Architects ONL (Oosterhuis Lénárd) have designed a whale-shaped building between two existing warehouses on the banks of the river Danube in Budapest, Hungary. The project also involves the renovation of the warehouses, which will be shortened by 20 metres to make way for a new square. The 27,000 square metre development will be used as a cultural and commercial centre with a large event hall, retail units and catering units; building is due for completion in 2010.

This little magical summer house was built in England in 2005 by architects Ullmayer Sylvester. It’s got a very DIY interior, and the exterior is the perfect, minimalist folded mirror. The house is further accentuated by being inside such a great landscape: a thin lot with lots of decking and flowers and ornamental grasses. It also looks like it didn’t cost a fortune, like anyone could have one. If they have a little slice of pretty England to built it in.

The Dutch architects have completed Star Place department store in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The structure centres around a 10-storey atrium, where each escalator spirals up to the next floor. The concept for the interior organization of the department store reacts to the ambition to develop a luxurious store on several floors with multiple access points. Called Ta Lee Plaza during development, the completed building has been renamed Star Place.

The project is a 60 sqm temporary art gallery built for an exhibition in Brasília that took place between august and october of 2008. The gallery´s exhibition displayed paintings and portraits of contemporary and modern brazilian painters such as Zive Giudice and Candido Portinari. The basic idea was to create an exhibition space that was half opaque and half translucent for exhibiting the paintings and a roofless garden by its side, all wrapped by a skin made of precast concrete blocks of different patterns placed in a random combination.

The Westside shopping and leisure complex in the outskirts of Bern is Libeskind’s first finished building in Europe, purely dedicated to a commercial program. The architecture and design of the building has strong similarities to Libeskind’s museum projects like the Jewish Museum Berlin or the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück.Westside offers a book shop devoted to the architecture of the shopping mall and the architecture of Daniel Libeskind.

Boxhome is a small, residential project in Oslo by Norwegian architects Rintala Eggertsson.The 19 square metre dwelling with four rooms covering the basic living functions: kitchen with dining, bathroom, living room and bedroom.Firstly, the project focuses on the quality of space, materials and natural light, and tries to reduce unnecessary floor area. It is constructed using a timber frame and is clad in aluminium. Internally, a different species of wood was chosen for each room.

Placed in a constant traffic corner, in front of a shopping center access square and Sordo Madaleno’s San Ignacio Church. The project plays the condition of being a building that takes control of the urban life and the best views in this sector of Mexico City, at the same time, is a private building and in a neighborhood scale that conserves the Polanco Colony character. The project is constituted by 6 luxury departments, of diverse dimensions to offer each one of them different qualities.

The Gardiner Museum is one of the world’s pre-eminent institutions devoted to ceramic art, and the only museum of its kind in Canada. It is also one of the major projects in Toronto’s cultural renaissance. Framed between the neoclassical Lillian Massey building to the north and the Queen Anne-style Margaret Addison Hall to the south, the renewal creates a bolder, more welcoming urban presence for the Gardiner. Inside, the interior is completely transformed to prioritize the display of the museum’s collections and to create a memorable, inviting visitor experience.

The Starn Brothers, every 1989 college student’s favorite artists, are back! They are finishing up construction on a large installation in the South Ferry Station of the New York City Subway called See It Split, See It Change. Their focus on unnerving closeups of nature has not changed, nor has their geeky obsession with new materials. In this case a curved, fused glass printing technique that will last a century and took a year to develop.