Architecture
Advances in materials and design continue to expand the architect's play book with buildings that reach for the skies and connect us to the earth in imaginative and increasingly sustainable ways. New Atlas brings you the latest developments.
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Buried Avocado House disappears into beautiful Mexican landscape
Hired to design a vacation home in an avocado field while leaving the field itself intact, Francisco Pardo Arquitecto decided on the radical plan of burying it. The resulting Avocado House blends into the landscape so well that it's barely visible. -
LA Apple Store brings the outdoors inside with tree-lined retail space
Apple and Foster + Partners have co-designed a new Apple Store in The Grove shopping complex in Los Angeles, where customers enter through huge glass doors to a tree-lined light-filled retail space with a mirrored ceiling. -
Tired old factory transformed into modern office and public park
For its latest project, MVRDV turned a tired old factory in Shenzhen, China, into a bustling modern office. The building has been extended and modernized, and features a staircase running through it, offering access to a rooftop park. -
ZHA extends Hollywood-inspired resort with striking hotel towers
High-profile British studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled a new project currently under construction in China. It consists of two eye-catching towers that are designed to mitigate their carbon footprint with sustainability features. -
Mixed-use office building turns timber construction on its head
White Arkitekter recently completed an ambitious timber building named Nodi. The mixed-use office has an unusual overall form that increases in width as it rises and looks almost like it has been turned upside-down. -
Foster + Partners winery blends into beautiful French landscape
We often associate high-profile firm Foster + Partners with massive projects, but its most recent work is very modest in comparison. Le Dôme Winery is designed to take its place unobtrusively among the beautiful landscape in Bordeaux, France. -
Quirky residential high-rise puts the O in home
MVRDV puts the O in home – literally – with this unusual residential project slated for Germany. One of four buildings that will eventually spell out HOME, the donut-shaped high-rise showcases the firm's flair for lighthearted, quirky architecture. -
Manhattan skyscraper recalls New York City's golden age
You could be forgiven for assuming that New York's recently completed Rose Hill skyscraper was built at the same time as the Empire State Building as the luxury residential tower was influenced by the city's Art Deco skyscrapers. -
Three superb projects compete for RIBA's best new building award
A passively cooled hospital, an innovative bridge, and a sensitively designed cultural building are the three finalists for the prestigious RIBA International Prize. Just one will be declared the world's best building in early 2022. -
Ambitious Urban Sequoia skyscraper designed to clean the air around it
An intriguing proposal from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill imagines a skyscraper that could capture carbon and actually purify the air around it. The Urban Sequoia concept was created to mark the recent UN COP26 Climate Change Conference in Scotland. -
MVRDV proposes bold green remake of aging movie studio
MVRDV has revealed plans to transform a historic movie studio in Berlin into a new mixed-use neighborhood. The project will give the aging studio buildings a modern renovation, improving their flexibility and adding greenery and sustainable design. -
ZHA transforms inner-city neighborhood into greenery filled oasis
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed plans to reshape a sizable chunk of inner-city Budapest, Hungary. The Zugló City Centre project will involve transforming a seven-hectare site into a modern and energy efficient neighborhood filled with greenery.
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