Public Building
Architecture and design of buildings serving public functions, from cultural centers to hospitals and civic institutions.
Fold Bunk: A Foldable A-Frame Sleeping House for Pilgrimage Settlements
A modular dwelling that compresses into a flat transportable package and unfolds into a timber A-frame pilgrims village unit.
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[To] SHARE: A Movable Balcony System That Treats Facades as Shared Infrastructure
An Uber-for-balconies concept retrofits a Singapore public housing block with a modular exoskeleton of mobile, shareable rooms.
U-BALCONY: Turning Shanghai's Standardized Façades into Frameworks for Individual Life
A modular retrofit system lets residents of Shanghai's workers' housing customize balconies for gardening, storage, leisure, and community life.
RE/CREATION: Hexagonal Modules That Give Refugee Children Space to Play and Learn
A modular system of hexagonal pavilions clusters recreation, education, and nature into adaptable networks for refugee camp settings.
Hill & Cross Opera: An Opera House Built as an Artificial Hill and Marked by Tallinn's Civic Cross
A stepped Corten steel roof rises like Tallinn's historic terrain, while a luminous cross drawn from the city's coat of arms cuts through the dark shell.
How Joaquín Toesca Built Latin America's Purest Neoclassical Palace in Colonial Santiago
Palacio de La Moneda began as a royal mint in 1784 and became Chile's seat of executive power, anchoring downtown Santiago for over two centuries.
Nikken Sekkei Wraps a Hospital Nursery in Orange Roof Tiles to Honor Kurashiki's Streetscape
A single-story wooden nursery school in Okayama Prefecture threads itself into the neighborhood with low eaves and a central courtyard.
THE POPPY FIELDS
At the root of the project lies the fate of abandoned animals — tens of thousands of them live in Polish shelters, and far more wander with no help at all. In the public mind, a shelter remains a sad, closed-off place that deters rather than invites. "The Poppy Fields" proposes a different path: instead of an institution — a village among meadows, where treatment, rehabilitation and education intertwine. The responsibility for their wellbeing rests with us — and architecture can genuinely help.
MVRDV Carves a Mountain Range of Housing into the Heart of Eindhoven
Seven buildings with jagged 45-degree rooflines bring 237 homes, rooftop gardens, and a car-free public realm to the De Bergen neighborhood.
PLAT ASIA Builds a Sunken Community Center Around Frame Boxes in a Beijing Residential Park
A gym, restaurant, children's center, café, and art shop orbit a sunken courtyard on Beijing's South Fourth Ring, framed by modular metal volumes.
PLAT ASIA Organizes a Beijing Community Center Around Frames, Courtyards, and Quiet Return
A 1,600 square meter gym, restaurant, and children's center in Beijing's Foresky Community trades commercial polish for domestic warmth.
CARTA. Architecte Nestles a Cedar-and-Stone Dental Clinic into the Laurentian Forest
In Val-David, Quebec, a two-story clinic trades sterile healthcare tropes for Nordic materiality and south-facing light.
