Kurakuen II House, Osaka Home, Japan

House in Kurakuen II. The site is a special one in the Hanshin area, a sloping residential area facing the sea, and the form rises from the road by 7 m with an ascending slope of around 30 degrees.

Monaco House Melbourne Ridgway Place building

Monaco House Melbourne Ridgway Place building

This is a new 4 storey building located in a largely pedestrian lane (Ridgway place) at the East end of Melbourne’s CBD. Dominant in the lane is the historic Melbourne Club wall and the gigantic plane trees emanating from the Melbourne Club Garden which arch over the diminutive lane.

Leroy Street Town House, Manhattan Residence

Manhattan town house kitchen interior design

The project was as broad a renovation as can be designed while still keeping the core building intact. The building, which had originally been a coal delivery garage in the 20’s, had, by the 90’s, become a parking garage with a small residential space on top of it

Bridge of Orchy House: Stance Cottage Argyll

Bridge of Orchy House - Stance Cottage

Stance cottage is situated on the old drovers route from Fort William to the south. The drovers would stop in Bridge of Orchy and pay to ‘stance’ their cattle/sheep in the stance below the cottage.

ADIA Headquarters, Abu Dhabi Tower HQ

ADIA Headquarters, Abu Dhabi Tower HQ

Taking inspiration from regional elements such as billowing sails and shifting sand dunes, the dramatic form of the new corporate headquarters for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) transforms the city’s waterfront skyline.

Atasehir District Istanbul Financial Development

RMJM has won a developer-led competition to design a 340,000-square-metre mixed-use development with an estimated value of US$1 billion (nearly £600 million) in a section of Istanbul that the Turkish government intends to transform into the city’s new financial district and a business centre for the country.

The Battery Copenhagen, Architecture

This architecture will be free from the stylistic straitjacket; free to generate new associations from the architectonic spectrum. The Tower of Babel collapsed because of the confusion caused by different languages

Elements Square Livingston shopping centre

Elements Square Livingston

Elements Square, the £130m extension to the Almondvale shopping centre at Livingston in Scotland opened to the public on Thursday 16 October. This marks the sixth major retail-led scheme designed by BDP to open this year.

Princeton University Buildings: USAArchitecture

Princeton University Buildings

Steven Holl Architects has been selected to design the first academic buildings for the new arts and transit neighborhood at Princeton University. The project includes buildings for the Program in Theater and Dance, components of the Department of Music, the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Society of Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts.

Shanghai Expo 2010 Italian Pavilion

Shanghai Expo 2010 Italian Pavilion by Studio Nicoletti Associati

Shanghai expo 2010 Italian pavilion competition project: Pavilion’s dynamic shape represents italian innovation and fantasy, meanwhile the better city – better life theme is represented trough the main features of italian urban quality.