A gorgeous home in Joo Chiat with a lovely backstory of home-coming and childhood longing. By CHANG Architects via Arch Daily.

Nendo’s latest project is a bird apartment and human tree house hybrid that allows birds to experience the very human way of apartment building living, while at the same time allows for humans to experience the bird’s lifestyle of living in trees. Tiny holes between the two lets you peep at the birds to see what they are up to, and allows the birds to also spy on your cheeky shenanigans.

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.