Hill West Architects completes "sail-like" Dumbo skyscraper
Local studio Hill West Architects has completed the sail-shaped Olympia Dumbo residential skyscraper in Brooklyn, which has a design informed by the industrial heritage of the borough. More
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Ten New York City loft interiors that make innovative use of open space
For our latest lookbook, we explore ten loft conversions and renovations in New York City where designers have inserted partitions, storage and other elements to cleverly organise open space. More
ConForm Architects models green-terrazzo flat extension on bay windows
Green terrazzo is teamed with concrete and clay-toned plaster at Terzetto, a London flat extension that architecture studio ConForm Architects has modelled on bay windows. More
Arquitectonica designs "organic yet contemporary" skyscraper for Hawaiian island
New York architecture studio Arquitectonica has designed a residential skyscraper with undulating fins on its facade and a landscaped terrace garden in Honolulu, Hawaii. More
Plus One Architects uncovers original paintwork of 100-year-old Czech apartment
Prague studio Plus One Architects has restored the "original splendour" of this 1902 apartment in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, by reinstating some of its original features. More
Ideas of Order selects bright colours for New York apartment renovation
Bright hues define the different interventions that New York architecture studio Ideas of Order has made in this apartment at the northern tip of Manhattan. More
WärtZ district designed as "second city centre" for Zwolle
Dutch studios MVRDV, Orange Architects and LOLA Landscape Architects have designed a masterplan for a neighbourhood in Zwolle, the Netherlands, which will include a converted warehouse topped with wooden apartments. More
Monolithic green marble forms "majestic wall" in Milan apartment
Italian studio AIM has designed a compact, multi-level apartment interior in Milan organised around a floor-to-ceiling Verde Alpi marble partition. More
OHLAB encloses Mallorcan duplex apartments with dynamic shutters
Folding, lattice shutters form the dynamic facade of Paral·lel, a residential complex in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, designed by local architecture studio OHLAB. More
Bright yellow balconies enliven Melbourne apartment block by Austin Maynard Architects
A "mountainous" zigzag roofline and bright yellow balconies define the ParkLife apartment block in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne, designed by local studio Austin Maynard Architects. More
Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard
Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. More
All(zone) nestles concrete holiday home among trees in rural Thailand
Architecture studio All(zone) has created Under the Rain Trees, a holiday house with five curved wings nestled under tree canopies on the banks of the River Ping in rural Thailand. More
Ductus coats blocky apartment complex with red plaster in Switzerland
Architecture studio Ductus has designed an apartment complex coated with a monochrome red plaster facade into a sloping site in Schwarzenburg, Switzerland. More
Furora Studio designs Kraków rental apartment Pops with "very sugary interior"
Bespoke scalloped edges and a Verner Panton S-Chair feature at the Pops holiday apartment in Kraków, which Furora Studio designed to be more playful than a permanent home. More
Polysmiths refurbishes Walden basement flat to evoke woodland cabin
Architecture studio Polysmiths has redesigned a basement apartment in north London to feel like a "cabin in the woods", surrounding its sunken living area with lush planting. More
Sam Jacob Studio blends architectural references at The Hoxton Mule in London
Diamond-shaped windows puncture the cylindrical brick form of The Hoxton Mule, a playschool and apartment designed by London practice Sam Jacob Studio. More
HTA Design completes Europe's tallest modular residential tower in Croydon
British architecture studio HTA Design has completed a 163-metre-tall apartment building in Croydon, UK, that it claims is "Europe's tallest residential tower to be completed using volumetric construction methods". More
Heryco blends "history and modernity" in renovation of pink apartment block
Local studio Heryco has completed a renovation of a pink apartment building with arches influenced by the form of aqueducts in the city of Querétaro, México. More
Pascali Semerdjian creates Aurora Apartment to hold "two universes" in Brazil
Gut-renovating this São Paulo apartment has allowed Brazilian studio Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos to incorporate the personalities of it occupants, particularly in the bedrooms of the family's two children. More
Sawtooth roof animates Ferrars & York apartment block in Melbourne
A sawtooth roof that references the nearby South Melbourne Market tops Ferrars & York, an apartment block in Australia designed by local studio Six Degrees Architects. More