PROJECTS

Where a drop of water begins its long journey to the sea, the new platform on the Val Senales glacier has been created. To narrate the fascinating story of this place, the studio noa* has conceived an extraordinary project: a panoramic platform in corten steel that incorporates the existing summit cross and offers visitors a unique mountain experience.

The mateo arquitectura studio designs the façade of a building like a succession of layers: an inner layer of glass and stainless steel, and an outer layer of wood, which can be opened and closed at will, protecting the tenants' privacy

Bureau de Change Architects reinterprets the English rural vernacular building starting with the elongated shape of two wooden chicken sheds, creating an interplay of traditional volumes that are transformed into a home

The new Salmon House rental home, with salmon-pink plaster and deep green details, was designed by English studio Office S&M, which makes effective use of the corner plot in which it stands, in the London suburb of Newham

A commercial unit located in Seattle's Belltown district was transformed by goCstudio into a workspace with two main functions: photo studio and sleeping area, which could also be used as a weekend meeting place

Mecanoo architecten designs the iconic Maritime Centre Rotterdam, a place for maritime entrepreneurs, science and culture, shaped like an elegant ribbon wrapping around several pavilions and structuring the shape of the building

Architect Josep Lluís Mateo, founder of mateoarquitectura architectural studio based in Switzerland, Spain and France, designed a residential complex in Chemnitz, a German city in which the warm organic character of wood contrasts with the coldness of plaster on the façade

An old Portuguese service station with an old, fragile structure has been completely renovated by the architectural studio atelierdacosta and equipped with lightweight corrugated sheet metal cladding on the side façades

The country house located in a small village in southern Bohemia has been completely redesigned by the ov architekti architectural studio, with the aim of maintaining its original picturesque character despite the new elements

The fala architectural studio renovates the main floor of a modernist apartment building located in Porto, Portugal, and the design of the space works through a series of delicate oppositions between additions and existing elements

A kitchen with a view of the living room or a bathroom with a view of the bedroom: this is the idea of Spanish studio Egue y Seta which in designing a flat in Barcelona, pays homage to the integration of the spaces in which we live

The architectural studio Jury Troy Architects has built a kindergarten in Austria with a structure made of local spruce wood and an energy concept based on the passive house standard

The project, by Creative Crews, was selected as the winner of the Bank of Thailand's design competition to renovate its historic mint in Bangkok and turned it into a multifunctional centre and museum

Dutch architectural studio Benthlem Crouwel Architects designs the new office building for Goede Doelen Loterijen, the largest charity lottery group in the Netherlands, combining efficiency and pragmatism with innovation

Casa Diáñez, a prototype 17th century stately home, has been renovated by reina & asociados architectural studios to become a centre for historical and ethnographic interpretation of the Spanish city of Alcalá de los Gazules, in Andalusia