Building Design
FLDArchitectural approaches to designing buildings that serve communities, adapt to change, and integrate multiple functions.
Extended Shell: Retrofitting Kolkata's Balconies as Living Urban Thresholds
A modular retrofit system recovers the social and environmental intelligence of Kolkata's historic verandas for contemporary Park Street residents.
Conexión: Biophilic Design Reimagines High-Rise Living in Hong Kong
Conexión reimagines high-rise living in Hong Kong through biophilic design, green facades, shared spaces, daylight, water and nature within.
DIGS: Rethinking Animal Shelter Design Through Luxury, Freedom and Human-Animal Connection
DIGS reshapes animal shelter design by merging luxury hospitality with humane housing, giving strays comfort, freedom, care, and connection.
FHHH Friends Wraps a Seoul Music Academy in a Faceted White Shell That Echoes Its Interior Logic
A 1,270-square-meter preparatory academy in Seoul stacks soundproof practice rooms inside an angular volume that reshapes its block.
sukchulmok and BRBB Architects Turn Their Own 1974 Seoul Brick House into a Hybrid Studio-Home
A 195-square-meter renovation in Myeongnyun-dong preserves the red brick streetscape while carving out a sculptural live-work interior.
IF Architecture Designs Its Own Collingwood Studio as a Textile-Wrapped Incubator for Ideas
A 90-square-metre office in Melbourne's Collingwood uses layered curtains and color to turn a compact footprint into a laboratory for design.
835 High Street Residential Building by Carr: A New Benchmark in Medium-Density Housing
835 High Street by Carr blends rhythmic façade grids, biophilic design, premium materials, and spacious interiors, creating iconic medium-density residential architecture.
Design Process
This project proposes a community-sensitive design that can be adaptable to their future growth and help reduce social exclusion. It explores the impact housing can have in reducing social exclusion.
More Than a Building-Designing a Living System
More Than a Building-Designing a Living System
LIFE Architects Turns a Sharp Wedge of Land in Seoul into a Ten-Story Office Tower
A-Building in Seongdong-gu transforms an acute-angled plot into 356 square meters of vertically stacked workspace wrapped in laminated ceramic.
Block Connected: A Residential Complex Built on the Logic of Bricklaying
Stacking living units like bricks and binding them with public space to create a mixed-use urban community along the waterfront.
Construction Skills Training Center Design: Building the Future of Education in Architecture
This article explores the design of construction skills training centers, focusing on sustainability, flexibility, and community engagement in architecture.
