Architecture

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Designer: Aico Ltd Design: Mixed Use Tag: Architecture

CR Land Shijiazhuang MiXC

CR Land Shijiazhuang MiXC is a mixed-use development in Shijiazhuang, China. The complex combines a retail podium with office and apartment towers. A large setback at the northwest corner of the site creates an urban plaza at street level and a sunken plaza linked to the subway. The transfer hall of Metro Lines 1 and 3 connects to the two basement levels of the shopping mall through the sunken plaza and a pedestrian walkway. Mall entrances are placed at three street corners. The entrance facade uses double glazed curtain walls with a special lighting design.

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Designer: Quincy Li Design: Display Center Tag: Architecture

Wenlan Mansion

Wenlan Mansion is a display center located near West Mountain and Dian Lake in Kunming, China. The site faces the mountain, offers an open view and is surrounded by ecological resources. The design uses the five meter height difference of the ground to create vertical spaces and an ascending view. The layout follows traditional Kunming courtyards, with axis symmetry and a front and back yard plan that divides the site into a cultural exhibition area, a water courtyard and a private garden. Stone and aluminum plate are used on the facade.

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Designer: NDA Group Design: Headquarters and Creative Offices Tag: Architecture

Citychamp Dartong Plaza

Citychamp Dartong Plaza is an office building designed as a corporate headquarters with creative offices in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China. The building covers 37,350 square metres over five floors and holds a company headquarters, three affiliate offices, retail units and shared spaces. The circular plan is arranged around a large courtyard, recalling traditional Fujian tulou dwellings, while the vertical rhythm of the facades refers to local wooden shipbuilding. Green atriums and cantilevered terraces shelter movement and reduce energy loss.

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Designer: Chun Yen Chen Design: Office Building Tag: Architecture

Swancor Innovation Campus

Swancor Innovation Campus is an office building that serves as the operational headquarters and research and development center for Swancor Group. The configuration and distribution of the building volumes establish a harmonious relationship with the surrounding environment. The architecture is designed to coordinate with the natural setting and to remain community friendly. The campus is centered on the concept of a Knowledge Canyon, which promotes exchange and sharing. The project was completed in Nantou County, Taiwan, in March 2024.

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Designer: Dr Aleksandar Rudnik Milanovic Design: Expo Pavilion Tag: Architecture

Octagon

The octagon, a geometric figure selected by Nikola Tesla for his tower served as the motivation for creating a distinctive pavilion complex. By rebuilding the tower using energy efficient technologies, with a lookout as the focal point of this architectural ensemble featuring eight pavilions within the octagonal extension of the tower, this facility would serve as a future landmark for any global expo complex. The glazed atrium, is supported by columns shaped to represent lightning. Once the Expo event concludes, this complex could evolve into a mixed-use center, guaranteeing its viability.

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Designer: Yahya Kashi Design: Residential Tag: Architecture

Roof House

The Roof House project, situated on the roof of a car showroom in Kermanshah, challenges conventional beliefs about residential spaces. This project explores alternative ways to transfigure the house concept and shift its understanding from a new perspective. It reinterprets the generic house through three key concepts: Destruction, where external forces deform the house; Explosion, where structural and non-structural elements exaggerate and withdraw from the debris; and Expansion, where objects dominate others by spreading their essence.

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Designer: POTIROPOULOS and PARTNERS Design: Office Building Tag: Architecture

Serrated Transparency

The office building is located in Ellinikon with unobstructed sea views. The building outline introduces a trapeze, which expands over the site and addresses the prominent corner. The space is perceived as a field of forces where the delineated space is contested by the striated organization of the facade, navigated by the views towards the sea, the orientation of the sun, resulting in a subtle expression of the complex dynamics between them. The concept investigates the smooth and the striated in a broader field, with the varying degrees of transparency implied by the jagged main facade.

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Designer: Shamsudin Kerimov Design: Residential Tag: Architecture

House in Repino

House in Repino is a private house located in Repino, Leningrad region, Russia. The house has a total area of 1000 square meters. The villa community set one strong rule: all residences had to follow a Wright-like style. The design takes the rule into account and interprets the style in an original way. The house is integrated into the landscape. Existing trees are preserved as far as possible, and some trees pass through the canopies to create a rhythm and a closer relation between architecture and nature. Stone, wood and metal are the main materials.

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Designer: Kei Tamai Design: Housing Tag: Architecture

Yokohama Tsuzuki

Yokohama Tsuzuki is a detached house built in a densely populated urban area in Japan. The plan is organized around a central courtyard, kept as large as local regulations allow. All rooms face the courtyard, so the interior reads as one connected space. The sky stays visible from every room, marking the change of seasons indoors. The layout is flexible and can be adapted as family needs change. The site area is 213.98 square meters and the total floor area is 160.02 square meters. The design follows traditional Japanese houses, which brought light and air into daily life.

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Designer: Dante Luna Design: House Tag: Architecture

Lulu Ville

Lulu Villa is a private residence located in Las Terrenas. The house covers 850 square meters of construction on a plot of 2,492 square meters. The design is composed of three intersecting volumes, one of which has two levels. The first level holds the social areas, with large galleries open to the exterior, and the guest rooms. The second level holds the bedrooms and a family room, linked by an open corridor. Concrete in its natural state marks the facades. The entrance uses aluminum profiles with a wood finish, resistant to sea salt and spaced to let daylight enter.

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Designer: Minzui Innovation co., ltd. Design: Mixed Use Building Tag: Architecture

Genuine Minzui

Genuine Minzui is a mixed use building completed in Taiwan. Building A holds commercial space, offices and shared facilities on the first floor, residential units from the second to the fourteenth floor, and a boxing room and sky garden on the top floor. Building B is a two story retail complex. Horizontal shading and 10 plus 10 glazing reduce sun exposure on the western facade. Local plants are set in low, medium and high layers on the east facade and the roof. The exterior walls are clad in kiln fired tiles with low water absorption.

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Designer: Lin Chen Design: book villa Tag: Architecture

Mountain House in Mist

Mountain House in Mist is a countryside book house located in an ancient village in Wuyi. The building joins traditional culture with modern design through a new application of traditional materials, a transformed roof and translucent polycarbonate boards on the facades. During the day, the boards create a soft translucent atmosphere inside. At night, light passes outward and the book house becomes a visual center of the village. The book house offers a calm place to read and aims to bring young people and children back to the mountains.

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