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In architecture, “white” is often used as a neutral background color for walls, ceilings, and other surfaces and can help create a sense of brightness and spaciousness in a room. White is also a popular choice for trim, molding, and other architectural details, as it provides a clean, crisp contrast to other colors. In some cases, white is used as a symbol of modernity, simplicity, and minimalism in architectural design.
House in Las Rozas is a 370-square-meter residence on a wooded slope outside Madrid, organized as an interconnected group of cylindrical volumes. Its oblique roof lines, internal courtyards, and recessed…
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art occupies a former parking area at the northwest edge of Los Angeles’s Exposition Park. Designed by MAD with landscape architecture by Studio-MLA, the five-story…
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Casa della Sughera is the renovation and extension of a 1970s house on the Sardinian coast, where a new central void reorganizes two existing wings around views of Tavolara, a…
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The Enrico Panzacchi School in Ozzano dell’Emilia, designed by Archisbang and Areaprogetti, combines a lower secondary school, gymnasium, and auditorium within a pavilion-based civic complex. Organized around a public pedestrian…
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Shanghai Grand Opera House by Snohetta is a riverfront performing arts complex in the Expo Houtan area of Shanghai, organized around three auditoriums and an accessible helical roofscape that extends…
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Stone and Water by Zurita Studio and Kalibra Arquitectura transforms the ruins of a 19th-century border surveillance post above the Guadiana River into a compact off-grid dwelling, using the existing…
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In the northeastern reaches of Lanzarote, beneath a rugged crust of basaltic rock, lies one of the most singular architectural experiments of the 20th century. Jameos del Agua, designed by…
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Cano House by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos is a single-family residence in Alicante organized along the western edge of its plot, where a sequence of white-rendered volumes frames a garden, terrace…
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Casa Roma by BRAG Arquitectos is a 10-level residential building on Avenida Chapultepec in Mexico City, combining compact loft apartments, shared domestic programs, and a faceted perforated metal facade that…
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Villa Normanni Puglia by Urban Interior is a pair of single-story villas set within a 1.7-hectare olive grove in San Vito Dei Normanni, Italy. Organized around a pool terrace, the…
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Designed by Jan Duiker with Bernard Bijvoet between 1927 and 1930, the Eerste Openluchtschool voor het Gezonde Kind in Amsterdam translates early-twentieth-century concerns with sunlight, air, and childhood health into…
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Mortuary at Asker Crematorium is a compact funerary addition in Asker, Norway, designed by Carl-Viggo Holmebakk AS between 1999 and 2000. Organized as a tightly sequenced ensemble of ceremony room…
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Fisherman’s House in Cadaqués is the rehabilitation of a century-old dwelling embedded in the historic fabric of this coastal Catalan village. Conceived as a careful balance between conservation and adaptation…
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42UP extends École 42 in Paris’s 17th arrondissement through a vertical addition that more than doubles its usable area without expanding its footprint. Designed by AR Studio d’Architectures, the project…
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