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Oasis Ikemeleng: A Baobab-Centred Settlement That Turns Ubuntu into Rooftop Terraces
Benny Tan rings a terraced communal core with rows of housing, staging daily life for a mining community around three baobabs and a stepped roof garden.
Musique de la Concorde: The Marseillaise Drawn as a Wall of Blades Around the Obelisk
Thin vertical fins trace the amplitude of France's anthem around the obelisk, turning a traffic-bound square into a place to sit, listen and look.
Rebirth of the Chinese Quadrangle Dwellings: Courtyard Living Rebuilt as Stacked Hexagonal Towers
Hexagonal housing cells stack into waterfront towers capped with gardens, rethinking the courtyard house for a post-epidemic, zero-commute community.
Bubble Markets: Rebuilding Ho Chi Minh's Street Market as Porous Rooms That Shift From Dawn to Night
A market for Vietnam that studies carts, umbrellas and loose sidewalk stalls, then gathers them inside curving, permeable bubbles.
Len Men Market: A Vietnamese Market Shaped by the Chemistry of Fermentation
Emily Siler turns bubbling microbial processes into pavilions, planters and a palm grove, making a market where food preservation becomes public life.