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Quectel Global Center Office Block

Quectel Global Center

Quectel Global Center is an office building located in Shanghai. The design combines internal office functions with public exhibition areas. The office floors face the riverside to gain open views. The facade uses fluid horizontal lines, aluminum panels and insulating glass curtain walls, forming a clean and modern visual identity. The interlocking, staggered layout creates stairs, terraces and rooftop gardens for informal interaction and rest. The ground floor is raised and open, forming a passage that links the building with the surrounding city.

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Glory Of Galaxy Residential Design

Glory Of Galaxy

Glory of Galaxy is a residential complex that brings garden living into high rise housing. A mixed height layout combines high rise flats with low rise villas, answering limited land supply while keeping ample public space. Villa level courtyards are merged with the open views of the upper flats. The facade uses aluminum panels and stone in varied colors, gentle horizontal lines and rounded corners. Covered walkways and a stone gate link the drop off zone to the lobby, and a communal space on the elevated ground floor supports contact among residents.

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Kobisan Residences Residential Devolopment

Kobisan Residences

Kobisan Residences is a residential development located in Konya, Turkey. The site covers 108,000 square meters and has a steep slope, standing about 60 meters above the city level. The development contains 330 residential units arranged in 9 blocks. The buildings are oriented toward the view and placed along the upper edge of the site. A sectional strategy divides the 14 story mass into a main block and four story volumes, so the development is read as two separate buildings. A social facility in a central position holds the shared functions.

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Alibaba Damo Nanhu Industry Park Research and Development

Alibaba Damo Nanhu Industry Park

Alibaba Damo Nanhu Industry Park is a research and development campus located beside Nanhu Lake in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, China. The campus brings together research laboratories, a visitor and exhibition centre, and support facilities. The master plan is shaped like a Bodhi leaf, and the open courtyards and view corridors follow the pattern of leaf veins. Modular office blocks can be linked to form floor plates of 2,000 to 4,000 square metres. A quiet central courtyard provides a space for meditation and reflection.

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Yunhai Shimen Industry Park

Yunhai Shimen

Yunhai Shimen is a mixed-use industry park in Qujiang District, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China. The design draws on the mountainous landscape of the region, using clean geometric forms of staggered towers and cascading platforms to recall mountains and clouds. Instead of a closed retail podium, the complex unfolds into a series of connected outdoor platforms set at several levels. These platforms, the tower sky lobbies and a central gallery named Cloud Deck host public gatherings and events of different scales. The main structure is built of reinforced concrete.

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Jiangmen Tech City Mixed Use Architecture

Jiangmen Tech City

Jiangmen Tech City is a mixed use development that combines offices, research and innovation spaces, retail and housing on a site of 100000 square meters. The design is inspired by green terraced fields and by the arcade spaces of traditional architecture in southern China. Layered setbacks create planted terraces that extend greenery from the ground to the roofs. Public buildings face the main roads, while the residential area is placed on the north side. Shared work spaces and public squares support entrepreneurs, small firms and larger companies. Construction is planned in stages.

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Jiangangshan Number 1   Residential Buildings

Jiangangshan Number 1

Jiangangshan Number 1 is a residential development located in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. The project has a total construction area of 394,000 square meters. The layout follows the natural topography next to Dajing Mountain Park, so that the homes can face the mountain and forest landscape. Building types include residences, a kindergarten, a commercial street and supporting facilities. Residential and public buildings are placed in two clusters to keep the living areas quiet. A circular fitness trail of 700 meters runs through the central garden.

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Sakura Nest Mixed Used

Sakura Nest

Sakura Nest is a mixed-use development that combines residential, office and commercial spaces in Adana. The site covers 23,585 square meters and holds eight residential blocks with 59 units, 10,000 square meters of commercial area and 600 square meters of social facilities. Organic forms and layered terraces replace rigid grid geometry. Reinforced concrete forms the structure, and the facade uses insulated glass with aluminum cladding. Passive shading, green terraces and rooftop gardens support energy efficiency.

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Tobb Technopark Campus Innovation Center

Tobb Technopark Campus

Tobb Technopark Campus is a research and development complex located within the Tobb Etu Campus in Ankara. The design consists of two blocks joined by a central atrium at ground level and through the basement levels. Laboratories, workshops, parking and technical spaces occupy the basement levels, while the upper floors hold flexible research and development areas. Five entrances placed at different levels give access across the sloping site. The layout opens the work spaces toward daylight and the adjacent city park, supporting interaction and knowledge exchange.

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Condominio Cascais Residential Building

Condominio Cascais

Condominio Cascais is a residential development in the coastal region of Cascais, Portugal, designed by Brazilian architect David Bastos. Set on a sloping site overlooking the Atlantic, the villas are arranged in terraces to preserve open views toward the sea and the Farol da Guia. Each unit integrates private gardens and pools within natural stone and wood structures. The design connects architecture and landscape, emphasizing openness, privacy, and continuous contact with nature.

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Prive Inventum  Mixed Use Development

Prive Inventum

The project redefines residential development as a self sustaining urban ecosystem rather than a mere housing compound. Structured as a mini city, the master plan frames sustainability through both continuous green landscapes and a mixed use program that fulfills daily needs on site. Guided by horizontal architecture and informed by topography, the stepped massing generates a fragmented human scale skyline. Residential, commercial, hotel and nursery functions integrate within a fluid spatial system, forming a permeable and continuous urban morphology.

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Park Lane Complex Real Estate Project

Park Lane Complex

Park Lane Complex is a residential demonstration complex in Fuzhou, China. The complex covers 2,070 square meters and includes a community lobby, a sales center and a clubhouse. The design interprets Nanyang style through a contemporary language, with low saturation beige and gray tones accented by antique bronze gold. The visitor route leads through the main lobby, light and shadow corridors, a tall lobby and a quiet courtyard. A covered walkway links the spaces and shelters residents from wind and rain in any weather.

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