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Explore 11 award-winning designs tagged Building on Lifestyle Design.

Designer: Cheng Xiao Design Type: Building Classification: Architecture

Qingdao Marine Park Exhibition Center

Qingdao Marine Park Exhibition Center is a building designed for a marine technology and smart industry park in Huangdao District, Qingdao, China. The exhibition center is the core building of the new district and represents the image of the whole park. The main structure is steel-reinforced concrete, which supports the long upper floors and the overhang. The outer walls form a double-glazed glass curtain wall, and the first floor is clad in black granite. A glass box of 100 meters extends at the top and appears to float above the dark base.

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Designer: Public Architectural Design Institute Design Type: Building Classification: Architecture

Sino German Creative Park Four

Sino German Creative Park Four is a museum and cultural exchange center in Qingdao, China. The building stands on a north slope, facing the main park entrance, with a river landscape to the south. A Y-shaped layout gives the building three facades of floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls, each turned toward a different landscape area of the park. The three tips of the Y shape are slightly raised to form a sculptural outline. Fair-faced concrete shapes the interior and echoes the outdoor brick curtain wall. The design also improves the microclimate and stores rainwater.

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Designer: JUNYUN Architecture Design Office Design Type: Building Classification: Architecture

Dawn of Spring

Dawn of Spring is a building that serves as a demonstration area at first and as a kindergarten later. The three-storey volume stands at a street corner within a residential community in Zhengzhou, China. The second and third floors are lifted above a transparent lower block, which creates a floating appearance. A glass curtain wall wraps the first floor, while perforated aluminium panels cover the upper facades. Vertical wrinkles in the panels reduce monotony. Interconnected screen walls at the entrance enclose a quiet water courtyard.

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Designer: United Units Architects (UUA) Design Type: Building Classification: Architecture

The Renovation of Ankang Library

The original Ankang Library was opened in 1984, and it’s facilities had fallen behind the information age before the renovation. The renovation project has rejuvenated the old library into a new, open and welcoming community space, highlighting and creating a strong contrast with its existing context. Since opening, the new library has reactivated the cultural life of the local community, and the number of daily visitors has increased from 10 people to 3,000 people.

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Designer: Mei Ee Loh Design Type: Building Classification: Architecture

Rackson House

Rackson House is an office building created by refurbishing an old structure in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The existing block retains its heritage roof, verandah, bay windows and stairs, and holds the main spaces. A new extension of steel and glass is inserted without touching the old walls, which remain visible with traces of past interventions. The new block is more open, taller and covered by a glass roof, and contains servicing spaces. A calm reflecting pool meets the base of the glass volume and mirrors the site. Natural light fills the interiors.

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Designer: Peng Architects Inc. Design Type: Building Classification: Architecture

Doe O-Mega Urban Complex

Doe O-Mega Urban Complex is a mixed-use building designed for a site in Bonifacio Global City in Manila. The elliptical, three-dimensional O-shaped form covers 400,000 square meters and contains offices, residences, a hotel, shops, and meeting spaces. The atrium stays shaded for most of the day, creating a comfortable outdoor space, while a wind tunnel guides natural air to cool the atrium and the lobby. Light-colored concrete, aluminum panels, and glass reduce heat absorption. Photovoltaic glass railings collect solar energy, and the podium roof holds a public garden.

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Designer: Central-South Architectural Institute Design Type: Building Classification: Architecture

Seal

Seal is an archive building located in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The building has a gross floor area of 57,487 square meters and a height of 66 meters. The form combines a tower and a podium, which frees shared space on the lower floors and places the archive storage on the upper floors. Public and professional circulation routes are separated. The facade is inspired by the Chinese seal and presents timelines of historic events in the city. Local materials and low carbon technologies are applied. A multipurpose hall and a large meeting room are open to the public.

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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: Torres Arquitetos Design Type: Building Classification: Architecture

Aimbere Residence

Aimbere Residence is a residential building with fifteen floors, located in Guarapuava, a municipality in the state of Paraná, in the interior of southern Brazil. Aimbere in Tupi-Guarani, the language of the Indians of the southern region of Brazil, means one who squirms (turns). the building seeks to reflect this dynamism and the movement of Nature, with a contemporary architecture. The choice for a differentiated residential product has been a conviction of the developer and the architectural firm since their first studies.

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Designer: Eisuke Yamazaki Design Type: Building Classification: Architecture

KIBA Tokyo Residence

The project is to rebuild a residential building at a small site in KIBA Tokyo, Japan. Even though the size of the building is small, the different types of housings are being together in the same building, therefore, constructed the fine community of a residence in a city. In addition, the facade, especially the wooden louver, is designed in harmony with a specific site KIBA which was once known for lumber dealings. KIBA Tokyo Residence would make new values and new lifestyles from the inside (interior spaces), and to show the lost landscape and heritage from the outside (exterior spaces).

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Designer: Vasil Velchev Design Type: Building Classification: 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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