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.
