Snøhetta's Beijing Sub-Center Library will feature glazed walls and tree-shaped columns, as well as a forest canopy-like roof. Visitors will enjoy a light-filled environment that plays on the idea of sitting under a tree and reading a book.

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If you were building a wooden structure by hand, it would be hard to lift the wooden components, place them in alignment, then keep them aligned as they were glued together. That's why a Swiss team is using robots to shoulder much of the workload.

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From a house with its own skate ramp to a swimming pool in the sky, some pretty wild architecture popped up in 2021. Here's our pick of this year's top architectural oddities.

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Taking the overall form of a massive nomadic tent pitched in the Qatar desert landscape, the Al Bayt Stadium is yet another major stadium to be inaugurated ready for the upcoming FIFA World Cup soccer tournament being held in the country next year.

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This year's winner of the prestigious RIBA House of the Year competition has been announced. The award has gone to Alison Brooks Architects for its sympathetic work renovating and extending a stone farmhouse in Gloucestershire, England.

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Hired to design a vacation home in an avocado field while leaving the field itself intact, Francisco Pardo Arquitecto decided on the radical plan of burying it. The resulting Avocado House blends into the landscape so well that it's barely visible.

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For its latest project, MVRDV turned a tired old factory in Shenzhen, China, into a bustling modern office. The building has been extended and modernized, and features a staircase running through it, offering access to a rooftop park.

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White Arkitekter recently completed an ambitious timber building named Nodi. The mixed-use office has an unusual overall form that increases in width as it rises and looks almost like it has been turned upside-down.

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MVRDV puts the O in home – literally – with this unusual residential project slated for Germany. One of four buildings that will eventually spell out HOME, the donut-shaped high-rise showcases the firm's flair for lighthearted, quirky architecture.

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MAD Architects has unveiled plans for a new high-rise in Denver. One River North will be defined by its eye-catching facade, which looks like it has been torn open by an earthquake or some other cataclysmic event and has greenery growing through it.

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