NOARQ renovates stone villa in Portugal with bright red details
Architecture studio NOARQ has extended a stone villa in Portugal with a bright red cabin perched on thick blocks of granite above the entrance. More
Anthony Hunt is the high-tech architect's engineer
Anthony Hunt worked with architects Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Michael and Patty Hopkins and Nicholas Grimshaw to engineer some of high-tech's greatest buildings. We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of the influential engineer. More
Hidden corridor connects different parts of Dutch homestead by Mecanoo
A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo.
MoreLondon cafe in spiral concrete shell has retractable windows
A spiral cafe with a rooftop garden in Chelsea, London, by architecture studio NEX has curved windows that can retract fully when the weather is good. More
Vo Trong Nghia plants fruit trees on the roof of a house in Vietnam
Recycled water from a ground-floor fish pond is used to nourish fruit trees on the roof of a house in Danang City, Vietnam, by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. More
Zigzagging white ramps encourage interaction at Huandao Middle School in China
Trace Architecture Office designed zigzagging ramps running round Huandao Middle School in Haikou, China, to encourage interaction and play between students outside the classroom. More
Kooo Architects inserts plywood-lined hotel rooms into an existing concrete frame
Plywood panels and fabric curtains have been used by by Kooo Architects to transform an existing concrete structure into a guesthouse in Guangzhou, China. More
Cowshed in the Netherlands rebuilt as a timber-clad family home
Julius Taminiau Architects has rebuilt an old cowshed to create a house clad in thin timber slats that conceal double-layered openings. More
Norman Foster is high-tech architecture's international figurehead
We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at Norman Foster, the architect of high-tech highlights for five decades including Reliance Controls in the 1960s, the Sainsbury Centre in the 1970s, HSBC in the 1980s, Stansted Airport in the 1990s and the Gherkin in the 2000s. More
Round windows of Archery House echo shooting range targets
A wooden shutter slides to uncover the target-shaped window of a brick building in France by architects Boman that provides facilities for an archery range. More
Parallel concrete walls divide up JJ House by Ivan Priatman Architecture
Ivan Priatman Architecture has designed a house in Indonesia with glass-covered pocket gardens and a swimming pool covered by a stainless steel mosquito net. More
Stanton Williams "puts science on show" at London research centre for rare child diseases
The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children in London by architect Stanton Williams features street-level glazing that allow people walking past to peer into its laboratories. More
Yan'an University Campus evokes the city's ancient stone cave dwellings
Stacks of rough stone and concrete form the campus of Yan'an University in China, designed by the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University to recall the city's famous cave dwellings. More
Perforated brick facade shades a house in Vietnam with a triple-height atrium
A house in Vietnam by Khuôn Studio is built around a triple-height atrium filled with plants and shaded by a perforated facade of grey brick. More
Richard Rogers is high-tech's inside-out architect
We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Richard Rogers, the architect of two of the movement's best-known inside-out buildings, Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd's building. More
R2 Studio adds hole-punched staircase made of ash wood to London house
An ash-wood staircase perforated with circular holes connects the two storeys of an Edwardian house in Lewisham, London, which has been extended by architects R2 Studio. More
Kuehn Malvezzi tops brick office with translucent urban greenhouse
A steel-framed vertical garden cuts through the centre of this brick warehouse-style block in Oberhausen, Germany, topped by a translucent urban greenhouse for agricultural research with a zigzagging roofline. More
Chybik + Kristof builds Prague food market in shiny metal cabins
A temporary cluster of corrugated metal-covered units surround a shallow pool at Manifesto Market in Prague's historic Smichov district, designed by architects Chybik + Kristof. More
Enota encloses pool in Slovenia with geometric roof
Ljubljana-based studio Enota has replaced an outdoor swimming pool with a pool covered in a rugged landscape of geometric, funnel-like roof structures at the Terme Olimia Spa in Slovenia. More
White steel and mirrored halls form sci-fi themed architectural model museum in China
Wutopia Lab has used over 5,000 white steel pipes to form the structure of The Last Redoubt, China's first museum for architectural models. More