Architecture

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

Designer / Brand: Renos Constantinou Work: Residential House Tag: Architecture

Villa Troy

Villa Troy is a private house located on the outskirts of greater Nicosia. The internal covered area is 340 square meters, and the home serves a family of four. Living spaces are arranged in an irregular L-shape among verandas and a garden. The open plan ground level holds the lounge, the living room and the dining room, which develop around a double height void at the vestibule. Stone cladding on the front wall recalls the walls of Troy, and five metal brackets recall ancient spears. The placement of the building supports natural ventilation and daylight.

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Designer / Brand: DENG GUANG-HUEI Work: Multiple Functions Tag: Architecture

Fulgent Cityscape

Fulgent Cityscape is a mixed-use building design that combines housing with a shopping mall. The concept is based on the numbers three and five. Three horizontal plates at the front extend into five streamlined structures. The form rises from the ground and reaches toward the skyline, ending in a spiral shape. Transparent glass links the interior and the exterior without altering the original structure. Metal baking varnish and plastic boards give a clean technical appearance. The proposal is set in an older urban area and is intended as a landmark for a science park.

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Designer / Brand: Bonz Or Man Lai Work: Place To Celebrate Life Tag: Architecture

Green Funeral Ceremony Center

Gather is a funeral ceremony center built in Sai Kung, Hong Kong. The building follows three stages of movement, named Leaving, Gathering and Connection. An exhibition space allows family and guests to view the deceased. A public atrium offers rest and reflection, with sunlight and tree shadows. A rooftop ash garden brings elements of nature to visitors. The structure combines human ashes with concrete, and recycled materials are used inside. The shapes recall two hands meeting. The intent is to ease grief and support social connection.

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Designer / Brand: Uds Ltd. Work: Hotel Tag: Architecture

Hamacho

Hamacho is a hotel located in Nihonbashi Hamacho, Tokyo, Japan. The building has 15 floors and one basement level, and the structure is reinforced concrete. The hotel occupies the front half of the building, while apartments are placed at the back. There are 170 guest rooms in total. The ground floor holds a restaurant and a shop that are open to the public. Board-formed concrete and plaster express local craftsmanship. Planting is stacked across the facade to form a vertical landscape and to reduce energy use. Lightweight artificial soil limits the load and controls root growth.

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

Elysium Residence

Elysium Residence, located in the south of Brazil, in the coastal city of Itapema. To promote design, the project implemented concepts and values of contemporary architecture and sought to redefine the concept of residential building, bringing experience to its users and the relation with the city. The solution holds the use of scenic lighting, innovative construction systems and the use of parametric design. All technologies and concepts applied to this project aim to transform the future building into an urban icon.

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Designer / Brand: Hikohito Konishi Work: Book Store Tag: Architecture

Ebetsu Tsutaya Books

Ebetsu Tsutaya Books is a lifestyle bookstore in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. The building is formed of three blocks, themed on mind, life and food, arranged in five zones to reduce the visual mass of a structure spanning 140 meters. The interior spaces frame views of the neighboring forest and keep a sense of unity. Raw materials create a calm atmosphere, including locally produced bricks, concrete flooring, exposed structural steel, furniture of wood and steel, and the lighting design. The bookstore also hosts events for local residents.

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Designer / Brand: Teruo Miyahara Work: Residence for Single Family Tag: Architecture

Light Welling House

Light Welling House is a detached single family residence built on a narrow urban site in Tokyo. The site is small and irregular in shape, and natural light could not be drawn from the east or west sides. The stairs were therefore designed as a path of light. The steps are made of perforated metal and the stairwell has glass walls, so daylight reaches each room and is carried from the upper level down to the lower levels. The position of the stairs was set by calculating the altitude of the winter sun. The rooms are finished in white to spread the borrowed light further.

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Designer / Brand: Paul Bo Peng Work: Museum Tag: Architecture

Wenzhou Urban Wetland

Wenzhou Urban Wetland is a museum located in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The building stands at the heart of a wetland area in the centre of the city. The main body of the museum is elevated, so the wetlands pass beneath it, and a boat tour area is provided. The layout of the exhibition halls follows the courtyard spaces of local dwellings. Changes in level let the lower wetland landscape blend into the upper courtyards. A roof garden forms a further layer. The building area is 20000 square metres.

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Designer / Brand: Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy Work: Gold and Gem Trading Centre Tag: Architecture

Doji Tower

Hanoi Doji Tower is a gold, gem and jewellery trading centre in central Hanoi. The building combines classical and modern styles in a diamond-shaped form. The base of six floors is tiled with natural marble. The seventh to the sixteenth floors form a large diamond block made of thousands of specially produced glass sheets, which create a distinct light effect. The tower has sixteen floors and three basements, with a total usable area of nearly 19,000 square metres. The first five floors hold a shopping centre for gold, gems and jewellery.

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Designer / Brand: Fabio Su Work: Residential House Tag: Architecture

The Mountain

The establishment is built and designed under the philosophy of mountains. The outlook of the villa is an imitation of Mountain Alishan. The French casements allow you to enjoy the beautiful scenery of mountain Alishan in any season of the year and Low-e glass is used for the eco-friendly residence. The main wall in living space used the nature stone with different depths in a clear and colorful way which connects to the view of Alishan mountain.

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Designer / Brand: Hiromoto Oki Work: Commercial Building Tag: Architecture

Museum

Museum is a commercial building located in Wakayama, Japan. The building is situated in a quayside area and from a boat it seems to float on the sea, and from a car, it gives the incredible impression of swaying, so that it is intimately linked with the visual qualities of the marine environment. This impression of swaying takes place because a glass wall and the inner solid wall have different design properties, and as a consequence create this unlikely but beautiful effect. The facility aims to be both a centre of culture in Tanabe and also to provide a vital area for recreation.

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Designer / Brand: keun young Shim Work: Naturous Residence Tag: Architecture

A House in the Landscape

A House in the Landscape is a detached private house built in Pangyo, Republic of Korea. The house is designed to form a balance with its irregular site rather than to stand apart from neighboring buildings. Large continuous windows frame the surrounding nature, following the traditional Korean idea of borrowing scenery. A corridor acts as a transitional space and creates a sequence of changing views. The structure is reinforced concrete. The exterior is finished with old white brick, zinc, western red cedar and broken stone. The reclaimed bricks give a calm and natural texture.

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