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Rouzan Residential Building

Seyed Hamed Jafari Residential Building Architecture

Rouzan

Rouzan is a residential building in Isfahan, Iran. The design brings together a traditional Iranian house and a modern apartment. The facade is made of bricks produced from local materials, aligned vertically with concave sections and sharp angles. Semi-transparent bricks and wooden canopies with decorative niches and cavities recall traditional Iranian homes. The rooftop holds a water fountain, a garden and a barbecue area. Electrical rotating canopy windows are controlled remotely, expanding to admit more sunlight in winter and contracting to limit heat in summer.

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Show Time Square Commercial and Residential

Atelier Global Limited Commercial and Residential Architecture

Show Time Square

Fuzhou Show Time Square is a mixed use complex of commercial and residential buildings in Jiangxi. The project covers 290000 square metres and is divided into a commercial district and a residential district. A commercial avenue runs from east to west and links marketplaces, retail stores, food and leisure areas. A round central plaza and an outdoor commercial mall form layered public spaces. Brightly coloured horizontal features, inspired by the water resources of the region, help guide visitors. The materials include aluminium sheet, glass, stone and ETFE.

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QMC Hospital Day Treatment Centre

Adrian Light Day Treatment Centre Architecture

QMC Hospital

QMC Hospital is a day treatment centre located on the campus of the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, United Kingdom. The building holds 15 departments, including diagnostics and theatre suites, across two operational floors of 9,500 square metres. The plan is arranged around a central atrium, which brings natural light into the interior and supports high levels of sustainability. Circulation areas are enclosed in clear glass. A careful study of consultation space made the building about 20 percent smaller than standard criteria would require.

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Calm and Repose Residential Building

Chi Wei Lin and Yu Chih Chang Residential Building Architecture

Calm and Repose

Calm and Repose is a residential building with a floor area of 430 square meters. The design follows a modern and simple style. Plain textures and quiet materials are used across the indoor space. Large stone grain tiles cover the television wall and give a broad sense of sight to those entering the house. Behind the sofa, leather panels in irregular sizes and brushed wood veneers extend from the floor. The cool texture of the stone tiles is balanced by the warm texture of the leather and the wood. The rooms are opened to views of the surrounding nature.

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Cube XL Modern Townhouses

Beto Magalhaes Modern Townhouses Architecture

Cube XL

Cube XL is a townhouse design created for small and heavily wooded plots in Sao Paulo. Cube XL extends the standardized Cube concept to larger homes of 250 to 400 square meters. The plan can be adjusted in both directions to suit the size of the land and the position of existing trees, which are preserved. Internal walls are not structural, so interiors can be opened and arranged as two or three bedrooms. The ground floor and the top level can be configured for parking, leisure or work. A mobile application controls the cameras and the gates.

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Tranquility Universal Pavilion

Alexander Kravchenko Universal Pavilion Architecture

Tranquility

Universal the Pavilion is a multifunctional pavilion designed for a park site in Moscow. The rectangular building is enclosed on three sides by stained glass windows with wooden inserts and covered by a flat roof that cantilevers over the entrance areas and long terraces. Two entrance groups lead to a cafe on the north side and to a universal hall for public events on the south side. An internal corridor connects both areas. A glass covered platform between them protects visitors from rain and snow. Panoramic glazing opens the interior to the surrounding landscape.

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Dalian Youth Football Training Base sport

Beijing Wanda sport Architecture

Dalian Youth Football Training Base

Dalian Youth Football Training Base is a sports complex built for football training. The base covers 86500 square meters and includes spaces for the first team, the reserve team, the youth team and the junior team, an indoor training hall on the west side and a two-story club building on the east side. A horizontal composition unites the whole design and links the separate volumes. The facade of the first floor is made of stone, and the roof is covered with gray horizontal metal sheets. Buildings facing the sports court are open and transparent, with platforms and balconies.

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Tab Commercial Hospitality

Prashant Sutaria, PSA Commercial Hospitality Architecture

Tab

Tab is a mixed-use building in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. Tab brings together a five star hotel, offices, retail units and public parking in one structure. Separate entry and exit points keep each group of users apart. The design draws on the temples of Bishnupur and on the campus of Shantiniketan. Terracotta covers part of the facade, and verses of the poem Gitanjali are placed in weathering steel on the lower eastern face. A reinforced concrete frame on a raft foundation supports the building. High performance glass limits solar gain.

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lakeside living house and garden

Stephan Maria Lang house and garden Architecture

lakeside living

The Architecture is to express a relationship to nature in which the house is part of the natural environment - recreating a lakeshore with discreet interventions and a simple wooden shell sitting carefully on the landscape acting as a refuge. Lucent shadows from the existing trees enter the space. The grass area seems to extend the interior of the house. The aim of this project was to create Organic Architecture by expressing the site character, the articulation of space and material, the light design and the contrasting quality of private and open space.

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Chapel on the Hill Holiday cottage

Evolution Design Holiday cottage Architecture

Chapel on the Hill

After standing derelict for more than 40 years, a dilapidated Methodist chapel in the north of England has been transformed into a self-catering holiday home for 7 people. The architects have retained the original characteristics – the tall Gothic windows and the main congregation hall – turning the chapel into a harmonious and comfortable space flooded with daylight. This 19th century building is located in a rural English countryside offering panoramic views to the rolling hills and the beautiful countryside.

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Quantum Building

Vasil Velchev Building Architecture

Quantum

Quantum is a building designed to host the forefront in Product Design as well as all important and iconic works created over the years. Simply its a Museum and Exhibition Center. The style is probably Organic-Eclectic, shape can be geometrically described as a combination of overlapping spheres, displaced relatively one to another, forming two asymmetrical corpora with different internal areas and balconies. The connection between them is accomplished by 5 corridors in the form of mini-deformed protuberances.

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Hillside Residence Private House

Makoto Furihata Private House Architecture

Hillside Residence

Hillside Residence is a private house built on a steeply sloping site in Machida city, Tokyo, Japan. The house faces south and opens onto a large garden. An underground parking area in reinforced concrete also works as a retaining structure and absorbs the height difference of the slope. Above the parking area stands a two storey wooden house. The parking entrance and the square in front of it are set 2.5 metres higher than the road. Wood and stucco are applied by traditional craft methods. The garden recalls the original landscape of the site.

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