Design Blogger

Design Blogger featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Architecture

Discover 968 award-winning designs tagged Architecture on Design Blogger.

Cang Ma Mountain Residence

Public Architectural Design Institute Residence Architecture

Cang Ma Mountain

Cang Ma Mountain is a residential complex built in Qingdao, China. The project provides resettlement housing for more than 1,300 households from four nearby villages. The site covers about 130,000 square meters and holds residential buildings of four to eight storeys and commercial buildings of two to three storeys. The sloping terrain is divided into separate platforms that follow the original form of the hills. Red tiles, fences, stone mills, tea fields and an ancient well recall rural life and local culture.

Continue reading about Cang Ma Mountain Residence

 
Inage Ryouen Crematorium and Temple

Eitaro Satake Crematorium and Temple Architecture

Inage Ryouen

Inage Ryouen is a memorial building that combines a temple and a mechanical ossuary near Tokyo. Urbanization and changing family structures have created a shortage of graves in cities. Inage Ryouen answers this need with an indoor cemetery that is easy to visit. In conventional mechanical cemeteries the remains are kept in small niches, while here the remains are stored in the basement under a tombstone, as in a traditional grave. Stone, wood and paper were used in the construction. A lounge, a temple, a worship room and a rooftop garden are arranged on three floors.

Continue reading about Inage Ryouen Crematorium and Temple

 
Innovation and Production Center Factory

Fuki Sato Factory Architecture

Innovation and Production Center

Innovation and Production Center is a combined research and manufacturing facility for a gas detector manufacturer in an industrial area on the outskirts of Tokyo. The complex has six floors and a total area of 24,800 square meters. Two buildings are joined by a bridge that links the development and production departments. Slits, fins and louvers give the facades a precise and refined appearance. Green terraces placed at the same height on both buildings form a green skyline. The design aims to support collaboration between departments and to increase intellectual productivity.

Continue reading about Innovation and Production Center Factory

 
Jun Yi Middle School

Ximin Chen Middle School Architecture

Jun Yi

International Department of Junyi is a middle school building in Beijing. The project converts a former basketball arena into an educational space with ordinary classrooms, multifunctional activity rooms and shared areas. Inspired by classical gardens, the folded and staggered layout forms a rich spatial structure with corridors and platforms. Skylights and open windows bring daylight, sky and landscape views inside. The facade combines weathering steel panels, U-shaped glass and a glass curtain wall, creating three levels of transparency, and bamboo trees are set into it.

Continue reading about Jun Yi Middle School

 
Hours on the Slope Working Place

T.E&C Architects & Associates Working Place Architecture

Hours on the Slope

Hours on the Slope is a factory and office complex in Taichung, Taiwan. The site is divided into three buildings arranged in response to the environment and the orientation. On the west side, where sun exposure is high, dark windows and reduced window areas emphasize the sense of volume. Granite and a green building coating system cover the external walls. Natural stone mosaic was selected for the curved surface of the office building. A buried pipeline system guides cool outdoor air into the plant, and roof solar panels shade the top floor parking area.

Continue reading about Hours on the Slope Working Place

 
Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids Complex

Akira Koyama Complex Architecture

Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids

Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids is a five-storey apartment complex of 14 units in Tokyo. The building stands on a deep parcel with tight frontage, measuring 17 metres to the back and 8 metres in width. The four corners of each volume are notched to form six vertical voids that bring daylight into the units. The complex is arranged as two volumes, front and rear, separated by open corridors with stairs to all floors. The corridors connect the six voids and act as paths for natural ventilation. The street facade is a structural wall with a water-jet chipped finish that protects privacy.

Continue reading about Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids Complex

 
Flexhouse Residential building

Evolution Design Residential building Architecture

Flexhouse

Flexhouse is a single-family home on Lake Zurich in Switzerland. Built on a challenging triangular plot of land, squeezed between the railway line and the local access road, Flexhouse is the result of overcoming many architectural challenges: restrictive boundary distances and building volume, triangular shape of the plot, restrictions regarding local vernacular. The resulting building with its wide walls of glass and a ribbon-like white façade is so light and mobile in appearance that it resembles a futuristic vessel that has sailed in from the lake and found itself a natural place to dock.

Continue reading about Flexhouse Residential building

 
Floating Restaurant

Nie Jian Ping Restaurant Architecture

Floating

Floating is a restaurant located in farmland in Guangdong Province, China. The building is surrounded by water and rests on columns set at irregular spacings. The design takes inspiration from the traditional Hakka houses of rural China. An undulating roof form echoes the movement of water waves. Local materials are used throughout the structure. Inside, fish-shaped decorations are placed to complement the surrounding waterscape. The aim is a calm dining space that blends into the rural landscape.

Continue reading about Floating Restaurant

 
Nestled in the Green House

Tomomi Omachi House Architecture

Nestled in the Green

Nestled in the Green is a house located in Tajiri, Hiroshima, Japan. The site stands in a typical Japanese residential area, with small mountains to the north and the Seto Inland Sea to the south. The house was built on the plot of a former European-style vacation home, which was demolished while the garden was kept and tended. The position of the house and the size of the windows were studied so that the garden and the mountains can be seen from many directions. Open windows bring in the sound of leaves and birds. The site area is 713.24 square meters.

Continue reading about Nestled in the Green House

 
Honghua Airport District Masterplan Mixed Use

Shihi Chou Mixed Use Architecture

Honghua Airport District Masterplan

Honghua Airport District Masterplan is a mixed use urban plan for a site in Nanjing, China. The site measures about 649 by 590 metres and is crossed by an old airport runway 62 metres wide. A linked activity bar joins the north and south parts of the site along the runway park. A performance centre anchors the plan and activates the runway. Offices, a hotel and retail spaces are arranged around independent courtyards. Building volumes are broken into smaller stacked boxes with varied facades. LED glass canopies light the street level and support public events.

Continue reading about Honghua Airport District Masterplan Mixed Use

 
St Residential House

Michihiro Matsuo Residential House Architecture

St

A villa built on a site with a good view. Some limited grounds, indoor and outdoor are designed to be integral. On the first floor, the view of the fusion of the city and the sea moves through the pool in the center. View also looks second floor in the same direction to close the outside of the field of view, it is devised that can benefit only from this space.

Continue reading about St Residential House

 
JF Modern Shopping Mall

LnP Architects Shopping Mall Architecture

JF Modern

Yinchuan Jianfa Modern City is a shopping mall renovation in Yinchuan, China. The project updates a commercial building that has operated for ten years, following the concept of urban regeneration. The facade is formed with aluminum plates in a hyperboloid shape, inspired by pyramid forms shaped by wind and sand. Low emissivity glass is used to improve energy efficiency. A vertical facade system follows the rhythm of the original structure. A courtyard, a skylight and a roof garden guide pedestrian flow from the main street to the upper level.

Continue reading about JF Modern Shopping Mall