Cafe el Mar is a small ecological store in Lavapies neighborhood in Madrid. Located in what was once a hairdresser, the facade has remained. The interior keeps a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

The Swiss village of Romainmotier has an annual book fair for used or old books. Those 'left behind' are used by artist Jan Reymond to create magical landscapes through the village.

Ridge Road Residence, a minimalist home located in Victoria, Australia, with separate public and private zones within the residence. Designed by StudioFour.

Beautifully converted 1920s shop house in Singapore from . FARM and KD Architects.

Tatzu Nishi's amazingly fun installation 'Discovering Columbus' in NY's Columbus Circle, surrounds the well-known statue with an elevated living room that is open to the public.

KamerMaker, large scale, mobile 3D printer to print architecture 'on demand', unveiled by Dutch architecture firm, DUS.

Machine à travaille - Fire Station by compagnie O architects.

São Paulo is the new home to a great new wine and champagne bar called Mistral designed by Studio Arthur Casas.

The Alphabet Library in the Pierres Vives building in Montpellier to serve as a reading room for the Archive of the Department of Herault. Designed by Hoffice.

VIDEOHESAV Anime by NOTsoNOISY Guillaume Reymond and Trivial Mass Production, a stop motion film of people opening, closing, and shaking the windows of a building facade. The result looks programmed, but is human powered.

'Put a Bird in It' installation of birdhouses around Portland, with contributions by 75+ artists. The birdhouses will be auctioned off during Design Week Portland with proceeds going to art and music education.

Threesome Ottoman, it can be used as an ottoman, coffee table or as a pouffee. Designed by lab::istanbul.

Beautiful new offices for Junta de Castilla y León by Alberto Campo Baeza in the city of Zamora.

'Bookmarks' Bookcases by Polish designer Pawel Grobelny.

The Self-Folding Proteins, by SJET LLC, are single strands of material with sequences of fold angles. When they are thrown into the air randomly, they self-assemble into the 3D protein structure!

'Archizines' is an exhibition of the new generation of newspapers, magazines and fanzines of architecture, at the Special School of Architecture until 26 September 2012.

Taiwan Noodle House 2 by Golucci International Design in Beijing.

The designers duo Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova created the system of street furniture 'Urban Islands' for the publisher MMcité.

Franco Recchia uses recycled computer parts to create miniature city skylines.

W hotel San Diego Renovation by Mister Important Design

Taxi Taxi Station by Hakan Gürsu is Golden A' Design Award Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2011 - 2012.

Tokyo Plaza Omotesando Project its garden rooftop allowing for isolation from the intense pace of Tokyo

See the incredible Paper Sculptures by Benja Harney at Sydney's Queen Victoria Building.

The new Chalet Brickell has its own nightclub, theater (with beds for seats), and one of the coolest car parks you'll ever drive into!

Nicholson Residence by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design in Melbourne, Australia.

The recently completed the L'AND Vineyards Hotel, located in the heart of Alentejo, Portugal, by Marcio Kogan and Promontorio arquitectos.

House HV by Kombinat turns a dreary chalet into a beautiful modern home.

Lancaster shop opening by Ora-Ito

FEATUREDThe real craziness of the Venice Architecture Biennale is in the details that escaped the other features you've seen around... lots of random inspiration and other projects we discovered...

CL Store by NV Studio architecture in Santiango / Chile

Casa Di Sassuolo by Enrico Iascone Architetti.

Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse by HWCD Associates.

dmvA Architecten constructed this small triangular shaped home on a former recreational lot, and though permits and provisioning had restricted a few areas there wasn’t any holding back on the design.

Kevin Langan continues his quest to build 100 small survival shelters and to test each one by sleeping rough. The huts are all unique and vary in both structure & materiality.

The Movement Pop Up Cafe, a temporary cafe and performance space built next to the DLR station in Greenwich, South East London.

Swiss landscape architect Anouk Vogel, created an origami paper garden consisting of over a thousand paper flowers and plants: 'Folding for Peace'.

FEATUREDRobots bend steel (see video!) to create this space engulfing structure in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Beautiful piece by Supermanoeuvre and Matter Design Studio.

FEATUREDFrom gas mask packing tape to fighter jet mobiles... stressball fists to holy grounds in a bottle and MORE. The Aircraft Carrier concept shop is the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale selling US/Israel history transformed into products.

FEATUREDProjection Mapping used to show movement and the way lighting changes throughout the day on the Cloud 9 architectural model in Spain Lab at the Venice Biennale. See the video of it in action!

Blaxland Riverside Park, an incredible new playground in Sydney Olympic Park, by JMD Design.

The American Hardwood Export Council has invited a group of students in product design at the Royal College of Art in London to design and manufacture a series of 12 chairs made from an American hardwood species of their choice.

FEATUREDI-City in the Russian Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale is a complete mind trip to wander around in... endless matte black backlit QR codes make up the walls, floors, and ceilings to be viewed with Samsung tablets.

Lovely interiors by Pudelskern for Gentlemen’s Club in Vienna.

FEATUREDImaginary City Kai Tak by CAVE architecture design studio has an incredibly colorful, detailed model in the Hong Kong space in the Venice Architecture Biennale, from flying cars to cows to dragons to old men playing cards and more!

Material Creatives bright new Little Nuffield cafe is hard to walk by. A finalist in the BEST awards...they think so too!

FEATUREDThe Piranesi Variations: Jeffrey Kipnis and the Ohio State Univ's A Field of Dreams - a fantastic reimagination of Rome with a mesmerizingly bold visual language and unusual use of straws, penis pasta, and more at the Venice Biennale.

Modern kitchen at Ram's Gate Winery in Sonoma.

Walk Through Treetops. High in the sky, walking along elevated platforms and suspension bridges that connect one tree to another, you can get a bird's-eye view of the ecosystem in the canopies of trees.

After signing the interior of the restaurant Beefbar Monaco, Poyet & Humbert agency achieves development of the first BeefBar Mexico.

The stunning Greenhouse at Grüningen Botanical Garden by Buehrer Wuest Architekten.

FEATUREDRecycled Wine Bottle Roof ~ cut wine bottles are nested to create a glass catenary rooftop that creates beautiful shadows at the Venice Biennale.

The impressive Quarry Garden in Shanghai Botanical Garden.

As part of the festival Archi <20 in Muttersholtz - France, architects Bastien Saint-André and Maxime Lang designed this prototype of circular housing.

Hope you love your neighbors! Reece Terris created this pedestrian bridge between two neighboring homes!

Storable Coat Rack by Bram Vanderbeke: A coat rack, completely storable in a metal box. The various connecting pieces can be assembled in different ways. So it is possible to adjust the rack to the location where it will be placed.

Boxy is beautiful! Take a look the House in Quinta Patino, Portugal - The living wall is unreal!

This is an an industrial object, a bee keeping system and small-scale architecture.

Casa W by 01Arq in Huentelauquen, Chile.

FEATUREDPush a remote and this shipping container magically opens up into a bar! Solaris bar in the courtyard of OK "Offenes Kulturhaus" in Linz, Austria.

It's About Time! SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima Becomes the Rolex Protege Program's First Architectural Mentor

Leanie van der Vyver imagined the mobile lamp 'Trek'. This light source can indeed move and adapt to its environment through a simple system of buttons that allow tender and give shape to the power cable.

Gramercy Park Townhouse by Manhattan-based architecture firm Fractal Construction.

Frank Gehry for Facebook's new west campus ~ particularly interesting is the precise configuration of the desks...

New Museum ABC in Madrid is one of the few spaces in Europe dedicated to contemporary drawing and illustration. Designed by studio Aranguren & Gallegos.

Gorgeous design in the SHED 5 restaurant in Melbourne from Loopcreative.

With "Brick", young Dutch designers Leanie van der Vyver and Lars Zwirs devised a terracotta brick.

GranTouristas, which is being presented as part of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture - it is an open system of knowledge acquisition.

8 to 30 September, 'Espace Wallonie' in Brussels will host the exhibition 'Homology'. Organized in partnership with Muuuz.com, this exhibition brings together the work of young Belgian designers through a selection of twenty everyday objects

The OCT Design Museum, designed by Studio Pei-Zhu, focuses mainly on fashion shows, product design, and conceptual automotive shows. The goal was to create a space that is surreal to the subject matter.

The Barking Bathhouse, an experimental spa and bar bringing everyday luxury and relaxation to Barking Town Centre for 8 weeks. Commissioned by Arts Agency CREATE and designed and produced by Something & Son.

World's Best Jungle Gym. Newly constructed from massive fallen eucalyptus trees, it's an art installation —and a play structure at Marin Country Mart mall in Northern California.

Autostadt, a theme park in Wolfsburg, Germany, with the new Porsche Pavilion, designed by HENN Architekten.

Beautiful Harvest Pavilion from Vector Architects, a shelter to wash and prepare crops during the harvest at a farm in rural China.

Brussels designer Benoît Deneufbourg drew this little wooden peg edited by Normann Copenhagen. Sober and simple in design, it consists of three pieces of oak intertwined like the wood framing.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia designed and fabricated the Endesa Pavilion. Optimally oriented for the charging of solar cells, with no direct sunlight in summer. Prefabricated in chunks and assembled on site.

Have you been to the High Line park's only sit-down restaurant? It's called Terroir on the Porch and it's in a shipping container!

The architectural firm Yvann Pluskwa this town house in Marseille, Maison PL . Confined on a plot rooted in rock and dressed with wood trellises.

Sneeoosh Cabin in Washington's Puget Sound by Zeroplus Architects

Designed by architects Jordi Fornells and Rolf Heinemann agency Vora Arquitectura, 'Villa Extramuros' offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Latin remains central patio.

Kevin Langan 's inspirational project to build 100 wild shelters.

Architectkidd's beautifully renovated flat in Bangkok.

New Zealand's 'Best Awards' celebrates the very BEST in graphic, spatial, product and interactive design for 2012

Gehry Goes South: Can the Starchitect Recreate the Bilbao Effect With Panama's New Bio-Museum?

Germany's heavily wooded Black Forest is home to a new outdoor spa called Palais Thermal, designed by Kauffmann Theilig & Partner.

VIDEOA documentary on Janne Saario, an Element skateboarder turned landscape architect that reveals the important concurrence of urban skateboarding, rural nature, and their convergence.

The striking architecture of the Ginan House by
Keitaro Muto Architects.

The architecture agency Archi5made ​​this architecture Archi5 multisport complex for the city of Antony, France. It consists of a hall, a dance hall, a dojo, a football field and a underground parking.

The Xeros Residence in Phoenix, Arizona from Blank Studio.

Beautiful Venger Wind Farm Installed on Roof of Oklahoma Medical Research

Tsai Design Studio converted a shipping container into a school! The Vissershok Container Classroom, a 12m recycled container turned independent classroom for 25 Grade R (age 5-6) in the Durbanville wine valley.

The Lumbrein Residence by Hurst Song Architekten A beautiful holiday home tucked away in the Swiss Alps.

A look at the changing skyline of New York City from 1876 to 2013.

The Working Proof is working with artist Mary Iverson to bring you her print Palouse Falls with Containters 2. The angles, landscape, and crashing ship make for an awesome piece.

Freelandbuck translates a 2-dimensional digital line drawing into 3-dimensional space at the Bridge Gallery in New York.

Free ice skating at Jaguar's giant snow globe that just popped up under the High Line today.

The temporary VM pavilion by Snøhetta, Oslo.

Shelter @ Rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia designed by Marra + Yeh Architects is a zero-energy house in the deep jungle of Borneo.

La Petite Bretagne , a Breton creperie in West London designed by Paul Crofts Studio.

Mr Wong is a stunning new yum-cha restaurant in Sydney. The interiors are 1930s Shanghai with a modern twist and the kitchen includes a Michelin-starred Head Dim Sum chef.

VIDEOFlight Forms is a project that simulates drone flight with robotarms at the Sci-Arc Robot House. The flight behaviour of the quadrotor is used to program the motion logic for the 6 axis robotarm.

Digital design ceiling of food garden, top of the Costanera Center Mall, Santiago de Chile, which at 300m tall, is the tallest building in South America.

Multipurpose summerhouse in the UK functioning as an artist's studio, garden shed. The 8-meter mirror foil reflects the foliage and helps the structure disappear into the landscape. By Ullmayer Sylvester.

21 Cake Headquarters by People's Architecture Office in Beijing, China.

Steve Domoney Architecture's Power Street residence in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.

Complex proto-forms inspired by nature and driven by algorithms by Faysal Tabbara.

Composed of approximately 400 simple wooden chairs arrayed and stacked in a sine wave surface, the ‘SEAT’ public pavilion, by E/B Office, is a recently completed winning entry for this year’s Flux Project in Freedom Park.

BLOOM by Alisa Andrasek and Jose Sanchez is an urban toy, a distributed social game and collective “gardening” experience that seeks the engagement of people in order to construct fuzzy BLOOM formations.

Design practice 24° Studio linked together hundreds of hollow paper stars to line a tunnel and stairway in Santorini, Greece.

46 Water Street, Vancouver by Omer Arbel.

Pracownia Architektoniczna POZNAŃ_PROJEKT in collaboration with mode:lina architekci design the main entrance to the Voivodeship Police Headquarters in Poznań.

The Once and Future Boathouse. In Norway, architects dismantled a 19th century boathouse to create a new building with gull-wing-style wall of panels to open the space to the breeze.

Abandoned, then found again. At Holkham Hall in England, a 19th century vinery is being rebuilt with support from English Heritage.

Vintage home in Kiev from Ukrainian designers.

The Robinson Road house by Steve Domoney Architecture.

Beautiful new dorms for the Royal Veterinary College’s Hawkshead Campus designed by HawkinsBrown.

Camp Victory, Nike's Olympic trial pavilion as a temporary exhibition at the University
of Oregon's Hayward Field.

This Cargotecture cabin is already in use as a guesthouse on a rural property near Seattle. A blend of industrial and nature

The Miura Hotel in Čeladná, Czech Republic by Labor 13 architects.

Beautiful Tea Houses in northern California by Swatt Miers.

The gorgeous holiday home, House on the Marsh in the Czech Republic by A1Architects.

A writer's studio tucked away in the woods of Ghent, New York by Cooper Joseph Studio.

The EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects.

Just spotted at Siggraph - DIYlilCNC just introduced the DIY CNC machine 2.0. This version gets bigger and better, allowing you to mill larger pieces faster.

Demetriades + Walker Architecture's New York Boardwalk House.

Woods Bagot and several other international architects, raise public awareness about the role of the design and construction industry in the aftermath of natural disasters.

"Is Counterculture Getting Mainstream?" Curating the Venice Architecture Biennale's Guerilla U.S. Pavilion

Corten apartments, a late 17th c complex in the town of Vigonovo transformed by 3ndy Studio in collaboration with Philippe Daverio and the sculptor Giorgio Milani with a new facade.

Snickerbacken 7 is an inspiring café, exhibition space and a concept store all in one in Stockholm.

Love the screens at G Clinic 7f by KORI architecture office.

Gorgeous proposal for a new natural history museum in Denmark by BIG architects.

Taoyuanju Office in Tianjin, China by Vector Architects

The Veracruz 60 Apartment in Mexico City by JSa Architecture.

VIDEOThe Stone Spray Project by IAAC students Petr Novikov, Inder Shergill and Anna Kulik and is a robotic arm that 3d prints sand with a special water and adhesive mix.

Mackmyra Svensk Whisky is a Swedish distillery located at Gävle (an hour and a half’s drive north of Stockholm) and founded in 1999 by eight friends. It worked so well that in 2011 the partners decided to construct a new building.

The V4 house' by Studio mk27 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Weihai Pavillion by Make Architects.

Laser Cut Olympics VIP Invitation for Hilton Worldwide: Designed by The Marketing Arm and laser cut by Artifacture, this uses a unique accordion fold to reveal a collection of iconic London architecture.

Step inside Wendy, the crown jewel of this year’s Warm Up at MoMA PS1

The Dallas AIA Emerging Leaders Program has designed a playground (within the confines of an existing loading dock) for CityWalk@Akard, an affordable housing mixed-use building in Downtown Dallas.

Mirador House is a minimalist home located in Lima, Peru, designed by 2.8x Architects. The project was challenging in that the surrounding topography was particularly uneven and steep.

São Paulo-based architect Guto Requena is talking a stand against "ugly", standardized buildings.

Siemens builds 75-metre-long rotor blades -- the world's largest -- from a single mould.

iGNANTravel went to Hamburg and had coffee at Klippkroog, a beautiful cafe, offering a range of delicious products with ecologiacal awareness.

The Kunsthof Passage in Dresden include the 'Court of Water' – contraption made with metal tubes and funnels that make music when it rains. Just one of three creative courtyard façades.