2024

  • Page Southerland Page integrates "past and future" at Texas Capitol Complex

    Published April 11, 2024
    US studio Page Southerland Page has worked to "cultivate a stronger sense of community" with the urban design surrounding the Texas State Capitol that integrates historical landmarks in Austin. READ…

  • Urlo Studio completes steel pavilion for Ecuadorian sports club

    Published April 8, 2024
    Urlo Studio has completed an "aesthetic and functional" gym and multi-sport club with a glass and aluminium pavilion with a composite facade in Ecuador. READ…

  • Populous unveils plan to revamp horse-racing track in New York

    Published April 2, 2024
    Global architecture studio Populous has designed a renewed horse-racing track and sporting venue for Belmont Park in Nassau County, New York. READ…

  • Leong Leong transforms 1970s Los Angeles ranch house into "suburban sanctuary"

    Published April 1, 2023
    New York studio Leong Leong has renovated a 1970s ranch house in Los Angeles by adding a large wall, outdoor spaces and a polycarbonate panel-wrapped second storey. READ…

  • Populous designs Cleveland Cavaliers sports performance centre

    Published March 29, 2024
    Global architecture studio Populous has unveiled the design for a sports performance centre on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio. READ…

  • Pearce+ creates temporary sub-zero restaurant in Canada

    Published March 27, 2024
    UK architecture studio Pearce+ and Canadian designer Joe Kalturnyk have created a temporary inflatable restaurant for subzero temperatures in Winnipeg, Canada. READ…

  • Estudio Carroll clads rounded Mexican hotel in pink chukum

    Published March 26, 2024
    Estudio Carroll has completed a boutique hotel coated in pink chukum and set in an artificial wetland in Puerto Escondido, Mexico with a shape informed by "the female form". READ…

  • Cannon Design draws on "essence of Michigan forests" for university building

    Published March 19, 2024
    US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and "prioritized inclusion", drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan. READ…

  • CCY architects wraps Colorado house in patinated copper

    Published March 15, 2024
    US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. READ…

  • FMT Estudio expands 1980s Mexican house to merge "architecture and life"

    Published March 13, 2024
    Mexican architecture practice FMT Estudio has renovated and extended a 1980s house adding clean white facades accented by wooden and wrought iron details in Mérida on the Yucatán peninsula. READ…

  • Boyd Architects creates monolithic-metal forms for South Carolina residence

    Published March 7, 2024
    Boyd Architects has wrapped a house in standing seam metal and pine boards and articulated each form with a vernacular hip roof in Summerville, South Carolina. READ…

  • Suspended bridges connect round cabin hotels in Mexico

    Published March 4, 2024
    Mexican architect María José Gutiérrez has placed a series of round, pine-clad cabins connected by suspended bridges onto a vineyard in Mexico to serve as vacation rentals. READ…

  • Tall Architects wraps X-shaped Alabama cabin in black metal

    Published March 1, 2024
    US studio Tall Architects has created a cabin that has two stacked gabled forms that are rotated into an X-shape and clad in corrugated metal near a river in southern Alabama. READ…

  • RED Arquitectos integrates corn millstone into facade of Mexican house

    Published February 27, 2024
    Mexican architecture studio RED Arquitectos has completed a cement-covered residence with screens made of stones used for preparing food on the coastline of Cerritos, Mexico. READ…

  • Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California

    Published February 21, 2024
    US studio Inaba Williams Architects has created two mirrored houses with courtyards in Santa Monica, California that are clad in white stucco and have net-zero energy use, according to the studio. READ…

  • Cesar Mancillas distributes patios throughout linear Mexican house

    Published February 15, 2024
    Mexican architect Cesar Mancillas used high concrete walls while creating a linear house with spaces focused on relaxation in the often-changing urban landscape of Ensenada, Mexico. READ…

  • DB Arquitetos stacks house with wooden screens on Brazilian coast

    Published February 13, 2024
    Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo, Brazil. READ…

  • Saunders Architecture creates steel-clad house for Carraig Ridge in Alberta

    Published February 12, 2024
    Norway-based Saunders Architecture has created a Y-shaped house clad in Corten steel with floor-to-ceiling glazing in a design-focused neighbourhood near Calgary, Alberta. READ…

  • Bloco Arquitetos drapes screens over cantilevered steel house in Brazil

    Published February 7, 2024
    Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has used prefabricated elements to create a house with two stacked, perpendicular volumes clad with screens in Brasília. READ…

  • Suspended weights counterbalance cantilevered viewpoint in Mexico

    Published January 31, 2024
    Suspended gabions weights provide a counterweight to the steel cantilever in this hilltop pavilion designed by Emiliano Domínguez and Santiago Martínez in Querétaro, Mexico. READ…

  • Populous designs 34,000-seat temporary Cricket World Cup stadium for New York

    Published January 29, 2024
    Architecture studio Populous has unveiled designs for a temporary cricket stadium to be constructed with repurposed elements in New York. READ…

  • Moises Sánchez uses local construction methods for cubic Mexican house

    Published January 23, 2024
    Guadalajara-based architect Moises Sánchez has created a stucco-clad, cube-shaped holiday home shaded by a large tree in western Mexico. READ…

  • Juan Alberto Andrade adds workspace onto multifamily housing in Ecuador

    Published January 19, 2024
    Ecuadorian architect Juan Alberto Andrade has completed an extension to a multifamily housing complex with rammed earth walls in Guayaquil. READ…

  • Side Angle Side transforms mid-century Austin post office into restaurant

    Published January 17, 2024
    Texas architecture studio Side Angle Side has adapted a 1960s post office into a food market and restaurant in Austin. READ…

  • Cantilevered Serra Residence in Brazil includes stair-side slides

    Published January 12, 2024
    Brazilian architect Marcelo Couto and landscape designer Rodrigo Oliveira have created a cantilevering house with multiple courtyards and an interior staircase with a slide attached in Fazenda da Grama, São Paulo. READ…

  • Lima cultural facility features pink walls and traditional construction techniques

    Published January 9, 2024
    Peruvian architects Roman Bauer Arquitectos and ESArquitectura teamed up to design a cultural institution in Lima that includes a renovation and a new building with vernacular methods and pink accents. READ…

  • Method Architecture outfits its Houston office with vibrant mural

    Published January 4, 2024
    Texas studio Method Architecture has completed an office for itself in Houston with maximalist design, vibrant colours and a mural at its centre. READ…

  • Michael Hsu converts 1900s Austin house into luxury office

    Published January 3, 2024
    Texas studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture adapted a 110-year-old bungalow into an office for technology and bio-science investment firm 8VC in Austin. READ…

  • Ménard Dworkind outfits Montreal restaurant with custom wine storage

    Published January 2, 2024
    Canadian studio Ménard Dworkind has created an intimate French restaurant in the Villeray neighborhood of Montreal complete with warm interiors and a custom white oak wine cellar. READ…

2023

  • 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design adds "bird wing" extension to Ottawa house

    Published December 28, 2023
    Canadian studio 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design has added a cedar-clad extension with a shape informed by birds in flight to a house in Ottawa. READ…

  • Artistree raises a telescopic treehouse in California

    Published December 27, 2023
    US company Artistree Home designed a treehouse with vaulted form, raised off the ground in Sonoma County, California. READ…

  • McLeod Bovell uses cantilevers in "fortress-like" West Vancouver house

    Published December 22, 2023
    Local design studio McLeod Bovell has completed a seaside home with a dramatic cantilever and multiple lightwells in West Vancouver, British Columbia. READ…

  • Lakeside mass-timber theatre in Chile features "box within a box" construction

    Published December 19, 2023
    An architecture team of Nicolás Norero, Leonardo Quinteros and Tomás Villalón has created a community theatre out of glued laminated timber along a lake's shoreline in Panguipulli, Chile. READ…

  • WMR Arquitectos runs wood-framed house down a Chilean cliffside

    Published December 12, 2023
    Chilean studio WMR Arquitectos has balanced a slanted wooden house with open interiors on a hillside overlooking the sea in Matanzas, Chile. READ…

  • Partisans creates pixelated brick facade for Toronto house

    Published December 5, 2023
    Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto, Ontario. READ…

  • La Base Studio wraps glass Buenos Aires house with shading screen

    Published November 29, 2023
    La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires, Argentina. READ…

  • Lucio Muniain designs Mexican concrete house as "habitable sculpture"

    Published November 23, 2023
    Lucio Muniain has created Casa HMZ, a brutalist house with raw board-formed concrete walls in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. READ…

  • Stanaćev Granados divides levels of Chilean beach house with cargo-net floor

    Published November 16, 2023
    Stanaćev Granados has created a seaside house with a concrete and wood-clad exterior and a cargo net in the floor in Chorrillos, Chile. READ…

  • Michael Hsu rounds the corners of limestone Austin residence

    Published November 14, 2023
    Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has completed a house clad in limestone bricks and hemlock siding overlooking a nature preserve in Austin. READ…

  • CCA runs arched colonnade through community centre in Mexico

    Published November 13, 2023
    Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica has created a concrete community centre defined by a series of arches in Jálpa de Mendez, Mexico. READ…

  • Dialog uses "gradient of architectural intensity" for Calgary recreation centre expansion

    Published November 8, 2023
    Canadian architecture studio Dialog has renovated and expanded a gymnasium with an indoor park in Calgary, Alberta. READ…

  • Dash Marshall converts historic Detroit garage into black box theatre

    Published November 6, 2023
    US architecture studio Dash Marshall has completed an adaptive reuse project, transforming a historic garage into a performing arts theatre in Detroit, Michigan. READ…

  • StudioSC and Base Taller create concrete office building on steep Colombia site

    Published November 2, 2023
    US architecture practice StudioSC teamed up with Colombian studio Base Taller to design a triangular concrete commercial office building in Medellín, Colombia. READ…

  • Omar Gandhi lifts Corten cube for cabin in Nova Scotia

    Published October 30, 2023
    Omar Gandhi Architects has wrapped an elevated cabin in Corten steel on a forested hillside in Nova Scotia. READ…

  • Frida Escobedo completes treehouse-like resort on the Mexican coast

    Published October 23, 2023
    Frida Escobedo has completed a seaside resort in the Yucatán Peninsula with wooden guest quarters suspended on stilts. READ…

  • Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

    Published October 20, 2023
    Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. READ…

  • Colectivo C733 balances square boardwalk over Mexican lagoon

    Published October 19, 2023
    Colectivo C733 has created a square-shaped pedestrian pier that hovers over a coastal lake in Bacalar, Mexico to serve as an aquatic exhibit, protecting the site from urbanisation and human activity. READ…

  • TO Arquitectura creates vaulted Mexico City music school from reclaimed masonry

    Published October 11, 2023
    TO Arquitectura has worked with the local community to create a music school that features a vault made from recycled and donated masonry in Mexico City. READ…

  • S-AR creates deconstructed house for glamping in Mexican forest

    Published October 6, 2023
    S-AR has completed a complex spread over a series of buildings oriented around a central platform as a glamping retreat in Nuevo León, Mexico. READ…

  • Austin supertalls "not really dealing with the problems" of the city

    Published October 5, 2023
    Rapidly growing Austin is set to see its skyline transformed by the emergence of several supertall skyscrapers in the coming years, but is this a cause for celebration or concern? READ…

  • Heryco blends "history and modernity" in renovation of pink apartment block

    Published October 4, 2023
    Heryco has completed a renovation of a pink apartment building with arches influenced by the form of aqueducts in the city of Querétaro, México. READ…

  • Superlimão uses mass timber for the "most sustainable McDonald's in Brazil"

    Published September 26, 2023
    Local architecture office Superlimão Studio has created a lifted building with a tree-like structure constructed using mass timber for a McDonald's restaurant in São Paulo. READ…

  • Studio of Metropolitan Design adds monumental pavilion to Delaware Tudor-style house

    Published September 22, 2023
    American firm Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects has renovated a stone Tudor Revival house and added a pavilion-like concrete extension in Wilmington, Delaware. READ…

  • Skylab arranges series of A-frame Colorado cabins in snowflake-like patternNew List Item

    Published September 20, 2023
    Skylab Architecture has created a set of prefabricated A-frame cabins in Winter Park, Colorado that reinterpret traditional ski chalets with contemporary practices. READ…

  • Taller David Dana stacks concrete house on Mexico City hillside

    Published September 14, 2023
    Local architecture studio Taller David Dana has stacked a series of boxes to create a vertical terraced house on a hillside in Mexico City. READ…

  • Juan Campanini and Josefina Sposito clad Buenos Aires co-op in aluminium

    Published September 13, 2023
    Local architecture studio Juan Campanini, Josefina Sposito has concealed an urban apartment building behind a simple aluminium facade in Buenos Aires, Argentina. READ…

  • Goiva places pub under renovated São Paulo house

    Published September 8, 2023
    Local architecture studio Goiva has renovated a white brick house and added a pub-like social space to its basement in São Paulo, Brazil. READ…

  • Studio KUNZ splits gabled Brazilian house into two trapezoidal forms

    Published September 7, 2024
    Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. READ…

  • Práctica Arquitectura splits red infill home in Mexico with central courtyard

    Published September 4, 2023
    Local studio Práctica Arquitectura has elevated a concrete infill house with a red finish outside of Monterrey, Mexico. READ…

  • Estudio Atemporal spreads out Mexican house to preserve the forest

    Published August 29, 2023
    Mexican architecture firm Estudio Atemporal has completed a gabled multi-building house that flows between indoor and outdoor living in Valle de Bravo. READ…

  • Tyreus Design Studio wraps open-air Sonoma farm house in wood

    Published August 25, 2023
    California's Tyreus Design Studio has completed a timber-clad house and entertainment barn renovation on a farm in Sonoma. READ…

  • O'Neill McVoy designs Houston house as "mini-manifesto against McMansions"

    Published August 23, 2023
    New York-based studio O'Neill McVoy Architects has created a grey stucco house with a Z-shaped plan and an upward-pitched roof in Houston. READ…

  • Michael Hsu outfits self-designed Austin studio with "humble materials"

    Published August 22, 2023
    Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has adorned its studio with wood-and-fabric lined walls and industrial details in Austin in order to create a material "representation" of its work. READ…

  • Denis Joelsons juxtaposes linear house with circular garden terraces in São Paulo

    Published August 17, 2023
    Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has completed a rectangular house in São Paulo, Brazil that is set into a slope composed of round garden terraces. READ…

  • John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house

    Published August 16, 2023
    Architects John Friedman and Alice Kimm have stacked a concrete mass with sinuous cutouts into a hillside as a home for their family in Los Angeles, complete with a crane in the kitchen and an accessory dwelling unit. READ…

  • HGR Arquitectos reinforces triangular concrete housing against seismic activity

    Published August 10, 2023
    Local studio HGR Arquitectos has completed a triangular concrete apartment block with a rounded corner meant to stand up against earthquakes in Mexico City. READ…

  • GBBN creates set of housing blocks that reinterpret historic fabric of Cincinnati

    Published August 7, 2023
    US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both "fit in and stand out" in Cincinnati, Ohio. READ…

  • Caples Jefferson Architects unveils curved Louis Armstrong Center in Queens

    Published August 3, 2023
    Local studio Caples Jefferson Architects has created an extension for the Louis Armstrong House Museum complete with a curved facade and a green roof in Corona, Queens. READ…

  • Romero de la Mora includes sunken living room in airy Mexico City house

    Published August 2, 2023
    Local architecture studio Romero de la Mora has created an expansive concrete and wood holiday home with a protected courtyard in Tepeji del Río, just outside Mexico City. READ…

  • Studio North juxtaposes industrial garage with delicate garden in Calgary

    Published July 31, 2023
    Local architecture firm Studio North designed a custom garden and garage combination complete with Corten steel planters and a green roof in Calgary, Alberta. READ…

  • Anonymous Architects embeds concrete house into Los Angeles hillside

    Published July 28, 2023
    Local studio Anonymous Architects has completed a residence with a concrete plinth that cantilevers off a mountainside in Los Angeles. READ…

  • Joanne Koch adds cantilevered deck during Sea Ranch cabin renovation

    Published July 27, 2023
    Architect Joanne Koch has refurbished a 1970s wood cabin located in the iconic Sea Ranch development in California into an Airbnb destination in the forest. READ…

  • Gabriel Rivera creates brick house and riding school in Ecuador

    Published July 21, 2023
    Ecuadorian studio Gabriel Rivera Arquitectos has completed a brick house and riding school in the Andes Mountains, complete with a gabled roof and dogtrot breezeway. READ…

  • LaRue Architects and Kelle Contine renovate sprawling hilltop Austin house

    Published July 18, 2023
    Local studio LaRue Architects and interior designer Kelle Contine have renovated a home in the Rollingwood neighbourhood of Austin, adding a bedroom that cantilevers over the back terrace. READ…

  • Coyote Arquitectura uses repetitive red forms for Tulum housing block

    Published July 14, 2023
    Architecture studio Coyote Arquitectura has unveiled a red housing complex with residential units that repeat and interlock in Tulum, Mexico. READ…

  • Mixtura wraps multi-building Brazilian convent in wooden brise soleil

    Published July 12, 2023
    Italian studio Mixtura has created a convent in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil with multiple buildings arranged around open-air cloisters wrapped in a wooden brise soleil. READ…

  • In Situ Studio overhauls James Taylor's childhood home

    Published July 6, 2023
    In Situ Studio has renovated and expanded the mid-century modern childhood home of musician James Taylor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, into a multi-building complex for two art collectors. READ…

  • HKS reduces plans for its supertall Austin skyscraper by half

    Published July 3, 2023
    International architecture studio HKS has reduced the plans for its Wilson Tower in Austin, Texas just six months after unveiling the designs for the skyscraper. READ…

  • Cuartopiso and Barragán Arquitectos wrap Mexican apartment building in planted balconies.

    Published June 28, 2023
    Cuartopiso and Barragán Arquitectos have completed an all-electric, twelve-unit apartment complex with wide balconies overlooking the street in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. READ…

  • Reims 502 places pool atop basalt-clad Mexican home

    Published June 26, 2023
    Local studio Reims 502 has unveiled an expansive residence in Querétaro, Mexico with warm walnut and dark basalt finishes and a rooftop pool and garden area. READ…

  • In Situ Studio cuts "hoop" opening in cantilevered welcome centre roof

    Published June 21, 2023
    Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. READ…

  • Mary English and Xavier Vendrell arrange three courtyards for San Antonio house

    Published June 20, 2023
    US architecture studio Mary English and Xavier Vendrell Architects have lined up three courtyards on a linear suburban plot for a white stucco house in San Antonio, Texas. READ…

  • BHY Arquitectos arranges multiple courtyards in white Argentinian house

    Published June 16, 2023
    Local studio BHY Arquitectos has completed an all-white infill house with painted brick on a narrow lot in Buenos Aires, Argentina that features multiple courtyards and patios. READ…

  • Stephane Gaulin-Brown places curved roof on Quebec chalet

    Published June 15, 2023
    Montreal architect Stephane Gaulin-Brown has placed a single-slope roof with a curved soffit on top of a ski chalet to open it up to the forests of Mont Tremblant, Quebec. READ…

  • ARQBR creates circular church with monumental steeple in Brasilia

    Published June 12, 2023
    Local studio ARQBR has used concrete and wood for a round church in Brasilia, Brazil that lifts off the land with 360-degree, ground-level windows. READ…

  • Hemsworth Architecture wraps Canadian mass timber factory in cedar slats

    Published June 8, 2023
    Canadian studio Hemsworth Architecture has completed a mass timber factory wrapped in vertical cedar slats, nestled in British Colombia's Squamish Valley. READ…

  • Docks inform design of ERRE Arquitectos' stilted Chilean beach house

    Published June 7, 2023
    Local studio ERRE Arquitectos has wrapped a seaside house in pine and lifted it on silts in order to optimise views of the coastline in Chile. READ…

  • Colectivo C733 tops brick music school with soaring timber roof in Mexico

    Published June 5, 2023
    Mexican studio Colectivo C733 has created a brick music school in Nacajuca, Mexico that includes two structures and a lofty, cantilevered roof made of coconut wood. READ…

  • HW Studio creates austere white home in Mexico to evoke "sense of security"

    Published June 1, 2023
    Local firm HW Studio Arquitectos has completed an all-white stucco home in Morelia, Mexico, whose hermetic design serves as a haven for the residents. READ…

  • Dumican Mosey includes red staircase for "sculptural relief" in San Francisco renovation

    Published May 26, 2023
    Local studio Dumican Mosey has completed a renovation of a 1907 house with a four-storey, red staircase in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighbourhood. READ…

  • Atelier Guy uses mass-timber structure for Canadian wood company facility

    Published May 23, 2023
    Local studio Atelier Guy Architects has completed an all-timber office and factory for engineering firm SmartMill in Lévis, Quebec. READ…

  • Daniel Joseph Chenin uses passive building strategies for stone-clad Nevada house

    Published May 22, 2023
    Local studio Daniel Joseph Chenin has placed a sprawling stone residence around an 1850s fort-inspired rotunda outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. READ…

  • SOM connects block-long glulam bridge to the High Line

    Published May 18, 2023
    Global architecture studio SOM and landscape architecture studio James Corner Field Operations have installed a block-long timber truss bridge called Timber Bridge, which connects Manhattan's High Line to the renovated Penn Station. READ…

  • Studio MM wraps rural New York home in Corten steel

    Published May 16, 2023
    New York City-based firm Studio MM Architect has completed a Corten steel-wrapped house with a dogtrot-style breezeway that connects to a home studio in North Branch, New York. READ…

  • Fuller Overby stacks cypress-wrapped spaces for North Carolina lake house

    Published May 12, 2023
    New York-based studio Fuller Overby has created a home clad in charred cypress that cascades down a hill to a lake in North Carolina. READ…

  • HW Studio divides a rural Mexican house with large stone walls

    Published May 11, 2023
    HW Studio Arquitectos has completed a cruciform house with open-air corridors and courtyards tucked between locally quarried stone walls in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. READ…

  • Kate Smith clads own Wisconsin home in two tones of wood

    Published May 2, 2023
    Local designer Kate Smith has wrapped a gabled house in blackened cypress siding in Door County, Wisconsin for her personal residence. READ…

  • LAND Arquitectos creates Chilean home with series of screened pavilions

    Published May 1, 2023
    LAND Arquitectos has completed a seaside house consisting of pavilions with wooden screens laid out according to vegetation groupings on the coastal site in Chile. READ…

  • O'Neill McVoy inserts mass-timber children's museum into 1920s Bronx powerhouse

    Published April 26, 2023
    Brooklyn studio O'Neill McVoy Architects has adapted a historic powerhouse into a museum for children in the Bronx that highlights the historical building while adding playful details. READ…

  • Snøhetta, Brooks + Scarpa among studios to create birdhouses for San Antonio exhibition

    Published April 20, 2023
    Members of ten architecture studios including Snøhetta, Brooks + Scarpa and Gensler have designed birdhouses for an exhibition on display at Brackenridge Park in San Antonio, Texas for an initiative to support restoration projects in the park. READ…

  • PJCArchitecture creates "non-pretentious" tiny house in Ecuador

    Published April 19, 2023
    PJCArchitecture has completed a micro-home in Napoles, Ecuador with two brick forms connected by a glass bridge that relies on passive heating and cooling. READ…

  • Worrell Yeung renovates New York farm with collection of "cousin" wood-clad buildings

    Published April 17, 2023
    Brooklyn-based studio Worrell Yeung has updated a historic property in New York with a series of gabled buildings clad in various timber finishes and details. READ…

  • Espacio 18 Arquitectura cantilevers a sculptural concrete house in Oaxaca

    Published April 13, 2023
    Mexican studio Espacio 18 Arquitectura has balanced an expansive concrete house designed like a "rock carved to create a sculpture" on a hillside in Oaxaca. READ…

  • North Arrow Studio creates metal ADU in Austin to resemble a birdhouse

    Published April 12, 2023
    North Arrow Studio has completed a compact, corrugated metal accessory dwelling unit in East Austin's Chestnut neighbourhood featuring a custom, circular pivot window that is reminiscent of the round opening in a birdhouse. READ…

  • Manuel Cervantes develops "assisted self-production" housing in Mexico

    Published April 10, 2023
    Mexico City-based architect Manuel Cervantes Estudio has designed DIY housing that relies on passive, vernacular construction strategies. READ…

  • Brillhart Architecture collaborates with Darren Sawyer for pavilion-like Bahamas home

    Published April 3, 2023
    Miami-based Brillhart Architecture consulted on the design of a pavilion-like island home in the Bahamas with local architects Garth and Darren Sawyer. READ…

  • Zozaya Arquitectos orients Mexican beach house around reflecting pool

    Published March 30, 2023
    Mexican studio Zozaya Arquitectos has designed a concrete seaside house defined by a calming water feature on the Pacific coast. READ…

  • Denis Joelsons deploys "series of punctual interventions" for renovated brick estate in Brazil

    Published March 28, 2023
    Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has completed a renovation of a series of brick structures called Sítio Rio Acima near São Paulo, including a primary home with a vaulted ceiling and arched clerestory window. READ…

  • Specht Architects creates austere glass house in the Berkshires

    Published March 21, 2023
    Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires that was created as a residence and a place to showcase antiques. READ…

  • Ludwig Godefroy creates brutalist cube-shaped home in Mexico

    Published March 20, 2023
    Mexico City-based architect Ludwig Godefroy designed a brutalist concrete holiday home in a Mexican pine forest called Casa Alférez. READ…

  • ERRE Arquitectos designs U-shaped Chilean beach house overlooking the Pacific Ocean

    Published March 15, 2023
    Chilean studio ERRE Arquitectos has constructed Casa Ferran, a low-profile holiday house in Matanzas on the coast of Chile. READ…

  • Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen develops modular building system to address housing crisis

    Published March 14, 2023
    Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects and The Andes House have designed a modular prototype that can be configured to construct low-cost housing. READ…

  • DKA connects three gabled structures for Quebec residence

    Published March 10, 2023
    Local studio DKA Architects has designed a white wood-clad home with three connected gables in Terrebonne, Quebec, just outside of Montreal. READ…

  • Ménard Dworkind adds sculptural mezzanine to 1980s Quebec home

    Published March 6, 2023
    Ménard Dworkind has renovated a 1980s house on the south shore of Montreal with rounded plaster details and a terracotta fireplace. READ…

  • Izquierdo Lehmann cantilevers boxes from cylindrical glass Chilean house

    Published March 4, 2023
    Izquierdo Lehmann has designed a round lakeside house near Lago Ranco in southern Chile that is wrapped in glass with a series of wood-clad boxes projecting from its sides.. READ…

  • Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects includes monumental porch on Long Island home

    Published March 1, 2023
    Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects has created a cedar-clad, pavilion-like house on the North Fork of Long Island that includes a detached garage and pool. READ…

  • Supreme's Los Angeles flagship features its first fully floating skate bowl

    Published February 28, 2023
    A team of architects and designers has mixed retail with a skateboard facility for clothing brand Supreme's Los Angeles flagship store, sited in the building that was once home to the iconic record store Tower Records. READ…

  • Ryan Leidner adds bridge to geometric San Francisco house

    Published February 23, 2023
    Local studio Ryan Leidner Architecture renovated a 1940s home in the Bernal Heights neighbourhood of San Francisco, resolving entry access with a bridge over the front garden. READ…

  • Elizabeth Roberts combines two buildings into one for a Catskills ski house

    Published 22, 2023
    Brooklyn studio Elizabeth Roberts Architects has completed a cedar alpine house in the Catskills Mountains that connects two gabled forms underground. READ…

  • Hsu McCullough Orients Los Angeles home around legacy elm tree

    Published February 17, 2023
    Local studio Hsu McCullough has completed a stucco and ash home with an accessory dwelling unit in Los Angeles' that wraps around an elm tree. READ…

  • Splyce Design centres Vancouver house around "weightless" staircase

    Published February 15, 2023
    Splyce Design has designed a light-filled, angled house with glazed corners and a sculptural staircase overlooking the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, British Columbia. READ…

  • Worrell Yeung balances cascading cantilevers for Connecticut lake house

    Published February 9, 2023
    Brooklyn studio Worrell Yeung designed a timber-clad lake house with cantilevered roof planes that cascade down a sloped site near Connecticut's Candlewood Lake. READ…

  • Charles F. Bloszies inserts glass addition into San Francisco cathedral complex

    Published February 8, 2023
    Office of Charles F. Bloszies has completed an extension and renovation of the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco.

  • ERDC Arquitectos and Taller General create a "bread oven" house with vaulted brick

    Published February 7, 2023
    ERDC Arquitectos and Taller General have constructed a brick and glass house with an arched roof and mezzanine level in Quito, Ecuador. READ…

  • Urlo Studio completes stacked pigmented-concrete complex in Quito

    Published February 3, 2023
    Urlo Studio designed a rotated, triangular mixed-use complex clad in red concrete panels and terracotta tiles that is meant to reference the architectural heritage of its site in Quito, Ecuador. READ…

  • Formafatal creates pair of rammed-earth villas in Costa Rica

    Published February 1, 2023
    Formafatal has constructed twin villas out of rammed earth on a jungled hillside in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica, which open to the Pacific Ocean with expansive frameless glass. READ…

  • BattersbyHowat balances metal-clad cabin on a mountainside

    Published January 30, 2023
    Vancouver-based studio BattersbyHowat Architects has completed a parallelogram-shaped, mountainside home clad in standing seam metal that includes a detached sauna structure in Whistler, British Columbia. READ…

  • Drew Mandel blends old and new in the expansion of a 1920's Toronto residence

    Published January 23, 2023
    Drew Mandel Architects has renovated and expanded a 1920's craftsman-style cottage in Toronto that "marries old and new" with a contemporary open floor plan, limestone terrace, historic touches and upscale details. READ…

  • Strang Design tops Miami mansion with slatted volume and planter

    Published January 19, 2023
    Local studio Strang Design has created a contemporary residence with a garden terrace in Miami, Florida, complete with Brazilian influences and vintage touches. READ…

  • ZGF transforms Pittsburgh Ford Assembly plant into research facility

    Published January 13, 2023
    ZGF Architects has adapted a historic Ford Motor Company factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania into a biomedical research laboratory by renovating existing structures and creating a cantilevered terracotta-clad addition. READ…

  • West of West experiments with "beautiful roughness" for Austin office complex

    Published January 11, 2023
    West of West has completed a concrete office complex in eastern Austin, Texas with flexible workspaces, community amenities and public greenspaces between buildings that reinterpret the neighbourhood's industrial context. READ…

  • Sparano + Mooney positions cedar home over canyon in Utah

    Published January 10, 2023
    Local studio Sparano + Mooney Architecture cantilevered two envelopes with blackened-cedar siding over a canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. READ…

  • Studio Schicketanz renovates Henry Hill's mid-century house on the California coast

    Published January 4, 2023
    Studio Schicketanz has completed a renovation of the former seaside home of modernist architect Henry Hill. READ…

2022

  • Austin's Pease Park revitalized to "integrate fun with nature"

    Published December 29, 2022
    Ten Eyck Landscape Architects has restored a "recreational heart" to a downtown park in Austin, Texas with vernacular buildings, play spaces and a revitalized ecosystem. READ…

  • David Baker Architects accelerates housing for homeless in San Francisco with modular construction

    Published December 28, 2022
    Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco, California. READ…

  • EYRC tucks light-filled house behind white walls in Venice Beach

    Published December 23, 2022
    Los Angeles studio Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects has completed a sleek stucco home in Venice Beach, California. READ…

  • Elemental references "double condition of castles" for cylindrical home in Mexico

    Published December 22, 2022
    Chilean studio Elemental has created a round concrete house called Casa del Tec outside of Monterrey, Mexico that is the prize of a raffle that funds higher education at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. READ…

  • Michael Hsu converts 1930s Austin church into spacious design office

    Published December 20, 2022
    US studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture has adapted a former church in Austin, Texas into an open office that maintains the original gabled form and materials. READ…

  • Jenny Peysin Architecture creates concrete Southampton home with a glass pavilion

    Published December 19, 2022
    Jenny Peysin Architecture has completed a house in the Hamptons with a poured-in-place concrete envelope and a glazed living space. READ…

  • Paz Architectura creates a stacked structure meant to reflect "basic concepts of time"

    Published December 15, 2022
    Paz Arquitectura created a compact mixed-use building in the middle of Guatemala's capital city with "strict geometry interlocked with constant movement". READ…

  • Photo of a gabled house in the snow

    Alexander Jermyn Architecture clads a gabled California home with charred wood

    Published December 9, 2022
    Alexander Jermyn Architecture has created a lake house in Lake Tahoe, California with blackened wood siding to withstand the mountain climate. READ…

  • Mork-Ulnes completes eight-sided Octothorpe House in Oregon desert

    Published December 6, 2022
    Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed a single-family residence in Oregon with a dark exterior and interconnected spaces without corridors that was built using American-made cross-laminated timber. READ…

  • LaRue Architects creates a copper-clad lake house in the Texas Hill Country

    Published December 1, 2022
    LaRue Architects has clad a lake house outside of Austin, Texas with patinated copper, limestone and oak in order to give it a "living finish". READ…

  • Drew Mandel Architects completes a multi-textural house in a Canadian forest

    Published November 30, 2022
    Drew Mandel Architects designed a house in Milton, Canada with exteriors of metal, brick and wood that is centred around a walnut staircase. READ…

  • Geddes Ulinskas Architects includes cast-glass staircase in San Francisco home

    Published November 24, 2022
    Local studio Geddes Ulinskas Architects has completed an expansive home in Cow Hollow, San Francisco with indoor-outdoor spaces, a cast glass staircase and stone detailing. READ…

  • GBBN expands historic Pennsylvania residence with metal-clad education facility

    Published November 22, 2022
    US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. READ…

  • Brandon Architects designs stone-clad home that frames the Las Vegas Strip

    Published November 11, 2022
    Brandon Architects has created a contemporary house that blends into the surrounding Las Vegas desert with stacked stone, disappearing glazing and reflective water features. READ…

  • Mighty Buildings completes 3D-printed net-zero home in southern California

    Published November 4, 2022
    Mighty Buildings has delivered what it claims is the world's first 3D-printed net-zero home as part of a 40-unit community in Desert Hot Springs that explores environmental and economic development strategies. READ…

  • RES4 designs modular house for Lido Beach in New York

    Published October 27, 2022
    Resolution 4 Architecture stacked a modular beach house above sand dunes for an unencumbered view of the Atlantic Ocean in Lido Beach, New York. READ…

  • nARCHITECTS tops New York nature centre with a mass-timber roof

    Published October 21, 2022
    Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS has designed a nature centre and exhibition space that produces as much energy as it consumes on the New York coastline. READ…

  • Gensler tucks arena under a wooden canopy in Austin

    Published October 17, 2022
    American architecture studio Gensler has completed a resilient and technologically advanced sports arena in Austin, Texas that has a wooden canopy and roof that moves depending on the type of event. READ…

  • Elliott Architects uses dramatic cantilever for House on a Bay

    Published October 12, 2022
    Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. READ…

  • EYRC maintains industrial detail for office campus built in a former LA Times facility

    Published September 30, 2022
    Los Angeles studio Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects transformed the derelict Los Angeles Times printing facility and Orange County newsroom into an office campus in Costa Mesa, California. READ…

  • Studio Terpeluk renovates Albert Lanier-designed Noe Valley home

    Published September 28, 2022
    San Francisco-based Studio Terpeluk has renovated and expanded Redwood House in Noe Valley with redwood interiors and terraces. READ…

  • Caleb Johnson Studio clads Pieri Pines lake house in Maine with local cedar

    Published September 24, 2022
    Caleb Johnson Studio has created a timber-clad family home in Otisfield, Maine that has no primary bedroom in order to "reinforce familial bonds". READ…