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Built by Rural Urban Framework in Xiangxi, China Rural healthcare in China currently faces a multitude of challenges. Rural institutions are generally unfavourable co...

Completed in 2011 in Somalia. Images by Collectif etc. After winning a competition commissioned by the Public Urban Planning Agency of Saint-Etienne (France), the Collectif Etc designed a public square of...

Completed in 2013 in Saitama, Japan. Images by Koji Fujii / Nacasa and Partners. This cemetery is located in the lush forests of the Sayama hills. The community hall stands midway on a slope above a city. The site enjoys excellent...

“In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.” This quote...

Built by Joliark in Stockholm, Sweden with date 2015. Images by Joliark/Torjus Dahl. Having nourished an unfulfilled dream of his own doll’s house since boyhood, Per Johanson of Joliark has finally seen...

Completed in 1980 in Eureka Springs, United States. This article was originally published on August 2, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD...

Built by alarciaferrer arquitectos in , Argentina with date 2014. Images by Lucas Carranza . Located in a forest on the banks of Lake Los Molinos, this multipurpose space responds to the need for a meeting plac...

Special thanks to our reader Jose Fernando Vazquez from Urbana Arquitectura (view his work previously featured on AD) who has shared these images of...

Built by Thomas Chung in Shenzhen, China with date 2013. Images by Value Farm. Value Farm creates value by cultivating the land as a collective effort. The project intersects issues of urban trans...

Completed in 2012 in Chichester, United KingdomAssemble designed and built an experimental temporary venue for a season of new plays at Chichester Festival Theatre, in the open parkland...

A map of the best contemporary landscape architecture projects from around the world.

Completed in 2011 in Shanghai, ChinaThe project is sited in the southeastern corner of Zhujiajiao, a traditional water-town in Qingpu, Shanghai. Far fro...

Built by Lacaton & Vassal in Dunkirk, France with date 2013. Images by Philippe Ruault. The FRAC houses regionally assembled public collections of contemporary art. These collections are conserved, a...

Completed in 2010 in Gotland Municipality, Sweden. Images by Elisabeth Toll. The brief came out of the very limited budget: a house as simple as possible. Equally simple as the barn we wanted to convert to a summer dwelling,...

focusing on the natural illumination of the interior space as the core element of the design, the house features 29 skylights and a system of curved acrylic panels to fill the rooms with daylight.

Built by IR arquitectura in Puerto Iguazú, Argentina with date 2011. Images by Federico Cairoli . The project implements a replicable model in each of its points: the architecture, the economic logic, the energy cri...

Completed in 2014 in London, United Kingdom. Images by David Grandorge. Yardhouse is a new affordable workspace building based in Sugarhouse Yard, designed and built by Assemble. It was jointly funded by Assemble and the...

Memu MeadowsMemu Meadows Facility name: Memu Meadows Project name: Même 158-1 Memu, Taikicho, Hirogun, Hokkaido, Japan 2011.06 Experimental residence 79.50 m2 Shinkenchiku 2012. 1 施設名：Memu Meadows (メム メドウズ) 物件名：Même (メム) 北海道広尾郡大樹町芽武158-1 他 2011.06 実験住宅 79.50 m2 競走馬の牧場 (大樹ファーム) が、サステナブルな建築・都市のあり方を追求する研究・教育・研修施設として再生した。計画は２つのパートに分かれる。第一部は、草原の中に建てられた実験住宅群。第二部は大学の研究室を対象として行っている国際既存厩舎、走路を改修した宿泊研修棟である。馬の厩舎は、馬の住まいから人間のための宿泊施設へとリノベーションされた。馬のための全長30mの案内走路の一部はレストラン、バーへと転換され、これらのリノベーションデザインにおいて最先端の環境技術が展開さ

Ash furniture and surfaces at this restaurant in Bangkok's EmQuartier, create a monochrome interior that looks like it's made from balsa wood

Built by LAN Architecture in Lormont, France with date 2015. Images by Julien Lanoo. The Génicart district, located near the centre of Lormont and adjacent to the town’s main urban and interurban networ...

Completed in 2015 in Ravelin, The Netherlands. Images by Bastiaan Musscher . Short History The Ravelijn "Op den Zoom" is a fort-island of the city of Bergen op Zoom in The Netherlands which is made in the beginning of the 18th...

Completed in 2014 in Saitama, Japan. Images by Jeremie Souteyrat. Yutaka Kindergarten is built on a steady philosophy of play-based education, encouraging children to develop their thinking actively. Space that...

Completed in 2016 in Venezia, Italy. Images by Delfino Sisto Legnani, Delfino Sisto Legnani + Marco Cappelletti. OMA’s restoration of the 16th Century Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice is complete. Commissioned by the Benetton family in 2009 to transform the...

Built by ifau und Jesko Fezer,HEIDE & VON BECKERATH in Berlin, Germany with date 2013. Images by Andrew Alberts. R50 – cohousing is a joint building venture project in Berlin-Kreuzberg. It was initiated by the architects during th...

On Monday, Sean Godsell unveiled the inaugural MPavilion in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens. Intended as an Austra...

Greenhouse of steel trees in Switzerland by Buehrer Wuest Architekten.

Completed in 2017 in Ritten, Italy. Images by Davide Perbellini. The church in Stella is an appreciated spiritual place for people from far and wide, not least because it is located along the popular Sigmund Freud...

conceived by HAO design as an experimental living studio, the property has been designed to host workshops, lectures, and hands-on cement work.

architects juan pablo ochoa and ruben padilla unveil the restoration of a house from the 1970s in the americana neighborhood of mexico.