The Magic Box is a versatile ‘box’ that changes the stereotypes of prefabricated houses and extension rooms by having qualities such as transparency and simplistic form with high versatility. The simplicity of the design and the use of transparency give the Magic Box a lot of versatility. The Magic Box also creates innovative life styles and business environment.You are free to drive your imagination into transforming this box into your own working space or space for your hobbies. - Via - Mocoloco

The decline in church attendance over the last several decades has meant that countless churches across the Netherlands have lost their function. They are crumbling, are demolished, or are put to new uses. Their specific architectural features often fall by the wayside in this process. Not every church can be turned into a municipal exhibition hall, and if, for example, a residential use is chosen, the original spatial qualities are usually lost. A dutch firm named Zecc has converted an old chapel into an apartment, carefully respecting and enhancing the character of the original building. The chapel was part of a large housing complex of the Friars of Utrecht, which at its height, around the mid-20th century, housed 217 residents. The remaining 13 elderly friars, however, moved to a nursing home in 2005, and the complex was divided up and converted into about 40 apartments.

This was the church before ZECC Architects started the work.

And this is how the church looks now …modern and stylish.

The design team chose to keep many of the original features like the high gothic stained glass windows and the original choir organ. To allow more light to enter the space, they cut a Mondrian-inspired glass window into the front of the house facing the street perhaps paying homage to Rietveld’s nearby infamous Schroder House. The entire living area has been whitewashed, while the private spaces above were painted dark. In conclusion this place might be controversial, but it looks very modern and stylish. - Via - Thecoolhunter

The Fudamae Apartment is designed by ISSHO Architects an architectural design office based in Tokyo and they got my attention with this apartment window’s design that has an unusual shape. The Fudomae apartment’s design makes the most of a limited volume while creating a comfortable urban living space . Each 18 sqm unit fits a living room, kitchen, bathroom and storage. The tight arrangement is transformed into a design expression, particularly through the location and shape of the window, which designates the placement of the bed and other furniture. The window’s angle and height corresponds to both the interior of the room and the scenery outside, linking the Japanese single lifestyle and the natural environment.

Personally I was amazed by a lot of architecture projects that I’ve saw in 2007, it seems that architects come up with more and more amazing designs every year, especially in Dubai as you might know. Modern technology and visionary architecture certainly brings about much man-made wonders. Have you seen them all ? I’m sure that you didn’t saw all of them, but for this World Architecture has a very comprehensive Top 100 of the most viewed architectures of 2007- check it out to see if you can get inspired and amazed ! And finally tell me what’s your favourite architecture project.

Neil M. Denari Architects (NMDA) designed a series of pre-designed habitats for Useful + Agreeable. The Useful + Agreeable house includes innovative features like aerospace grade aluminum panels, solar power, rooftop patio, rain collection, flexible floorplans, and built-in furniture to accommodate its economical use of space and energy. This u+a pre-designed mini hi-rise is not only a tightly designed house that uses every square inch of space wisely, it also attempts to express this economy in its smooth exterior surface shape, a form of industrial design at an architectural scale. I think that this house could be a great vacantion house. - Via - Mocoloco