Pier 55 is a public park and performance space on Manhattan’s lower west side commissioned by a new non-profit organisation, funded primarily by the Diller - von Furstenberg family, which will build and operate the pier in cooperation with the Hudson River Park Trust. The...
The Sleuk Rith Institute, a new institute and genocide memorial in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, brings together a museum, research centre, graduate school, document archives and research library. As a vision of Youk Chhang, a human rights activist and investigator of the Khmer...
Architecture begins with an idea – and the maestros of architecture not only set out on radical journeys into the unknown; they also made it back with gems of sheer beauty and incredible ingenuity.I dared to make a list of 40 indisputably famous 21st Century...
There has always been something about the Porsche with me. I'm a big fan of Porsche 911 too. Something about the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany, tells me that the company resorted to cutting back on Porsche's courageous and ambitious way of doing things. This...
The two-story building is an addition to the existing Brunswick Family Health Centre. The first story of the addition houses an Emergency department, a Processing Lab and an Imaging Centre in a combined square area of 22, 500 gross square feet (GSF). The second story consists...
When it comes to religious architecture, most designers agree that the form has an obligation to be symbolic. We see this in civilisations gone by – from the Mayan ziggurats to Egyptian pyramids. In such cases the aesthetic extravagance of architects is forgiven in service...
Architecture for humanity. Architecture was made for man. Some projects have such inspiring stories behind them, the end result being a solution to humanitarian problems. This project in Nyeri, Kenya, is among the ones we have noted. Buckle up, this is a wordy one, but...
This mixed-use project, Marina + Beach Towers by Oppenheim Architecture + Design, suggests a fluidity that merges sky and water, responding to the built environment and the landscape. This is no new thing in Dubai, home of the Burj Al Arab, Burj Khalifa, the Palm...
Shigeru Ban, a very close friend to the late Frei Otto, with whom they experimented lightweight structures and building materials is known for a lot of his projects around the world but mostly for this humongous structure that stands 3 hours and 20 minutes away...
Contours are exuberant things. They break when they want, they drift when they want, they melt windows and landscapes spanning millions of miles away - and luxuriously. They surround our homes yet they have no color, no character or behavior to recognize them by except...
Behnisch Architekten has built an ideal home for children in the Schwetzinger Terrasse public plaza as one of the first buildings to be realized in Heidelberg’s new city district known as "Bahnstadt“ in Germany. In the new district it was important to have a place...
The Dune House, half-sunk into the dunes on the northern coast of the island of Terschelling, rises over the landscape and overlooks the dunes providing a breath-taking view of the North Sea. I’m convinced that this is a great contextual example of Form, Space, Order...
Located in the peninsula at Western Port, Australia, the beached house designed by BKK Architects appears like it just appeared ashore. Of course it was built there, however, the integration into the site and the shifting spaces that create suspense in views and space expectations...
This has to be one of the best places for any architects, planners, ecologists and landscape architects to learn and teach their arts. Melbourne Design school in the University of Melbourne has long been lacking an ideal space to learn and teach architecture and planning...
One of the concepts I would have loved to see come to life in Africa was a finalist in an architectural competition back in 2009. The competition was the 2009 incarnation of Architecture for Humanity’s Open Architecture Challenge and saw architects team up with schools around...
Some of the projects we post here at Archute are due to both their excellence and their status as a conceptual project (aka, only in some dreamer's mind.) Most of the time, on the other hand, we get a project submitted that’s right along on...
Wieden + Kennedy is an independently owned, creatively driven American advertising agency that creates strong and provocative relationships between good companies and their customers. It is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Looking like an ordinary city building in New York city,...
In 2012 the Autostadt in Wolfsburg received a new addition, the Porsche Pavilion; which has rendered a characteristic silhouette that has grown to be a striking icon within the theme park’s lagoon landscape. The brand new pavilion by HENN Architekten for the sports car manufacturer,...
This community masjid, or mosque by HOK, is the spiritual centre of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre’s residential development. A series of outdoor courtyards provide a formal progression towards the mosque, located in the middle of the site’s central green space. The...
This seafront house by Duangrit Bunnag Architects is situated on an overgrown forestland of pine trees that has been uninhabited for 10 years. The client was enthusiastic about a vacation home which could accommodate family and friends. More importantly, the underlying theme of the house...
Makoko is a cluster of communities living on water in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos, at the heart of a lagoon that's existed for the past 100 years. The settlement now has 100,000 residents but it lacks roads, land and other modernized resources. Nonetheless, it is...
Snohetta’s design for the Clarion Hotel Energy was completed and opened for guests on August 20th 2014. Located in Stavanger, Norway, the hotel stands as an architectural landmark and one of the attractions in the area. Commissioned for a volume and concept study to design the...
As part of the former Soviet Union, the urbanism and architecture of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan on the Western coast of the Caspian Sea, was heavily influenced by the planning of that era. Since its independence in 1991, Azerbaijan has invested heavily in modernising...
Located towards the Southern edge of Chaoyang Park, one of the largest parks in Beijing and China in general, Chaoyang Park Plaza is a result of the conception of the new Shanshui City. Shanshui City is an ongoing project to create a new city within...
MVRDV is set to oversee the construction of a new “spatially-flexible” tower with a twisting “hourglass figure” near Vienna’s world famous Gasometers. The 110-meter “Turm mit Taille” (Tower with Waist) will be located in a neighbourhood situated between the airport and the city centre that...
In an expo in 2010 at the center of China's largest city, Shanghai, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) was commissioned to design the Pavilion that would be the be all and end all of the exhibition geared towards showcasing Denmark's values as a nation. BIG architects designed the Pavilion...
It’s not every day you come across architects daring enough to investigate and design tall wooden structures - Tham & Videgård Arkitekter are doing just that. Planned for a site in the former transport harbour of Louden, which will soon be revived as a new...
The Miami Design District will be the recipient of a 14-story residential tower by Studio Gang Architects. Anchored by a ground floor retail street and topped with a residents’ lounge and swimming pool; the tower is set to create an invigorating lifestyle in the neighbourhood. The...
Located in the middle of a woodland forest in Victoria, Australia, Cabin 2 is an extension of an old log cabin in an area highly populated by holiday homes. Melbourne-based Maddison architects designed the new cabin to sit in contrast to the old building and connected by...
Located in North of Vietnam, Son La province is an ethnic cultural area with abundant nature of untouched forests and beautiful mountain landscapes. Even with its strong cultural and natural beauty; there was no little development or accommodation for tourists to recognize the city as...