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Dreessen Willemse Architecten

Private House

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Villa 22

Villa 22 is a private house built into a slope in the rural landscape near the Meuse river in the south of the Netherlands. The name refers to the 22 degree incline of the site. The concrete was cast in place, and all pipes and installations are set within the concrete slabs. The protruding balconies show the structural potential of the material. Elm wood adds a warm appearance, while large windows bring the surrounding nature inside. A swimming pool joins the geometric lines of the building with water. Design and construction took place between 2017 and 2019.

Zong Wu Xu

Art Center

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Strait Culture

Strait Culture and Art Center is a cultural complex on the southern bank of the Minjiang River in Fuzhou, China. The center holds a multifunctional theatre, an opera house, a concert hall, an art museum, a film and television center and a central cultural hall. The design is inspired by jasmine, the city flower of Fuzhou. Five main buildings form five white petals, and the Liangcuo River runs between them like a stalk. Ceramics and bamboo, both produced in Fujian, are used for the facades and finishes. The outdoor square, roof platform and waterborne space are open to the public.

Zhubo Design CO., LTD.

Platform

Monday, 30 June 2025

Guangming Public Service

Guangming Public Service is a government office and public service building in Shenzhen, China. The building is divided into two blocks with distinct forms. The upper rectangular volume contains offices, while the lower block holds a public service hall with an undulating roof shaped like a mountain range. Two small hills on the site are preserved, which reduces excavation and extends the surrounding green landscape. The plan avoids the enclosed layout that is common in Chinese government buildings. The design follows a green development mode with low impact.

Aspa Kst Ltd

Office Building

Sunday, 29 June 2025

Kaizen Campus

Kaizen Campus is an office building located in Athens, Greece. The design focuses on aesthetics, environmental impact and user experience. All interior spaces benefit from natural light and air flow, and the three floors are connected through interior circulation and exterior ramps. An inner courtyard serves as the social and functional heart of the complex, holding entrances, resting areas and vertical circulation. The facade provides shading and filters noise, while repeated vertical louvers accentuate the elliptical shape of the building.

Qi Zhou

Sports Centre

Saturday, 28 June 2025

Natatorium of Southeast University

The Natatorium of Southeast University is an indoor swimming pool built for a university campus in Nanjing, China. The building provides a venue for swimming and training, with a standard pool of 20 by 50 meters, changing rooms on the ground floor, and a gym and classrooms above. Continuous cast-in-place concrete arches form the walls and the roof as one whole, repeated in seven curved bays. The concrete is left bare to show the structure and the material, and the outer skin is dry-hung with red terracotta tiles. Large glazed areas link the interior with the campus outside.

Daniel de Amorim

Residential and Commercial Building

Friday, 27 June 2025

Twenty Five Street Home

Manhattan's High Line materializes in a Brazilian city. Twenty Five Street Home is a project that idealizes harmony between human beings and nature, without giving up high technology and the sophistication of living well. Inspired by the famous tourist spot in New York, a space was presented where families could experience spaces (private and communal), without losing connection with their natural habitat and with technology combined to bring comfort to everyday life. The enterprise is the harmony of opposites, the search for more, without forgetting the essential. It's nature inviting.

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