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As is the case for many other building typologies in China today, schools are often realised with standardised building modules designed independent of any location or topography. Hongling High School in the Futian district of Shenzhen is no exception. While it tends to be assumed that the... Eduard Kögel

Schenker Salvi Weber have built St. Pölten's new KinderKunstLabor (Children's Art Laboratory). Michael Salvi answered some questions about the spatially and atmospherically rich building that was developed using a physical model. Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten

In the Malaga region of the Serranía de Ronda, Philippe Starck has designed a unique and surrealist oil mill that fuses tradition, art, and architecture in homage to olive oil and local culture. An intense red concrete cube, like the earth of the landscape on which it stands, represents “the... Antonio La Gioia

NEXT architects has a record of designing nature-inclusive projects, more than one of them providing for the needs of bats. First was the aptly named Bat Bridge that spanned the Vlotwatering and provided habitats for bats, then the Hop-overs De Centrale As, which was designed to lead bats... NEXT architects

Built in seven phases over seven years, the Rising Star school buildings opened in March 2023 in in Hopley, Zimbabwe. Constructed by hand from more than half a million bricks, the linear school buildings arranged around a courtyard are characterized by round arches at the walkways and in the... Engineers Without Borders Germany

Buildings from the 1970s and 80s are at or past their effective lifespans, forcing decisions over their demolition or renovation. A commendable example of the latter is Herta Mohr, the circular renovation of Cluster Zuid, designed by Joop van Stigt for Leiden University's Faculty of Humanities... De Zwarte Hond

Rojkind Arquitectos, the Mexican studio known for its propensity for innovation, has designed a compact building dedicated to wine production and research. Pictograma Winery combines a rigorous and complex geometry with the use of raw materials and organically integrates the structure into its... Antonio La Gioia

More than a dozen years in the making, the Kinderspital Zürich (University Children’s Hospital Zurich) was officially inaugurated on October 1 and will welcome its first patients on November 2. The design by Basel's Herzog & de Meuron consists of the acute-care hospital and a building...

Faced with a tiny lot abutting neighbors on three sides — a not uncommon condition in the densely built-up city of Hanoi — ODDO Architects designed a vertical house for a family, where each of its five floors has a different function. The architects sent us some text and images on TH House. ODDO Architects

For twenty years, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library was a tenant in existing buildings in Chicago, therefore lacking an architectural image. In May of this year, the nonprofit institution that was founded in 2003 opened its new bespoke home near Kenosha, Wisconsin — an angular steel... Jahn/

Notable as the largest public project in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, since the completion of the Wellington Regional Stadium in early 2000, Tākina – Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre features a shimmering glass facade facing Wellington Harbour. The architects at Studio... Studio Pacific Architecture

Fifteen years in the making, the New York Korea Center opened its doors in June as the new home of the Korean Cultural Center New York. Located on East 32nd Street, just east of Manhattan's busy Koreatown, the eight-story building features a figural volume that rises behind a clear glass... SAMOO Architects & Engineers

ELIPSE is an apt name for this new apartment building in Ljubljana, but it is the wavy balconies projecting from the elliptical plan that grab the most attention. Facing south toward a canal and park, the balconies provide outdoor space for many of the building's 64 units. Sadar+Vuga, who... Sadar+Vuga, Arhipro, Studio Krištof

Ever since its founding in 1912, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, has been unique for being not just an art museum, but also a science museum and a natural history museum. The museum's appeal is evident in its recent expansion, nearly a decade in the making, designed by... EskewDumezRipple

China Merchants Group was founded in 1872 and will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2025. To mark the occasion, a new China Merchants History Museum tells the story of the (state-owned) enterprise. This specially commissioned museum is located in the Shekou district of Shenzhen and was... Eduard Kögel

Cocoon is apt name for this extension of Bloomingdale International School's campus in Vijayawada, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The undulating roof partly covered in turf recalls the form of cocoons, while the architects at andblack design studio thought of the building... andblack design studio

Multiple A-frame structures define IDIN Architects' design for the new Harudot café in Chonburi, Thailand. Undulations in the structure result in openings that bring light to the interior but also provide space for trees to grow from inside to outside, to eventually meld building and... IDIN Architects

New Bailey is part of The English Cities Fund's transformation of central Salford, part of Greater Manchester. For its third building at New Bailey, Make Architects created a standout: Eden, an office building covered in a living wall. The architects answered a few questions about the recently... Make Architects

Cylindrical forms are atypical for residential towers — Bertrand Goldberg's iconic Marina City “corncobs” come to mind as one example — in part because the shape makes it difficult to lay out apartments of various sizes. Student accommodations, on the other hand, are a better fit, given... OODA

Three tenants — a restaurant, bar, and beer garden — occupy a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces at Aruma Split Garden in Jakarta. The design by Indonesian firm RAD+ar stands out for its accessible sloped and terraced rooftop that overlooks an outdoor dining area. The architects... RAD+ar

A narrow trapezoidal lot pushed Paulo Merlini Architects to be creative with the floor plans and balconies in their design of Boavista 339, a residential building in Porto. The balconies and arched windows define the facade, which also expresses the building's mix of studio and one-bedroom... Paulo Merlini Architects

The D-Day Museum in Arromanches, France, was inaugurated on June 6, 1954, on the tenth anniversary of the D-Day Landings. Fast forward 65 years and this first museum to commemorate the landings was in need of larger facilities, leading to a design competition. The winning scheme by...

Studio Saar, an architecture practice with office in England and India, recently completed a new learning and cultural center in Udaipur, Rajasthan for Dharohar, a nonprofit organization working with schools and volunteers to provide extra-curricular activities in the area. Studio Saar sent us... Studio Saar

Most of the structures that comprised the Domino Sugar Refinery on the East River in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, were demolished after operations ceased in 2004 and a masterplan for a mixed-use development was approved a decade later. The landmark refinery building from 1884 remains, effectively a... Practice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU

CIA Conad recently completed its new headquarters on the outskirts of Forlì, the city in Northern Italy where the retail cooperative was founded 65 years ago. The design by tissellistudioarchitetti, based in nearby Cesena, is a slender linear volume that is covered in glass and aluminum fins... tissellistudioarchitetti

Industrial buildings converted into cultural venues are nothing new, but recent years have seen some notable examples of an apparently inflexible type — grain silos — transformed into eye-catching places of culture. Adding to Thomas Heatherwick's MOCAA in South Africa and the... Prokš Přikryl architekti

“For Everyone a Garden” is the title of a 1974 book by architect Moshe Safdie but also a statement of belief that started with the Habitat 67 in Montreal and has found its greatest fruition in the projects Safdie's firm has designed in Singapore. Safdie Architects answered a few questions... Safdie Architects

Kunstsilo is the transformation of a former grain silo on Odderøya in Kristiansand, Norway, into a museum housing three art collections: the Sørlandet Art Collection, the Tangen Collection, and the Christianssands Picture Gallery. Similiary triptych in nature, the museum was designed by three... Mestres Wåge, Mendoza Partida and BAX studio

Since it was established in 1998, Kloboucká lesní has been focused on sustainable forestry, producing glulam beams and other wood products at their nursery and production facilities in South Morania. It is therefore fitting that their administrative headquarters expresses the company's ethos... Mjölk architekti

Arenas & Asociados, AM2 Arquitectos, and NOARQ collaborated on the Halo project, an imposing vertical connection structure that has become, in a short time, a new icon of the Galician city of Vigo, Spain. Antonio La Gioia

The city of Jingdezhen in the province of Jiangxi is renowned beyond China since historical times for its porcelain production. More recently, the Imperial Kiln... Eduard Kögel

The slanted walls of this eight-story office building in Tokyo appear anti-social, even aggressive at first glance, but they are a logical response to an adjacent elevated railway line, the need for acoustic privacy in the offices, and the desire for natural air and light. Makoto Yamaguchi... Makoto Yamaguchi Design

Architect Nonsense is a young studio in Bangkok whose second project involved the transformation of an old lathe warehouse and factory into a co-working space with coffee shop. The adaptive reuse project became a playground for experimenting with old metal pieces, apparent even from the... Architect Nonsense

The Marina del Prat Vermell in Barcelona is preparing for a future of significant change with the ambitious transformation of its surroundings, spearheaded by visionary projects such as the one designed by MIAS Architects and Coll-Leclerc. This project, located on a triangular site at the... Ana María Álvarez, MIAS Architects + Coll-Leclerc

The Opera Park is a new green space about the size of three soccer fields suitably just steps from the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. The heart of the park is occupied by a flower-shaped greenhouse with café that links to underground parking and ensures the park is a year-round destination.... Cobe

While India has a population of 1.4 billion and nearly 50 cities with at least one million people, the country is predominantly rural. Evidence of this can be seen in the Nokha Village Community Centre designed by Sanjay Puri Architects