Torre Cube Guadalajara, Mexico Skyscraper

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Torre Cube Guadalajara

Design: Estudio Carme Pinós. In this building the architects wanted to create well-ventilated offices with natural light and taking advantage of the mild weather of Guadalajara, the design even makes air-conditioning unnecessary.

The center of the building – between the three cores – is an open space illuminated laterally by eliminating three floors of the office modules on each side. These large gaps become “windows” for the central space and allow the free circulation of air.

Mediatheque Mont de Marsan Building

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Mediatheque Mont de Marsan

Design: archi5. The Media Library is a strong cultural symbol for the Marsan urban area. It is a visible, distinctive building without being overpowering. The building stands in the middle of the Bosquet barracks, with its clean envelope of pure geometric lines

Ocean Space Center, Marine technology research

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Ocean Space Centre

The design by Snøhetta architects calls for the creation of a completely new marine technology centre near Trondheim in the north of Norway, with an ocean basin placed in the middle of the sea

The World Ocean Space Centre building will comprise 90,100 sqm of new space with 1,000 employees and 500 students if politicians approve the most ambitious alternative, costing up to NOK 10 billion.

Leaf Chapel Yamanashi: Klein Dytham architecture

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Leaf Chapel Yamanashi

The Leaf chapel design by Klein Dytham architecture is within the grounds of the Risonare hotel resort in Kobuchizawa. The building mimics two leaves that have fallen to the ground, one on top of the other. Thousands of holes in the leaves form the delicate image of a bridal veil.

The Ice Cubes Tokyo Store Building

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The Ice Cubes Tokyo

Design: Jun Mitsui&Associates Architects. This Shibuya-ku building was commissioned by a Hong Kong-based developer. The site constraints, including sky-openness factor (tenku-ritsu) and sun/shadow requirements were very restrictive.

By developing the formal strategy as a series of interlocking cubes, the architects were able to massage the complicated building envelope shape into a dynamic composition.

Casa Negra – The Black House Argentina

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Casa Negra Argentina

The black house – Casa Negra – is for a young couple. This building design by Andrés Remy Arquitectos is located 30km away from Buenos Aires. The lot, 20 m wide and 50 m long, has amazing views to the lake.

Daeyang Gallery and House Seoul Building

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Daeyang Gallery and House

Design: Steven Holl Architects. The Daeyang Gallery and House in Seoul, Korea has received a 2012 Annual Design Review Award in the Live Category. 29 May 2012 – About the Daeyang Gallery and House, which opened in June 2012, juror Mark Yoes particularly noted “the way the project integrates ideas about natural light, water, landscape, and materiality into such a coherent statement.”

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam building extension

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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Design: BenthemCrouwel Architects. The new levitated superstructure contains exhibition space, a restaurant, a shop and the new entrance. The new building, popularly called ‘the Bath Tub’, adds over 9,000 sqm to the historic museum building. This includes programme space as well as 3,400 sqm of exhibition space

RESHAPE digital craft competition

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RESHAPE digital craft competition Winner

Winners of the first edition of RESHAPE | digital craft competition. This architectural contest has selected various innovative ideas in the field of design and digital fabrication.

South Quay Plaza London for Berkeley Homes

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South Quay Plaza

Design: Foster + Partners

Berkeley Homes has submitted plans to Tower Hamlets Council for the redevelopment of the existing South Quay Plaza site to provide a world-class, residential-led mixed-use development. In accordance with Tower Hamlet’s policy for this area, the scheme will also be delivering over 1.5 acres of high quality public realm, reinvigorating the waterfront on South Dock and creating a vibrant new destination.

Hanging Boxes Interior in Avignon

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Hanging Boxes

Design: NBJ Architectes

The project is an interior renovation of an existing building and seeks to establish a coherent whole operation by adapting the program to the needs and uses of new users. The intervention is essentially a reorganization of interior spaces, limiting interventions on buildings and ensuring optimization of quality and comfort of use. The general principles of circulation of the old building are maintained and adapted to the standards required by the change of destination.

Timberframe Solutions, Tyvek High-Tech Membranes

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DuPont Timberframe Solutions

DuPont Tyvek Timberframe Solutions: integrated, reliable protection. Timberframe Solutions is a system of high-tech membranes and accessories designed to enhance the performance and installation of the building envelope. The various combinations of unique products within the co-ordinated offering adds significant value and allows producers of lightweight ventilated Timber Frame facades to apply superior protection against the elements.

The Building Centre, Store Street

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The SKIN DEEP exhibition focuses on a striking set of photographs that take – or make – intriguing compositions from the starting point of a facade or outer surface of a building

Hanwha Headquarter Office Tower Seoul

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Hanwha HQ

Design: Ben van Berkel / UNStudio’s design has been selected as the winning entry in the competition for the remodelling of the Hanwha Headquarters building in Seoul. The renovation of the office tower incorporates the remodelling of the facade, the interior of the common spaces, lobbies, meeting levels, auditorium and executive areas, along with the redesign of the landscaping.

House in Porto, Portugal Property

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House In Porto

Design: e|348 arquitectura. It is a building consisting of two distinct adjacent and interrelated volumes, the housing itself – consisting of two stories plus a penthouse – and a garage. Although the volume, apparently, is being treated as a solid monolith, it is fully traversed, with vertical and horizontal voids.

Trinity@Paya Lebar Singapore church

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Singapore Church Building

Trinity@Paya Lebar design by ONG&ONG: the choice of colours for the façade, and the folding of the façade planes are inspired by the canyons in the Israeli deserts while the façade lighting aims to carry the narratives of nature. The animation and vibrancy of the colours used are meant to mirror the dynamism of the sky.