Architecture

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

Designer: REMAC TY Design Type: Hotel Classification: 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: Alexandru Zingaliuc Design Type: Studio Classification: 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: Rodrigo Kirck Design Type: Apartment Building Classification: 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: Enota Design Type: Hotel Classification: 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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Designer: Nima Keivani Design Type: Villa Classification: Architecture

Chahar Gah

Chahar Gah in Iran, is situated in a territory on the western coast of the Caspian sea, a town called Anzali. A dwelling space wherein tries to invite surrounding environment neatly to inside and communicate eloquently. This building has tried to solve the visual boundaries between inside and outside and communicate with the changing seasons and adapt to it and use the natural process of air circulation for ventilation. At the same time its residents have a new experience of transparency and a free plan with have privacy and cozy places in the same time for better feeling change of seasons.

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Designer: Qiuwen Luo Design Type: Multifunctional Space Classification: Architecture

272 Gallery

272 Gallery is a multifunctional space created by renovating an existing residence in Foshan, China. The building holds three functions: a display of medieval furniture, an art gallery and a private gathering area. Minimum intervention guided the work, so the original cast-in-place terrazzo floors and wooden stair handrails were retained. Iron guardrails, unpainted pine and glass brick walls were added. All interior doors were removed to connect the rooms and allow flexible exhibitions. Windows were carefully placed to frame the tall trees of the community.

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Designer: Easy Arch Design Type: Multi Functional Offices Classification: 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: Moriyuki Ochiai Architects Design Type: Residential Building Classification: 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: Ghiath Al Masri Design Type: Residential Home Classification: Architecture

Slabs House

The Slab House was designed to juxtapose construction materials, combining wood, concrete, and steel. The design is at once hyper-modern yet discreet. The huge windows are an immediate focal point, but they are protected from the weather and street-view by concrete slabs. Gardens feature heavily in the property, both on the ground level and at the first floor, allowing the residents to feel connected to nature as they interact with the property, creating a unique flow as one moves from the entrance to the living areas.

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Designer: Paul Noritaka Tange Design Type: Building Classification: 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: FLÁVIO MELO FRANCO Design Type: Single Family Residence Classification: 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: Yoshiaki　Tanaka Design Type: House Classification: Architecture

VH Green

The house is extend green in both planar and stereoscopic, that create a good environment for both residents and the city. In the sunny Asian region, Breeze Soleil using this green is a very effective way of thinking. Not only the function of the sunshade in the summer but also protection of privacy, avoidance from the street noise and cooling effect by automatic irrigation can be obtained.

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