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A combined brewery, bar, and general store in Kamikatsu, Japan, takes recycling to new heights.

While building a 43-story skyscraper in downtown Vancouver, the Tokyo-based firm also embarked on a smaller project for its developer.

Developed for the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal, this utopian modular-housing system married urban density with the spaciousness and individuality of suburban houses.

Organizers of an arts and illustration festival collaborated with local officials to revitalize a decaying park in the Italian city of Alessandria.

A design team restores the ornamental elements of an Art Nouveau building in the Southern Italian town of Corato to their original luster.

In a dense residential area just west of Seoul, South Korea, a church’s sculptural form breaks up the surrounding cityscape of banal apartment towers. 

Jakob + MacFarlane’s new 260-square-foot Frédéric Malle perfume boutique in Paris’s Marais district reflects an ambience that is as majestic as it is aromatic.

Among the dozens of temporary installations erected at this summer’s weeklong Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, Tangential Dreams—an undulant timber tower designed by French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani—was a celebration of mathematics, teamwork, and free spirit.

The spatial requirements for the Null Stern (Zero Star) Hotel were simple, if wildly unconventional: no real estate, no walls, no roof.

Rising above a gritty swath of rail lines leading to and from the Porta Garibaldi Station in Milan, an eyecatching urban landmark has made another comeback from a state of disrepair.