Cultural Heritage
Design and architecture work that engages with cultural heritage, from preserving intangible traditions to reinterpreting historic sites and objects.
Translating Intangible Heritage into Contemporary Product Design
How a contemporary blind-box gift transforms sugar painting, ancient Chinese scripts, and cultural storytelling into an interactive product experience that brings intangible heritage into everyday life.
ZHA Translates the Flowing Silk Sleeves of Cantonese Opera into a Lakeside Cultural Center in Dongguan
Three sculptural volumes housing a grand theatre, exhibition hall, and multifunction hall wrap the Songshan Lake waterfront in UHPC and timber.
REFRACTION: Reinterpreting Cultural Heritage Through Light, Interaction, and Spatial Experience
An interactive educational and cultural space inspired by the art of stained glass, where light becomes a medium for learning, storytelling, and spatial experience.
Auridya Experience Centre
A Cultural Heritage Experience Centre that preserves community stories and historical legacies through immersive, multisensory, and experiential architecture, promoting the digitalization of narratives.
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Urban Oasis: Baobab-Inspired Towers and Adinkra Unity Shape a Shaded Residential Commons in Accra
A clustered housing proposal where flared diagrid towers borrow the baobab's canopy and the Akoma Ntoaso's circle to give Accra shaded common ground.
Belén Ilarri Studio Restores a Medieval Castle on a Valencian Hilltop with Rammed Earth and Restraint
A Cultural Heritage Site in Spain's Chera-Sot de Chera Natural Park receives careful intervention that reads the ruin rather than rewriting it.
DORAE KNOT Café: Harmonizing Tradition and Modern Minimalism in Mapo-gu, South Korea
Minimalist Korean café blending traditional dorae knot inspiration with natural materials, linear furniture, and elegant marble interiors in Mapo-gu.
Floor and Roof of Haibara Township by SAI Architectural Design Office
Innovative Japanese home integrates history, nature, and modern living with floating slab, twisting roofs, and open under-eave spaces.
Highland Village Interpretive Centre by Abbott Brown Architects: A Cultural Museum Rooted in Gaelic Heritage
Immersive museum design blending Gaelic heritage, vernacular forms, and sustainable Passive House strategies through sequential volumes, ramps, and material transitions.
Philharmonica Residential Building by Bar Orian Architects, Tel Aviv-Yafo
20-word description: Luxurious Tel Aviv residential complex inspired by orchestral history, featuring L-shaped balconies, lush gardens, natural light, and flexible interiors.
Great Colombian Park: A Landscape of Heritage, Memory, and Urban Reconnection in Villa del Rosario
Historic Colombian park blending heritage conservation, ecological restoration, and community engagement through sustainable design, reconnecting urban fabric with cultural memory.
