance as well as its structured, almost introverted appearance, contrasting with the 'outgoing' building on Sihlstrasse. Innovation, invention, and industry define the interior identity, with angular forms, precise lines, and accent colours, c...

Eight curated itineraries blending art, landscapes, and three-star Michelin cuisine by Heinz Beck, all in celebration of Italian excellence in motion. The train was unveiled today at Roma Ostiense Station, within the exclusive La Dolce Vita Lounge dedicated to its passengers, on the eve of the inaugural journey, scheduled for April 4th. The first trip, "Tastes of Tuscan ...

Down in the Clouds is a trio of curious pavilions planting white, bulbous forms amid the rice paddies of Xiangshan. The structures, appearing to almost balloon out from their aluminum frames, are conceived by Increments Studio and Practice on Earth as part of a growing response to the steady erosion of rural life across China as younger generations continue to migrate to...

Set high on the slopes of Stalos, just outside Chania, Greece, KK3 Residences by VAstudio explores what it means to build with sensitivity in a place where landscape, climate, and cultural memory are inseparable. The studio embeds three individual homes directly into the rocky hillside, using local stone, lime plaster, and native vegetation to ground the project in the c...

Located on a quiet suburban street in Wanaka, New Zealand, the compact home is defined by a simple gable form and a sturdy black rain screen. The external cladding is restrained but functional, combining asphalt shingles and larch weatherboards. Passive heating and cooling were considered from the outset, and minimal openings to the east, south, and west preserve the t...

To fins were included in the design of the house to regulate light and airflow. These fins extend into a 3.5-meter canopy on the ground floor, providing shade that mimics the coolness of sitting under a tree. This canopy not only protects surrounding plants from harsh sunlight but also blurs the line between indoor and outdoor spaces The facade’s curved forms enhance t...

Fluid volumes traverse between 9 existing trees on the southern side of a 3311 sqm plot, with 2 of the trees punctuating the open deck areas & the others in close proximity of the house. The entry to the plot is located between a large cluster of trees on the northwestern corner revealing the house slowly as one moves inside, from the gate. The location of the built spa...

Dominated by massive, stratified columns and overhanging volumetric forms, the design creates an immersive spatial experience that blurs the boundaries between structure and enclosure. The space is dominated by colossal, seemingly hewn volumes that emerge as if sculpted directly from the earth, their textured surfaces bearing the stratigraphic language of geological time...

The home owners had purchased a new build ‘Dutch Barn’ in partial shell form, which required a full internal fit out to create a family home for them and their young children. The architects’ mention, “The barn is a very large space, over 600sqm, so the first design problem was how to create a family home that was practical and cosy but also incorporated the dramatic do...

This project merges architecture, art, and community to create an innovative and collaborative workspace that also considers its social impact. The design by Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli revolutionizes the traditional workplace to embrace remote working and digitalization, prioritizing a sustainable balance between work and personal life. The offices are dynamic, flexib...

The first floor is the fruit market, the second floor contains the offices, and the third and fourth floors consist of lounge areas for customers. During the early stages of design, contemplation about the gray concrete finish intrinsic to the building itself came first. There were concerns that the juxtaposed characteristics between fruit – which inevitably make one ex...

In the south-east of the city of Yixing, near Dingshu (known in China as the “capital of ceramics”), Atelier XÜK with Architecture School of Southeast University has designed a building which is a tribute to the productive and artistic-cultural tradition of the area, renowned for centuries for the extraction and processing of a precious type of clay (Zisha) used to make ...