Revery Architecture brings housing, public amenities and an expanded historic church together in The Butterfly + First Baptist Church Complex in Vancouver. Spanning 605,000 square feet, the development combines a 57-storey residential tower, a seven-storey affordable rental building and the renewal of First Baptist Church within one connected urban site. MIXED USE The project addresses […] More
Z8 Tower by Zaha Hadid Architects is set to move toward construction in the centre of Beijing’s Central Business District, where the project occupies a prominent site at the intersection of Jianguo Road and Jinhe East Road. COMMERCIAL Facing the district’s central park, the 140-metre tower responds to the alignment and urban structure of Chang’an […] More
Roland Baldi Architects completes a multifunctional public building at the southern entrance to Barbian, or Barbiano, in South Tyrol, Italy. The project brings together a kindergarten, daycare centre, children’s restaurant, tourist office, public restrooms, mobility infrastructure, and a barrier-free connection to the village centre. Set into a steep site, the building turns a complex civic […] More
Studio Zlesart presents Bee House, a group of timber studio houses designed and built by Petr Novák on the edge of a town in the Vysočina region. Novák created the ensemble as a place for living and working close to nature, surrounded by mature trees that he planted on the site more than twenty years […] More
Developed for RIVUS, Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners and UNS are transforming the former Carbochim industrial site in Cluj Napoca into a mixed use district organized around the Someș River. The project covers more than 16 hectares and draws on public consultation with residents to reconnect an inaccessible stretch of waterfront with the surrounding city. […] More
LiUNA Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada and Fengate Asset Management have announced Toronto Rail Yards, a 14-acre mixed-use community designed by Henning Larsen above the active rail corridor between Bathurst Street and Spadina Avenue. The downtown Toronto project will create new land over existing railway infrastructure, connecting housing, offices, retail, child care and […] More
Zaha Hadid Architects has announced the Nest and Cascades, two developments planned for Kodra e Diellit in Tirana. Designed for local developer Agikons, the projects respond to growing demand for housing and hospitality spaces in one of the Albanian capital’s fastest-developing districts. RESIDENTIAL Kodra e Diellit occupies a hillside south of central Tirana and offers […] More
COOKFOX Architects has completed the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University, a 30,000-square-foot cultural building dedicated to American music and Bruce Springsteen’s place within that history. The Center brings exhibitions, archives, performance, education, and research into one destination, giving students, scholars, fans, and visitors direct access to music objects, public programs, and […] More
GO’C designed Ceramics Studio in West Seattle as a new detached workshop and classroom for a ceramic artist who needed more room to make, fire, teach, and grow her practice. The project sits on an urban residential lot in Seattle, Washington, where the studio also received approval as a detached accessory dwelling unit. That dual […] More
Issey Miyake has opened its new flagship store at 45 Madison Avenue in New York City, bringing the Japanese fashion house into one of Manhattan’s most recognizable architectural settings. The store sits on the ground floor of the New York Life Building, designed by Cass Gilbert, at the corner of Madison Avenue and 26th Street. […] More
SOUR presents Pur, a residential recording studio set on the Aegean island of Cunda, developed for Pur Records. The project positions architecture as an active participant in music production, working from the idea that the environment shapes not only how sound is made, but how it is experienced and remembered. This premise informs every decision, […] More
In Montreal’s Quartier des Gares, 900 Saint-Jacques introduces a new density model grounded in material continuity and urban integration. Designed by Chevalier Morales in collaboration with Brian Elsden Burrows, Architect – Le Groupe Architex, the 63-storey mixed-use tower rises from a site long perceived as residual terrain at the edge of downtown. Framed by rail […] More