Quiet House – Serenely Poetic Architecture
Located in a village in the south of France, the project of "quiet villa" designed by French architecture firm, Artelabo meets a very particular context.
The...
Villa Chaski-A Modern Cabin in the Chamonix Valley
The Chamonix Valley in Eastern France, sharing the Mont Blanc mountain range with Switzerland and Italy, is a special place. Not only because Mont...
Double Duplex Shows Almost Perfect Symmetry
Like many urban cities, Toronto is experiencing a surge in growth, especially in the urban core where densification is a priority. A proliferation of...
LESS-An Urban Amplifier in the Heart of Paris
In 1891 the city of Paris registered this 100-meter passageway, open two years prior on the property of sieur Delessert, between the Rue Pierre...
New Contemporary Art Wing for the Lima Art Museum
The Lima Art Museum New Contemporary Art Wing is conceived to form a spatial counterpoint to the Exposition Palace in Lima, Peru. Designed by...
SMAC Contemporary Music Centre
This Contemporary Music Centre (SMAC) is a musical complex designed by Parisian design firm, Hérault Arnod Architectes, consisting of two auditoriums of very different...
Contemporary Update to a Classic Tudor
For a long time, this semi-detached house built in the 1950s in Montréal’s Ville-Saint-Laurent neighborhood was home to a family of three young children. Over...
Award-Winning School Conceived in Color
It's like an Easter egg, but all the color is inside the shell.
The WAN Color in Architecture Award celebrates projects that harness color to...
Turning a Design Problem Into the Solution
Ask any architect, they’ll tell you a large portion of their job is about solving problems. The better the architect, the more elegant the...
Leeza Soho by Zaha Hadid Rises With the World’s Tallest Atrium
Leeza Soho, a 46-storey mixed-use tower with the world’s tallest atrium, is the most recent of four project collaborations between Zaha Hadid Architects and...
Zaha Hadid Architects Unveil NYC Skyscraper
A supertall skyscraper, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects has been proposed for Midtown Manhattan. The skyscraper would become Zaha Hadid Architects' second project in New York, after the 520...
Cité Internationale – Multi-Use Building for Student Life and Health
The Cité Internationale is a hybrid building that brings together three different owners and four independent purposes. The south side is the Esplanade side...
Ogden Centre – The Perfect Marriage of Architect and Physics
Architecture is a mix of art and science, among other things. Without an understanding of physics, practical architecture wouldn’t exist. This is certainly a...
The High Line is Set for the Solar Carve Tower by Studio Gang
Architecture luminary Louis Kahn famously said, “A room is not a room without natural light.” Well, neither is a park.
Since the High Line park...
Oak Pass House Built (Mostly) Under the Hill
Most of the Oak Pass House in the mountains above Beverly Hills is underground, but this is hardly a Hobbit hole.
The hills above Los...