Ersland & Skeie House by Knut Hjeltnes Architects. Stavanger, Norway. On a steep bedrock plot in Stavanger, Norway, Knut Hjeltnes Architects, with collaborator Francesca Iarrusso, sets a white timber house in a U around a piazzetta whose fourth wall is a maple and an ap

Extrude, Bridge, Fill by Lasse Sylvest Lilleør. Copenhagen, Denmark. At Innenkreis on Herluf Trolles Gade 28 in Copenhagen, Lasse Sylvest Lilleør stages Extrude, Bridge, Fill, four 3D-printed works that behave less like furniture than like creatures consenting to be us

Konkuri-an by Teitakusubako, Yusuke Igarashi Architects. Kamakura, Japan. In a landslide warning zone in a Kamakura valley, Japan, Teitakusubako, Yusuke Igarashi Architects build Konkuri-an, a three-mat teahouse that rebuilds the sōan in high-pressure washed reinforced conc

Jeju by &Daughters. Vancouver, Canada. In Vancouver, &Daughters builds Jeju, a 44-seat Korean restaurant that turns the jeongnang, the three-pole gate of Korea's Jeju Island, into a working sign staff raise and lower to open and close the

Half-Life of Grace by Jeremy Shaw at Galerie Neu. Berlin, Germany. Twenty-eight pipes salvaged from a decommissioned church organ glow neon green from within at Galerie Neu in Berlin, where Jeremy Shaw's Half-Life of Grace wires radioactive glass to sound.

Houston, Untitled by Rory Gardiner. Houston, United States. Twenty-one photographs titled by nothing but their coordinates: in Houston, Rory Gardiner builds Houston, Untitled around Rice Stadium, the Astrodome and the surrounding streets.

See the Elephant by Shawne Brown. Nashville, United States. Moving between his family home in the highlands of northeast Tennessee and the Kansas heartland where his wife was born, Shawne Brown makes See the Elephant, a series along the margins of the American

DAARK by Rodaa Studio. Paris, France. In Le Marais, a few minutes north of Place des Vosges in Paris, Rodaa Studio shapes DAARK, a coffee shop on rue de Turenne that treats specialty coffee as culture rather than commodity.

Plywood House by Charly Jolliet Architecte. Broc, Switzerland. On a former garden plot above Broc, in Switzerland's Gruyère valley, Charly Jolliet Architecte raises Plywood House on timber piles, its two low volumes split between sleeping under an oak and living

The Woman's Chair by Shushana Khachatrian. Yerevan, Armenia. In Yerevan, designer Shushana Khachatrian of Studio Shoo builds The Woman's Chair, a sculptural seat on three stainless-steel legs whose angled backrest refuses to let anyone recline.