Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won an international competition to design "Sydney's next masterpiece." Selected over three other shortlisted firms – Renzo Piano, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, and KPF – the London-based practice will now be responsible for the design of a $1.5 billion sculptural icon to host a six-star Crown Sydney resort on a 6000-square-meter site in the inner-city waterfront precinct of Barangaroo. Subject to approval, the 235-meter-tall skyscraper will provide 350

Architects: James Carpenter Design Associates
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Production Architect: A. Lerman Architects Ltd
Area: 8820.0 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Tim Hursley, Courtesy of James Carpenter Design Associates, Reid Freeman



Structural Engineers: J. Kahan & Partners
Lighting Designer: Tillotson Design Associates
Graphics: Kasher Visual Communications
Landscape Design: West End Architects and Environmental Planners
Project Management: Nizan-Inbar
General Contractor: Danya S

Brooklyn-based architect and Harvard GSD alumni Gia Wolff has been awarded the $100,000 Wheelwright Prize for her proposal Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats. Now in its first edition, the Wheelwright Prize is a travel grant issued by Harvard University in an effort to foster new forms of architectural research led by cross-cultural engagement. Mohsen Mostafavi: "The positive response to the Wheelwright Prize has been extraordinary. It is inspiring to see so many

Architects: Ippolito Fleitz Group
Location: Hamburg
Architect In Charge: Ippolito Fleitz Group
Design Team: Peter Ippolito, Gunter Fleitz, Tilla Goldberg, Christian Kirschenmann, Tim Lessmann, Alexander Fehre, Christine Ackermann, Roger Gasperlin, Katja Heinemann
Area: 520.0 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Zooey Braun





The SPIEGEL Group, whose stable includes Germany's most important news magazine Der SPIEGEL, moved into its new publishing house in Hamburg's HafenCity development. We were

Situated along the banks of Montauk, New York, with its unpredictable weather patterns and storied charm, the Genius Loci residence embodies the “Spirit of Montauk” as Bates Masi Architects were able to capture that feel and incorporate it into the design.

Once a horse ranch, the site is located at one of the highest elevations and consists of a lush green pasture. At first glance, the house looks to be two separate, one-story ranch houses but upon further inspection, the

South Beach ACE just unveiled their master plan for the redevelopment of the Miami Beach Convention Center site. Currently in a battle with BIG and Portman CMC for the right to overhaul the 52-acre site, national developer Tishman, international architecture firm OMA, and Miami Beach developer UIA Management comprise the South Beach ACE team. The vision involves bringing to life one of Miami Beach's most underutilized public sites with a fully-revamped convention center capable of luring major

Architects: Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten
Location: Annette-Allee 4, Münster, Germany
Project Manager: Ulrich Schimtenings
Architects Case Study: Olga Ritter, Mathias Astrom, Kilian Jockisch
Architects Realization: Heinz Josef Döpper, Mathias Astrom, Olga Ritter
Area: 1,700 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Günther Wett / FRENER & REIFER Metallbau


Landscape Design: West 8
Structural Engineer: CBP Tragwerksplanung
Building Services: Ingenieurbüro Mittag
Energy Consulting: TransSolar En

London-based design studio Bureau de Change took on its first residential design project that was to join two neighboring properties into one family home, complete with a new addition added to the back of the residence. The ‘HomeMade’ project began by opening up the dividing walls and connecting the adjoining spaces making them feel unified and open.

The new extension contains the kitchen and dining area and the entire facade was wrapped in glass, helping to pull the two,

The Architectural League just announced the winners of Range, the thirty-second annual Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. One of North Americaʼs most prestigious awards for young architects, the program exemplifies the Leagueʼs longstanding commitment to identifying and nurturing the development of talented young architects and designers. This yearʼs winners are: Luis Callejas, Lcla Office, Cambridge and Medellín; Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee, Matter Design, Boston

Architects: INABA
Location: New York, USA
Inaba Principal In Charge: Jeffrey Inaba
Inaba Project Architect: Ostap Rudakevych
Inaba Project Team: Yoichiro Mizuno, Alan Kwan, Sean Connolly, Steven Tsai, Shuning Zhao, Allyn Hughes, Stephanie Lee, Richard Yoo
Architect Of Record: SLAB Architecture
Area: 38200.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Greg Irikura



Slab Architecture Principal In Charge: Jill Leckner
Slab Architecture Project Architect: Matt Voss
Slab Architecture Project Team: Laura Trev

Marcel Luchian Studio designed the minimalist M House in Singera, a town in the Republic of Moldavia. Composed of unconventional forms, the residence’s design also does a brilliant job of marrying materials with a combination of glass and concrete, both inside and out.

The house’s structure is made up of two off-center forms, one on top of the other, steering clear of a traditional box-like design. The overhang from the second floor provides exterior coverage below, perfe

Caution: This video may induce vertigo. As the final segment of the One World Trade Center was hoisted into position – topping the structure out at a patriotic 1,776 feet – Curbed NY captured its journey via a small Go-Pro camera to reveal its fascinating, and somewhat nauseating, view of Manhattan. While the US rejoices this monumental feat, a debate amongst architects, engineers and city officials lingers on whether or not the 408-foot spire will count towards the One WTC's overal

Architects: LOVE architecture and urbanism
Location: Waltendorf Graz, Austria
Design Team: Sigrid Derler, Sabine Sternbach
Area: 180.7 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Jasmin Schuller


General Contractor: G. Hinteregger & Söhne BaugmbH
Client: Family Puttinger


The site - a relatively steep hill - offers a stunning view over Graz. This panorama also provided the main guiding principle for the design. One additional goal was to provide direct access to the garden. Due to the very steep slo

Designed by MDS for an elderly couple looking to leave the city behind, the Yatsugatake Villa has a farm allowing the homeowners to grow their own vegetables. The house is situated at the foot of Mt. Yatsugatake, where it gets really hot in the summer and very cold in the winter, making for specific adjustments to the design plan.

Being located in a place with harsh weather conditions, the architects paid special attention so that the residents wouldn’t have to rely on air cond

Architects: Behnisch Architekten, Ayers Saint Gross
Location: 1401 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD USA
Client: University of Baltimore
Gross Area: 18.0123 m2 / 194.000 sqft
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Behnisch Architekten




The University of Baltimore called for a new building for its law school that would offer a contemporary and functional solution, as well as establish the school as an integral partner in enhancing the culture, commerce, and future of Baltimore and the region

Architects: CSDA Design Group
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Landscape Architect: Melendrez Design Partners
Area: 351,070 sqft
Year: 2012
Photographs: Henry Cabala/ CSDA Design Group




The new Augustus F. Hawkins High School is part of the largest school construction building program in the history of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Located on 15.37 acres in highly urbanized South Los Angeles, the new school serves 2,025 students. The school consists of three (3) Small Learn

Christopher Jobson is the creator and editor of Colossal, a blog that explores art, design, photography, and other forms of visual expression. Three years after launching, Jobson recently left his job as a web designer to blog full-time and open an online shop. Jobson also brings art to the pages of Wired Magazine, Mental_Floss Magazine, and Slate. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife and son but spent the other half of his life in central Texas. Let’s see what inspires h

Bike sharing has become a staple for urban commuting in city’s all over the world.  Since its reintroduction into urban culture in the 1990s, it has taken on many forms.  Today it is being optimized to serve dense cities to help alleviate traffic congestion, provide people with more transportation options, and to encourage a healthy way of commuting.  An article by the Earth Policy Institute by Janet Larsen marks the exponential progress of bike-sharing programs, noting innovative soluti

Architects: aat + makoto yokomizo architects
Location: Minamiashigara, Kanagawa, Japan
Site Area: 568 sqm
Area: 128.96 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of aat + makoto yokomizo architects




The site is located in the steep range of hills of the western part in Kanagawa Prefecture. A residential section including this site was developed and sold in lots in the 1970s. Such a flat site is rare in this residential section. As a result of piling up the daily life image of the client consi

The refurbished, industrial Kempart Loft gets a drastic makeover by Dethier Architectures, complete with a modular aluminum pod that not only breaks the space up, it becomes the focal point and central hub of the loft.

Daniel Dethier, the architect, found willing clients who let him push the boundaries in this abandoned bakery in Liège, Belgium to give them the function and layout they needed, while at the same time bringing in one unique design.

They first opened the space up to gi