Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal

Museum, art and landscape as a coherent entity. The pyramidal shapes of the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais, Portugal, on the coast of Estoril, are what make the museum unique in its architecture. The Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura designed a...

Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego, Krakow, Poland

A cultural building on a historic site.On the former Rakowice-Czyzyny airfield near Krakow, a place steeped in history, a team of architects – Pysall.Ruge Architekten with Bartlomiej Kisielewski – have built one of the world‘s largest aviation museums.The building...

Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

A fairytale castle with five starsIn a part of the world where impressive buildings are not exactly thin on the ground, a hotel building needs to have quite a few special attributes to make it stand out. The Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi certainly has an awesome number...

Ciutat de la Justícia, Barcelona, Spain

The Ciutat de la Justícia (City of Justice) towers like a giant over Barcelona’s Gran Via:Nine buildings with up to 14 stories across 230,000 square meters. The buildings, which fit together to form a cohesive, large-format sculpture, include courtrooms, government...

Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

Soccer City, the largest World Cup stadium in South Africa, is more than just an arena for world-class soccer. It’s also a shining example of state-of-the-art stadium architecture.

Town Hall, Middelburg, Netherlands

The new town hall in Middelburg was designed by the German-Dutch architectural firm RAU.  The town hall is not only a piece of modern architecture and a lively meeting place for citizens and government official, it also demonstrates what is possible in energy-effi...

Korea Special, Paju and Heyri Art Village, Korea

An art village dominated by integrally colored concrete. The Heyri Art Village in the Korean town of Paju is an outstanding example not only of the architectural and aesthetic potential offered by colored concrete in modern design, but also of  the social and...

Ahornbahn Mayrhofen, Tyrol, Austria

The new Mayrhofen Ahornbahn (Mt. Ahorn aerial tramway), located in the Tyrolean Ziller Valley, is an architectural monument to the mountains and a gateway to nature. Their coherent coloration and material character make the buildings of the aerial tramway monolithic...

Bodega Antión, La Rioja, Spain

A bodega that bewitches the senses. In developing the concept for the Bodega Antión in Spain, internationally renowned architect Jesús Marino PASCUAL focused on creating much more than just a site for wine production.

New Årsta Bridge, Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm’s new 833 m-long Årsta Bridge, which runs parallel to the existing railway bridge built in 1929, was inaugurated during a festive ceremony by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden in August, 2005. The elegant new structure sweeps across Årstaviken Bay, its rhythmic...