An adaptive reuse project links a 1949 hanok and a 1968 concrete building through an alley inspired stairwell, layering urban memory into a new contemporary order.
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Located at the foot of Ba Den Mountain in Tay Ninh, south-east Vietnam, SILAA’s rural café occupies a 70,000-square-metre agricultural plot bordered by rubber trees and rice paddies. As the
Abby Kortrijk extends and transforms the historically significant complex of Groeninge Abbey into an arts space for site specific temporary exhibitions and public events. Conceived as a new kind of
A mirrored gateway and a blackened counterpart anchor Greenwich Peninsula’s Design District, turning the archetype of the artist studio into a flexible, light driven workplace for a new creative neighbourhood.
Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture shapes a Tokyo hillside residence in exposed concrete, using strata like a template for light, airflow, and shakkei views.
Lifted on ten columns above a valley floor, this hot spring retreat turns bathing into a slow ascent through poplar canopies, cliff rock, and softened skylight. A SPRINGHOUSE IN THE
Completed at the close of 2020, Xiaoxi B&B sits near Shuiguan in Huairou, on the northern edge of Beijing, where the Great Wall cuts through rugged topography with equal parts
At the Aranya Community in Beidaihe, Vector Architects has been quietly building a waterfront narrative, one civic room at a time. After the Seashore Library and the Seashore Chapel, Restaurant
In the rugged foothills of Corsica’s Alta Rocca region, Amelia Tavella Architectes has breathed new life into the Convent Saint-François, a historic monument dating to 1480 in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano. Long abandoned
Barozzi Veiga’s Szczecin Philharmonic pairs a crystalline aluminum and glass façade with a golden main hall rooted in local craftsmanship, combining expressive roof geometry, acoustic fragmentation, and a formally autonomous civic landmark.
