Hopkins’ hyperbolic paraboloid-shaped Velodrome for the London 2012 Olympics (above) is one of six projects shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2011. Top and above: Olympic Velodrome London 2012 ...
French architect Jean-Luc Fugier has designed a contorted timber hut to house a parking ticket machine. Located in a car park outside Aix-en-Provence, the small building also houses a parking attenda...
Dutch architect Dick van Gameren has converted a family house outside Hilversum by punching three faceted skylights through the roof and driving a corridor through the middle. The project has been na...
A ring of mesh thorns crowns the roof of this convention centre in Zlín, Czech Republic, by London studio Eva Jiricna Architects and Prague architects A.I Design s.r.o. The centre is situated beside ...
Brazilian architects Metro have completed a red glass chocolate museum in the sky. The elevated Nestlé Chocolate Museum bridges roads and wraps around buildings at the existing chocolate factory in B...
A diamond-shaped cabin on legs is the first of four woodland hotel rooms to be completed by French designer Matali Crasset. The timber hut is one of 90 projects by artists and designers along a 45 ki...
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A zig-zagging metal wall divides this clothes shop by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office, separating outerwear from undergarments. A recessed skylight on one side of the 52 shop in in Shizuoka...
Extreme cantilever alert! A four-storey block with a mirrored underside juts out from the top of a Berlin hotel, 25 metres above the ground (photos by Roland Halbe). The huge cantilever comprises the...
Waiting rooms inside this red-striped health centre by architects Miguel Barahona and Luis Castillo overlook the Sierra de Gardor mountains in southern Spain. The two-storey Consultorio en La Envía i...
Mist cools the courtyard of this house in Kuwait City while also shielding it from prying neighbours (photos: Nelson Garrido). Named Secret House, the detached residence by Kuwaiti firm AGi Architect...
Architecture graduate Stephan Sobl has designed an upside-down skyscraper to hang over the Colorado River in Nevada, right beside the Hoover Dam. Entitled Vertical Strip, the conceptual tower would p...
These photographs by Julien Lanoo show a French driving-test centre by Samuel Delmas Architectes, which is camouflaged to look like a fence. Weathered rods of Corten steel surround the exterior of th...
Estonian studio Salto Architects have completed a temporary summer theatre in Tallinn made of black spray-painted straw bales. Visitors climb stairs inside a stepped tunnel to access the Straw Theatr...
This house near Brussels by architects Samyn and Partners has a glass wall at the front and a plant-covered wall by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc at the back. Blanc, who is widely regarded as...
TWO/BO Arquitectura and architect Luis Twose have converted a sixteenth-century Catalan house into a business academy for a pharmaceutical company. A glass-fronted extension cantilevers out from the ...
Clouds of mist erupt from the base of two trees in this London water feature designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The trees sit in a raised granite-edged pool in front of the Connaught Hotel in...
Spanish architects Arranguren & Gallegos have converted a brewery in Madrid into a museum with an underground gallery and triangular windows. Access to the six-storey Museo ABC is through a court...
The chequered facade of this Bangkok showroom by architects Sansiri and landscape architects Shma is half glass and half living plants. The bushy native plants sprout from hollow trapezium-shaped pan...
This film by Paul Nicholls of architectural imagery studio Factory Fifteen was awarded best film at the CG Architectural 3D Awards 2011 in the architectural film/animation category. Called The Simula...
Overlapping arches divide classrooms in this temporary school in Tokyo by Japanese architects Atelier SNS. The International School of the Sacred Heart provides a kindergarten on the ground floor and...
Frank Gehry‘s residential skyscraper, New York by Gehry, is nearly complete. The rippling stainless steel exterior covers three faces of the tower and creates bay windows for some of the 903 ap...
Plants adapted to thrive in rocky crevices will take over the facade of this tower for Nantes by French architect Edouard François. Plants will grow inside stainless steel tubes on the Tour Végétale ...
These photographs by Roland Halbe show a mixed-use building by German architects NPS Tchoban Voss, which cantilevers over a neighbouring rooftop in Berlin. The five-storey building is clad in metal p...
Dezeen Screen: Robots of Brixton is a sci-fi animation by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Kibwe Tavares in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dysto...
This corner house by Sophie Valla Architects and Marc Koehler Architects is the latest of 670 architect-designed homes to be completed at a new development masterplanned by architects MVRDV in Leiden...
Four courtyards are cut into the asymmetrical white roof of this Portuguese house by ARX Portugal Arquitectos and Portuguese architect Stefano Riva. The two-storey House in Possanco has a completely ...
Stacks of reclaimed roof tiles form walls inside this former slaughterhouse in Madrid by Spanish architect Arturo Franco. Refurbished in 2009 for administrative use, Warehouse 8B contains an office, ...
Here’s another set of photographs of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Peter Zumthor, this time by photographer Julien Lanoo. Read about the pavilion in our earlier story and wat...
You can walk up one curved staircase and down another in this family home in Kitakami by Japanese architect Yukiko Nadamoto. Both stairways ascend from the double-height living area, leading to first...
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