The new Palm Court building in Miami's Design District is a jeweler's row, concentrating luxury brands like A. Lange & Söhne, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and Piaget in a line.
The modular aluminum-clad Element House sits lightly on its rugged site, seemingly untethered—a weightless antithesis to the dense adobe architecture ubiquitous in the region.
Steirereck restaurant, located in Vienna's lush Stadtpark, is celebrated for its modern Austrian cuisine (think wiener schnitzel with a gluten disclaimer), but the main course is a new addition by local firm PPAG Architects.
The towers that comprise Zaha Hadid's latest project may look precarious, but they are certainly not faulty: “They change shape and geometry as you move up,” explains project director Michele Pasca di Magliano.
Beyond its demure exterior, which is clad in the same gray stone that paves the adjacent square, the Markthal Rotterdam, like a ripe fruit sliced open, reveals its rich offerings inside.
During a family vacation to Syria in 2009, architectural photographer Peter Aaron captured many of the country's landmarks—historic mosques, Roman ruins, ancient citadels.
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