Real gems by Oscar Niemeyer: After having stood empty for decades and gradually becoming dilapidated two hotels by the Brazilian architect have been modernized and are accessible again.

In the rooms at the Parisian Le Cinq Codet hotel a bathtub by Bette plays the main role.

The open kitchen space in a loft in Prague was outfitted with “Merano” by Ton.

The theories of Patrik Schumacher, which explain why parametrism is the architectural language of the 21st century, are controversial. Here we put them up for discussion on the basis of a lecture he originally gave in Munich.

The name Otto Bartning may not immediately come to mind to someone compiling a list of the most important German architects of the 20th century. A major exhibition in Berlin shows that this is a mistake.

The Fondation Beyeler in Basel is extended by a historic park, Peter Zumthor has designed here three new buildings. They form a strong contrast to the 20-year-old Renzo Piano Museum.

Border fences and walls spell disaster – and not just in aesthetic terms.

Gira’s HomeServer lets you control the facility technology centrally.

Colt International has created a customized façade louver system for the Fanuc Academy in Neuhausen in South Germany.

Ernst&Young has outfitted its Milan branch with office furniture by Arper.

In Milan, MINI LIVING is exploring contemporary forms of living with a confined footprint. The “Breathe” installation, devised in collaboration with New York architects SO - IL in a Milan inner courtyard, provides space for up to three people, developing new urban space for occupation.

The light guidance system by Ado Lights for the new Museum of Moeda in Luanda even withstands tough climatic conditions.

The Lindner Group ensures a good acoustics in the concert hall "Pierre Boulez" of Frank Gehry.

Colt International has installed an extensive fire ventilation system in the new Docks shopping center in Brussels.

Instead of enjoying the view from just one room, guests at the new ski lodge “Oberholz” in the Italian Dolomites have a choice of three, each of whose panorama windows faces a different mountain.

Fuhrimann Hächler toyed with the temporary nature of rural architecture when converting an old farmhouse in Switzerland.

Designer Werner Aisslinger was responsible for the interior design of the new Stockholm hotel “Hobo”, set to open next week. He explained his concept on a car ride through Berlin.

India Mahdavi has designed a cafe for the Ladurée macaroon pâtisserie in Geneva, and turned to Alice in Wonderland for inspiration.

Curator Joanna Warsza has already devised exhibition projects in St. Petersburg and at the Venice Biennale. Next year she will be active in Munich, too.

Norwegian architects Gartnerfuglen have developed a mobile mini-hut for the ardent one among you who want to go ice fishing. And the only materials needed are wood, chicken-wire and water for the walls.

Anyone who put their money on RCR as winner of the Pritzker Prize 2017 against all the odds would have really won big time. Was it justifiable to bestow the award on the three Catalan architects?

Nils Holger Moormann has devised a box for micro-apartments – you can sleep, work and eat in it or on it, and store your stuff, too. Not a big thing, but the real thing.

Architecture year books gather buildings and bundle themes. Is a national performance show of building still up-to-date? Examples from all over Europe show - the format remains alive.

As if they were made of snow, the new metal roofs float above the station in La-Chaux-de-Fonds. They protect passers-by and waiters from the weather and arrange the various means of transport.

Christian Petersen is not just any old brick-maker. He loves a good joke, has a sharp mind and a big heart. And today anyone wanting something special will invariably contact Petersen Tegl. Peter Zumthor knows this full well, as do architect the world over.

In what was once Berliner Staatsoper’s stage sets storeroom: Frank Gehry has created the Pierre Boulez Hall, an impressive new concert hall for the Barenboim Said Academy.

In South Tyrol, Pedevilla Architekten have designed a Fire Dept. building made of concrete dyed red – it looks entrancing, especially when surrounded by snow. Which is often the case here.

With its spacious cero sliding windows, Solarlux brighten up a villa on the edge of the woods.

Greenland's first own prison is currently being built. Designed by Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen, it will afford up to 400 inmates an unimpeded view of a fjord, where they can watch the seasons, ice floes and occasionally, with a bit of luck, a whale passing by.

Hugh Broughton Architects has designed the world‘s first walking research station. It has been standing on an ice shelf off mainland Antarctica since 2013 and has just finished its first “walk.”

Petersen Tegl has clad the new Kunstmuseum Basel building in a brick façade with fine reliefs – and it corresponds with the main building.

Lindner has fitted out the multipurpose complex Arabeska in Munich with durable floor coverings.

Reggiani sheds the right light on the works in the “Storefront for Art and Architecture” in Manhattan.