The Ygne summer house is situated on the island of Gotland, one of Swedens most popular summer holiday spots. The design ambition was to build a house that would recess into the natural environment. By Sandell Sandberg.

Love the cityscape that is rendered through lights in facade of Bjarke Ingels' Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010.

' Paper-Brick House' by Li Xinggang Atelier from China, made of paper boxes, paper tubes and transparent adhesive tape at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition on September 12, 2008 in Venice.

Ecosistema Urbano's Ecoboulevard in Vallecas Spain. This award winning public structure is able to control the nearby temperature trough a passive strategy.

Morgan's Hotel in New York : french agency Trafik creates a dazzling ceiling composed of 4,000 lights allowing the guests to set designs and change the mood of the lobby.

HL23, New York / Neil M. Denari Architects

Times bookstore – the first flagship store opens in Indonesa. 100,000 books can be found on shelves arranged in a meandering, maze-like pattern or chill out at the indoor garden!

Love the cantilevered portion of the new addition to the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium, by l'Escaut.

Herzog & de Meuron began construction of a 57-story residential luxury tower in New York. Another skyscraper for the Manhattan Skyline. It will also feature an Anish Kapoor sculpture on street level.

Gotta love dutch architects with their radical proposals. This is the House Baetens, designed by JagerJanssen architecten.

MOD proposal for the shop house in Singapore... The facade as connector

Kengo Kuma's design for Next-Gene 20 - a residential development on the north-eastern coast of Taiwan. Other notable architects involved in the project are Graft, MVRDV, and Toshiko Mori.

Schemata Architecture Office's 63.02° House, built in a dense residential area in Nakano, Tokyo. The house is sited 63.02 degrees towards the front road, allowing a wide and deep view of the neighborhood.

Architect Guillermo Hevia designed a sustainable glass industry, which uses passive strategies to reduce enery usage inside the building.

The first designer gas station in Spain. A curved canopy made out of corten steel plates, captures the movement flow of the nearby highway.

The Monolito at the Foro Italico in Roma, a single block of Carrara marble 17.4 meters high, shines again in the sunset light after an endless restoration.

Dutch architects MVRDV have unveiled designs for a new urban neighbourhood at Almere near Amsterdam, based on a string of beads.

The new norwegian embassy in Nepal, by Kristin Jarmund. Good stone work.

OMA unveiled the design of their first residential tower in New York, adjacent to the One Madison Park project, amazing how the tower cantilevers.

Sepia is a beautiful new restaurant that has opened in the Market District of Chicago. The chandeliers and overall feel is warm and cozy, yet elegant.

Echoing the structures of Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Domes, Danish Architect Kári Thomsen and Engineer Ole Vanggaard have created Easy Domes, a series of quick assembly, low-energy homes!

Admiring the clean lines and materials used in Bevk Perović Arhitekti's House D in Ljubljana, Slovenia. See post 13663 for more of their great work.

Strange, frame-like facade for the Observatory store in Athens, Greece, by Theofanis Bobotis Architects.

The new refurbished Los Angeles Mondrian hotel is now open and Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz' touch of Hollywood glamour has revitalised this iconic LA hotel..... beautiful!

Low impact woodland homes

Interesting pixelated facade by Splitterwerk for the Prisma Engineering. The interiors are worth a look, as well.

The Pentagon Memorial by KBAS Studio will open tomorrow.

Djik House by Jager Janssen architecten. A house with a traditional roof, that elevates the ground floor above the terrain to create a more intimate, yet open, common area.

Absolutely stunning facade on parisian design store SABZ

I saw this house being built at 4th and Popular Philadelphia, yesterday... It looks really cool. by QB3
Their webpage is cool too...

Each of the 4 shop windows is allocated to one designer or studio. Instead of usual shop windows, ILT has small galleries of design.

Charlotte Skene-Catling converted an old dairy into a five bedroom home with a bathing pool. I like the way the wood exterior references traditional barns but allows a tremendous amount of light into the house.

The Shaw House by Patkau Architects, Vancouver, BC.

Student Housing Poljane, Ljubljana - Slovenia / Bevk Perovic Arhitekti

Summer cottage from Danish Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Wish this 10 square meter prefab studio would be put into production.

AirXY: From Inmaterial to Rematerial is an interactive installation by M-A-D at the Venice Biennale.

An interesting renovation of a building in Cádiz, Spain by MGM Arquitectos. Love the contrasting plywood shutters and white walls. The use of plywood is interesting, as it is the material typically used to board up buildings while construction is in progress.

Fleischmann House, by Mas Fernandez. A nice concrete house in the chilean suburbia. I like the hallway with the series of windows.

Photography by David Alexander Slaager of Zellik / Asse in Belgium.

Now everyone in Beverly Hills can have superman vision.

Be happy your pool is green! Skip saline and chlorine altogether and go natural. So many beautiful possibilities shown here.

Called the “Marble Palace,” its lavish interiors and marble halls used 17 different types of marble.

MOMA's Home Delivery exhibition part 2 is located outside the museum on a vacant lot. For this part of the exhibition MOMA commissioned 5 prefabricated homes, which you can walk through...

Hiller Residence, Winter Park - Colorado, Michael P. Johnson Design Studio