This project is a new Tokyo branch office for Ishida, a long-established manufacturer of scales headquartered in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan. The site is surrounded by high-rise condominiums, a national highway, and an expressway, but the road to the east is an important local street that connects the Shin-Itabashi subway station and JR Itabashi station, constant...
Changing patterns of development have seen industrial decline in some of Brescia’s neighborhoods, such as Via Milano (as its name suggests, the beginning of the old road to the Lombard capital) where the city is undertaking a $50 million redevelopment campaign. Launched in 2017 and baptized Oltre la Strada—“Beyond the Street”—the program aims to turn Via Milano “into a n...
It is difficult to take Villa Caffetto in at a single glance. Built for artist Claudio Caffetto (1942-2022), this extraordinary house near Brescia in the Lombardy region of Italy reads like a manifesto for sculptural architecture. With its rich and layered architecture, a composition of geometric shapes and oblique forms in concrete, glass and metal as visually complex a...
If you ask me, society’s faith in architects seems to be dwindling. In the face of seemingly immeasurable challenges – rapid climate change, decreasing housing affordability and the increasing privatisation of our cities’ public spaces, to name a few – it seems architects are increasingly relegated to the sidelines to watch on as policymakers enact powerful changes in ou...
After building expertise through his own sushi delivery business, he with his business partner decided to take their passion to the next level. In collaboration with kidz studio, they transformed a 200-square-meter space into an exceptional dining destination inspired by the anime Samurai Champloo. This anime, which blends Edo-period traditions with street culture elemen...
Project: Yohoo Museum Location: Hangzhou, China Client: Hangzhou Liangzhu Transportation Investment Group Co., Ltd Design Collaborator: Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited Design and Project Architect: Aedas Gross Floor Area: 5,356 sq m Completion year: 2024 Design Director: Ken Wai, Global Design Principal Design Concept: Paying attribute to the Chinese...
This project includes 16 classrooms, comprising a new kindergarten, an extension of six classrooms for the elementary school, and a recreation center. Area: 2,000 m². Budget: €7.10 million. The Les Violettes school complex is a village within the village of Mareil-Marly. Located on the heights of the town, the site is bordered by numerous remarkable trees and enjoys an u...
Petr Hájek ARCHITEKTI has reimagined the atrium of the Imperial Spa in Karlovy Vary, the Czech Republic, as a multifunctional concert hall. Equipped with adaptable acoustics and cutting-edge scenic technology, the new venue breathes new life into the 19th-century architectural landmark. Inspired by the building’s original mechanism for processing and distributing peat, t...
The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is expanding its Caribbean presence with the unveiling of Mandarin Oriental Esencia in Puerto Rico, designed by Studio MK27. Set to open in 2028, the resort will bring of luxury hospitality to its stunning natural surroundings in the southwestern coastal area of Boquerón Bay, Cabo Rojo. This new development is part of a broader vision to...
Nearly a century later, a new campus in the city’s innovation district 22@ in the El Poblenou marks a significant step forward, merging the legacy of Felicidad Duce's pioneering fashion school with the innovative spirit of Canadian network LCI Education, which acquired the school in 2013. Designed by local architecture practice Circular Studio, LCI Barcelona's new premis...
This project is located in the Haining High-Tech Zone of Zhejiang, in the heart of the Yangtze River Delta integration demonstration area. Covering a total land area of 251,002 square meters, the park includes hotels, conferences, exhibitions, retail, offices, R&D, production, and warehousing facilities. It aims to create a one-stop, multifunctional medical complex. The...
Set to open in the city of Almaty in April, the building will become a multifunctional venue for everything from art exhibitions to performances and film screenings, with a focus on supporting Kazakh and Central Asian creatives. Khan's conversion of the Soviet cinema, which is the largest of its kind in Central Asia, began in 2018. Once complete, it will be Kazakhstan's...
From the very beginning of her career, Zaha Hadid sited her buildings in the air, floating buildings on shadow, light, and seams of space that lifted volumes above the ground, relating her work to another tradition—Rome’s. Hadid, and the city’s architects of the Renaissance and Baroque that preceded her, aspired to the air, the skies, and the heavens. In designing the h...
The project, covering a total area of 7,211 square meters, encompasses diverse functionalities such as exhibition and training spaces, boutique homestays, and commercial facilities. The project includes the Haiyan Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum (referred to as the "Heritage Museum"), which has recently commenced trial operations. The museum's façade renovation inc...
Originally planned and built in the early 1970s, Black Butte Ranch sits the base of The Three Sisters mountains, it received a comprehensive redevelopment plan in 2013, and after working with Hacker on the new Lakeside recreation and dining complex (completed in 2016) and a new General Store (completed in 2021), the team’s attention turned to the resort’s 50-year-old Lod...
The various building designs are inspired by the silhouette of surrounding mountains, the contours of the landscape, and the site’s organic characteristics. The project has three room types: a 3 bedroom Pool Villa, 2 Pool Villa Suites, and 3 Pool Villas. There is also a main swimming pool on a mountain. The pools have different eye-catching designs, one with a circular...
INI Design Studio presents Shivalik Curv, a 32-story office tower located in GIFT City, Ahmedabad, designed to provide 47,000 sqm of Grade-A office space. Its twisting form, leaning 25 meters over a height of 120 meters, incorporates a 38-degree rotational shift on each level, offering dynamic views of the cityscape. For the tower’s design, the architects were inspired b...
Since its 2009 designation as a special economic district, authorities have rapidly redeveloped Hengqin in an attempt to create China’s answer to Orlando—a typhoon-vulnerable coastal landscape peppered with high-end resorts and a gigantic theme park. (In 2023, Hengqin’s theme park, Chimelong Ocean Kingdom, ranked as the sixth-most visited in the world.) Meanwhile, the 41...
Located in downtown Austin, Sixth and Guadalupe is 865 feet tall (264 metres) and has an ascending program of retail, office, and residential, with terraces and balconies dispersed at different points of the construction. The skyscraper has two glass-clad volumes, stacked, that sit atop an above-ground parking block clad in an illuminated, semi-transparent aluminium ski...
To see the work of great 17th-century painter Paul Rubens, you need to go to the Rubens Hall in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp where his masterpiece Adoration of the Magi hangs alongside other works that speak to his amazing range and empathy. To understand who he was, though, you need to visit the far smaller Rubenshuis and its gardens nearby, recently given a...
SLAS Architekci takes to the Polish city of Jastrzębie-Zdrój to complete a glimmering new concert hall. The city is defined by its unique origins, both as a resort town and an industrial hub centered on coal mining. The newly completed project marks a contemporary extension for the State Music School, and embodies its site’s duality by serving as a cultural and education...
The centre serves as a connection between a new residential area and the heart of the district, acting as a gateway to the adjacent park and local amenities. Designed to accommodate diverse user groups—including schoolchildren, students, sports clubs, and individual citizens—the centre is also a versatile venue for large-scale events such as concerts, seminars, tournamen...
Zaha Hadid Architects announces that they’ve been selected to design the Zhejiang Shaoxing Shangyu District Cao’e River Culture and Art Center in China. It is set to host local and international productions of opera, dance, and drama together with large-scale symphonies and musical theater. In total, the architecture with ceramic facades and solar-paneled roofs includes ...
World's first pioneer Robot & AI Museum, RAIM emerges as a pioneering cultural landmark that will serve as a base for the 4th industrial revolution in the northeastern part of Seoul. The project realized in collaboration between MAA and Withworks from 2019 to 2024, exemplifies cutting-edge architectural and construction methodologies. Architectural Vision and Design Man...
Maud Caubet Architectes completes Racine project in Paris‘s 12th arrondissement for Alderan (SCI EWOK), that transformed the former headquarters of the Office National des Forêts (ONF), a 35-meter-high brutalist tower built in 1970, into a dynamic and adaptable mixed-use structure. Located near the Sorbonne Nouvelle campus, the Racine project is set in a predominantly re...
Baumschlager Eberle Architekten has completed the new Huy Hoang Lock Factory, located in the Quang Minh Industrial Zone in northern Vietnam. The facility, recognized by its rhythmic facade of concrete fins, covers three hectares and sits twenty kilometers from the capital, Hanoi. The factory complex includes three buildings: two used for manufacturing with German technol...
The newly completed gallery Simple Design Archive, by architecture studio HAS Design and Research, is a new addition to Hefei, China. This multi-purpose museum houses contemporary Asian art and modern Northern European furniture, blending art and architecture to create an immersive visitor experience. The team, led by architects Jenchieh Hung and Kulthida Songkittipakdee...
The Chinese megalopolis today best known for the viral videos of the subway train passing through an inhabited apartment building at the sixth and eighth floors, or for the images of the horizontal cylindrical skyscraper literally resting on 4 of the Raffles City towers complex, also boasts the charm of one of the city’s oldest settlements, Shibati (or Eighteen Stairs), ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed the design for its new Modern and Contemporary Art Wing by Frida Escobedo Studio. This groundbreaking project, led by the first woman to design a wing in the museum’s 154-year history, will expand The Met’s capacity to display 20th- and 21st-century art while enhancing accessibility, sustainability, and integration with its his...
Named Rruga Adem Jashari, the development by Olgiati will include three skyscrapers reaching 150 metres, 192 metres and 266 metres, which will contain a hotel and apartment block. The towers will be built from red-toned concrete blocks sat atop a large concrete base. Connected to the towers by a plaza, a stepped pyramid structure rendered in white concrete will centre ...
The architectural design of the school is a compelling example of how thoughtful spatial planning and materiality can transform educational spaces into nurturing environments that foster creativity, community, and sustainability. Concept – Simple U shape plan meeting the function requirement, creating rich green courtyard space as much as possible to let in the sunshine...
Located in Downtown Miami, Okan Tower will be 902-feet high (274 metres) when completed, the latest in a group of skyscrapers currently under construction in the city. Renders of the project show a narrow building with an arched cap. White structural supports outline the building on either side, while a variety of terraces cover the facades. According to Flordia-based ...
Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto is set in the foothills of the city's easterly Higashiyama mountains, in a historic district brimming with temples and shrines, ancient cemeteries and burial grounds. The area's symbolic role as a bridge to the afterlife led Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKA) to find the main inspiration for its design in the 14th-century art of Noh, sometimes...
Squire and Partners aimed to celebrate the buildings while modernising the facilities to include a restaurant, clubhouse, rooftop terrace, bike storage, outdoor square and events space. Originally completed by Marsh and Seifert in 1968, the grade-II listed Space House comprises a rectangular building called the Block connected by a three-storey bridge to a cylindrical h...
Located outside of São Paulo along Praia Brava in the state of Santa Catarina, the Tempo project is designed to offer guests and residences a view of the nearby beach while incorporating nature throughout its two main buildings. "The undulating development is designed to capture the best views of Praia Brava – a spectacular beach that is frequented by surfers – and the ...
Developed for the Gabriele Fink Stiftung and operated by the Hoffnungstaler Stiftung Lobetal, the building was designed by kontektum architektur to meet the needs of both foundations while blending seamlessly into its surroundings. The design focuses on the specific needs of elderly residents and their caregivers, creating a supportive and comfortable environment. The b...
