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Kuara Hotel

David Guerra Hotel Architecture

Kuara

Kuara is a hotel built in a preserved rain forest area on the coast of Arraial d'Ajuda in Bahia, Brazil. The architecture combines vernacular and modern forms and seeks a close relation with the surrounding nature. Wood is used on floors, walls, louvers, brise soleils and panels, with species such as cumaru, tatajuba, ipe and peroba. Bamboo, natural fibers, straw, wicker, leather and Brazilian stones are combined with stone imported from Italy in floors and bathrooms. All native vegetation was preserved, and the new buildings stand where the former hotel buildings stood.

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Mindelo Detached House

Sheila Moura Azevedo Detached House Architecture

Mindelo

The inspiration came from the client's needs and preferences, from the location just by the beach, and from the kind of favorite lifestyle. From an old 80's construction, a new house was born. Fully reconstructed, updated, and modernized, both outside and inside suffered full renovation in a modern style though respected and inspired by the house's age and character. The renovation transformed a 40-year-old house into a modern though classical beach house with all the comforts of modern life.

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Yongning Station Urban Mini Complex

Yijia Hu Urban Mini Complex Architecture

Yongning Station

Yongning Station is a small urban complex in Yongning, China. Public toilets are the main function, combined with leisure, exhibition and other supporting services. The building opens a visual channel between the city and the landscape, and the plan forms a shape like the number eight. Along the route, a public exhibition hall faces the river on the left, an inward-looking public toilet area stands on the right, and a narrow corridor passes among osmanthus trees. The screen is the key element that organizes space and frames the scenery.

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Haishang Plaza Mixed-use Architecture

Luoya Tu Mixed-use Architecture Architecture

Haishang Plaza

Haishang Plaza is a mixed-use building complex located in an old residential district of Zhengzhou city. The project combines Soho and Loft towers, an indoor shopping mall and a large outdoor lifestyle plaza. The terraced massing steps back at the corners, creating clear entrances and bringing the facade down to a human scale. Green boxes are placed between the towers and the pedestrian corridors as shared and display spaces. Materials include glass fiber reinforced gypsum and concrete, aluminum panels and curtain wall glazing. A green roof system is also included.

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Campus 90 Students Dormitory and Hotel

E-Arch Studio Students Dormitory and Hotel Architecture

Campus 90

Campus 90 combines the functions of a student dormitory, hotel and conference center. The building is located next to the roundabout between two main boulevards in the city of Varna. This is the largest private investment in such a building in the city and responds to the increasing interest of students to the universities. The investor's concept is to provide not only excellent living conditions, but also to create numerous prerequisites for communication and teamwork between students.

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The Square Housing Units

mohamed yasser Housing Units Architecture

The Square

The Design idea was to study architectural relations between different shapes that are being composed together to create like moving units. The Project consists of 6 units each one is 2 shipping containers fixed over each other forming an L Shape Mass. these L shaped units are fixed in overlapping positions creating Voids and Solid to give the feeling of movement and to provide sufficient daylight and a good ventilation environment. The main design goal was to create a small house for those who spend the night in the streets with no home or shelter.

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Online City Co-life Center Commercial Architecture

FENG CHENG Commercial Architecture Architecture

Online City Co-life Center

Online City Co-life Center is a commercial building that joins property sales with everyday community services. The design replaces the traditional demonstration area with a simple, useful and welcoming place. On the ground floor, light catering, handicraft, a flower shop and children's activities are combined, and only a small model exhibition area is kept. The sales function is placed on the upper floor. Aluminium plate, glass and imitation wood grilles form the facade. Interior and landscape are designed as one, so residents feel a stronger sense of belonging.

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Vinegar Vats House and Architecture Studio

Adrian Light House and Architecture Studio Architecture

Vinegar Vats

This incredible adaptation of a disused vinegar factory was carried out in an entirely sustainable manner. Not only does it use a natural stack effect to cool the space, its construction was done with a zero waste solution. No skips were used. Everything on site was re-used, recycled, or re-purposed. The basement was converted into an architecture studio with a 3 storey family home above. The vats were cleverly repurposed as planters, workstations, toilets, laundry, and even a fishpond. Natural light pours into the building as a result of removing a third of the roof to create a garden court.

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Phoenix Tree Garden Tea Space

Qingfan Zhang Tea Space Architecture

Phoenix Tree Garden

Phoenix Tree Garden is a tea house garden set in a hutong courtyard in Beijing. The design turns a single large space into a series of linked scenic spots. A folding cloud wall and a curved moon door shift the internal axis and divide the outside of the garden from the inside. Small bridges, waterways and a stacked red rock mountain organize the new landscape order. Materials include a steel grille bridge, gray and colored cobblestone paving and small gray tiles. Several tea rooms with different views were created within 214.99 square meters.

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Caishi Residential Area

Tengyuan Design Residential Area Architecture

Caishi

Caishi China Railway City is a residential complex built in Jinan, China. The design follows a new Chinese style that joins classical order and proportion with modern function. Local features such as swallow tail ridges, gable heads and lattice walls are reinterpreted in a simple form, and the colours stay calm and quiet. Polycarbonate panels are used for the roof decoration boards, which allows slender supporting members. A four constant air system controls indoor air quality, temperature and humidity. The layout follows the existing terrain to limit earthworks.

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Dongmen Wharf Wharf Renovation

Yingjie Lin Yuanyuan Zhang Wharf Renovation Architecture

Dongmen Wharf

Dongmen wharf is a millennium old wharf on the mother river of Chengdu. Due to the last round of "old city renewal", the area has been basically demolished and rebuilt. The project is to re present a glorious historical picture through the intervention of art and new technology on a city cultural site that has basically disappeared, and to activate and re invest the long sleeping urban infrastructure into the urban public domain.

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Basalt House

Aamer Qaisiyah House Architecture

Basalt

Built for comfort as well as being elegant. This design is truly eye-catching and remarkable inside and out. Features include oak wood, windows made to bring in plenty of sunlight, and it is soothing to the eyes. It is mesmerizing by its beauty and the technique. Once you are in this house, you can't but notice the serenity and the oasis feeling that takes over you. The breeze of the trees and the surrounding with the sun rays makes this house a unique place to live in away from the busy city life. The Basalt house is built to please and accommodate a variety of people.

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