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The 3Cubes office buildings designed by gmp for the Caohejing Business Park in the western part of Shanghai have now been completed. gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner

As Wang Changling–a renowned poet of the Tang Dynasty– illustrated in his work Shige (Chinese for Poetical Patterns), the art of writing a poem involves three individual layers: landscape description as the physical layer; inception of emotions from the landscape as... W.DESIGN

Inspired by the residence of Bruce Wayne (aka Batman), Melbourne, Australia's Molecule concealed a garage below an existing tennis court in the renovation of a large house. John Hill

A thin undulating roof caps the Visitor Center that Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designed for Vanke and its Pearl Hill Preserve development in Qingdao, China. The form mimics the surrounding natural landscape, while the roof and its supports serve as a contemporary interpretation of...

The exhibition consists in a dynamic space, where the viewer is encouraged to discover the potential of the lights and the images. The exhibition doesn’t have a figure, but retains a form: it’s an organism inside an open space system, adaptable and flexible. Vidal Tomás Arquitectes

Baptiste Debombourg’s work takes the real world and morphs it into something new. He reacts to specific contexts and transmutes different substances like an alchemist: Styrofoam packing materials are transformed into neo-Gothic altars… Baptiste Debombourg

The Chicago Architecture Biennial has posted the more than 100 entries for the BP America Lakefront Kiosk Competition on Pinterest, with the winner to be announced soon. John Hill

Yangzhou Hongqiao Shopping Street is bounded by Da Hongqiao Road to the North, Slender West Lake to the West, and it is also the south entrance of Slender West Lake. Dushe Architectural Design

The Len Lye Centre is New Zealand’s only single artist museum and its design is deeply influenced by the life, ideas, writings and work of Len Lye (5 July, 1901 – 15 May, 1980). Patterson Associates

The commission: a flat for a couple with two children. The place : last floor of a Hausmanian building; ancient servant’s bedrooms already transformed into a flat. h2o architectes

Five houses that work together, using the natural topography of the site for the best views: the project is located on mountain environment, adjacent to San Roque Lake. Carlos Alejandro Ciravegna

The official LEAF judging panel has announced its 2015 shortlist of entries, projects in 14 categories that "are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community." John Hill

China’s largest insurance company, China Life Insurance Company, has moved into its new Data Center in Shanghai-Pudong. gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner

This spacious private residence is located on a small clearing on the backside of the elongated estate in Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam. The quiet location and a big stock of preserved trees define the surrounding of the place. nps tchoban voss

In a list of building types that are the least regarded architecturally, surely gas stations are present if not right at the top. Design seems to be set aside in favor of economy and signage, but the redesign of Rompetrol's Litro stations by Eight Inc. admirably combines formal minimalism...

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has released renderings of a new building for Brighton College's Sport and Sciences departments. The design was recently submitted for planning approval following its selection in a 2013 invited competition.

Norway's Snøhetta has won SIGNA Group's Bolzano Cable Car competition, which will make the Virgolo/Virgl mountain in Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol in Italy, accessible to visitors for the first time since its historic funicular closed in 1976. John Hill

NEXT realizes an apartment complex in the shape of Shouxi stone. The project is located on a complicated site, in the old city center of Fuzhou, the capital of the Fujian Province. NEXT Architects

For Chicago’s first ever architecture biennial, Fox in the Snow Studio in collaboration with artist Ben Butler proposed a kiosk whose design began by first looking to the prairie for inspiration. Fox in the Snow Studio

WOHA's PARKROYAL on Pickering in Singapore has won the 2015 Urban Habitat Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). John Hill

Reinhold Messner's sixth and last MMM-Museum opens to the public on 24 July 2015. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the museum is fused with the 8,000-meter peak of the Kronplatz-Plan de Corones Ski Mountain in South Tyrol, Italy. John Hill

An icon of Postmodern architecture, the Vanna Venturi House that Robert Venturi designed for his mother in 1964, is up for sale for the first time since 1973. John Hill

The Pure Spa is an oasis of tranquility and facilitates the five-star Naman Retreat, Danang. MIA Design Studio

Alain de Botton is none to happy about the towers built and proposed for London. In a five-minute video he explains the problem and offers a solution. John Hill

On top of running her eponymous New York architecture studio, Toshiko Mori is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she formerly served as chair. Following a conversation with a friend at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation she gave her GSD students a project for a...

SET Architects (Onorato di Manno, Andrea Tanci, Lorenzo Catena, Gianluca Sist, and Chiara Cucina) have won first prize in the Bologna Shoah Memorial international competition. SET Architects

LATITUDE’s pavilion proposal for the Chicago Architectural Biennial is a multifunctional space featured with a few key elements: a platform to elevate the pavilion one foot above street level; a cantilever roof to create an expressive space together with aluminum leaves; and a movable wall... LATITUDE

The Board of la Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, has named Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, who heads the firm Elemental, as director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition to be held from 28 May to 27 November 2016. John Hill

For this house-in-a-backyard, otherwise known as an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU), Waechter Architecture took Portland’s increased density movement and used it as an opportunity to explore housing iconoiconography, sculptural forms, dual-purpose elements, and explore how to massage small... Waechter Architecture

Japan has shelved Zaha Hadid's competition-winning design for the main stadium of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, citing costs that have ballooned to 252 billion yen ($2 billion USD). John Hill

This adaptive reuse project transforms the most banal of commercial box buildings into a light-filled courtyard office space specifically outfitted for a discerning, high-end residential builder with an exclusive clientele. Studio VARA

A school, an apartment building, a cancer center, luxury housing, a university building, and a gallery: The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the six projects shortlisted for the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize. John Hill

Cc-studio was invited, together with two other offices, to take part in a mini-competition initiated by the municipal supervisor Don Murphy, the director of VMX architects. cc-studio

Throughout summer, the King’s Gardens at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen is exhibiting a spectacular wooden pavilion, "AROUND," providing an unexpected architectural experience as well as hosting both music, theater performances, storytelling, gastronomy, and lectures. Mikkel Kjærgård Christiansen and Jesper Kort Andersen

Dokk1 opened its doors to the public on Saturday, 20 June, becoming the largest public library in the Nordic countries, representing a new generation of modern, hybrid libraries. Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Architectural Review considers self-taught, Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre's many buildings as a new typology: they combine retail, party halls, apartments, and a roofop house for the owner. John Hill