The Pierre on San Juan Islands, Washington

The Pierre

Architects: Olson Kundig – conceived as a secure and unexpected retreat nestled into a rock, the Pierre celebrates the materiality of this site. From certain angles, the house almost disappears into nature.

Airbnb HQ Office São Paulo

Airbnb HQ

Design: MM18 Arquitetura. Airbnb is inspired by houses of hosts to create environments of meeting rooms. The materials used and decoration seek to follow to the letter what is there in the selected homes.

Cassell Street Residence South Yarra

Cassell Street Residence

Design: B.E Architecture. Creating a personal connection to the heritage of the client, the house on Cassell Street is referential of an ancient Byzantine building. The strong rectilinear form, made from natural stone, has a quality of looking older than it is.

House 46H in Toronto property

House 46H in Toronto property

Architects: baukultur/ca. House 46H has recently been transformed from of a 110-year-old house into a contemporary, highly sustainable home and, even though strictly modern, its exterior complements the traditional Beaches neighbourhood.

Holmes Road Studios: Micro Homes

Holmes Road Studios

Design: Peter Barber Architects. Beautiful new homeless facility providing high quality residential accommodation, with training and counselling facilities, laid out around a new courtyard garden, winner of an invited architecture competition, shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe 2017 Award.

Fondazione Prada in Milan Building

Fondazione Prada Milan building

Architects: OMA – Shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe 2017 Award. The Fondazione is not a preservation project and not a new architecture. Two conditions that are usually kept separate here confront each other in a state of permanent interaction – offering an ensemble of fragments that will not congeal into a single image.

A Concrete Composition House in Rishpon, Israel

A Concrete Composition

Architects: Studio de Lange. The design plan is minimalist and the material scale is monochrome. It includes natural stone, exposed concrete and aluminum, all found in varying quantities on the exterior as well as interior of the home.

The Tin Box in Canmore, Alberta building

The Tin Box in Canmore, Alberta building

Design: MODA
MoDA was approached in early 2015 to reimagine an existing commercial building on Main Street in the historic mining town of Canmore, Alberta into a mixed-use development of retail, office, residential and warehouse.

Breeze Block House in Cove Lane

Breeze Block House

Design: Architect Prineas. This project is a 1950s home, which has been reconfigured internally. Two outdoor rooms connect the house and garden using a complimentary language to the original.

Brooklyn Grange, New York: Navy Yard Farm

Brooklyn Navy Yard farm

Brooklyn Grange is the leading rooftop farming and intensive green roofing business in the US. They operate the world’s largest green roof farms, located on two buildings in New York City, and grow over 50,000 lbs of organically-cultivated produce per year.

Economist Building London by The Smithsons

Economist Building 25 St James's Street

The Economist Building refurbishment news – “Walking to the entrance of our building, across a rather austere plaza, we sometimes pass groups of architecture students in drab, well-cut clothes and interesting glasses.”

Byre Theatre St Andrews, Fife Building

Byre Theatre St Andrews interior

The £4m theatre building includes a 220 seat auditorium and stage with full flying capability, ‘back of house’ accommodation, conference facilities, fully flexible studio theatre, and foyer / restaurant spaces which respond to the existing urban fabric by forging a new link between the differing public realms to the ‘front’ and ‘rear’ of the site

Villa Savu Savu in Fiji, Melanesia property

Savu Savu House

Design: Madeleine Blanchfield Architects. Villa Savu Savu was constructed by locals using traditional Fijian materials and techniques. The roofs are made from locally sourced timbers bound together at steep angles.

Cleveland Civic Core Complex, Ohio

Cleveland Civic Core Complex

Design: LMN Architects – the Global Center for Health Innovation extends the convention center’s capacity to host a variety of events. The building completes the west edge of the Mall and is connected to the convention center through a below-grade entry.