Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a mosque, Islamic centre and museum in Tirana, Albania.
EDF Archives Centre / LAN Architecture
This building, symbol of the long term and visible presence of EDF in the Meuse and Haute Marne region, hosts the company’s industrial records.
Embracing color
The painter-architect Le Corbusier did something artistic with the houses at Pessac. He embraced color and achieved a sense of weightlessness by painting the surfaces in different light colors.
House A by Takeshi Hamada
A stark concrete multi-purpose space occupies the ground floor of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada.
Sloped house by HSH architecture.
This amazing house by HSH architecture stands vertical with a slopping roof and a flat base, which digs underground. It slope is the the same direction as the slope of the terrain. The slope of the house was requested by the investor as he wanted to use the house as a small cinema.
Small Living: Sliding Apartment
Architect Gary Chang has lived in the same 32 square meter apartment since he was 14 years old, over 30 years ago.
“My whole family – my parents, my three younger sisters, and me – used to live here. To make ends meet, my parents also rented out one of the rooms to an outsider, a woman in her late twenties. Then the room was rented to her younger brother.”