The carmaker gears up to showcase its brand with a sculptural, glass-enclosed structure topped with a cantilevered, timber-framed roof.

An outdated modernist office building is spruced up for the 21st century.

In-process, completed, and on-the-boards projects featuring wood, including housing, office towers, museums, and academic buildings from Europe and North America.

These 10 emerging practices from across the U.S., Mexico, Germany, China, Japan, Nigeria, and Australia represent the promise of the next generation of architects.

With a “farm-to-shelter” mentality, BLDUS founders Andrew Linn and Jack Becker have taken a hands-on approach to designing structures with a sustainable aesthetic that challenge mainstream stick-built construction.

A decade into their shared practice, Mexico City–born Ingrid Moye and Berlin-born Christoph Zeller use their bicontinental arrangement to execute projects in both Latin America and Europe, allowing their experiences to inform one another.

Based in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Briar Hickling and Alex Mok of Linehouse build site-sensitive projects around knowledge of local materials and Chinese craftsmanship.

According to firm principal J. Jih, whose studio works out of a converted warehouse in Boston’s South End arts district, architecture is a place “to dissect value, encounter the values of others, and continually evolve one’s own values.”

Classmates Millie Anderson and Jimmy Carter began moonlighting on small freelance projects—today, Office MI–JI has introduced a refreshing new approach to the Melbourne design scene and completed several intriguing projects in low-cost local materials.

Among other projects, Brent Linden and Chris Brown's Portland-based firm has transformed a postwar house into a new residence and home studio for a local design business.