Architecture

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

Designer / Brand: FLÁVIO MELO FRANCO Work: Single Family Residence Tag: Architecture

AD House

AD House is a single family residence located in Teresina, Brazil, a region with a very warm climate. The house offers 495 square meters of constructed space on a site of 814 square meters. The ground floor holds the kitchen, garage, living and dining rooms and a patio, while the bedrooms are placed on the first floor. A communal space for gathering and rest is set on the rooftop. The walls are made of ceramic bricks, the structure of concrete and the roof of thermo-acoustic aluminum tiles. Charred wood screens and integrated green spaces reduce the heat indoors.

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Designer / Brand: Yoshiaki　Tanaka Work: Clinic Tag: Architecture

Playful Child Care

TSC Architects has designed a distinctive roof with three layers in three design strategies. The first is to gently wrap the patient. Next, the space is divided into infectious diseases and non-infectious diseases, and the space is designed to feel the wholeness. Finally, the light from the windows in the gaps in the roof illuminates the eaves ceiling, giving a glimpse of the activities inside. Surrounded by the warmth of wood and picture books, the atrium waiting room is a place where patients and children can be energetic while taking precautions against infection.

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Designer / Brand: Svetoslav Stanislavov Work: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Royal River

Royal River is a high rise 75 meters tall residential building, located in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. RR uses has several integrated technologies that makes it a contemporary residential building sustainable ventilation and air conditioning system, waste collection system, high speed elevators, maximized glazing for each apartment and tight structure core with compact emergency staircases that is helping a maximum usage of floor area. The facade system uses composite aluminum panels that allows it usage of freeform and easy and quick installation methods.

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Designer / Brand: Ghiath Al Masri Work: Residential Home Tag: Architecture

Abstract House

The residence utilizes a modern aesthetic while retaining a central courtyard, which evokes the traditional Kuwaiti practice in the building of houses. Here the residence is allowed to acknowledge both past and present, without clashing. The water feature at the steps of the main door sweeps outwards, the floor to ceiling glass helps keep the spaces more open, allowing the users to go between outside and inside, past and present, effortlessly.

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Designer / Brand: Rodrigo Kirck Work: Apartment Building Tag: Architecture

Atma

Atma is an apartment building designed for a coastal site in Itapema, Brazil. The building rises 19 floors to a height of 65 meters and contains 39 seasonal apartments within 6,919.19 square meters of built area. The structure is made of reinforced concrete, while the facade combines parametric panels with high technology frames and finishes. A triangular plan creates a prismatic volume that appears to change when seen from different angles. Flexible unit layouts allow each resident to adapt the interior space to personal needs.

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Designer / Brand: Alexandru Zingaliuc Work: Studio Tag: Architecture

Archizeit

Archizeit is an architecture office created through the renovation and extension of a single level house in the center of Chisinau, Moldova. The interior was reconfigured by removing some walls and adding new partitions, and a metal container was attached as an extension. The facade is covered with corten steel plates and a timber cladding screen. Wall finishes include exposed concrete, metal bar panels, river stones and brick. Large windows bring daylight inside and make the work spaces visible from the street. The building area is 107 square meters.

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Designer / Brand: REMAC TY Work: Hotel Tag: Architecture

Dajing Homestay

Dajing Homestay is a hotel built in Dajing Village, Shaoguan. The buildings face the streams and the old camphor trees, and also face the provincial highway, which makes the homestay visible and easy to reach. The buildings are arranged as an enclosed courtyard, following the basic structure of the village. Concrete, wood-like aluminum, glass and brick are used, so the new construction blends with the old village. The project covers 1914.57 square meters. The design aims to offer visitors a calm place among the mountains and forests.

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Designer / Brand: Haobo Wei & Jingsong Xie Work: Training Center Tag: Architecture

Qian'nan Fire Station

Qian'nan Fire Station is a fire and rescue building set in a mountainous area of karst peaks in Guizhou, China. The design follows the topography of the site, which is bordered by hills on three sides. Two grids of order arrange the plan into unit groups that form continuous courtyards, recalling the traditional settlements of the region. Offices, training areas and logistics spaces are joined in one complex. Red split brick and white stone express the professional character of fire and rescue, while skylights bring daylight into the interior.

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Designer / Brand: Paul Noritaka Tange Work: Building Tag: Architecture

Diamond Towers

Diamond Towers is a mixed-use development in Taipei. The complex consists of three towers rising above a commercial podium. A department store occupies the first to fourth floors, and residential areas are placed above. The commercial and residential entrances are separated to give each part a clear identity. The podium is clad in folded white granite panels and a media screen. The crystallized facade and the diamond shaped rooftop are lit at night. Green spaces are provided at street level, on the podium rooftop and on the residential terraces. The total area is 87880 square meters.

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Designer / Brand: Moriyuki Ochiai Architects Work: Residential Building Tag: Architecture

Geosong

They performed the design for a residential building located in a hilly area. Thus, they set out to integrate into their design the structure of the earth while echoing the natural forces shaping the hills, strata-soil, and spring water found therein. Resonating with the landscape of rolling hills, this residential building channels and gives form to the natural energy embedded in the multiple layers of intertwined strata and springs surrounding it.

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Designer / Brand: Easy Arch Work: Multi Functional Offices Tag: Architecture

Xinghua Community Center

Xinghua Community Center is a shared public building in a historic hutong district of Beijing. The renovation places many uses in one space, including offices, meeting areas, art and fitness activities, rest areas for older residents and shared tools. Low-cost local materials are used for the walls and floors, matching the color and texture of the hutong. High exterior windows were replaced with square windows inside the existing openings, saving cost and energy. The low windows link the interior with the street and can be seen through by children. The gross floor area is 380 square meters.

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Designer / Brand: Enota Work: Hotel Tag: Architecture

Maestoso

Maestoso is a hotel created through the renovation of an existing building from the 1970s. The design offers a sustainable approach to updating old hotel buildings that need a new character and new facilities. The main element is the facade structure, which supports the added balconies and blends the appearance of the building with the surrounding landscape. The facade was parametrically modeled and made from wooden beams shaped by CNC milling. Inside, the walls were brushed to reveal the rough concrete structure, and furnishing of wood and metal adds warmth.

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