Media Architecture
Architecture and design that integrates media, technology, and public space to create interactive environments.
ECO CUBE: Sustainable Architecture Reimagines the Cinema of the Future
Eco Cube reimagines cinema through sustainable architecture, renewable energy, flexible spaces and immersive technologies for future cities.
Urban Filter: A Parasitic Research Centre That Makes New York's Air Visible Above a 1907 Library
Grace Hernandez slides a porous, perforated volume into the notch of Epiphany Library, turning urban air into a subject of public study.
The Veil: A Fabric-Wrapped Tower That Turns a Beijing CBD Skyscraper into an Ecological Machine
Marco Livorno's CityScraper 2020 shortlisted tower wraps a microalgae facade around a public podium, pairing skyline drama with ground-level repair.
Dream Organ: Twenty Mirrored Towers Turn the Cinema into a Desert Instrument for Dreams
A land-art film center where twenty suspended organs house the machinery of film above a public cave, linking prehistoric shadows to future projection.
Living Among the Trees: Three Homes Lifted Above an Eindhoven Woodland Floor
Misak Terzibasiyan lifts three timber homes over a mirrored glass base so the Eindhoven forest floor runs on uninterrupted beneath them.
Wooden Wall: A Timber Threshold Dividing Visitors From Recovering Koalas in Queensland
A Haven 2020 runner-up that uses a symbolic wooden barrier to separate public education from quiet koala rehabilitation in Queensland.
Lamela Café: A Timber-Slatted Pavilion Mediating Between Vienna's Towers and Its Park
Angled timber lamellas, ivy walls and round skylights turn a compact Vienna café into a calm threshold between residential towers and a park.
Data Liberalism: Translucent Domes for a Society Organised by Information
Ding Ruoyu reads Homo Deus as a design brief, proposing translucent domes where data shapes space but leaves room for human unpredictability.
The NEON Culture: A Field of Pavilions Built for the 24-Hour City
Smaran Alva spreads galleries, stages, clubs and markets across a varied site, treating light, sound and ramped movement as the real building materials.
Parallel and Staggered: Rebuilding Aleppo Through Spatial Choreographies of Grief and Hope
A post-conflict memorial landscape in Aleppo guides visitors through five emotional atmospheres, from underground grief corridors to sunlit public plazas.
Memorial Center in Aleppo: Architecture as a Vessel of Collective Memory
A museum and living monument in Aleppo's historic core frames the ruined city itself as its most powerful exhibit.
Public Empty in the Seed Bank: Vertical Agriculture Meets Urban Commons in Hong Kong
A shortlisted tower design carves breathing room from Hong Kong's density, stacking hydroponic farms, workshops, and public plazas into one vertical ecosys
