Caranbachel by FOA - A compact volume building where all the apartments have double orientationwith terraces in both sides, protected with bamboo louvers.

Construction progress of Mountain Dwelling, an impressive terrace housing project in top of a parking building. Gives all the benefits of a house with front yard with urban density. Located in Copenhagen, by BIG.

Maison Go by Peripheques Architectes - A house organized in three levels over a parking basement where the different levels are shifted ones compared with others

The two Amsterdam animal refuges in Amsterdam have been amalgamated: the new-built is the largest pound in the Netherlands. The result is a green, playful animal refuge center. By dutch Arons & Gelauff Architecten.

The new Beijing Airport, currently the biggest one in the world. Designed by Foster + Partners, it opened just in time for the 2008 Olympics.

A building renovation of the School of Fine Arts in Universidad de Chile, devastated by a fire in 1969. By Emilio Marin + Albert Tidy

Siamese Towers - Alejandro Aravena / This building in Santiago, Chile was made with several skins, each one of them taking care of one issue at a time

Foster + Partners is currently finishing the Elephants House at the Copenhagen Zoo. A nice structure covers a space designed from the observation of elephants behavior.

House V in Zagreb, Croatia, by 3HLD. Awesome interiors.

The Brooklyn Bridge celebrates its 125th Anniversary on May 24, 2008.

Seifert House by Bau Kultur - Built to give the client an immanent feeling of the change of seasons. I'd like to live there!

A stylish version of a gated community. It´s access point built in concrete blends with the landscape.

The Indigo Patagonia Hotel, situated in Puerto Natales, Chilean Patagonia, is made with timber and corrugated steel, materials already present in the town. By Sebastian Irarrazaval.

FLARE is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment.

Guedelon - Did you know someone is building a castle in France... with the ORIGINAL techniques of the 13th century? It may take 25 years to be finished, but you can work as an apprentice...

This small hotel made by Sami Rintala in the North East Norway, houses just a single room, a double room and a lobby for sailors, fishers, hunters, backpackers and fortune-seekers. Small and useful.

Video interview with Work Architecture Company, winners of the PS1 installation being built in New York, and the Cadavre Exquis Lebanese proposal for the 2007 Rotterdam Biennale.

The VM Houses are two residential blocks formed as the letters V and M, formed as such to allow for daylight, privacy and views. By PLOT = BIG + JDS

New Willis headquarter in London by Foster + Partners. It has parking capacity for 42 cars, 88 motorcycles and 264 bicycles, nice way to encourage people to reduce emissions.

The Applied Science building at Aalen University features a nice wood skin and brise soleil. By MGF Architekten

This amazing house, located in a sharply inclined terrain, is a composition of small linked and interconnected volumes. By Alvaro Leite Siza

The library extension to the Pontificial Lateran University has as objective to bring the activity of reading and the consultation of books as the central occupation of the university. By King Roselli

This house, by Saez+Barragan, won the young architects prize in the Iberoamerican Architecture & Urbanism Biennale, in Portugal.

Primary school at Granollers, Spain by Jordi Badia from BAAS Architects.

This building, located in Doetinchem, Netherlands, houses a school for vocational education as well as public sport facilities. Made by Erick Van Egeraat

This years summer installation at PS1 in NY was designed by Work AC. A green structure made with sustainable materials and solar panels turns into an urban beach.

Using untreated larch wood and black fibre cement panels to optimise solar energy gain this house blends with its surrounding. By Peter Kuczia

Video Interview with Mark Foster Gage from Gage Clemenceau Architects. Interesting thoughts on current state of practice, networking and media.

Photographer Cristobal Palma just launched a new website, featuring amazing architectural photos. Cristobal has been featured on several covers of the most famous arch magazines.

House in Las Rozas by spanish architects Abalos & Herreros.

A house with a stone basement on the chilean deep south. Amazing views and blending with the surroundings.

Erick van Egeraat unveiled the design for a new iconic incineration line in Denmark

Tuka Tuka Land is an amazing kindergarten designed by Baupiloten.

The US Army wants to renew Baghdad and turn the green zone into a luxury area. The even want to build a golf course and country club called "Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club". The bunker on hole nine really is a bunker...?

The desire to interfere as little as possible with the visual topography of the landscape prompted to attach the house to the ground and find façade and roof solutions with a direct relationship to the surroundings. OS House by NOLASTER

A floating residence for salmon workers in southern Chile. It floats over a big concrete block filled with salmon food.

A sports hall with a stone skin, blends with the rural landscape in Croatia. By 3LHD Architects.

This house, by Sebastian Irarrazaval in Chile is a mix of volumes, patios and ramps, allowing to integrate or segregate different spaces by a variety of mobile elements.

The Grand Rapids Art Museum is the first LEED Gold Certified Museum, combining great design and sustainability

greenPIX is a media wall designed by Simone Giostra and ARUP, in Beijing. This curtain wall is powered by photovoltaic energy, and will feature video installations starting in May.

It´s not a robot´s head: it´s a rusted steel house in Belgium designed by Pierre Hebbelinck.

Interview with Shohei Shigematsu, director of OMA*AMO New York. Interesting thoughts on current state of architectural practice, and the role of the architect on modern society.

Swedish Next House has a very nice line of modern, wooden, prefab houses ranging from 15 square meters to 188 square meters. All of the houses come with big windows allowing the light to flow through the house. And oh, most of the houses have awesome porches!

Inspired by the sea and surrounding scrub oak forest Architecture Research Office has design this modern beach house that updates New England’s rich traditions with glass, zinc, and an original clapboard siding scheme

OMA unveiled a mixed use project in Copenhagen, Denmark, that will house the Danish Architecture Center.

Kinderstad is a penthouse in Amsterdam for children health care

Two house in England countryside, featuring a prefab wood skin with photos from Cristobal Palma

New York boutique Alife, opened their first location outside of North America and it happens to be Tokyo. Once again a stunning retail spot and interior design.

The new Jewish Contemporary Museum in San Francisco by Daniel Libeskind is almost finished.

A laminated wood office building in Santiago de Chile by Alberto Mozó.

Golf 190 from Swedish Modern Living is a two story house with 6 rooms. The house is partly dress in ceder. Living and entertaining areas are designed to be upstairs and bedrooms and bathrooms down stairs.

Great and simple cabin from Eggleston Farkas Architects. The roof is designed to match the slope of the surrounding hills while the shape of it allows the snow to easily slide off.

Östra Kvarnskogen in Sollentuna, Sweden is a residential area with 40 buildings that almost floats in the air. It has been awarded the Wood Prize 2008 by the Swedish Forest Industries Federation.

A canopy in front of the chilean sea, by oficina de arquitectura.

Icon Magazine features the next 20 essential young architects on the april issue.

The Church of Santa Monica in Madrid, Spain.
Designed by Vicens & Ramos Architects

Nice, social housing, neighborhood in Ghent, Belgium. Designed by Neutelings Riedijk. Great photos by talanted photographer Dajo Revyn.

A close look at the latest Bape store in Japan, once again designed by Wonderwall and once again very impressive!

Tour de la Chapelle in Paris by Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz.

Yesterday the new opera house was opened in Oslo. The opera is designed by Norwegian Snøhetta. The exterior and location makes me think of the opera house in Sydney. But the interior of the opera in Oslo is much more stunning.

CityScape, an urban installation by Arné Quinze in Brussels.

Vespucio Sur Highway corporate building. Features a wood facade that turns into a lamp during nights. By +arquitectos, at Santiago de Chile.

A patio house on a corner plot in Catalunya, Spain by H Arquitectes.

Tautra Mariakloster is a beautiful abbey on a island north of Trondheim, Norway. Opened in 2006 and was designed by award winning Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor. It has to be one of the most stunning abbeys in the world.

Stocks creative developed by the Savannah College of Art & Design for the Powerhouse Gym.

Danish Nobel Arkitekter have designed a very nice student housing complex that they call Signalhuset just outside Copenhagen. The house holds 288 student apartments that can be converted into 72 regular apartments if the need for student housing changes.

A bifid house overlooking a beatiful valley in Portugal, by ARX.

Featured architectural design by Elie Gamburg in the eVolo's '08 Skyscraper Competition.

Interesting looking housing project at Askøy, close to Bergen in Norway. The houses can come to house 170 apartments and was designed by André Reckewe and Link Signatur.

Motel 6 has unveiled theirPhoenix Prototype. Still affordable, it has been redesigned with rooms by Priestman Goode and Building design by Boka Powell. Construction begins later this year.

An amazing botnical garden with a superstructure called Orquideorama, located in Medellín, Colombia. This steel and wood structure in an hexagonal shape extends through its organic shape.

Beautiful industrial , architectural, and landscape work from Canadian photgrapher Kristopher Grunert.

The Element house by Sami Rintala in Bisan Urban Natural Park, Anyang Resort, South Korea. The house is not to live in but for passers-by who wish to halt, rest and make their own understanding and use of a simple space made of matter and light.

The summerhouse is a seasonal hideaway for a Hackney-based family of four, designed by Ullmayer Sylvester Architects. Simple structure but the mirror siding makes the whole thing much more interesting, and helps to enlarge the garden.

FEATUREDThe amazing, abandoned resort of San Zhi in Taiwan.

Colorful renovation of a kitchen in West London, by Surface Architects. Great to see someone having the guts to use strong colors in a kitchen!

An aluzinc cladding house in the Chilean south., its bronze color looks great with any ligthing. By Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects, with pictures by Cristobal Palma.

Residencial Alviento is a great building of a seven apartment building constructed on a plot of land located on the top of a mountain that overlooks the Bay of Puerto Marques in Acapulco, Mexico. By Mexican Bunker Arquitectura.

A brand new daycare in Zaragoza, Spain. A very minimalistic and sleek building by Carroquino Finner Arquitectos.

A mixture between a glass and a patio house in Ecuador, by Arquitectura X

Peerutin Architects has design a 550 sqm luxury home in the affluent Cape Town suburb of Camps Bay. Clean and nice lines, and I love the pool.

The Marcel Breuer-designed Wolfson Trailer House. Located in Dutchess County, NY, this iconic house has a fabulous artist's studio by Tip Dorsel.

Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos has created a stunning building for the Contemporary Arts Museum of Castilla y León. The building is made up of seemingly simple lines, but the building is, somehow, very inviting anyway.

Offices for a nature oriented company, witha great landscape work for integration with the surroundings, located in Mexico. By CC Arquitectos.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is now open for business. The vault is planned to hold "backups" of 100 million seeds from of all over the world. And it looks like a super villain hideout.

Office for CIME by AD11 Architects in Guadalajara, México. A very stylish design on an historic neighborhood.

Gorgeous house by Tom Kundig. The house is essentially a collection of attached wood boxes springing from three stone piers that bridge the natural undulations of a hill.

With the aim if designing a Swedish functional house, Landström Arkitekter drew the Swedish ambassadors humble abode in Pretoria. A great 700 square meter building filled to the brim with the best Swedish design.

Construction progress of the new Oslo Opera House by Snoetta Architects. The project is based on slopes, converting the roof in a massive public space.

The beautiful entrance pavilion at the Trumpf factory in Ditzingen is designed by Barkow Leibinger and the lightweight structure is by the master of lightweight structures Werner Sobek.

An amazing library in Colombia by Giancarlo Mazzanti. Three artificial rocks in the top of a jungleish hill with an spectacular view of Santo Domingo.

AquaDom at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin is the world largest cylinder aquarium. It holds about 900 000 liters of sea water and some 2600 fishes. Amazing!

Melrose Gardens, by Scape Architects, is a three-storey extension to the rear of a Victorian terraced house in West London. Great with a house that can surprise with a modern and clean interior.

Glass, concrete and oak make up this stunning lake house in Innisfil, Ontarioa, by Canadian Kohn Shnier.

A nice concrete library in Medellín, Colombia. Three volumes articulated by a curve building serve as public space to the community, while connecting separate neighborhoods of the city. By Giancarlo Mazzanti.

FEATUREDA studio and library for Andrew Berman, a writer on Long Island.

Meydan Umrayine Retail Complex & Multiplex, a topographic mall in Turkey by FOA. An innovative non-box mall model.

Casa Mar Azul by Argentinian BAK Arquitectos is like a bunker mixed with the stylish lines of a modern prefab house. Love the raw concrete and no fuzz furniture.

Norwegian architect Tommie Wilhelmsen teamed up with Husgalleriet to bring us all this lovely house at Vivendelstien 10 in Stavanger, Norway. The interior isn't bad either...

The Nordic Watercolour Museum in Skärhamn. Sweden almost of floats on the water. Very beautiful museum. Drawn by Danish architects Niels Bruun och Henrik Corfitsen.

It's not too often that you find nice looking sports centers. This sport center is located on Iceland and was drawn by Arkitektur.is. I really like the white polished walls and the stone pile resting on one of the sides.

A compact concrete house. Its shape is determined by the plot restrictions. Features an inner patio for cross ventilation and natural lighting. By H Arquitectes in Catalunya, Spain.

Epullay Montessori School, located next to the Andes in Santiago de Chile. By Saez Joannon Arquitectos.

With stone floors to kill for Eddy Francois & Caroline de Wolfs has created a beautiful stone villa in the middle of forest. And oh, don't miss the pool in the basement!

Birdhouses based on historical architectural models and made on a 1:33 scale. There are five different models, all are stunning and for sale. Site is in German, but they have a pdf price list.

Czech clothing company UAX has a great office/store designed by Kamil Mrva Architects. I really like the contrast between the old and the new structures.

Another great structure by Kamil Mrva Architects. Raw concrete blocks, wooden paneling and glass with aluminium frames make up this house in the middle of an ancient orchard.

Gatica House by Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido. A contemporary modern house in chilean countryside.

A Bathing Ape renovated their Shibuya store in Japan and as usual it was designed by architects Wonderwall and as usual its really impressive!

OS house. Located in Cantabria, Spain, this house builds an inner yard to get an open space protected from winds, while taking advantage of solar gain and cross ventilation and integrating with the landscape through a green roof. By Nolaster Arquitectos.

TAF Arkitektkontor had designed this low budget staircase, made out of stacked pine boxes. The opening between the ground floor and the attic was too narrow to construct a regular stair so they were forced to come up with a a better solution.

Yet another beautiful villa in the Swedish archipelago. This time by Arkitektstudio Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff . It's like villa is built around the great view.

Impressive synagogue by Peter Schmitz. I really like they way the windows are folded into the star of David and the levels in the ceiling.

The Slat House is a beautiful extension to semi-detached family home in Blackheath. Very nice skylights and concrete wall(s)!

A house/studio for a brazilian architect in Sao Paulo, by MMBB Architects. A concrete cube that stands on a delicate structure for an outstanding effect.

Jacques Rougerie is one of the most interesting architects I've come across. He has drawn space stations, sea vessels and underwater habitats. His work is like straight out of a cartoon!

This house by Marge Arkitekter is located in the Swedish archipelago. Dressed in larch panels and sedum moss roof the house is built to age with the surrounding landscape.

Chilexpress corporate building by Guillermo Hevia Architects. Features a colorful curtain wall with bioclimatic properties.

The L-shape Villa Maria was drawn by Mats Fahlander and Thomas Marcks at Fahlander Arkitekter. It won a red house award in 2006, even thought it's black.

Särö Gavlar is a nice three story twin house by OkiDoki Arkitekter and it has very interesting spaces and openings.

Rio Mora Aquarium by Promontorio Architecture. A project comissioned by the city council to promote eco tourism in Mora, Portugal. Photos by Sergio & Fernando Guerra.

Complete coverage of the New York Times skyscrapper in NYC by Renzo Piano.

In a Norwegian wood lies this beautiful house built for a local artist. Simple architectural design by Norwegian "Huus og Heim Arkitektur".

Located on a hill Villa RBDVD has a almost castle feel to it's simple Siberian larch exterior.

J2 is a wood skinned house on a slope, located in Zagreb, Croatia. By 3LHD Architects.

Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz has drawn and furnished a house for Houses of Sagaponac. The house is based on a unbuilt Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe brick country house.

Australian architects keep coming up with great prefab houses. Jean-mic Perrine and his Perrinepod is no exception!

Mercat Restaurant in Santiago de Chile, by 01ARQ. A reconversion of a 60s house, organized around a glass strip envolving the central patio.

A minimal house located along a slope. The rooms adapt to this condition, unified by a stair. With this configuration, cross ventilation across the house is made possible. By H Arquitectes.

Grocery stores are usually not famous for good architecture. Austrian MPREIS is the exception that confirms the rule.... Great exteriors and interiors!

A floating house for a salmon farm in southern Chile. It helps reduce the human footprint. The hotel floats on a big block of floating concrete. By Sabbagh Arquitectos.

The newly renovated A.P.C. store in Japan, by famous Wonderwall architects, came out incredible. By the same architects that did the Uniqlo store in NYC, and it is balanced + modern yet still warm!

N-Blox is a proposed residential building in Toronto, Canada by Quadrangle Architects.

This set of mega structures are placed in a very arid housing eviroment. They act as trees that can control the surrounding climate trough natural ventilation, also providing shade and a rich public space.

Simon Dale and his family wanted to build a organic house. The result is a beautiful house straight out of Lord of the Ring.

Valle House by Guilherme Machado Vaz. The house buries into the slopes to vanish into the context. Has a great pool.

Herringbone Houses, by Allison Brooks Architects. Two houses in South London, that get their name after their cladding.

The Floating Boathouse and the Sleeping Cottage, both designed by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS, are located on an island in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada.

Doblevista house, located in chilean countryside, by Valenzuela & Murua Arquitectos.

Wonderful house by Tommie Wilhelmsen and Todd Saunders. The house is located in Hardanger, Norway.

4,200 windows lit with 150,000 LEDs make for one heck of a light show at the Dexia Tower in Brussels

Offices for Ecopellets, an industrial complex located in the outskirts of Santiago de Chile by Iván Bravo. Skinned in zinc plates, it mixes with the industrial landscape.

A prefab house in the middle of a very greenish enviroment, in Ecuador by local architects Jose Maria Sáez and David Barragán.

7th Sao Paulo International Architecture Biennale. 1000 projects, 300 scale models, plus an Oscar Niemeyer exhibition on his 100 brithday.