architect David Serrero while living at the Villa Medici designed and installed a computer controlled fibreglass appendage to the ceiling that now provides him complete control of the building's acoustics

pedestrians as audience for the National Ballet School in Toronto and their new glass encased campus by architect Bruce Kuwabara

www.tschumi.com West Diaoyutai Tower in Beijing by Bernard Tschumi looks like a huge bent paperclip - or something more flattering, it really is very cool

Very cool condo conversion in Copenhagen called Gemini Residence. Designed by MVRDV the building grafts 84 suites onto the exterior of two old silos leaving the interior as communal space

malmo tower in Sweden by Santiago Calatrava

Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg Germany by Zaha Hadid Architects

Delta Spa in Botswana by ROY Design - project modelled after termites and their flight, pheremones, and environment

www.thinker.org/deyoung/ de Young museum is clad in copper as designed by architects Herzog and de Meuron

www.viaducdemillau.com/ new two and a half km long bridge by Foster and Partners