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Historic buildings are symbols of a city’s past and form a major aspect of a culture. They must, therefore, be loved, maintained and preserved to ensure their longevity. To provide a historic building with th...

Dutch firm UNStudio has completed a mixed-use complex in the Chinese city of Hangzhou that accommodates a hotel, offices, apartments and shops, within two streamlined towers set atop a podium and landscaped pla...

Architecture firm Penda has teamed up with Canadian company Tmber for the Tree Tower Toronto project, an 18-story timber-framed mixed-use residential skyscraper for Canada’s largest city. Drawing inspiration...

Set in San Sebastián de los Reyes, a town located just north of Madrid, Desert City by local  firm Garcia German Arquitectos is one of the most significant cactus centers in Europe. Desert City is a celebrat...

As the centrepiece of Copenhagen’s redeveloped North Harbor, Danish architects COBE and clients Klaus Kastbjerg and NRE Denmark unveil the completed transformation of The Silo.  The former industrial silo w...

Together with real estate firm Ironstate and Roselad Residential, dutch studio Concrete has completed the first phase of the Jersey City Urby project, a 762-unit residential tower rising 69 storeys tall above ...

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled a residential complex on Mexico’s Mayan Riviera, which includes a woodland nature reserve, botanical nursery and a network of footpaths suspended above a lagoon. Located ...

OMA’s conversion of the 16th Century Fondaco dei Tedeschi as a department store is finally complete in Venice. First constructed in 1228, and located at the foot of the Rialto Bridge across from the fish m...

Dutch firm MVRDV has created an entirely see-through office inside this office block in Hong Kong. MVRDV stripped an old industrial building down to its bare bones and utilized only glass with stainless steel ...

MVRDV has completed the new Chanel flagship store in Amsterdam with a replica façade made entirely out of glass. The entirely transparent façade of Chanel flagship store on Amsterdam’s upmarket shopping...

Known for his finely composed photographs, Canadian photographer David Burdeny presents a new series that showcases the stunning and elaborate Moscow and St. Petersburg Metro system. Dating back to 19...

Placed between two glass windscreens, the Benthem Crouwel’s Bus Drivers Building at Amsterdam Central has a sleek, yet playful appearance. Built in just three months, the striking bus drivers building houses...

Japanese architects Sanaa have completed their curvy Grace Farms cultural center - dubbed the River - that spreads out over 80 acres in Connecticut. Starting from the top of a knoll, where a 20,900 square foot,...

Within Merlbourne’s urban center, the 2 Girls Building by local architecture practice Kavellaris Urban Design is a mixed use building that fuses art, photography and architecture. The project explores the rel...