BIG wins contest for San Pellegrino bottling factory in Italy
Bjarke Ingels has been announced the winner of a competition to design a new headquarters and bottling plant for the soft drinks company San Pellegrino in northern Italy. More
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Tunnel links half-buried winery building in Girona with owner's house
Spanish architects Jorge Vidal and Victor Rahola have partially submerged this Catalan vineyard building in the ground, and linked it to the owner's house by a narrow tunnel. More
Beijing lingerie factory by Crossboundaries encourages workers to spend time outside
A+Awards: Architizer A+Award-winning studio Crossboundaries has created a canyon through the middle of this production facility for a Chinese lingerie brand, which employees can enjoy on their breaks. More
Valdemonjas Winery by Agag+Paredes projects from a hillside in Spain
A+Awards: this wine production and tasting facility emerges from the vine-planted landscape of northern Spain, and was a recipient of a 2016 Architizer A+Award. More
Space Encounters converts Amsterdam factory into greenhouse-filled offices
Glasshouses double as informal meeting spots inside this former warehouse in Amsterdam, which has been converted into offices for a pushchair company by Dutch studio Space Encounters. More
Organic food plant by Arch Studio references China's hutong housing
This organic food-processing plant in China's Hebei Province has been designed by Beijing practice Arch Studio as a series of individual buildings set around courtyards. More
BIG, MVRDV and Snøhetta unveil competing designs for San Pellegrino headquarters
Architecture studios BIG, MVRDV, Snøhetta and Architetto Michele De Lucchi have all unveiled proposals for the new San Pellegrino Flagship Factory in northern Italy (+ slideshow). More
Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design build community-oriented farmhouse in Utah
US firms Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design have completed a new barn in Utah for a family that has been farming the same land since the 1800s (+ slideshow). More
Le Corbusier's Claude et Duval Factory demonstrates his Modulor proportion system
World Heritage Corb: French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's humble hosiery factory in France was one of the first buildings designed with proportions based on his innovative Modulor system, and has recently been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). More
Philippe Starck and Luc Arsène-Henry build steel wine cellar for Château les Carmes Haut-Brion
French designer Philippe Starck has teamed up with architect pal Luc Arsène-Henry to create a cellar for a Bordeaux wine estate, designed to to look like a "raw metal blade plunged in the terroir" (+ slideshow). More
Joanne Chen designs factory for London artisans based on the teachings of William Morris
Graduate shows 2016: Bartlett graduate Joanne Chen has designed a factory that includes leisure and education facilities, based on the Socialist ideals set out by designer and activist William Morris in the late 19th century. More
Zaha Hadid's BMW Central Building is "a radical piece of thinking," says Amanda Levete
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: British architect Amanda Levete explains why the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is her favourite Zaha Hadid project in the next movie in our exclusive video series. More
Hemsworth creates all-wood Passivhaus factory in a mountainous region of Canada
Canadian firm Hemsworth Architecture has completed a factory in British Columbia that utilises the products created within the facility: prefabricated wall panels intended for eco-friendly Passivhaus construction (+ slideshow). More
ZGF conceals a Stanford University power plant behind metal screens
Oregon-based ZGF Architects has used a variety of design elements to help minimise the visual impact of a new energy facility on Stanford University's scenic campus (+ slideshow). More
Kengo Kuma anchors Japanese textile showroom to the ground with carbon-fibre threads
Kengo Kuma's firm has converted a concrete office building into a showroom for a Japanese textile company, and tethered it to the ground with carbon fibres to provide earthquake protection (+ slideshow). More
Sogokagu furniture showroom by Kengo Kuma features wavy translucent walls
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has built a showroom and production facility for a Japanese furniture manufacturer, which features both translucent undulating walls and a simple rectangular roof. More
Casey Brown builds metal-clad house and stables in an Australian national park
Corrugated iron and pre-weathered steel clad this shed-like house and stables, completed by Casey Brown Architects in the bushland of Australia's Kosciuszko National Park (+ slideshow). More
Enzo Eusebi builds sunken prosciutto factory in the Italian countryside
Haunches of ham are displayed in rows behind the glazed facade of this semi-underground prosciutto factory, which sits beneath a grassy roof in Italy's hilly Umbrian countryside (+ slideshow). More
World's largest waste-to-energy plant proposed for Shenzhen
Danish firms Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects have won a competition to design the world's largest waste-to-energy power plant in China (+ movie). More
Alves de Sousa winery is a black brick box that emerges from its hillside site
Perched on a hillside overlooking the vineyards of Portugal's Baixo Corgo region, this wine-making facility and visitor centre is clad entirely in black brick to minimise its visual impact on the surrounding landscape (+ slideshow). More