Contemporary Architecture
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.
Opera by the Sea Estonia: Three Shells Dissolving Architecture into Tallinn's Coastline
A winning opera house proposal replaces monumental form with interconnected shells that blur the boundary between building, park and Baltic Sea.
Opera by the Sea: Two Hyperbolic Paraboloids Frame Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
A dual-faced opera house interprets Tallinn's historic towers toward the city and opens panoramic glazing toward the Baltic horizon.
Post Estonia: An Opera House Conceived as a Field of Glacial Boulders on Tallinn's Waterfront
Alvin Huang and Byron Cai fragment the opera house into an archipelago of geological masses that rethink civic monumentality along the Baltic Sea.
Music Connects Everything: A Fractured Stone Opera House on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Tomasz Abram's shortlisted opera house splits a monumental mass apart to reveal a crystalline glass seam that symbolizes music's connective power.
TOP-OF-ART'sy: An Opera Complex That Becomes Tallinn's Waterfront Public Ground
A shortlisted entry for Opera by the Sea distributes cultural programming across linear volumes, bridges, and a newly created island on Tallinn's shore.
Väike Linn: An Opera House That Grows from the Waterfront
Kristin Urbatzka's radial opera complex dissolves the boundary between cultural building and coastal landscape through curved volumes and public terrain.
Rural Contemporary House Design: Embracing Nature in Vuissens, Switzerland
Experience the seamless harmony of rural charm and contemporary design in the House in Vuissens, Switzerland, a captivating single-family residence nestled in the heart of nature.
The Artistory
Temporary architecture inspired by Land Art and the artist's lifestyle as a refuge for creative minds.
The Progression of Generation Alpha
Evolving trends of youth and their transforming patterns concerning technology.
