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The Northern lights: An Architecture College in Trondheim Built Around the Act of Watching
Anastasia Askerko stacks three low floor plates near Dragvoll, opening its workshops to neighbours and turning a tiered drawing hall to the horizon.
Agostinho Apartments: Rammed Earth Pushed to Ten Storeys of Luxury Living in Accra
A bent rammed earth block wraps a resort-style pool courtyard and argues that earth can build high, build dense and build for the top of the market.
TIFHEM: A Sunken Tolerance Center in Malta That Manufactures Its Own Rainbows
A triangular Maltese site becomes an open plaza over two buried levels, where water, sunlight and curved glass paint shifting colour across rooms.
Revitalization of the Bakhrushins' Heritage: Glass and Brick Wake a 19th-Century Orphanage
A family quarter grows on the Bakhrushin orphanage grounds, where cleared clutter, reopened windows and a glass florarium return old brick to use.
Ayodele: Earth-Built Housing That Pushes Back Against Accra's Concrete and Asphalt
A modular earth-built housing block for central Accra stacks family units around shared courtyards, craft studios and planted roofs.
Thermal Blue: An Icelandic Spa Laid Out in Looping Paths, Grass Banks and Skylit Pavilions
A shortlisted spa sinks its bulk into a grassy slope beside a thermal river and opens small guest houses to the northern lights overhead.
Circle of Nature: A Concrete Ring Lifted Over Hveragerði's Steaming Water
A closed circular plan on slender piers turns a hot spring into a shared centre for bathing, film, performance and quiet reflection.
Norway Architecture Academy: A Glass Courtyard That Makes Interaction the Curriculum
In Trondheim, a glazed atrium, sunken workspaces, a public roof deck and modular apartments turn a school of architecture into a meeting ground.
Architecture as the Bridge to Nature: A Thermal Bath in Iceland You Can Walk Over
A ring of green roof, a crossing bridge and sunken pools turn an Icelandic bathhouse into a landscape trekkers walk across before they ever step inside.
Adaptive Boundaries: A Fine Dining Room That Redraws Its Own Distances From the Ceiling
Hanging acrylic screens slide along a ceiling track to set table spacing, letting one dining room shift between distanced and full occupancy layouts.
Architectural College, Trondheim: A Timber School for Architects That Argues With Its Own Plan
A Norwegian timber college with pitched peaks and a wedge-shaped plan, shortlisted at Elementary and judged sharply on typology.
Sky Dome: 3D-Printed Mud Domes Hover Over Rubble Stone Rooms in a Syrian Courtyard
Clustered mud shells float above rubble stone rooms, while a raised red route stitches the courtyard back into the blocks that surround it.
Earth Made: A Rammed Earth Courtyard Housing Scheme Built Around a Stepped Water Kund
Three earthen bars frame a sunken, terraced pool in Gwalior, proposing that the oldest building material can still organise shared urban life.
photovoltaiCapsules: Solar Spheres That Turn a Steel Truss Into a Place to Nap and Meditate in Seoul
Spherical rest pods wrapped in photovoltaic panels hang from a molecule-like steel frame, giving each user a private, energy-producing retreat.
slóð: A Thermal Spa That Hands Its Roof Back to the Trail
A low concrete spa carries a walking path across its roof, tucking baths, saunas and stepped seats beneath it in a storm-filled valley.
Terraces Park: A T-Shaped Bridge Building Strung Across the Stepped Walls of an Open-Pit Mine
A shortlisted proposal that bridges a toxic mining pit with a solar-skinned deck, an inner garden and a rooftop park, and asks what repair should weigh
H150: A Thermal Bath in Iceland Built Around a Floating Ring of Water
A half-round bathhouse and a circular water route cross a hot river and a hiking trail, turning the act of bathing into a way of crossing the land.
Mirrors don't lie: A Trondheim Architecture School That Hangs a Reflective Block Over Its Own Entrance
Faceted mirrored soffits, an indoor street of timber huts and copper-toned cladding test how a school for architects can watch itself being built.
A-Maze!: An Anganwadi Courtyard Where Play Panels Draw the Routes and the Lesson Plan
Angled play panels, looping team routes and a shuffled kit of tunnels and beams turn an Anganwadi courtyard into a game children learn by moving through.
Afloat: A Floating Indonesian City That Uses Shared Housing to Ease Ethnic Tension
Timber gables, fishing grids and planted islets form a water district where a common way of living becomes the ground on which neighbors meet.
Spa in Town: A Rotated Square and Four Arcs Turn an Icelandic Hot Spring Into a Civic Plaza
Cheryl Han's Editor's Choice entry for Thermal Blue cuts curved pools into a square frame, giving a compact site the presence of a town landmark.
Lines of the Land: A Fish Market Sheltered Beneath an Arching Greenway Bridge
An arching vegetated bridge spans an urban fish market in Vietnam, folding terraced field geometry into stalls, seating and lantern-lit lawns.
The market as a place to gather: a fish market that leaves its lot to meet the water
A shortlisted Street City Vietnam proposal spreads a folded solar roof over an open single-level grid and lets the market spill onto a stepped waterfront.
Earth Made Residence: Stacking a Ghanaian Compound House into 36 Units Made Entirely of Earth
Cublo reimagines Accra's traditional compound house as a dynamic, cantilevered block that argues earthen architecture can be iconic.
The Student Center As A Modular Space: A Timber Grid That Behaves Like a Street in Amsterdam
Shortlisted at Overseas Oasis 2020, a stacked wooden frame holds cafés, shops, studios and terraces in parts that can serve shifting demands.
Earth Made: Rammed Earth Housing in Accra Organised Around an Old African Courtyard
A shortlisted proposal stacks four apartment types around a planted courtyard, letting earthen walls and long openings do the cooling work.
Making sport more accessible: Numuga turns the empty ball court into a field of skill stations
A triangulated court of target walls, hoops and rebound arcs lets beginners practise passing and aiming without waiting for a full match.
Plug & Play Amsterdam: A Steel Frame That Treats Rooms as Swappable Parts
Beside an Amsterdam canal, a red steel grid holds an orange auditorium, a glass dome and yellow catwalks, staging everyday life as a public show.
Point of Inclusion: A Vine-Draped Threshold Where Amsterdam's Locals and International Students Meet
A flexible space in Amsterdam that slows visitors down, passing them through pergolas, a planted courtyard and a library gallery before they meet.
ICH: International Community Hub in Amsterdam: A Dark Stone Block That Folds Open to Its Neighbours
Delovan Delawer's Editor's Choice entry trades form follows function for form follows community, carving a canal-side hub from shuttered stone volumes.
Beneath the Surface: An Amsterdam Hillside That Hides a Graffiti Sky Underneath
A grassy, bike-laced terrace on top, a mural-covered plaza below: Adam Vadas splits one building into Amsterdam's calm postcard and its loud metropolis.
Plug & Play Amsterdam: A Steel Shelf Where Stages, Domes and Homes Slot In and Out
An open steel frame in Amsterdam holds apartments, an orange auditorium and a glass dome, turning a housing block into a stage that opens to its lawn
Re-Coding Post War Syria: Mud Brick, Timber Frames and a Rooftop That Waits to Be Built
Two small buildings in Syria pair broken brick walls with vine-hung pergolas, betting that a community rebuilds itself by finishing what it starts.
The Home: A Red Glass Cone Turns a Quiet Concrete Block into a Living Room for Students Abroad
A community center for international students that keeps its gray face to the river and saves its warmth for a red, tree-filled atrium at the back.
The Infinity Park: A Figure-Eight Park That Tries to Breathe for Its Neighbourhood
A sculptural lung and visitor-triggered oxygen bollards make people the park's breath, and show how narrow a carbon-only idea of clean air can be.
prOpencity: Treating the Dense City as Open-Source Code That Its Citizens Can Edit
A collage-driven urban experiment that swaps the masterplan for a repeatable loop of listening, prototyping and revising with the people on the street.
Free modular unit: Timber-Framed Boxes That Divide a Site into Fixed and Shifting Ground
A kit of cut, rotated and spliced units lets people find their own place in space, sorting a large site into permanent rooms and movable terraces.
Overseas Oasis: Amsterdam Gables Gathered Around a Glass-Roofed Commons for International Students
A community center in Amsterdam that rings one sunlit atrium with gabled volumes, then opens its facade so newcomers can walk straight in.
Breathing-scape: A Moss-Canopied Park in China That Treats Clean Air as a Shared Public Room
Winding trails, moon gates and arch bridges thread a park where tree-like moss canopies are proposed as filters for some of the world's most polluted air.
Mono in Mist: A Castle Wall Rebuilt in Water Hides Three Sunken Meditation Gardens in Fukuoka
Below a public park of pools and mist, a waterfall-ringed basin turns meditation, hotel rooms and a castle-wall metaphor into one descending journey.