Ryue Nishizawa arrived on the international scene as one half of the studio SANAA, but has also carried out numerous projects on a solo basis. His independent office, established in 1997, can be characterised by a formal and organicist radicality. This issue presents three recent works by Nishizawa: Jining Art Museum (in eastern China), Ochoquebradas House (along the coast of Los Vilos, Chile), and Terasaki House (outside Tokyo, Japan). Also in this issue, Herzog & de Meuron's Meret Oppenheim Tower in Basel; Kistefos Museum in Jevnaker, Norway, by BIG; a Barcelona preschool by b720 Fermin Vazquez Arquitecos; and Neri & Hu's Junshan Cultural Centre in Beijing.