In architect speak:

To build a house for a poet. To make a house for dreaming, living and dying. A house in which to read, to write and to think. We raised high walls to create a box open to the sky, like a nude, metaphysical garden, with concrete walls and floor. To create an interior world. We dug into the ground to plant leafy trees. And floating in the center, a box filled with the translucent light of the north. Three levels were established. The highest for dreaming. The garden level for living. The deepest level for sleeping.
For dreaming, we created a cloud at the highest point. A library constructed with high walls of light diffused through large translucent glass. With northern light for reading and writing, thinking and feeling. For living, the garden with southern light, sunlight. A space that is all garden, with transparent walls that bring together inside and outside. And for sleeping, perhaps dying, the deepest level. The bedrooms below, as if in a cave. Once again, the cave and the cabin.

Dreaming, living, dying. The house of the poet.

A little too much post rationalisation it seems, but a pure, contemplative space nonetheless, by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza.

Conceived as a physical manifestation of the stark abruptness of war and history, architect Daniel Libeskind makes a bold statement, colliding of an angular shard with the existing building to breath-taking results.

Great new condominium by Moshe Safdie of Marina Bay Sands fame and developed by Singaporean super developer CapitaLand. Man…! all property sales teams should have a video like that! via Designboom.

By architects Henriquez Partners in Vancouver, this concrete staircase inside an atrium twists and turns its way up like the umbilical cord of the building, delivering people from one place to another, much like how an umbilical cord transfers nutrients from mother to child. via Contemporist

A great looking house with an integrated undulating roof that comes with an equally great sounding name, the Maximum Garden House by Singaporean architecture firm Formwerkz. via Contemporist

A linear and graphic hotel in Croatia that serves expansive views of the surrounding with strips of glass and concrete that opens up to an amazing looking lobby. via Contemporist.

Now if only I knew how to skate, only to wish for bad weather and take shelter in these beautiful pods by Patkau Architects. via Architizer

Olafur Eliasson has just completed a rainbow coloured viewing gallery on the top of the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark.

Imagine Your rainbow panorama as an instrument that tunes you – its user – so that your body is transformed into a colour resonator. Enveloped in the rainbow environment, you produce afterimages in hues complementary to the colours in the glass panes around you. If you look at the city through red glass, your eyes develop a green afterimage. If you maintain a quick pace, the colours remain vibrant. But if you pause in one colour zone, the hue around you grows pale while the colours in your peripheral vision, where the walkway curves, intensify. Colour intensities depend on your speed.