Trafalgar Centre // Irving Smith Architects Limited
Location: Nelson, New Zealand. Architect: Irving Smith Architects Limited. The Trafalgar Centre is the provincial New Zealand city of Nelson’s primary indoor events centre, designed and constructed in the 1970s, modified in the early 2000s, and closed in 2014 due to seismic concerns. It is black, glazed, horizontal, and runs low into the stadium. It […]
Funeral Home of Tianmen Longevity Memorial Garden // China Architectural Design
Location: Tianmen City, Hubei Province, China. Architect: China Architectural Design Research Institute Co., Ltd. The Tianmen Longevity Garden Funeral Home is inspired by the local unearthed jade ware shaped into a double-faced priest figure, symbolizing the purity and limpidity of life. It is divided into two parts, with the corpse disposal section under the water […]
One Microsoft Place // RKD
Location: Dublin, Ireland. Architect: RKD in association with Gensler London. One Microsoft Place is the new European headquarters of Microsoft, with 2,000 employees from 71 nationalities. RKD designed the building’s shell and core and worked in association with Gensler London on the interior concepts. The team’s primary objective was to create a physical manifestation of […]
ENVI Micro Urban Village // degenhartSHEDD architecture + urban design
Location: Southport, Australia. Architect: degenhartSHEDD architecture + urban design. ENVI Micro Urban Village was designed to fill the ‘missing middle’ in the Australian housing market. It was architecturally designed and developed to create liveable and affordable homes on tiny lots, achieving high density without the high rise. The design process required a creative and continuous […]
Skye Niseko // Architectus
Location: Hokkaido, Japan. Architect: Architectus. Skye Niseko is a premium-grade development in Japan’s Niseko Grand Hirafu Resort area with 105 apartments and five penthouses, a bespoke restaurant, ski-in and ski-out concierge facilities, and a contemporary interpretation of the traditional Japanese Onsen. The architecture is contemporary, timelessly refined and memorable with international appeal while maintaining a […]
Renovation Metro Oostlijn // GROUP A
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Architect: GROUP A. GROUP A developed a design vision to create a modern metro system that functions adequately, is comprehensibly organised, and is pleasant to use, without denying the brutalist DNA of the metro line or demolishing it. This consisted of a set of general site unspecific design interventions, such as […]
Casa Grand Coral // Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
Location: Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Architect: Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos. Casa Grand Coral is a flexible single-family project designed to meet the needs of potential inhabitants on the Rivera Maya corridor. It is composed of modular spaces arranged in many different configurations in a single structure, with a land occupation coefficient of 1.30, a […]
61 Ninth Avenue // Rafael Viñoly Architects
Location: New York, USA. Architect: Rafael Viñoly Architects. 61 Ninth Avenue is a new office building in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District with multiple setback terraces and a floor-to-ceiling glass façade. It provides 13,900 square metres of commercial space in three levels of retail and seven levels of office space. The core is located on one side […]
Qingdao Shimao International Center // J Studio
Location: Qingdao, China. Architect: J Studio. J Studio used BIM technology to inject the art of nature into the design and endow the architecture with sophisticated shape and soul, creating a lighthouse of architectural aesthetics on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. The tower blocks resemble bionic shells, with waving lines vertically and horizontally, […]
BPPR Urban Hub // SCF Arquitectos
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico. Architect: SCF Arquitectos. The BPPR Urban Hub is a vision to transform a once barren and inactive lot in the centre of San Juan’s financial district into a vibrant nightlife district with commercial and entertainment amenities at night and a public green oasis in the daytime. It takes advantage of […]
W Brisbane // DBI Design Pty Ltd
Location: Brisbane, Australia. Architect: DBI Design Pty Ltd. W Brisbane is adjacent to the Brisbane River and Riverside Expressway and is composed of 3 towers (5 Star Hotel, Residential Tower & Office Tower) with a vibrant retail podium and multi-level basement carpark. Masterplanning, design, documentation and coordination of the W Brisbane hotel, retail podium, basement […]
Damen Green Line Station // Perkins and Will
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA. Architect: Perkins and Will. This multi-modal transit facility will provide connectivity, convenience and amenities to residents, workers and visitors to the re-emerging neighbourhood west of downtown Chicago. It will primarily be used for daily commuters, but will also support visitors to sports and cultural events. The headhouse is set back from […]
Villa B // Powerhouse
Location: Munich, Germany. Architect: Powerhouse. Villa B combines the robustness of the classical townhouse with the elegance and openness of the modernist bungalow. The plan is ‘Loosian’ and classic in its layout, with a large central entrance and secondary functions. Towards the garden, the plan opens up into a series of glazed rooms that stretch […]
CRG Archive Library // Studio Link-Arc + CCDI
Location: Shenzhen, China. Architect: Studio Link-Arc + CCDI. The CRG Archive Library, located on the campus of Xiaojingwan University in Shenzhen, serves as an archive for the client and a gallery space and lecture hall for the adjacent campus. To increase connections between the internal program and the site beyond, Link-Arc created two interior public […]
AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer // Behnisch Architekten
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland. Architect: Behnisch Architekten. The AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer, located in Lausanne on the campus of the CHUV, provides a working and research space for 400 scientists and practitioners. The building’s sculptural character makes it easily recognizable and contributes to its autonomous presence. Interdisciplinary as well as disciplinary communication are […]
Wending lecture hall // Glocal Architecture Office
Location: Shanghai, China. Architect: Glocal Architecture Office.
Wenzhou Century Park Culture Club // Lacime Architects
Location: Wenzhou, China. Architect: Lacime Architects. The project is located at Sanyou Road, Lucheng District, Wenzhou City, just one road from the city axis of “Government Building- Century Square”. As City’s billboard, a Cultural Club was built as a public living room and cultural display. The shape of the building reminds the viewer of a […]
Attabotics Office // Modern Office of Design + Architecture
Location: Calgary, Canada. Architect: Modern Office of Design + Architecture. This project was designed to renovate 2,000 sm of existing office space for an innovative robotics company. The intent was to breathe new life into the industrial office typology by exploring polyester rope and using parametric software to vary the dimensions and densities of the […]
Park Wellstate Hamadayama // Nikken
Location: Tokyo, Japan. Architect: Nikken Housing System Ltd. Tei-Oku-Iti-Nyo is the Japanese architectural ideology that a building and its garden should be integrated together to create an exquisite harmony between the two. Park Well State Hamadayama庭屋一如 is a serviced apartment complex for seniors located close to the centre of Tokyo in a typical residential area. […]
Changchun Culture of Water Ecology Park // SHUISHI
Location: Changchun, China. Architect: SHUISHI. Changchun Culture of Water Ecology Park is an urban regeneration project that is intended to create a sense of urban belonging for its citizens, inspired the vitality of the old industrial areas and regional communities, achieved a harmonious symbiosis between the citizens and the natural environment and historical sites, and […]