Maldives villa The Muraka has a bedroom under the sea
This luxury holiday home in the Maldives has an aquarium-like underwater bedroom suite where guests can watch marine life while they rest, wash and get dressed. More
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Zaha Hadid Architects unveils plans for high-speed train station in Tallinn
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed visuals for a multimodal Ülemiste terminal in Tallinn, Estonia, which will form part of the Rail Baltica high-speed rail network. More
La Firme turns abandoned shed into Quebec home The Barn
Montreal designer Louis Beliveau of La Firme studio has overhauled a decrepit barn in Quebec by turning its hollow core into a holiday home for two city dwellers. More
Anthony Hunt is the high-tech architect's engineer
Anthony Hunt worked with architects Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Michael and Patty Hopkins and Nicholas Grimshaw to engineer some of high-tech's greatest buildings. We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of the influential engineer. More
Zaha Hadid Architects completes Leeza Soho skyscraper with world's tallest atrium
The 45-storey Leeza Soho skyscraper, designed by the late Zaha Hadid in Beijing, China, contains the world's tallest atrium twisting through its centre. More
The Lloyd's building is Richard Rogers' first high-tech office block
Continuing our high-tech architecture series, we take a look at the inside-out Lloyd's building in London, Richard Rogers' second major building following Centre Pompidou. More
The Ranch Mine creates modern courtyard home in the Arizona desert
American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a residence in Phoenix that features a mix of gabled and flat volumes wrapped in corrugated metal, white stucco and honey-toned wood. More
Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Centre is high-tech architecture's most flamboyant structure
Next in our high-tech architecture series is Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Centre in Swindon, one of the most expressive and distinctive examples of the style. More
London cafe in spiral concrete shell has retractable windows
A spiral cafe with a rooftop garden in Chelsea, London, by architecture studio NEX has curved windows that can retract fully when the weather is good. More
Daniel Moreno Flores creates hanging-tile screen as entrance to illustrator's home near Quito
Tiles strung on steel cables and an inverted roof are among the quirky design features of this home designed by architect Daniel Moreno Flores on the outskirts of Quito. More
Zigzagging white ramps encourage interaction at Huandao Middle School in China
Trace Architecture Office designed zigzagging ramps running round Huandao Middle School in Haikou, China, to encourage interaction and play between students outside the classroom. More
RDHA turns riverfront building into "Canada's first bookless library"
Canadian architecture firm RDHA has added glazed volumes to an old limestone post office in Cambridge, Ontario as part of its transformation into a community centre with makerspaces. More
Marina Tabassum brings prefabricated Bangladeshi homes to Sharjah
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has erected three prefabricated houses at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, to highlight the families that relocate their homes as river channels move within the Bengal Delta. More
Jessica Helgerson uses "moody, green, lush" palette for Portland home renovation
Interior designer Jessica Helgerson has overhauled a home in Portland, Oregon to include decorative ceilings, floral wallpaper and shades of green and grey that evoke its rainy, cool climate. More
David Chipperfield completes iridescent West Bund Museum containing Centre Pompidou outpost
A public esplanade envelops David Chipperfield's West Bund Museum in Shanghai, which contains the Centre Pompidou's first Chinese outpost. More
COBE's undulating public square in Copenhagen contains parking for 2,000 bikes
Karen Blixens Plads in Copenhagen is an undulating plaza with sheltered parking for over 2,000 bicycles designed by Danish architecture firm COBE. More
Hopkins House is a high-tech home for two of the pioneers of the movement
Hopkins House was designed by Michael and Patty Hopkins as their own home. We take a look at the lightweight steel and glass house as part of our series on high-tech architecture. More
Heatherwick Studio reveals 1,000 Trees nearing completion in Shanghai
Heatherwick Studio has released photography of its plant-covered 1,000 Trees development in Shanghai, which has had its scaffolding removed. More
Koto and Abodu launch tiny prefab ADUs for San Francisco Bay Area
Prefabricated housing company Koto has designed a cabin-like ADU, or Accessory Dwelling Unit, that can be delivered to sites in San Jose, California in two weeks. More
Norman Foster is high-tech architecture's international figurehead
We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at Norman Foster, the architect of high-tech highlights for five decades including Reliance Controls in the 1960s, the Sainsbury Centre in the 1970s, HSBC in the 1980s, Stansted Airport in the 1990s and the Gherkin in the 2000s. More