Urban Design
Design and planning of urban spaces, infrastructure, and communities that shape how people live and interact in cities.
UnIADA '26
The Global Benchmark for Architecture Dissertation Awards
Temporary Home for Dogs: A Reversed Zoo Rethinks Animal Shelter Architecture
In Bucharest, a sinuous corridor and freed landscape flip the logic of containment, designing a shelter that works to make itself unnecessary.
Above the Baltic: A Lighthouse Reimagined as Tallinn's Waterfront Opera House
Three brick volumes and a tilted glass tower turn a new opera house into both cultural institution and maritime beacon on Tallinn's coastline.
Krystal Design Award 2026
A Global Graduation Competition for Architecture, Urban Design & Interior Design
One Community: An Animal Shelter That Refuses to Hide from Its City
Bucharest's stray animal crisis becomes a catalyst for public space, memorial landscape, and social infrastructure in this layered proposal.
Modular Balconies: A Kit-of-Parts System That Lets Residents Design Their Own Outdoor Spaces
A 50 x 50 cm modular grid transforms identical balcony footprints into gardens, gyms, reading nooks, and social spaces shaped by daily life.
THE RING OF LIFE
On the premise of using the site plants, to promote the exchange of experience between the elderly and young people as the starting point, through the elderly friendly ramp, to create a space experience rich vertical space, with interesting functions and modeling, to attract people from the adjacent site to this public space.
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.
Social Nature: Replacing Fences with Landscape to Rethink Animal Shelter Architecture
A layered system of habitats, elevated walkways, and modular pavilions creates a gradient from public park to protected animal territory.
Pink Art Pavilion/Conceptual Architecture Design
Concept-driven art pavilion designed for an international architecture competition, integrating exhibition spaces, events, and landscape. Developed through cultural and site research, the project combines identity, sustainability, and modular construction using recycled maritime materials.
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.
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.
FRAMEWORK
This is a building that works as a frame for self-assembled flats.It uses the inhabitants creativity within the set architectural frame, spiced up by fresh plants straight from the next-door aquaponics garden (greenery planted in fish tank). The flats are modular which makes them affordable and allows the owner to control the cost.
PÄRT OPERA: A Monumental Stone Platform That Turns an Opera House into Public Infrastructure
Raised above the waterfront on stepped terraces and rhythmic colonnades, this opera house invites the city in before the curtain rises.
Framework: A Modular Housing System That Grows With Its Residents
Anna Szczepaniak proposes an expandable residential framework where inhabitants assemble their own flats within a shared structural grid.
Urban Retrofit: Turning Mass Housing Facades into Fields of Individual Expression
A modular balcony framework grafted onto Venezuelan public housing lets residents reshape their own domestic edge, unit by unit.
The School Beyond Its Walls: Enrico Panzacchi School by Archisbang and Areaprogetti
A pavilion school for 485 students in Ozzano dell'Emilia opens its gymnasium, auditorium and a new public square to the city.
Revitalizing Asadganj: Bridging Trade, Heritage & Future Horizons
Asadganj is one of Chattogram’s oldest and most significant trading districts and serves as Bangladesh’s largest wholesale market for shutki (dried fish). Alongside shutki, a wide range of commodities including rice, lentils, spices, and other essential goods are traded and distributed across Chattogram and the rest of the country. Historically, the district
Hudson Yards: A Green Ray and Vertical Ecosystem for Manhattan's Dense Future
A shortlisted New Dencities entry organizes towers, courtyards, and a continuous landscape axis into one interconnected urban framework.
Opera by the Sea: A Layered Waterfront Cultural Building for Tallinn's Baltic Coast
A sustainable opera house proposal connects marine cooling systems, stepped massing, and civic landscape on Tallinn's shoreline near Linnahall.
Magnificent Work! Keep it up
Very thoughtful and interesting project!
Inspiring transformation, where heritage meets innovation. Great vision for sustainable urban revitalization..... <3