public and leisure

British studio Foster + Partners is developing plans to convert an old chapel in Oxford into a restaurant…

A colonnade of whole charred tree trunks supports the roof of Puusauna, a sauna and tea room in…

American architecture practice Studio Gang has completed the Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in Central Brooklyn, a rippled brick…

Architecture studio Snøhetta has released photography of its Busan Opera House, which is currently under construction on a…

Spanish practice Plantea Estudio has completed a barre studio in Madrid, with a moody colour palette dominated by…

A terracotta-toned palette of concrete, brickwork and tiles nods to Lappeenranta’s distinctive 1980s civic architecture at Sammontalo, a…

Boulder-shaped canopies of woven bamboo shelter the spaces of LuxeIsland Farm, an eco-farm in China designed by Various…

Soaring ventilation towers modelled on the wings of a falcon signal the Zayed National Museum, completed by British…

Irregular oak shingles that double as habitats for bugs and bats cover the exterior of The Apple House,…

A cave-like ground floor accessible on all sides will be the focal point of this opera house, which…

The San Francisco Arts Commission has voted to dismantle and store a 1970s concrete fountain in San Francisco…

Four-metre-high rammed-earth walls frame the plot of Backyard Community Club in Accra, Ghana, completed by local studio DeRoche…

Foster + Partners designs The Chapel & Lodge restaurant for EIT