Stacked Architecture: Five Vertical Projects Piling Up Homes

Five architects, one shared idea: the stacked house, reinvented as hotel, gallery, tower and neighbourhood in miniature.

Five architects, one shared idea: the stacked house, reinvented as hotel, gallery, tower and neighbourhood in miniature.

A cluster of seven boulders, Rotterdam Rocks fuses sustainability storytelling, hospitality and public terraces on the Dutch city’s south bank.

Adjaye Associates’ Studio Museum Harlem embraces its urban surroundings to champion creativity from African descent in New York and beyond.

“The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower” at MoMA features a fully restored original capsule from Tokyo’s iconic Metabolist architecture, demolished in 2022.

The OMA expansion of the New Museum seamlessly blends with the existing SANAA-designed building in Manhattan, New York City.

REVIVAL can be swiftly mounted and scaled up. “The war is causing irreparable destruction very quickly. Our task is to rebuild Ukraine faster; because people want to return home now!” The Ukrainian studio told Archipanic.

Conceived as a vertical village, the Quay Quarter Tower won the World Building of the Year Award 2022 at the 15th World Architecture Festival.

From futuristic skyscrapers to stunning libraries and magnificent museums. Architecturally speaking, Doha is future-driven. Discover the Gulf metropolis’ best contemporary buildings by Jean Nouvel, OMA, I.M. Pei, and more.

Despite local and international efforts to save it from the wrecking ball, the Nagakin Capsule Tower will be replaced by a brand-new building. But some of the cuboid capsules composing it might be saved from demolition, restored and hosted in museums.

Germany Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai blends visionary environmental ideas with real-life results. The sustainable architecture features suspended cubes and a forest of steel poles, covered by a floating roof.

As you walk in the lobby of the Sanderson London hotel, Yinka Ilori’s colourful Christmas tree glows, framed by modernist architecture and eclectic interiors.

With the LEGO House, BIG scales up classic LEGO bricks to compose an architecture made of overlapping volumes hosting playful galleries and terraces with dinosaurs, giant trees, a submarine and a shark.

From postwar never-realized urban visions to fancy sleeping pods. The history of Tokyo capsule hotels starts from the endangered Nakagin Capsule Tower photographed by Noritaka Minami.

Can a building be light, transparent and luminous but also provide privacy and offer a 180° panorama? Golf House by Luciano Kruk achieves that by overlapping concrete volumes with glass walls.