Architecture

Explore 968 award-winning designs tagged Architecture on A Design News.

Designer: Toshio Tsushima Work: Exhibition Gallery Tag: Architecture

Memories of Water

Memories of Water is an exhibition gallery located on the shoreline in Qingdao, China. The building offers panoramic views of the ocean within an urban setting. A curtain wall system with steel fins is used on the first floor to minimize the structure. On the second floor, ultra-transparent glass is installed without fins or frames, so the boundary between indoor and outdoor space is reduced. A cantilever structure creates a floating effect. A water landscape surrounds the building and eases the transition from the city to nature. The gross built area is 1800 square meters.

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Designer: Kei Tamai Work: Housing Tag: Architecture

Yokohama Tsuzuki

Yokohama Tsuzuki is a detached house built in a densely populated urban area in Japan. The plan is organized around a central courtyard, kept as large as local regulations allow. All rooms face the courtyard, so the interior reads as one connected space. The sky stays visible from every room, marking the change of seasons indoors. The layout is flexible and can be adapted as family needs change. The site area is 213.98 square meters and the total floor area is 160.02 square meters. The design follows traditional Japanese houses, which brought light and air into daily life.

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Designer: NDA Group Work: Headquarters and Creative Offices Tag: Architecture

Citychamp Dartong Plaza

Citychamp Dartong Plaza is an office building designed as a corporate headquarters with creative offices in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China. The building covers 37,350 square metres over five floors and holds a company headquarters, three affiliate offices, retail units and shared spaces. The circular plan is arranged around a large courtyard, recalling traditional Fujian tulou dwellings, while the vertical rhythm of the facades refers to local wooden shipbuilding. Green atriums and cantilevered terraces shelter movement and reduce energy loss.

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Designer: Dr Aleksandar Rudnik Milanovic Work: Expo Pavilion Tag: Architecture

Octagon

The octagon, a geometric figure selected by Nikola Tesla for his tower served as the motivation for creating a distinctive pavilion complex. By rebuilding the tower using energy efficient technologies, with a lookout as the focal point of this architectural ensemble featuring eight pavilions within the octagonal extension of the tower, this facility would serve as a future landmark for any global expo complex. The glazed atrium, is supported by columns shaped to represent lightning. Once the Expo event concludes, this complex could evolve into a mixed-use center, guaranteeing its viability.

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Designer: Chun Yen Chen Work: Office Building Tag: Architecture

Swancor Innovation Campus

Swancor Innovation Campus is an office building that serves as the operational headquarters and research and development center for Swancor Group. The configuration and distribution of the building volumes establish a harmonious relationship with the surrounding environment. The architecture is designed to coordinate with the natural setting and to remain community friendly. The campus is centered on the concept of a Knowledge Canyon, which promotes exchange and sharing. The project was completed in Nantou County, Taiwan, in March 2024.

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Designer: Dante Luna Work: House Tag: Architecture

Lulu Ville

Lulu Villa is a private residence located in Las Terrenas. The house covers 850 square meters of construction on a plot of 2,492 square meters. The design is composed of three intersecting volumes, one of which has two levels. The first level holds the social areas, with large galleries open to the exterior, and the guest rooms. The second level holds the bedrooms and a family room, linked by an open corridor. Concrete in its natural state marks the facades. The entrance uses aluminum profiles with a wood finish, resistant to sea salt and spaced to let daylight enter.

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Designer: POTIROPOULOS and PARTNERS Work: Office Building Tag: Architecture

Serrated Transparency

The office building is located in Ellinikon with unobstructed sea views. The building outline introduces a trapeze, which expands over the site and addresses the prominent corner. The space is perceived as a field of forces where the delineated space is contested by the striated organization of the facade, navigated by the views towards the sea, the orientation of the sun, resulting in a subtle expression of the complex dynamics between them. The concept investigates the smooth and the striated in a broader field, with the varying degrees of transparency implied by the jagged main facade.

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Designer: Yahya Kashi Work: Residential Tag: Architecture

Roof House

The Roof House project, situated on the roof of a car showroom in Kermanshah, challenges conventional beliefs about residential spaces. This project explores alternative ways to transfigure the house concept and shift its understanding from a new perspective. It reinterprets the generic house through three key concepts: Destruction, where external forces deform the house; Explosion, where structural and non-structural elements exaggerate and withdraw from the debris; and Expansion, where objects dominate others by spreading their essence.

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Designer: Shamsudin Kerimov Work: Residential Tag: Architecture

House in Repino

House in Repino is a private house located in Repino, Leningrad region, Russia. The house has a total area of 1000 square meters. The villa community set one strong rule: all residences had to follow a Wright-like style. The design takes the rule into account and interprets the style in an original way. The house is integrated into the landscape. Existing trees are preserved as far as possible, and some trees pass through the canopies to create a rhythm and a closer relation between architecture and nature. Stone, wood and metal are the main materials.

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Designer: Taro SHIMOKAWA Work: Sauna Tag: Architecture

Ondsauna

Ondsauna is a sauna building placed within a forest. Vertical exterior walls are clustered around the sauna room, echoing the upward growth of trees. A spiraling path leads to a rooftop relaxation space. The entrance sits 250 millimeters above ground level, the cold plunge deck at 1000 millimeters and the rooftop at 3250 millimeters, so the movement from sauna to cold plunge to open air is vertical. An irregular polygonal plan and obtuse-angled benches guide sightlines and let visitors choose their level of interaction.

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Designer: Kiyoshi Sugimoto Work: Residence Tag: Architecture

Wedge House

Wedge House is a three-story residence built on a narrow site with a steep slope in Ikeda City, Japan. The wedge-shaped cross section places the largest floor at the top and the smallest floor below ground, so that no added force is applied to an old retaining wall. The two upper floors are made of wood and the basement is made of reinforced concrete. The east and west walls are finished with silver coated steel plates that support the cantilevered floor and frame the view to the south. The living area on the second floor opens to a terrace with a wide view.

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Designer: Rogerio Castro Conde Work: Mixed Use Building Tag: Architecture

Nex One Park View

Nex One Park View is a mixed use building on Cidade Jardim Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, near Parque do Povo, Marginal Pinheiros, and Faria Lima. The tower is composed of three volumes connected by an exoskeleton and combines corporate, residential, and leisure spaces. Biophilic elements bring nature into the design and reflect the nearby park. Energy efficiency, high-performance glass, and stormwater management are included, and the building holds LEED Core and Shell v4.0 certification.

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