Architecture

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Designer: SHUNSUKE OHE Work: Residential House Tag: Architecture

Majestic

This building stands on a sloping site, the second floor is the public zone, including the entrance, living room, dining room, and kitchen, while the first floor is the private zone, including the couple's bedroom and children's room. As mentioned above, the entrance is on the second floor, and because the building is on a slope, the facade looks like a one-story house. The exterior is finished with black natural slate stone and marble-like tiles on the exterior walls and fences, and accented with wooden latticework and white paint to create a stately yet moderately soft atmosphere.

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Designer: PARALLAX Work: Weekend Getaway Tag: Architecture

House On Pipes

A grid of slender steel pipes laid out in a staggered manner minimise the building footprint while providing the rigidity and stability to hoist the living space above this. In keeping with the minimalist icon approach, this farmhouse has been designed within the framework of the existing trees to reduce the internal heat gain. This has been further aided by the intentional staggering of the Fly ash blocks on the facade with the resultant void and shadow naturally cooling the building. Elevating the house also ensured that the Landscape was uninterrupted and the views were unrestricted.

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Designer: Qun Wen Work: Sales Office Tag: 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: spaceworkers Work: Exhibition Centre Tag: 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: Hayato Ishii Work: Hotel Tag: Architecture

Norm

The building is planned around the concept of chill and art, and is designed to provide a chill experience with family and friends, surrounded by nature and art, in a time that moves slowly. In order not to affect the building's surrounding environment, the exterior of the building is all in black to blend in with the natural surroundings. No wood is used for the finishing materials of the building, and natural trees are brought indoors as borrowed scenery, allowing visitors to enjoy the forest through the contrast between indoors and outdoors.

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Designer: Sirena Kiviranta Work: Sauna and Small Cottage Tag: 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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Designer: Torres Arquitetos Work: Residential Bulding Tag: 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 Work: Kindergarten Tag: 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: Emilia Durka-Zielińska and Walenty Durka Work: Private Residential Tag: 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: Satoshi Kurosaki Work: Residence Tag: 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: MadeMake Architects Work: Public Space Tag: Architecture

Starry Town

Starry Town of Fuxian Lake is a visitor center and public space built on the bank of Fuxian Lake. The building is shaped like a white leaf resting quietly beside the water. Each leaf roof covers about 1200 square meters and provides the shading required by the local climate. Two flowing white walls of aluminum plates connect the spaces, together with a curved ribbon bridge that extends 145 meters. The canopy over the entrance is formed from triangular mirror-finished stainless steel panels. Wide glazing on the ground floor keeps the lake visible from the site.

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Designer: gad Work: Secondary School Tag: Architecture

Nankai LiangJiang

Nankai LiangJiang is a secondary school built in Chongqing, China. The campus is planned around a ten-minute idea, so students can move between spaces within ten minutes during a compact daily schedule. The main building is a circular structure measuring 200 meters in diameter and is made with a pre-fabricated steel structure. Classrooms, offices, a library, a science hall, a theatre and a school museum are arranged within. Perforated aluminum panels reduce glare, and a parametric steel lattice forms an undulating roof that moderates sunlight and rain.

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