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Architecture Today

Architecture Today featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Changi Terminal 2

The design team completely redesigned an existing terminal building, Terminal 2 of Singapore's internationally renowned Changi Airport, comprising 120000 square meters across three levels. This newly renovated terminal focuses on traveler experiences and connections to the earth's elements and has provided Singapore with a new 21st century gateway to the Garden City. The project was designed as a journey across an indoor landscape encompassing minerals, water features, and lush vegetation in various forms and densities.

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Shenzhen Art Museum

The project site is located in the low-density business district of Shenzhen North Railway Station in Longhua New District, close to the Hongshan Metro Station in Longhua District, the architectural form is like a hand merging up and down, creating different levels of public platforms in the middle of the two buildings, the platform expands the function of the building, the elevated space makes it away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and the roof on the top provides shelter for it, creating a comfortable atmosphere, providing public space while also undertaking the axis of the city.

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Maitreya Dharma

The project is inside the Xuedou Mountain Scenic Area, in Xikou Town, Fenghua District of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, with a planned land area of 144.997 square meters. The project site used to be an abandoned quarry with an open area in front of it, with complicated topology, where the height difference between the highest point and the bottom of the abandoned quarry is about 35 meters, and a North-Ring underground railway line passes through under the quarry.

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272 Hedges Avenue Pedestal

The two-story pedestal base of 272 Hedges Avenue in Gold Coast, Australia, brings a human scale to the residential tower and creates a contextual connection with the surroundings. As urbanization grows, it separates humans from nature. The pedestal merges the built and natural environments, improving the area and community. Advanced design techniques and products were used by Contreras Earl Architecture to create a biologically informed and digitally engineered design. The pedestal is a unique and site-specific solution that contributes to the evolution of architecture and urban development, benefiting inhabitants and the environment.

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Cuiwan Zhongcheng

Cuiwan Zhongcheng is located at the junction of two plots, unfolding towards the city and showing future architecture, future traffic, future neighborhood and many other life scenes in future community. From the perspective of the city, the project introduces the concept Ring of Infinity Mobius, and fuses the infinite four dimensional form into the three dimensional space in an abstract manner, hence creating a continuous, and multidimensional open space. Variations in the multi-dimensional form arouse uncertain imagination about the building.

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Shenzhen Zhongshuge

Inspired by the rapid development and achievements of the project location, Shenzhen Zhongshuge is created to pay tribute to the countless pioneers in this immigrant city. The spiral bookshelf is used as a symbol to show the rapid development of history and arouse the thinking of visitors at the same time. The unconventional design approach to fuse commerce and art breaks the shackles of the monotonous attributes of a space bound to function, conveys the brand's values, brings a new and novel place gene to consumers' shopping experience.

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