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TETRO Arquitetura Splits a Bahia Hillside House into Four Blocks Beneath a Light-Filtering Wood Roof
In Itacaré, on Bahia's southern coast, four blocks step down a seaward slope while a biriba wood screen turns tropical sun into moving shade.
KPF Wraps a Taiwanese Waste Recycling Plant in a Public Fern Garden, Exhibition Hall and Roof Terrace
In Xiulin Township, Eastern Taiwan, TCC's DAKA recycling center puts its waste pit on public view and layers learning spaces around the machinery.
OAD Wraps a Riverside Holiday Home near Riga in Thatch, Charred Timber and Saturated Interior Color
A summer residence and sauna guest house on a riverbank outside Riga, Latvia, where Baltic thatch meets blue stairs and tinted glass.
Inrestudio Wraps a Three-Household Hanoi Home in a Double Skin Pierced by a Hundred Windows
Beside the Red River outside Hanoi, a terracotta double envelope turns wall thickness into desks, shelves, balconies and room for three families.
Tengbom Builds a Red-Clad Archive with a Timber Atrium for the National Archives of Sweden in Härnösand
In Härnösand, Tengbom pairs vast column-gridded archive halls with a warm glulam atrium, giving a 35,000 m² state repository a human-scaled public face.
Paraa Raises a Perforated Brick Platform for Shared Community Life on an Open Ground in Dhaka's Korail Settlement
A 332 m² brick lattice building at Ershad Maidan, shaped through more than 60 workshops, turns an open ground in Korail, Dhaka, into a shared stage.
Kenta Hirayama Architect & Associates Lifts Daily Life Above an Atelier on a Pine-Lined Tokyo Street
In Kinuta, Setagaya, a 145 m² gabled house defers to its red pines and older neighbors, placing workshop and bedroom below and daily life under the roof.
U.GA Architects Wraps a 51 m² Glass Wedge Around a Red Spiral Stair at a Busan Alley Junction
On Busan's Haeridan-gil, a two-storey glass and steel shop rises from an acute corner site, crowned by a red roof terrace and cylindrical stair tower.
Edward Conde Serna Arquitectos Threads Elevated Walkways Through Cali's Foothills to Seed a New Urban Forest
A 57,000 m² park on Cali's mountain edge in Colombia uses raised steel boardwalks to reconnect the city with the Farallones and grow an urban forest.
