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Journals 11688
LEVIATHAN: A Single Spine Threading Separate Rooms Into One Sculpture
Timber ribs, a red stepped landscape and a dark chamber of light slits hang off one continuous spine, testing where sculpture ends and architecture begins.
Wave 'Coral': Four Perforated Canopies Bring Human Scale to a Monumental Plaza
A wavy lattice shell repeated four times around an obelisk, turning a vast paved square into pockets of shade, planting and places to sit.
SHELTER: An Orphanage in Poland Built as a Cluster of Houses Around Courtyards
Szymon Gromadzki breaks a care facility for teenagers aged 13 to 18 into gabled timber volumes, protected courtyards and soft, domestic rooms.
Stronger in the Middle: A Thu Thiem Street Market That Borrows Its Structure From the Mangrove
A radial market for Ho Chi Minh City puts its sturdiest stalls at the core and lets lighter pallet platforms fray outward like a mangrove edge.
Exhibition Pavilion of Reptiles: A Lizard-Shaped Shell Rising From Its Own Moat
A white lattice shell on branching legs lifts its head from the water, turning the theme of a reptile exhibition into the building itself.
Track Sail Market: Vietnam's Maritime Trade Rigged Into Stalls, Canopies and Seats
Hulls, masts and sails organize 104 stalls, a shaded hall and an open square into a market where trading and gathering share one deck.
MUSE (ミューズ): A Fukuoka Meditation Complex That Lets Light, Water and Timber Outrank the Structure
A walled Zen courtyard, a timber hall split by a single skylight and huts hung from concrete portals turn sensory cues into a sequence for stillness.
New Urban Unit: A Radial City Block Designed to Switch Between Everyday Life and Crisis Mode
A circular plan, a stepped tower and gardens that double as food supply recast the utopian city as a shelter for creativity and survival.
Smart City: An Autonomous Urban Cell That Quarantines a Neighborhood, Not an Apartment
Towers, a rolling green roof and a domed hospital ward form a self-sufficient urban cell built to keep daily life running when the city locks down.
Home Futura: Three Stepped Prisms That Turn a Shaded Pine Plot Into a House of Glass
A modular house in Podkowa Leśna keeps a plain white face to the street and opens a sawtooth wall of diagonal glazing toward the sun and the trees.
Life Floats: A Floating Neighbourhood Built from Hulls for a Sinking Jakarta Shoreline
Four buoyant prototypes for housing, gardens and utilities gather around a central dock where subsidence has drowned the jl Pantai Mutiara district.
CnB Sustainable Market: A Timber Frame That Turns Shopping into Reducing, Reusing and Recycling
An open grid of timber modules, trellised cores and workshop rooms recasts the public market as a place to repair, swap and grow, not just to buy.
Nests: A Woven Tower That Stacks Places to Rest High Above a Restless City
A column of tangled, spherical pods turns the bird's nest into a vertical refuge for sleep, standing apart from the glass towers around it.
Reykjadalur Hot Springs: A Thermal Resort Designed as a Village Where Time Stops Counting
Stone houses, green roofs and a river island stage form a resort that shifts between quiet everyday rhythms and the crowds of a large-scale event.
Tetriscape: Stacking a Whole Community Around One Earthen Courtyard
A multi-storey earth building in India that folds homes, hall and restaurant into one shared void instead of splitting them into separate blocks.
The Third Teacher: An Alternative School Where Looms and Lessons Share One Walled Campus
In Anegundi, a school and a hub for women weavers sit inside one curved wall, so that craft, farmland and classroom learn from each other.
Gardens Above Accra: Pocket Parks Carved into Earth-Block Towers
A ground-floor market, switchback stairs and planted voids turn a cluster of residential towers into a public retreat lifted above the city.
Earthen Angularity: A Stepped Tower in Accra That Grows a Garden Through Its Core
Tapering floor plates on angled struts wrap a leaf-lined atrium, staging a meeting between vernacular ground and modern frame in Accra.
WREATHE: A Spiraling Earth-Block Residence That Turns Its Arms Toward Accra's Divided Neighborhoods
Rotating residential arms, a sunken public field and earth-block walls frame housing in Accra as shared ground between separated communities.
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.