Editorial
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Dust of Life: A Thu Thiem Street Market That Turns an Amerasian Story of Abandonment Into Welcome
Folded blue canopies, modular timber stalls and a central dining room make a market whose plan is built around the act of coming together.
Interlacements: A Gallery Roofed in Strung Leaves That Paints With Interstitial Light
Dayana Ludlow's shortlisted Art-ade entry treats the gallery as an enclosed garden, filtering sun through foliage, slats and white frames.
Cloud Vally House: A Safe House That Lifts Itself Up So the Neighbourhood Can Move In Underneath
A raised residential block frees its ground plane for public life, treating community activity as a resource for the children who live above.
Open Art Gallery that promotes Communication: A Courtyard Gallery That Pushes Its Ateliers Outdoors
Hristo Stankushev's Art-ade winner pulls gabled ateliers out of a low white volume, turning the gaps between them into doors, plazas and sunken rooms.
The Grove: A Vietnamese Street Market Built Like a Mangrove, Roots First
Arching roots, overlapping sails and blocks of flowering trees turn a plaza into an argument for protecting the shoreline's most valuable plants.
Bayside Haven: A Stepped Hong Kong Tower Hollowed by an Atrium to Hold Nature at Its Core
A residential tower in Hong Kong treats people and nature as intertwined forces, then tests that idea through a carved void, lofted units and living walls.
Forest City Market: Khmer Fish Traps Woven into a Bamboo Market for Ho Chi Minh City
Anna Rader's market recalls Prey Nokor, the 'City Within a Forest,' with bamboo vaults over vendor stalls wrapped around a shaded courtyard.
Rethinking Walls: Turning a Dividing Wall in Peru into the Terraced Backbone of a Shared Hillside
An Editor's Choice entry at Divide 13 reconfigures a wall into ramps, markets, an amphitheatre and a viewpoint that two neighbourhoods can share.
Serenity Market: A Thu Thiem Market That Builds the Pause Into the Shopping Trip
Gardens, shaded gaps and a jacaranda grove turn a Vietnamese street market into a place where overstimulated shoppers can stop and recover.
