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.

Inspired by glowing lanterns, Shanghai-based Neri&Hu has transformed an existing five-story building by Seoul-based architecture and planning firm IROJE into the flagship store for Korean skincare brand Sulwhasoo.

On the east coast of the Jutland Peninsula, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has created a striking landmark for Aarhus, the second-largest Danish city: a sculptural white tower cantilevered over the bay.

Set against a dramatic backdrop of distant mountains and boundless sky, a tiny chapel in Austria’s southernmost state of Carinthia magnifies the intensity and natural beauty of its location.

In 2012, Dutch firm Oving Architekten won a competition to create a protective enclosure for this deteriorating monument to infamy, but wanted their contribution to dissolve into the background.