It seems like New York firms have a thing for bay windows, but not the usual symmetrical bays prevalent in residential architecture. I’m talking about angled bays that project from facades asymmetrically to orient views and jazz up building exteriors.

Brooklyn architects Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) have designed a rooftop landscape of allotments to showcase green roof technologies on an industrial building in Queens, New York City.

In 2003, two Swiss farmers commissioned Localarchitecture to design a free-stall barn for 30 cows. The brief for the design was to minimize earthworks and provide a balance of cuts and fills.

The size, location, shape and spatial organisation of the Apartment House Gradaška outrank all the neighbouring, almost village-like constructions. It is an independent building. There are twelve different and individualised apartments in it.

WHEN Kenneth Hillan and his partner, Duncan Robertson, requested that an 80-foot lap pool be built in the hilltop meadow outside their new Marin County, Calif., house several years ago, Bernard Trainor, a garden designer known for ecology-minded landscapes, could have balked.

Northumberland’s glorious new timber observatory fits beautifully into its forest surroundings. Jonathan Glancey took along his telescope

While the devastating Sichuan earthquake in May left a large portion of Western China in ruins, signs are emerging that some notable building projects in the area are pushing forward. One of these projects is the Art Museum of Yue Minjun, designed by Beijing-based Studio Pei-Zhu, a 2007 Design Vanguard winner.

Located near the Qingcheng Mountains, and adjacent to the Shimeng River in Sichuan Province, the 10,700-square-foot museum will house the work of Yue Minjun, a Chinese contemporary artist known for his repetitive images of large, smiling figures.