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This compact residence is nestled within the dense expanse of Tokyo, in a neighborhood characterized by narrow streets and traditional low-rise houses and which borders a park heavily visited during the spring, when the city’s cherry trees bloom.
City officials in Chicago have unveiled an 88-story tower designed by Studio Gang Architects for Chinese developer Wanda Group. The zigzag tower would sit in Lakeshore East, the same development as the architect's famous Aqua Tower.
The University of Melbourne's Melbourne School of Design, designed by Boston's NADAAA and Victoria, Australia's John Wardle Architects (JWA), opened at the beginning of December, four months ahead of schedule.
For the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, Studio Gang Architects uses a traditional yet obscure masonry technique to give the trefoil-shaped building its distinctive appearance.
Exactly 112 years to the day after Andrew Carnegie moved into his mansion on New York's Upper East Side, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum reopens after a major, three-year renovation of the building.
The American Institute of Architects has announced the recipients of its annual Honor Awards: the Gold Medal, the Architecture Firm Award, the Topaz Medallion, the Edward C. Kemper Award, and the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award.
A new academic facility at the University of Ottawa has garnered three design awards this season. Diamond Schmitt Architects and KWC Architects designed the building.
Squeezed into what was once a driveway, this slim standing-room-only cafe in Sydney’s Surry Hills has exactly the dark industrial atmosphere its comic-character-loving owner was after for his new "caffeine laboratory."
The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership aims to bring social justice topics up from the basement – a traditionally informal setting in convening for social justice – and squarely into public consciousness.
This project involved the expansion of a spacious single-story Outremont residence built in the 1960s. Situated on a site with a steep incline and majestic view, the two-floor expansion was designed to offer a generous window on the horizon.
Design Miami/, now in its tenth year, may be overshadowed by the larger and slightly older Art Basel – Miami Beach, but the five-day design show offers its share of delights as well as a hint of the city's architectural evolution.
Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg Municipality, Metroselskabet and Realdania have announced that the C.F. Møller entry has won the contest to design the upcoming extension of CBS.
MVSA designed Shoebaloo’s newest store on 5 Koningsplein, Amsterdam. Shoebaloo is renowned for its high-end designer shoes and accessories, and has various branches in the city. The women’s store is located beside the men’s store at 7 Koningsplein.
Situated on the outskirts of a village, an existing house was demolished to allow for a new build in order to maximize the relationship between the architecture and surrounding landscapes.
Wadden Sea Centre and the city of Esbjerg have announced Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter's proposal as the winning scheme for the extension and refurbishment of the Wadden Sea Centre in Vester Vedsted, Denmark.
Our design for two new blocks of affordable family housing at Hunters View is part of the first phase of San Francisco’s ambitious HOPE SF program, a plan to revitalize the worst of San Francisco’s crime-ridden and forgotten low-income neighborhoods.
Ma Yansong, founder of MAD Architects, has unveiled his design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art proposed for a lakefront site in Chicago.
Park Groot Schijn, Zone Boterlaar Silsburg is the first detailed design of the Ruggeveld masterplan. The planning area covers 6.5 hectares and is located south of the E313 highway.
The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2014 Design Excellence Awards given in four categories: Distinguished Building, Interior Architecture, Divine Detail, and Unbuilt Design.
In response to Chinese leader Xi Jinping's call for an end to "weird architecture" in China, we combed through the profiles on the Chinese-Architects platform of World-Architects to highlight some firms working in a different vein.
Two side-by-side buildings – the CUNY Advanced Science & Research Center and the City College Center for Discovery & Innovation – recently opened on City College's Harlem campus. Bendheim's channel and dichroic glass defines much of the interiors.
Located in the Mont-Tremblant National Park, the Discovery Centre offers a stunning view of Lake Monroe and its surrounding hills and mountains.
The new tropical conservatory at the Botanical Gardens in Aarhus is like a drop of dew in its green surroundings. Sustainable design, new materials and advanced computer technology went into the creation of the hothouse's organic form.
NORD Architects has designed a new hospice for the deaconess community in Copenhagen. The project will replace the existing hospice, designed to reflect and support the notion that healing architecture has a positive effect on palliative patients.
The U.S. Department of State has announced that Ennead Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have been selected as design architects for new U.S. Embassies in, respectively, Ankara, Turkey, and Colombo, Sri Lanka.
China's MAD Architects and Chicago's Studio Gang Architects will design the building and landscape, respectively, for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) in Chicago, according to an announcement released today.
C.F. Møller Architects and Brut have won the competition for a new residential and mix-use tower in the Nieuw Zuid area in Antwerp, with a proposal that redefines the residential high-rise as a vertical social community.
C.F. Møller has won the invited competition for the Herningsholm Vocational School, with a proposal that integrates building, urbanism and landscape.
The recipients of the 25th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia. From the 40 nominated projects culled from 8 countries in the Alpe Adria region and Central Europe, the Piranesi Award was given to Ring Road Bressanone-Varne in...
The Center for Sustainable Landscapes houses administrative and classroom functions for the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, while furthering the institution's mission "to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and...