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

Completed in 2016 in Mátraszentimre, Hungary. Images by Tamas Bujnovszky, Mark Tassy, Andras Ladocsi, Csaba Kovacs, Aron Vass-Eysen, Kata Garancsi. The project is located in the center of the 1100-kilometer long "Blue" national tourist route which passes through the North of Hungary between...

Built by Studio Weave in Dartford, United Kingdom with date 2012. Images by Jim Stephenson. Ecology of Colour brings public function to a neglected corner of Dartford by acting as a jolly custodian for the re-...

Built by Tabuenca & Leache, Arquitectos in Pamplona, Spain with date 2008. Images by Luis Prieto. This was a project to restore an old sixteenth-century palatial mansion, which was in ruins and had undergone major r...

Floor-to-ceiling grids of wooden shelves cover double-height walls inside this luxurious apartment in São Paulo by local studio Studio MK27

Designed by MVRDV. MVRDV has taken it upon themselves to reimagine the Chinese Hutong. Focusing in on Beijing's prominent and currently vacant Xianyukou Hutong, the...

Non-profit organisation Assemble have constructed a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover. Folly for a Flyover was assembled by a team of volunteers over the course of a month, using reclaimed and donated materials. It remains in place for six weeks, staging a series of movies and performances as part of the Create festival. Built from bricks

Completed in 2009 in China. Images by Iwan Baan . On the eastern edge of Yangzhou's new development area and east of the 2500-year-old Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Three Courtyard Community Centre...

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

The extensive investigations of isthmian avi fauna carried out by the renowned Panamanian ornithologist Eugene Eisenmann during the 1950s and 60s...

Completed in 2010 in New York, United States. Images by Nigel Young . Nearly 35 years after its conception, Sperone Westwater continues to exhibit the work of prominent artists of diverse nationality and age, who work...

Completed in 2012 in Japan. Images by Ken'ichi Suzuki. This is a house in the northern part of Hyogo Prefecture for a couple and their two children. The construction site is a part of a place surrounded...

Completed in 2015 in São Paulo, Brazil. Images by Pedro Kok. In 2011, a young man reached out to us about the possibility of designing a house for his mother, a person of few belongings, who lived in a house...

Lopsided house by Adamo-Faiden with a pointed balcony on one side and a caged terrace on the roof.

Completed in 2015 in Thailand. Images by Spaceshift Studio. On May 5th, 2014, a strong earthquake of 6.3 Richter struck Chiang Rai Province in the North of Thailand, destroying 73 schools affecting over two...

Built by Tato Architects in , Japan with surface 87.0. Images by Shinkenchiku Sha . This building is a reconfiguration of a traditional Japanese wooden house. Its wooden frames were exposed after the r...

Completed in 2015 in tt. Đức Thọ, Vietnam. Images by Doan Thanh Ha. Duc Tho district of Ha Tinh province is known as an area prone to natural disasters and climate change consequences. Extreme weather events and...

Completed in 1998 in Beirut, Lebanon. Images by Bernard Khoury Architects. B 018 is a music club designed by Bernard Khoury Architects, a place of nocturnal survival. In the early months of 1998, the B 018 moved to the...

Completed in 2015 in Beijing, ChinaThe Courtyard House Plugin is an award winning prefabricated modular system for urban regeneration. Using a house-within-a-house approach the system...

Completed in 2016 in Sauda, Norway. Images by Per Berntsen . Allmannajuvet in Sauda and the abandoned zinc mines from the late 1800s have inspired architect Peter Zumthor to create yet another historical art...

Completed in 2016 in Kortrijk, Belgium. Images by Filip Dujardin . A sharp line makes two houses out of one. A sharp line makes one house out of two houses. One of those houses will be dealt with. The other will not...

Completed in 2015 in La Playosa, Argentina. Located in the Pampa plains, in the east of the province of Cordoba, Saint Bernard´s Chapel (the local patron saint) rises in a small grove,...

Completed in 2015 in Bordeaux, FranceLAN architecture agency has today announced the completion of “Carré Lumière” in Bègles, suburb of Bordeaux, in South West France. The 79 apartments...

Completed in 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Images by Adrià Goula, Judith Casas. The project occupies the former social club "Pau i Justícia", deeply rooted in the memory of the neighbourhood Poblenou, a space where long ago...

Completed in 2013 in Coimbatore, India. Images by Vivek Muthuramalingam. The brief was to follow the intent of Waldorf system of Education but be within the bye laws laid by the Tamil Nadu Board of education. Waldorf...

For their latest fashion show scheme for Prada, AMO has gone “back to basics.” Envisioned for the fashion house’s 2017 Fall/Winter Collection,...

Completed in 2017 in Denmark. Images by Rasmus Norlander. Introduction The bird sanctuary at the tip of the peninsula in the southern part of Ringkøbing Fjord is, with its unique nature, an important...

Completed in 2017 in China. Images by Jinsong Xie, Jinda Zheng, Zhili Yin, Hongsen Kang, Haibo Xie. Located in the Southeastern part of Guizhou Province, the Shui Cultural Center is a gateway to Sandu County, the land of the Shui. The Shui are one...

Vector Architects has transformed a disused sugar mill in China's Yangshuo County into a hotel featuring a group of gabled masonry structures.