Architecture
Design and planning of buildings, spaces, and environments that shape how people live, work, and interact.
Opera by the Sea Estonia: Three Shells Dissolving Architecture into Tallinn's Coastline
A winning opera house proposal replaces monumental form with interconnected shells that blur the boundary between building, park and Baltic Sea.
Operative Sanctuary: Architecture Designed for Marine Life, Not Human Comfort
A speculative underwater habitat reframes sustainable architecture as ecological infrastructure for species threatened by ocean pollution.
Gateway to the Deep: A Vertical Architecture for Ocean Floor Access
A pressurized descent system reimagines how architecture might bridge the ocean surface and the sea floor through modular, deployable units.
Music Connects Everything: A Fractured Stone Opera House on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Tomasz Abram's shortlisted opera house splits a monumental mass apart to reveal a crystalline glass seam that symbolizes music's connective power.
New Opera for Estonia: A Wave-Formed Timber Hall on Tallinn's Waterfront
A runner-up entry in the Opera by the Sea competition proposes a curved timber volume that mirrors the Baltic Sea while engaging the historic Linnahall.
Connection to Traditions: Pressed Earth Housing Shaped by Ghana's Climate
A residential community in Ghana uses passive ventilation, pressed earth walls, and porous courtyard planning to root sustainability in local tradition.
The School Beyond Its Walls: Enrico Panzacchi School by Archisbang and Areaprogetti
A pavilion school for 485 students in Ozzano dell'Emilia opens its gymnasium, auditorium and a new public square to the city.
The Sub-MarinaTube: A Plastic-Recycling City Beneath the Pacific Garbage Patch
Vertical towers and horizontal tubes organize an underwater settlement that combines habitation, marine research, and ocean waste recovery.
BUBHUB: Underwater Bubble Clusters That Grow Like Coral Reefs
A modular underwater habitat system designed to blur the line between architecture and marine ecosystem through biomimicry and incremental growth.
SCENTLAND: An Animal Shelter Designed Through the Nose of a Dog
Winner of Strays 2020, this proposal uses scent mapping to generate circulation, form, and program for a sensory-driven shelter.
Biodiversity Lab: An Underwater Habitat That Grows Like a Coral Reef
A shortlisted entry for EHC Pacific reimagines the research laboratory as a modular, coral-compatible framework on the Great Barrier Reef seabed.
Opera by the Sea: A Layered Waterfront Cultural Building for Tallinn's Baltic Coast
A sustainable opera house proposal connects marine cooling systems, stepped massing, and civic landscape on Tallinn's shoreline near Linnahall.
