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Charles Smith Wines Tasting Room and World Headquarters , by Olson Kundig Architects (Walla Walla, Wash.): Olson Kundig took a 1917 Johnson Auto Electric building and outfitted it with a tasting room, offices, and retail store, including flexible spaces, such as a large unit that the firm calls the “armadillo.”…

San Francisco-based practice Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has restored a Grade II-listed building in London’s Covent Garden for retail giant Apple. Apple Store Covent Garden is the brand’s largest store in Europe and was the biggest in the world until the Grand Central Station store in New York opened in December 2011…

A house which is flooded with light, which is experienced each season in a different way and they wanted to experience the surrounding from different locations in the house. Abundant glazing, interesting materiality and forms…

High on a hill, above the legendary Great Ocean Road, and overlooking the magnificent Bass Strait, is a new, very quietly calm house by Kerstin Thompson Architects. The clients requested a “solid house”, and the building does answer that desire, with a simple palette of oiled timbers and concrete block walls…

Rural Urban Framework, which is a research and design platform of Joshua Bolchover and John Lin, have a number of attention-grabbing sustainable projects featured on their website. One of them is the Shija Village House, designed as a showcase project intended, according to the architect John Lin, to “change the preconception of Chinese traditional village housing” by being completely self-sufficient…

Designed by award-winning Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey, the transformed building features a two storey extension that will double the size of the previous exhibition space. Providing a platform for an enhanced programme of exhibitions…

In the heart of Sydney lies the Harbour Rocks Hotel, a beautiful yet intimate 59 room boutique hotel, steeped in the history of the famous Rocks precinct…

The Comfort House is a single-family house built according to the ‘passive house’ principle with almost no heating expenses and an optimum inner climate. Architecturally, C. F. Møller’s Comfort House takes its cue from the bright and simple tradition of Nordic modernism…

This project concerns the new build of a large, open single-family house, located in the “Beukendael” development in Tongeren. As regards the design, the client wanted a clear, functional layout.The rooms that would be used most, such as kitchen…

The house is a one-storey bungalow, while the site asked for a response to “living at the water.” The latter is accomplished by making a veranda along the entire length of the building (south), at the most important rooms of the house; from bedroom, to wardrobe…