Architecture

Explore 968 award-winning designs tagged Architecture on Lifestyle Design.

Designer: Rania Alomar Design Type: Animal Care Building Classification: Architecture

Pet Resource Center

The Pet Resource Center is a public animal care building in Bentonville, Arkansas. The center supports the adoption and fostering of pets. Kennels and cages are intentionally omitted. The design responds to the local rural landscape and to the shapes of nearby barn buildings. The roof slopes peak, merge and extend to shelter the program. A community wing and a medical wing are joined by an internal bridge that shades the event spaces below and provides a work area for volunteers. The building has 20,000 square feet of interior space and the same area outdoors on a six acre site.

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Designer: Masashi Nakamoto Design Type: House Classification: Architecture

The Three Roof

The Three Roof is a house in Okinawa, Japan. Traditional Okinawan houses use long eaves to reduce subtropical heat, but deep eaves also block daylight and darken the interior. The roof is divided into three parts, so daylight enters from the north side and air passes through the house more easily. The split roof gives each area a suitable ceiling height and creates variety in the space. A pillarless space of 4.0 meters is provided under the low eaves and can be used flexibly. The building is made of reinforced concrete with exposed concrete walls.

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Designer: Archermit Design Type: Cemetery Building Classification: Architecture

Shijiazhuang Ander Memorial Park

The Cloud Mirror is a service center for a cemetery, aims to respect traditional Chinese culture while transforming the concept of traditional cemeteries. With a focus on landscaping, artistry and personalization. The emotion free warm spaces seek to embody a harmonious, peaceful, relaxed, and warm humanistic landscape atmosphere with a strong sense of ceremony and artistry. The goal is to achieve a symbiotic and joyful coexistence between humans and nature.

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Designer: Yoshiaki　Tanaka Design Type: Clinic and Pharmacy Classification: Architecture

Wooden Axis Large Roof

The site is located along an arterial road connecting the city center and the city center, with an urban planning road to the south that is scheduled to be widened, and future development is expected. In planning a new regional medical center, we were conscious of creating a space that is distinctly different from commercialistic road service architecture, with the warmth of wood and a gentle welcome for patients The three buildings are connected by a wooden Sunoko design code.

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Designer: C.M CHAO ARCHITECT&PLANNERS Design Type: Fish Market Classification: Architecture

Gushan

Gushan is a renovated fish market building in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, completed in June 2023. The century-old entrance structure was preserved, so visitors can see the original Dutch-style brickwork on arrival. The main volume is designed as a transparent box surrounded by a 270-degree sea view. Double glazing reduces energy use, and fused glass on the exterior walls creates a water-like, bubbled surface. The site now houses a ferry station and an exhibition and sales center for agricultural and fishery products.

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Designer: AIA Life Designers Design Type: Hospital Classification: Architecture

Healing in Nature

Guangzhou Royal Lee Cancer Hospital is a private high-end oncology hospital, designers introduced the concept of garden hospital in this project, through the entrance courtyard, roof garden, and three-dimensional greening on the façade, the whole hospital area is integrated with the greening in three dimensions, and becomes a warm ecological healing place. The design also implements this concept in three dimensions: architecture, interior, and landscape.

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Designer: and Studio Design Type: Museum Classification: Architecture

Tibetan Thangka Art

Lhasa Thangka Museum is a museum for Thangka art set at the foothills of the mountains in Lhasa. The building is organized in the manner of a Tibetan monastery and creates a dialogue with the mountain and the sky. An external path climbs between the volumes and leads to a high square, while an interior path arranges the exhibition spaces. Traditional stone walls are reinterpreted as double ventilated concrete walls, which improve insulation and reduce energy use. Local materials and local labor were used. The museum promotes Thangka art and Tibetan culture.

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Designer: Tetsuya Matsumoto Design Type: Hospital Classification: Architecture

Daiichi

Daiichi is a hospital building located in Himeji City, Japan. The seven-story structure replaces an older block and holds one hundred beds. A porous facade is treated as a thin sheet and repeated in several layers, which gives the building depth and softens the heavy image often linked to hospital architecture. The layered corner responds to the angular shape of the site and marks the main entrance. White surfaces are used to suggest cleanliness and to calm patients. A grid of metal beams and pillars supports the building and meets strict earthquake safety rules.

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Designer: Qi Zhou Design Type: Sports Centre Classification: Architecture

Natatorium of Southeast University

The Natatorium of Southeast University is an indoor swimming pool built for a university campus in Nanjing, China. The building provides a venue for swimming and training, with a standard pool of 20 by 50 meters, changing rooms on the ground floor, and a gym and classrooms above. Continuous cast-in-place concrete arches form the walls and the roof as one whole, repeated in seven curved bays. The concrete is left bare to show the structure and the material, and the outer skin is dry-hung with red terracotta tiles. Large glazed areas link the interior with the campus outside.

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Designer: Gangrong He Design Type: Living Space Classification: Architecture

House D

House D is a reconstruction of an old house in China, planned for a family of three. The first floor holds the dining room, a Chinese kitchen, a Western kitchen, a courtyard and a space for pottery firing. The second floor contains the living room, a guest room and a laundry space. The third floor holds the master bedroom and a children's bedroom, and the fourth floor is a studio. Sunlight and airflow are used to improve the comfort of the interior. The layout supports continuous interaction between the residents and close contact with nature.

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Designer: Daniel de Amorim Design Type: Residential and Commercial Building Classification: Architecture

Twenty Five Street Home

Manhattan's High Line materializes in a Brazilian city. Twenty Five Street Home is a project that idealizes harmony between human beings and nature, without giving up high technology and the sophistication of living well. Inspired by the famous tourist spot in New York, a space was presented where families could experience spaces (private and communal), without losing connection with their natural habitat and with technology combined to bring comfort to everyday life. The enterprise is the harmony of opposites, the search for more, without forgetting the essential. It's nature inviting.

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Designer: John Kanakas Design Type: Double Residency Classification: Architecture

House Symbiosis

House Symbiosis is a double residence built for two sibling families. The building stands at the rear of a corner plot and forms an L shape in plan, leaving the front area as open space. Only 27 percent of the site was covered by construction, which allows communal outdoor areas and greenery. Each residence measures 220 square metres, and a shared core of 85 square metres links the two homes. Displaced facades create balconies and cantilevers that limit visual contact between interiors. A sculptural ribbon-like element with double curvature unfolds on the front inner facade.

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