Common Space
Shared spaces designed to foster community interaction, gathering, and collective experience in urban and social contexts.
Shell+Core Carve a Brutalist Coffee House and Concept Store from Raw Concrete in Dubai
Koncrete Space on Jumeirah's Dar Al Wasl road merges specialty coffee, curated retail, and a sunken majlis into 215 square meters of raw finishes.
Actual Office Turns South London Shell Spaces into a Warm, Steel-Accented Shared Living Scheme
At Cherry Orchard, a restrained palette of pale timber, white brick, and polished steel gives communal living a sense of quiet permanence.
ADINJU Muhhe Studio Carves a Sunlit Gallery from a 1980s Nanjing Factory Shell
East Gallery's new 680-square-meter space in Nanjing preserves industrial scale while channeling afternoon light onto white exhibition walls.
GRAFT Reassembles 35 Shipping Containers into a Temporary Cultural Hub on Kurfürstendamm
POP Kudamm turns a vacant Berlin lot into a Place of Participation, built from the recycled bones of an earlier cultural venue.
SOHO Architects Stacks Work and Living into a Pink Twin Block on a Tiny Plot in Calicut
On an 8.5-cent conserved site in Kerala, a compact mixed-use house layers terracotta, arched niches, and planted courtyards into a vertical life.
Studio RE + N Turn a Forgotten Rooftop Between Housing Blocks into a Red Steel Commons
In Songyang County, a cracked second-floor platform becomes a vibrant public stage for 1,300 square meters of play, sport, and gathering.
Common Woods: Housing That Lives Inside a Forest
Space&Matter's circular housing cluster in Amersfoort dissolves the boundary between neighborhood and nature with radical material honesty.
Cloud: Triangulated Urban Furniture That Invites Spontaneous Gathering
Steel pipes and woven nylon wires form floating modular canopies that activate forgotten pockets of public space across the city.
Hanging Spaces: Suspended Residential Pods Float Inside a Shared Vertical Volume
A modular housing prototype in Williamsburg, Brooklyn stacks organic dwelling units within a light-filled communal frame.
ANYSPACE: Modular Architecture That Turns Seoul's Obsolete Offices into Civic Toolkits
A shortlisted competition entry reimagines Seoul's Central Business District as a network of 3D-printed, AI-driven modular workspaces for 2050.
Common Learning House: Five Thematic Pavilions Under One Roof
A community knowledge marketplace where gabled volumes for arts, food, sports, and learning converge around a shared social library.