OMA's team wins FAB Park competition for Downtown LA
The City of Los Angeles has chosen a design by OMA and landscape architects Mia Lehrer + Associates to transform a site in the Downtown area into a public park (+ slideshow). More
The City of Los Angeles has chosen a design by OMA and landscape architects Mia Lehrer + Associates to transform a site in the Downtown area into a public park (+ slideshow). More
Dutch architecture firm OMA has restored the historic Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, adding new entrances and wood-panelled escalators to turn the 16th-century building into a department store (+ slideshow). More
Eindhoven studio Wenink Holtkamp Architecten has converted a former grain silo in the Dutch city of Deventer into a community food hall overlooking the harbour (+ slideshow). More
Seoul studio ArchiWorkshop has completed a luxury camping facility near the South Korean capital, which comprises three wooden cabins and a cluster of membranous sleeping pods raised above the rocky terrain on stilts (+ slideshow). More
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: the architects behind plans to create a cluster of freshwater swimming pools on the River Thames have unveiled a proposal for a floating pool on the Yarra River in the Australian city of Melbourne. More
Japanese studio Nendo has completed its biggest-ever project: the exterior and interior renovation of a department store in Bangkok that founder Oki Sato believes represents a new way of shopping (+ slideshow). More
This set of images by photographer Iwan Baan provides a first look inside Herzog & de Meuron's extension to the Tate Modern art gallery, set to open next month in London (+ slideshow). More
Pre-rusted steel plates are arranged in a spiral to form the walls of this public toilet created by Miro Rivera Architects in a park in Austin, Texas (+ slideshow). More
Over 350 species of bird have made their home at this wetland centre, built by local firm X Architects on a former rubbish dump in the United Arab Emirates (+ slideshow). More
John Puttick Associates has significantly revised its designs for a new youth centre at Preston Bus Station, a transport hub in northern England that has become an icon of Brutalist architecture (+ slideshow). More
Dutch office MVRDV has revealed the first photographs of The Stairs, a huge scaffolding staircase leading up to the roof of an office block in Rotterdam city centre (+ slideshow). More
Daroca Arquitectos has completed a training and employment centre in the Spanish town of Baza, featuring a stone-clad base that contrasts with the crisp white upper storeys (+ slideshow). More
Architects Matthew Butcher, Kieran Wardle and Owain Williams have built a factory-inspired mobile structure that will travel along Hadrian's Wall in northern England to provide a temporary residency for writers (+ slideshow). More
The architects behind a campaign to build a floating swimming pool on the River Thames have now revealed plans to resurrect a southeast London lido that was filled in nearly 30 years ago. More
Cumulus Studio has used shipping containers to create a lookout tower and wine-tasting space at a vineyard in Tasmania (+ slideshow). More
This movie shows the installation of MVRDV's Crystal Houses – a Chanel store featuring a traditional facade replicated with glass bricks that are "stronger than concrete". More
This floating weather station by Matthew Butcher has been cast adrift in the flood-prone Thames Estuary, and is intended as a critique on the current trend for floating architecture (+ slideshow). More
Italian architect Piero Lissoni has won a speculative competition for a site on New York's East River with his proposal for a submerged circular aquarium. More
Marks Barfield Architects and Davis Brody Bond have teamed up to design an aerial "gondola" that would stretch over the city of Chicago and serve as a major tourist attraction. More
This weathering steel staircase by engineering studio Close to Bone cantilevers off a hill in Flanders, forming an observation tower overlooking rolling farmland and the Kabouterbos forest (+ slideshow). More