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Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Museum
The planned Guggenheim Museum is a typical Gehry building.	The materials used for the GAD exterior may be stone, however there is likely to be a major metallic element to the outer skin.	The Abu Dhabi Guggenheim will have several entrances including one form the sea.
Abu Dhabi will house the biggest Guggenheim yet.	The new Guggenheim Museum will be built on Saadiyat Island.
Academy of St Francis of Assisi, Kensington, Liverpool
External walls are clad in Douglas fir, with metric brickwork on the north elevation, while projecting bays are copper clad.	Internal finishes at the Academy of St Francis of Assisi are simple, with predominantly fair-faced concrete and reinforced plasterboard walls.
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
The Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Germany.	Atrium glass roofs were a key design feature of the Akademie.	Custom-built outsize glass sliding elements were constructed to a maximum size of 1,850mm x 5,110mm.
America's Cup Foredeck Building, Valencia
The Edificio Veles e Vents provides a central base for all America's Cup teams and sponsors.	The America's Cup Foredeck Building will be the social focal point for the world's premier offshore racing competition.
Arreletes Day-Care Centre,
The entrance and glass-covered façade of the nursery.	The interior of one of the Arreletes day-care centre classrooms.
Atomium,
The Atomium, originally planned to only last for six months, has been undergoing renovation work since 2004.	One of the light fittings in the newly renovated Atomium.
BBC Music Centre, London
The new BBC music centre – to be called the Music Box – was scheduled to open in 2006. In 2008 the BBC cancelled the programme.	The goal was to make the Music Box an iconic part of the campus that reflects the BBC's cultural identity.	Windows for music production and screens for broadcasting would have been defined by the building's ribbon-like folding band.
Passers-by would have been able to watch the performances going on inside, while musicians would feel as if they are playing to the wider community.	The BBC Music Centre's design proposed a layered configuration that would have minimised the ground level without reducing functionality.
Beijing National Stadium
The 100,000-seat National Stadium in Beijing is a multi-use sports venue and will be ready for the 2008 Olympic Games.	The stadium has a moving roof so that the environment can be controlled.	The concourses are very wide to allow people plenty of space to move around, and for refreshments and merchandising stalls.
To earthquake-proof the stadium, the bowl and roof were split into two separate elements and the bowl split into eight zones, each with its own stability system and effectively its own building.	The steel structure of the stadium appears random but every element is carefully integrated.	The Beijing National Stadium upon completion.
The stadium is a fitting centrepiece for the Beijing Olympic Games.	The Beijing Olympic Stadium lighting was chosen to produce a visual spectacle at night.	The 'Birds Nest' alongside the Watercube.
Canadian War Museum, Ottawa
A view from the roof of the museum.	The Hall of Remembrance, honouring the memories of veterans.	Aerial view of the museum.
The main lobby of the museum.
Casa da Musica, Porto
The impressive glass frontage at Casa da Musica, two glass sheets are set a metre apart to insulate the hall from exterior noise.	The main auditorium at Casa da Musica has a capacity of 1,238 and a stage that takes 110 musicians plus a choir of 143.	Aerial view of the Casa Da Musica.
Centre Pompidou – Metz (CPM)
The new, €35m Centre Pompidou - Metz will house permanent and temporary exhibitions.	The Pompidou Centre consists of a large pavilion set within a new 28,165m² parkland.	The whole forum will be encased with movable glass shutters that can close off the forum from, or open it up to, the surrounding gardens.
The large overhanging roof protects the facades from the weather in winter and provides shade in the summer.	Additional Centre Pompidou facilities include a large waterside pavilion café integrated into the parkland, a roof-top restaurant, cinema and a large multi-purpose creative workshop.	The centre's roof will be a huge, translucent, hexagonal, lattice membrane 'thrown' over and covering the entire complex.
Chetham's School of Music, Manchester
The new school comprises a variety of diverse functions including: a concert hall, recital hall, school dining hall, foyer, music school, academic school and school library.	The challenge is to provide a public performance venue whilst maximising a service and inspirational environment for the music school pupils.	Manchester is looking to preserve and enhance its unique assets for the long-term benefit of its people.
Chiesa del Santo Volto, Turin
The interior of the Chiesa del Santo Volto showing the innovative roof and the Christ image.	The skylights can be clearly seen.	The exterior of the Chiesa del Santo Volto has seven towers surrounded by nail head structures.
The Chiesa del Santo Volto is part of a bigger complex containing offices.	The industrial chimney was clad and reused to form a church tower with a spiral decoration and stylised thorns.	The Chiesa del Santo Volto has a huge courtyard next to it as a town square.
The Chiesa del Santo Volto is a masterpiece of modern architecture.
Cité du Design
The interior of the 'Agora' in the redeveloped Cité du Design.	View of the Platine from the Place d'Armes.	Bird's eye perspective of the Cité du Design, Saint-Étienne.
Axonometric plan showing the succession of spaces and activities in the Cité du Design.	Detail of the skin tiles (model).	The city of Saint-Étienne is in the Loire Valley.
Cladding of Worrell, Weekes & Walcott Stand – Kensington Oval
The façade, including the large composite brise soleil louvres, was designed to accommodate a wind loading of three times that encountered in the UK.	Specialist paint was incorporated due to the extremely strong UV levels in the Caribbean sunlight, which the cladding had to withstand.	Part of the design brief was to conceal a large capacity gutter system and fascia in the canopy's front edge.
Cley Marshes Visitor Centre,
The cutting-edge, sustainable visitor centre at Norfolk Wildlife Trust's (NWT) Cley Marshes Nature Reserve.	The double-curved, sedum-moss-covered roof.	The Cley Marshes Visitor Centre's interior.
Creative Arts Business Units, Aberystwyth Arts Centre,
The Aberystwyth site will provide 16 units for artists and art enterprises / organisations.	The cladding on the creative arts business units reflects the surrounding colours.	The creative arts project has been built on a 0.9-hectare wooded site.
The dual units were designed in this form to increase light and ventilation.	Aberystwyth is a small community on Cardigan Bay.
Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong's Kowloon peninsula – where the creative media centre is being constructed.	The Hong Kong City University is well known for its state-of-the-art facilities.	The location of the university in Hong Kong.
The new creative media centre building is a crystalline design typical of Daniel Liebskind.	The new media centre will provide first-class facilities for Asia.
Cultural and Congress Centre
The Würth Cultural Centre project will rehouse one of Germany's most impressive art collections.	The Würth Cultural Centre will include a concert and event hall, a chamber music hall and a congress hall, and a seminar centre.
Danish Maritime Museum,
In order to build the maritime museum, the old dry dock needed to be reinforced so that it wouldn't cave in.	BIG proposed a museum below ground that is both flexible and incorporates the dramatic use of daylight.	The new museum will be placed around the dry dock, not in it, preserving the dock as an entirely empty space.
The museum building will not only house the current collection but also allows for new interactive exhibitions.	Visitors will arrive through a set of descending ramps and a series of bridges will span the dry dock providing them with short cuts to other parts of the museum.
Dartford Judo Club Building
Dartford Judo Club has produced several Commonwealth and Olympic champions.	The mesh sunscreen of the Dartford Judo Club building.	These facilities will consolidate Dartford Judo Club's role as a centre of expertise and excellence.
The main stair of the Dartford Judo Club building.
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
The New De Young museum opened to the public in October 2005.	The museum will showcase priceless collections of art and will once again be able to offer Federal insurance for exhibits.	The steel structure of the building features a unique base isolation foundation system and a custom copper exterior façade.
The design blends the museum with the park and provides an open and light-filled environment to enhance the art viewing experience.	The education tower will offer panoramic views of the bay area.
Denver Art Museum, Frederic C. Hamilton Building,
Architect impression of the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum.	Cut-through plan showing room layout in the new building and existing museum.	Computer generated image showing the steel frame (red).
Architect model showing how the Hamilton Building fits into its environment (view from the north).	Artist's impression of Hamilton Building (south view).	Image depicting the staircase in the four-storey atrium.
Construction status in August 2004.	During construction: steel 'skeleton' in place.	Frederic C. Hamilton Building (left) and the existing Denver Art Museum (on right).
Des Moines Public Library,
The copper façade of the Des Moines Library building faintly reflects its surroundings.	During the day, the library façade seems opaque and glows with a warm, coppery color.	From inside the Des Moines Library, the metal mesh of the Okatech windows is nearly invisible.
A layer of copper mesh is the only sun-shading device necessary for the Des Moines Library.	The Des Moines Library forms an integral part of the Western Gateway Park.
Digital Beijing Building,
The 57m-high Digital Beijing Building will provide communication and information services during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.	The northern and southern sides of the Digital Beijing Building represent barcodes.	The western and eastern façades of the Digital Beijing Building replicate the look of an integrated circuit board.
DIR Diagonal Health and Fitness Club, Barcelona
The DIR Diagonal swimming pool.	Designed by Mario Ruiz de Costa Design, The PROA lighting can easily be incorporated into a contemporary architectural design.	PROA direct and indirect light metal halide luminaires of 150W and 250W with asymmetric reflectors have been used to light the club.
The PROA is a wall-mounted lighting design which can be adapted to a variety of applications.
Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg
The hall on top of the older warehouse.	How the new Elbe Philharmonic Hall will look.	The plaza of the Elbe Philharmonic Hall.
The Elbe Philharmonic Hall foyer.	The grand auditorium.	The waterfront prior to the development of the Hafen City.
Construction of the Hafen City is underway.	The whole Hafen City development from the air.	The Elbe Philharmonic Hall will make a bold architectural statement.
The Elbe Philharmonic complex with apartments.	The Kaispeicher A warehouse.
Emirates Stadium,
The pitch at the Emirates Stadium is one of the largest in the football league.	The completed stadium is now called the Emirates Stadium due to a sponsorship deal.	The polycarbonate roof allows as much natural light as possible to be used for illumination.
Arsenal has undertaken the regeneration of nearby Lough Road.	Ashburton Grove (highlighted top) is just half a mile from Arsenal's present ground, Highbury (highlighted bottom).	HOK devised a glass and steel construction that sparkles in sunlight and glows at night.
The £60m conversion of Highbury includes turning its art deco stands into flats, with the pitch as gardens for residents.	Highbury's north and south stands are to be demolished to make way for mews developments, including social housing.	The new stadium's seating bowl has a dramatic curved shape with the compass points (north, south, east and west) rising higher than its corners.
The podium can be used as a pedestrianised area and the site for main spectator entrances.	Two pedestrian bridges were built to span the eastern railway cutting.	Within the site, Queensland Road, Emily Place and Ashburton Grove form a loop between Hornsey and Benwell Roads. These provide the only points of access.
Beyond the site, the surrounding area is mixed-use, though predominantly residential.
Galicia City of Culture
An overall view of the Galicia City of Culture site under construction.	The complexity of the City of Culture construction can be seen.	Santiago de Compostela is an ancient town now playing host to a repository of culture.
The Galicia City of Culture complex will integrate with the hillside upon completion.	The complex architecture can be seen with the internal framework of the Newspaper Archive.	The Hejduk Towers are an integral part of the City of Culture complex.
Great Mosque of Mopti Restoration
The restoration of the Great Mosque of Mopti by the Historic Cities Programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) was completed in June 2006.	Situated on the banks of the Niger River in Mali, West Africa, the mosque is a remarkable example of the earthen construction typical of this region.	The restoration team used historical photographs and physical traces found in the building itself to ascertain the scale of the original building elements.
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum,
The futuristic-looking Guggenheim Hermitage Museum is designed by 2004 Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid.	The metallic skin and the strong geometry of the windows (a combination of triangles and parallelograms) lend a decidedly futuristic feel to the museum concept.	By some estimates, building the museum will cost up to 170 million Lithuanian litai (approximately £39m €49m).
The museum design has prompted comparisons to a UFO, an aerodynamic vehicle, a motorboat, an inverted high heel, a whale and a slug.
Hamburg Science Centre
Sitting at the end point of an axis through Hamburg from the inner, lake-like part of the River Alster to the River Elbe, a 23,000m² new science centre will provide an attractive introduction to this bustling commercial centre.	"The central structure accommodates the vertical circulation whereas the blocks on the west and east side are used as exhibition spaces," said OMA.
Het Glazen Huis (House of Glass), Lommel
The House of Glass with its stunning glass cone, was built as an icon for the small town of Lommel, famous for its soil of white sand, with which glass is made.	Inside the cone, two identical steel staircases are suspended from the structure and spiral upwards. Ascending the stairs, visitors pass the three exhibition areas, gaining an overview of the entire building.	The glass cone, which is 8m in diameter and reaches a height of 30m, dominates the town.
Holmenkollen Ski Jump,
The Holmenkollen ski jump has an 'iconic' status.	The design retains the Holmenkollen ski jump's allure.	The Holmenkollen ski jump is dressed in plates of glass.
De Smedt has incorporated a public viewing platform.	The Holmenkollen ski jump is made of steel, enabling it to withstand wind and snow.	The Holmenkollen ski jump arena is protected from the wind by a glass façade.
IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
Main entrance to the IT University of Copenhagen.	Meeting rooms placed in cantilevered boxes.	Central atrium with boxes.
James Ussher Library, Trinity College, Dublin
Ussher Library at Trinity College, Dublin, viewed from the north-east.	Ussher Library, south elevation: conservation, book and reader blocks (from left to right).	Ussher Library's 'Tower of Books' book stacks.
Jubilee Church,
Jubilee Church, known in Italian as La Chiesa del Dio Padre Misericordioso (God our merciful father), is one of 50 new churches in Rome.	The church stands next to a 1970s housing development.	Jubilee Church's three curved shell walls, or 'sails', soar to a height of nearly 90ft above the building.