Commercial Buildings
Design and architecture of retail, hospitality, and commercial spaces that serve public and community functions.
Tetriscape: Stacking a Whole Community Around One Earthen Courtyard
A multi-storey earth building in India that folds homes, hall and restaurant into one shared void instead of splitting them into separate blocks.
Gardens Above Accra: Pocket Parks Carved into Earth-Block Towers
A ground-floor market, switchback stairs and planted voids turn a cluster of residential towers into a public retreat lifted above the city.
SHED: A Folded Canopy That Turns a Roadside Fuel Stop into One Continuous Roof
Winner of Overhaul 2020, this service station drapes a single faceted roof over pumps, shop and café, pinning its sharp corners into the lawn.
Agostinho Apartments: Rammed Earth Pushed to Ten Storeys of Luxury Living in Accra
A bent rammed earth block wraps a resort-style pool courtyard and argues that earth can build high, build dense and build for the top of the market.
Lines of the Land: A Fish Market Sheltered Beneath an Arching Greenway Bridge
An arching vegetated bridge spans an urban fish market in Vietnam, folding terraced field geometry into stalls, seating and lantern-lit lawns.
The market as a place to gather: a fish market that leaves its lot to meet the water
A shortlisted Street City Vietnam proposal spreads a folded solar roof over an open single-level grid and lets the market spill onto a stepped waterfront.
Commercial-Entertainment Mall
A Place to experience El-quseir Local spirit, while being provided with essentials such as shops, Eating areas, and entertainment and events spaces. El-quseir lacks commercial, and entertainment place, therefore this project achieves the needs Of El-quseir with the use of traditional architecture found there, and putting el-quseir on local markets.
Divide 13 - Manos: A Craft Market Built to Bridge Two Lima Neighbourhoods Split by Wealth
Folding stalls, a sunken stage and shaded decks try to turn handmade goods into common ground between Las Casuarinas and Pamplona Alta.
PEEL B: A Market That Peels the Ground Back to Tell the Story of Thu Thiem
Katherine Herrera turns a city's leap from open land to dense skyline into a market of skyscraper stalls, shaded streets and a lifted green.
Madarq studio Turns a Leftover Food Court Corner in San Pedro Garza García into a Pink-Lit Restaurant
In San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, a glowing ceiling disc and a borrowed garden give a 150 m² food court restaurant its own center and identity.
Vari Architects Turns the Roof Above Its Own Chongqing Studio into a Three-Tier Public Market
A 4,000 m² rooftop market in Chongqing that stacks shops, walkways and a sky garden on a retained concrete frame, run by the architects who built it.
Modum Atelier Grafts a Glass and Timber Pavilion onto a Qing Dynasty Qilou to Make a Zhongshan Café
On Zhongshan's Minzu Road, a 77 m² café keeps its Jiaqing-era brick firewalls and timber frame while steel, glass and timber add a modern pavilion.
cold lab Turns an Underused Corner of Guangzhou's Xinghai Concert Hall into a Seatless Listening Lounge for Dynaudio
In Guangzhou, a 480 m² showroom for Dynaudio treats timber, limestone and felt as acoustic tools, letting a concert hall stay open between performances.
AIA Estúdio Stacks a Single-Level Ipanema Boutique into a Vertical Sequence Around a Spiral Stair
On Garcia D'Ávila Street in Rio de Janeiro, Panō's new 260 m² store climbs a timber spiral stair through floors that each shift mood, material and light.
Horibe Associates Wedges a 17 m² Timber Café Between a Historic Shrine and a New Theater in Takatsuki
In Takatsuki, Japan, a glazed café of just 17 square meters, with deep cedar eaves, links an old shrine gate to a new performing arts theater.
Some Thoughts Clamps Felt and Metal Together to Build a Modular Eyewear Store in Wuhan
A 98 m² MOLSION eyewear shop in Wuhan builds its displays from stacked red and grey felt modules held by custom triangular metal fasteners.
TEKI Design Wraps a Harajuku Blue Bottle Café in Curved Steel and Opens a Slice of Sky Between Buildings
In Shibuya's Harajuku, an 82 m² Blue Bottle café pairs a sweeping stainless steel wall with rammed earth, mirrored ceilings and a new passage.
García de Alba and Ponce Arquitectos Hang a Green Fabric Vault Inside a Double-Height Restaurant in Mérida
In Temozón Norte, Mérida, Mimado turns a 250 m² commercial shell into a layered dining room of chukum, cantera, oak and pleated green fabric.
