BIG completes Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art as nine interconnected pavilions, where galleries, covered corridors and gardens form a continuous route to Jinji Lake.
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Pup Architects reorients Surrey Docks Farm toward the Thames through a strategic refurbishment, a Douglas fir orangery and the reinstatement of its fire-damaged tower.
Atelier EGR sinks Biot’s town hall extension beneath a continuous public square, framing the Saint-Roch chapel, the surrounding valleys and a new civic belvedere.
Alain Carle Architecte transforms a 395-square-metre suburban house in Baie-d’Urfé by reversing its program and reframing views toward trees, sky and terrain.
XJ DesignAgency reshapes LUXELAKES CPI Phase 3 in Chengdu as a sequence of wooded paths, private courtyards and hillside retail spaces that preserve the site’s existing terrain and mature trees.
Xiang Architects has completed a 19.8-metre observation tower in Wuhan’s Chenhu Wetland, using two counter-rotating staircases and 24 viewing platforms to turn ascent into a sequence of shifting landscape views.
Designed by AR-AR Martínez Arquitectura y Paisaje, MEC Arquitectura and Fiallo Atelier, Water Stories pairs ecological restoration with short-stay shelters in the cloud forest of Villamaría, Colombia, using architecture as a framework for environmental education and contemplation.
One Plus Partnership transforms Haikou Gaoxingli Insun Cinema into a 6,367-square-metre interior of wave-like brick forms, filtered daylight and saturated auditoriums inspired by Hainan’s coastal setting.
Designed by Pomegranate Designs, Tathasthu is a 4,700-square-foot family residence in Rajpipla, Gujarat, organised around a northeast courtyard that brings Vastu, passive climate strategies and contemporary Indian living into a single spatial framework.
Mestres Wåge, Mendoza Partida and BAX Studio have transformed a listed 1935 grain elevator in Kristiansand into Kunstsilo, a contemporary art museum organised around the retained concrete cylinders of the
