For this year's Shanghai Expo, countries around the globe have been locked in battle to produce the most show-stopping pavilion and secure the attention of all-important Chinese businesses.
A rich variety of seamlessly connected boxes of different sizes, composed around a number of outdoor spaces, make up for an equally flawless and peaceful life inside Yoshihiko Iida's newly-built W House.
A private house in the heart of suburbia, Celluloid Jam looks like it dropped off another planet. But to architect Norisada Maeda, its futuristic form was just the thing for his clients’ hilltop plateau at the edge of the Japanese city of Yokohama.
A glass house in South Korea gives a display of domestic deconstructivism to give occupants a spectacular view of the surrounding landscape and different parts of the house.