Building Planning & Design
Planning and designing buildings that respond to site conditions, user needs, and environmental contexts.
Becoming Aligned With All: A Rammed Earth Campus in Sri Lanka That Rises From the Ground and Falls Back
Two white concrete shells lift off a riverside site and land again, framing a pooled courtyard, rammed earth walls and rooms that can be reshuffled.
Kenta Hirayama Architect & Associates Lifts Daily Life Above an Atelier on a Pine-Lined Tokyo Street
In Kinuta, Setagaya, a 145 m² gabled house defers to its red pines and older neighbors, placing workshop and bedroom below and daily life under the roof.
See Architects Wraps a Stepped Seoul Commercial Block in Deep Concrete Fins Facing an Elementary School
Across from an elementary school near Seoul's Samseong Station, a 950 m² commercial block uses deep fins and stepped terraces to filter view and noise.
Public Architecture and Design Extend UBC's Biodiversity Centre with a Brick Wing around a Garden Courtyard
On Vancouver's Point Grey campus, a pale brick addition gives researchers labs, collections and classrooms that open onto a planted courtyard.
Studio Krubka Folds a Butterfly Roof over a Courtyard Garden for a Thai Herbal Medicine Headquarters
In Bang Khae Nuea, on Bangkok's edge, a board-formed concrete office wraps a mossy rock garden and turns wellbeing into a daily walk.
Zebulun Arquitetura Wraps a Landlocked Paquetá House Extension Around a Mature Mango Tree
In Paquetá, Brazil, a 538 ft² addition with no street view turns inward, organizing timber, brick and corrugated roofs around a single courtyard tree.
Cambra Buró Sets a Kuwaiti Coastal Villa on a Sculpted Travertine Plinth and Lets the Upper House Float
In Abu Al Hasaniya, Kuwait, a 3,000 sqm seaside villa pairs a heavy stone base with clay, cork and walnut to work with the Gulf climate.
Austin Sandy Architects Turns a Dark Danville Ranch House Toward Its Garden with Oak, Concrete and Glass
In Danville, California, a chopped-up vintage T-plan ranch becomes a family home of oak slat screens, concrete floors and glass walls facing the garden.
Gets Architects Stacks a Home, Offices and a Warehouse into One Headquarters in South Jakarta
In Tebet, South Jakarta, CMM (H)Office layers a penthouse, workspace and storage under timber fins, planted terraces and a third-floor lap pool.
LABLANCA Threads a Curved Service Spine Through a 1960s Flat in Badalona's Old Town
A renovated flat in Badalona's historic centre turns its narrow, courtyard-cut plot into an asset, with one rounded joinery core doing most of the work.
DARE – Design Arena + Research Wraps a 30-Year-Old Bangkok House in Curved Screens to Face a New Road
A three-decade-old suburban Bangkok home turns its back on a new public road, trading exposure for curved screens, a pond and a double-height core.
AsNow Design & Construct Stacks a Stepped Medical Building over an Existing Steel Frame in Marivan
On a main boulevard in Marivan, Iran, a 1,050 m² clinic climbs diagonally from a green pharmacy base to a rooftop cafe facing the mountains.
Atelier Z+ Builds a Temporary Office Around a Single Tree on Shanghai's Yangpu Waterfront
On Guangde Road in Yangpu, Shanghai, a two-storey bar of corrugated metal, brick and steel walkways treats temporary construction as a serious civic act.
Studio Maignan Architects Opens Up a 1930s Toronto Brick House and Crowns It with a Glass-Gabled Loft
In Toronto's Humewood Cedarvale, a compartmentalized 1930s brick house becomes an open, timber-lined family home that climbs toward its garden canopy.
NAQ Architecture Wraps a Narrow Vĩnh Long House in Perforated Brick and Lets Moving Air Do the Cooling
A 150 m² family home in Vĩnh Long, Vietnam, where brick lattice, a skylit stair void and cross-ventilated floors answer a hot, humid climate.
Shenzhen Huahui Design and iDEA Stack a Library and Youth Center Around a Hanging Garden in Luohu
In Shenzhen's dense Luohu District, two offset towers split reading and youth programs, then meet in a multi-level sky garden that frees the ground.
IN arq+design Fits a 100 m² Pizza Bar into a Neglected Historic Building in Downtown Curitiba
In downtown Curitiba, red corrugated panels, plywood counters and whitewashed brick turn a narrow historic shell into a pizza bar built for lingering.
LBWA Plays Blue Joinery Against Walnut and Marble in a 68 m² Tenement Apartment in Poznań's Łazarz District
A renovated flat in a historic Poznań tenement keeps its arched windows and paneled doors while blue cabinetry, walnut and marble carry the design.
Z&Z STUDIO Steps a Shenzhen High School Down a Hillside and Lifts Its Running Track into the Air
In Shenzhen, a 46,447 m² terraced courtyard campus stacks classrooms, gardens and a raised 300m track between park, mountain and harbour.
line+ studio Turns a 1958 Hangzhou Chemical Fiber Factory into an Industrial Garden on the Grand Canal
Along Hangzhou's Grand Canal, two retained factory buildings anchor a weathering steel campus of offices, shops and public courtyards at LOFT49.
