A sculptural steel cafe beside Luoyang Museum features a wave form roof inspired by Chinese mountain ranges and a reflective stainless steel facade.
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Stella is a fourteen storey office building in Nagpur, India, designed by Sanjay Puri Architects as a climate responsive alternative to the fully glazed tower. Built on a compact urban plot, the project integrates semicircular decks, aluminum louvers and planted terraces to reduce solar heat gain and enhance natural light and ventilation. The layered façade creates shaded microclimates while delivering 5,575 square metres of office space, demonstrating how passive design strategies can shape contemporary commercial architecture in extreme heat conditions.
This cultural and sports centre uses a textile membrane roof and a multi level public walkway to transform a fragmented site into a unified civic hub.
Paul Rudolph’s 1965 Manhattan office used a raised mezzanine, layered section and controlled light to explore his idea of space.
The 14th-century bell tower of Curon rises from Lake Resia in South Tyrol, the only remnant of a village submerged in 1950 for a hydroelectric reservoir.
The renovation of Břetislav Kafka Library in Červený Kostelec transforms a historic former inn into a flexible, light filled civic interior defined by red furniture and stainless steel details.
Lei Wa Lakom Library in Zanzibar, designed by Mai Al Busairi under the Parallel Gives program, uses timber structure, perforated panels and passive cooling to create a climate responsive civic space for children and the wider community.
Haniyasu House by AATISMO in Kamakura reimagines a 58 year old wooden house as a two family residence rooted in earth and craft. Using site soil, bisque fired clay and oxidised metal plaster, the project merges architecture, pottery and landscape into a contemporary settlement.
STIPFOLD designs fiber concrete cottages for AltiHut, a solar powered mountain retreat at 3,014 metres in the Georgian Caucasus.
Casa Guadalupe prefabricated housing Asturias offers a fresh perspective on rural architecture, seamlessly integrating with its landscape.
