This is the new housing project by Zon-e Architects, located in a mining town in the heart of the Cantabrian Mountains in Spain

The Department of Architecture at The University of Cambridge designed this cardboard structure for a banquet on the 23 October to celebrate the new term

THE (Art) VAULT wins American Architecture Award. A storage facility in Miami, whose facade works like a series of boxes (canvases) that are used as an installation to display public art by both emerging and established artists.

An old buildings gets a new life with fluid interiors designed by JFAK. The building houses the new Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at the California Institute of Technology, and the futuristic interiors fit with the hi tech research going inside.

A little series of photographs on Paris' shop signs.

This is the 41.5m€ competition-winning International Centre for Design in Saint-Etienne, France by LIN, a practice which works from Berlin and Paris

Discover new "Pastilles" restaurant designed by renowned french designer Matali Crasset.

Focus on Marine Peyre, designer of products. We visit his new showroom in Marseille...

Latvian practice Substance has just completed this visitors centre in the Dzintari Forest park in the centre of Jurmala.

Dosidicus gigas... giga squids... made for Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, California. by 10TONS modeling company.

German Ecker Architects hosted 12 students from the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology this summer. With the support of local craftsmen, this chapel for a local ecumenical church co-operative came to be.

Croatia > 'Zamet Centre', Rijeka, 3LHD architects

The light installation and just overall look of the new Undercover flagship store in Kanazawa is simply amazing!

United Nude Flagship store by Rem D Koolhaas

The f5x5x sculpture is a kinetic and luminous framework conceived and realised by LAb[au].

Thermopian, a plastic material typically used to insulate commercial roofs, is the chosen exterior cladding for the I House in Łódź, Poland. Designed by Polish firm moomoo Architects

The bridge-like Pasaan Memorial/ Museum simulates the flow of water to represented the Chao Phraya River where the building is proposed.

The Grand Hotel Stockholm ~ can you believe it was dark out when i took this? Fun look at some design details of this historic hotel ~ and more fascinating looks at chandeliers from below!

Absolut Icebar Stockholm ~ First look at the latest design - "Factory" - officially opening today! (They change the design and menu twice a year) ~ even peeks from behind the bar!

Absolut's 30th Anniversary of the Art Collection celebration took place in an ominous mysterious black box that popped up next to the Lydmar Hotel ~ the lighting was stunning! Also see it being taken apart...

This translucent polycarbonate box serves as entrance hall in this warehouse converted into a public events venue along the Bordeaux riverside.

Jaw dropping projections by 1024 collective, The content is projected via custom QC software, controlled by the musician MPC in real-time.

Xarchitekten recently unveiled their project "GKK Zahnambulatorium", located in Linz/Austria

These are the first pictures of the Torres de Hercules, a new project in the Andalusia region of Spain by architect Rafael de la Hoz. The facade features the local legend "Non Plus Ultra"

Russian constructivist architect and graphic designer Iakov Chernikhov illustrated 101 Architectural Fantasies, one of the only avant-garde art books published in the Eastern bloc during the Stalinist era.

Belgian architect Axel Enthoven has designed a mobile holiday home that resembles the Sydney Opera House.

Arabic hospitality at Queen Alia International Airport by Foster + Partners.

Amazing Life Size Catalog Flagship store by Danilo Leonardi, Joana Pais, Hafsteinn Juliusson and Rui Pereira

A very atypical tree house – When a 40-year-old pine tree fell over, its owner let it lie. However the tree revived itself. At that point, the owner decided to honor its resilience by incorporating it into a modern 172 sq. foot office/guesthouse.

The Tree is a reconstruction from a series of interlocking frames with lights that grow according to the environment sounds level of the Banyan Tree on the front lawn of the National Museum of Singapore.

My bathroom at the Lydmar Hotel in Stockholm ~ the lighting is just fantastic, and the slate and design details... and the room key looks like a car key, and they are all on different keychains!

Chandeliers!!! Chandelier Mandalas? When shot from directly below? Lying on the ground in big empty rooms in Versailles after dark before a dinner fit for the Sun King himself while sipping '76 Dom Perignon?

On the beautiful matte black packaging of Dom Perignon press materials (versatile cards for all their info instead of booklets) ~ and a peek into the luscious Hotel de Crillon, Paris (one of the oldest luxury hotels in the world?)

Tiles produced by INAX, a leading manufacturer of building materials in Japan, include contemporary as well as timeless interpretations of Japanese ceramic and aesthetic traditions.

KITA Design completed this Forest Classroom pods for a prep school in Windermere, UK. Made from English Chestnut shingles and a ribbed timber frame, the 2 pods are connected by a deck constructed of timber and recycled plastic milk bottles...

Ferrari Factory Store's color, form, and graphical style has been carefully designed by Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini to transmit the architectural idea to identify the 'Ferrari' image.

These are the first pictures of Ron Arad Associates newly opened Mediacity shopping centre in Liège

10 Hills Place, London - AL_A : Amanda Levete Architects

Video on the top 5 comic cities, chosen by the Architects Journal!

Snake-like new swimming complex for Worthing, UK by architect Wilkinson Eyre to replace the age old 1960s Aquarena.

Discover Marseille with this collection of 3D replications of iconic buildings and everyday items from the city by designer David Lasnier.

Cool stairs in Wuppertal. Acrylic paint on 112 steps. Each color expresses a different emotion.

Noted Japanese architect Scu Fujimoto built a full-size Lexus LFA out of transparent acrylic boards that were sanded and polished. This see-through supercar sculpture made an appearance at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show.

The Karim for ALLOY collaboration has resulted in the development of eight innovative metal tile ‘cells’ designed to change the ‘face’ of metal tiles.

system:system opens in the St. Cecilia parish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn putting 25 artists to work in a former convent.

In Copenhagen: the Butterfly Bridge