
A house turns its back on the road to open up to the landscape
The single-family house project designed by Elena Gianesini engages in a dialogue with the Vicenza landscape, combining tranquility and contemporary style through essential geometries and the Mazzonetto metal roofing.
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China. Changing scapes in Architecture: Aranya Beidaihe
Medium-small spaces such as the Dune Museum, the Lonely Library and the Community Hall, specially designed for community activities, are the alternative to the frenetic Chinese construction industry. Photo Ni Nan

Art, nature and religion: three concrete buildings by Álvaro Siza in South Korea
Portuguese architects Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira collaborated on the three rough and sculptural buildings that dialogue with Saya Park’s natural landscape. Photo Fernando Guerra

Copper roof funnels sky light into London home
A peaked copper roof culminating in a skylight draws daylight down into this Notting Hill home by Gianni Botsford Architects, which features a marble-line pool in its basement. Photo Edmund Sumner

OMA’s Norra Tornen in Stockholm is a “plattenbau for the rich”
The tallest residential tower of the Swedish capital has opened, the first of two to be built with a modular system of ribbed concrete slabs, paying homage to brutalism. Photo Laurian Ghinitoiu

Foster + Partners reveals tulip-shaped skyscraper for London
Glass bubbles will convey tourists around Ferris wheel-like “petals” on the face of the 305-metre tower, giving views of the capital’s skyline and The Gherkin next door.

A modernist Brussels icon is transformed into luxury coworking space
Coworking company Fosbury & Sons has adapted Constantin Brodzki’s CBR building to create a seven-floor workspace, complete with interiors designed to be sympathetic to the original architecture. Photo

Buenos Aires tower offers multiple ways of living
Adamo Faiden on Edificio Bonpland 2169: a battle between ‟being local and universal at the same time”. Photo Javier Agustín Rojas

Anotherview, the makers of a 24-hour wall-decoration video on horses in the Camargue
Marco Tabasso, a member of the designers collective Anotherview, talks about his experience making a picturesque movie for a window-like feature in the home.

A modern country home inserted inside an ancient barn in Verona
Studio Wok engaged with the qualities of the existing building to define the spaces and aesthetics of a contemporary house. Photo Simone Bossi

A minimal housing prototype to survive on Mars

Asunción. An architecture workshop inside a rammed earth pavilion
A single spiral-shaped partition encloses Earthbox, Equipo de Arquitectura’s new office, surrounding a stately guavirà plant. Photo Leonardo Mendez

Boarded-up Houses
The aim of Katharina Fitz’s project is to create a conscious reflection on vacant houses and an awareness of the constant structural changes of our cities. Photo Katharina Fitz

Helsinki. The man made hills of Lasipalatsi square
For the new Amos Rex Museum underground extension, JKMM designs five structural dome ceilings, which surface in the public space and build its new topography. Photo Mika Huisman

5 lessons from Tadao Ando
We retrace the Japanese architect’s career through excerpts from the Domus historical archives. They teach us lessons about his coherence, rigour and determination.

London. a terraced house with suspended bricks
Bureau de Change renovates a terraced house in the North of London, enhancing the ancient use of brick. Photo Ben Blossom

This system turns the outdoors into a custom experience
A fully configurable structure, designed to blend seamlessly into the natural landscape while providing shelter from sun, wind, and rain.
It exists - it’s called CODE.
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