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.
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.
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.
Casa Guadalupe prefabricated housing Asturias offers a fresh perspective on rural architecture, seamlessly integrating with its landscape.
Hangzhou Empathy Museum is a community art museum in Hangzhou, China, created from an unfinished project that included a completed underground garage. The design converts part of the basement into galleries and wraps the above ground structure in curved stainless steel panels, forming a reflective urban shell. With a dramatic three storey spatial canyon, perforated facades and integrated underground exhibition halls, the museum redefines adaptive reuse and positions art as part of everyday city life.
A rural hotel in Portugal transforms two traditional schist houses with minimal concrete cantilevers overlooking the Serra da Estrela mountains.
Atelier tao plus c adds a lightweight pavilion to a historic village courtyard in China, creating a shared space between road and river.
Alfinach Development is a residential project of three industrialised houses conceived as a unified architectural composition.
