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Aimbere Residence Building

Torres Arquitetos Building Architecture

Aimbere Residence

Aimbere Residence is a residential building with fifteen floors, located in Guarapuava, a municipality in the state of Paraná, in the interior of southern Brazil. Aimbere in Tupi-Guarani, the language of the Indians of the southern region of Brazil, means one who squirms (turns). the building seeks to reflect this dynamism and the movement of Nature, with a contemporary architecture. The choice for a differentiated residential product has been a conviction of the developer and the architectural firm since their first studies.

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Fengxi Linquan Residential Area

Tengyuan Design Residential Area Architecture

Fengxi Linquan

Vanke Fengxi Linquan is a residential complex built in a core urban area of Qingdao. The design gives priority to ecological living and to the urban image of the district. Each floor holds two homes of about 200 to 220 square meters, joined by a fully lit elevator hall. A shared garden appears every third floor, measuring 6.9 meters in width, 7.2 meters in depth and three floors in height, and serves six homes as a rest and meeting space. A nano thermal blanket and an eggshell insulation system protect plant roots during the cold winters and allow trees to grow on the raised soil.

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Hamacho Hotel

Uds Ltd. Hotel Architecture

Hamacho

Hamacho is a hotel located in Nihonbashi Hamacho, Tokyo, Japan. The building has 15 floors and one basement level, and the structure is reinforced concrete. The hotel occupies the front half of the building, while apartments are placed at the back. There are 170 guest rooms in total. The ground floor holds a restaurant and a shop that are open to the public. Board-formed concrete and plaster express local craftsmanship. Planting is stacked across the facade to form a vertical landscape and to reduce energy use. Lightweight artificial soil limits the load and controls root growth.

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Flow Office Building

Shun Ming Chang Office Building Architecture

Flow

Flow is an office building located in Yunlin City, Taiwan, completed in July 2019. The property covers 7546 square meters. Staggered high and low volumes form an inlaid composition of solid and open parts. Changes in the angles of the volumes widen the field of vision. Glass surfaces bring in views of the surrounding greenery and let light and wind pass through the interior. The raised indoor lobby increases the vertical dimension of the space. The intent is an open, bright and comfortable place to work.

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Automotive Social Club

Teng Guo Yan Jiao Club Architecture

Automotive Social

Automotive Social Club is a building designed as a social space for car enthusiasts. The L-shaped structure stands on a triangular site between two railway tracks and covers 410 square meters. One part is a single story building with a repair shop, a cleaning workshop and a detailing workshop. The other part has two floors with a bar, sales and display areas, offices, a kitchen, a dining area and a terrace. Large interior steps separate the inner and outer zones. The facade is made of red and black pressed steel plates.

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Urban Construction Archives

DC Alliance Archives Architecture

Urban Construction

Ningbo Urban Construction Archives is an archive building located in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China. The design interprets the history of the city as a history of construction. Buildings are understood as assemblies of blocks, so the archive is composed of stacked blocks that combine the properties of space and material. The blocks are grouped into three types: transparent, solid and special. The site area is 6567 square meters, with 17190 square meters of floor area on eleven levels above ground and 6405 square meters on two levels below ground.

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N12 House Residential

Masahiko Sato Residential Architecture

N12 House

N12 House is a two-storey weekend residence located in Asakura City, Japan. The house includes a built-in garage that presents the owner's car collection as an integral part of the design. Most of the volume is placed on the second floor, where a living room, a kitchen and a dining area form one open space. Large windows and a terrace balcony open the interior towards three directions and the surrounding views. Red cedar boards run from the interior ceiling to the sloping eaves of the terrace. Indirect lighting creates a warm and gentle atmosphere.

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Light Welling House Residence for Single Family

Teruo Miyahara Residence for Single Family Architecture

Light Welling House

Light Welling House is a detached single family residence built on a narrow urban site in Tokyo. The site is small and irregular in shape, and natural light could not be drawn from the east or west sides. The stairs were therefore designed as a path of light. The steps are made of perforated metal and the stairwell has glass walls, so daylight reaches each room and is carried from the upper level down to the lower levels. The position of the stairs was set by calculating the altitude of the winter sun. The rooms are finished in white to spread the borrowed light further.

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Wenzhou Urban Wetland Museum

Paul Bo Peng Museum Architecture

Wenzhou Urban Wetland

Wenzhou Urban Wetland is a museum located in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The building stands at the heart of a wetland area in the centre of the city. The main body of the museum is elevated, so the wetlands pass beneath it, and a boat tour area is provided. The layout of the exhibition halls follows the courtyard spaces of local dwellings. Changes in level let the lower wetland landscape blend into the upper courtyards. A roof garden forms a further layer. The building area is 20000 square metres.

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Doji Tower Gold and Gem Trading Centre

Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy Gold and Gem Trading Centre Architecture

Doji Tower

Hanoi Doji Tower is a gold, gem and jewellery trading centre in central Hanoi. The building combines classical and modern styles in a diamond-shaped form. The base of six floors is tiled with natural marble. The seventh to the sixteenth floors form a large diamond block made of thousands of specially produced glass sheets, which create a distinct light effect. The tower has sixteen floors and three basements, with a total usable area of nearly 19,000 square metres. The first five floors hold a shopping centre for gold, gems and jewellery.

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Private Villa Juge Accommodation

Maiko Minami Accommodation Architecture

Private Villa Juge

The rental villa is located on a famed tourism spot in Higashiyama Kyoto. A Japanese architect Maiko Minami designs the villa to establish new value by creation a modern architecture incorporating Japanese ethos. With a fresh sensibility by reinterpretation of traditional method, the two story wooden villa is composed of three individual gardens, various glazed windows, Japanese Washi Papers reflecting the changing sunlight, and materials finished by bright tone. Those elements provide a seasonal atmosphere animatedly in its limited small property.

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Hi Ladders High Pavilion

Li Hao Pavilion Architecture

Hi Ladders High

Hi Ladders High is a pavilion built at a summer camp of a primary school in Luotian County, Hubei Province, China. The structure consists of twenty independent wooden ladders cut and polished from China fir. Each ladder is stable and has an adjustable angle of inclination, so many spatial combinations are possible. Children without architectural training took part in the whole design and construction process. Common rural objects, such as ladders, transparent tablecloths and cardboard, are given new functions. The pavilion offers an open place for games and camp events.

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