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
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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
Grimshaw Architects completes third UK manufacturing facility for Herman Miller
Nicholas Grimshaw has completed a factory in the English town of Melksham for American furniture brand Herman Miller, 40 years after designing the company's first UK production facility (+ slideshow). More
NAPUR Architect creates circuitboard pattern on facade of Super Computer Centre
The facade of this computer research centre at Hungary's University of Debrecen has been designed to reflect its function, with a grooved pattern inspired by a circuitboard (+ slideshow). More
Ribeiro de Carvalho updates century-old Portuguese winery with new metal-clad building
Portuguese firm Ribeiro de Carvalho Arquitectos has completed a winery at an estate in Alentejo, featuring a wide balcony facing out over the vineyards (+ slideshow). More
Studio Drift installs moving Shylights in disused Eindhoven building
Dutch Design Week 2015: design firm Studio Drift has installed flower-like lamps, which randomly rise and fall as they "bloom", inside an empty Eindhoven factory (+ movie). More
Umwelt creates perforated concrete bunker for a television channel in Chile
A grid of concrete encases this television transmission centre on the summit of San Cristóbal Hill in Santiago, Chile, which has recently been renovated by architecture studio Umwelt. More
Warehouse in Portugal by João Mendes Ribeiro used to exhibit Andy Warhol artwork
Portuguese architect João Mendes Ribeiro designed this corrugated steel and concrete warehouse for a components manufacturer, but prior to moving in its art collector-owner filled the space with work by Andy Warhol, John Baldessari and Antony Gormley (+ slideshow). More
AA Studio transforms industrial building in Tribeca into creative hub
New York firm AA Studio, in collaboration with Morris Adjmi Architects, has converted a telephone exchange building in Tribeca into a creative services venue, with loft-style areas for photo shoots, film production and fashion shows (+ slideshow). More
Archipl-Architects converts former washing machine factory into light-filled workplace
Archipl-Architects has converted a 19th-century factory into the regional headquarters for a care home in Ghent, Belgium (+ slideshow). More
Heroic Food Farm in rural New York will provide housing and training for military veterans
A masterplan by Ennead Architects and RAFT Landscape Architecture for a nonprofit farm in New York aims to address two problems in the US: high unemployment among military veterans and a shortage of agricultural workers. More
BAR Architects nestles a winery into a hilly California landscape
San Francisco-based BAR Architects has completed a California winery designed to match the colours and textures of its natural surroundings (+ slideshow). More
Prefab blocks used to build cafe at a modular construction factory in the Czech Republic
Chybik+Kristof Associated Architects stacked prefabricated construction modules horizontally and vertically to create this staff cafeteria at the factory where they are produced (+ slideshow). More
Perforated metal sheets concertina across the facade of an office extension in Lund
Swedish firms Johan Sundberg Arkitektur and Blasberg Andréasson Arkitekter used sheets of perforated metal to create a faceted facade for this office extension on a Lund industrial estate, helping to "break up the area's mediocrity" (+ slideshow). More
Pop Up Luggage Space by TomDavid has walls that recede like an "inverted umbrella"
Curtain-like walls can be drawn up to the ceiling of this luggage-sorting space in Rotterdam's port, minimising its impact on the 1940s cruise terminal building behind (+ movie). More
Leers Weinzapfel wraps water-cooling plant in a copper-coloured screen
Boston-based Leers Weinzapfel Associates has completed a water-cooling facility at Ohio State University that is sheathed in a copper-coloured aluminium screen (+slideshow). More
Ludescher and Lutz add a tasting hall to a winery in Austria's Wachau region
Thin wooden batons screen the glass facades of this new building that architects Elmar Ludescher and Philip Lutz have added to the 50-year-old Högl winery in Lower Austria (+ slideshow). More
Foster + Partners adds a new winery to the Château Margaux estate
Foster + Partners has added a glass-fronted winery framed by tree-shaped columns to the historic Château Margaux wine estate outside Bordeaux (+ slideshow). More
Gottlieb Paludan Architects fuels Copenhagen's ambition to become carbon-neutral by 2025
Danish firm Gottlieb Paludan Architects has seen off competition from BIG, Henning Larsen Architects and 3XN to win a project designing a new biomass-fired heating and energy plant in Copenhagen. More
CF Møller plans Denmark's largest sewage-pumping station
Scandinavian architecture firm CF Møller has presented its plans to build Denmark's largest sewage-pumping station in Copenhagen. More