11. Phantom Restaurant in Paris by Odile Decq
Odile Decq is a French architect who was awarded the 2016 Jane Drew Prize for being “A creative powerhouse, spirited breaker of rules and advocate for equality”. Her project Phantom Restaurant in Paris is a study in colliding temporalities. With red and white biomorphic forms, she experiments with surfaces that bend and undulate.
12. Public farm (P:F:1) Queens, New York by Amale Andraos
Public Farm 1 (P.F.1) Queens, New York was a project commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to the co-founder of WORKac, Amale Andraos. It is a sustained half-acre urban farm made out of elevated cardboard tubes as a folded plane specifically designed to hold 50 different planters of which some tubes extend to the ground as columns offering shaded spaces and seating.
13. The Luigi Bocconi University by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
Designed by Grafton Architects and led by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, The Luigi Bocconi University was awarded the 2008 World Building of the Year Award. It is thought of as a large market hall or place of exchange and the building’s hall acts as a filter between the city and the university.
14. Museo de Sitio Julio C Tello by Sandra Barclay
The Lima-based practice led by architect Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousseused red pigmented concrete to build the geometric shapes of this archaeology museum in Peru, complementing tones in the surrounding arid desert and respecting the existing structure which was destroyed due to an earthquake in 2007.
15. Danish Wadden Sea Centre by Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen
The new Danish Wadden Sea Centre by Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen is an ultramodern, sculptural architecture rooted in local tradition. With a re-conceptualized conversion and extension, the Wadden Sea Centre is a gateway to the UNESCO World Heritage Site – has recently been opened to the public.
16. Los Terrenos by Tatiana Bilbao
Los Terrenos designed by Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao is located on a forested hillside in the northern Mexican city. The architect has used mirrored glass, along with rammed earth and clay bricks, to create a vacation home that blends seamlessly with its surroundings.
17. La Tallera gallery by Frida Escobedo
Frida Escobedo, a Mexican architect, has successfully transformed the former home and studio of painter David Alfaro Siqueiros into an iconic public gallery. The entire complex is engulfed with a triangulated concrete lattice.
18. Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, USA, by Studio Gang
Studio Gang Architects, led by architect Jeanne Gang, designed the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership for a wooded plot on the campus of liberal arts and sciences school Kalamazoo College, in Michigan.
19. Forum of Saint-Louis by Manuelle Gautrand
Designed by Paris-based Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, the Forum of Saint-Louis provides a wholesome venue for sports, exhibitions, and cultural events in the town.
20. Rijnstraat 8, Netherlands, by OMA partner Ellen van Loon
“I have redesigned the building as a super flexible and sustainable multi-ministry building,” explained OMA partner Ellen van Loon, who led the project of the governmental building. OMA was responsible for the restructuring of a governmental office building constructed in the 90s and creating all-new types of workspaces for the Dutch ministries.
