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2023

THE LUC LIFESTYLE
Atelier Generations Vasudeva Design

The LUC Lifestyle merges contemporary architecture with Balinese authenticity in Canggu, creating a 2,500-square-metre commercial hub that redefines the coastal district's evolving identity.

2025

House in the Woods
Espinoza Carvajal Arquitectos

House in the Woods, designed by Espinoza Carvajal Arquitectos, stands in the Guayllabamba valley near Quito, Ecuador, where laminated timber construction meets traditional bahareque building techniques to create a 760-square-metre residence that levitates above the dry steppe landscape.

2026

Winkelhaus
estudio kmmk

Nestled into the sloping terrain of Winkel, Switzerland, this curved single family residence by estudio kmmk demonstrates how contemporary architecture can achieve harmony with nature through both form and function.

2022

Hiruzen Soba-no-Yakata
STUDIO YY

STUDIO YY has completed the Hiruzen Soba-no-Yakata, a contemporary soba restaurant in Maniwa, Okayama Prefecture, that merges traditional architectural forms with modern timber technology. The project rebuilds a beloved municipal eatery that was destroyed by fire, transforming it into a cultural destination where visitors can experience both local soba culture and regional craftsmanship.

2025

Inverted House
TIMM

Inverted House, designed by TIMM, stands as a masterful reimagining of suburban residential typology in Tbilisi, Georgia, transforming the dwelling itself into a protective perimeter wall that eliminates traditional fencing while creating an inward focused sanctuary.

2025

My Front Yard
Architectkidd

Architectkidd has reimagined the conventional retail experience with My Front Yard, a 5,000-square-metre community-focused development in Phuket that dissolves the boundaries between commerce, leisure, and landscape.

2025

House in Nakano
HOAA

House in Nakano, designed by HOAA / Hiroyuki Oinuma Architect & Associates, stands as an exemplary demonstration of design intelligence located in a densely populated residential area of Nakano, Tokyo. This two-storey wooden residence serves as the architect's own home, responding to the challenge of achieving the fundamental desire for "large windows facing a garden" under stringent urban conditions, creating a bright and transparent living space within a crowded metropolitan environment through innovative spatial strategies.

2024

House CO
Estudio Base Arquitectos

House CO by Estudio Base Arquitectos emerges from the Chilean coastline as a masterclass in adaptive architecture, where ingenious spatial planning meets coastal living's demanding requirements. Positioned on a challenging narrow plot in Santo Domingo, this 310 square metre residence demonstrates how thoughtful design can transform site constraints into compelling architectural opportunities. The project's brilliance lies in its capacity to oscillate between intimate sanctuary for two and expansive gathering space for ten, achieving this flexibility without compromising spatial quality or visual coherence.

2025

Folded Rooms Garden
RAD+ar

RAD+ar has completed Folded Rooms Garden, an experimental residential project in Bandung, Indonesia, that reimagines domestic space through a radical elimination of traditional walls. The 600-square-metre house employs a revolutionary concept of continuous folding, where floors, ceilings, and roofs merge into a single, monolithic plane that undulates through the compact urban site.

2024

Ventura Terra University Residence
CVDB arquitectos

Portuguese practice CVDB arquitectos has completed the Ventura Terra University Residence for the University of Lisbon that demonstrates how innovative looped circulation systems and strategic modular design strategies can transform high-density student housing requirements into a compact yet permeable living environment that fosters community interaction while maintaining spatial efficiency.

2022

Westergaarden Summer House
N+P Architecture

N+P Architecture has completed Westergaarden Summer House, a 170-square-meter retreat positioned along the southern coastline of Sjællands Odde, Denmark. The project demonstrates a refined approach to contextual design, where architecture responds directly to landscape topography and coastal conditions through careful spatial organization and material restraint.

2025

House for Cultivation
nevertheless / Yusuke Sagawa Architects

House for Cultivation, designed by nevertheless / Yusuke Sagawa Architects, stands as a masterful expression of agricultural wisdom integration with residential space and innovative migratory living practice nestled within a site adjacent to farmland in Saitama Prefecture. This 103.70-square-meter private residence exemplifies the perfect balance between distinctive spatial depth layering and geometric intervention strategy, redefining the dynamic equilibrium between evolving family relationships and spatial adaptability.

2025

Cafe. MADA in the Little Garden
BodinChapa Architects

BodinChapa Architects has transformed a lychee orchard in Chiang Rai, Thailand, into a serene café retreat where dark toned architecture thoughtfully frames the natural landscape. Cafe MADA in the Little Garden demonstrates how contemporary design can integrate harmoniously with agricultural settings while creating spaces for contemplation and connection.

2025

House on the Edge of the Plain
Skupaj Arhitekti

House on the Edge of the Plain, designed by Skupaj Arhitekti, stands as a masterful expression of structural clarity and landscape integration nestled at the edge of the Murska Sobota plain in Slovenia.

2025

21-24 Nikkakjøkken Restaurant
OFFICE INAINN

21-24 Nikkakjøkken Restaurant, designed by OFFICE INAINN, stands as a demonstration of how contemporary intervention can honor architectural heritage while creating a refined dining environment, located in Sylte, Norway.

2025


IGArchitects

This project, titled simply "〇" (circle), reimagines the traditional office environment as a fluid field where uses constantly shift and overlap rather than being fixed to predetermined zones, demonstrating how spatial margin itself can serve as a design strategy to create a framework capable of continuous renewal amid uncertain functional requirements.

2024

House with a Private Giewont Mountain
BXB Studio Bogusław Barnaś

BXB Studio Bogusław Barnaś's House with a Private Giewont Mountain demonstrates how innovative vertical circulation narrative strategies and masterful traditional architecture contemporary translation design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a scenic plot in Kościelisko village, Poland into a contemporary mountain residential architecture exemplar of hiking experience narrative and material expressiveness.

2024

The Float House
Tigg + Coll Architects

TiggColl Architects has completed The Float House, an innovative modular floating home on the Grand Union Canal in Ruislip, northwest London. The spacious and accessible family home combines contemporary design with advanced technology, pushing the boundaries of sustainable, water-based living.

2025

Terrarium House
Unknown Surface Studio

Terrarium House, designed by Unknown Surface Studio, stands as a masterful expression of spatial constraint transformation and inward-looking design strategy nestled within a unique ladle-shaped plot in Bangkok's Ladprao district.

2025

Tiffany Facade Beijing
MVRDV

MVRDV has created a striking facade for Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store in Beijing's Taikoo-Li Sanlitun commercial district, featuring curved semi-transparent glass fins that create an ethereal, jewelry-inspired aesthetic.

2024

Långholmen Residence
Mer Architects

Långholmen Residence, designed by Mer Architects, stands as a masterful expression of environmental sensitivity and historical respect nestled within the island of Långholmen in Parainen, Finland, demonstrating the perfect balance between architectural intervention and natural landscape that redefines the relationship between Finnish coastal architecture and its setting.

2025

o tokyo
ooc

o tokyo, designed by ooc, stands as a profound exploration of the essence of material existence and an expression of distinctive spatial philosophy, located in Chuo Ward, Tokyo. This office and café sits in the Shintomi district, creating a creative venue open to the street and establishing a delicate balance between functionality and monumentality through innovative fixture design concepts.

2023

Dandan PARK
Yano Aoyama Architecture Design

Dandan PARK, designed by Yano Aoyama Architecture Design, stands as a masterful expression of how thoughtful architecture can harmonize with automotive industry environmental changes while creating distinct public spatial experiences, situated along Airport Street in Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan.

2023

Booking.com City Campus
UNStudio

Booking.com City Campus in Amsterdam's Oosterdokseiland, designed by UNStudio, stands as an innovative expression of redefining workplace space as a healthy community. This 72,500-square-meter headquarters brings together 6,500 employees under one roof for the first time, serving as a crucial tool for attracting and retaining top talent through its reflection of the company's leading position in the global tech industry.

2024

Ivan Hill ADU Residence
Warren Techentin Architecture

Warren Techentin Architecture's Ivan Hill ADU Residence demonstrates how fragmented massing strategies and topographic response design philosophy can transform a two-story accessory dwelling unit on a Silver Lake hillside plot into a contemporary living masterpiece of geometric dialogue and spatial flexibility.

2025

Tangram House
TETRO Arquitetura

Tangram House, designed by TETRO Arquitetura, stands as a masterful expression of how geometric precision can create fluid connections between architecture and landscape while constructing distinct spatial experiences, nestled on a gently sloping lakeside plot in Lagoa Santa within the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte.

2025

North of Brooklyn Pizzeria
MRDK

MRDK's North of Brooklyn Pizzeria demonstrates how innovative material continuity strategies and masterful spatial layering design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a two-story space in Toronto's Etobicoke neighborhood into a contemporary dining architecture exemplar of cinematic narrative and material expressiveness.

2025

House in Koishikawa
Masaya Suzuki Architects

House in Koishikawa, designed by Masaya Suzuki Architects, stands as a masterful expression of budget constraint balance and spatial quality enhancement nestled within a 50-year-old apartment building in Bunkyo, Tokyo.

2025

Manitouwaba Lake House
Daymark

For a young couple with three children, building a cottage on Manitouwaba Lake was about more than a getaway. It was about continuing a family story. The new retreat would sit beside the parents' legacy cottage in Seguin, and by merging two properties into one, the family created a site large enough to hold both heritage and future.

2025

Aster by Joshua Paris
RooMoo Design Studio

Aster restaurant in Shanghai, led by British chef Joshua Paris and designed by RooMoo Design Studio, stands as an innovative expression of translating botanical geometry into immersive spatial experience. This 309-square-meter restaurant draws inspiration from its namesake flower, the aster, which means "star" in Greek.

2025

House Requena
Sommet

House Requena, designed by Sommet, stands as a masterful expression of how thoughtful architecture can harmonize with challenging topography while creating distinct spatial experiences, nestled within a gated community on steep, vegetation-rich hillside on the outskirts of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

2025

Kamimeguro House
Yuki Morita Architects

Kamimeguro House, designed by Yuki Morita Architects, stands as a refined response to unique site conditions and an expression of distinctive architectural language, located in Meguro, Tokyo. This two-storey wooden residence sits adjacent to a greenway formed from a covered river, creating a serene dwelling away from urban bustle and establishing a delicate balance between city and nature through innovative spatial strategies.

2025

Pujiang Platform
MVRDV

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has completed the Pujiang Platform, an earth-covered timber pavilion that rises from the hills south of Chengdu, China, as both a tourist destination and multifunctional event space. The project stands out for its poetic response to site history, architectural restraint, and commitment to sustainable construction methods.

2025

House of Superimposed Images
D.A.

D.A.'s "House of Superimposed Images" demonstrates how powerful geometric forms and multi-perspective strategies can transform a coastal residence into a spatial apparatus that presents different architectural expressions as viewing positions change. This residence creates what the architects call a "polyphonic landscape" in dialogue with the region's layered history and dramatic topography.

2024

CASA DLCA
0studio Arquitectura

CASA DLCA, designed by 0studio Arquitectura, stands as a masterful expression of contemporary Mexican architecture principles nestled within Zapopan, Mexico, demonstrating the perfect balance between material contrast, spatial clarity, and contextual awareness that redefines modern residential experiences.

2024

Danki
Ryu Mitarai & Associates, Architects

Tokyo-based practice Ryu Mitarai & Associates, Architects, led by architect Ryu Mitarai, has completed an extraordinary timber cabin in Kita-Karuizawa, Gunma Prefecture, that redefines the relationship between minimal intervention architecture and natural environments.

2025

Louis Vuitton Visionary Journeys Seoul
OMA / Shohei Shigematsu

OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu's "Visionary Journeys Seoul" exhibition demonstrates how innovative spatial strategies and flexible exhibition systems can transform a traditional department store into a dynamic connector merging retail, culture, and public experience, creating an immersive brand narrative space spanning six floors.

2025

Zayed National Museum
Foster + Partners

Located at the heart of the Saadiyat Cultural District in Abu Dhabi, the Zayed National Museum is the new national museum of the United Arab Emirates designed by Foster + Partners, tracing the history of the Emirates from the earliest evidence of human habitation to the civilizations that shaped its culture and identity, rooted in the values of the UAE's Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The building's form addresses the challenge of sustaining life in a desert environment and the strong cultural traditions of the UAE.

2025

Tent Cabin in OMORI
HUNE Architects

Tent Cabin in OMORI, designed by HUNE Architects, stands as a masterful expression of ancient architectural wisdom and contemporary family living needs nestled within a compact site adjacent to JR railway lines in Shinagawa, Tokyo. This 77.85-square-meter two-story timber residence exemplifies the perfect balance between distinctive fabric-like roof form and innovative spatial planning, redefining residential experiences for multigenerational families within compact urban footprints.

2020

Villa Vista
Znameni Ctyr Architekti

Znameni Ctyr Architekti's Villa Vista demonstrates how vertical layering concepts and landscape integration design philosophy can transform a five-storey residence on a sloped plot into a contemporary living masterpiece of sculptural presence and spatial fluidity.

2022

Camera House
Leckie Studio Architecture + Design

Leckie Studio Architecture + Design's "Camera House" demonstrates how precision optical spatial strategies and curatorial visual choreography can transform a two-bedroom residence into an architectural apparatus that captures and directs natural light and landscape experience.

2024

MA.DE Bistro
AN NAM Architecture

AN NAM Architecture's MA.DE Bistro demonstrates how innovative tripartite roof configuration strategies and masterful cultural response design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a dining complex embraced by untouched pine forest into a contemporary architectural exemplar of spatial layering and cultural resonance.

2025

Irwell Hill Residences
MVRDV

Irwell Hill Residences, designed by Dutch architecture firm MVRDV, stands as an innovative expression of aesthetic possibilities in prefabricated modular construction, located at Irwell Bank Road in Singapore. This development comprising two 36-storey residential towers with 540 units redefines design paradigms for prefabricated buildings in Singapore's high-density urban environment through dynamic pixelated facade treatment.

2025

Skubianka House
SZCZ Jakub Szczesny

SZCZ Jakub Szczesny's "Skubianka House" demonstrates how innovative material preservation strategies and masterful vertical visual connection design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a communist-era pyramidal residence built from salvaged tram rails into a contemporary forest retreat sanctuary of spatial intimacy and landscape integration.

2024

Armstrong Cottage
Peter Braithwaite Studio

Nestled on a remote lakeside island in Peterborough, Armstrong Cottage by Peter Braithwaite Studio represents a masterful exercise in off-grid sustainable design and innovative construction methodology.

2025

Armoua House
Fabian Tan Architect

Fabian Tan Architect's Armoua House demonstrates how bold structural expression and warm materiality strategies can transform a residence on an end-lot terrace site in Kuala Lumpur into an architectural exemplar that fuses ancient construction wisdom with contemporary spatial quality.

2024

W House II
IDIN Architects

IDIN Architects' "W House II" demonstrates how bold structural innovation and sophisticated spatial organization strategies can elevate single-story living to new heights, creating a contemporary sanctuary suspended seven meters above ground.

2023

House Hoinka
Atelier Kaiser Shen

Located in the small village of Pfaffenhofen near Heilbronn, House Hoinka is a pioneering sustainable dwelling designed by Atelier Kaiser Shen that elevates residential architecture through innovative use of straw bale construction and a dramatic raised design.

2024

Baw Beese House
Disbrow Iannuzzi Architects

Baw Beese House, designed by Disbrow Iannuzzi Architects, is conceived as a multigenerational lakeside retreat that merges environmental responsibility, architectural clarity, and family-oriented spatial planning. Situated along the natural contours descending toward Baw Beese Lake, the project divides the program into four smaller volumes to minimize visual impact and enhance adaptability.

2025

Blue Box
Bruzkus Greenberg

The Blue Box apartment in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, designed by Bruzkus Greenberg, stands as an exemplary demonstration of transforming fragmented space into a flowing residential experience. This 75-square-meter rooftop residence was originally divided by numerous walls into isolated small spaces. The designers reorganized circulation around a central core, creating an open layout where light, air, and space flow freely. This minimal yet precise spatial strategy became the fundamental driver of the project.

2022

Alba Thermal Springs and Spa
Hayball

Situated on a 15-hectare site on the Mornington Peninsula, the Alba Thermal Springs and Spa designed by Hayball presents an innovative paradigm for landscape-integrated architectural design.

2025

NUBIAN SAPPORO PARCO
TORAFU Architects

TORAFU Architects has created a convention-defying retail space for fashion select shop NUBIAN at Sapporo PARCO, reimagining traditional store layouts by positioning the stockroom at the entrance to orchestrate an intriguing spatial sequence experience.

2023

House in the Woods
Tom Lontine Architect

Nestled into a sloped, forested hillside overlooking the Connecticut River in Deep River, Connecticut, House in the Woods by Tom Lontine Architect represents a masterful exercise in landscape integration and architectural restraint.

2025

Villa Sipat & Sauh
Arkana Architects

Arkana Architects' "Villa Sipat & Sauh" demonstrates how subversive spatial sequences and innovative material application strategies can transform a compact rental villa into an architectural work with profound domestic intimacy.

2025

La Fondation Mixed-Use Complex
PCA-STREAM

PCA-STREAM has created a 9,091-square-meter urban landmark for La Fondation Mixed-Use Complex, positioned in Paris's Batignolles district, transforming a 1960s overhead parking structure originally slated for demolition into a contemporary ensemble combining hotel, restaurants, and office spaces.

2025 -

The Grand Ballroom
MVRDV

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has won the competition to design the new Asllan Rusi sports palace in Tirana, Albania. Comprising a 6,000-seat arena for basketball and volleyball with residential apartments, a hotel, and ground-level retail, the 90,200-square-metre complex takes the form of a sphere over 100 metres in diameter. Named The Grand Ballroom, the proposal will become a new addition to the city's collection of distinctive architectural projects, and a singular destination for the people of the city to gather together.

2026

Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art
BIG

BIG has created a 60,000-square-metre cultural landmark for the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, positioned along the shores of Jinji Lake in China's historic garden city, reimagining traditional Chinese garden architecture. Designed by BIG in collaboration with ARTS Group and Front Inc., the museum's architectural language derives from the lang, a covered corridor fundamental to Suzhou's centuries-old garden tradition.

2024

AMAMI House
Sakai Architects

Japanese architecture studio Sakai Architects completed AMAMI House project in Amami Island, Kagoshima, creating a completely off-grid family residence that challenges conventional notions of sustainable living in subtropical climates while accommodating the complex functional requirements of a four-member family.

2022

House CM
AtelierM + Nicolas Krause

House CM, designed by AtelierM and Nicolas Krause, stands as an intelligent expression of transforming regulatory constraints into architectural innovation positioned in Escobar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2025

Omura Children's Clinic
Design Associates Nakamura

Situated in Nagasaki, Japan, the Omura Children's Clinic designed by Design Associates Nakamura reimagines pediatric healthcare through a series of child-scaled gabled roofs that transform a clinical environment into a comforting, home-like sanctuary. This 149-square-meter structure completed in 2025 challenges conventional medical architecture by prioritizing emotional wellbeing alongside functional requirements, creating a dual-purpose environment that simultaneously serves its young patients and their accompanying parents.

2023

Mohegan Trail Residence
Bates Masi + Architects

Mohegan Trail Residence, designed by Bates Masi + Architects, stands as an exemplary demonstration of transforming logistical constraints into architectural innovation on Block Island off the Northeast coast of the United States. This 2,400-square-foot coastal residence is strategically positioned on a remote island with no cargo boat access, where all equipment and materials must arrive via passenger ferry under strict size and weight restrictions, making these extreme building conditions the fundamental driver of the design.

2024

Solem Forest House
MORFEUS arkitekter

MORFEUS arkitekter's "Solem Forest House" demonstrates how innovative roof volume embedding strategies and masterful indoor-outdoor boundary dissolution techniques can transform a dilapidated 1946 timber structure into a contemporary dwelling that harmoniously coexists with its forest environment.

2024

Wind Path Terrace
Naruse Inokuma Architects

Located in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward Nakai neighborhood, Wind Path Terrace is a cooperative housing project designed by Naruse Inokuma Architects that transforms the area's distinctive hillside topography into an architectural strategy. This 20-unit development sits across from the Fumiko Hayashi Memorial Hall within a unique urban landscape characterized by eight parallel slopes running from a northern plateau down to a southern river.

2024

Rathnelly House
Studio VAARO

Studio VAARO has created a comprehensive and formally expressive renovation of an Edwardian-era semi-detached house in midtown Toronto, adding 140 square meters of new space through strategic structural interventions without extending the original footprint. Winner of Canadian Interiors' Best of Canada Design Awards 2025, this project demonstrates how intelligent spatial reorganization can dramatically enhance functionality while maintaining architectural elegance, creating nearly 60% additional usable floor area for contemporary family living.

2025

Canada Goose Paris Flagship Store
Snøhetta

Snøhetta's "Canada Goose Paris Flagship Store" demonstrates how innovative "boundless" architectural form integration strategies and aluminum facade materiality design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a flagship store dedicated to Canadian outerwear brand into a culturally profound retail sanctuary, reinterpreting the fusion of tradition and adventure spirit.

2023

House in Tochigi
Tsuyoshi Oshiyama Architects

Tsuyoshi Oshiyama Architects ' House in Tochigi demonstrates how stacking and shifting box volume composition strategies and multiple interwoven garden systems can transform a residence in Tochigi City's area where houses and rice paddies intermingle into a contemporary architectural exemplar that deeply integrates architecture and landscape.

2025

Jinsha Winery Cultural Tourism Complex
hyperSity Architects

Jinsha Winery Cultural Tourism Complex, designed by hyperSity Architects, stands as an innovative spatial solution that reimagines traditional winery through historical heritage transformation and grid-based spatial organization nestled in Dashuiling, Jinsha County, Guizhou Province.

2025

Lib Earth House model B
ogawaa design studio

Lib Earth House Model B, jointly designed by Lib Work Co., Ltd., Arup, ogawaa design studio, and Studio QTN, demonstrates how innovative integration of large-scale 3D-printed earthen walls with traditional timber framing can transform an experimental residence in Yamaga, Japan, into a contemporary architectural exemplar that embodies principles of environmental sustainability and habitability.

2025

Tower for Birds
Atelier Íchiku

Atelier Íchiku, led by architect Yusuke Omuro, has created a contemplative tower on Takamijima Island in Kagawa Prefecture as part of the Takamijima Art Trail during the 2025 Setouchi International Art Festival autumn session. The Tower for Birds stands as a delicate intervention on a depopulated island where fewer than 30 residents remain, offering a vertical sanctuary that contrasts with the horizontal expanse of the Seto Inland Sea.

2024

Hudson L-House
Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl Architects' Hudson L-House demonstrates how innovative L-shaped configuration strategies and masterful urban fabric response design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on a vacant lot into a contemporary living sanctuary of light-shadow interaction and spatial layering.

2025

Xiao Feng Art Museum
ZAO/Zhang Ke Architecture Office

ZAO/ Zhang Ke Architecture Office 's "Xiao Feng Art Museum" demonstrates how innovative serpentine architectural form integration strategies and ink-infused concrete materiality design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a museum dedicated to painter couple Xiao Feng and Song Ren at the foot of Daci Mountain into a culturally profound sanctuary of artistic contemplation and traditional scholar garden reinterpretation.

2024

Steeplechase House
Brooks + Scarpa

Located on a wooded 65-acre site in the Appalachian foothills near the Eno River around Raleigh Durham, North Carolina, Steeplechase House designed by Brooks + Scarpa is more than just a residence—it is a pavilion of reflection and repose, an architectural manifesto that connects to the expansive natural setting amongst the trees.

2023

House in Odate
W

Tokyo-based practice W, led by Koki Watanabe and Rika Watanabe, has completed a remarkable residence in Odate, Akita Prefecture, that challenges conventional approaches to regional architecture in Japan. The project responds thoughtfully to the unique conditions of provincial development, where looser building regulations often result in haphazard, disconnected urban fabric.

2022

House Toca
ARKITITO

ARKITITO Arquitetura's House Toca demonstrates how innovative three-layer hybrid construction systems and sculptural geometric configuration strategies can transform a residence in Vila Madalena, São Paulo, into a contemporary architectural exemplar that fuses creative workspace with family life.

2024

CHUK Heritage Cafe
6717 Studio

6717 Studio's "CHUK Heritage Cafe" demonstrates how innovative curved roof configuration strategies and masterful cultural integration design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a corner building renovation in Ho Chi Minh City's Thao Dien district into a culturally profound destination connecting past and present through architectural expression.

2025

JPMorgan Chase New York Headquarters
Foster + Partners

270 Park Avenue in New York, designed by Foster + Partners, stands as JPMorgan Chase's global headquarters building, establishing new benchmarks for sustainable architecture and employee wellbeing. This 60-story skyscraper is New York's largest all-electric building with net-zero operational emissions through hydroelectric power, accommodating 10,000 employees and thousands of daily guests across 232,257 square meters of space.

2025

House of Espinheira
Partner4Build

Partner4Build's House of Espinheira demonstrates how architectural origami concepts and material honesty expression design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on a sloped plot into a contemporary living sanctuary of sculptural presence and spatial fluidity.

2024

French Creek Workshops House
Wittman Estes

Wittman Estes' French Creek Workshops House demonstrates how innovative courtyard organization strategies and masterful aging-in-place design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on a four-and-a-half-acre former animal sanctuary plot into a contemporary retirement home of creative vitality and natural immersion.

2024

ASTILE Hiroo Residential Building
Tomoyuki Kurokawa Architects

ASTILE Hiroo, designed by Tomoyuki Kurokawa Architects, stands as a masterful expression of balanced urban density and livable environment nestled in a mature residential district in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. This 711.64-square-meter collective housing rises like a carefully orchestrated urban sculpture, redefining contemporary Tokyo urban residential architecture design paradigms.

2024

ART Residence
Jacobsen Arquitetura

Jacobsen Arquitetura's "ART Residence" demonstrates how innovative tripartite spatial organization strategies and masterful cantilevered structure design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on a beachfront plot into a contemporary tropical living sanctuary of natural integration and visual dematerialization.

2025

House Río
LABarq

LABarq's "House Río" demonstrates how innovative V-shaped configuration strategies and masterful topographic response design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on an irregular trapezoidal plot into a contemporary living sanctuary of landscape continuity and spatial transparency.

2025

DESCENTE Marunouchi
Oniki Design Studio

ODS architect Koichiro Oniki has completed the DESCENTE store in Tokyo's Shin-Marunouchi Building, transforming a commercial floor space into a striking embodiment of the sportswear brand's core philosophy. The project stands as a sophisticated translation of DESCENTE's foundational principle of "functional beauty" into physical form, utilizing a carefully curated palette of industrial materials including stainless steel, surface-emitting light panels, and glass to create an atmosphere that bridges athletic performance and refined aesthetics.

2025

Marhûs Lakehouse
Lichtstad Architecten

Lichtstad Architecten's "Marhûs Lakehouse" demonstrates how innovative multi-volume composition strategies and masterful timber craftsmanship design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a lakeside residence in Friesland into a contemporary architectural masterpiece of environmental responsiveness and spatial fluidity.

2022

Balance House
Alexandre Chaguri Arquitetura

Balance House by Alexandre Chaguri Arquitetura sits on a steeply sloping site surrounded by protected forest. This 777-square-meter residence demonstrates a perfect combination of spatial integration, refined aesthetics, and precise dialogue with topography. Designed as a summer house for a couple and their daughter, the residence takes advantage of the natural terrain to create an inverted program: six en-suite bedrooms occupy the upper level facing the view, while social areas develop on the lower floor in direct contact with the garden and pool.

2025

The Chapel of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Bull O'Sullivan Architecture

Perched on a hillside overlooking Lyttelton Harbour in New Zealand, the Chapel of St. Thérèse of Lisieux by Bull O'Sullivan Architecture reimagines sacred space through radical simplicity. At just 17 square metres, this intimate sanctuary celebrates "The Little Way," a philosophy of spiritual humility developed by its namesake, the Carmelite nun Thérèse of Lisieux.

2024

Sagamore North Cottage
Akb Architects

Akb Architects' "Sagamore North Cottage" demonstrates how innovative slipping vertical plane integration strategies and dramatic cantilevered roof design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on a Muskoka island waterfront into a culturally profound sanctuary of family cohesion and environmental privacy.

2023

DILLY DALLY
axonometric

axonometric's "DILLY DALLY" demonstrates how innovative wind-responsive architectural configuration strategies and masterful environmental analysis design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a retail dining space on a windy coastal site into a culturally profound sanctuary of natural symbiosis and place-making spirit.

2024

Pridi 41 House
Anonym

Anonym's "Pridi 41 House" demonstrates how innovative vertical zoning strategies and masterful privacy protection design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on an 800-square-meter corner plot into a contemporary urban living sanctuary of environmental responsiveness and spatial continuity.

2022

TM House
Jacobsen Arquitetura

Jacobsen Arquitetura's "TM House" demonstrates how innovative dispersed pavilion organization strategies and masterful family relationship spatialization design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on lakeside sloping terrain in São Paulo's outskirts into a culturally profound sanctuary of multigenerational family cohesion and environmental harmony.

2024

Naju White House
PLAN Architects office

PLAN Architects office's "Naju White House" demonstrates how innovative split-level spatial integration strategies and masterful central courtyard design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence at the entrance of a cul-de-sac into a culturally profound sanctuary of multigenerational family cohesion and spatial harmony.

2024

House in Brianza
Studio Gerosa

House in Brianza, designed by architect Andrea Gerosa and engineer-architect Franco Gerosa, stands as a masterful exploration of transparency and architectural restraint nestled near Lake Como.

2025

Korinda House
BENT Architecture

Korinda House by BENT Architecture sits on six acres of sloping bushland at Melbourne's fringe. This 472-square-meter residence uses a series of dispersed masonry volumes and carefully designed transitional spaces to merge contemporary living with the native landscape.

2025

Robert Day Sciences Center
BIG

Robert Day Sciences Center, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, stands as an innovative spatial solution that reimagines interdisciplinary learning through radical architectural geometry nestled in Claremont, California.

2024

Passive House
Mareines Arquitetura

Mareines Arquitetura's "Passive House" demonstrates how innovative passive environmental control strategies and masterful natural material integration techniques can transform the desire for simpler, autonomous living into an ecologically sensitive contemporary residential architecture.

2024

The Green House
Boniface Oleksiuk Politano Architects

The Green House, designed by Boniface Oleksiuk Politano Architects, stands as a masterful expression of modest architectural gesture and sophisticated spatial strategy nestled within a forest along a stream on a small farm in Gibsons, British Columbia.

2025

B-One Office Building
CF Møller

CF Møller Architects' "B-One Office Building" demonstrates how innovative sustainable building strategies and masterful urban context integration techniques can transform a gateway site in Berlin's City-West district into a forward-thinking 11-story climate-friendly corporate headquarters building.

2024

Villa W
Architecture MR

Architecture MR has created an extraordinary Villa W residence in La Massana, Andorra, perfectly embodying the sophisticated fusion of contextual architecture and deep environmental integration.

2024

The Kiosque House
arba

Located at the bottom of a garden in Caen, France, The Kiosque House designed by arba is more than just a residence——it is an innovative practice that transforms residential architecture into a sophisticated gazebo-like pavilion. Positioned like a contemporary folly in a park, the project strictly complies with local urban planning regulations (apart from curves) while challenging conventional housing typologies through ingenious architectural conception.

2020

House F
Celoria Architects

House F, designed by Celoria Architects, stands as a masterful expression of architectural integration with natural topography nestled in the heart of the Tremona district in Mendrisio, Switzerland. This 350-square-meter single-family residence rises like a concrete monolith from steep terrain, redefining contemporary Swiss mountain residential architecture design paradigms.

2024

Watarstay
100A associates

Located in Bongseong-ri, Jeju, where Hallasan Mountain and the oreums harmonize in natural landscape, the Watarstay designed by 100A associates presents an exceptional paradigm for contemporary Korean minimalist hospitality architecture.

2024

Kaleido Scape
FUMIASO ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES

Kaleido Scape House, designed by FUMIASO ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES, stands as an innovative spatial solution under economic constraints nestled in Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture. This 75.45-square-meter single-story residence is strategically positioned on a generous T-shaped commercial lot, where its design concept derived from kaleidoscopic light effects, highlighting the possibility of achieving spatial quality through refined design amid rising construction costs.

2025

Calder Gardens
Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron's "Calder Gardens" demonstrates how revolutionary museum typology strategies and masterful landscape architecture fusion techniques can transform a 69,325-square-foot urban edge site on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a contemplative artistic experience building.

2025

Snow Peak MATRO Department Store
KiKi ARCHi

KiKi ARCHi's "Snow Peak MATRO Department Store" demonstrates how innovative "elevation shift" spatial sculpting strategies and masterful indoor-outdoor continuity design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a retail space within a commercial complex into a culturally profound sanctuary of exploration and brand experience.

2024

Banyan Tree House
Anonym

Anonym's "Banyan Tree House" demonstrates how innovative L-shaped wooden deck integration strategies and masterful natural ventilation design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on 1.38 acres of wetland into a culturally profound sanctuary of multigenerational family cohesion and environmental harmony.

2023

Cave
EARTHEN

Located in a historic residential district in Toyama City, Japan, the Cave apartment renovation designed by EARTHEN is more than just an interior renovation------it is a spatial manifesto that redefines the essence of dwelling through architectural language.

2025

House GM
Didonè Comacchio Architects

House GM, designed by Didonè Comacchio Architects, stands as a masterful expression of visual permeability and material dialogue nestled in a residential neighborhood near Bassano del Grappa, Italy.

2025

Luxury Apartment in Poznań
Studio GAB

The Luxury Apartment in Poznań, designed by Studio GAB, stands as a refined example of contemporary urban living, conceived with clarity, elegance, and a subtle sense of intimacy. This 107-square-meter apartment layout embraces both openness and privacy, creating a home that feels spacious yet thoughtfully zoned.

2025

% Arabica Hangzhou MixC
Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates

Vietnamese architectural practice Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates has created an extraordinary % Arabica coffee shop at the main entrance of Hangzhou's MixC mall, perfectly embodying the sophisticated fusion of dynamic façade design and brand identity innovation.

2024

Kasane House
Niko Design Studio

Located on a corner site in Tokyo's Katsushika district residential neighborhood, the Kasane House designed by Niko Design Studio presents an innovative paradigm for multigenerational housing design.

2024

Batten House
Ben Walker Architects

Ben Walker Architects has created an extraordinary sustainable family residence in Curtin, ACT, founded on the idea of seamless privacy control and environmental integration through innovative operable screening systems.

2025

Puerto House
TACO taller de arquitectura contextual

TACO taller de arquitectura contextual's "Puerto House" demonstrates how innovative modular housing strategies and masterful historical preservation with contemporary architecture fusion techniques can transform a constrained 5x17-meter lot into an adaptable dual-unit coastal lodging building.

2024

Villa BaZ
Architecture Research Athens

AREA (Architecture Research Athens)'s "Villa BaZ" demonstrates how innovative material contrast strategies and masterful multi-generational living space integration techniques can transform a 1952 seaside residence designed by architect N. Byl into an environmentally sensitive contemporary family compound.

2025

Grand Room / House
IGArchitects

Grand Room House designed by IGArchitects is more than just a residence------it is a spatial manifesto that redefines family living through architectural language. Directly inspired by the vision of a four-member family with two young children seeking a generous home capable of flexibly accommodating future lifestyle changes, the house translates their need for adaptability and openness into revolutionary spatial organization.

2025

PEBL Cabins
Hello Wood

PEBL Cabins, designed by Hello Wood, stands as a poetic expression of prefabricated architectural innovation positioned on a Brooklyn rooftop in New York, United States. This modular cabin system is strategically positioned on an entertainment venue's rooftop terrace, offering spectacular panoramic views of Manhattan, where its distinctive pebble-inspired form and futuristic aesthetics became fundamental to the design approach, highlighting the adaptability of "low-poly" design language in urban environments.

2025

2025 Osaka Expo Poland Pavilion
interplay architects

interplay architects has created a striking spiral-formed pavilion for Poland at Expo 2025 Osaka, where ancient geometries meet cutting-edge design philosophy. This 1,137-square-metre structure ingeniously employs the spiral—a universal form found everywhere from molecular proteins to galactic formations—as a powerful metaphor for Polish innovation and cultural exchange.

2024

JF Residence
KG Studio

KG Studio' "JF Residence" demonstrates how innovative structural gable integration strategies and masterful indoor-outdoor continuity design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence within a private condominium into a culturally profound sanctuary of family cohesion and social functionality.

2025

Riba House
TEC - Taller EC

Riba House, designed by TEC - Taller EC, stands as a poetic expression of context-sensitive design nestled in the dramatic valley of Puembo in Ecuador's Andes mountain range. This 520-square-meter residence is strategically positioned on a corner and curved lot, where its location and orientation became fundamental to the design approach, highlighting the presence of a magnificent carob tree at the center of the site, which became the conceptual axis of the project and the point from which spectacular views of Quito city are framed.

2024

Villa M
R.E.A.D. & Architects

R.E.A.D. & Architects' "Villa M" demonstrates how innovative L-shaped spatial configuration strategies and masterful environmental integration techniques can transform a pristine forest site into a poetically profound contemporary villa retreat.

2024

Eagle House
Stanley Office of Architecture

Stanley Office of Architecture completed the Eagle House project in Nelson, creating a pioneering residential pavilion that exemplifies how innovative skylight systems and masterful structural strategies can transform the challenging mountainous terrain of British Columbia's Kootenay region into an architectural masterpiece that captures both dramatic vistas and precious daylight.

2021

River Sea Villa
KAWAZOE JUNICHIRO ARCHITECTS

Located near the river mouth in Sumoto, Hyogo Prefecture, the River Sea Villa designed by KAWAZOE JUNICHIRO ARCHITECTS is more than just a resort residence------it is a poetic expression that perfectly fuses traditional Japanese craftsmanship with contemporary architectural language.

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