Axo Architects has designed a Benedictine monastery on the edge of Pollacappul Lough in Connemara, County Galway – the first female monastery to be built in Ireland for over 400 years. Cormac Murray enjoys the understated confidence of a contemplative building informed by a nuanced response to context and a long-standing relationship between architect and client.
Rising from the landscape beside Yanzi Lake, Shenzhen Natural History Museum by 3XN, B+H Architects and Zhubo Design establishes a new cultural landmark for South China while blurring the boundaries between museum, landscape and public space.
Conceived as an attempt to translate lessons from European modernist housing into a distinctly American – and more specifically African American – idiom, Washington, D.C.’s first public housing development survives as a vital refuge from the city’s spiralling housing costs.
Designed by dichter Architekturgesellschaft, Museum Friedland Phase 2 extends one of Germany’s most significant migration museums with a new visitor and documentation centre that links the historic railway station to the active transit camp beyond.
A near-verbatim recitation of the great New York apartments of yesteryear, Robert A.M. Stern’s ‘Limestone Jesus’ heralded a major architectural trend and delivered one of the most commercially successful condominium developments in the history of the city.
Rodić Davidson Architects’ Chelsea mews house unites domestic life with museum-grade conservation for a treasured couture collection.
Renner Hainke Wirth Zirn Architekten and WDJArchitecten have transformed a listed early-20th-century coffee warehouse in Rotterdam into a spectacular new home for the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
Peer Collective and artist Kateřina Šedá reimagine the Christmas market as a public space for reflection, sobriety and shared experience in Brno, Czech Republic.
Designed by Foster + Partners, the UAE’s national museum in Abu Dhabi explores the history, identity and legacy of the nation through striking architecture, immersive displays, and a high-performance environmental strategy.
Kevin Roche’s only completed commission in his home town survived bureaucratic infighting, spiralling budgets and public disdain to become a catalyst for the revival of Dublin’s Docklands as a thriving business district.
A contemplative structure designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Balkrishna Doshi, in collaboration with his granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof, is the latest addition to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein.
