Blocs
Urban and architectural projects exploring block-scale design, adaptive reuse, and community-focused spatial interventions.
Phygital HORECA Experience Design
A leading international coffee producer, together with Desall, invites you to research the most innovative phygital interaction models currently available on the market
Box Seat to the City: A New York Fire Escape Reimagined as a Parasitic Room on the Façade
Chichi Ogbu folds the geometry of New York's fire escapes into a timber and polycarbonate addition that turns an idle façade into a place to live.
PAUSE in the Garden of Water Lilies: A Meditation Retreat Dispersed Through a Wild Urban Garden
Pedro A. Pallás scatters pavilions, meditation rooms and stay pods across a wild garden, letting landscape, water and choice shape the path to healing.
A Rabat Co-(mmunity): Housing That Keeps Aging in Public View, Not Behind Closed Doors
A Co-Life winner that threads arcades, courtyards and market frontages through Rabat so older residents remain woven into the life of the city.
Palazzo Navale: An Adriatic Oil Rig Recast as Marine Museum, Research Campus and Coral Reef Scaffold
A retired Adriatic oil rig becomes a stilted campus of museum, labs and dormitories, with a coral observatory and artificial reef growing beneath it.
Ridare: Turning a Decommissioned Adriatic Oil Rig Into a Museum That Never Stops Changing
Ishan Dsa layers galleries, a sunken chapel and residential suites onto a retired rig's frame, treating offshore infrastructure as a ready-made island.
SWITCH: A School Organised as a Heterarchy Where Students Leave Their Own Traces
A shortlisted school proposal that treats lockers, niches and courtyards as surfaces students claim, mark and reshape over time.
Seeker Heights High School: A Winning School That Trades Corridors for a Public Green Roof
A School Of Thought 2020 winner that wraps a wall-free learning field around a central Media Center and lifts a contoured green roof for the community.
YH2 Architecture Stacks Two Wooden Blocks on a Rocky Outcrop Above Lake Memphremagog
A 3,750-square-foot lakeside house in Quebec arranges cedar and brick volumes like a child's building blocks across a sloped clearing.
Christian Prasser Architektur Restores Josef Frank and Oskar Wlach's Villa Beer in Vienna as a Public House Museum
In Vienna-Hietzing, a split-level landmark of Viennese Modernism is returned to its original sequence of rooms and opened to the public for the first time.
PMA Madhushala Stages a Brick-and-Concrete Duet Around a Performance Courtyard for a Musical Family in Solapur
In Solapur, Maharashtra, a multigenerational home pairs a vaulted brick wing with a concrete cuboid around a stepped courtyard that doubles as a stage.
Juan Vega Arquitectos Turns a 19th-Century Jerez Sherry Winery into Courtyard Homes Behind Its Original Walls
In Jerez de la Frontera, the De la Riva bodegas become housing that keeps their whitewashed walls, gabled naves and shared gardens largely intact.
