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Wood Structure on top of Brick Structure
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A two-storey corner house was refurbished as a home. The building reads almost as a collage: the ground floor, the upper floor and the two façades that wrap them have very little in common,…
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Hortus
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In a growing innovation park for life sciences, this office building offers a flexible workplace for a new generation of technology companies. The client asked for a radically sustainable building of renewable and recyclable…
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Mailand-Strasse
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The new building of the practice brings more than 300 people together under one roof, comparable in scale and vitality to its long-standing campus elsewhere in the city, and was designed to create new…
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Table 18
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The project was built for a rural art corridor launched along a river in the summer of 2023. It sits midway along the corridor and has two parts: a renovated farm-tool house beside a…
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Dune House
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Designed by a South African practice, the house answers a brief for a home at ease in its windswept natural setting. The rolling dunes became the datum from which the building grew, a project…
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Floating Bamboo House
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The house is a model for families whose livelihoods depend on rivers, especially in the delta regions most threatened by rising seas. The Vietnamese design team made it as a new kind of three-bay…
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ChuSe Villa
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The low-cost project in the highland countryside adds three small buildings, a family house, a kitchen and a workshop, around an old farmhouse. For two decades the land had been a coffee monoculture; the…
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Hojo Sanci
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An eighty-year-old timber house in a quiet residential area, wrapped in a garden thick with greenery, was converted into a home and an office. The house follows a classic type. Every room faces outward,…
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Tofu Factory
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A covered stair follows the making of tofu up a riverside slope in Caizhai Village, China. Visitors pass the workshops in the order of production, watching through glazed walls before reaching a tasting hall…
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House in Chau Doc
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The house is shared by three related families in a border town on a branch of the great river in the south. The tight local budget allowed only thin corrugated metal panels, but the…
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Green Ladder Pavilion
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The pavilion is built from bamboo ladders, an everyday tool made from a traditional material. The units were assembled before being shipped overseas for the exhibition. Bamboo grows quickly, abundantly and cheaply, and a…
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Slow Food Pavilion
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Built for a world exposition in 2015, this pavilion gave a place to a movement devoted to food culture and biodiversity. Three long, simple sheds in untreated timber frame a courtyard planted with garden…
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Clover House
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The first project of the Chinese practice in Japan turns a two-storey family house into a kindergarten. The work began with a study of the existing 105 square metre house, a standard prefabricated timber…
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Re-ainbow
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The district is prone to natural disasters and lacks space for community life. Beside a stadium closed for a decade, the Vietnamese design team built a multipurpose community structure in two categories: fixed elements,…
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i resort
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Demand for mud bathing has grown, and the resort answers it with traditional building forms and fresh ideas in space and structure. It sits on a small hill across the river from the city…
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Announced on 14 July 1988 and won by the French practice in an international competition, the national library is meant to hold everything published in the country. It opened to the public in 1996.…
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