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Grand Bayview Qianhai, two fan-shaped residential towers by Foster + Partners in Shenzhen, China

September 18, 2025

Grand Bayview Qianhai

Grand Bayview Qianhai is a pair of residential towers in Shenzhen, China, completed by Foster + Partners. The development is aimed at professionals with an intensive, work-centred lifestyle, and the brief put health, wellbeing and a sense of community at the centre of the design. Two fan-shaped towers Both towers rise to 180 metres. Their […]

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September 18, 2025

Holburne Museum – ADC

Skip to content Holburne Museum Eric Parry Architects returns to Bath’s Holburne Museum with two new galleries designed to house Renaissance treasures from the Schroder family collection. Photos Dirk Lindner Eric Parry Architects has completed two new gallery spaces and associated facilities at the Grade I-listed Holburne Museum in Bath. The £2.5m project extends the […]

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September 16, 2025

At Night, These Wood Cabins Glow Like Lanterns

Patrick Arotcharen Architecte has designed an eco-lodge in Saubion, France, called Les Echasses. Set in the heart of the Landes, the project is surrounded by tall pine trees and a carefully reshaped lake landscape. The architecture is designed to interact with its environment rather than dominate it, creating a stay that feels both private and […]

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September 16, 2025

Janošík headquarters and showroom – ADC

Skip to content Janošík headquarters and showroom Set within a reworked 1950s grain warehouse in eastern Czech Republic, Jakub Janošík’s new headquarters and showroom for his family’s window and door company forms a strong connection with the surrounding Carpathian landscape. Photos Amedeo Benestante Located at the foothills of the White Carpathians in eastern Czech Republic, […]

South Barn, a converted mid-20th-century barn near Cowes on the Isle of Wight

September 12, 2025

South Barn: A Barn Conversion on the Isle of Wight

Studio Weave has turned a mid-20th-century farm building near Cowes on the Isle of Wight into a family home. South Barn is a 158 square metre barn converted into a three-bedroom house, and, as Nelly Greig writes in Architecture Today, it shows how a rural building can gain a new use without losing its character. […]

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September 12, 2025

The Industrial Mountain House That Frames Nature Like Art

Set in Ketchum, Idaho, this striking home by Olson Kundig balances rugged mountain character with modern design. Built as a second home, it blends raw industrial materials with warm details, creating a space that feels both grounded in the high desert landscape and elevated by bold architectural moves. From the outside, the house appears almost […]

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September 10, 2025

Inside a Small Forest Home that blends Mid-Century Style with Nature

Designed by iHouse estudio, this home in Punta del Este, Uruguay, was conceived as a way to live fully immersed in the forest, where architecture dissolves into nature. Drawing inspiration from mid-century single-family houses, the project reinterprets classic ideas into a modern space where the inside and outside blend seamlessly. The house is built on […]

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September 8, 2025

Inside the Pod-Like Holiday Home Built to Withstand Nature

AR Design Studio were asked by their clients to design an extension for their holiday house on the South Coast of England. But halfway through the planning process, disaster struck: one night during a landslip, the house broke apart. What could have been the end of a dream retreat instead became an opportunity to start […]

Rooftop Eagle Bar terrace at The Chancery Rosewood hotel in Mayfair, London

September 8, 2025

The Chancery Rosewood: Saarinen’s US Embassy in London Becomes a Hotel

The Chancery Rosewood has opened in Mayfair, London, inside Eero Saarinen’s Grade II-listed former US Embassy on Grosvenor Square. As reported by the editors of Architecture Today, David Chipperfield Architects led the restoration and retrofit, with interiors by French architect Joseph Dirand. From embassy to luxury hotel Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect, designed the building, which […]

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September 8, 2025

Litomyšl Lookout – ADC

Skip to content Litomyšl Lookout Atelier-r has completed a low-cost, container-based viewpoint on the edge of Litomyšl, providing panoramic views of the UNESCO-listed town. Photos BoysPlayNice Czech practice Atelier-r has completed a container-based observation tower on the northwestern edge of Litomyšl – a UNESCO World Heritage town known for its integration of contemporary and historic […]

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