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Highly Commended: Kumon School by Takashi Yonezawa

Kumon School by Takashi Yonezawa, Kyoto, Japan Subscription Required

23 November 2011

Yonezawa’s school design crafts an energetic narrative for learning in Kyoto, offering a new tone for educational design protocol in Japan

Freya’s Cabin, Kielder Water, Northumberland by Studio Weave

Copper Awards: Judges' Special Prize Subscription Required

1 November 2011

Freya’s Cabin, Kielder Water, Northumberland by Studio Weave

Metropol Parasol by Jürgen Mayer H. Architekten, Seville, Spain

Metropol Parasol by Jürgen Mayer H. Architekten, Seville, Spain

27 May 2011 | By Michael Webb

Civic icon, shady plaza, farmer’s market, archaeological museum and belvedere: Seville’s newest landmark is versatile and site-specific. Photography by Paul Raftery

Médiathèque by Pascale Guédot, Orloron-Sainte-Marie, France

Médiathèque by Pascale Guédot, Orloron-Sainte-Marie, France Subscription Required

27 May 2011 | By Catherine Slessor

Poised at the confluence of the Rivers Aspe and Ossau, Pascale Guédot’s Médiathèque re-animates a former industrial site in Oloron-Sainte Marie, a town at the edge of the Pyrénées in south-west France. Photography by Gaston F Bergeret

The British Embassy sits on the east-facing slope of the Krtsanisi Hills, gliding over its contours and taking in spectacular views of the Kura Valley and the city beyond

British Embassy by Michael Wilford, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia Subscription Required

30 March 2011 | By Max Moran

With an emphasis on local context in material choice and ornamentation, Michael Wilford designs with the ever present matters of security still in mind. Photography by Dennis Gilbert

AR 1993 June - Provocative Pyrotechnics by John Winter page one & two

AR 1993 June: Zaha's provocative pyrotechnics Subscription Required

21 February 2011 | By John Winter

[ARCHIVE] Zaha Hadid’s long awaited first major building is a characteristically confrontational project that transforms a prosaic brief for a fire station into a breathtaking explosion of space and geometry, writes John Winter

The Vanke Centre sits within a new landscape setting, between the mountains and coastline of Shenzhen

Vanke Centre by Steven Holl Architects, Shenzhen, China Subscription Required

June 2010 | By Rob Gregory

Steven Holl Architects inspire Chinese developers to raise their game and create a mamouth groundscape above a new public park. Photography by Christian Richters

With no brief in relation to what this building should represent, it presents Fretton’s notion of ‘refined office as embassy

British Embassy by Tony Fretton Architects, Warsaw, Poland Subscription Required

1 March 2010 | By Rob Gregory

Tony Fretton creates a restrained and refined, high quality office space to house the British Embassy in Poland. Photography by Christian Richters

The centre’s architecture blends regional tectonic tradition with echoes of British high-tech

Hastings Street Visitor Information Centre by Bark Design Architects, Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia Subscription Required

1 August 2009 | By Rob Gregory

Bark Design Architects create an architectural anchor for the resort town of Noosa Heads in the form of a new information centre. Photography by Christopher Frederick Jones

Barcelona’s new City of Justice is a modern legal factory, uniting the city’s courts in one mega complex

City of Justice by David Chipperfield Architects/b720, Barcelona, Spain Subscription Required

1 July 2009 | By Rowan Moore

David Chipperfield attempts to develop a appropriate aesthetic for a model legal factory. Photography by Christian Richters

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