Architecture

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Designer / Brand: Tengyuan Design Work: Exhibition Center Tag: 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 / Brand: Shigetaka Mohizuki Work: Residential Tag: Architecture

Fuwaku

The building is a modern interpretation of traditional techniques and craftsmanship. The deep eaves of the sloping roof and the linear impression of the wooden latticework, combined with the painted walls, create a peaceful exterior atmosphere. The interior features a six-layered coffered ceiling composed of horizontal and vertical lines, and the beauty of the traditional painted walls and unique structural beauty expresses a Japanese sense of aesthetics and outstanding design.

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Designer / Brand: Kris Lin Work: City Exhibition Hall Tag: 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 / Brand: Eg MÜh Work: Residential Building Tag: 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 / Brand: 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 / Brand: Hamidreza Khademi and Mina G.Jahromi Work: Office Tag: Architecture

Lakeside Workspace

The conceptualization of the Lakeside Office design had been rooted in a profound aspiration to establish a symbiotic relationship between the constructed milieu and the encompassing natural landscape. Through the seamless incorporation of the office tower within its scenic lakeside locale, the architects formulated a spatial configuration conducive to heightened productivity and the cultivation of employee well-being, achieved by fostering an immediate rapport with the surrounding natural elements.

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Designer / Brand: 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 / Brand: Yun Lu Work: Visitor Center Tag: 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 / Brand: Minwoo Ahn Work: Complex Commercial Space Tag: 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 / Brand: Peter Kuczia Work: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Solarlux House Mondsee

Set against the stunning scenery of Lake Mondsee, this architectural project embodies sustainability and technological progress. Constructed entirely from cross laminated timber (CLT), the house blends seamlessly into its surroundings. The integrated photovoltaic panels on the roof efficiently capture solar energy, while geothermal probes are responsible for heating. The automatic systems control the natural ventilation and heating. With its focus on environmentally friendly materials and energy-efficient mechanisms, this wooden house offers a modern yet harmonious refuge.

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Designer / Brand: 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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Designer / Brand: Daniel de Amorim Work: Residential and Commercial Building Tag: Architecture

Maestria

A sophistication of living well. Mastery, which in Portuguese is called Maestria, comes from the power to do something with excellence. And that's how this project was shaped, the brutality of reinforced concrete being faceted by metal, the video, the textures, lighting, and light forms making the building transform into a sculpted jewel, shining and being embraced by the nature that surrounds it. The perfect work so that it is possible to combine the tranquility of living and the grandeur of being able to be master.

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