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Qinchang Village Town Hall is the second phase of the Qinchang Village CPC Center Complex. It focuses on the introduction of small local businesses as well as cultural and recreational programs, including a store selling local farm produce and handicrafts souvenirs, a small café, a restaurant,... Studio 10

Pinghe Bibliotheater is the core of OPEN’s latest project—School as Village/Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School. A library, a theater, and a black box interlock together like a Chinese puzzle to form this characteristic building that some call "the blue whale" and others see as an... OPEN Architecture

Chengdu Science and Technology Industry Incubation Park is located in the Core Area of Tianfu New District and is a certified National Economic and Technological Development Zone in China, with an overall planning area of 330 thousand square meters. Now, more than 240 science technology and... CROX

Located in the northern zone of the core region of Chongqing, China, the project consists of a cliffside building, designed and constructed into its surrounding mountain façade. aoe

The Galleria is Korea’s first and largest upscale department store franchise. The store in Gwanggyo is Galleria's sixth branch, its stone-like appearance making it a natural point of gravity for public life in the city. OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Our focus was to return the house to its essence of form and to create a home full of atmosphere and individuality. The brief was to create an authentic home with a strong sense of identity and with clients being of Danish heritage, a house that at its core was the definition of “Hygge” (a... studiofour

NYC-and-Costa Rica-based ​Taller KEN​ ​has designed a new 4,850-square-foot store for​ ​Hija de Tigre​, a locally-owned-and-operated women’s clothing retailer, in Escazú, a hip, upscale suburb of San José, Costa Rica. Taller KEN

Led by Design Principal Alan Maskin, Olson Kundig’s design of the Space Needle’s new observation deck and restaurant level “core and shell” builds on the same conceptual premise that originally informed the Space Needle – a place devoted to observation. Olson Kundig

Under the impact of modern urbanization, the decline of rural areas has become an unavoidable reality. Mix Architecture was commissioned by Jiangshan Fishing Village in Gaochun of Nanjing to meet the basic needs of indigenous peoples for modern functions and cultural life, and formulated a rural... Mix Architecture

Situated between two lakes and within the community of Christiania, the new Noma is built on the site of a protected ex-military warehouse once used to store mines for the Royal Danish Navy. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

On a wooded lot on the shore of Charlebois Lake, the clients wanted to build a contemporary house, luminous and open to the nature. They wanted most of the spaces of the house to be level with the land. Paul Bernier Architecte

After nearly a decade of work, CannonDesign + NEUF architect(e)s are pleased to announce the completion of Phase 1 of the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM).  Begun in 2009, the CHUM teaching institution is the largest healthcare construction... CannonDesign + NEUF architect(e)s

CORE Modern Homes is a 16,000sf 7-unit townhouse development which explores the potential of spatially oriented apertures that work to induce movement and visual interest within an efficient volume which maximizes programmatic potential. Batay-Csorba Architects

For its new headquarters, The Kapor Center commissioned a design competition to transform an existing 1920s-era office building in downtown Oakland into innovative workspace. The new headquarters had to be an architectural manifestation of the Kapor Center’s core values: connectivity,... Fougeron Architecture

Humanitarianism – i.e. activities of support and benevolence amongst individuals – has at its core the belief that mankind is somehow united; that there is something that men and women, independent of gender, religion, race, age or nationality, living across the globe have in common.... Manuel Herz

With the Centre d’Art Diane Dufresne, ACDF Architecture has created a new arts centre for the suburban municipality of Repentigny, providing a dynamic core where residents can take in stirring arts and culture without getting on the highway to nearby Montreal. ACDF Architecture

The social charity institution Padre Rubinos was born in A Coruña nearly a century ago with a dedication to give shelter and asylum to the needy. Later it has continued growing and expanding its scope to nursery schools and the elderly. Elsa Urquijo Architects

Anchoring Beijing’s Dawangjing business district, the mixed-use Beijing Greenland Center is a highly sustainable landmark building equidistant from Beijing’s bustling core and the airport. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

This home is partially sunken into a bluff where a wooded site meets the ocean. The living spaces within span the overlap between the forest and water’s edge – form and detail exploring the tension between the natural and the man-made. Leroy Street Studio Architecture

They say there is only one life and so one must live it fully. The Katyal family epitomizes this philosophy to the core and clearly expects its design home to showcase it just as flamboyantly. Studio archohm

A house which means to be a shelter, a boat, a hut, a wooden box in a glass box. A core of cross-laminated timber hidden under a smooth white skin. The spiral staircase is a sculpture, the feminine which breaks and reconnects the simple grid of the system. corde architetti associati

This project won the Retail Category of the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors 2015, which was held alongside the World Architecture Festival 2015. PRODUCE Workshop

Located on slightly sloping land on the shore of the Gate Lake, the chalet takes place on the edge of a cedar wood with majestic mature incline trunk trees. Although the footprint of this two-story building is substantial, because the roof slope follows the landscape the impact of it site... BOOM TOWN

As an architectural practice operating in an urban environment, the large scale of our work often implies that we are unable to fully engage the end user within the realm of the everyday objects that they interact with – be they light fixtures, small Architecture Discipline

Cc-studio was invited, together with two other offices, to take part in a mini-competition initiated by the municipal supervisor Don Murphy, the director of VMX architects. cc-studio

The building is located in the historical center of San Candido, a small touristic village in the Dolomites. In the first three stories it houses a department store while the upper three storiess have been transformed from a partly underused attic space into four large, independent apartments for... Plasma Studio

Located at a major high-end commercial district at the intersection of Changde Road and Nanjing West Road in Shanghai, a new façade is created for the fashion house Ports 1961's flagship store. UUfie

Nike North America Brand Design (NABD) approached WSDIA to complete environmental rollouts at both Moynihan Station and Nike’s downtown New York flagship store, 21 Mercer, for the release of their Tech Pack product series. WSDIA

Defining a new edge of the city, the Wanda Vista Tower more tightly knits the thriving Lake Shore East community to its environment with unprecedented urban connections. Studio Gang Architects

Valentino is pleased to announce the opening of its new and largest Flagship Store. The new store is situated in Piazza di Spagna, next to sixteenth century Palazzo Mignanelli, creative headquarters of the Valentino Maison. Valentino / David Chipperfield Architects

.PSLAB and Aesop have collaborated with Melbourne based studio KTA on the lighting design of the newly opened Aesop store in the Melbourne Emporium, a precinct featuring a mix of local and international fashion, culture, food and art. .PSLAB

MVSA designed Shoebaloo’s newest store on 5 Koningsplein, Amsterdam. Shoebaloo is renowned for its high-end designer shoes and accessories, and has various branches in the city. The women’s store is located beside the men’s store at 7 Koningsplein. MVSA Architects

Colwell Shelor + West 8 + Weddle Gilmore has been selected to lead the design process to transform 19 acres surrounding Mesa’s City Hall into a one of a kind civic space which will capture and enhance the urbanizing momentum of Mesa’s downtown core. Colwell Shelor + West 8 + Weddle Gilmore

Rojkind Arquitectos has received three honor awards from AIA Colorado for the Cineteca Nacional Siglo XXI, the Liverpool Insurgentes Department Store, and the Falcón 2 Headquarters. Rojkind Arquitectos

Leica Store in San Francisco was completed in time to celebrate 100 years of Leica photography. WZ Architecture

Designed as a first in a series of multi-designer pret stores, where the collections are themed and curated, Neel Sutra - The India Fashion Store is emblematic of Indian Design ethos. Architecture Discipline