Architecture and design projects

Located in the ‘Fragrant Lake’ of Huanggang City in China, the ‘Sprite Cabin’ is one part of the ‘wild’ getaway homes building plan by architectural practice Wiki World. Adjacent to the Inner Lake Peninsula, the construction puts up two clusters of crystal-like formations surrounded by a bamboo forest. The two geometric structures shape three peaked volumes each covering...

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed ‘Nicolas Ruinart Pavilion’, a new visitor center for Ruinart, the oldest champagne house in Reims, France. The 1,400 sqm contemporary building features natural stone and wood, and is clad in a gradient glass façade topped by a curved roof. The new project is located on a site steeped in history and is set in relation to the pr...

Sited along the Merwede Canal in the Utrecht neighborhood of Rivierenwijk, EVA Architecten’s contemporary Houseboat opens freely onto the water and harbors an intimate relationship with greenery on the shore. The structure perches on a dark aluminum plinth while its facade is marked by a sequence of wooden slats punctuated by large glazed openings and black window frames...

The Abrahamic Family House, a trio of cubic buildings, stands proudly erect on Saadiyat Island, the cultural district of the United Arab Emirates’ capital of Abu Dhabi. Beside the waters of the Arabian Gulf, the three edifices comprise a Jewish synagogue, an Islamic mosque and a Catholic church, all designed by British-Ghanaian architect Sir David Adjaye. They are titled...

The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) wasn’t born as a museum – at least, not in the flesh. Conceived by philanthropist and collector Abhishek Poddar in 2020 as India's first online-only art and photography gallery, it effectively upended the typical ‘physical-first, digital-next’ museum rulebook by assuming a bricks-and-mortar avatar earlier this month, three years af...

This Condesa house is the brainchild of the collaboration of two Mexican studios – featuring architecture by the established practice TAX, headed by Alberto Kalach, and interiors by the emerging outfit Tow Va Bow, founded by architect Emilio A Cohen. The result? The project is a harmonious blend of rawness and greenery, soft and hard surfaces, and an urban approach that ...

The Kalm Penthouse Ari consists of 23 units, whose design has been carefully thought out to fit in with the neighborhood’s character while still being modern and functional. To blend in with the mid-century modern architecture prevalent in the area, the building was designed with curved corners. The building’s facade also features planters with stone veneer, aluminum c...

The eye-catching exterior design also includes a twisting roof created as a result of two overlapping shapes. The exterior of the house is clad in a single material, a custom ceramic tile covering that wraps the entire building. This customized multicolored glazed tile cladding represents the transitions in the landscape, from dune landscape to polder, and the soil lay...

After the government scrapped its zero-Covid policy at the end of last year, a flurry of high-profile architecture projects in China are now expected to open soon having suffered long delays during three years of lockdowns. The list includes a library modelled on a gingko forest, a museum in the form of a giant yin-yang symbol, and an activity centre that looks like an ...

Named Woodlands Day Nursery and Forest School, the building is located in a former car park at Staffordshire University and provides childcare services for its students and staff, as well as teaching facilities for its own education department. As part of the project, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios also created a forest school to support an outreach programme in Stoke-on...

Located on a corner site in the city's Thu Duc district, the Urban Farming Office was designed to be emblematic of the plant-filled, low-energy architecture for which Vo Trong Nghia Architects is known. Alongside the office, the practice has also constructed a version of its low-cost housing prototype, S House, designed to withstand typhoons and earthquakes and first un...

Bridges hold a special place in our heart, and bridge design can be magical - a connector of worlds and places, by definition, and a feat of human ingenuity, blending seamlessly the finest of architecture and engineering. Futuristic or historical, above or underground, long or short, these pieces of infrastructure can make for a strong design statement. They are also per...

A Jackson Hole retreat for a creative California-based couple, ShineMaker Residence is perfectly tuned to its natural environment. Nestled on a gently undulating plot overlooking green expanses and the kaleidoscope of colours they offer over the changing seasons, the home is delicately located by an aspen grove near Wilson, Wyoming and has been designed by locally based ...

Bold shapes, colours and textures define the interior of Two Hands nursery, the newest interior by London architecture studio vPPR. Yet there's more than meets the eye in this pre-school piece of education architecture located in Shepherd’s Bush, as the project was conceived to combine great-looking design with sustainable architecture principles and a stimulating enviro...

The Suhe Centre for China Resources Land forms the centerpiece of the Suhewan East Urban Complex, which introduces a rich mix of functions to the predominantly residential area. The 200-meter, 42-story signature tower is part of the city’s vision to draw development towards the eastern quarter. The Suhe Centre has obtained LEED Platinum certification and has a Green Bui...

As a key project for the city’s transformation, the aboveground station has been designed to add valuable public green space and activate the local community. Kaohsiung Station’s central hall unfolds underneath a bright ceiling of oval-shaped lights. Arriving from the underground platforms, the immersive space will make people feel instantly familiar. The station’s larg...

It is housed in a listed building complex from the 1930s, by architect Alexander Kropholler, which has been partly renovated, transformed, and expanded. The buildings now house a collection of 12,000 objects, several permanent exhibitions, a knowledge center with a research library, workshop space and auditorium, a museum café, and laboratories for design and prototypin...

AgwA has proven its ability to develop a project capable of adapting to the multiplicity of its occupants, capable of offering a diversified program within the same space, and capable of communicating and being enriched by all the project's stakeholders, however, varied they may be. The housing blocks of Brussels are characterized by their parcel-based division. The cohe...

The client: When we signed the contract for the design, the client was a single neurosurgeon with a fiancé. He knew what he wanted, asking for bold angular shapes with a distinct muscular style. He also had a plan for his future family with 3 children and asked me to design 3 bedrooms for the children with a master bedroom for the couple. The space program in the end bec...

The first idea is to provide a rooftop view that is blocked by the building itself. A wormhole-like, diagonal, floor-piercing staircase starts from the roadside leading to the balcony on the 2nd floor providing a great view. This diagonal blackhole wormhole staircase is designed as an offering, an offering to the public, like the offering of a shaded arch by Louis Khan a...

From a very preliminary stage of the process the design team actively intervened, namely in the development of a concept based on: . the definition of mixed-use program, Hotel, and Concert Hall. . the reuse of the structural configuration of the existing buildings reproducing, the new construction, and the three volumes of the former buildings. . maintaining the buildin...

The 7-acre site is situated in one of the upcoming areas of Lucknow, just off the Amar Shaheed path, which is the main artery connecting the city to its airport. Overlooking the Gomti River across its green buffer, the Oranje Castle is a self-contained housing development in which there is a total of 437 units with a mix of typologies from 3BHK standard apartments to 3 &...

Designed as a complementary counterpart to the Art Gallery’s revitalized original building with its 19th-century neoclassical facade, SANAA’s design for the new building responds to the unique project site with a series of interlocking pavilions that gently step down towards Sydney Harbour. The pavilions sit low and lightly on the site, following the natural topography o...

The buildings date back to the 12th or 13th century, although the building visible from Plaça Tagamanent was registered in the city archives in 1576 as Can Santacilia. Since then, both buildings have suffered several modifications, consequently the existing state prior to the OHLAB project is from the 17th century, with a subsequent reform in the 18th century. In additio...

The client contacted us as they were considering the site but unsure whether a leased commercial building there would be able to attract a steady flow of people given the location is a block off the main road and not very close to the station. On weekdays, elderly people, homemakers, and children cross the border between the two districts mentioned above for various re...

The compact space is divided into 4 equally sized areas: bedroom, living /workspace, kitchen, and bathroom. Despite the spatial constraints bathroom and kitchen are fully equipped and include modern conveniences such as a dishwasher and a washing machine. To make the most of the space available a desk including a foldaway screen can be pulled out from underneath the bed....

Designed and patented in Ecuador, IWI is a space that can be extended or compressed, depending on the needs of the user. When compressed, it behaves like a piece of furniture or a shelf. When extended, it becomes a living space that contains everything necessary to fulfill its different functions, such as office/stud, yoga studio, relaxation space, workshop, meeting roo...

Located in the middle of the Brazilian forest, the design of the treehouse was inspired by the geometries of the surrounding sycamore leaf structures Initially conceived in wood, the frames were replaced by dark graphite finish aluminum ones, due to their more slender character contrasting color, and ease of attaching the glass to the facades. The decorative wood eleme...

The 1980s bakery, which is located on the ground floor of a residential block, was stripped back by Auba Studio to reveal its high ceilings and bare structure. Instead of compartmentalising the 106-square-metre space, named NZ10 Apartment, it is split lengthways by a half-height room divider that is made of wood and incorporates shelving. This separates a kitchen, dinin...

Today, the medical beauty market in China has reached the fastest growth rate in the world. CAA architects intends to redefine the industry standards of the medical beauty field by Joan Clinic’s design, and reshape people’s recognition that the medical beauty industry should respect life, pursue nature and advocate art. The project continues the concept of CAA interior ...

The 80-acre site will feature a total of 8 soccer fields and related facilities meant to house the club’s two professional-level teams and world-renowned Youth Training program in place of a former manufacturing center for the American corporation Honeywell. Gensler says: “The holistic environment, expressed in the fluidity from indoor to outdoor spaces, not only provid...

The hotel is located on a wetland beside the lake. The architectural cluster “captures” the aesthetic, dynamic posture of white cranes when landing on Poyang Lake and spreading winds to fly, featuring V-shaped forms. Scattered along a mountain, the buildings are designed with eaves that show unique forms and textures. “Numerous birds fly back to the nest” The interior d...

Called Low Energy House, the residence is located in Muswell Hill, a suburban district in north London, and aimed to set an example of a sustainable refurbishment of a typical terraced home with a constrained budget. The project’s embodied energy and energy in-use were taken into heavy consideration. The energy requirements were reduced through insulating, triple-glazi...

The project was initiated by an undaunted 12-year-old client named Lujzi, who dreamed of a playhouse she could retreat to with her friends. From Lujzi’s vision, the design team emerged with a functional tiny house which, in their words, is “more reminiscent of a beautiful design toy than a building.” “Lujzi has always enjoyed traveling - especially flying on aircraft, w...

A five-star Eco–hotel to be designed in the Al-Abdali, Amman – Jordan, the goal is to meet as many Leeds points as possible. plot of land with an area of 14.000 square meters. the hotel should house 200 guest rooms, with outdoor and indoor facilities.We are imaginatively interacting with the environment all the times, and the richer those simulations are, the better you ...

When the owners of Grove House purchased their charming, heritage-listed residence in Woollahra in Sydney’s inner east, they were also investing in the preservation of one of the city’s shared private gardens. The clients had been looking to move for a year and it was this garden that really drew them in. Much like a secret garden, the serene oasis is hidden near a bustl...