Architecture

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Designer: Tetsuya Matsumoto Design Type: Office Building Category: Architecture

The PolyCuboid

The PolyCuboid is the new headquarter building for TIA, a company that provides insurance services. The first floor was shaped by the limits of the site and the 700mm diameter water pipe that is crossing the site underground limiting foundation space. The metallic structure dissolves into the diverse blocs of the composition. The pillars and beams vanish from the space syntax, projecting the impression of an object, while also eliminating that of a building. The volumetric design is inspired by TIA’s Logo turning the building itself into an icon representing the company.

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Designer: Enota Design Type: Swimming Pools Category: Architecture

Termalija Family Wellness

Termalija Family Wellness is the latest in the series of projects which Enota has built at Terme Olimia in the last fifteen years and concludes the complete transformation of the spa complex. Viewed from a distance, the shape, color and scale of new clustered structure of tetrahedral volumes is a continuation of the cluster of the surrounding rural buildings, visually extending into the heart of the complex. The new roof acts as a big summer shade and doesn't usurp any of the precious exterior space.

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Designer: Satoshi Kurosaki Design Type: Residence Category: Architecture

Infinity

This residence in the mountainous region of northern Okinawa known as Gushiku Mui serves as a weekend and vacation home for a client whose primary residence is in Hokkaido. The hilltop site offers sweeping views of the ocean immediately below as well as the ambiance of the magnificent mountains behind it. The living dining kitchen area stretches the full width of the property, with a jacuzzi bathroom featuring outdoor views at one end. Beyond a living room terrace partially shaded by eaves, an infinity pool segues into a natural landscape of ocean and forest.

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Designer: Tengyuan Design Design Type: Exhibition Center Category: Architecture

Yuexiang Lake

Yuexiang Lake is an exhibition center located in Yuhong District, Shenyang. The building follows a new Chinese style that draws on traditional courtyard culture. The garden is divided into four courtyards arranged along two axes, north and south, so each area offers a different atmosphere. The entrance gate is 9 meters high and 32 meters wide and is made of Portuguese Beige stone. A cantilevered canopy 32 meters long guides movement into the site. A sunken club with a height of 6.6 meters adds spatial depth within a limited area.

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Designer: Tengyuan Design Design Type: Exhibition Center Category: Architecture

Guilin

Guilin is a culture and tourism exhibition center designed as a minimalist glass cube. The building covers 4021 square meters. The glass curtain wall is built with cantilever glass ribs set vertically in two densities and heights. The ribs form three levels of hill shades on the elevation, read as close, medium and distant views. Overlapping transmission, reflection and refraction between the glass layers shift with the light. A bamboo gallery follows the main route inside the showroom. The design turns the landscape of Guilin into built form.

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Designer: Studio Atelier11 Design Type: Office Category: Architecture

Studio Atelier11

The building was based on a "triangle" with the strongest visual image of the original geometric form. If you look down from a high place, you can see a total of five different triangles The combination of triangles of different sizes means that "human" and "nature" play a role as a place where they meet.

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Designer: spaceworkers Design Type: Exhibition Centre Category: Architecture

Interpretation of Romanesque

Interpretation Centre of Romanesque is an exhibition centre located in the village of Lousada, Portugal. The building consists of seven exposed concrete volumes of different heights, and each volume forms a separate exhibition space. A central hall covered with glass connects the volumes and leads to their entrances. The contrast between the bright hall and the darker exhibition rooms guides the visit. Each ceiling reinterprets a roof type from Romanesque architecture. The wood-textured concrete facades recall the stone and wood of older local buildings.

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Designer: Emilia Durka-Zielińska and Walenty Durka Design Type: Private Residential Category: Architecture

The Da House

The Da House is an innovative, wooden, modular object made with certified solid wooden 3D construction, ecological certified materials, passive technology and mobile foundation. This dwelling combines the simplicity and quality of prefabricated construction, with the beauty and integrity of an aesthetic object. There are translated ecological and functional assumptions creating a ecological architecture. The priority of the project was the health of residents, high quality, no barriers house, ecology and the favorable microclimate provided by wood, cost of construction & exploitation.

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Designer: Torres Arquitetos Design Type: Residential Bulding Category: Architecture

Las Solanas

Las Solanas building is a residential development with six floors, located on a corner site in the coastal city of Torres, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. With a total area of 2180.19 square meters, the building sought as its premise an interaction between the resident and nature and the beauty of the city. To achieve this, the nineteen apartment units open completely to views of the beach, which is just one square away. The building has several comoditits for its residents, such as fitness and shared rooftop, all in order to provide comfort and luxury for users.

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Designer: Zhubo Design Design Type: Kindergarten Category: Architecture

Shenzhen Shangsha

Shenzhen Shangsha is a kindergarten located in an urban village in Shenzhen, China. The building holds 18 classes on four floors, with a total construction area of 7304.38 square metres and a height of 16.7 metres. Classrooms follow a straight line layout, while corridors alternate between the north and south sides to create double height spaces. Three canyon like voids are embedded in the form and enclosed by 300 millimetre reinforced concrete folded walls, so sunlight enters at different times of the day. The design adds public space to a dense neighbourhood.

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Designer: Qun Wen Design Type: Sales Office Category: Architecture

Treasure Box

The architectural concept is based on the artistic supremacism that reflected the social and technological changes of the 1920s, with the intention of expressing the mutual influence and interdependence between physical and virtual space in the digital age. As a reflection of the real world, this project attempts to look beyond a single function of the sales office through improved design, so that it can enhance the quality of public life and lead people strive for a better future and make a positive contribution to the community.

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Designer: Sirena Kiviranta Design Type: Sauna and Small Cottage Category: Architecture

Drop Sauna and Drop Lodge

The stylishly designed Drop Sauna and Lodge come in black, white or natural wood colors. They are perfectly square with and eye catching large glass frontage signature styled in the shape of a drop. The wood employed is spruce-based cross-laminated timber which is an environmentally friendly, renewable and highly durable construction material. Drop outdoor Saunas and Lodges are meticulously crafted in Finland with the utmost attention to detail.

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