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ARKÍS er framsækið alhliða arkitektúr- hönnunar- og ráðgjafarfyrirtæki sem hefur starfað frá árinu 1997.

Completed in 2016 in Chur, Switzerland. Images by Simon Menges. The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise of integration within an urban ensemble. Despite...

House on Gotland Vacation House, located on Gotland, Sweden Project duration: 2013-2016 -

Lifted steel mesh curtains offer glimpses of performances inside this traditional music centre that Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen has completed on Muharraq Island in Bahrain.

Built by Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos in Vecindario, Spain with date 2007. Images by Simón García . Inscribed houses, with their small boundaries, are designed and constructed as a microcosm. The inscribed term, borro...

Completed in 2017 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Images by Nakanimamasakhlisi. To be inviting is a central aspect forming the architectural concept of the third municipal Mediatheque opened in 2017 in Tbilisi Georgia. The...

Completed in 2016 in Tomakomai, Japan. Images by Ikuya Sasaki. I keep on design activities in Hokkaido, so most of my projects ran there. By designing in a remarkably cold, I continued thinking on response to...

MVRDV restored the industrial roots of this building in the Het Industriegebouw in Rotterdam when creating a new home for the Groos design store.

Completed in 2016 in Schnepfau, Austria. Images by Adolf Bereuter. In the Bregenzerwald, an alpine valley in Western Austria, transhumance is still the commonly practised form of farming: Livestock is driven to graze...

Completed in 2017 in Roosendaal, The Netherlands. Images by Katja Effting. A neighbourhood family had a redundant piece of land, and offered that to “Het Da Vinci College” , a school for animal care and gardening, with...

Built by Vector Architects in Qinhuangdao Shi, China with date 2015. Images by Xia Zhi. "As the sky dims, cloud is dazzling in purple blue. Within a glimpse, it vanished. Ocean is in charcoal gray. The wav...

Built by Ortner & Ortner in Duisburg, Germany with date 2013. Images by Thomas Mayer. The archive tower that rises 70 metres high out of the historic brick warehouse is distinguished from the old walls b...

Completed in 2016 in Hangzhou, China. Images by Marc Goodwin. Inside the rural Tai Yang Valley, West of Hangzhou, the Sun Commune is a local initiative raising awareness of sustainable farming and promoting...

Completed in 2017 in Kilkenny, Ireland. Images by Christian Richters. St Mary’s Hall, formerly St Mary’s Church, High Street, Kilkenny was founded in the thirteenth century as the parish church of the City. In use as a...

Completed in 2013 in Beijing, China. Images by Su Shengliang, Zhang Mingming. Cha’er Hutong (hutong of tea) is a quiet spot among the busy Dashilar area, situated one kilometre from Tiananmen Square in the city centre. No.8...

Built by NAAD in Kyoto, Japan with date 2014. Images by Keishiro Yamada . Ephemeral House is a renovation project of a 100-year-old wooden building located in the center of Kyoto, Japan. The ...

fran silvestre arquitectos has designed an urban canopy that references low-weight pergolas and porticated structures traditionally used in mediterranean cultures.

The town square of Sonogno was a poorly defined space, the result of the successive demolition of three buildings and a modification in the road layout, with a badly maintained tarmac surface. The square surface has...

Japanese architects 403architecture have turned the floor of this refurbished apartment in Hamamatsu into a huge chest of drawers. It was only during the renovation that the architects discovered the large void beneath the suspended floor and decided to use it for storage. Clear, corrugated plastic fronts the new sliding drawers, while scaffolding supports shelves

Completed in 2015 in Aalborg, Denmark. Images by Jakob Lerche. UCN Campus in Aalborg (DK) is a vision of an educational hub bringing together several specialized study programs under one roof. Faced with the...

Completed in 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. Images by José Hevia . The project consists of remaking a home in a 1970’s apartment in Barcelona. The former spaces were based on program requirements resulting in a...

Completed in 2016 in Valladolid, Spain. Images by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez, Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso / Pedro Iván Ramos Martín. The housing for the elderly in Adeamayor de San Martin (Valladolid) can not be understood without its context. Located on the border of a saline...

Completed in 2016 in Berlin, Germany. Images by Nic Tenwiggenhorn, GilbertMcCarragher, def image. The Feuerle Collection is a new museum in Berlin. Located in a former telecommunications bunker which was renovated by the British architect John...

Completed in 2015 in Moscow, Russian FederationThe project includes renovation of former garage premises. The garage was located in an extension to the house. The owner decided to give this space...