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The Du Tour Residence is a renovation project. This Laval home, designed by an architect in the ‘60s, has belonged to the same family for decades. Its very special character and distinctive details were to be retained. Architecture Open Form

In recent China, the rapid development accelerates the competition among cities and thus causes the continuous extension of highway networks towards countryside, surrendering the right of way to vehicles, and invading rural life and the local lifestyle. ADARC

At first glance, this 8,000-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, California, does not appear to be nearly as large as its size indicates. This stems from the fact architect Noah Walker and his design-build Walker Workshop placed two-thirds of the house below-grade, in order to protect trees on...

GG-loop's renovation of a corner building in Altamura, Italy, features a bold, faceted red facade made from EIFS (Exterior Insulation and Finishing System), a system associated otherwise with bland, run-of-the-mill buildings. John Hill

The immediate proximity of the future heart of the city constituted of businesses and dwellings forces us to sanctuarize the square of the City Hall and to distinguish an external extension, a place which offers dignity and readability to the City Hall. ECDM

a residential high-rise in vienna offering a “vertical street “ for the people living there colourfully designed by the austrian artist heimo zobernig. querkraft

The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, has officially opened a new urban landmark on the skyline of Mexico City - BBVA Bancomer’s new headquarters today. The 50-storey office tower is the first completed building by LegoRogers, a collaboration between international architectural... LegoRogers

London's Serpentine Gallery has announced the selection of Denmark's BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group to design the 16th pavilion in Kensington Gardens, to be accompanied by four summer houses designed by architects from Europe and Africa. John Hill

As part of its ongoing collaboration with Italian fashion house Prada, AMO (a research and design studio within OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture) has created a short film that takes place within "an artificial landscape where fiction and collection collide." John Hill

The new metropolitan landscape of Paris: This reinventer.paris project offers a unique opportunity to transform the metropolis at a highly strategic spot: the Boulevard Périphérique (ring road). Jacques Ferrier Architecture, chartier dalix architectes

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and developer Tishman Speyer have unveiled renderings for a supertall skyscraper with a spiral of terraces overlooking the High Line and Hudson Yards in Manhattan. John Hill

The idea for this flexible and reusable building prototype came about as our reaction to the unique Chinese phenomenon in the recent decades’ building frenzy – the production of vast amount of flamboyant but short-lived temporary buildings, especially those sales pavilions for real... OPEN Architecture

Here are a couple recently completed bus stations with distinctive canopies, both designed by World-Architects member firms.

Indian architect Bijoy Jain, of Studio Mumbai, follows in the footsteps of Sean Godsell and Amanda Levete to design the third MPavilion in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. John Hill

In name, this house recalls Little House on the Prairie, the books and television series about one family's life in the American Midwest in the late 1800s. It's fitting then that Little House on the Ferry is composed of three separate volumes rather than one: moving from...

The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) opened its new Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed home on January 31st with the exhibition Architecture of Life, running until May 29th. John Hill

Following the November 2014 announcement by Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her Deputy Mayor in charge of urban planning, Jean-Louis Missika, to solicit ideas for 23 urban sites in Paris, the winning proposals have been revealed. John Hill

To mark the city’s 375th anniversary in 2017, the Borough of Ville-Marie will offer Montréal residents and visitors a revamped, friendlier Place Jacques-Cartier that will host lively activities year round. Atelier VAP

The 15-story office building resembles a giant stair, in which each tread is a large roof terrace and each riser is a two-story-tall glazed common room. DARK Arkitekter AS

Nestled on a spectacular dense hill with magnificent old pine trees and facing the East Sea of the Korean coast, the new Seamarq hotel at Gyongpodae is a one of a kind boutique hotel composed of two main buildings and supporting facilities scattered throughout the site. Richard Meier & Partners Architects

The extension to the Swiss National Museum in Zurich has been completed. At the end of last month the new wing, of exposed concrete, was opened for viewing for the first time. Jenny Keller

The FC Barcelona has announced that the team of HOK and TAC Arquitectes has been chosen as the winner of the architectural competition for the New Palau Blaugrana. John Hill, Silvia Pujalte Toledo

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Jeanne Gang's Studio Gang Architects have recently unveiled projects – a police station and a fire station, respectively – they are designing for the City of New York. John Hill

They say there is only one life and so one must live it fully. The Katyal family epitomizes this philosophy to the core and clearly expects its design home to showcase it just as flamboyantly. Studio archohm

Escobedo Solíz Studio, the partnership of Lazbent Escobedo and Andres Solíz, has won the 17th edition of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program with Weaving the Courtyard. John Hill

The construction of the residential tower The Cube in Beirut is finalized. Orange Architects designed the iconic tower for the Lebanese development corporation Masharii. Orange Architects

Studio Twenty Seven Architecture and Leo A Daly formed a joint venture to realize “La Casa,” the first permanent supportive housing project for the District’s Department of Human Services. A lively facade of glass and two types of wall panels makes the building...

With 20 percent of the votes, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's (AS+GG) FKI Tower in Seoul, South Korea, has won the Building of the Year 2015 on American-Architects. John Hill

Stuttgart-based architects h4a have completed the new sports hall for the Kepler- and Humboldt-Gymnasiums in Ulm, a boxy building stacked with three gyms one above the other. The interior is elegantly blurred by a sculptural facade of twisting aluminum fins. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

The new planning measures leave the villa's historical park untouched and thus keep open the possibility of a careful and gradual development with respect to its historical condition. Levin Monsigny

This new iconic landmark is located on the Chalmers University campus in Gothenburg, Sweden and acts as an incubator for the stimulation of innovations in the construction sector as well as hub for collaboration between private, public and academic sectors. White arkitekter AB

Developers Saif Sumaida and Amit Khurana have unveiled a rendering of the 35-story, 80-unit residential tower that Pritzker Prize-winning, Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza is designing for 611 West 56th Street in Manhattan. John Hill

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel has compiled clips from some of its excellent interviews with architects to "share their inspirational thoughts on what it is that makes global architecture work." John Hill

In 2009 the central government began the so-named Go West campaign to improve infrastructure and stimulate industrial growth in western inland provinces. Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province, is one of the centres identified by this campaign. More than ten million inhabitants live in this...

Nested on the edge of the River Seine in Paris, these housing units are now possible thanks to "La Loi Alur," a new legislation that allows urban "enheightement." Malka Architecture

The CTRI is a new research building on the site of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Cégep (equivalent to a Junior College) dedicated to recycling industrial residue and other underutilized resources.  Groupe Conseil Trame / BGLA