It’s time for the best of last week. Like the new King’s Cross Station in London, designed by John McAslan + Partners. Or this amazing beach house in Lima, Perú. You can’t miss our interview with Marlon Blackwell, whose projects you can check right here. What do you think about Dierendonck Blancke Architecten’s House 12k in Belgium? Would you visit an exhibition and retail pavilion in a cave?

It’s been an exciting week at ArchDaily that you couldn’t miss. But just in case you did, here’s our best of the week: A great mixed use designed by Project Orange located in a Victorian industrial brick building. Don’t miss this beautiful church in Italy or the administrative headquarters for Group E in Switzerland. Or you may want to check the latest in our AD Classics: Alvar Aalto’s Muuratsalo Experimental House. But the most exciting news last week was of course our Building of the Year Awards Winners.

Five great projects you may have missed from last week. The main image is from RVDM’s Arriva Headquarters, a public transport company in Portugal. And don’t forget to check the great Nanshan Wedding Center, or one of our AD Classics of the week: The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption designed by Pietro Belluschi and Pier-Luigi Nervi. Or Daniel Libeskind’s latest project from Singapore, a 2,000,000 sqm. residential project. Last but not least, Bedaux de Brouwer Architecten’s housing project in The Netherlands. Enjoy!

Probably the most important news last week, was the fact that we have only 8 days left for you to nominate your favorite projects for our Building of the Years Awards. Besides that, we featured amazing projects that you may have missed.

Our main image belongs to a beautiful office building in Sao Paulo designed by Isay Weinfeld. Don’t forget to check this great winery in Portugal, Yoritaka Hayashi Architects’ latest house in Tokyo, the recently announced winning proposal for the PS1 in New York and a Center for the Arts in Spain whose design began 10 years ago. Enjoy!

Projects from China, UK, The Netherlands and Czech Republic, as well as our special inforgraphic on the Serpentine Gallery Pavillion’s 11 years. Check the best of last week after the break.

Administration Building of the North Shanghai Gas Company in Jiading / Atelier Deshaus
This is the administration building of the North Shanghai Gas Company in Jiading. The needs of the function of this building are generally simple. With surrounding the undeveloped constructional land, the site is small, and the only feature of the site is the river landscape close to the northern side. The final form of the building completely responds to the landscape in the northern side (read more…) (more…)

Two nice houses, two big scale projects and the latest update on Herzog and de Meuron’s Elbe Philarmonic Hall. Check them all after the break.

BU Landmark Complex / Architects 49
The Bangkok University Landmark Complex is initiated on the necessities that are to reorganize the frontal area of the campus and to create an outstanding approach for the campus’s entrance. In addition to the mentioned requirements, the School of Business Management also required some supplementary facilities, for example, classrooms, seminar rooms, lecturers’ office, lecture halls. Then, the new complex is emerged from the particular architectural form evoking the symbol of the university, a diamond (read more…) (more…)

Didn’t check ArchDaily last week? Don’t worry, we have the best from 7 days for you. Check them all after the break.

In Progress: Phoenix International Media Center / BIAD UFo
Phoenix International Media Center locates in the southwest corner of Chaoyang Park; the site area is 1.8 hectares. The total floor area of the building is 65,000m2 with a height of 55m. Apart from the media office, the broadcasting studios and the production offices, the building provides abundant of open spaces for the public to get interactive experiences, which expresses the unique operation concept of Phoenix Media (read more…) (more…)

Two beautiful houses, a museum, a cultural project and the offices of AOL. Check the best form last week after the break.

Safe House / KWK Promes
The clients’ top priority was to gain the feeling of maximum security in their future house, which determined the building’s outlook and performance. The house took the form of a cuboid in which parts of the exterior walls are movable. When the house opens up to the garden, eastern and western side walls move towards the exterior fence creating a courtyard (read more…) (more…)

If you didn’t visit us this past week, you missed our coverage of the Pritzker Prize Ceremony! Check that and four amazing projects after the break.

House on the Flight of Birds / Bernardo Rodrigues
The house is located in the north side of S. Michael Island in the Azores. Since the microclimate of this farmland offers frequent wind and showers, the first design strategy was to block these winds with a wall and offer diverse patios and covered courtyards to protect against rain. These patios and courtyards also open all living spaces to the natural green by glass walls which receded from the exterior (read more…) (more…)

Three of last week’s best posts were museums! Did you see them? Check them all after the break.

Felix Nussbaum Museum / Daniel Libeskind
The Felix Nussbaum Museum is an extension to the Cultural History Museum in Osnabrück and is dedicated to the work of Felix Nussbaum, the Jewish artist born in Osnabrück in 1904. The Museum displays Nussbaum’s graphics and paintings done prior to his extermination in Auschwitz, and houses a temporary exhibition space focusing on the themes of racism and intolerance (read more…) (more…)