Sustainable Building
Design and construction practices that minimize environmental impact and prioritize long-term ecological responsibility.
Bamboo Block: A Modular Playground System for Refugee Children Built on a 2m Grid
Bamboo, rammed earth, and a repeating spatial module turn a constrained refugee camp site into a landscape of play and learning.
Bunkertecture: A Winning Proposal That Turns a Missile Silo into a Daily Underground Community
A decommissioned missile silo becomes a self-sufficient settlement where housing, farming and work run every day, not only when disaster strikes.
Form Follows Climate: Passive Design Principles Shape a Children's Learning Space in Mainz
Three stepped volumes, rammed earth cores, and thermal buffer zones create a climate-responsive kindergarten along the Rhine.
Our Generations Define the Future: A Climate-Resilient Daycare in Miami
A four-storey daycare for 100 children uses geopolymer cement, photovoltaic curtain walls, and passive cooling to answer Miami's tropical monsoon climate.
Creative Incubator: Vernacular Architecture as a Framework for Collaboration in Varkala
A shortlisted cultural campus in Kerala weaves hexagonal libraries, open-air theatres, and modular studios into Varkala's coastal terrain.
Immigrant Family's Dream: Vertical Sanctuary for Displaced Lives in Beirut
A humanitarian housing proposal on Bani Kahtan Street transforms Syrian cultural memory into a healing, light-filled residential tower.
The Singularity: A Spiraling Wetland Center Rooted in Mangrove Logic
An adaptive interpretation center uses the mangrove's vertical ecology as a framework for spiraling, ramp-driven architecture.
Altar Casa Arca: A Masterpiece of Climate-Responsive Architecture in Mexico
Altar Casa Arca exemplifies climate-responsive architecture in Mexico, harmoniously blending design, environment, and cultural heritage.
TAISEI DESIGN Renovates Kenzo Tange's Iconic Metabolism Tower in Ginza Without Losing a Single Cantilever
A seismic retrofit and interior overhaul breathe new life into the 1967 Shizuoka Shimbun Tokyo Branch Office on its triangular Ginza site.
Vertical Warehouses: Stacking Retail and Logistics into a Single Urban Typology
A first-place competition entry that replaces elevators with sloped surfaces to merge warehouse logistics and public retail in one vertical structure.
Arkhé Uses Mid-Century Modernism as an Act of Dissent in a New Zealand Subdivision
Palm Springs House in Papamoa channels Neutra and Aalto to resist fast architecture on the Bay of Plenty coast.
Athenaeum: A Plankton-Inspired Learning Hub Rising from the Water
Kinga Krawczyk's shortlisted design draws on cyanobacteria morphology to shape a multi-level cultural center that glows like ocean plankton at night.
