Award winning House M by Marc Koehler. A black heavy volume on top of a transparent public area. Simple and stylish.

Norwegian architect Pushak designed this simple wooden roadstop in Nordkynnhalvøya. Despite of its orthogonal composition, it blends with the landscape through its materials.

NAO´s villa for ORDOS 100. The skin of the house is designed to keep weather elements on the facade: snow, sand, rain and moss, changing during the four seasons of the year.

Advertising agencies tend to have some very cool work spaces, such as the offices for NORTH Advertising, designed by Skylab Architecture.

The Abalos + Sentkiewicz proposal for the Taipei Performing Arts Center reminds me of the Cloud City from the Empire Strikes Back. Stunning renderings.

House renovation that gives an old house a vibrant look with new wooden skin. This skin folds and generates new spaces to enjoy the home near the beach.

The curves of the Dupli Casa by Jurgen Mayer give this building a very dynamic look. So white and pure, the photos almost look like renderings.

Swiss architect Wespi de Meuron designed this house as two stones buried on a hill. Selected points bring natural light to the interior, while the rooftop holds a pool with a perfect view over the lake and the mountains.

A cool concept for the interiors of the Mameg + Maison Martin Margiela store in Beverly Hills, designed by Johnston Marklee & Associates: A wall made out of randomly placed containers.

HHF Architects and chinese artist Ai WeiWei designed Artfarm, a gallery for a professional art collection. Amazing use of prefab steel buildings used commonly for agricultural purposes.

RSVP architects villa for the ORDOS 100 project. The house bends and elevates, freeing the ground level.

The PS1 competition won by MOS (see #18508) also featured entries by BSC Architects, !ndie Architecture, PARA-project and L.E.FT. Interesting proposals, ranging from full leisure, green carpets to inflatable structures.

CB3 is an interesting mixed use development in Hanoi, Vietname, designed by ICE HK. Three towers tied at the top, with an active street level. Construction is set to be started in late 2009.

Parr House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects. Series of rooms and patios, create a labyrinth. Pitched roofs give each room a skylight, and the transparency across the house reflects the succession of rooms.

A new Carbon Neutral master plan to develop the Zira Island in Azerbaijan. The proposal by danish architects BIG, includes 7 artificial mountains.

DIY paper toys by Marshall Alexander and argentinians Beppie and Her Pals

MOS Architects just won the competition to design the summer installation at MoMA´s PS1. Their proposal is called Afterparty, and it´s based on basic materials to address the current state of economy.

The Viva Street building in Republica Dominicana features a nice cladding system, when combined with variable LED lighting, come nightfall, turns this building into a dynamic object.

Another beautiful example of portuguese architecture: white volumes under the light, over a natural landscape. By ARX Architects.

OMA just won the 1st prize in the international competition to build the new Performing Arts Centre in Taipei. New approach to relationship between stage/seats to give more flexibility to experimental performances.

The ORDOS 100 villa by NL Architects is seen as box with some openings from the outside, but features an amazing 'green heart' - a cool place to be, in the inner Mongolian desert.

A new building for music performance in the waterfront of Malaga, Spain. Designed by Federico Soriano + Agustin Benedicto, it will feature a skin made out of glass tiles to achieve a vibrant light effect similar to the waving sea.

The Consorcio Building in Santiago is one of the most sustainable office buildings, with up to 48% less energy usage thanks to its green wall, which turns red in autumn.

A take on Los Angeles Plays Itself, a documentary on the relation between modern architecture in LA and bad guys on Hollywood movies.

"Lost in Paris" is an amazing skin for a laboratory in Paris, featuring an hydrophonic wall system and 300 blown glass containers that add light refraction to the interior.

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.

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.

Japanese architects never stop surprising me. The Shell House by Kotaro Ide / ARTechnic is composed of two concrete tubes that result in a very transparent house, perfect when in the midst of a forest.

The Strata Hotel in Sesto, Italy, features a dynamic wooden skin. This envelope has been recurrent in the work of PLASMA Studio, and here, the building fits into the italian mountains.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.