This complex NYC subway commission, three years in the making, features curved glass walls laced with silhouettes of trees, a marble mosaic topographic map of Manhattan, and imagery from nearby Battery Park.

JLCG Arquitectos' School of Music in Lisbon - each practicing student is on display.

Google Earth updates with Photo-Realistic 3D buildings, very impressive.

Openhouse by XTEN Architecture, in Hollywood Hills. Amazing views through a very transparent facade. Good interiors.

The most beautiful libraries in the world

REX continues to propose unconventional building forms with their proposal for the Kunsthaus Zurich. David Chipperfield's proposal actually won, but I like REX's better...

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen designed the newly relocated Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum, Idaho. Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, the building is designed to integrate into the woody surroundings.

9 spectacular architecture projects for a pilgrims route in Mexico. Delicate concrete works over the landscape. Projects by Ai Wei Wei, Alejandro Aravena, HHF, Tatiana Bilbao and more.

Takashi Murakami / Louis Vuitton for Manhattan - Monogram Multicolor

Pacific is a nice and simple house model by Swedish Pinc House. A modern take on the 1930s functionalistic homes.

Casa 205, in the Spanish countryside. A beautiful wooden box, with a ventilated facade. The windows frame the surrounding landscape. I wonder how the building will age during time, becoming part of the landscape. By H Arquitectes.

Wow - Julien de Smedt Architects' crazy proposal for the Mondri and Elano Hotel in Las Vegas. In most other locations it would be inappropriate, but in Las Vegas it is reminiscent of the big top circus tents and fits right in with Vegas' surreal architecture.

The holiday house Breiteneben is situated in the lower mountains of the heart of Austria. The 16th century building has been renovated using traditional methods and materials while integrating the comforts of the new millennium.

Blow up sheet metal:
An interview with Oskar Zieta, architect at the CAAD-professorship at ETH Zurich.

Designboom has a look at fentress architects concepts to modernize los angeles LAX airport ~ about time we get an update!

With over 60,000 sqm, the UQAM campus in Montreal, Canada features some amazing contemporary buildings - and a rich public space for the students and staff.

Love this giant pixelated facade on a parking garage in Adelaid - so much more fun that Times Square's typical jumbo screen. Each of the 748 square panels of the Rundle Lantern are lit by two LEDs.

Sustainable development in Milan, Italy

Interesting ship-like interiors at the Berge Guesthouse by Nils Holger Moormann. Backpackers can stay in "‘sleep cells" - essentially rooms designed just for that, with a communal space that includes a library, kitchen and gathering area with a fireplace.

A green organic temporary installation by LAVA, using hi-tech nylon. The organic shape climbs through the atrium of the building.

Ruta Peregrino is a pilgrimage path in Jalisco, Mexico. During Holy Week, 2 million pilgrims walk the path. HHF Architects designed a lookout point there, made out of cast concrete. I love the spiraling pathway, used to create anticipation in the visitor.

Restaurant Gastro - A young upcoming designer (Niklas Madsen) and one of the best High Cuisine creators (Per Dahlberg) in Sweden have created another fantastic restaurant.

Explore the detailed world of the 2008 National Gingerbread House Competition

The VillAnn in Saro, Sweden features an impressive contained terrace and all you could need for your outdoor leisure. By Wingårdh Arkitektkontor.

Brazilian architects TAMABI turned the unused rooftop of a 50´s building into a sustainable apartment.

The Promenade Samuel-de Champlain in the Quebec waterfront has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of urban/landscape design i have ever seen. Just picture yourself walking down the river watching the landscape.

Another ORDOS 100 villa, by Swiss architects Luca Selva. The abstraction of the local landscape results in a complex interior.

Wakasa House in the Osaka suburbs, by US architects wHY Architecture. A concrete house with great transparency, a reflection into contemporary Japan family life

Newly restored Hotel Europe in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina has some interesting outer facade and interior decorum. Follow the link for more images.

Grosfeld van der Velde's S House. I like how the glass volume slips through the side facade.

Fantastic Norway recently completed this cabin in Norway. The architects utilized color to break up the facade of the cabin and to carve out areas of entrance.

London's V&A Museum presents Cold War Modern, the first exhibition to explore international developments in modern art, design, architecture and film in the context of the Cold War.

Ever wondered what the internet sound like? Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin's magnificent "Listening Post" takes permanent residence at London's Science Museum.

House in Ibara, Japan / Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates

London based MA Graphic Design graduate Telli Nourkeyhani gives The Hayward Gallery an Extreme Makeover!

Sometimes, the conventional Christmas tree just doesn't cut it. Here's a few unusual Christmas tree ideas for inspiration.

Waterflux is an art museum in Switzerland by french architects R&Sie(n). It looks very strange! Almost like an alien resort. Set to be completed during 2009.

This "LEED Platinum" Gingerbread house by HOK is seriously sweet.

The Greentainer is a shipping container, gutted to provide flexible public space, perfect for re-using existing resources. With a good sense of design combines to create this versatile,adaptable structure.

'Sorplefui' concept of house -under superficial- from Andrea Pontalto

The Gleichenberg Thermal Bath by JSA is a big wooden deck that interconnects all the pools.

Interesting public sea bath for the Copenhagen waterfront, by JDS + Klar. Good multi-use of the waterway.

The Barcelona Research Park by spanish architects Manuel Brullet and Albert de Pineda, is a giant round building with a wooden skin that filters the views while providing shade.

The V building facade of the VM Houses, featured in #10709, is a small disappointment when seen for real.