In addition to the development of a new masterplan for the university, OMA was commissioned to design Educatorium, a crucial link or urban keystone for the entire academic complex. The parameter of the site is surrounded by four extremely different conditions: Horticulture and Botanical Gardens, a green boundary in the north; Transitorium 2, a 17 [...]

The Jubilee Church is the jewel in the crown of the Vicariato di Roma’s (Archdiocese of Rome) Millennium Project. Formally known as Dio Padre Misericordioso, it is the 50th new church and community center built in the suburbs of Rome. The Jubilee Church has been conceived as a new center for a somewhat isolated housing [...]

Alsop’s Colorium forms one element of a larger ongoing program for the regeneration of Dusseldorf’s waterfront. The completed ‘Media Harbor’ project will include works by Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, David Chipperfield and Fumihiko Maki. The building was designed as an office block, with its special shape as a process of aesthetic, economic and social [...]

Swiss Re London Headquarters is a landmark 40-storey office building in the heart of London’s financial centre, developed by Swiss Re and designed by architects Foster and Partners. Located on the former site of the Baltic Exchange, the distinctive form of the building adds to the cluster of tall buildings. This London’s first ecological tall [...]

Built in 2002, the Peter B Lewis Building is housing the Weatherhead School of Management. Named in honor of lead donor Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation, and designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, the building is the most advanced management school facility in the world and reflects Weatherhead’s international reputation for innovative [...]

Architectural imagination and social conscience are intertwined in the design for Diamond Ranch High School. It is a public high school with 50 classrooms, a gymnasium, cafeteria, administration and parking for 770 automobiles. Total cost for school was $30 million USD. The building presents a detailed story of the design and construction of a single [...]

The Auerworld Palace was erected in the spring of 1998 by 300 volunteers from all over the world, directed by Swiss-born architect Marcel Kalberer and assisted by builders and artists of the building group Sanfte Strukturen, who guided the construction process. He is one of many architects who provide ecological aspect and sustainable development [...]

The Orient Station was commissioned in the short term to serve the needs of World Expo 98 and in the long term to provide a main transport terminal for the east side of Lisboa as a future development of the city is planned for this side of the Tagus River. Today it is one of [...]

JELD-WEN Student Door Design Contest 2007/2008. The two winners will each receive a $3,000 scholarship, US student only.

The National Space Centre, a landmark Millennium Project for the East Midlands, is one of the United Kingdom’s leading visitor attractions devoted to space science and astronomy. It is located in the city of Leicester, England, on a former brownfield site on the north bank of the River Soar. The building, which is designed as [...]

Cyberport is a new “Silicon Valley” on a 26-hectare, previously undeveloped, site, contains high-tech offices as well as shops and plazas for a world-class IT community. The building is a strategic information technology infrastructure project that symbolizes Hong Kong’s determination to develop as a leading digital city in Asia. An estimated HK$15.8 billion (US$2 billion) [...]

Chile’s northern Atacama Desert is one of the hottest, driest, places on earth, and a particular sensitivity to location is required of anyone building here. Scorched by day and chilled by night, the desert plateau is bounded by the rugged cordillera of the Andes to the east. The light is unusually strong, intensified by [...]

The Oscar Niemeyer Museum, which also known as Museu do Olho or Museum of the Eye for its new addition, is located in the city of Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, in Brazil. The annex, which was launched on July 8, 2003, is to honor its famous architect who completed this project at 95 [...]

The creation of a signature complement to Craig Elwood’s 1969 landmark building was initiated by a school-wide design session led by the California based practice of Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung. This $800,000 project was set in motion by Art Center’s new President, Richard Koshalek. Envisioned as a casual diversion to the disciplined structure of [...]

Bellevue Arts Museum is located in the heart of downtown Bellevue where the bold glass, aluminum and textured concrete structure provides a dramatic presence at the intersection of Bellevue Way NE and the NE 6th pedestrian corridor. The building’s new facility, designed by renowned architect Steven Holl, has 5,800 sq ft of gallery space on [...]

Broadwick House comes as something of a surprise. The building was commissioned by a developer and occupies an entire city block in the heart of Soho’s dense conservation area, which this quadruple-aspect office development provides six floors of office space raised above street-level retail and restaurant accommodation. It is a place where straightforwardly ‘contextual’ design [...]

This installation for Giovanni and Marella Agnelli Art Gallery hovers atop the historic and enormous former Fiat factory at Lingotto in Turin, overlooking the city of Torino. The building constitutes the third phase of Piano’s 14-year renovation of the factory, into a mixed-use center with a hotel, shops, and conference space. Built in the 1920 [...]

Dorte Mandrup has designed a community center in Kobenhavn that accommodates a wide variety of uses and gives new life to a faded 19th century warehouse. The main objective was to connect the building’s many different activities and provides an openness and accessibility for the public. The practice has much experience with historic buildings, and [...]

Burraworrin (‘Magpie’) House, on the coastline of the Mornington Peninsula, is for three generations of one family. Many country residences are detached and isolated, this house, however, melds with the undulating landscape and explores, through its spatial arrangement, the physical need for attachment within the family unit. Burraworrin House expresses an interest in creating spaces [...]

Neil M Denari’s first built work in his hometown of Los Angeles, California, is a showroom for LA Eyeworks, a retailer that specializes in cutting-edge eyewear. For this store, the client wanted a showroom that could successfully accommodate ever-changing trends while providing the retailer with a fixed spatial identity. The relationship between the conventions of [...]