The spatial requirements for the Null Stern (Zero Star) Hotel were simple, if wildly unconventional: no real estate, no walls, no roof.

Rising above a gritty swath of rail lines leading to and from the Porta Garibaldi Station in Milan, an eyecatching urban landmark has made another comeback from a state of disrepair.

Inspired by glowing lanterns, Shanghai-based Neri&Hu has transformed an existing five-story building by Seoul-based architecture and planning firm IROJE into the flagship store for Korean skincare brand Sulwhasoo.

On the east coast of the Jutland Peninsula, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has created a striking landmark for Aarhus, the second-largest Danish city: a sculptural white tower cantilevered over the bay.

Set against a dramatic backdrop of distant mountains and boundless sky, a tiny chapel in Austria’s southernmost state of Carinthia magnifies the intensity and natural beauty of its location.

In 2012, Dutch firm Oving Architekten won a competition to create a protective enclosure for this deteriorating monument to infamy, but wanted their contribution to dissolve into the background.

A curving ladder of sculptural balconies rises above the double-height display windows of UNStudio’s first project in Brussels—a mixed-use block on the highend Avenue de la Toison d’Or.

In the Cilento region of southern Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, Edoardo Tresoldi created Incipit from rolls of wire mesh for the 19th annual Meeting del Mare music festival last June.

“In search of organized complexity” is the motto of Beijing-based firm HHD_FUN, and that’s just what founders Zhenfei Wang, Luming Wang, and principal architect Hongyu Li created with this new park for the 2014 International Horticultural Exposition in Qingdao, on China’s eastern coast.