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Hangzhou Haishu School

LYCS Architecture School Architecture Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Hangzhou Haishu

Hangzhou Haishu is a school complex that combines a kindergarten and a primary school. The campus includes teaching buildings, an administration building, a gym and a canteen. All functional spaces are linked in series by corridors and inner courtyards with different degrees of openness. Exposed stairs and dynamically shaped corridors serve both circulation and activity. The design was inspired by a child drawing of an ideal school seen as a small town. The campus of 28000 square metres is divided into 15 small gabled volumes, and each volume grows in scale with the age of the children.

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Pugongshan Geology Museum

Baofeng Li Museum Architecture Monday, 24 November 2025

Pugongshan Geology

The Pugong Mountain Geological Museum integrates the old and new gypsum kilns, and uses the old kiln group as the landmark gate of the overall site park. The kiln head is transformed into a viewing platform, and one of the old kilns is used as the main entrance of the museum. Key mining areas are set as ecological education points, and viewing windows and viewing platforms are set up at the corresponding positions of the museum building, so that the museum building is tightly anchored in this special place.

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Double Skin House

Nobuhito Mori House Architecture Sunday, 23 November 2025

Double Skin

This building is a three-story wooden structure in a densely built up area of Tokyo. Although the site is small and the distance from the neighboring land is only about 1m, light and privacy were required. Inspired by the traditional Japanese shoji which softens the light, the designer have created a modern light filter that is resistant to wind and rain and can also be used outside. The translucent cladding on facade softens the light from outside and blurs the visibility of both passerby's and inhabitants. At night, the lighted facade become a large light to illuminate the streets.

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International Duty Free Reception Center

Qun Wen Reception Center Architecture Saturday, 22 November 2025

International Duty Free

Aoe try to creatively use the language of destructure on this land, to collide and connect vision and vision of life with the site architecture here, break the traditional site impression, break the traditional inherent thinking, and reshape a foundation based on The unique spiritual landscape on the site makes it a poetic link between the base and the building. For aoe vision of future life, it need three kinds of agent concepts and elements to elaborate and finally present the transmission of emotions.

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The North Teaching Cluster of Zjuic School

U A D School Architecture Friday, 21 November 2025

The North Teaching Cluster of Zjuic

The North Teaching Cluster of Zjuic is a university teaching complex on the central axis of the International Campus of Zhejiang University, beside Juanhu Lake in China. The complex covers about 53,000 square meters and includes eight buildings, such as an auditorium, lecture halls, a business school and an administration building. A round auditorium forms the core, and the other buildings are arranged symmetrically on both sides. Floating platforms and corridors link all buildings. Red brick facades are combined with glass curtain walls and metal roofs.

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Lijiang Taohuayuan Residential Architecture

gad Residential Architecture Architecture Thursday, 20 November 2025

Lijiang Taohuayuan

Lijiang Taohuayuan is a residential complex in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China. The site lies on the bank of Wenbi Sea, close to Wenbi Mountain. The buildings rise gradually from the lake in the west towards the east, so that more homes gain a view of the water. The plan includes two-story compounds, four-story courtyards, duplexes, eight-story condominiums and a town center with commercial services. The facades apply local Naxi elements, such as wooden lattice windows, with modern methods. Gardens are placed around single buildings to bring the landscape indoors.

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