Design Museum Gent: A New Wing That Reconnects the Whole
The new wing at Design Museum Gent addresses a problem larger than a shortage of exhibition space: how to make…
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Casa Malonic: From a Sheltered Courtyard to the Pacific
Casa Malonic, a 497-square-metre house by HW Studio in Punta Garrobo, Zihuatanejo, makes the journey towards the Pacific as significant…
Zi Museum: Four Buildings That Turn a Meadow Into the Main Public Room
Zi Museum in Xianning distributes a museum, workshop, bookshop and tower across a lakeside meadow, separating exhibition routes from everyday public movement.
World Trade Center Yerevan: Two Towers, Two Scales of Connection
A spatial reading of WTC Yerevan’s proposed public terraces and shared skybridges, separating visible design intentions from untested performance.
Pilen: A Zigzag Walk Between Landscape and Construction
Pilen turns a Danish construction viewpoint into a planted ascent. Timber crossings, exposed supports and a narrowing tip shape how visitors read the landscape.
Rusakov Club: When the Auditorium Becomes the Facade
Rusakov Club in Moscow turns a fan-shaped auditorium into three projecting volumes. A reading of audience movement, daylight and the limits of flexibility.
Eco-Oasis Pavilion: Bringing the Greenhouse to the Garden Table
Eco-Oasis Pavilion is an unbuilt concept joining a movable greenhouse enclosure and shaded deck, with proposals for solar use and rainwater collection.
Corner Villa: A Red Route Through a Pitched White Volume
Corner Villa in northern Iran uses red recesses, a visible stair and roof terraces to connect arrival, living spaces and landscape within a pitched white form.
Roig Arena Park: Everyday Routes Around a Major Venue
Roig Arena Park connects arena arrivals with everyday paths, planting, play and rest across a 47,000-square-metre landscape in Valencia.
Kinglet Perch: Keeping the Pines, Carrying the Living Room Across the Slope
Kinglet Perch in Naramata keeps its upper approach and pine grove, using a supported living wing and a grounded courtyard to offer two ways of inhabiting the hillside.
Ellen Browning Building: Shared Living With Room for Independence
Ellen Browning Building in Portland connects private homes, shared amenities and planted terraces in a small co-housing development.
Pacific Library: Restoring Daylight and Reworking Public Access
Pacific Library’s proposed renovation connects historic restoration with accessible circulation, a sunken garden and new community spaces.
Mirador House: A Sheltered Approach and an Open Pacific Horizon
Mirador House in Papudo uses a sheltered approach, angled rooms and terraces to negotiate a steep site and the Pacific outlook.
Spreebogen: A Temporary Presidential Seat Designed for a Second Life
In Berlin, a timber-hybrid federal complex combines office modules, reception halls and a layered ceramic façade with a future change of occupant in mind.
Bellevue Hill House: Updating a 1963 Modernist Plan Through the Garden
In Bellevue Hill, Sydney, Luigi Rosselli Architects has renewed a house designed by George Reeves in 1963. The intervention begins…
The Intersecting House: Two Pitched Volumes That Make Shade and Space
The Intersecting House stands in a pine-filled residential area outside Warsaw, near Kampinos National Park. Exterio Architektura organized it as…
Chalet Moraine: A Familiar Gable Reworked Through Deep Dormers
Chalet Moraine, designed by Appareil Architecture on a lake in Quebec’s Laurentians, replaces an aging chalet that began life as…
Villa HDV: A Protective Concrete Shell Around a Garden Core
Villa HDV in Höllviken, at Sweden’s southern tip, treats privacy and openness as two parts of the same domestic problem….
Cerritos Circle: How a 1963 Duplex Still Reads as Two Homes
Clifton Jones Jr.’s 1963 Long Beach duplex uses mirrored plans, separate courtyards and timed daylight to give two households distinct homes.
Super F: A Streetwear Store Built as a Reversible Steel Kit
Didea turns a 600-square-metre store in Mercury Tower into a reversible steel system with movable rails, integrated services and event capacity.
Casa M38: What 38 Square Metres Can Learn from Prefabrication
Casa M38 turns transport constraints into a clear 38-square-metre home with a linear plan, integrated furniture and circular windows.
