Located on a hill overlooking a rural town in Valencia, Spain, Clos de la Vila reinterprets the traditional local gable-roof house through Ramón Esteve Estudio’s contemporary architectural language. Rather than replicating the vernacular model literally, the project transforms it into a composition of adjoining volumes
University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve by Montgomery Sisam Architects offers a compelling model for the future of school design. Hub for research and instruction in ecology and environmental biology
Marianne Tiegen Interiors transform Chalet 1936 at ski paradise of Verbier, Switzerland. A hotel converted into a new home for a large family moving from London to the Swiss mountains
John Robertson Architects reposition 20 Gresham Street, London, UK. Key office property next to City’s Guildhall complex. Building refurbishment significantly increases workplace amenity provision
Designed by Wood Marsh, Keon Park Station building forms a civic gateway on Melbourne’s Mernda Line. It replaces a constrained at-grade facility with an elevated rail and concourse, eliminating a dangerous level crossing
Casa da Ilha designed by Estúdio Pedro Haruf on the Doce River in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The house faces very specific challenges. The site demanded large and integrated social spaces, plus four comfortable suites
Molvento House, designed by Karlen + Clemente: low planes follow the terrain’s natural slope. Framing views and generating intermediate spaces to protect domestic life without losing open character of Córdoba, Argentina
In many cases it is the constraints that shape a project. Fran Silvestre Arquitectos design Shatt Al-Arab House on one of the busiest avenues in Baghdad, Iraq. Prperty geometry defined by urban fabric
Chan Architecture Pty Ltd, APC Build’s Tara Avenue Residence reimagines a 1930s home via a contemporary rear extension in Victoria, Australia. The house clearly distinguishes new from old
