The El Greco Congress Center of Toledo is accessed through a small plaza located next to Armas Street, and which leads to Zocodover Square. This plaza offers broad, impressive views over Tavera Hospital and the river...

In the latest AV monograph on Herzog & de Meuron, Luis Fernández-Galiano examines the stage sets that the Swiss partners, to celebrate the Verdi and Wagner...

The result of research carried out at the University of Hong Kong under the Hong Kong-based Taiwanese John Lin, the prototype for a ‘house for all seasons’ is conceived with the intention of...

Astley Castle in Nuneaton – in Warwickshire County, England – was destroyed by fire and abandoned for three decades. It now reemerges from the state of ruin it was in, thanks to a reconstruction carried...

The Lenbechhaus Museum in Munich – the old house and studio of the German painter Franz von Lenbach (1836-1904) – reopened its doors after a renovation of its historic buildings and the construction of a new wing by the office of Norman Foster...

Construction workers have hoisted the final spire piece to the top of the 1,776 feet tall One World Trade Center in New York's financial district. The spire itself weighs...

Curved lines and bright colors striking a contrast with the surrounding blocks characterize Loop, the new preschool center built in Tianjin – a city of northern China which is one of the country’s most populated...

The objective of recovering buildings in disuse is a good starting point for public interventions, and the guideline for this specific project, which is minimal but still manages to produce a powerful and unitary image. Reusing as much of the existing as...

The Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, designed by the Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson and with the local studio Batteríið Architects, is the winner of the Mies Award 2013...

Stunning views are offered by a 1,300 meter promenade built by Josef Stöger amid trees in the National Park of Neuschönau, in southeastern Germany. The wooden structure has a catwalk 750 meters long and from 1.5 to 2.5 wide, raised to a height...

The brick, an imaginative adaptation of the traditional mezuza case that Jews put on their doorways as a sign of their faith, came from a demolished tenement...

Prominent in the changing skyline of the city of Zhenghou, capital of Henan province in eastern China, the 280-meter-tall 40-floor tower built by the American firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)...

A corner of Tokyo’s Omotesando neighborhood now features a new flagship store, designed by Rem Koolhaas, for the leather goods and accessories brand Coach. Inspired by the wooden display shelves in the New York...

"Welcome to my place," says Ito Morabito, perched on the balustrade of the most famous rooftop of any 20th-century building. Behind the young French designer...

Within an industrial zone in the Dutch town of Drachten, the Rotterdam artist Florentijn Hofman has built a factory measuring 5x10x14 meters. Made with three metal modules and a black envelope of corrugated steel, the miniature...

Within the grounds of Pamplona’s cathedral, the Occidents Museum built by Antonio Vaíllo and Juan Luis Irigaray contains 4,500 square meters in twelve rooms that tell us about the origins of the...

Nestled in the hills of Chianti, in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, halfway between Florence and Sienna, is the Cantina Antinori winery, a work of the Italian firm Archea Associati. The building is fused into the vineyards...

The Beijing studio led by Ma Yansong has in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin finished the China Wood Sculpture Museum, a sinuous building clad with polished steel plates whose structure is inspired by the crooked branches of trees. Stretching 200...

Along the Thames, beside the National Theatre built on the South Bank by Denys Lasdun in the 1970s, the local firm of Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkins has built a temporary auditorium called...

Under the premise of addressing the demand for space of Finland’s fervent readers – the country is according to PISA reports a world leader in education –, the Helsinki studio...

Surrounded by buildings on three sides, in the dense urban core of Osaka, the house designed by the studio of Shuhei Endo for a couple with three children opens only northward to a very busy street. The client wanted a facade that would...

Nicolas Borel’s photographs show the progress going on in the construction of Jean Nouvel’s Paris Philharmonic at Parc de la Villette, a concert hall seating 2,400 people to be completed in 2014.

Since it opened in 1885, the Rijksmuseum here has been the greatest treasure house of the Dutch Golden Age, brimming with paintings by masters like Rembrandt...

Inspired by whirpools, the Blue Planet Aquarium by the Danish firm 3XN has opened its doors in Kastrup, to the south of Copenhagen. Clad with aluminum shingles shaped like diamonds and...

Built on top of the house of the client’s mother and sister, which is immersed in a dense urban fabric, the Lude apartment looks over the rooftops of the Murcian town of Cehegín. Drawn up by the Alicante...

The Catalan word ‘seca’ (in Spanish ‘ceca’) comes from the Arab word sekka and means ‘place where coins are made’. In Barcelona, La Seca was the name given to the Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Mint) of Aragón, where coins were...

The office of Norman Foster has opened the new terminal at Queen Alia Airport south of Amman, on the outskirts of the Jordanian capital. Bedouin tents, the traditional dwellings of Nomad tribes, inspired the roof, a series of tessellated domes...

Located in the La Conchita neighborhood of Coyoacán, the central borough of the Federal District of Mexico City, the new Elena Garro Cultural Center built by Fernanda Canales in collaboration with +arquitectura911 is the...