Architecture

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Designer: Kris Lin Design Type: Community Center Category: Architecture

City Of Light

City of Light is a community center built in an old district of Shanghai, China. The building holds a gymnasium, a yoga classroom, a children's themed pavilion, a cafe, an art gallery, an elderly health center and a children's study area. The form follows the rhythm of the river in front of the site, so the facade is curved and continuous like moving water. Aluminum plates, an economical and common material, were shaped into a hyperboloid surface with the help of three-dimensional modeling. The open square in front invites residents to meet and interact.

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Designer: Eg MÜh Design Type: Residential Building Category: Architecture

Istanbul 245 House

The design team have been determined as serenely living naturalness. They have included a lot of natural wood and natural stones in architecture and interior design. Natural solid wood is a living material. Natural materials and natural tones are determined. The autumn breeze was strongly reflected in the spaces. Oak and walnut are the colors of our project that can be used with stone and rock. They were careful to keep their formal forms calm and simple to rich touches from time to time, blending them with matte brass and linear slats.

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Designer: Kris Lin Design Type: City Exhibition Hall Category: Architecture

Snail Bay

Snail Bay is a city exhibition hall in Kunming, China, created through the reconstruction and reuse of old buildings. The hall covers 6800 square metres and presents the future development of the Snail Bay area. The external walls were removed while the original structure and spatial pattern were preserved. A large glass curtain wall faces the natural landscape and opens the interior view. Lake water is drawn into the building, where a regular pool overlaps visually with the lake surface. A corridor connects indoor and outdoor space.

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Designer: Minwoo Ahn Design Type: Complex Commercial Space Category: Architecture

Park Avenue

Park Avenue specializes in relaxation and landscaping by providing open space and landscaping space, and connects adjacent linear parks. Through this, it was defined as an urban living room concept that is connected to the surrounding residential complex. As a living room in the city, it was planned to be a unique space of everyday life that provides inspiration to users by adding an extraordinary experience to the connection with the park and the relationship between pedestrians and vehicle users. Through this, users can enjoy convenience, taste, and style in their daily lives.

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Designer: Nathan Fell Design Type: Duplex Category: Architecture

Bienville

Logistics of this working family required them to be home indoors for long periods, which in addition to work and school became disruptive to their wellness. They began to contemplate, like many families, whether a move to the suburbs, exchanging proximity to city amenities for a larger backyard to increase outdoor access was necessary. Rather than moving far away, they decided to build a new house that would reconsider the limitations of indoor home life on a small urban lot. The organizing principle of the project was to create as much outdoor access from communal areas as possible.

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Designer: Yun Lu Design Type: Visitor Center Category: Architecture

Haikou West Coast Southern Park

Haikou West Coast Southern Park Visitor Center is a visitor center in Haikou, Hainan Province, China. The building has an elliptical form inspired by an oval pebble washed by the sea. The shape follows the streamlined landscape of the park and blends into the surrounding scenery. A continuous roof of white composite aluminium sheet links the indoor and outdoor areas and offers space for rest. The facade uses tempered hollow glass curtain walls with undulating perforated aluminium sunshades. The sunshades reduce direct sunlight and save energy.

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

Langting Mansion

Yuzhou Langting Mansion is an exhibition center built in Qingdao, China. The design takes its inspiration from layered mountains, water and clouds. The roof follows the shape of rising and falling peaks and is clad in dark grey metal verge boards. The central part uses antique copper drawn aluminium squares to suggest multiple ranges of hills, set against a glass curtain wall. A mirror water pool connects the building with the site and completes the view. The planning follows the ritual order, the central axis and the courtyards of the ancient city of Jimo.

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Designer: Hatsuo Morimoto Design Type: House Category: Architecture

Lap and Wrap

Lap and Wrap is a single-story house built on a sloping urban site. The retaining wall and the building foundation are combined into one structure, so a larger part of the land is returned to the courtyard. The foundation is slanted rather than vertical, which gives the concrete a clear expression. The outer wall overlaps like a stratum and wraps around the house in a continuous band. No windows face the road. On the garden side, many windows and wide eaves form an intermediate area that joins inside and outside.

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

Shanxiao

The designer aimed for visitors to experience the artistic conception of ‘hidden in nature.’ the entire project has two parts, the sales office and the commercial area. the sales office is a smaller part of the building, but is executed with an exquisite and delicate aesthetic. it is naturally engraved and hidden in nature, thus highlighting the concept of ‘seclusion’.

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Designer: BIH-JENG LIN Design Type: Resort Category: Architecture

Misplaced Geometry

Misplaced Geometry is a resort building in Taiwan, completed in 2018. The project is formed by two connected three-story buildings of unequal heights, widths and depths, joined by a central ramp that follows the slope of the site. The corridor between the two buildings is cut on a diagonal axis and holds five trapezoidal windows. The exterior is grayscale, and white paint on the walls simulates interlocking tree branches in irregular triangular shapes. Hexagonal bricks of varying brightness clad the overhanging facades and the semi-outdoor terrace.

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Designer: Tengyuan Design Design Type: Public Welfare Architecture Category: Architecture

We Share

We Share Micro Nest is a pair of small public welfare buildings created as shared city furniture in Qingdao. The Reading House uses a rotated square timber frame, where native wood forms both the structure and the outer skin, and has a building area of 16.8 square meters. The rest station for sanitation workers is based on a cube with two panels that open inward and outward, and the shell is clad in colorful aluminum plate. Both structures make public resources easier to share and invite residents to take part in community life.

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Designer: GOA (Group of Architects) Design Type: Hotel Category: Architecture

Alila Wuzhen

Alila Wuzhen is a hotel inspired by the water towns south of the Yangtze River. The overall plan takes traditional villages of the region as its prototype, and retains their spatial forms, basic elements, building scales and color relations. Direct decorative elements are avoided, and fine materials, simple structures and quiet modern colors are used instead. Wide glass surfaces, large door leaves and deep overhanging eaves form a continuous and orderly frame. Streets, lanes and courtyards are given new functions. The hotel covers 25000 square meters.

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