Architecture

Explore 968 award-winning designs tagged Architecture on Architecture Magazine.

Brand: Tianying Li Project Type: Business Community Tag: Architecture

Beiguan Li

Beiguan Li is a small urban cultural and commercial community built in Qiqihar, China. The site covers 10,000 square meters and lies near Bukui North Street and the nearby lake. Several single buildings are overlapped and merged into one mixed, open and permeable group. The layout forms many relatively independent spaces that flow into one another, so visitors can pause and take part in local activities. A lake terrace park, an outer square and multi-level inner courtyards are included. The color tone is a simple cold gray, and daylight brightens the spaces.

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Brand: SUIADR Project Type: Primary School Extension Tag: Architecture

Qutan

Qutan is a two-story extension for a primary school in a remote village in southern China. The new building adds four classrooms, one reading room, two activity rooms and two teachers' offices within an area of 570 square meters. Placed on a vacant lot on the east side of the campus, the extension separates the quiet school grounds from the village square outside. Cobbles gathered from local riverbeds form the masonry walls of the first floor. Sun-shading grilles on the east and west facades reduce summer sunlight.

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Brand: Shamsudin Kerimov Project Type: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

House On The Cliff

House On The Cliff is a residential building located in Algarve, in the southern part of Portugal. The total area is 250 square metres. The architectural solution consists of two rectangular volumes embedded in each other, and the vertical chimney appears at their intersection. The rhythm of the structure is set by the complex form and by the multidirectional textures of the facade cladding. Only natural materials and their derivatives are used. The main volume is made of architectural concrete, and the second volume is clad in metal that oxidizes over time.

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Brand: GTD Project Type: Sales Center Tag: Architecture

The Osmanthus Grace

The Osmanthus Grace is a sales center building located in the Yuhua District of Shijiazhuang. The design places two staggered bar-shaped blocks around an interior courtyard and an exterior landscaped courtyard, which remain independent yet linked. The three-story southern block combines solid stone with fully glazed sections, and the glass is covered by a fine metal grid with a spacing of about 150 millimeters. The two-story northern block is almost entirely glazed. Slender steel columns support the canopy overhang. The building will later serve as a public service facility.

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Brand: FTA Group Project Type: Living Center Tag: Architecture

Handan Zarsion

Handan Zarsion is a living center built on the site of a former oxygen generator factory in Handan, China. The chamfered corners of the building form an urban square that remains open to the street. Residents use the square to chat, play chess, take a walk and walk dogs. A long strip layout follows the narrow shape of the corner site. On the second floor, 18 metal shuttle-shaped louvers are set at regular intervals, each rotated by ten degrees. Sunlight on the louvers creates changing patterns of light and shadow across the facade.

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Brand: Enrique Leal Project Type: Residential Tag: Architecture

House of Tubes

The project is the fusion of two buildings, an abandoned one from the 70's with the building from the current era and the element that was designed to unite them is the pool. It is a project that has two main uses, the 1st as a residence for a family of 5 members, the 2nd as an art museum, with wide areas and high walls to receive more than 300 people. The design copies the back mountain shape, the city's iconic mountain. Only 3 finishes with light tones are used in the project to make the spaces shine through the natural light that is projected on the walls, floors and ceilings.

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Brand: GTD Project Type: Chinoiserie Mansion Tag: Architecture

Dowell DoThink

Dowell DoThink is a residential complex in Hangzhou, China, covering 103566 square meters. The design combines contemporary urban residences with courtyards and high-rise residences set in gardens. Each household has an independent private courtyard, inspired by the traditional Jiangnan courtyard, where one house is served by six courtyards. Stone, natural stone coating and high-grade paint create a unified and modest facade, while inlaid metal lines add rhythm to the minimalist tone. The entrance landscape, central garden and cluster garden add shared open space.

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Brand: Aico Ltd Project Type: Bookstore Tag: Architecture

Pingjiang Wonder

Pingjiang Wonder Bookstore is a bookstore in Suzhou, China, with a gross built area of 1800 square meters. The building is shaped as a delicately cut crystal and is divided horizontally into two parts. The upper part is faceted, and the sliced facades are tilted by a vertical angle of 4 to 6 degrees towards the sky. The transparent lower part is set at the human scale for better integration into the surrounding streets. High reflective glass panels of 5 by 1.8 meters form the external framed curtain wall.

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Brand: Ruud van der Koelen Project Type: Residential Project Tag: Architecture

Villa K

Villa K is a contemporary private residence on the sloping south flank of the Holterberg in Holten, the Netherlands. The house is spacious, with a building volume of 6,500 cubic meters and a gross floor area of 1,850 square meters. A glass mosaic facade, refined detailing and sliding doors with five meter triple glazed sashes shape the exterior. Villa K is a self-sufficient smart home that requires little maintenance. The design integrates the building into the surrounding landscape as one coherent whole.

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Brand: George Sinas Project Type: Residence Tag: Architecture

Xerolithi

A house that blends in its natural environment. Steep rough slopes, scattered thorny bushes, along with short stone retaining walls, locally called xerolithies created a long time ago for land cultivation purposes. The main facades of the house are formed as xerolithies. These walls that have a lightness like ribbons in the air and seem to be moving gently closer and away of the slope and independently from one another, forming living spaces in between them. The roof covered with dirt and vegetation imitates the natural landscape, making the house almost invisible.

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Brand: HSIN HUNG WU Project Type: Sales Center Tag: Architecture

Nature Canvas

Nature Canvas is a sales center in Taichung with a total area of 495.86 square meters. The design is inspired by Uluru in Australia and by the cave dwellings of ancient times. The building forms a large stone-like volume clad with fiber cement board and painted with ceramic paint, which imitates a rough rock surface and adds weather and stain resistance. The white volume acts as a canvas for sunlight and shadow. Hexagonal openings with inlaid metal frames and a rhombus lattice, modularized by digital die cutting, shift in appearance with the changing light.

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Brand: Aico Ltd Project Type: Retail Tag: Architecture

CR Land Luyang MiXC

CR Land Luyang MiXC is a shopping mall in Hefei, China. The building holds more than 220 tenants within a gross floor area of 76,115 square metres. A looped retail circulation route is arranged inside the 75 metre depth of the floor plan, giving visitors a varied shopping route. A sky sports park sits on the roof, with a cantilevered running track built from a long span steel structure and a transparent floor above the track. Green spaces are placed on every level to link indoor and outdoor areas. Metal fins cover the main curved facade.

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