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Journals 11669
Earthen Oasis: Mortarless Earth Blocks Stack a Shared Garden Into Accra Housing
Kente-patterned columns, interlocking earth walls and fish-filled pools turn an Accra housing block into a farm, a commons and a green refuge.
SHED: A Folded Canopy That Turns a Roadside Fuel Stop into One Continuous Roof
Winner of Overhaul 2020, this service station drapes a single faceted roof over pumps, shop and café, pinning its sharp corners into the lawn.
Thermal Blue: A Hot Springs Complex Where Five Buildings Turn Inward Toward the Steam
Timber boardwalks, glazed treatment rooms and green roofs organize a terraced bathing landscape in which every building looks back at the water.
STACKED//METROPOLIS: Earth-Block Towers in Accra Linked by a Ring of Sky Bridges
Five stacked towers of earthen blocks and dark steel circle a courtyard that turns into a tented marketplace after dark, with bakeries at their feet.
Trondheim School of Architecture: A Banded Copper Landform That Puts Its Bet on the Skin
A shortlisted school for Trondheim wraps a flexible, student-centric program in layered copper fins and a woven glass canopy across a sculpted site.
SNOOZE: A Sleep Building Assembled from Louvered Grids, Colored Spheres and Tessellated Pods
A team proposes a rest building where louvered boxes, colored spheres and ribbed teal pods offer different ways to pause in the city.
Tabula Rasa Architecture School: A Trondheim Workshop Where Gravity Draws the Front Door
A see-and-learn school-workshop that turns structural logic into a lesson, pairing a hanging-vault entrance with open study halls and glazed labs.
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.