Architecture
Design and planning of buildings, spaces, and environments that shape how people live, work, and interact.
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.
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.
Soul Hug: A Vine-Wrapped Tower That Pushes Gardens Into Every Floor, Room and Window
A cylindrical residential tower in China carries planting from a ground-level park to sky gardens and bedrooms, chasing biophilia at every scale.
Symbiosis: A Hong Kong Tower That Hangs a Rainforest Between Its Three Wings
Three concrete housing arms meet at one core, and the scalloped terraces between them carry soil, stone and subtropical planting up the full height of the
Under the Wings: Fabric Canopies and a Light-Up Floor Ask Place de la Concorde to Slow Down
Four perforated canopies and an interactive LED floor turn the forgotten corners of Paris's largest square into a place people stay.
Peel Back Market: A Strip of Ground Lifted Off Thu Thiem to Shade a Street Market
A peeled swath of vegetated earth shelters a lawn while timber stalls stacked like towers turn the other half of the site into a dense urban market.
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.
