Alvaro Siza Vieira’s New Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande in Rennes, France.Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza Vieira has designed a beautiful, light-filled church for Rennes’ outer suburbs. Alvaro Siza Vieira's Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande will be the first church built in Brittany, France...
CASAPLATA Restaurant & Cocktail Bar in Seville by Lucas y Hernández-Gil.CASPALATA in the heart of Seville suggests a new kind of vision and future for restaurant and cocktail bar design. Madrid-based studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil have purposefully sidestepped tried and true nostalgia in favour of creating...
Stage of Forest: Ski Pavilion at Songhua Lake Resort of Jilin, China by META-Project.Designed by Beijing-based META-Project, this mountainside structure looks like a villain’s secluded lair in a James Bond film. Its purpose in reality, however, is a lot less foreboding. Peering over the icy Songhua Lake from a...
Gallery Of Furniture in Brno, Czech Republic by CHYBIK+KRISTOF.Czech Republic-based furniture supplier approached CHYBIK + KRISTOF architects with a brief to spend a minimum amount of money, but deliver a maximum effect for their new showroom in Brno. “The task was to do it cheaply, ideally for...
Church of St. Wenceslas in Sazovice, Czech Republic by Atelier Stepan.I remember one of my early lessons in Architecture where I was told that in buildings, curves are a nightmare and will never look as impressive as they appear in one’s head. Because of this, I am always in awe of a structure that has...
The Room: Mini Urban Garden in Mexico City by Matteo Ghidoni + Enrico Dusi.Affectionately referred to as The ROOM, this project is a 43 square metre triangular space surrounded by 4 metre high concrete block walls. The external surface is left unfinished whilst the interior walls are painted a cheerful, light...
Workshop Brothers Glen Waverley by Studio Esteta.The interior of Workshop Brothers Glen Waverley by Studio Esteta makes nostalgic references to Asian food heritage with sprinkles of ironic...
Loud Shadows Temporary Bubble Pavilion In Amsterdam by Plastique Fantastique.Just when you thought signing up to be an adult meant no fun, loads of debt and alarm clocks waking you at ungodly hours, along comes the fantastical and wonderful architects, Plastique Fantastique. They are the creators behind this...
1930s Villa Kaplansky in Antwerp, Belgium Restored by B-Architecten.Sometimes you just have to gut the place and start again. Pull out all the windows and demolish the inside. It’s not pretty, but if the job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. B-architecten, the architectural studio behind this...
