As the organization’s first permanent home, the Institute’s headquarters are specifically designed to support the critical mission of international conflict management, and include administrative offices, research facilities etc. Archi.: Safdie Architects, USA.

Expected to cost $1.2 billion to construct, Kingdom Tower will be a mixed-use building featuring a luxury hotel, office space, serviced apartments, luxury condominiums and the world’s highest observatory. Archi.: Smith + Gill Architectre LLP, Chicago/USA.

Resembling a letter X, the building consists of two wings connected by a glazed lobby. This shape of building allows for the optimum use of the plot and allows for maximum flexibility as regards the layout of office space. Architect: Horizone studio

With the European Extremely Large Telescope on the horizon, ESO needed a cradle for the technological innovations that the ambitious project will require. The technical building will be the focal point of this work. Arch.: Auer Weber Architekten BDA

Bringing together the various agencies and functions of the United Nations regional offices in Copenhagen, the new Head Office is located at the northern harbour of Copenhagen. Architects: 3XN A/S, Copenhagen/Denmark.

The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have been commissioned with the design of a new urban development project on a 45 hectare site in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

This home in Malverns, Australia, encases, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, open plan living, first floor retreat and three outdoor entertainment areas including alfresco dining and BBQ. Archi.: Knight Building Group, Australia.

Located in one of the DC’s oldest African-American neighborhoods, it is a joint-use facility that features educational, recreational, and athletic programs. Archi.: Perkins Eastman

With the completion of the transport and landscaped areas, the extension of the workshops for the scenery and costumes of the Städtische Bühnen were completed for the new 2014/2015 season. Archi.: gmp Architects, Hamburg.

Passive House Bruck is the first housing of it’s kind to be realized in the countries damp, warm, southern climate with an app. 95% energy saving and certified by the German Passivhaus Institut. Arch.: Peter Ruge Architekten

Designed and planned by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer and constructed within three years in a heroic tour de force, Brasília is the only new 20th-century city to be declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO.

With its oval form and a metal façade that almost seems to be flowing, the main building of the InterContinental Davos Hotel has become an unmistakable new landmark. Archi.: Oikios GmbH München

The Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Azerbaijan's capital Baku at Crystal Hall. Alpine Bau Deutschland GmbH, the general contractor for the project, was contracted to design and implement a multipurpose event-venue. Arch.: gmp-Architects

Steven Holl Architects has been selected as the winner of the new Culture and Art Center of Qingdao City competition. The 2 million sq ft project for four museums is the heart of the new extension of Qingdao.

Benoy, the international firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers is delighted to announce the opening of The Galleria - a super-luxury retail and dining destination - on Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi.

Benoy, the award-winning firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, has celebrated the opening of South Korea’s largest shopping centre, LOTTE World Mall, in Seoul, South-Korea.

The Huizhou Huamao Center is a vibrant retail, commercial, and residential destination in Huizhou City. It is the final piece of a comprehensive city master plan, presenting a momentous opportunity to reinforce the overall plan. Arch.: Perkins Eastman

Dublin Airport´s 75.000 m² Terminal 2 has been designed specifically with the traveller´s needs in mind. The visually striking building makes maximum use of natural daylight. Archi.: Pascall+Watson, London/UK.

The new building for the technical faculty of the German university Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) is to be a lighthouse project for academic learning. Archi.: 3 XN A/S Copenhagen, Denmark.

Visits to Addiriyah were of critical importance to understanding how nature’s all-important role in the surrounding territory sees it serving and the configuration and even the material essence of the architecture. Archi.: Studio Schiattarella

In the southern Chinese city of Dongguan a basketball stadium has been completed to plans by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp). The building can be seen from afar and is a landmarkin the new district of Liaobu.

The design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, with JB Ferrari, for a new children’s hospital at the Lausanne University Hospital has won first prize in an international competition. The hospital is scheduled to open in 2019.

In 2013, the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners were successful in winning the competition or the new construction of the German Service Centre in Foshan, a city in the south of China, which was open to German architectural practices with a Chinese partner.

The Meditation House has been designed as a place of contemplation and retreat blending into the natural surrounding and landscape. The project has won the prestigious 2013 World Architecture Festival Future House Award. Archi.: MZ Architects, Lebanon.

A new football stadium for Tripoli; designed by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp). Libya is the second country on the African continent in which gmp is carrying out a project; previously, the practice completed three stadiums in South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

At Tesdorpfstrasse 8 in Hamburg, a new office building has been completed to a design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) which meets energy conservation standards and is likely to receive the gold certificate.

The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have been successful in winning the competition for three office towers near the southern railway station in Shanghai, and have been commissioned with the design of the project.

Perkins Eastman’s Workplace Consulting Team engaged Pepperidge Farm’s senior leadership in a series of surveys, workshops, and one-on-one meetings to develop workplace strategies and real estate guidelines to be used in the design of the new architecture and interiors.

London Bridge Tower, which is also known as the Shard, is a 72 storey mixed use tower located besides London Bridge Station on the south bank of the river Thames. The slender pyramidal form is suited to the variety of uses proposed. Arch.: Renzo Piano

The new Visual Arts Building celebrated the beginning of construction. Designed by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with BNIM, the new facility for the University will provide 126,000 sf of loft-like space for the departments…

The concrete and glass Dallas City Performance Hall (DCPH) houses a 750-seat proscenium performance hall and support spaces under a series of linked linear pavilions with lyrically curving roofs. Arch.: SOM, Chicago

The research center is a forward-looking institution, and the architecture looks to the future with a formal language that can expand or transform without compromising the visual character of the complex. Archi.: Zaha Hadid

Located on a 3 million-sqm plot in the heart of the desert, between the historic cities of Doha and Al Khor the VCQ is envisioned as a modern city designed to attract middle-income Qatari citizens as well as expatriates and their families from all over the world. Archi.: MZ Architects

The ITEC is a 6 million sqm retail and logistics complex strategically located on a 130 hectare brown field site at Illange in Lorraine region, with 50 million potential customers within 200 km. Arch.: McAdam Architects

Rising 412 meters in the center of Kuwait City, Al Hamra Tower is a landmark tower of iconic sculptural form that offers breathtaking views of the Arabian Gulf. Arch.: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - New York/USA

The Zaha Hadid designed Aquatics Centre is located in the south of the Olympic Park in London/UK and is the main 'Gateway into the Olympic Games 2012'. It is the second highest capacity venue during the Games. Arch.: Zaha Hadid, London

The new Terminal 3 at Singapore's Changi Airport, is the most recent element in a multi-phased, multi-decade master plan, is designed to be the home terminal for Singapore Airlines. Arch.: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, New York/USA

Leeser Architecture was extended an invitation from the Mayor of London to participate in the London 2012 Olympic Park design competition. Arch.: Leeser Architecture, New York

The Astrum luxury hotel will open in Shelkovo near Moscow/Russia at the end of 2013. Owner of the property is Shelkowskij Holding, while management of the hotel will be in the hands of Vienna International Hotelmanagement AG (VI).

A home to call one’s own - a private bedroom and bath, ample shared living space, and a front door where family and friends can be greeted. These are the principles that guided Air Force Villages in the search for their model of culture change. Archi.: Perkins Eastman

The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) are designing the new rehearsal building for the ballet company of Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In a consortium with HOCHTIEF Solutions, they were commissioned by Düsseldorf City Council in a PPP scheme.

Blackbirds is a new urban infill development located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The project takes the Dutch concept of the woonerf and re-focuses it through a Los Angeles-specific lens. Archi.: Bestor Architecture

College of the Desert’s new Visual Arts Building is the unmistakable anchor for a re-conceived Arts District, one that signifies the creative, artistic programs located within. Archi.: Perkins+Will, LA

Benoy, the international, award-winning firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, is proud to announce the opening of its new shopping centre in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dostyk Plaza.

The new campus of the Indian School of Business-Mohali, ranked among the top business schools in the world, represents the latest thinking in the planning and design of business schools on an international stage. Archi.: Perkins Eastman

Benoy, the international firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, is delighted to announce the opening of an exciting new Marks & Spencer in the Vangarde Shopping Park in York, Great Britain.

The winners of the invited international competiton for the „Nobel Quran Oasis“ have been announced in Madinah. Gerber Architekten convinced the jury with their landscape focused design and share the second prize with Ricardo Bofill-Taller de Arquitectura.

The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center (SOSC) opened for the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships 2011. The sports complex was designed and built by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. Arch.: gmp-Architects

The design of Perkins+Will’s Los Angeles office created a unique opportunity to not only alter its physical surroundings but to also enhance and celebrate the collaborative process through an alternate approach to workplace design.

Benoy, the award-winning firm of Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, has celebrated the opening of its first completed development in Tianjin, Riverside 66.

To create Burj Khalifa - a building that shatters all previous height records at 828m - a team of more than 90 SOM designers and engineers combined cutting-edge technology and culturally-influenced design to create a global icon that will serve as a model for future urban centers.

The Elbphilharmonie will be located on a historically significant site at the Hamburg harbour. It will be constructed at the point of the Sandtorhafen. It is the first industrial harbour basin Hamburg's. Arch.: Herzog & du Meuron, Basel/Schweiz