The Sheep Farm House, located in a treeless landscape northwest of Melbourne, represents a contemporary take on the classic Australian pastoral homestead. The complex, built for a high-tech sheep farm, includes the main house, a guest wing, garage, machine shed, shearing shed, and covered yards. (more…)

From the early 1960s, Zvi Hecker studied the spiral as an archetypal form, in nature and in Arabic architecture. He obsessively analyzed the staircases of minarets, which would lead inward and outward, being passages and places to sojourn at the same time. (more…)

Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky founded Coop Himmelbau in 1968. This is the project that put the Vienna-based architects on the architectural Deconstructivist map. The relatively small-scale commission came from Schuppich, Sporn, and Winischhofer. (more…)

Overtown is the name used for the African-American district of Miami, where this pedestrian zone project is now located. The Overtown pedestrian zone is part of a policy of revitalization, both economical and cultural, to stimulate both private investment and community pride in this historic district. (more…)

The site is in the medieval village of Olite. The architect had to take into account the existence of old galleries constructed in the 11th and 12th centuries, of great historical importance, that were probably the entrance to the cellars of a palace. (more…)

Solid Square forms part of a complex of offices apartments, and services next to Kawasaki section in the Japanese city of Kanagawa, 20 minutes from Tokyo station. It sees both as an entrance atrium for the 100 metres high office blocks and, in the transition zone between the interior and exterior of the building, as a place for relaxation. (more…)