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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.
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.
Alfinach Development is a residential project of three industrialised houses conceived as a unified architectural composition.
This project explores how architecture can act as a living system where spatial energy is not an abstract concept but a daily experience shaped through movement, interaction, and ritual. Conceived as a kinetic cafe in a small town in Zhejiang, China, the design integrates branding, interior architecture, and mechanical elements into a coherent spatial narrative. Through rotating plans, movable structures, and responsive facades, everyday actions such as entering, serving, sitting, and gathering become carriers of architectural meaning. The project positions the cafe as a social condenser, where space actively participates in shaping community life.
At Taller Agropoetico Atelier Poem in Asturias, learn how agriculture and artistic collaboration thrive together.
A contemporary guesthouse in Ukraine reimagines the traditional hata mazanka with light, transparency, and a sculptural roof.
An in depth essay on Hiroshi Sugimoto’s glass staircase at Go’o Shrine, exploring time, perception, light, and architectural experience.
Installed in Laval, The Fourth Wall by NÓS Architects blurs architecture, performance, and public life through a modular urban installation.
