Architecture

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Designer: Manuela Hardy Design Type: Appartments Category: Architecture

Gateway to Lofoten

Gateway to Lofoten is an apartment building designed for Roest in Lofoten. The form is inspired by traditional fishing houses and by the long local history of cod fishing and stockfish production. Local building customs guide the shape and the choice of materials, while a modern twist is added through mirrored gabled roofs on the lower part of the building. The lower structure is light and hangs from the same concrete slab that supports the upper levels. The building is 38 meters wide, 7.7 meters deep and three stories high. It contains studio apartments and larger apartments.

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Designer: Ardh Architects Design Type: A Private Fitness Center Category: Architecture

Home Gym

Home Gym is a private fitness center located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building is divided into two main areas, a workout space and a leisure and social space, linked by a corridor with a clear view of a water pond. The facility includes a swimming pool, a sauna, a Jacuzzi, two dining lounges, a juice bar, changing rooms with lockers, and a fitness zone for twenty people. The fitness zone is sunk lower than the rest of the building to allow cross training without raising the overall height. Sandstone cladding blends the structure with the desert landscape.

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Designer: Feng Yang Design Type: residential development Category: Architecture

Wuxi Vanke Park Avenue

Wuxi Vanke Park Avenue is a large residential development planned as a metropolitan style community. The club in the demonstration area is a centralized building with a curved form, and the club will later serve as a community center. The curved plan creates a round entrance square and supports future operation. The demonstration area provides space for shared facilities, including a community library, a kindergarten, a waste transfer station and a retail area. Further services can be added along the central axes as more residents arrive.

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Designer: Summer Chang Hin Cheong Design Type: Villa House Category: Architecture

Heart By Tree

Heart by Tree is a villa house located in Gunung Pulai, Malaysia. The villa is formed by four building blocks arranged around a central courtyard. Lawn and willow plants cover the bedroom roofs and improve heat insulation. Two tall ancestral trees were transplanted onto the site as a token of gratitude to the owner. Zinc and fiber form the chassis of the lawn roof, suited to the hot climate. Ceramic tiles, granite and glass discarded by factories were reused in the decoration. The layout follows the traditional courtyard house concept.

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Designer: keun young Shim Design Type: Naturous Residence Category: Architecture

A House in the Landscape

A House in the Landscape is a detached private house built in Pangyo, Republic of Korea. The house is designed to form a balance with its irregular site rather than to stand apart from neighboring buildings. Large continuous windows frame the surrounding nature, following the traditional Korean idea of borrowing scenery. A corridor acts as a transitional space and creates a sequence of changing views. The structure is reinforced concrete. The exterior is finished with old white brick, zinc, western red cedar and broken stone. The reclaimed bricks give a calm and natural texture.

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Designer: Hiromoto Oki Design Type: Commercial Building Category: Architecture

Museum

Museum is a commercial building located in Wakayama, Japan. The building is situated in a quayside area and from a boat it seems to float on the sea, and from a car, it gives the incredible impression of swaying, so that it is intimately linked with the visual qualities of the marine environment. This impression of swaying takes place because a glass wall and the inner solid wall have different design properties, and as a consequence create this unlikely but beautiful effect. The facility aims to be both a centre of culture in Tanabe and also to provide a vital area for recreation.

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Designer: C&D Inc. (Wuxi Subsidiary) Design Type: Residential Architecture Category: Architecture

Wuxi C&D He Xi

Wuxi C&D He Xi is a residential architecture project built in the Wuxi Economic Development Zone. The layout draws on the inner and outer city plan of the historic Helv City. Traditional Chinese architectural style and elements are reinterpreted with modern techniques. Columns, beams, arches, rafters, purlins and deep overhanging roofs shape the facades. Materials include stainless steel plate, aluminium alloy, stone and integrated wall panels. Courtyards and gardens link the buildings with nature and support a calm living experience.

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Designer: Teruo Miyahara Design Type: Residence for Single Family Category: Architecture

Light Welling House

Light Welling House is a detached single family residence built on a narrow urban site in Tokyo. The site is small and irregular in shape, and natural light could not be drawn from the east or west sides. The stairs were therefore designed as a path of light. The steps are made of perforated metal and the stairwell has glass walls, so daylight reaches each room and is carried from the upper level down to the lower levels. The position of the stairs was set by calculating the altitude of the winter sun. The rooms are finished in white to spread the borrowed light further.

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Designer: Tengyuan Design Design Type: Residential Area Category: Architecture

Fengxi Linquan

Vanke Fengxi Linquan is a residential complex built in a core urban area of Qingdao. The design gives priority to ecological living and to the urban image of the district. Each floor holds two homes of about 200 to 220 square meters, joined by a fully lit elevator hall. A shared garden appears every third floor, measuring 6.9 meters in width, 7.2 meters in depth and three floors in height, and serves six homes as a rest and meeting space. A nano thermal blanket and an eggshell insulation system protect plant roots during the cold winters and allow trees to grow on the raised soil.

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Designer: Shun Ming Chang Design Type: Office Building Category: Architecture

Flow

Flow is an office building located in Yunlin City, Taiwan, completed in July 2019. The property covers 7546 square meters. Staggered high and low volumes form an inlaid composition of solid and open parts. Changes in the angles of the volumes widen the field of vision. Glass surfaces bring in views of the surrounding greenery and let light and wind pass through the interior. The raised indoor lobby increases the vertical dimension of the space. The intent is an open, bright and comfortable place to work.

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Designer: Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy Design Type: Gold and Gem Trading Centre Category: Architecture

Doji Tower

Hanoi Doji Tower is a gold, gem and jewellery trading centre in central Hanoi. The building combines classical and modern styles in a diamond-shaped form. The base of six floors is tiled with natural marble. The seventh to the sixteenth floors form a large diamond block made of thousands of specially produced glass sheets, which create a distinct light effect. The tower has sixteen floors and three basements, with a total usable area of nearly 19,000 square metres. The first five floors hold a shopping centre for gold, gems and jewellery.

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Designer: Paul Bo Peng Design Type: Museum Category: Architecture

Wenzhou Urban Wetland

Wenzhou Urban Wetland is a museum located in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The building stands at the heart of a wetland area in the centre of the city. The main body of the museum is elevated, so the wetlands pass beneath it, and a boat tour area is provided. The layout of the exhibition halls follows the courtyard spaces of local dwellings. Changes in level let the lower wetland landscape blend into the upper courtyards. A roof garden forms a further layer. The building area is 20000 square metres.

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