Architecture

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Designer: Chen Xiao and Chen Dilong Project Type: Hotel Tag: Architecture

Ancestor House

The Ancestor House is a hotel formed by renovating a family mansion built in 1898 in Zhouwujie Village, China. The property is a traditional courtyard dwelling with three halls, two wings and four internal courtyards. The Huizhou-style facade and walls were repaired and reinforced with a steel and concrete structure. Damaged timber frames were rebuilt to match the original form, while sound beams and stone plinths were kept. Removed grey tiles were reused for paving and roof details. A glass screen wall brings daylight into the lobby. The hotel offers 14 rooms.

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Designer: Mohamed Shabana Project Type: Commercial Tag: Architecture

Foundry

Foundry is a mixed-use commercial building designed for a community near a downtown area. The exterior combines original historic brick with a metal frame glass greenhouse of geometric shapes. The interior includes a multi-purpose event hall, restaurants, coffee shops, meeting rooms and an art space. Reused and recycled materials are applied, including reclaimed wood, bricks and copper plates on the facades. Interior finishes include stucco, reused metal panels, wood floors and local interlocking stone. The design repurposes an established property and links past and present.

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Designer: Seyed Hamed Jafari Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Rouzan

Rouzan is a residential building in Isfahan, Iran. The design brings together a traditional Iranian house and a modern apartment. The facade is made of bricks produced from local materials, aligned vertically with concave sections and sharp angles. Semi-transparent bricks and wooden canopies with decorative niches and cavities recall traditional Iranian homes. The rooftop holds a water fountain, a garden and a barbecue area. Electrical rotating canopy windows are controlled remotely, expanding to admit more sunlight in winter and contracting to limit heat in summer.

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Designer: Atelier Global Limited Project Type: Commercial and Residential Tag: Architecture

Show Time Square

Fuzhou Show Time Square is a mixed use complex of commercial and residential buildings in Jiangxi. The project covers 290000 square metres and is divided into a commercial district and a residential district. A commercial avenue runs from east to west and links marketplaces, retail stores, food and leisure areas. A round central plaza and an outdoor commercial mall form layered public spaces. Brightly coloured horizontal features, inspired by the water resources of the region, help guide visitors. The materials include aluminium sheet, glass, stone and ETFE.

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Designer: Ping-Hsin Chen Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Hidden Home

Hidden Home is a residential building located in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, with a property area of 542.8 square meters. The main structure is made of fair faced concrete and slate stones, combined with linear wooden grilles that resemble a square curtain. Massive olive green stones on the exterior give a solid appearance. Light passes through the wooden grilles, while vertical wooden shelves and furniture create a warm and calm interior. The layout is based on a courtyard, and a water wall with planting supports a relaxed and private family life.

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Designer: Prashant Sutaria, PSA Project Type: Commercial Hospitality Tag: Architecture

Tab

Tab is a mixed-use building in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. Tab brings together a five star hotel, offices, retail units and public parking in one structure. Separate entry and exit points keep each group of users apart. The design draws on the temples of Bishnupur and on the campus of Shantiniketan. Terracotta covers part of the facade, and verses of the poem Gitanjali are placed in weathering steel on the lower eastern face. A reinforced concrete frame on a raft foundation supports the building. High performance glass limits solar gain.

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Designer: Alexander Kravchenko Project Type: Universal Pavilion Tag: Architecture

Tranquility

Universal the Pavilion is a multifunctional pavilion designed for a park site in Moscow. The rectangular building is enclosed on three sides by stained glass windows with wooden inserts and covered by a flat roof that cantilevers over the entrance areas and long terraces. Two entrance groups lead to a cafe on the north side and to a universal hall for public events on the south side. An internal corridor connects both areas. A glass covered platform between them protects visitors from rain and snow. Panoramic glazing opens the interior to the surrounding landscape.

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Designer: Beto Magalhaes Project Type: Modern Townhouses Tag: Architecture

Cube XL

Cube XL is a townhouse design created for small and heavily wooded plots in Sao Paulo. Cube XL extends the standardized Cube concept to larger homes of 250 to 400 square meters. The plan can be adjusted in both directions to suit the size of the land and the position of existing trees, which are preserved. Internal walls are not structural, so interiors can be opened and arranged as two or three bedrooms. The ground floor and the top level can be configured for parking, leisure or work. A mobile application controls the cameras and the gates.

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Designer: Stephan Maria Lang Project Type: house and garden Tag: Architecture

lakeside living

The Architecture is to express a relationship to nature in which the house is part of the natural environment - recreating a lakeshore with discreet interventions and a simple wooden shell sitting carefully on the landscape acting as a refuge. Lucent shadows from the existing trees enter the space. The grass area seems to extend the interior of the house. The aim of this project was to create Organic Architecture by expressing the site character, the articulation of space and material, the light design and the contrasting quality of private and open space.

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Designer: Evolution Design Project Type: Holiday cottage Tag: Architecture

Chapel on the Hill

After standing derelict for more than 40 years, a dilapidated Methodist chapel in the north of England has been transformed into a self-catering holiday home for 7 people. The architects have retained the original characteristics – the tall Gothic windows and the main congregation hall – turning the chapel into a harmonious and comfortable space flooded with daylight. This 19th century building is located in a rural English countryside offering panoramic views to the rolling hills and the beautiful countryside.

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Designer: Vasil Velchev Project Type: Building Tag: Architecture

Quantum

Quantum is a building designed to host the forefront in Product Design as well as all important and iconic works created over the years. Simply its a Museum and Exhibition Center. The style is probably Organic-Eclectic, shape can be geometrically described as a combination of overlapping spheres, displaced relatively one to another, forming two asymmetrical corpora with different internal areas and balconies. The connection between them is accomplished by 5 corridors in the form of mini-deformed protuberances.

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Designer: Makoto Furihata Project Type: Private House Tag: Architecture

Hillside Residence

Hillside Residence is a private house built on a steeply sloping site in Machida city, Tokyo, Japan. The house faces south and opens onto a large garden. An underground parking area in reinforced concrete also works as a retaining structure and absorbs the height difference of the slope. Above the parking area stands a two storey wooden house. The parking entrance and the square in front of it are set 2.5 metres higher than the road. Wood and stucco are applied by traditional craft methods. The garden recalls the original landscape of the site.

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