Architect designs own house with white tower in Puglia
Architect Lorenzo Grifantini stacked the bedrooms of his own house in Puglia, Italy, inside a 12-metre-high white tower overlooking a large courtyard. More
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Nomo Studio creates angular stacked holiday home in Menorca
The rocky north coast and traditional white-washed buildings of Menorca inform the irregularly stacked boxes of a holiday home in Coves Noves by architects Nomo Studio. More
Bonba Studio encases extension in Barcelona in white metal mesh
White metal mesh filters daylight into the terrace of this extension of a 1950s detached home in Barcelona by Bonba Studio. More
Bell Phillips builds curved white-brick pavilion in London park
A sweeping, white-brick pavilion in Southwark Park in London by architecture studio Bell Phillips curves along the park's historic pathways. 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
Prison inmates help build cracked-open Church of the Penitent Thief in Italy
The Church of the Penitent Thief in Bologna, Italy, is housed in a gabled white volume cleaved in two by a glazed crack and was built with the help of inmates of La Dozza prison. More
Snaking canopy covers open-air hotpot restaurant in Chinese forest
A canopy supported by slim white columns covers a hotpot restaurant by MUDA Architects in Chengdu, China which hugs the edge of a lotus pond in a eucalyptus forest. More
White concrete shutters front Brazilian university building
A covered street cuts through this new university campus building in northern Brazil designed by Rede Arquitetos, Croquis Projetos and Neudson Braga, providing a shaded and breezy area for students to socialise between classes. More
Henning Larsen completes iceberg-like opera house in Hangzhou
Henning Larsen designed the white angular volumes of Hangzhou Yuhang Opera to look like ice floes on a lake. More
OJT completes sculptural affordable housing in New Orleans
American firm Office of Jonathan Tate has completed a cluster of sculptural white homes on an urban New Orleans site that are meant to attract buyers on a limited budget. More
UNStudio develops The Coolest White paint to cool down our cities
UNStudio and Monopol Colors have created an extremely reflective white paint that can reduce the amount of heat buildings absorb and cool cities in the face of climate change. More
Jean-Paul Viguier completes high-security Banque de France building
French architect Jean-Paul Viguier chose white perforated metal to clad the three monolithic volumes of a secure cash-processing centre for a bank in Paris.
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Skylights and stairways puncture Studio Libeskind's MO Museum in Lithuania
Black and white stairways splice and spiral through the Studio Libeskind-designed MO Museum of modern art in Vilnius, Lithuania. More
Schaum/Shieh covers Houston art gallery in sculptural white panels
Sculptural white stucco panels and small triangular windows define the facades of this gallery by US studio Schaum/Shieh, which is meant to appear like it could "blow away in the wind". More
Gabled tombs sit within serene courtyards at Italian cemetery
Mirco Simonato Architetto has added white-walled courtyards and simple gabled tombs to a cemetery in Megliadino San Vitale, northern Italy. More
Bouroullec brothers create Kvadrat showroom with "no colours, just materials"
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed a predominantly white Copenhagen showroom for Danish textile brand Kvadrat, so that the fabrics can take centre stage. More
HASA Architects transforms London apartment into "seamless white box"
HASA Architects has turned a dark and dingy apartment on the second floor of a three-storey Edwardian Terrace in London's Bankside into an all-white minimalist family home. More
Shallow pools mirror sugar-cube suites at Hotel Mar Adentro by Taller Aragonés
White blocks containing guest accommodation appear to float on expansive reflecting pools at this minimalist Mexican hotel by Taller Aragonés. More
Abraham Cota Paredes' inward-looking Cave House features huge window to tree-planted atrium
Behind the white walls of this house in Mexico, architect Abraham Cota Paredes has carved out a courtyard and added a huge window to offer views of a tree planted inside. More
Eduardo Souto de Moura's House in the Serra Arrábida overlooks huge Portuguese park
The bright white walls of this house by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura are in stark contrast to the vibrant greenery of its setting, in a mountainous park on the outskirts of Lisbon. More