Inspiration for your quiet place somewhere.

By Ville Hara and Linda Bergroth. The coziest shed on earth ever?

This underground railway station with concrete beams by Hungarian firm Spora Architects is currently under construction in Budapest.

The extreme nature of the Antarctica environment combined with its bizarre statelessness, provides the location for a freezing architectural expo, with each country having its own icy pavilion.

Spanish architecture firm SelgasCano has designed the best office in the world – a working space in the middle of a forest.

William O’Brien Jr. designed the Allandale House, an A-frame(s) house for an idiosyncratic connoisseur and her family. Along with its occupants, it also provides space for an eccentric collection of artifacts that resist straightforward classification. Wines, rare books, stuffed birds and an elk mount are among the relics on display in this small vacation house.

Gary Chang’s Hong Kong apartment can be transformed into 24 different rooms. Via

SUNDAY is a one day contemporary art event in Berlin Mitte which will gather some of the most noticeable young galleries from Berlin and other parts of Europe under one roof. SUNDAY will occupy three spacious floors of a brand new building on Rosa Luxemburg Platz designed by BundschuhBaumhauer architects.

May 2 2010, 12-7 pm, Linienstrasse 40, 10119 Berlin.

A short film by Alex Roman that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view.

A neat tea house up in the trees by Terunobu Fujimori in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. This looks just too cozy.

Crush Alba by Gus Wüstemann is a flat in Barcelona in the Gotico area, in the center of the historic part of Barcelona.

Vienna architects Pichler & Traupmann Architekten have completed an open-air swimming pool in the park of a 17th-century castle in Jöss, Austria. The project incorporates a partially-underground shower area with glass-panelled shelving. More

Dutch architects Ateliereen Architecten have completed a 25 metre tall viewing tower at an outdoor sports park in Reusel, the Netherlands. The structure comprises six boxes resting on a steel, structural core and incorporates abseiling and climbing facilities. The walls of the tower are made of halved logs, grown in the surrounding forest, which are slotted into the steel frames horizontally and vertically.

Inside a pier somewhere in Malmö Sweden, Nils-Petter Löfstedt and Erik Vestman created a room. Perhaps you have walked on it. Surely you would never have guessed that underneath the stone and concrete there is a livingroom with white walls and parquet floor. Via

Inspired by their 10th anniversary, the Earth Observatory has pulled together a special series of NASA satellite images documenting how our world – forests, oceans, human landscapes, even the sun – has changed during the previous decade. Shown above is the urbanisation of Dubai.