Whether you think "architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness," like Frank Gehry, or that "architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all," like Harry Seidler, 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.
The folks at MAD Architects sure are a busy bunch with a number of projects to grab our attention this year. Its latest efforts in Japan are no less eye-catching, transforming an abandoned tunnel into a stunning underground art gallery for the 2018 Echigo-Tsumari Triennale art festival.
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Two communities have become one, at least symbolically, thanks to a new civic structure in the Faroe Islands. The new town hall for the people of Eysturkommuna both blends into the green, hilly landscape and rises out of it, forming a grass-covered bridge for locals to cross the river underneath.
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A US$100 million makeover of Seattle’s Space Needle has been completed, with the observation tower receiving a number of modern upgrades. Among the new features are a cantilevered staircase and what has been dubbed the world’s first revolving glass floor.
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18th century residents of a small island in Denmark called Læsø didn't have enough resources to top their houses with thatched or wooden roofs. Being practical types, they used what they did have in abundance: seaweed.
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A client’s stubbornness and an architect’s creativity have been reconciled in a unique home in central Poland. The By The Way house is born out an owner's wish to build an adaptation of his existing home, which the architect decided to build inside a looping driveway to conceal it from view.
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Some of architecture's biggest names are vying to lead a new mixed-use skyscraper development on a prominent site in Melbourne, Australia. The six Southbank by Beulah designs show the firms letting their imaginations run wild.
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Whether levitating a building or making a house melt, Alex Chinneck is adept at transforming everyday architecture into works of art. His latest architectural sculpture is entitled Open to the public and creates the illusion of a dilapidated 1960s-era office building being zipped open.
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Rising over the historic city of St. Petersburg like an elegant glazed bullet, the 87-story Lakhta Center, is nearing completion. The supertall skyscraper is 462 m (1,516 ft)-tall, making it Europe's new tallest building and the 13th tallest building in the world.
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Australia’s Houses Awards, as the name might suggest, is an annual award program that showcases the best new builds in the realm of residential architecture. The 2018 edition has seen a spectacular cave-like home built into a rock shelf claim top honors.
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RIBA has announced its shortlisted projects for the Stephen Lawrence Prize. Consisting of small works built for under £1 million (roughly US$1.3 million) by fresh talent, this year's selection includes a wooden school extension, a farm shed turned into a luxury home, and a London tube memorial.
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