A borderless box soft-landed from above
The Skyscape Rooftop House WARchitect The owner of a five-story apartment block wished to create a home for himself on the rooftop, which previously housed only water tanks. This unique rooftop location...
Architecture
A forest of silvery aluminum and wood, awakening senses
Audeum Kengo Kuma & Associates A collection of vertical aluminum louvers forms a radiant silver forest. These 20,000 aluminum louvers meticulously cover the building's exterior, creating a play of light and shadow....
Elongated masses jaggedly stacked
QO Apartments Archetonic In Mexico’s urban structure, slim buildings are a rarity. The QO Apartments, with a width of 10m and a length of approximately 40m, challenge the urban formation while naturally...
Roof lowered on concrete pillars to protect storms
WA Residence Curiosity + Atelier HARETOKE At the edge of the land, perched on a rocky shoreline, stands a fisherman’s house with a large roof. The rugged rock formations below hint at...
Alerting ocean pollution by plastic overuse
Inverted Dome Guillermo Hevia García The weight of the waste piled on the circular net caused it to sag. The waste dome, which appeared at a music festival in a park in...
Nature added to existing concrete structures
ITC University Twente Civic Architects + VDNDP At the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, lies the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). This institution gathers researchers and postgraduate...
Restoring waterfront and biodiversity from urban barrier
Promenade Samuel-De Champlain, Phase 3 Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker The once desolate highway area along the St. Lawrence River has been transformed into a space for recreation and culture. This project, which...
A dynamic multi-purpose space reconfigured from a Siheyuan residence
Folding Courtyard ARCHISTUDIO The project is located in Qianliang Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing, with a site area of about 410 square meters. The original architecture was composed of several disconnected flat-topped rooms...
A wooden structure with a colonnade on the park hill
Casa del Custode Camilla De Camilli The winning design by Camilla De Camilli for the Park Ranger Station competition, organized by the MAST Foundation based in Bologna, Italy, for architects under the...
Gently reflect and conform to the land
The House With Four Wings Studio Gaon The building’s roof takes on the form of wings spread wide, as if ready to soar towards the mountain ridge at any moment. The straight,...
