New & Unsorted

The history of Luohu can be traced back to the removal of Luohu Mountain, undertaken to create a 1.3-square-kilometer golden area in Shenzhen. The buildings people now recognize, like the Shenzhen Development Center and Shenzhen Railway Station, stand on

The Le Vau Educational Pavilion crafter from wood and rammed earth stands as an exemplary project at the intersection of sustainable architecture and community engagement within a school complex in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Conceived as a response

The new school is located in the internal area of an oversized and green block of housing area in Melle (Ghent area). The ambition was to create a park school where the relationship between children and the surrounding nature is stimulated. The positionin

A new life for a forgotten building. A reuse and recycling project that revises the coastal tourism model by proposing a temporary reconnection with the history of the place. The natural harbour of Salauris has been a strategic place on the Mediterranean

This project entails the adaptation and extension of a heritage-listed flax threshing hut located in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps. The client brief required that the existing stone construction, dating back to the 18th century, be upgraded into a fu

Covered with thin tall pine trees, the plot of this house keeps track of the old forest road leading to the Marquises farm. The remaining void between the two existing tree bouquets in the North and South opens up privileged views towards the summits of S

The architecture of the salt sheds is not simple, but it aims to be elementary. In other words, it emanates from the composition of a few elements following intelligible rules. In these design missions, with no site supervision, the primary objective is c

Chata nedaleko Vysokého Mýta, na kterou nás pozvala paní Hana, má podstatně starší „datum narození“ než obvykle chaty mívají. Původně tu totiž stála zemědělská usedlost a kolem nebyl les, ale pastviny. Kdysi se tady, tak jako i na jiných samotách, žilo a hospodařilo. Poz

Ngabobo Village is located in Tanzania’s remote northern savanna, just 3 degrees south of the equator. Having a subtropical highland climate with mild annual temperatures ranging between 18 and 23°C, the plains between Mt Meru and Mt Kilimanjaro lie at an

The project is a quest for harmony between the building and its natural environment. From the park entrance, a clearing allows us to see the music school as a whole: the roof’s movement contained in an ascending curve, the thin black metal canopy in front

Surman Weston has completed its first self-build project, Peckham House, in south London. The new house, monolithic in its form and veiled in a distinctive hit and miss brickwork, is delicate and crafted, referencing and playfully subverting the motifs in

For the 20th anniversary of the London Festival of Architecture, URBAN RADICALS re-imagined alternative parliament typologies and forms. Four public assembly platforms across the City of London, aimed to make the idea of the parliament accessible to a div

The search for Hannelore's first home of her own begins in the Covid period in 2020. Together with her then roommate bubble, they try to make the endlessly repeating walking tour in their own city of Ghent a little more interesting. Through a thesis that

The residential project Huebergass und Stadtteilpark Holligen (Hueber Lane and district park Holligen) in the Swiss capital of Bern was developed in a collaborative process. Due to its many sustainable aspects, it has recently been showcased at the UIA Co

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In the etimology of the italian word “dividere” (to divide), which in its most recurrent meaning refers to a separation, lies, in apparent contradiction with the word that hosts it, the verb “videre” (to see). It is precisely in the contradiction that lie

The spring house sits in a river valley, deep in the forests of Wuling Mountain, a branch of the scenic Yanshan Mountains in the northern part of Beijing. The site abuts a steep rock cliff to the west and opens out onto an expansive view of the alluvial p

The atrium of the historical Imperial Spa in Karlovy Vary, once the technical heart of the building, has been transformed into a modern multifunctional hall featuring state-of-the-art technologies and adaptable acoustics, breathing new life into this arch

We are constantly intrigued by what the right distance might be between architecture and those who occupy it. In Sapporo, Hokkaido, a 22-hectare forest in the Bankei district—just a 20-minute drive from the city center—hosts a farm run by Utopia Agricultu

The aim of this project was to transform an ancient farmhouse into a family home in Chamboirat, a small hamlet in Auvergne’s countryside. This two-century-old longère was a common agricultural heritage in this part of France. Once inside, we discovered wh

Two vital infrastructures cross this desertic plot in the plain of Haouz. The first one, a mesref, is a small water channel filled a few 2mes per year for agricultural purposes thanks to a complex network of canals flowing from the high Atlas. The second,

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Lyse-Lotte is a cooperative housing development that emerged from the cooperation of originally three interest groups. By stacking different residential typologies, a collage-like architecture is created with banded facades, green balconies, arbors and pe

The house is located in a residential neighborhood of the city of Loja, at 2,060 meters above sea level in the lower Andes in southern Ecuador. Situated on a small plot of 7.60 m x 13.50 m, this project seeks to reflect on issues related to the structural

This facility, located in the outer suburbs of Paris, is emblematic of the renewal of public cultural policies. The aim of the program is to create new dynamics between artistic creation, research, and education, by creating spaces for artists’ workshops,

The gallery and studios at Brunnenstraße 9 are built on the foundations of a ruin, which was the result of a bad investment in the 1990s. This made the site unattractive to corporate investors who were buying empty lots at the time and enabled architect A

This residential complex of 188 units of student housing and 50 flats for families emerges from the Empalot site, in the city of Toulouse, at the point connecting the housing estate dating from the 1960s, the new footbridge that straddles the Garonne to t

A distinctive, compact house has been creatively adapted and extended, providing a charming contemporary home for the architect’s own growing family. fortyfour marks the first completed London house by fardaa, and personifies the studio’s attitude to plac

The new logistics site of the Agence Bruxelles Propreté/Agentschap Net Brussel located along the Brussels Canal near the Buda Bridge, embodies a harmonious fusion of functionality, sustainability, and aesthetics. This project revitalises an underutilised