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Aquaticum Waterpark

BORD Architectural Studio

As part of the ambitious long-term development plan of the municipality of Debrecen (Hungary), the objective of the project was to design an organically fitting waterpark in the region’s iconic ’Nagyerdő’ city park, which at the same time can serve as an impressive landmark. BORD Architectural Studio’s design was inspired by the natura...

Centre de glaces de Québec

Lemay + Ardoises

Inspired by the achievements of the great Olympic speed skating champions, the Centre de glaces de Québec is a first for the province and the largest of its kind in North America. The 400-metre indoor ice ring features two Olympic-sized rinks for short-track speed skating, figure skating and hockey, as well as a three-lane, 465-metre a...

Community Art Gallery of Plum Blossom

UAD

The owner of the project is Zhuji Rongcheng Real Estate Co., Ltd. The project was completed on December 21, 2021,the building area is 2231 square meters.At the beginning of the design, we started with the history and culture of Zhuji as an important catalyst for the inheritance of Zhuji’s culture and the activation of community vitalit...

Lord's Compton & Edrich Stands

WilkinsonEyre

The new Compton & Edrich Stands at Lord’s Cricket Ground, completed 2021, deliver two distinctive architectural structures at the internationally renowned venue. The stands deliver greatly improved sightlines and spectator experience for cricket fans, as well as upgrading capacity, accessibility and amenities at the country’s largest c...

Master plan and Main Stadium design of Xi’an Olympic Center

PTW Architects

Xi’an Olympic Center is a multi-purpose sports facility that includes a 60,000 seats main stadium, 18,000 seats gymnasium and 4,000 seats swimming hall. The sports center functions as both games and show venues, which provides training for track and fields, football and other sports events. Other facilities include underground parking,...

Nanjing OCT Innovation Center

Lacime Architects

The project site locates in Nanjing, on the north bank of Yigan River, enjoying excellent natural environment. The area will be planned as a characteristic cultural travel center of Nanjing. As the first project of exhibition area, this project undertakes important task of showcasing the regional planning, and meanwhile, it should meet...

Yíshè at Atrium House

via.

Nestled in a quiet village, Yíshè at Atrium House reimagines Chinese courtyard houses to create a collection of brick-clad pavilions surrounding a peaceful reflective pool. Multi-functional pavilions house different cultural and wellness amenities, linked by a timber tea salon which overlooks calming landscape. Organized with the aes...

83 Freight

Smith Gee Studio

Situated on the site of an existing sinkhole and construction spoils, 83 Freight brings a modern, sustainable living option to a historically industrial neighborhood. As the largest residential shipping container project in North America, the design aimed at providing a bold and distinctive housing solution for the growing maker and ar...

Dan Mo

CHEN-WAI Architecture Integrated Design Co.,Ltd.

To offer owners to live in tranquility and create a vibrant living environment are the primary intents of the building. An environment can influence one’s emotion which affects daily decisions. Thus, to create a place that gives the life emotions is always the content that the designer wants to express. This project is a retirement l...

KAMPUS

Mecanoo

KAMPUS is a new neighbourhood located at the former Manchester Metropolitan University campus in the heart of the city. Utilising the qualities of the existing built structures – Victorian brick canal-side warehouses and the 1964 concrete tower – presents the opportunity to develop at the city block scale, creating new connections and ...

Lancer Square

Squire & Partners

Lancer Square is a 13,600 sqm mixed-use development comprising four blocks with fifty-one 1-4 bedroom private and affordable residential apartments, leisure, ground floor retail and cafes, a new office building and the introduction of a landscaped public courtyard. Completed in 2021, the development is a contemporary interpretation o...

Siljangade – Co-working & co-living in Copenhagen

Juul Frost Architects

Siljangade is an example of Urban Acupuncture: The architecture adds new energy to the area and contributes to the positive development of the district. Juul Frost Architects have transformed the the former book distribution center into a creative environment for small, local companies, start-ups and entrepreneurs. A place that offers ...

9th Avenue Parkade + Innovation Centre

5468796 Architecture + Kasian Architecture, Interior Design and Planning

As dependence on car ownership is challenged by the growth of ride sharing services, industry-related projects must optimize their elasticity for future programming. The brief required a 510-stall parking garage that could support future conversion into office, light industrial, or residential use – in stages or as a whole – if and whe...

Haida Parking Building, Hangzhou

UAD

Completion date: 2020.07.31 Size of project: 28, 860㎡ Without unnecessary architectural expressions, the project features a floating form, open and rhythmic facades, as well as linear lighting arrangement. Ecological plants are brought in. In this way, the parking building reveals automobile industrial aesthetics, with enhanced visual...

One Deira

AE7

Deira is one of the oldest communities in Dubai, rich in tradition and culture. It is also one of the region’s most important economic hubs, a place where the city’s success was born and continues to grow. The Deira Waterfront Development was planned intelligently and with sensitivity to address the unique cultural values and heritage ...

Art Center of Aranya, Jinshanling

Atelier Archmixing/ZHUANG Shen, REN Hao, TANG Yu, ZHU Jie

Art Center of Aranya, Jinshanling Date：2018-2021 Size：875sqm State: Completed Client: Chengde Aranya A big roof covers fifteen brick pavilions to form a grand brick pavilion, standing at the peak entrance corner for a boutique community. Small in size, but warm and high, like a lighthouse, it guides the residences back home after...

Guangming Public Service Platform

Zhubo Design

The project is located in Guangming High-tech Park, Shenzhen, China. The first phase has a total construction area of 81,200 square meters. It is a solemn, green, modest, modern, and close to the public government office building. The overall image of the building is like an ark riding the wind and waves, floating on the hilly terrai...

Humaniti

Lemay

The Humaniti complex in Montreal absorbs and contributes to the energy and aesthetics of its surroundings. Designed from the outside-in, the unique H-shaped structure reflects the richness and diversity of the urban life around it. As its city’s first smart vertical community, this mixed-use project features a luxury hotel, condo and r...

IDEAREVE IKEGAMI

RYUICHI SASAKI ARCHITECTURE

The project site is located at the foot of Ikegami Honmonji temple, well known for its five-story pagoda in Tokyo. At the foot of the site, the town around the elevated temple flourishes in its act of revitalisation with smaller temples, cafes, stores, and a plan for a facility in which the residents of the area may present, create, pr...

Infinitus Plaza

Zaha Hadid Architects

Infinitus Plaza is the new global headquarters of Infinitus China. Incorporating work environments designed to nurture collaboration and includes the group’s herbal medicine research labs with learning centre. Located adjacent to Feixiang Park station on Line 2 of the Guangzhou Metro, Infinitus Plaza straddles the metro’s sub-surface ...

“SHIZIKOU” Relics Environmental Conservation and Extension

Lacime Architects

The project emerges from the ruins of “SHIZIKOU (Lion Mouth)” Prison — once one of the three major prisons in the republic of China — preserving the original ambiance of Suzhou Ancient City. What remains today from the structure, is an office building and a section of the prison wall, that over the years, gradually peels its paint, lea...

Eleftheria Square

Zaha Hadid Architects

Eleftheria Square weaves together Nicosia’s rich history with an unwavering optimism for the future. Establishing the square as the city’s primary gathering space, the design creates new connections intended to unite a divided capital. Nicosia’s historic Venetian fortifications separate the old city from its modern districts, while the...

Harvard University District Energy Facility

Leers Weinzapfel Associates

The District Energy Facility (DEF) client brief required a state-of-the-art, cost effective, resilient, and sustainable energy generation system for Harvard University’s Allston campus. Resiliency, flexibility, and innovation were key goals for the design to transition to a fossil-fuel-free future, withstand climate impacts including s...

Shenzhen Buji Water Park Landscape Design

Shenzhen Hope Design Co.,Ltd.

An Innovative park combining rooftop of an industrial building, community social park function, environmental enhancement, and green infrastructure technologies. Solutions for the Rooftop Limitations Two newly-built platforms connect the park with the surrounding area; the expansion joints are "hidden" under the paving and green spa...

Shenzhen Civil Code Park

PMA (PolyMorphArchitects)

The 16.8-hectare urban park is located in Fucheng Street, Longhua District, Shenzhen and is firstly opened on 7th January, 2021. The clients of this projet are Longhua District People’s Government, Shenzhen Longhua District Government and Longhua District Urban Management Bureau，Justice Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality, China Resource (...

Tank Park

LandLAB

Eke Panuku commissioned LandLAB in 2018 (completed 2022) to develop a design concept for the 3000m2 Tank Park site, which was occupied by 30 stainless steel bulk liquid tanks. The site was experientially rich in its existing state but unfit for public use. Our design approach proposed 'editing' the dense array of Tanks into several ...

The Park within Elephant Park

Gillespies

The Park is the centrepiece of Elephant Park, the landmark revitalisation of Elephant & Castle by Lendlease and Southwark Council, setting new benchmarks in urban living. The overall development aims to be net zero carbon in operation by 2025. At two-acres, it’s an inclusive and sustainable community space featuring expansive lawns, ...

ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Olson Kundig

ANOHA—The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin is inspired by both ancient and contemporary flood stories to help visitors understand issues related to contemporary climate change. Through exhibits utilizing imagination and play, the museum provides their guests with a sense of hope and possibility in the face of global issues ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

Mecanoo

After a three-year transformation by Mecanoo, working in collaboration with OTJ Architects, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (MLKL) has re-opened in Washington D.C.. The library, which opened in 1972, is reborn as a contemporary lifelong-learning hub which reaches out to all communities. It was the only library designed by L...

Ordrupgaard Museum - Snøhetta Extension

Snøhetta

Situated near Jægersborg Dyrehave, north of Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard houses Northern Europe’s most comprehensive collection of French and Danish art from the 19th and early 20th century. Originally built as a three-winged country mansion in the neo-classical style during World War I, the museum was expanded by a modern 1,150 m2 glass an...

Story of Gardening Museum

Stonewood Design

Hidden from view on the edge of a small woodland, the Story of Gardening Museum is a space of calm serenity that celebrates the historic Somerset landscape that surrounds it. From a distance, the only hint of a built structure is a balustrade that runs along the edge of the museum’s grassed roof, where deer and other wildlife roam f...

TAG Art Museum

Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Located at Qingdao China, TAG Art Museum, was open in 2021. Covering building area of 17,000 square meters, it’s composed of 12 exhibition halls built along the sea. Considering the local architectural characteristics client entrusted the architect to continue the urban architectural context, and express and strengthen the artistic a...

The Burke Museum

Olson Kundig

The Burke Museum cares for over 16 million artifacts and specimens from throughout the Pacific and Coast Salish region, ranging from totem poles and gemstones to fossils. The Burke seeks to help all visitors understand the connections between the natural world and cultural heritage. Revising the guest experience of its previous build...

Xu Wei Art Museum and Green Vine Square

UAD-ACRC

The project is positioned as public art space in community, being a crucial design practice in the urban renewal plan of Shaoxing Ancient City. Robust granite walls, extended glazing, herringbone slope roofs and rising drama stage complete the cultural ensemble, which emerges as a new public landmark for the city. Drawing inspiration...

BAFTA Headquarter

Benedetti Architects

Comprehensive expansion and re-design of BAFTA’s grade II Listed headquarters at 195 Piccadilly. Collaboratively bold/sensitive heritage approach creating a new top floor by raising/restoring two huge Victorian rooflight structures & decorative plaster considered ‘lost’ 40+ years from original 1883 Royal Institute of Painters in Water ...

Goulburn Performing Arts Centre (GPAC)

Brewster Hjorth Architects

Goulburn (1833) was Australia’s first inland City, about 200km from Sydney. The GPAC project provides the city’s first purpose designed theatre. It is located on the very tight historic site behind the 1887 Town Hall on the main street. The site has been home to the colony’s first inland gaol, fire brigade, and later the first Town H...

Nouvelle Comédie de Genève Theater

FRES ARCHITECTES > Laurent Gravier + Sara Martín Cámara

Much more than a theater! It is first and foremost a public building, a facility intended to be open to the population of Geneva and the entire agglomeration. But the building for the Nouvelle Comédie de Genève is also and above all a strong idea, a cultural project, a vision of society. It is even, dare we say it, a manifesto. This th...

Dongpo Academy

XAA

The Meishan city, which is close to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, enjoys a long humanity history. The library is located in the Culture Park along the Minjiang River. Su Shi, the famous poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, is the representative of the ancient and modern recognized as the local spokesman. The Dongpo Academy na...

Minneapolis Public Service Building

Henning Larsen with MSR Design

The historic, granite buildings that make up Minneapolis’s Government District offer a stately yet opaque architectural vision of civic duty, engagement, and transparency. The new Minneapolis Public Service building offers a contemporary alternative. Developed in close partnership with the City of Minneapolis and public advocates, the ...

Public Service Center in Qingshui Village

ANT ARCH

The project is located in Qingshui Village, Pingshang Town, Xinshao County, Hunan Province. Qingshui is a typical underdeveloped village. The project goal is to gain economic benefits by attracting tourists, and to improve the village environment. During the overall process, the design team adhered to the principle of avoiding large-...

RHS Hilltop – The Home of Gardening Science

WilkinsonEyre

The RHS Hilltop – The Home of Gardening Science, is the UK’s first dedicated gardening science hub. It was commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society for their Wisley site in Surrey and opened in June of 2021. The key client brief was to safeguard the RHS plant and library collections, improve science research and laboratory facil...

Singapore State Courts

Serie + Multiply with CPG Consultants

Law courts are typically designed in a conservative manner due to circulation requirements that keep judges, persons-in-custody, and the public separate. In contrast, the new Singapore State Courts towers are designed to be highly open and visible. This is achieved by two architectural strategies. First, the building is split into two...

The Chamber Church

BUZZ/Büro Ziyu Zhuang

The Chamber Church aims to create a spatial container that both respects the past and looks towards the future. It shall provide a religious experience and secular touch. Looking backwards we find the archetypes of architectural associations in history. The design echoes the memories associated with them, but interprets them in a timel...

10³ Boutique Hotel

LQS Architects

10³ Boutique Hotel got its name from the size of common rural homestead in China, which is usually a volume of 10*10*10m, 10³. For this project, the design team intended to break the stereotype of common homesteads by adopting a geometric shape, thus promoting diversity of house design. The project is located in Maoyang Town on the c...

The Unbound Collection by Hyatt

BUZZ/Büro Ziyu Zhuang

The project is adjacent to an urban green space consisting of the Tomb of the King of Boni, Tianlong Temple and Yuhuatai Park in the west. Before the project was commissioned to us, the two guest room buildings had been constructed for a long time according to the original design. The plan opens as a "C" shape to the west. By removing ...

405 Bourke Street

Woods Bagot

405 Bourke Street is a luminous addition to an iconic Melbourne street. Known as ‘the lantern’ its softly glowing façade visually activates the urban fabric by creating an inviting landmark that adds character and a sense of simple elegance to a busy and bustling part of the city. Utilising a single technique of continuous ‘laminatio...

BEEAH Headquarters

Zaha Hadid Architects

Powered by its solar array and equipped with next-generation technologies for operations at LEED Platinum standards, the new BEEAH Headquarters has been designed to achieve net-zero with future-ready technologies for minimal energy consumption to serve as a blueprint for tomorrow’s smart, sustainable cities. With their twin-pillared ...

Center for Novel Therapeutics

Perkins&Will

The project was founded by two faculty members at UCSD in order to create synergies between academic and private sector researchers and the first academic-industry incubator site in San Diego. To accomplish this, the project inverted the traditional laboratory design –pushing the laboratories to the outside of the building and placing ...

Sunshine Financial Center

Woods Bagot

Located in the core area of Beijing CBD, the 120,000sqm Sunshine Financial Center tower meets the ground as a square, but morphs gradually into an ellipse as it ascends skyward, twisting and tapering on the way up. The architects selected its tapering form for functional, aesthetic, and symbolic reasons. Functionally, the 45% rotation ...

Texas Tower

Pelli Clarke & Partners

Texas Tower revitalizes a Downtown Houston neighborhood. The forty-seven-story tower is designed specifically with the tenant experience in mind to create an energizing and creative environment for a live, work, play lifestyle. The 1.2-million-square-foot tower was focused on two primary goals. The first was to maximize opportunitie...

The Department Store Studios

Squire & Partners

In 2021 Squire & Partners developed The Department Store Studios, a four-storey contemporary workspace building adjacent to its award-winning refurbishment of The Department Store as the next phase of its investment in Brixton. Providing 13,000sqft of workspace, the development creates a platform for growing businesses with flexible...

The Ridge: Portswood Precinct, V&A Waterfront, cape Town, South Africa

StudioMAS

The Ridge is an 8,500m2 6-star GBCSA rated commercial head office building situated in the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. This innovative development was conceived with the vision to establish new benchmarks for sustainable office buildings in South Africa. The design involved a close collaborative process between the client, architect a...

Huzhou Central Hospital

Perkins&Will

The concept of ’healing with nature’ is at the core of Huzhou Central Hospital’s design philosophy. With an inpatient ward of 1,500 beds and an outpatient capacity of 6,000 patients per day, the concept breaks through the conventional approaches of large-scale Chinese healthcare design. From the lush, park-like campus, to the openness ...

New City Medical Plaza

CRAFT Arquitectos

New City Medical Plaza is conceived as the first mixed health complex that meets all the needs of this market in one place. Its medical tower offers clinics of different specialties, operating rooms, rehabilitation spas, medical offices and alternative medicine centers in world-class professional facilities with superior care, cutting-...

Pavilion, University of Pennsylvania

PennFIRST (Foster + Partners, HDR, engineers BR+A, and LF Driscoll, Balfour Beatty and Penn Medicine)

The Pavilion for the University of Pennsylvania Health System is a state-of-the-art inpatient facility designed by the PennFIRST integrated project delivery team (IPD) with Foster + Partners, HDR, engineers BR+A, and LF Driscoll, Balfour Beatty and Penn Medicine. The Pavilion serves as a new institutional and architectural icon for Pen...

Taikang Community Shen Garden

GN Architects

Located at Hunnan District, Shenyang City, Shen Garden Community Center can provide public services related to the elderly for 6 apartments and 1 medical building in the whole block. The design is in full response to the severe cold climate of the project site. A natural and interesting "forest" is built by means of space shaping. As ...

The Grafton Way Building, University College London Hospital

Scott Tallon Walker Architects in association with Edward Williams Architects

The vision for the new University College Hospital London, Grafton Way Building was to create a world class, modern, safe & responsive centre of excellence which facilitates better outcomes and an improved environment for patients, visitors & staﬀ. This new building enhances UCLHs’ capability to provide cutting-edge, first-in-class can...

The Pears Building, Institute of Immunity & Transplantation

Hopkins Architects

The Pears Building is a state of the art facility which accommodates the UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, offices for the Royal Free Charity, and a new 35-bed Patient Hotel . One of only 5 specialist immunology centres in the world, and the only one outside of America, the Pears Building provides a world-class research or...

Deakin Law School Building

Woods Bagot

Deakin Law School Building introduces a sculptural and coiled learning environment to reconcile the university’s splintered Burwood Campus in Melbourne. Creating a beacon and gateway to the Elgar Road Precinct the building provides a point of orientation, wayfinding, and enhanced campus experience. Deakin Law School delivers five le...

Eastern Washington University, Pence Union Building

Perkins&Will

For nearly 50 years, the Pence Union Building (PUB) stood as an awkward and unappreciated union. Previously called one of the 20 “most appalling excuses for architecture on college campuses” by MSNBC, the original 1970 PUB was aptly described by students as “dark”, “confusing”, and “maze-like,” and well in need of an upgrade. With enro...

PEABODY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

SGA

In September 2018 SGA ‘broke ground’ on 71,000 SF of renovations and additions for the Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. Partnered with local Nashville firm and ‘Architect of Record’ Centric Architecture, SGA’s Higher Ed Group lead the process as ‘Design Architect’. Working closely with Peabody College’s administra...

Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus Phase 2A

Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc. in joint venture with Moriyama & Teshima Architects

How do you create a sense of place in a suburban setting? The Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus Phase 2A (HMC2A) project presents an innovative solution to this question. Located in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, the HMC2A is an important addition to the growing downtown core and an integral component of the expanding college...

Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing Arts

Mark Cavagnero Associates

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Bowes Center is a dynamic social and cultural destination that melds musical education, performance, and public experience. The new building is designed as a “vertical campus” that incorporates housing, dining, classrooms, rehearsal rooms, performances spaces, faculty offices, and a radio stati...

Hangzhou Olympic Sports Experimental Primary School & Kindergarten

UAD

Completion date: May 5, 2020 Size of project: 94,150 square meters Many adverse factors are resolved by the unique spatial layout. On the premise of fulfilling basic functions, the design introduces a new spatial dimension to create a “dream stage” where children can grow up happily. Administration center, teaching center and sports ...

Kindergarten of Museum Forest

Yunchao Xu/Atelier Apeiron/SZAD

This is a kindergarten reconstruction and expansion project, located in the first residential community built in Shenzhen in the 1980s. On the north side of the base is a preserved old building with a very irregular outline on the south side and very close to the housing. Rather than following the traditional matrix layout, we devel...

Lotus Terrace Kindergarten

Yunchao Xu/Atelier Apeiron/SZAD

The site is located on an irregular plot in Lotus Village, facing the main road in the east and surrounded by high-density residential buildings on the other three sides. For a kindergarten of 12 classes, the site is too tight to accommodate a playground with a 200-meter runway. First, we transformed the entire site plan into a three-d...

Mount Si High School

NAC Architecture

Located in the flood-prone Snoqualmie River valley, Mount Si High School is a beacon of resilience. The physically elevated campus creates a wealth of opportunities – educationally and experientially – in a future-oriented learning environment. Seven connected school buildings are composed on a created ground plane lifted above the nat...

OM Nursery

HIBINOSEKKEI+Youji no Shiro

In this project,We recognise one of the issues faced by children is lack of physical, and aimed to create a school building where children can play very actively regardless of the weather, and where physical play becomes a habit. ●Client:The company operates several welfare facilities rooted in the local community, including a former p...

SCA Nursery

HIBINOSEKKEI+FUKUSHIKEN＋KIDS DESIGN LABO

It is the first building in Tokyo to provide comprehensive support, consisting of child development support, nursery, pediatric medical care, and consultation support. Child development support is generally set up separately from nurseries, and children attending nurseries do not have the opportunity to learn about disabilities. Based...

The Hamlin School

Mark Cavagnero Associates

The Hamlin School, a K-8 school in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, has focused on their mission of educating girls to “meet the challenges of their time”* for over 127 years. Comprised of 3 separate buildings stepping 65 feet down a steep hillside, the campus suffered from profound circulation challenges. Construc...

Future Projects - Civic

Chengdu Museum of Natural History

Pelli Clarke & Partners

A celebration of Chengdu’s modern ethos and historical legacy, the 50,000-square-meter Chengdu Museum of Natural History will transform the city’s skyline and symbolize its innovative spirit. The museum will be a preeminent institution for science and culture when it opens in Fall 2022, welcoming visitors from around the world with exp...

Human Convergence

Form4 Architecture

Human Convergence is an architectural invitation to congregate, open-ended and inherently inclusive of the multicultural texture of global society as it stands. Its transformational presence is a confident gesture broadcasting to the world Silicon Valley's paramount role in harnessing human talent under enlightened entrepreneurship. ...

Intertwined Eternities

Form4 Architecture

The design for a Columbarium at St Johns Episcopal Church starts with the concept that life is a journey, a pathway, a collection of moments. In this journey life reveals itself slowly and at its own pace.This journey is rarely linear ... your approach starts with a low wall that gently arcs, gracefully rising to invite you in. Warm st...

Leidarhofdi Community Center

sastudio + hjark + landmotun

The winning design challenges the current planning for private housing, considering the population desire for a new centrality in this unique location. It is thus proposed a community hall, a public structure that can accommodate several functions and activate outdoor activities. The building rises gently from the ground towards the ...

Pentre Awel

Arup

Pentre Awel is a pioneering development by Carmarthenshire Council which will provide world-class medical research and community healthcare delivery together with business incubation for life sciences businesses, higher education for healthcare professionals and wet and dry leisure facilities open to the whole community. The project’s ...

Zhuhai Culture and Art Center (Yinkeng Peninsula)

Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University

Yinkeng Peninsula is one of the major urban spaces that Zhuhai has made great efforts to highlight its cultural charm. With a total site area of 353,600 square meters, it features a 63,800-square meter Culture and Art Center, a 500-room business hotel and seaside commercial facilities. The master plan responses the natural terrain b...

10 World Trade

Sasaki

A new 17-story lab/research and development building offering class A office space is going up in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood, a tech hub now rivaling Cambridge’s Kendall Square. 10 World Trade is a public-realm centered development that reinvigorates the design of movement corridors within the Seaport District. The Sasaki-designed...

585 Third Street

CBT

A super-hybrid building where science and art converge, 585 Third brings nature, performance, music, community, and life sciences together in the heart of Kendall Square. The first three levels feature multiple public functions: a 380-seat theater, winter garden, retail, multi-function space, and lounges. Upper levels house 500,000 sf ...

Ge Garden-GeTui Headquarters

LYCS Architecture

GeTui is a professional data intelligent service provider that uses data technology as an engine to provide big data solutions for various industries. Based on the technical concept of massive data accumulation and innovation in the field of mobile internet, GeTui is the first to realize the application of data intelligence in multi-ec...

Space House

Squire & Partners

Squire & Partners is sensitively refurbishing and extending the iconic Grade II-listed Space House in Camden to create 255,000sqft of high-quality workspace with ground floor flexible retail space and improved public realm for Seaforth Land. The revitalisation of the landmark will preserve and enhance it, allowing people to work and so...

Taikoo Green Ribbon

Arup

Taikoo Green Ribbon – Winner of the Future Building category, Advancing Net Zero Ideas Competition 2021 Taikoo Green Ribbon was a recent top award winner for the Future Building category at the first-ever Advancing Net Zero Ideas Competition organized by the Hong Kong Green Building Council with Swire Properties as the Principal Par...

Transamerica

Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners has been appointed by SHVO, the luxury real estate development and investment firm, to revitalize the iconic Transamerica Pyramid Center in San Francisco. The biggest renovation in the building’s 50-year history, this redevelopment seeks to give a new lease of life to one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks and ...

Verdant Sanctuary

Form4 Architecture

Verdant Sanctuary expresses its embrace of nature through each design element: its natural setting, its choice of material—it is almost entirely made of wood and glass, its dramatic roof design that echoes the shape of a bird's wings. There is a dynamic flow to these forms that pulls you along, giving you the feeling of an organic whol...

Kindergarten of ECNU Tonglu School

UAD

Completion date: 2024.6.1 size of project: 8,878 square meters Situated on the southwest of Tonglu County, Hangzhou, the kindergarten is a part of ECNU Tonglu School. It encompasses 3 toddler care classes and 15 general nursery classes. The kindergarten adjoins the Phase Ⅰ constructions across the Baiyunyuan Road on the northwest side...

Shenzhen Longhua Qingquan Foreign Language Junior School

Yijing Architectural Design Co.,Ltd

The school is locate at Longhua, Shenzhen.in a modern city with rapid development, scarce land, and a rapidly growing population, campus functions are provided while people’s spiritual pursuits and aesthetic taste of connecting with nature are ignored. Therefore, we hope to think outside the box of conventional architectural styles and...

Woodland Wonders Preschool

Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Nestled within the 120-acre tract of the Kreher Preserve, the new preschool facility promotes wonder and exploration of the natural world and cultivates a sense of stewardship toward our community and environment. Inspired by nature-based learning that children experience and imagined as an extension of the network of trails throughout...

Guanhu Art-Culture-Sports Center

dS Atelier + TsingHua-Yuan Archi. & Planning Design and Research Ltd. S.Z. (LDI)

This new sports and culture center is built on the site of the former community sports center, which is located at the key node of the riverside green corridor of Guanlan River. Our target is exploring how a massive art-cultural-sport complex can be subtly integrated into the existing urban fabric while preserving its own characteristi...

Observation Tower in Liyang

UAD

Completion date: 2022.10.01 Size of project: 1482 sqm China has over 30,000 kilometers of high-speed railroad, and nearly 70% of the length is parallel to local highway. How should we develop the narrow enclave space between the two? It has become a planning problem for local government and a design challenge for us. In 2022, the ci...

See Sound Tower

Atelier Archmixing/ZHUANG Shen, REN Hao, TANG Yu, ZHU Jie

See Sound Tower Date: 06/2021 Size: 359.6sqm State: Schematic Design Client: Liyang City Administration Bureau See Sound Tower is an installation for grasping and transforming energies, made up of four vast auditory 'organs', through which, people travel, climbing up and down, searching for particular sounds and discovering view...

Soccer Arena of Huanghe Sports Centre

HPP+BIAD

As a heart of the sports complex covering an area of 63.28 ha, the Soccer Arena has a GFA of 274,900m² and 61,000 seats, and expected to be completed at the end of 2024 as the first professional soccer arena in Jinan. It will also be one of the first arenas in China for FCWC (FIFA Club World Cup). Viewed from afar, the soccer arena l...

The Cathedral

Populous

Inspired by two of the city’s most iconic buildings, the Duomo and the Galleria, The Cathedral will create a new landmark for Milan. The design employs cutting-edge technology and the latest in sustainable design practices, with an incredibly tight and atmospheric seating bowl that will be the most intimate in Europe, bringing fans clo...

Urban Renewal and Tansformation of Weihai Old Port

ARCHITECTURA DESIGN & RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY CO., LTD

Built in 1918，Weihai Port was the first commercial port in the city of Weihai, a famous coastal defense fortress in China. After almost a hundred years of changes, in 2013, the Port was moved to its new location, leaving the former site idled.In few years, building a “refined city” and renewing the central old town have been enormously...

Airport City Jeddah

Chapman Taylor

Airport City is a 1.91 million m² GBA masterplan development adjacent to Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport. Airport City introduces an innovative complete mixed-use community concept to the region, creating diverse tourism and business opportunities while also providing a venue for the local community to enjoy family and le...

Changshu Low Carbon Digipark

Broadway Malyan

The vision of this national key project is to establish a green and open park that integrates with the nearby city with a 'molecular' design that creates a unique smart ecosystem that can satisfy the operation of large companies and innovative start-ups and allow them to collaborate, innovate together, complement each other's advantage...

Golden Leaf Gardens

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Golden Leaf Gardens was designed as the center of the new Zhenru CBD, an innovation cluster in the historic Zhenru Region and the larger Putuo District in Shanghai. The design weaves together residential, commercial, and public outdoor spaces to create a sustainable next-generation, mixed-use development. As we look to the future of ...

IW09

5468796 Architecture

IW09, also known as RNDSQR Block, is an iconic mixed use project, woven carefully into the existing neighbourhood of Inglewood, Calgary. Prominently placed, it enhances urban life through a series of new exterior amenities while achieving density of use through 24/7/365 commercial, office, and residential programs. The existing 2-3 sto...

Pangong Riverside Ecological Business District (Panggong EBD)

WILCOTER x KCAP

Of Xiangyang’s four new districts, the Panggong Economic Business District (EBD) is considered to be the most promising. Aiming to become a role model for future, low carbon (neutral) cities KCAP and WILCOTER aim to protect and maintain the rich cultural and ecological assets by applying the ‘wedding cake principle’. Serving as a desig...

Shougang Park Urban Weaving District

Lead8

Shougang Park Urban Weaving District is a high-profile mixed-use urban regeneration masterplan that will form a gateway to welcome visitors to the 2022 Winter Olympics site in Beijing. The masterplan forms part of a significant rejuvenation undertaking in Beijing as the site transforms a 100-year-old Capital Steel Factory Park into ...

180 Steeles

CORE Architects Inc.

The total development is 161,391 square meters our design will have six towers and their associated five and 9-storey podiums The heart of the project is a tree-lined boulevard consisting of a 20-meter-wide right-of-way, with a 9-meter carriageway running down the middle sharing space. The two flanking buildings closest to the main r...

Durham Modular Supportive Housing

Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc.

The Durham Modular Supportive Housing project provides much-needed housing and social service supports to those experiencing homelessness in the rural community of Beaverton. The new facilities transform a vacant site into a place of hope and dignity, communicating that everyone in society should and can have access to an engaging plac...

Hamilton Passive House Modular Housing

Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc.

253 King William Street is a new affordable rental housing development in the heart of downtown Hamilton. It will sit on the site of a former surface parking lot between a church and multi-unit residence and is designed in deference to its neighbours with a similar set back, height and roof-line. The building is a three-storey modular ...

Weill Cornell Medicine New Student Residence

Perkins&Will

This project is a 170,000 GSF new student residence for Weill Cornell Medicine located at the corner of York Avenue and 74th Street in New York City, anchoring the northern end of its urban campus. The building provides 250 student beds across a mix of unit types, student living room / gathering spaces, a fitness center, gymnasium / ev...

Floral Farms Park

HKS, Inc

The story of this project is one of reclamation. It’s not just about the replacing an illegal dumping site, where a mountain of shingles grew to be six-stories tall in a residential neighborhood call Floral Farms— it’s about reclaiming the neighborhood’s identity as a vibrant, idyllic agricultural neighborhood. The Dallas neighborhoo...

Fox Park

Tryba Architects

Fox Park is a 41-acre urban landscape providing a diversity of experiences that fully immerse the cityscape with nature. Interconnected parks and open space integrate culture, community and innovation in a formerly industrial area near Downtown Denver at the crossroads of two major interstate highways. Terraced into an existing hillsid...

Guangzhou Yangtian Substation 220 kv

Benoy Limited

While electric substations provide essential infrastructure to any neighborhood, they are rarely welcomed or appreciated. Our goal was to change this relationship between the local community and their substation. To truly integrate this infrastructure into its urban and social context. On the site, we were walking around between...

Place des Montréalaises

Lemay + Angela Silver + SNC-Lavalin

The Place des Montréalaises is an evocative public space that will symbolically honour the women of Montreal: 21 women who have experienced great struggles and made great strides for both the past and the future of Montreal will be celebrated. The transdisciplinary project aligns with the city’s ongoing initiative for greater recogniti...

Sacramento Valley Station Area Plan

Perkins&Will

The Sacramento Valley Station Area Plan is a bold vision to transform the city's historic train station and the surrounding 31-acre car-dominated area into a regenerative and inclusive Transit-Oriented Development. As a gateway to the City of Sacramento, Capital of the State of California, the plan delivers a people-centric civic desti...

The Forestias

Foster + Partners

The Forestias is a new residential-led masterplan with a large forest at its heart located on the outskirts of Bangkok. The pioneering development addresses the growing disconnect between contemporary city life and family traditions, underpinned by the idea of health and wellbeing. It focusses on the themes of serving the community, pr...

Adaptive Reuse

BAFTA Headquarter

Benedetti Architects

Exhibit Staging Center

FortyEighty Architecture

For decades, a dilapidated concrete block building sat on Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens’ lush urban campus. With block walls and no windows, the 1960s structure was not the kind anyone would associate with sustainable design. In 2019, Phipps opened an adaptive reuse of this building as the Exhibit Staging Center (ESC) with ...

Flowing Cloud Township Villa

More Design Office More Design Office

Flowing Cloud Township Villa is located in Qinglongwu，a centennial village in Tonglu County,Hangzhou,which is composed of 4 ancestral houses of different ages and 2 new buildings. MDO’s has created a new rural retreat which celebrates local culture and tradition through the sensitive renovation of the old structures, using local tech...

The British School of Amsterdam

Atelier PRO architects

A vacant former Prison has been transformed into a school building, commissioned by The British School of Amsterdam in 2021. The new accommodation of the British School of Amsterdam is now a place that students, staff and parents love to visit. The result was achieved through a collaboration between Atelier PRO Architects and Van Hooge...

TIC ART CENTER

DOMANI Architectural concepts

TIC Art Center scope of this project covered landscape, architecture, interior, and products, bringing together the innovation of structure and form, aiming to provide a comprehensive yet rhythmic spatial experience with a systematic scale. The design emphasized the unity of logic through every stage from the form of architecture to it...

Wuhan SUNAC 1890-Hanyang Iron Works Renovation

Lacime Architects

The project has been included in the national industrial heritage list. The protection and reuse of industrial sites in the factory area present the national industry development and modern industrial culture elements of the city. In this area, there are two workshop buildings; an oxygen production workshop classified as a Grade ΙΙ lis...

AM41

Dewan Architects + Engineers

Refurbishment of a hospital into a residential apartment building, located in the center of the Eixample district in Barcelona, an area full of architecturally diverse buildings. The number 41 in Ausias March dates from 1895. The apartments’ sizes are between 64 square meters and 232 square meters, and they allocate 1 to 3 bedrooms. Th...

GLOBAL SUNAC FUTURE CITY Exhibition Center

Shanghai Puspace Architectural Design Co.

Completion date：2020.11.25 Size of project：4000㎡ The project aims to build a spiritual land with elements of squares and circles. Though the building volumes appear square, they're composed of many round structures that interweave with each other. With grey as the base tone, the building facades are highlighted by red and blue hues. I...

Ice Cube -XinXiang Cultural Tourism Center

Beijing PRO Lighting Design Co., Ltd.

This is a contextual building designed by Zone of Utopia Qiang ZOU and Mathieu Forest architecte. 9 "ice cubes" are superposed and offset from each other , twisting and staggering, forming a complex and dynamic volume, expressing the theme of ice and snow leisure sports in the cultural tourism city. With the use of light and color, the...

National Forensic Mental Hospital, Portrane

Scott Tallon Walker Architects in association with Medical Architecture

This new hospital replaces the existing Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum, Dublin. Located on a 10-hectare woodland site north of Dublin City, the 25,000m2 campus will accommodate 170 high, medium and low secure beds. Designed to provide a safe, secure and healing environment that contributes to patient`s recovery, buildings are st...

RSBC (Royal Society for Blind Children) Life Without Limits Centre

EPR Architects

EPR Architects is proud to support the Royal Society for Blind Children with their mission to empower young blind and partially sighted people to live independent and fulfilling lives. The UK’s first Life Without Limits Centre is a unique space for young blind and partially sighted people to meet, play and learn essential life skills...

AI Wasl Plaza

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

“We are honored to be recognized for the shortlist of the 2023 WAN Awards. We have participated with and supported the WAN Awards for over a decade and are always pleased to be identified amongst all the talented architects and innovative projects. We wish all the finalists the very best of luck!” – Gordon Gill, FAIA, Partner Adrian S...

China Overseas Building La Cite

Shanghai PTArchitects

When architecture is not only the building itself, but also the connection to the city, it can bring more possibilities to our life. China Overseas Building La Cite is located in the old city of Wuhan. The surrounding area has a profound cultural and historical heritage. As the city develops, the original building gradually loses its ...

Dream Box: Wuhan Optics Valley DAJA Center

9M Design

Located in Optics Valley, Wuhan, China, a large-scale optoelectronics industrial park, the project is the unique representation part of an ambitious integrated development programme. The site is planned to be a VR & Animation center, and is the main entrance of the L-shaped low-rise commercial street in the masterplan. Therefore, build...

GREENLAND HONGKONG · IF ALAN EXPERIENCE CENTER

Shanghai PTArchitects

Completion date：2021.2.10 Size of project：6615sqm The project explores a new relationship between the high-density city and living space, and seeks to balance fast-paced urban lifestyle and slow-paced leisure experience, so as to enable people to enjoy "vacation" within the city. The project adjoins Lake Tai tourist area, and is buil...

The Chamber Church

BUZZ/Büro Ziyu Zhuang

Westfield Mall of the Netherlands

MVSA Architects

The façade design of the Mall of the Netherlands features an unusually expressive and sculptural use of an everyday material: concrete. “Creating one identity” was the concept inspired by a silk scarf facade, draped smoothly over the body like a second skin. Just as a scarf can complete an outfit, our clean design connects the previou...

Abu Dhabi Climate Resilience Initiative

CBT

As global temperatures rise, the impacts of urban heat island are becoming increasingly dangerous. As one of the world’s hottest cities, Abu Dhabi faces this intensifying threat head on. The Abu Dhabi Climate Resilience Initiative is a citywide public realm improvement program focused on improving pedestrian thermal comfort levels in...

ANNA Stay Model 2022

ANNA

The ANNA Stay Model 2022 is not a cabin but a spaceship. A spaceship that brings you back to Planet Earth. It has two protective sliding shells that allow you to open up and become part of your surroundings instead of being merely a spectator. The inner shell is made of double glass, the outer shell is made of wood. By adjusting the tw...

Flower Field Bamboo Pavilion -- Urban Park Micro Renovation

Atelier cnS; School of Architecture, South China University of Technology

Project name: Flower Field Bamboo Pavilion– Urban Park MicroRenovation Clients: Government of Beijiao Town, Foshan City Completion date: 2021.05 Project location: Midea Street Beijiao Town,Shunde District, Foshan City Size of project:Flower Pavilion Site Area: 100 ㎡, Embrace Pavilion Site Area: 300 ㎡ Projects located in the cente...

MPavilion 2021 - The Lightcatcher

MAP studio

MPavilion is Australia’s leading architectural commission, created by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. Annually, a temporary pavilion designed by an esteemed architect, is erected in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. Over the summer, it hosts a program of free events, performances and installations to encourage design debate and cultura...

St Marys Studio

Paularcher Design

Old meets New with our bijou studio for a classical composer/musician. This new structure provides a space for work and creativity away from the main house. The small garden meant that any structure needed to be modest. Planning restrictions also meant that a full width studio was not going to be viable. In response we aimed to provide...

The Coast House

staceyfarrell.com

The Coast House is a small holiday house located on the rugged South Coast of New Zealand. The site faces North, gently descending to the dunes, with windswept trees inspiring the low, grounded form. The structure is bedded into the landscape, hunkering down from the harsh coastal weather. Materials and colours are deliberately pared b...

Eternity Life

k20 Architecture

Eternity Life is a new paradigm for apartment living, taking inspiration from the trees surrounding it, the development provides a sanctuary in the heart of a highly urbanised environment. Each apartment has been thoughtfully designed to allow for spacious living and mobility. Of the sixty-one units, fifteen were designed to accommod...

Fish-Joy Bamboo Pavilion of INBAR of 2021 Yangzhou Expo

SUP Atelier of THAD (Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University)

Fish-Joy Bamboo Pavilion of INBAR of 2021 Yangzhou Expo The Fish-Joy Bamboo Pavilion is the INBAR (International Bamboo and Rattan Organization) Pavilion for the 2021 Yangzhou Expo. It is an open pavilion with a floor area of approximately 280 square meters. During the Expo, it mainly conducts daily exhibitions and undertakes various a...

California Air Resources Board Southern California Headquarters, Mary D. Nichols Campus

ZGF

As the largest net-zero energy building in the world, California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) cutting-edge vehicle testing facility is a landmark example of California's climate policies in action. Aligning with their mission to protect public health and ecological resources through pollution reduction, CARB consolidated their five pre...

CASE NEL VERDE

PS_Architetture

"Case nel Verde" is a residential building, located in Apulia, in a degraded area, recovered through an urban regeneration project, of which the building is part. “Case nel Verde” develops research themes in the Mediterranean area. Experimentation with passive bioclimatic contributions, in summer, with natural ventilation system that ...

Powerhouse Brattørkaia

Snøhetta

The energy sector and building industry accounts for over 40 % of global industry’s heat-trapping emissions combined, according to the World Resources Institute. As the world’s population and the severity of the climate crisis continue to grow, we are challenged to think how to build responsibly – creating high quality spaces for peopl...

Eternity Life

k20 Architecture

Powerhouse Telemark

Snøhetta

The buildings and construction industry account for over 40% of global industry’s heat-trapping emissions combined. As the world’s population and the severity of the climate crisis continue to grow, precipitating global disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, architects are challenged to work across industries to build more responsi...

The Ridge: Portswood Precinct, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa

Studio MAS

Grand Avenue Park Bridge

LMN Architects

Elevating utilitarian infrastructure to a thoughtfully designed community asset, the Grand Avenue Park Bridge highlights the value of rethinking public realm design. The bridge transforms the Everett waterfront, establishing a new connection between the historical Grand Avenue Park and the city’s developing waterfront district. The n...

Theunis bridge

ZJA

With its dark pillars, its dazzling white towers with their open structures and its meticulous detailing, the new Theunis Bridge is a striking presence in the urban landscape of Antwerp, Belgium. The broad bicycle paths and footpaths hang like balconies on the outer sides of the bridge, giving cyclists and pedestrians the best views. C...

Timber Bridge in Gulou Waterfront

LUO studio

This project is a timber bridge, which is one of the many in Gulou Waterfront Resort. To differentiate it from urban constructions and revitalize traditional rural culture, the design team adopted natural wooden materials to construct an arched bridge. The plane of the bridge's roof is a complete rectangle. The top, left, right edges...

To be announced during the Awards

Yinchuan Sunac City Exhibition Center

Arch-Age-Design

The project was completed in June 2020 with a gross built area of 1,347.25㎡. The client hoped that the building integrates the traditional culture with regional characteristics of Yinchuan’s “Silk Road”, and serves as the city’s landmark. It functions as a sales center but later as a civil cultural center open to the city.The building ...

Central Park Tower

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

A beacon of glass and steel Central Park Tower is 472-meters-tall and certified as the world’s tallest residential building. Residences have gracious living and entertaining spaces that maximize citywide views from floor-to-ceiling windows. The residential program has 179 residences that range from one-to-four bedrooms to studio suites...

Glorieta Cibeles Tower

CIMET Arquitectos

The Glorieta Cibeles Tower is a complete up-cycle of a 1979 74m tall and slender 18 story office structure that had been abandoned and deemed unsafe after the historic 1985 and 2017 earthquakes. Completed in November 2021, and with close to 10800 built up sqm on a 617 sqm plot, the project is a unique example of innovation and an icon ...

Quay Quarter Tower

3XN

Quay Quarter Tower, located close to Sydney Opera House, eschews the conventions of a traditional, commercial high-rise and instead is arranged as a vertical village formed of community clusters that encourage interaction to activate the spaces and bring the building to life. The radical sustainability strategy for the building invol...

Concrete in Architecture

Eastern Creek Quarter Stage 1

i2C Architects

Easter Creek Quarter (ECQ) Neighbourhood Shopping Centre is the first stage of a 15-hectare retail development. It is a 6-star Green Star building, situated in the most culturally diverse suburb in Sydney, adjacent to Western Sydney Parklands. ECQ’s planning principle of “celebrating culture and nature” resonated on the masterplan and ...

Westfield Mall of the Netherlands

MVSA Architects

1 De Haro

Perkins&Will

1 De Haro is San Francisco’s first cross-laminated timber (CLT) building. Designed to evoke a jewel box, its wooden core is wrapped with a glimmering glass curtain wall that illuminates at night. 1 De Haro provides an attractive mix of office and light industrial space that is sustainable and marketable. 1 De Haro is designed to celebr...

Timber office building of bank CEBFC headquarter

GRAAM

The project responds to a desire for exemplarity, modularity and intelligence. The building is designed with a wooden structural skeleton, prefabricated concrete floors, an exo-wooden structure covered with a glass double skin. It is built 100% dry process (and offsite) and has 2579 m3 of wood, that is 2579 T of stored CO2. Built to a ...

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GN Architects

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