Architecture

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

Designer: Shun Ming Chang Design Type: Office Building Classification: Architecture

Flow

Flow is an office building located in Yunlin City, Taiwan, completed in July 2019. The property covers 7546 square meters. Staggered high and low volumes form an inlaid composition of solid and open parts. Changes in the angles of the volumes widen the field of vision. Glass surfaces bring in views of the surrounding greenery and let light and wind pass through the interior. The raised indoor lobby increases the vertical dimension of the space. The intent is an open, bright and comfortable place to work.

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Designer: Tengyuan Design Design Type: Residential Area Classification: Architecture

Fengxi Linquan

Vanke Fengxi Linquan is a residential complex built in a core urban area of Qingdao. The design gives priority to ecological living and to the urban image of the district. Each floor holds two homes of about 200 to 220 square meters, joined by a fully lit elevator hall. A shared garden appears every third floor, measuring 6.9 meters in width, 7.2 meters in depth and three floors in height, and serves six homes as a rest and meeting space. A nano thermal blanket and an eggshell insulation system protect plant roots during the cold winters and allow trees to grow on the raised soil.

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Designer: Ardh Architects Design Type: A Private Fitness Center Classification: Architecture

Home Gym

Home Gym is a private fitness center located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building is divided into two main areas, a workout space and a leisure and social space, linked by a corridor with a clear view of a water pond. The facility includes a swimming pool, a sauna, a Jacuzzi, two dining lounges, a juice bar, changing rooms with lockers, and a fitness zone for twenty people. The fitness zone is sunk lower than the rest of the building to allow cross training without raising the overall height. Sandstone cladding blends the structure with the desert landscape.

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Designer: Uds Ltd. Design Type: Hotel Classification: 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: Summer Chang Hin Cheong Design Type: Villa House Classification: Architecture

Heart By Tree

Heart by Tree is a villa house located in Gunung Pulai, Malaysia. The villa is formed by four building blocks arranged around a central courtyard. Lawn and willow plants cover the bedroom roofs and improve heat insulation. Two tall ancestral trees were transplanted onto the site as a token of gratitude to the owner. Zinc and fiber form the chassis of the lawn roof, suited to the hot climate. Ceramic tiles, granite and glass discarded by factories were reused in the decoration. The layout follows the traditional courtyard house concept.

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Designer: Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy Design Type: Gold and Gem Trading Centre Classification: 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: Paul Bo Peng Design Type: Museum Classification: 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: Teruo Miyahara Design Type: Residence for Single Family Classification: 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: Hikohito Konishi Design Type: Book Store Classification: 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: Rodrigo Kirck Design Type: Residential Building Classification: 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: Michihiro Matsuo Design Type: Office Building Classification: Architecture

WSG

This is the headquarters plan of a company that manufactures and sells weddings and tablecloths. He quotes the shape of the table and the softness of the cloth in the buildings and materials, structurally supports the large overhanging circular parts, and gives a sense of floating to create the future. The design is impressive with a large volume, but harmonized with the natural and local environments.

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Designer: Ardh Architects Design Type: Private Club House Classification: Architecture

Majlis

Majlis is a private club house designed for hospitality in Dubai. The name Majlis is an Arabic term for a formal gathering space, and in Arabic culture the term also covers buildings made for private hospitality. The single storey building has an L-shaped plan on a plot of 60 by 60 meters. The layout includes formal and casual living and dining areas, two ensuite bedrooms, an office and a detached service block with a kitchen. Stone cladding, marble interiors, triple glazing and a shading canopy suit the desert climate.

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