Architecture

Award winning Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza designed Rotonda House at the summit of a hill, north of Madrid. The building captures a 360° panoramic landscape from the belvedere situated above a two storey podium made of local limestone. The building is based on a 12m by 12m grid divided into nine 4m x 4m squares, giving it a Palladian flavour. Photo Javier Callejas. Alberto Campo Baeza

Architect Sir David Chipperfield has been awarded the 2023 Laureate of The Pritzker Architecture Prize. Accepting the prize, David Chipperfield remarked that as architects we have a 'role in creating not only a more beautiful world but a fairer and more sustainable one too'. The significant contribution to world architecture spans over four decades and includes over a hundred works including civic, cultural, academic, housing and urban master planning. Photo Richard Bryant / Arcaid.  Pritzker Prize, David Chipperfield Architects.

Ludwig Godefroy has created a monolithic concrete house in the middle of a forest outside Mexico City. Contrasting with the concrete interiors is a playful arrangement of top-lit spaces featuring a triple-height living space. Photo Rory Gardiner. Ludwig Godefroy

The New Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge by Naill Mc Laughlin Architects has been awarded the 26th RIBA Stirling Prize. This modern building respects the historic context, uses passive ventilation and natural lighting to minimise energy use and is designed to last in excess of 400 years. Photo Nick Kane. RIBA

The Red House by David Kohn Architects is RIBA's House of the Year 2022. The house in Dorset takes inspiration from the Arts and Crafts movement and is a playful and colourful addition to the landscape. The project features thick walls, deep eaves and steel piles with a slate roof providing a home to the local bat population. Photo Will Pryce.  RIBA, David Kohn Architects

The influential modernist architect Mies van der Rohe built two private villas, Haus Lange and Haus Esters, between 1927 and 1930. Steel is used as the main structural element for the buildings, with a brick covering, allowing large openings that were not previously possible in load-bearing brick buildings. The buildings in Krefeld have been preserved and are now used as exhibition spaces by the Kunstmuseen Krefeld. Photo Volker Döhne © VG Bill-Kunst, Bonn 2019. Kunstmuseenkrefeld

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Sir David Adjaye's significant influence on the advancement of architecture over the last 25 years has been recognised with the UK's highest honour for architecture, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. His completed projects range from private homes to major art centres and include the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, and Ruby City, an art centre in San Antonio Texas. Photo credit Josh Huskin

Dominique Coulon and Associates designed the replacement for the historic theatre in Freyming-Merleback. The 'Théodore Gouvy' Theatre is situated close to the town centre and has become a symbol of the town's renewal. Dominique Coulon & Associates

The Amsterdam-based practice, Civic Architects, has transformed the former locomotive shed in Tilburg, Netherlands to create the Lochal Library which incorporates co-working and events space. The Lochal is situated in the railway zone adjacent to the Central Station which is being transformed to form the new heart of the city. Photo © Stijn Bollaert. Civic Architects

Carmody Groarke created two pavilions on the grounds of a rural family house. One of the pavilions is made of board-marked concrete connected to the house by a 40m tunnel. The other is the renovation of the ruins of an 18th-century farmhouse, by completing the walls in concrete and adding a new plate steel roof. Photo Johan Dehlin.  Carmody Groarke Architects

Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor has completed his first permanent UK building for Living Architecture, who commissioned thought-provoking holiday homes by leading contemporary architects. The building named 'Secular Retreat' sits on a Devon hilltop enjoying stunning views and is made of hand-rammed concrete and glass. Photo © Jack Hobhouse/Living Architecture. Living Architecture.

6a Architects created Cowan Court, a new hall of residence for the 1960s Churchill College Cambridge, which is listed in recognition of  it being a fine example of British Brutalism. The building was awarded the 2017 RIBA East award. 6a architects was founded by Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald in 2001. Photograph by David Grandorge.  6a Architects

Architect Balkrishna Doshi has been named the 45th Pritzer Prize Laureate. Balkrishna Doshi is responsible for the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore, 1977-1992), the Aranya Low Cost Housing (Indore, 1989) and his Sangath Studio (Ahmedabad, 1980). Photo Pritzker Prize / VSF. Pritzker Prize

Carmody Groake have extended the studio of artist Julian Opie. In the mid 19th century the building was used as as a furniture workshop. The building has now been extended with a series of aluminium clad boxes which bring daylight deep into the plan. Photo Johan Dehlin. Carmody Groarke 

Tony Fretton Architects transformed an existing building in 1986 and created a new building in 1992 to form the Lisson Gallery. Founded in 1982, Tony Fretton Architects is an international practice based in London. Photo Mark Pimlott / Peter Cook. Tony Fretton

R7 is a mixed use office building at Kings Cross designed by Duggan Morris Architects, a London practice established in 2004. The building's façade is constructed of lightweight aluminum that has thin and elegant profiles to accentuate a fine structure. Photo Jack Hobhouse. Duggan Morris 

Gigon Guyer's detached house in Zurich has a hexagonal volume on a trapezoid-shaped plot.The exterior walls and the roof are load-bearing concrete, and large windows open by sliding into a recess between the outer concrete and the inner brick wall. The main living room is on the upper floor, where the ceiling rises from 2.4m to 5.2m. Photo © Maurice Haas / © Lucas Peters. Gigon / Guyer

This new detached family house creates a strong relationship between its context, its external form and the composition of its internal spaces. Brick is used externally and internally and the sculptural use of brick provides a coherence with the surrounding houses in North London. Photograph Helene Binet. Carmody Groarke

O'Donnell Tuomey architects create a community centre on reclaimed land in East Wall. O'Donnell Tuomey

Award-winning architect John Pawson designed 'The Life House' as a retreat for calm and reflection for philosopher Alain de Botton's Living Architecture holiday home project. The house is situated in a Welsh valley and constructed using handmade Danish bricks, polished concrete floors and Douglas fir timber ceilings, doors and furniture. Photo © Jack Hobhouse. John Pawson. Living Architecture

Newport Street Gallery involved the conversion and transformation of a street facing a railway line in Vauxhall, south London, into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst's private art collection. Three listed Victorian industrial buildings, formerly carpentry and scenery painting workshops for West End theatres, have been remodelled and flanked at either end by entirely new buildings; one with a spiky saw-tooth roof. Photo Hélène Binet / Prudence Cuming Associates. RIBA. Caruso St John