Kavundampalayam Government School by Mawi Design reimagines the school’s corridors as extended classrooms, transforming the spaces between fragmented classroom blocks into a continuous internal “street.” The design creates a flexible learning environment where movement, interaction, play, and pause unfold beyond the classroom, reconnecting the campus and extending learning into everyday school life.
MAWI Design is a Chennai-based architecture, interiors, and landscape practice focused on shaping meaningful everyday experiences. Each project responds to its context – climate, culture, landscape, and patterns of living – while considering how people move, gather, and interact. The studio integrates indoor and outdoor spaces through light, material, scale, and privacy, prioritising wellbeing, connection, comfort, and nature.
The new Robert Day Sciences Center at Claremont McKenna College by Bjarke Ingels Group is designed to maximize multidisciplinary integration and interaction. Rotated building volumes create a central atrium that channels the flow of people and ideas, bringing students, faculty, laboratories, classrooms, and social spaces together in a dynamic, three-dimensional educational environment.
Reborn House by DARE transforms a 30-year-old residence through a dialogue between memory and modernity. Existing elements are preserved as sculptural presences, while compartmentalized rooms become open, light-filled spaces that foster family interaction. A light-toned palette, contemporary façades, and expanded green spaces create a refreshed spatial experience while retaining the spirit of the original house.
DARE – Design Arena + Research is an architecture and research practice that sees design as an evolving process of questioning, challenging, and reimagining. Moving beyond conventional briefs and disciplinary boundaries, DARE works collaboratively across fields, bringing together diverse ideas, methods, and perspectives to generate innovative possibilities and creative responses to the complexities of contemporary life.
The Smith Center for Education and Research by OPAL is conceived as a contemporary agricultural pavilion within the footprint of a relocated dairy barn. The design modernizes the historic “grange” concept into a flexible gathering space for education and engagement, strengthening the connection between agriculture, ecology, and community while preserving open movement and undisturbed views across the meadow.
Perth Museum by Mecanoo transforms the former City Hall through a delicate balance between preservation and innovation. The design introduces a Vennel, a symbolic passage cutting through the heart of the building, connecting its halls and weaving Perth’s urban fabric into the museum. Historic elements are complemented by modern interventions, creating a poetic interplay of history and modernity.
Seongseo Elementary School by Hyunjejoo_Baukunst reclaims a forgotten terrace by redefining safety as a condition that enables space to be occupied. A repetitive modular guardrail preserves visual openness, while a vibrant rainbow-colored deck dissolves the boundary between floor and wall. The open-ended design encourages children to shape the space through their own imagination, movement, and everyday experiences.
Txai Bungalow by TETRO Arquitetura is designed through a direct relationship with the topography, vegetation, and climate. The concept is centered on shade, inspired by the seawater, coconut trees, and light filtered through their leaves. The residence integrates with the landscape through different levels, organic circulation, planted roofs, and earthy materials, creating a contemporary relationship between shelter, shade, and nature.
Quiet Space by Studio UF+O is a minimalist dental practice designed around simplicity, functionality, and a calming atmosphere. Smooth, light-coloured surfaces and uncluttered spaces create a serene and professional environment, while a neutral colour palette evokes cleanliness and tranquillity. The design balances aesthetics and functional efficiency to enhance patient comfort and experience.
Redhill Early Learning Centre by Hubo Studio reimagines the school as a child-scaled city, creating a protected and nurturing environment that reflects the energy of Johannesburg. The design is shaped by the idea of osmosis, a gentle flow between inside and outside, learning and play, and the individual and the community. The Piazza forms a communal heart where architecture becomes an active participant in learning.
Hubo Studio is an award-winning architecture practice in Norwood, Johannesburg, specialising in educational and child-centred spaces. The studio creates inspiring environments that foster creativity, curiosity and a lifelong love of learning. Its portfolio spans innovative libraries, arts and drama centres, early learning facilities, technology hubs, and high-performance sports and recreation spaces.
Urban Revivo Sanlitun Flagship Store by MVRDV blends local architecture with global aspirations, combining Beijing’s architectural heritage with the cosmopolitan outlook of Urban Revivo. The design reinterprets traditional references through contemporary materials, bold forms, and an immersive retail environment, creating a cohesive ensemble that feels grounded in its surroundings while reflecting the brand’s chic, modern, global identity.
The multipurpose conference building of BCDM by Cubeinside Design Ltd is conceived as a quiet insertion within the lush landscape, capable of hosting large gatherings while respecting the site’s existing configuration. Its transparent architecture dissolves boundaries between inside and out, creating a strong visual connection with nature. It acts as a subtle architectural backdrop, quiet, respectful, and harmoniously integrated.
Living Garden House in Katowice by KWK Promes attempts at redefining the single-family house by integrating architecture with nature. The design creates a dichotomy between day and night: the ground floor opens to the garden, while the first floor is more introverted. The living space merges with nature, creating a “living-garden” where indoor space penetrates the garden.
Bespoke Beijing Villa by CUN Design reimagines the home as a spiritual vessel tailored to those who live in it. Restructuring spatial layouts around the couple’s rhythms, the interior design balances gallery-quality refinement with the warmth of everyday living. A restrained aesthetic, subtle contrasts, and an intuitive layered life axis create an elevated ease where life flows naturally through beauty.
LMCS Corporate Office by Thirdspace Architecture Studio uses the constraints of a compact urban site as a design armature, dissolving the building levels into an integrated interior space. A central circulation core unfolds through the section, creating visual connections and a continuous interior space from the ground to the terrace, while the dynamic facade reveals the flow of the interior.
Nirvana by unTAG Architecture and Interiors is envisioned as a sanctuary of Indian stones, where architecture transcends physical boundaries to become one with nature’s whispering rhythms. Conceived as an antidote to urban life, the home unfolds as a meditative yet plush inhabitant, creating a timeless dialogue between earth, water and sky, rooted in the landscape and its natural contours.
Habitat Spa Headquarters by Monovolume Architecture + Design transforms the historic headquarters into an open, bright and contemporary workplace. The office design centres on transparency, continuity and connection with nature, dissolving the boundary between inside and outside while creating a fluid, coherent space through organic forms, natural materials and carefully calibrated surfaces.
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Wetland Eco Sponge Park by Sponge Collaborative reimagines the conventional public park as integrated blue, green, and social infrastructure. Conceived as a sponge park and constructed wetland system, the design restores hydro-ecological linkages while weaving ecological systems, biodiversity habitats, and inclusive public spaces into a resilient socio-ecological landscape.
Sponge Collaborative is an interdisciplinary consulting, design, and planning practice specialising in nature-based solutions and climate-resilient urbanism. Its team integrates landscape architecture, urban design, planning, ecology, geospatial analysis, and strategic thinking to shape resilient blue-green infrastructure, public spaces, mobility, housing, and water systems, working with public, private, institutional, and academic partners.
Doris Duke Theatre by Mecanoo explores cultural architecture through movement, creating a fluid connection between people, nature, and performance. Its curved, layered form blurs the boundary between indoor and outdoor spaces, emphasising the feeling of movement. Flexible spaces allow the theatre to adapt to diverse performances, dialogue, collaboration, education, and future technical upgrades.
Shanghai White Series Culture Office by Aurora Design redefines the workplace as a cultural and lifestyle setting where productivity and well-being coexist. Inspired by nature and Jiangnan gardens, the design creates a calm, connected environment through bamboo, light, material, and spatial rhythm, balancing focus, dialogue, collaboration, and renewal. It transforms the office into a space of imagination, living, and healing.
Aleksander Moisiu University Campus by PRÁCTICA is conceived as a “Quad of Quads”: an open academic district rooted in Albania’s Adriatic landscape. Rather than an isolated institution, it extends the city into the university through a continuous public ground of courtyards, plazas, gardens, and shaded porticoes. The campus becomes a flexible, living framework for learning, exchange, and transformation.
