A blend of fun, flexible, efficient and honest, The Gourmet Tea shop's modular design in Brazil's biggest city is both regional and universal.

Concept designs from far-fetched futurists have toyed with the idea for years, but one firm has finally made the vision a reality: towers extensively populated with trees.

A Victorian-era underground restroom that had been abandoned since the 1960s has been renovated into a restaurant, with cafe seating in the former urinals.

Imagine heading out from San Francisco to a bustling technology hub closer than Silicon Valley ... yet an entire country away in a place that requires no work visa to visit or stay.

Few works of architecture can boast half so strange a history as this remarkable rebuilt structure now serving as a restaurant in the waters of Amsterdam.

An abandoned factory complex in Spain has been transformed into a massive office for an architecture firm, leaving much of the old machinery intact.

They may not have windows, workers or office space yet blankly mysterious telecom infrastructure buildings are an essential part of the urban megalopolis.

The offices of Inventionland, a prolific design factory in Pittsburg, is an amazingly inspirational space, with pirate ships, race tracks and tree houses.

First it was a small town in Austria, copied in exacting detail and replicated in China. Now: a complex by a famous architect that may be done before the original is built.

These tiny, chaotic live/work spaces in Bangkok are filled to the brim with both the tools of the trade and the owners' personal possessions.