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Projects is the place where we bring together the most inspiring stories in global architecture and design. From world-famous cultural landmarks and contemporary museums, to experimental pavilions, and everyday public spaces, this category showcases how architecture shapes the way we live, work, travel, and connect with one another. Each feature reveals how design is not only about form and aesthetics, but also about improving communities, celebrating culture, and responding to pressing challenges like climate change and urban growth.

Here you’ll discover a curated collection of architectural icons and hidden gems from across the world, projects that reveal the creativity, ambition, and problem-solving spirit of today’s architects, studios, and designers. Whether it’s sustainable housing, innovative urban planning, or digital fabrication in practice, each project opens a window into the evolving relationship between people, technology, and the built environment. This is where the future of architecture comes into focus, told through the works that inspire, provoke, and define our time.

Perspectives by Giles Miller Studio in United Kingdom ‘Perspectives’ is an organic pavilion structure covered with Cedar Shingles, which sits atop…

Familiar yet distinct, the City and Art museum in Ordos appears to have either landed in the desert from another world or to always have existed. From atop a dune-like urban plaza, the building is enriched with a convergence of naturalistic interiors, bathed in light. The result is a timeless architecture in a modern city of ruins.

The urban design task of the Dalian International Conference Center is to create an instantly recognizable landmark at the terminal point of the future extension of the main city axis. As its focal point the building will be anchored in the mental landscape of the population and the international community.

The Bund Finance Centre is a prominent new mixed-use development close to the Shanghai waterfront and has been designed jointly by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio. Occupying a prominent site on the Bund, the buildings define the ‘end point’ to Shanghai’s most famous street. The masterplan is highly permeable for pedestrians, with the design conceived as a point of connection between the old town and the new financial district.