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Shunning the standardised international style of most airports, this domestic airport embraces a context-conscious design approach. Serving over 1,100 passengers daily, it caters to the hot climate through a large-scale, contemporary interpretation of ver

“The host is a guest. He who receives is received. The host, the “maître de céans”, is already a guest received in his own home” _ J. Derrida This quote encapsulates the essence of what this project is aiming for: to gather and welcome. The occupant expe

The silence, the nature, the wind. You, floating under a pine canopy. That’s it. Trakt’s five suites are merely shells that put nature in focus and make a stay in the woods possible. By elevating the buildings, the suites get closer to the treetops and le

The new boiler room at Saint Pern is intended to improve the heating system of the headquarters of the Little Sisters of the Poor and the adjacent EHPAD and will be managed by the congregation. The project is part of an existing site with a strong heritag

The project, designed for a catless cat lover, is a warm and colorful space. Each element acts like a living creature – independent, cute, free. A perceptible and vibrant tension is set with the existing architecture, without diminishing it. The choreog

Das Glashaus is a weekend House in Uckermark north of Berlin. It’s designed for a small family with plenty of guests. The house offers a chance to spend time in the countryside and enjoy the nearby preserved forest and lakes. The house has a simple floor

Lorenz Bachmann - Music pavilion, Winterthur 2022. Via, photos © Lukas Murer. [[MORE]]

The process of sustainable adaptation. Working with a typified slab block floorplan from the 60´s. Definedness of the relationships in the family and the scale of intimacy change through generations. The original space misses lightness. It is too rigid, t

Raw concrete penthouse and event space designed by Studio Andrew Trotter are located inside former Athens warehouse owned by 10AM Lofts.

One person, one animal and „peace of the soul“. The original scheme of the apartment did not fit the brief for this project. We wanted to arrange the interior in a way that achieves a feeling of lightness and ethereality. Something that is big and small a

The Colosio embankment dam project emerged from our interest to work in the intersection between architecture and infrastructure. We were initially asked to design a park adjacent to the water body. After understanding the prevailing hydraulic and urban c

As Australians live longer and longer, the retirement phase is now equivalent to a full quarter of our expected lifespan. And we want more from this final quarter of our lives than traditional aged care provides: we want healthier, more vibrant, more conn

In the summer garden, the plants are in a more natural and wild state, and the original clear boundaries fade away, with plants staggering in height, creating an experience from enclosure to seclusion and then to openness. Disappeared architecture The tea

Amunt - House on a slope, Sankt Blasien 2021. Photos © Rasmus Norlander. [[MORE]]

Ryan Kennihan - Beach Road house, Galway 2021. Photos © Shantanu Starick. [[MORE]]

Raamwerk - Halewijnkouter house renovation, Drongen 2020. Photos © Stijn Bollaert. [[MORE]]

AMUNT - Lake house, Trenthorst 2021. Photos © Filip Dujardin. [[MORE]]

Groothuijse de Boer - Vaneker house, located on a former military site, Enschede 2021. Photos © Max Hart Nibbrig. [[MORE]]

The City Hall becomes a true ‘house of the city’. The ground floor and Noble floor will be (partially) opened up to the public while all councilors and their staff will be brought back under one roof. In addition, the façades and interiors needed to be c

The natural elements contrast with the town and create a special atmosphere, offering a peaceful environment, lulled by birdsong and the sound of the river. Looking up, you glimpse the tops of the trees which bring the sky to life. These three strong elem

Jai Jagat theatre construction was envisioned as part of the celebration for the 100 years of Sabarmati Ashram. It was in 1917 that Gandhiji decided to establish his community living here, near the river Sabarmati, between a prison and a crematorium. Sinc

35 meters long, 2.8 meters wide, 4 meters high, a geometry that does not match housing standards. The objective for this rehabilitation was to develop in a former factory in the Zola district, rehabilitated into workshops and housing in the 1990s, a loft

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Tradition meets philosophy The KLEINE BLEIBE is an ensemble of three houses: two cabins and a sauna. Each one of these is unique. The philosophy they stand for and the local surroundings are found in the architecture. Comprised with well thought-out detai

Studio McW has completed the revitalisation of a converted warehouse apartment in East London for climate activists and filmmakers, Jack Harries and Alice Aedy. Arranged over two floors, the live-work space was designed to seamlessly balance rest and rela

Wutopia Lab has been commissioned by Sino-Ocean Group to create a monologue art museum on the park green of SEATOPIA in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao, dedicated to an infinite minority of people who want to be free from the worldly distractions. It was completed

Originally built as a symmetrical two-apartments dwelling during the 1930s, it has undergone extensions over time which partially broke the neatness of the floorplan and tangled the flow. The project wanted to redesign the extensions in a more ordered man

Balconies fan out like leaves from the mixed-use L'Arbre Blanc tower, which Sou Fujimoto has completed in Montpellier with Nicolas Laisné, Dimitri Roussel and OXO Architectes.

Spazio Maiocchi located in Milan, acts as a cross-disciplinary space as well as an idea aggregator to shape cultural experiences.