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Shihi Chou

Hotel

Tuesday, 25 August 2026

Haikou Bay

Haikou Bay is a five-star hotel located in Hainan, China. The design is based on the sail, forming an S-shaped mass that links the city and the ocean. The long building is cut by three urban view corridors, which open views and reduce the apparent street scale. A single-loaded corridor plan gives every guest room an ocean view, and the average building depth is 14 metres. The sea-front facades recall ocean waves, while the city-side facades stress horizontal lines. The oval ballroom carries a sloping green roof, reached by a spiral ramp for public activities.

Shimu Wang

Cinema

Monday, 24 August 2026

Open Village

Open Village is a cinema located in a rural village in Fenyang, Shanxi, China. The building was converted from a former cement plant. The original structure is preserved and enclosed within a new brick facade, whose pierced patterns act as a shading device. A glazed staircase of colored glass rises through the outer shell. Adjacent cement silos were refurbished into a bookstore. The venue also contains an auditorium and a long exhibition wall. Film and literature festivals are held there for local residents and visitors.

Mercurio Design Lab S.r.l.

Golf Resort Hotel

Sunday, 23 August 2026

Dusit Thani Laguna

Dusit Thani Laguna is a golf resort hotel in Singapore, located within the grounds of the Laguna National Golf and Country Club. The development joins a renovated three-storey clubhouse and a new six-storey hotel under one continuous roof. The curved roof is made of special cementitious fibre boards and a marine grade membrane, forming a seamless surface with no visible joints. A shared glazed facade opens wide views towards the golf course. The building form is inspired by the undulating green landscape of the course. The project was completed in December 2020.

Public Architectural Design Institute

Building

Saturday, 22 August 2026

Sino German Creative Park Four

Sino German Creative Park Four is a museum and cultural exchange center in Qingdao, China. The building stands on a north slope, facing the main park entrance, with a river landscape to the south. A Y-shaped layout gives the building three facades of floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls, each turned toward a different landscape area of the park. The three tips of the Y shape are slightly raised to form a sculptural outline. Fair-faced concrete shapes the interior and echoes the outdoor brick curtain wall. The design also improves the microclimate and stores rainwater.

Wsp Architects

Multifunctional Offices

Friday, 21 August 2026

Linkong Biomedical Park

Linkong Biomedical Park is a research and production complex for the life science and biotechnology industry in Zhengzhou, China. The park includes an incubation and experiment center, pilot production buildings, large production plants, an exhibition center, a conference and catering center and living facilities. A central landscape belt divides the site into two zones and improves the efficiency of use. The plan is inspired by the double helix of DNA. Floor heights, column spans, structural loads and waste water treatment follow the technical needs of biomedical work.

Boonlert Hemvijitraphan

House

Thursday, 20 August 2026

Blind

Blind is a private house in Bangkok, Thailand, designed as a quiet sanctuary for living and for the practice of meditation. The glazed ground floor holds an open plan living and dining area set between a reflective pond and a sculptural hill. The hill, inspired by origami, covers a sunken garage and a shrine. A long concrete plane rests on the transparent facade, so the upper floor appears to float above the landscape. The upper level is clad in a steel lattice that offers privacy and filters sunlight into the two bedrooms.

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