interesting house in melbourne by mcbride charles ryan, the house shrinks towards the front facade and converts to just a mailbox, great design

Great 29 vs 2009 Wishes from Laurent Corio.

Prefab cottages for the woods!

NYC: touch-sensitive interactive tables and interactive kiosks with virtual maps from Google Earth are being placed in the city.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro's plans to renovate New York's Governor's Island into an incredible eco park interlaced with waterways, aquariums, and paths for complimentary bikes.

New furniture from Misewell, a midwest design company founded by brothers, Vincent and Paul Georgeson. Everything is Made in USA!
Cant wait to see them at ICFF!

A trapdoor in the kitchen floor! Hide from pirates... or store your wine in this miniature spiral cellar.

365 Budapest is a photo project of Hungarian art director Zsolt Molnár. Through beatufully composed photos he tries to show the typographical diversity of street numbers in capital city, Budapest.

The Wine Bar Torres, designed by Estudi Arola, is a great place to enjoy the wine of the world famous Torres Wine Cellars.

Religious buildings have been historically a sandbox for innovative architecture. The Prayer Chapel in Phoenix by debartolo architects is a good example of this, with a very delicate arrangement of materials and volumes for a fest of light.

VIDEOThe world's largest hanging basket created to launch new boutique hotel Hotel Indigo in London Paddington

Garden Museum redesign by Dow Jones Architects

Below are more pics of the woody, simple, airy and largely reused environment he's created for relaxing when not working with head cases like Larry Ellison...

Another great example of Jurgen Mayer architecture, a continuous formal study that ends up in buildings like the Mensa Moltke in Karlsruhe, Germany, with the help of ARUP engineers.

Oyler Wu Collaborative turned the backyard of this house in LA into a nice outside seating area.

N House by Tokyo Architect Jun Aoki. Located in the small commuter town of Kohoku, Japan, it neither clashes nor completely blends in with the surrounding scenery.

Johnston Marklee Associates proposal for the ORDOS 100 project uses the iconic the gable roofed shed to create this house, and features interesting interior spatial relationships.

A townhouse in Berlin has the architect's firm branding at eye level.

The Tree House by Sander Architects is conceived as a vertical volume to avoid cutting trees. This new wooden volume becomes another 'tree' in this small forest.

Paula Scher: Great design is serious (not solemn), from album covers, to books, to the Citibank logo, Paula pinpoints the moments when she started really having fun with design. Check out her TED talk video!

The New York Times 'On Location' has a fascinating look into ways movable walls and shelving, more commonly found in libraries and archives, can be used to make one room into many.

The BrightBuilt Barn, located in Rockwood, Maine, is one of the super energy-efficient prefab designs of the year. A highly covetable structure, this barn/studio is not only a net-zero house... it is also seeking LEED Platinum certification

high end jewellery store, in a new hot destination : Mistal shop by Kristian Gavoille in Oman.

Tiny "Tumbleweed" Houses ~ as small as 65 sq ft!

A different slant on interior photography. Executive boardroom by time&space

The ORDOS100 villa by Sou Fujimoto, a spatial experiment on this so-called laboratory of contemporary architecture in the mongolian desert.

Clear Magazine announced the publication of its first tree-less, 100 % recyclable magazine. Printed on YUPOÒ synthetic papers, Clear’s latest issue, themed “fame underground,” premiered at December’s Design Miami/Basel festival.

Danish architects PLOT (splitted into BIG and JDS) built this youth center as a complex topography on the top of a polluted soil, in order to make the most out of the budget. The result is an amazing playground in the coast of Copenhagen.

Jeff Herron, a photographer of architecture, design and constructed spaces has started off the new year with a resolution: To start a blog.

Haus 47°40’48”N/13°8’12”E, Austria / Maria Flöckner + Hermann Schnöll

Poland based KWK Promes architects designed the Capsule House, a rigid orthogonal concrete structure, with a wooden capsule on the inside.

The TDA House in Mexico features a dissembled concrete volume that houses the interiors. Amazing terrace and hammocks on the top level, with great views of the ocean. By Cadaval & Solá Morales.

Palais de Justice, conceptual design using the cross from Cross album by Justice, converted into a house on Santa Catalina island. By Paris/NY based architects Planda. Amazing video!

Elle Decor brings us Fashion Designer Matthew Williamson's home in London and it is---phenomenal!

The ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER has a new home. Featuring over 4000 square metres of exhibition space, and dynamic facade. amazing exhibits. linz, austria.

This Room with a Mobile Rooftop by architect Kalhofer - Korschildgen is located in Koln Lovenich - Germany.

Johannsen + Associates have designed this recently completed home, located in the Northbridge neighbourhood of Sydney, Australia.

The Consorcio headquarters in Concepcion, Chile, features an impressive green wall, which in conjunction with other passive strategies, make this one of the most sustainable buildings in the country. By Enrique Browne.

One of the greatest artist of our time, also did the Album covers for Dance Gavin Dance

Some unbelievable photos - from concept to completion - illustrating the process of building a giant spaceship prototype, with photos of the finished piece. SO COOL!

The Docks of Paris is a long, thin building built in concrete at the turn of the last century, a depot for goods brought up the Seine by barge. In 2004, the city of Paris launched a competition to create a new cultural building on the site. result!

Incredible urban plan proposal for Ansan City - South Korea

A photovoltaic plant implemented on a metaphysical huge canopy in Barcelona Forum 2004.

A stylish concrete and wood residential building in Mexico, by SCAP Arquitectos. Perforations and terraces integrate the building with the outside.

Spotted on Bloomacious ~ This unique chair starts as one pretty piece and then morphs into four individual chairs! Perfect for small spaces.

Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye.
My first serious architectural LEGO model.

Delicate minimal spaces are a tradition among portuguese architects. This is shown once again at the Ilhavo City Library, a renovation done by ARX.

The Surf House by XTEN Architecture is the ideal home for a surfer. The cut on the volume generates a nice terrace on the upper level.

Arons & Gelauff Architects have created this 30 meter building that features a climbing wall with 2500 grips!

German-based artist, Andreas Nicolas Fischer, transforms scientific information into visual art. Stunning.

Serbian architects 4of7 renovated this iconic building on the Belgrade waterfront. The Danube Flower restaurant, years after being left unused, was renovated into a wellness center.

A fancyful design for a feminine art museum in southern italy by Id-lab and Ghigos Ideas reviewed on Domus. An old building turned into an interactive and colorful environment. More info and pics on www.ghigos.com and www.interactiondesign-lab.com .

Mexican architects at103 designed House 3, a restoration and addition of an existing house in the old part of the city of Acapulco, México. Love how the exterior pool blends with the amazing Acapulco landscape.

Boxhome is a 19 square meter prototype dwelling with four rooms covering the basic living functions: kitchen with dining, bathroom, living room and bedroom. By Rintala Eggertsson Architects.

amazing new transparent concrete, by mexican students joel sosa and sergio omar galván, 30% lighter than normal concrete and lets through 80% of the light.

A housing development in Spain by Manuel Ocaña. This project takes elements from traditional housing to create an iconic exterior image, but with modern interiors. Almost like a theme park.

ORDOS 100 #7 at ArchDaily, a 1,000sqm villa by US architects MOS. A series of connected spaces, each with its own skylight. I love the resulting look, a small village.

Copenhagen has been recovering the waterfront with a series of projects. This public bath by JDS+BIG (former PLOT) invites citizens to use the fresh waters, amazing result! (see #17148 also)

I am totally fascinated by Swiss Trompe L’oeil artist Felice Varini whom I just discovered. Don't be fooled by your first perception of this work. These are not photo rendered images, it is master craft!

Japanese structure master Shuhei Endo created this public lavatory, covered by a single flat steel sheet made of anticorrosive steel, suspended over a enclosed space.

Awesome private commission of a Tin Man playground by Tom Otterness

The Edwards Residence in Seattle, Washington. Designed by Cutler Anderson Architects.

“Inside Out|Outside In” , part of the Ordos 100 project, discusses the relationship and fusion of interior and exterior space through subtle openings on the façade.

Laimonas Stasiulis, uber cool photographer based in the UK! check out his works =] (wedding, conceptual, portraiture, commission, architecture)

Surface Architects have refurbished a part of Centre for Film & Media, Birkbeck College, London. The new area holds a state of the art auditorium and awesome, crazy hallway.

A spectacular concrete house at the top of a hill in Brazil. A beam-like volume with crystal walls offers a panoramic view of the surroundings, with a lovely endless pool. By Humberto Hermeto.

Lake House by MOS Architects. A prefab structure that was towed across Lake Huron, floating on steel pontoons in order to adapt to constant water height changes. The cedar siding integrates the inside of the house with the lake.

New Olympic Ski Jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen by german architects terrain: loenhart&mayr. The new structure wrapped with translucent polycarbonate has an amazing view at night.

Christmas shop window made with 100% recycled cardboard. By Remedios Vincent.

nArchitects villa for the ORDOS 100 project. An Inner House within an Outer House, that combines two distinct spatial and thermal conditions, through a layered system.

The Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre in Canada by HBBH Architects is a delicate piece of architecture, covers the British Columbia landscape, featuring the longest rammed earth wall on...earth.

ARTINFO's top 5 (actually, 6) stories from an exciting and turbulent year, including a photo gallery of some of the corresponding images like this one of Beijing's National Stadium.

A pedestrian bridge in the chilean countryside, with an interesting shape that can be seen as a tipsy boat in the bay, a beauty queen tiara, or an archway to town... by Enrique Browne.

A dynamic shape for the Block 16 building on the Koetsierbaan waterfront is accented by the fish scale-like cladding.

Peckham Library by Alsop Architects is architectural eye candy.

BLDGBLOG is becoming a book! From Chronicle Books! Discussing tectonic self-engineering to city sound design, via guerrilla gardening, mobile libraries, and vertical film clouds and more

The new H&M flagship store in Barcelona, by Estudio Mariscal. The studio designed every aspect: architecture, lighting, custom furniture, graphic design and even the shopping bags.

The Yellow Treehouse Restaurant in New Zealand is now finished. We previewed this in #16207

Spanish architect Manuel Ocaña refurbished an old apartment using OSB panels, for his mother in law. The floor of the apartment has an amazing hand crafted wood work with her portrait.

Modern 1200 square foot addition to the rear of a 100 year old Victorian home. Respecting the proportion and architectural character of the Victorian, old and new were kept at bay by a five foot wide clear polycarbonate annex.

Kapero has a really nice office designed by Swedish N59.

Tres Birds has some incredible inspiring architectural, artistic and interior installations/spaces!

'In from the cold' is a four weeks Xmas event at the Royal Festival Hall, London, come and join us for music, dance and film in this winter wonderland! Three large scale Cloud Chandeliers designed by Jordy Fu.

Swedish architectural firm Thorbjörnsson+Edgren has designed the HQ for the marquess and jalousie company Riviera. I especially like the big windows and the simple red logo above the entrance.

A commercial building in Fermo, Italy. The design by Spacelab Architects re thinks the traditional box by folding planes.

Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten designed the Dornbusch church in Frankfurt. The old church facade is reflected via spatial subtractions in the new facade. MSWA has some great images of their creative process on their website.

The first ever tensegrity pedestrian bridge is being constructed in Brisbane’s inner city (Australia). A great achievement from an architectural point of view as well as engineering.

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.

Check out exclusive video tour of Mark Baez's M Cube

The amazing cantilever is not the only great thing about Jean Nouvel's Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Take a closer look.

The Ballandean House by Arkhefield not only shows a strong contrast with the plain surroundings through the different planes, but features several sustainable techniques.

The new Granada Science Park by spanish architects Ferrater + Jimenez Brasa features amazing interior spaces, flooded with natural light. The exterior is a complex topography that blends with the surrounding mountains.

Swedisk Smånsk has redesign the magazine Vagabonds travel bookstore in central Stockholm. A map of the local area provides the basis for the floor pattern, which continues up the walls in the form of a shelving system.

Weehouse is a St. Paul firm offering a range of minimalist prefab houses starting at $65,000. All the models are based on pre-insulated modules, which can be combined in various unexpected ways.

Nobu has recently opened a new restaurant, this time in Dubai, with an interior designed by the Rockwell Group.

The new toilets at Aurland, Norway by Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen, have one of the most spectacular views a toilet will ever have.

Maison Biscuit by Pierre Minassia, AUM. The house is located in a small village in the area of Lyon on a very steep slope and facing an open landscape.

Holiday season on Main Street is not complete without humble animals and bales of hay, the l.a.Eyeworks stores on Beverly Boulevard and Melrose Avenue turns up the volume on a stable of seasonal sentiments.

Antoinette J. Citizen Did an art installation of an interactive Super Mario Brothers Level 1-1 Room with working question mark boxes and bricks that would make sounds from the game.

An impressive building for the new headquarters of the savings bank Caja Vital Kutxa in Madrid, Spain. The exterior steel structure allows for large interior spans. By spanish architects Mozas Aguirre Arquitectos.

The Church of the Holy Cross is beautifully minimalist building by KHR Arkitekter in Jyllinge, Denmark.