Inspiring Architecture

"Cathedral Fold", located in Strasbourg, France, is a place of worship designed by the New York - based architecture office Axis Mundi .

This wonderful house was created by Portuguese studio Bernardo Rodrigues Arquitecto. Itsf curves and rectilinear volumes create a comfortable and playful living space. House is located on St. Michael island in the Azores, Portugal.

Frank Gehry's residential building is now complete. Located in Manhattan, the unit entitled 'New York by Gehry' (formally known as 'Beekman Tower'), is the tallest residential tower in the western hemisphere.

This stunning Sunset Chapel in Acapulco, Mexico, was completed only recently by Esteban and Sebastián Suárez of Mexico City-based BNKR Arquitectura., but it has already gained much attention for its stark and arresting design.

London studio DOS Architects have won a competition to design a 2000-seat church in Lagos, Nigeria with this design featuring an undulating roof.

Located in the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, this weekend house is the mathematical concept of the Klein Bottle (a surface in which notions of left and right cannot be consistently defined). The 'contents' of the 'bottle' are a rectilinear platform and walls which make the abstract geometry inhabitable

Completed in 2009, this 3,121 square foot contemporary home, designed by Australian studio McBride Charles Ryan feels like a half space, half enclosed, half open. Neither in nor out - a new version of the good old Aussie veranda.

The first new building built in the history of Columbia College, Media Production Center offers a discourse that is at the intersection between architecture, media and academic education, emphasizing, on one hand, the importance of media in contemporary society and on the other hand, the reputation of the college as one of the most professional education institutions.

This seven rooms building is a beautiful work of architecture by Eastern Design Office. Located in the district of Youkaichi, Japan, the unique triangular structure of iron is recalling the famous Flatiron Building in New York.

Located south of Rio de Janeiro, Leaf House is a sublime construction in form of a leaf by Patalano Mareiner + Architects. Perfectly adapted to the tropical climate, the roof protects areas of the house and keeps the sun's heat out.

This beautiful villa located in the region of Somosaguas (Spain) is the successful work of architecture studio A-Cero. The house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio, presenting a greater spatial complexity and and use of shapes that underlines the relation between A-cero's architecture and contemporary sculpture.

KINZO is the design company that Adidas contracted to outfit the interiors of their headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany

A plastic pond filling up a rectangular well with paper water-lilies floating, bubble wrapped salmon made from shoe boxes, cardboard trees springing up along columns and elevator shafts, with their leaves splayed out against walls and railings, all these are transforming The Montréal Eaton Center into an ecosystem using various by-products from the shopping center's recycling bins.

The Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre for the City University of Hong Kong provides facilities that make the University the first in Asia to offer the highest level of education and training in the creative media fields. The Centre houses the Centre for Media Technology and the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology.

The Cahill Center was constructed on Caltech's newer southern campus, Pasadena, California. While obviously modern, it was designed to visually connect to the university's historic northern campus, whose 1917 master plan was created by Bertram Goodhue. The Cahill Center's north-south orientation, horizontal layout, and scale refer to the historic Spanish and Mediterranean influences of the northern campus.

Apple teamed up with Foster + Partners for its new Apple Campus in Cupertino, California. Steve Jobs and Norman Foster have been working together for months developing the design for the new campus. The future headquarters will seek to utilize Foster's innovative vision for sustainability, ability to perfect a building for its users down to the finest detail, and ideas to maximize efficiency in the workplace.

Reading between the Lines is a project by the duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, a collaboration between young Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh. This 'church' consists of 30 tons of steel and 2000 columns, and is built on a fundament of armed concrete. Through the use of horizontal plates, the concept of the traditional church is transformed into a transparent object of art.

New Orleans architecture studio Building Studio has taken the challenge of Post-Katrina rehousing in New Orleans. When finished, Neighborhood Housing Services who promotes and markets low-cost properties will offer the house at a vastly reduced rate.

The winning design for a new library in Vannesla, Norway belongs to Architecture Studio Helen & Hard. The proposal design includes a library, a café, meeting places and administrative areas and links an existing community house and learning centre together.