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Maison Edouard François has completed the new Le Ray neighborhood in Nice, France, the repurposing of the former Le Ray Stadium. Le Ray is home to a 25,000-m² mixed-use program including 350 apartments and 6,000 m² of commercial floor area. The 1.2-hectare site has Europe’s largest greened... Maison Edouard François

The inspiration behind this project is derived from carefully listening to the subtle murmurs and whispers of environments like this, as well as the client's search for protection and shelter. HW Studio

This hotel in Beppu, Japan, stands on a fault scarp that forms the edge of the alluvial fan terrain. We envisioned flocking walls carved from the ground of the fault scarp, and made a space where the inside and the outside were connected by making holes in the flocking walls like digging a... DABURA.m

ODA’s thinking process, just like their design, is fractal by nature. ODA views cities as being made up of small units of life, operating independently yet bound by a shared community. Their newest expression of this can be seen at 98 Front Street, the 165-unit condo building in DUMBO. ODA

Pinghe Bibliotheater is the core of OPEN’s latest project—School as Village/Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School. A library, a theater, and a black box interlock together like a Chinese puzzle to form this characteristic building that some call "the blue whale" and others see as an... OPEN Architecture

Castelnau-le-Lez is a town located near Montpellier in the South of France which enjoys a very mild Mediterranean climate. The new Prado Concorde development on the edge of the Lez river and at the entry to the town combines collective housing with school facilities and shops in a vast urban... Valode & Pistre

Bringing nature back to the city although not a new idea it is a growing imperative especially for cities like Nicosia which has failed to make greenery and communal public areas a priority in its urban planning. Christos Pavlou Architecture

One of the largest bicycle parking garages in the Netherlands has been built underneath the Koningin Julianaplein in The Hague, right in front of the Central Station. In collaboration with Studio Marsman, Silo developed a powerful spatial concept that transforms parking your bike into a... Silo & Studio Marsman

Sunac • Grand Milestone Modern Art Center appears like a large crystal "gift box." Approaching the interior design, CCD broke the boundaries among the building, landscape and interior, injected purity and tension into the 5,500-square-meter spatial volume. CCD, GAD, T.R.O.P

The Galleria is Korea’s first and largest upscale department store franchise. The store in Gwanggyo is Galleria's sixth branch, its stone-like appearance making it a natural point of gravity for public life in the city. OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

In a context of the human history stacked like thick sedimentary rocks, Dongxiang Culture Center was gently placed into it not with a historic vocabulary but in a modern way. CU Office

Some may question why a city like Shanghai — which only began its large-scale urbanization in the 1990s and is still undergoing rapid growth — needs to be concerned about regeneration.  AIM Architecture

The Sauerland-Museum, located in the historically listed Landsberger Hof, has been expanded to become Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia. The existing building connects to the extension by means of a bridge-like docking structure with three diagonally cut windows. Bez + Kock Architekten

Bureau SLA and ZakenMaker have designed nine homes for a group of pioneers wishing to turn a potato field into a community. bureau SLA & ZakenMaker

The Baechi Foundation contracted gus wüstemann architects to build a housing block in the outer green belt of Albisrieden in the city of Zurich — nine flats with a high living quality on a low budget. gus wüstemann architects

Like an origami sculpture, our proposal for the aquatic park resembles an unfolding landscape, culminating at around 35m: it is a built landscape, rising into the sky. The structure is clearly visible from the surrounding area - it becomes a point of reference and a symbol of Villages Nature. Jacques Ferrier Architecture

The Taichung Green Corridor in Taiwan, will redevelop 1.7km from the former railway line crossing downtown Taichung by connecting the different parts of the city in a sustainable way, creating a green corridor for biodiversity and including bike/pedestrian lanes to better cater for the... Mecanoo

One could expect that the image of the Topsportschool would be sublime, prominent, like a trophy, so everyone could see it. However, this is not the case. The Topsportschool is not an image, it creates image: an incubator, a machine à exceller. Compagnie O. Architects

2017 marked the 50th Anniversary of the completion of the iconic Smith House in Darien, Connecticut, and to commemorate this important occasion the Smith family and architectural photographer Mike Schwartz produced a new set of photographs of the home. Richard Meier & Partners Architects

"Indeed, bamboo is like a man of virtue. From deep and resolute roots, straight and honorable stems extend toward the sky. When a gentleman contemplates the nature of bamboo, only a feeling of integrity can come to mind." - Excerpt from Planting Bamboo by Bai Juyi SYN Architects

With ample space for people to live, work, and play, the new Angle Lake Transit Station and Plaza is an Envision certified sustainable mixed-use facility consisting of a 1-acre connecting plaza and community event spaces, a drop-off area for light rail users, retail space with dedicated bike... Brooks + Scarpa Architects

The church “El Señor de la Misericordia” is located in the center of a new town-like urban development in Monterrey, Mexico, surrounded by an impressive mountain landscape. Moneo Brock

Naf Architect & Design's design for an office building in Tokyo's Minato ward is composed of a series of hut-like volumes, hence the name Village on a Building. Naf Architecture & Design

A high school is like a small estate made up of work, recreation, leisure, encounter and shared places. The access as streets, squares provides perspectives that give life to the estate. Ateliers 2/3/4/

The client for this project has a large art collection, and wanted to start a new chapter in life with his family in a house with museum-like qualities that would take advantage of this collection. The neighborhood surrounding the site is quiet, so in order to keep noise to a minimum and not... APOLLO / Satoshi Kurosaki

This secondary house is located in the Magdalen Islands, facing West Dune and the sea. The clients are a retired couple that would like to spend a few months a year there. Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects

An events forum, a cafeteria and an experiment space have been added to the the existing library building with its distinctive, net like and dissolved concrete facade. A designed landscaped plateau surrounds the circular structure and is set apart from the structure by a concentric light band. Auer Weber

Hiroyuki Ito Architects has completed a nine-story office building in Tokyo's Chiyoda district. Hiroyuki Ito Architects

In the vast rural fields south of Montreal, a new residence takes root. Like a fieldstone unveiled amongst the furrows of a ploughed field, a stratified monolith of slate emerges from the earth. Eroded, sculpted and fragmented by time and the forces of nature, this mineral formation becomes the... SIMARD architecture

Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture has unveiled their latest project: OVO Wroclaw, a mixed-use, grandiose "blob-like" architectural structure combining residential, commercial, hospitality and retail spaces in the heart of Poland's fourth largest city, Wroclaw. Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture

I would like to introduce you to our new prefabricated experimental pin-up tiny house, which I call France. Joshua Woodsman

The new Visual Arts facility for the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History provides 126,000 sf of loft-like space for all visual arts media, from ancient metalsmithing techniques to the most advanced virtual reality technologies. Steven Holl Architects

In the heights of Nice, the neighborhood of the former Ray Stadium is transforming in order to accommodate some three hundred buildings and 6,000 m2 of commercial surface area, between the Gorbella Boulevard and the future Ray Park. In this densely populated neighborhood, our project suggests... Maison Edouard François, ABC Architectes

The residential development at Chilestieg in Rümlang, Switzerland looks like a set of shimmering crystals embedded in lush green surroundings. be baumschlager eberle

The Windhover Contemplative Center is a spiritual retreat on the Stanford campus to promote and inspire personal renewal. Using Nathan Oliveira’s meditative Windhover paintings as a vehicle, the chapel-like center provides a refuge from the intensity of daily life. aidlin darling design

The concept of this design is to ensure privacy and safety, and also create a living space which makes family members happy and easy. At night, the shadow of the houses will change according to the light of the moon and stars,  just like expressions on people’s face.  Architect Show co.,Ltd.