Vanke Design Community is cluster of workspaces topped by parks
A campus-like park of concrete offices topped with green roofs forms the new Vanke Design Community in Shenzhen, featuring two sunken plots completed by architecture practice FCHA. More
Augmented Reality Architects wraps house with courtyards to create private home
Seoul-based practice Augmented Reality Architects has surrounded W House with a a slim border of courtyard spaces that create a green buffer between the home and the city. More
Cullinan Studio designs "cracked open" house with gaps to let in the light
London architecture studio Cullinan Studio has built a house in Amersham, England, that is split it into sections to allow light to flood its interiors through the glazed gaps. More
Layan wraps Light House in a screen of illuminated metal discs
A dynamic screen of illuminated, rotating polycarbonate discs shield the upper level of this home in Melbourne, completed by Layan for the director of local lighting design practice The Flaming Beacon. More
Slim white house by CAPD frames view of the sea in Japan
Japanese architecture practice CAPD have completed Umi – a simple, white house in Tokushima prefecture overlooking the sea with a large, deep-set window and terrace. More
UAD merges traditional and contemporary forms for Shaoxing Hotel hall
The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University has completed a new hall for the Shaoxing Hotel in eastern China. More
Di Gregorio Associati surrounds rural Italian house with planted concrete pergolas
Overgrown concrete pergolas have been installed around Monticello, a brick house restored by Di Gregorio Associati Architetti in northern Italy. More
FORM/Kouichi Kimura designs Slender House in suburban Japan
A stack of intersecting concrete and metal cuboids combines to create this long, narrow home in Shiga, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. More
ConForm Architects opens up loft with a glass and steel dormer
ConForm Architects has converted a small London loft into a bright home office by inserting a glazed section with a large steel dormer window. More
Studio BAM! builds Infill House in London garden
Architecture practice Studio BAM! has built a skinny house clad in charred cedar in the garden of a Victorian end-of-terrace home in London. More
Fraher & Findlay adds wildflower-topped extension to London house
Fraher & Findlay has built a wildflower-topped rear extension, a glass-walled courtyard and a loft extension for a 20th-century house in London. More
Urko Sanchez Architects builds miniature walled city for orphans
Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. More
Prefabricated pine panels clad kindergarten near Barcelona
Architects Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius and Daniel Tigges have designed a wood-clad concrete kindergarten for the El Tiller Waldorf-Steiner School in Bellaterra, Spain. More
K59 Atelier merges its studio and home in concrete-framed block
Vietnamese practice K59 Atelier has designed its own architecture office and home for a family in Ho Chi Minh City, connecting two alleyways with an open and airy ground floor. More
Richard John Andrews builds garden shed as his own architecture studio
Architect Richard John Andrews has built The Light Shed, a fibreglass-clad multi-functional shed in his east London garden to house his architecture studio. More
AGo Architects builds skinny house in Indonesia on a 3.5-metre plot
A perforated metal facade covers the front of 3,500 Millimetre House, a wedge-shaped skinny house built on a 3.5-metre-wide site in Indonesia by AGo Architects. More
Anthony Burrill's graphics top delicate timber rooftop pavilion in Barcelona
Graphic designer Anthony Burrill and architect Eugeni Bach worked with students in Barcelona to build 3KMS, a rooftop pavilion decorated with MDF panels. More
Tomohiro Hata's Loop House faces inwards onto a central courtyard
Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates built Loop House around a planted central courtyard in pursuit of peace and quiet for a dense urban site in Hyogo, Japan. More
Curving stone walls surround the Hefei River Central Smart Garden Library in China
Chinese architecture studio Geedesign has completed a library in Hefei, China, with arcing stone-clad walls, planted courtyards and roof terraces. More
Geza designs gabled home to frame views of Alpine village
Architecture studio Geza has wrapped a skin of sun-shading angled larch slats around this large gabled house on a steep Alpine slope in Italy. More