Architecture Magazine

Architecture Magazine

Architecture Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Fengqi Chang’an Aesthetics Museum

Inspired by nature, traditional Chinese gardens, and landscape paintings, through the combo of different sizes of functional forms, architects combine various courtyards and inlay the elements of verandas to create a continuous, flexible, and rich garden space. Besides the usage for the exhibition, the building takes the experience of visitors in the garden into account. The courtyards are set up according to various functions, including the ones for display, communication, meditation, activities and etc., which are blended with each other through crisscrossed corridors.

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Muh Shoou Xixi

Muh Shoou originally means the last fruit left by farmers on the tree with the special intention of sharing it with animals in nature so as to pray for the harvest of the coming year. That’s just where the name of Muh Shoou Xixi comes. The architect attempts to present the natural beauty of Xixi Wetland - coldness, quietness, uniqueness, wildness and seclusion - to visitors through the design and evoke the resonance between human and the primitive nature through the architecture. While rambling in the Wetland, it's hidden in the dense forest quietly with poetic aesthetics.

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Tibetan Eagle

The campsite is located beside Ranwu Lake with the altitude 3960m. This place provide the site for people who desire to road trip to stay and enjoy the view of Ranwu Lake. The project use modern materials to describe the Tibetan characters, most of materials are environmentally friendly. This local color are red and white which is exactly what the project want to use on weathering steel & fiber cement to interpret the meaning of color. For environmental protection, this project use lots of local waste materials, like stones after debris flow disaster and woods from worn train tracks.

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City Of Light

A river is in front of this project. The design concept from the rhythm of the water itself with the usage of the liquid-like blob architecture. The designer blends the curve with the geometric shape and forms a streamlined building with a sense of technology and future. It breaks the traditional concept of Founder architecture and integrates streamlined fashion design into architectural design so that the whole building looks like a streamlined ocean wave. The public space increase the interaction of the neighborhood. Everyone has more communities communication and people-to-people contact.

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Warm Transparency

Conventionally, a hospital tends to be a space that has poor natural color or material due to artificial structure material to improve the functionally and the efficiency. Therefore, patients feel that they are being apart from their daily life. A consideration for a comfortable environment where patients can spend and free from stress, should be taken. TSC architects provide an open, comfortable space by setting an L-shaped open ceiling space and the large eaves by using a plenty of wood material. The warm transparency of this architecture connects people and medical services.

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The Peach Garden

In this project, the designer shows enough respect for the old house during the reconstruction. The addition part adopts the form of wood structure, which not only makes the connection between new and old buildings appear natural, but also makes the new part have a light feeling, as well as continuous space. At the foot of the mountains and the Great Wall, the transparent interface is impressive, especially when architecture and nature blend each other.

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