SANAA   France   The refurbishment of the Parisian department stores creates a passageway that crosses the urban block linking three courtyards and establishing a connection between the historic facade towards the Seine and a new wavy one towards Rue de Rivoli. 

SANAA   Japan   Rising on the site where the former cultural center used to stand, the new building seeks to blend in the context of wood houses of the historic center; the fragmentation of the roof manages to reduce the visual impact of the large volume...

SANAA   Israel   Aiming to promote interaction and communication between the different academic departments and students, the programs are organized in terraces, with stacked slabs that let natural light flood the interior spaces... [+]

SANAA   Japan   The new town hall building will go up on the site of the former, which suffered damage in the earthquake of 2011. The building is organized in two parts: a block of offices and meeting rooms, and a semiopen vaulted space with a varied program... [+]

SANAA   Hungary   The project is understood as an extension of the park rather than as a building itself. The open ground level and the slightly sloping stacked terraces that configure the museum ensure that the complex can be accessed from any given point.  The roofs

SANAA   Japan   The museum’s extension consists of several pavilions with sloping roofs that follow the layout of the original museum, a complex surrounded by nature and immersed in a Japanese garden with a gallery for outdoor exhibitions... [+]

SANAA   Australia   On a busy crossing, a series of roofs of different sizes adapt to the natural contours of the terrain and extend the Art Gallery of New South Wales, respecting the views and the existing trees while connecting the whole area via a large plaza.  Betwe

Burgos & Garrido, LLAMA Urban Design   Peru   Echoing Limas traditional courtyards, the museum features an open-air space that wraps up the park and makes it possible to regulate the flow of visitors by leading them to the new entrances. 

Filippo Bolognese, Lopes Brenna architetti, moramarco+ventrella architetti   Peru   The new volume goes up in a public plaza presided by a sculptural element shaped like a barrel vault that marks the entrance to the complex, defining an urban space that frames the original museum, which in this way recovers a prominent role in the c

SMAR Architecture Studio   Peru   The extension is designed as a continuation of the park and as a topographic intervention that functions as a podium for the original building. Above ground, three circular plazas outline three public spaces that citizens can make their own... [+]

Alberto Campo Baeza, Linazasoro & Sánchez Arquitectura, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Productora, Zaha Hadid Architects, Arup Associates, HMGB Architects, Luis Calvet, Samuel Cárdenas, OB+RA, Llosa Cortegana, Philippe Rahm Architectes, MDDM Studio, Buda Mimarlik, Office Kovacs, Hünerwadel Partnership, Piccini Acuña, Gutiérrez Gonzáles   Peru   Thirteen projects obtained honorable mentions in a competition called to extend the museum, propose a landscape design for the park, and set up an underground link with the future metro station, renewing in this way the urban connections.  The progra

goCstudio architecture+design   United States   Built by a team of volunteers and financed through crowdfunding, the floating sauna, with room for six people, is heated by a burning wood stove and powered by an electric trolling motor thanks to which it can explore the lakes of Seattle... [+]

Elise Morin, Florent Albinet   France, Slovakia   Inspired by the cabin in the woods that Henry David Thoreau built, which was his home for two years and where he wrote his famous book Walden (1854), the floating pavilion invites to meditate on the relationship between human beings and nature... [+]

Arto Ollila, Erkko Aarti, Mikki Ristola   United Kingdom   The geometry of the floating platform references the primitive retreats or laavu traditionally used in Scandinavian forests, transferred here to a metropolitan park in London, where visitors can escape the city noise in contact with nature... [+]

PAD studio Architects, SPUD Group, Stephen Turner   United Kingdom   Built out of wood and with an ovoid-shape, the pavilion performs as a residence and workspace for an artist; taking bird nests as reference, the project is conceived as an itinerant shelter with a minimum impact on the environment... [+]

Ahmad El Mad, Elena Chiavi, Matteo Goldoni   Malt   Built in collaboration with students from different European countries, ‘Antiroom II’ is a round floating structure reachable only by swimming or by boat; the circle encloses a secure precinct, so that the sea water itself becomes a swimming pool...

John Pawson, OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Allies and Morrison   United Kingdom   The old Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, West London, will be the home of new Design Museum, tripling the exhibition space of its old headquarters in Shad Thames – and which now contains the Zaha Hadid archives. John Pawson (Halifax, Yorkshire,

The artist Stephen Walter (London, 1975) uses drawing as a research tool to study the cultural residues that inhabit our landscapes today, creating an intricate panorama of personal and collective experiences. Each one of his maps, painstakingly deta

During the 1960s and 1970s cities in England were struggling to rise from the ashes and recover normalcy after the ravages of World War II. The British photographer Shirley Baker (1932-2015) documented everyday life of those years in working class n