The site faces the sea and has deep depth….

Tree Hotel by Tham & Videgard Arkitekter
The concept is to create a shelter up in the trees, a light-weight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, a 4×4x4m box clad in mirrored glass. The exterior reflects the surroundings and the sky, creating a camouflaged refuge.
Vernissage TV: Resnick Exhibition Pavilion (Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA) by Renzo Piano
Last week, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA was pre-opened to selected guests with a gala benefit dinner to honor long-time museum patrons Lynda and Stewart Resnick.

Korora, New Zealand by Daniel Marshall Architects
A ridge stretching between the Hauraki Gulf and the pastoral landscape of Waiheke Island provided a stunning, and challenging, context in which to design a home.
schmidt hammer lassen architects wins hospital competition
schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the competition to design the new masterplan and extension of Kolding Hospital in Denmark. The 32,000 m2 extension with a bed ward, an emergency ward and a new main entrance has been designed together with NIRAS, CREO, Balslev and GBL.

STUDIO BANANA TV: Madinat Al Zahra, Cordoba, Nieto Sobejano Architects
A visit to the Madinat al Zahra archaeological site and the allotment reserved for the museum and offices arouses contradictory emotions. On the one hand, nostalgia for a remote, undiscovered past impregnates the landscape stretching towards the Cordoba Hills, while on the other hand, disorderly sprawl of modern buildings creeps disturbingly around the area that was once a palace-city.
OMA completes gallery space in Hong Kong for Edouard Malingue
OMA’s first completed project in Hong Kong opens today: museum-quality exhibition space and offices for the Edouard Malingue Gallery, the city’s first gallery dedicated to Impressionist and Modernist masterpieces.
Watergate Place, Melbourne by Elenberg Fraser
Built on a triangular shaped site between Bourke and Collins Streets, Watergate Place is a unique urban entity. Comprised of identical twin towers rising from a five storey podium, the buildings recognise and subsequently interact with their diverse and complex surrounds of the waterfront, adjacent parklands and the Melbourne CBD.

Brisbane Square opens private doors to public
The iconic home of the Brisbane City Council and Library is opening the doors to some of its private spaces this Saturday.
Dundee V&A museum designs unveiled
Six designs for the V&A Museum planned for Dundee’s waterfront will be unveiled at an exhibition in the city.
The architects were shortlisted in May and asked to submit their designs for the building, due to be opened in 2014 as a centre of 21st Century design.

0300TV Trailer: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Interview / Atelier Bow-Wow
0300tv launched the trailer of Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Interview / Atelier Bow-Wow. Watch it after the jump

Puente Cascara in Madrid opened officially
the puente cascara in madrid by international firm west8 officially opened this month.
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