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• Architects

  Samantha Mink

• Location

  Culver City, United States

• Area

  850.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Chad Slattery, Samantha Mink

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• Architects

  FRIIS & MOLTKE Architects

• Location

  7400 Tjørring, Denmark

• Area

  9400.0 m2

• Project Year

  2014

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• Architects

  Boyance Arquitectos

• Location

  Mérida, Mexico

• Author Architect

  Gerardo Boyancé Ancona

• Architects in Charge

  Beatriz Bolio Aguilar, Andree Pasos Dzul

• Area

  260.0 m2

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  David Cervera Castro

To our readers and fans,

As we approach the end of the year, we would once again like to thank you all for making 2017 our best year yet. With your continued support, we are now reaching more architects around the globe than ever, and inspiring them in the creation of better urban environments for all.

On behalf of the entire ArchDaily team, we are excited to share this collection of 2017's most visited projects, products, and articles. Together with our curated selection of the year's most relevant and noteworthy articles and events, these represent the best content created and shared by ArchDaily over the past 12 months.

Here's to a wonderful, architecture-filled 2018!

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• Architects

  TAKATINA LLC

• Location

  United States

• Lead Architects

  Takaaki Kawabata

• Area

  1000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Mikiko Kikuyama

+ 19

• Architects

  Thomas Landemaine Architectes

• Location

  34160 Saint-Drézéry, France

• Lead Architects

  Thomas Landemaine, Pauline Goffin

• Area

  350.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Marie-Caroline Lucat

Budapest-based architectural firm Hello Wood has continued its annual tradition of constructing wooden Christmas trees, this year expanding the program with a total of 5 trees throughout Europe. In London and Vienna, trees made of sleds recall a design concept first used by Hello Wood in 2013; meanwhile, two locations in Budapest and in the Hungarian city of Kecskemét are witnessing the return of the firm's "charity trees," installations made of firewood which are later dismantled and distributed to families in need for the winter season.

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For 10 years this December, Zaha Hadid’s Hungerburgbahn have graced the built environment of Innsbruck, Austria. Since its conception, over 4.5 million passengers have visited one of the four train stations connecting them from downtown Innsbruck to the Norkette Mountain to Hungerburg.

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• Interiors Designers

  Francesc Rifé Studio

• Location

  Carrer de l'Almirall, 14, 46003 València, Valencia, Spain

• Area

  2000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Fernando Alda

+ 22

• Architects

  PPA architectures, Xavier Leplaë architecte

• Location

  Boulogne-Billancourt, France

• Area

  5580.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Philippe Ruault

+ 17

• Architects

  Zowa Architects

• Location

  NH309A, Matena, Uttarakhand 263601, India

• Lead Architects

  Pradeep Kodikara, Jineshi Samaraweera

• Project Architect

  Kshitij Agarwal

• Area

  1160.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Aksha Sharma

+ 10

• Architects

  Idle Architecture Studio

• Location

  Melbourne, Australia

• Site

  150m2

• Area

  190.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Hilary Bradford

'Tis the season for offices, museums, photographers and collaborators from around the world to send us a bit of holiday cheer! See our favorites below (or check out our best reader-submitted cards).

Here’s to a wonderful, architecture-filled 2017! See the best projects and articles published this year, here.

As a construction material, bamboo is resistant, versatile, grows rapidly and is immensely friendly with its own ecosystem and its agroforestry environment. In addition, it presents a large number of species that deliver different diameters and heights. But are there also variations in its color?

We are truly impressed with the work of architects, builders, and artisans who use 'blond bamboo,' which moves between yellow and brown tones. These species are abundant and easy to harvest, and therefore are more common and accessible. However, there are a number of species that have a darker coloration and could revolutionize bamboo architecture in the future. Here we present black bamboo. 

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Soon the people of Stavanger, Norway will get to see the LERVIG beer brewing process at the new 11,000 square meter visitor center and brewery designed by Danish architects COBE. An iconic focal point on what was once an industrial pier, the building will offer many new amenities to central Stavanger. The brewery will be encircled by public spaces such as a harbour bath and Norway’s first west-coast ‘street-food’ market, complete with a green roof above. From these periphery spaces, guests will be able to view the brew tanks and fermentation process happening in the heart of the building.

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• Architects

  Pluspuu Oy

• Location

  Finland

• Architects in Charge

  Esa Liesmäki architect, Mikko Kyläkoski design engineer, Merja Nummelin-Kasen Interior designer

• Area

  125.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Samuli Miettinen

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December 21 saw the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. The season is an excellent time to take architectural photographs in a unique and different landscape, with a blanket of snow providing a reminder of the delights of nature. Here, we present a selection of 10 cabins captured in winter by prominent photographers such as Tim Bies, Fernando Alda and Pasi Aalto.