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Dongguan Riverside Sports Center

Peng Xiaohua, Chen Qi, Deng Juan Sports Center Architecture

Dongguan Riverside

The project is located in Xincheng District, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. It is a sports center that integrates residents' cultural activities, healthy sports, and livable waterfront life from multiple angles. The vision of the project is to turn the green sports center into a natural oxygen bar on the corner of the city, integrating fitness, sports, parking, and transportation hubs into one. Dissolve the building volume, integrate the landscape into life, and make the design deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

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F House Residential Building

Keisuke Fukui Residential Building Architecture

F House

F House is an architect's home and office. By turning the 1st-floor office and cafe into a place where townspeople can casually drop in, the project attempts to foster community connections. The idea was that by sharing parts of everyday life in a casual and enjoyable way, a more livable community could be fostered. The area has a network of plants to increase and share, and designers wanted to visualize this in the architecture and establish it as part of the local culture. The architecture is conscious of the network in every aspect.

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Meishan Mining Smart Center

Saiwen Liu Smart Center Architecture

Meishan Mining

The Meishan Mining project is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 13 kilometers away from the center of Nanjing. Its predecessor is Meishan Iron Mine, which was founded in October 1959, and resources are now close to exhaustion. The government plans to build it into an industrial heritage park, so the whole design is centered around the two goals of meeting the function of the existing mine wisdom command center and taking into account the overall effect of the site park.

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Ideareve Ikegami Music Hall

Ryuichi Sasaki Music Hall Architecture

Ideareve Ikegami

Ideareve Ikegami is a music hall and mixed-use building in Ikegami, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The four-story reinforced concrete structure is ten meters high. The building contains a music hall with an auditorium, practice rooms, soundproofed rental residences and a penthouse. A vestibule and foyer form a circulation zone linking the interior and the exterior. Three brass-colored stainless steel diagonal walls shape the foyer, and acoustic reflectors line the hall. The geometric volume recalls the hilly landscape at the foot of the Ikegami Honmonji temple.

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Coexisting With Nature Clinic

Yoshiaki　Tanaka Clinic Architecture

Coexisting With Nature

This dental clinic was created using a design method that takes advantage of the vegetation, height difference, and depth of the existing land. TSC Architects wanted to design a clinic where patients can experience nature as if they were taking a walk on the road. They planned to leave the trees as much as possible, arrange the functions of the clinic to match the characteristics of the land, and connect them with corridors and multiple roofs. By setting the height of the floor at the center of the height difference on the site, people can feel a sense of floating and sinking into the ground.

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Timeless Residence

Satoshi Kurosaki Residence Architecture

Timeless

Inside, the house is defined by two courtyards, one large and the other small, that are arranged in parallel. The main courtyard is on the south side and features a bamboo grove that draws the eye when one steps into the entryway. A smaller slit-shaped courtyard on the north side is also dotted with plantings and serves as a lightwell, filling the first-floor living room and entryway as well as a second living room upstairs with pleasant, diffuse light.

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Cross Residential House

Michihiro Matsuo Residential House Architecture

Cross

A private residence built on a site facing two roads in a quiet residential area. The exterior, which can be seen from the outside, has an orderly form, ensuring a moderate sense of openness while protecting the privacy of the residents. The interior is moderately open and has a visual expanse. In addition, in accordance with the shape of the site, the two planes intersect at different angles in the center, and the space created here gently connects the rooms. A new blank space is created by appropriately dividing the plane, and the plan is to deepen communication between residents.

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Float Residential House

Michihiro Matsuo Residential House Architecture

Float

A private residence with a skip floor that makes the most of the difference in height of the land. The living room is placed at a height where the surrounding buildings cannot be seen, and it is devised so that the surrounding scenery can be taken in according to the owner's request. The rest of the living space is located on the middle floor, and the entrance is connected to the garden, creating a space that welcomes visitors with a sense of depth. From the looks of it, you can tell it's designed to capture the landscape you need, wherever you are.

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Regala Skycity Hotel

Paliburg Holdings Limited Hotel Architecture

Regala Skycity

Regala Skycity is a hotel located in the Skycity area of Hong Kong International Airport. The building stands on a triangular site and follows a tripartite division of base, shaft and crown. The form was inspired by an optical crystal prism, and the reflective glass facade mirrors the surrounding sky. The external envelope uses a unitized curtain wall system, with units assembled off site to reduce construction time on site. The hotel contains 1,208 guest rooms, a swimming pool, a rooftop jogging path and three restaurants.

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CETC Research Institute Testing Center

U A D Testing Center Architecture

CETC Research Institute

Cetc Research Institute is a research and testing center located in the High-tech Zone of Hefei, Anhui Province, China. The complex brings together research and development, system testing and an information center. Buildings are arranged freely according to industry classification, forming enclosed and open spatial patterns. The courtyard layout draws on local Hui-style houses, and the atrium supports daylighting, ventilation and rainwater collection. Cast-in-place reinforced concrete frames form the main structure, while red and blue aluminium curtain walls define the facades.

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Flowing Cloud Township Villa Hospitality

More Design Office Hospitality Architecture

Flowing Cloud Township Villa

Flowing Cloud Township Villa is located in Qinglongwu, a centennial village in Tonglu County, Hangzhou, which is composed of 4 ancestral houses of different ages and 2 new buildings. MDO will create a new rural retreat that celebrates local culture and tradition through the sensitive renovation of the old structures, using local techniques, materials, and craftsmen. Here people can have a closer connection to nature, be able to relax and unwind, free from the distractions of modern life. To see local tradition, to taste local foods.

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Kahramanmaras Doga Hospital

Quark Studio Architects Hospital Architecture

Kahramanmaras Doga

The Kahramanmaras Doga Hospital is a state-of-the-art healthcare facility located in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. Designed by Quark Studio Architects, the hospital aims to provide patients and staff with a comfortable and healing environment that integrates natural elements and luxurious amenities. The hospital's design approach to health-centric architecture and integration of natural elements, luxurious materials, and amenities are a testament to Quark Studio Architects' commitment to creating a holistic restorative environment that caters to the needs of both patients and staff.

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