Roost by Furman + Keil Architects is conceived as an elevated pavilion that allows the users to inhabit nature. Floating lightly over the water, it provides views into the trees and along the slough while minimizing impact on the wetland. By lifting habitable space above the ground plane and reusing existing piers, the design reduces its footprint and creates a light, airy structure that dissolves into its natural setting.
Furman + Keil Architects is a collaborative design firm creating enriched, memorable environments that connect people to place. Balancing local precedents with innovative, sustainable design, FKA crafts timeless architecture grounded in landscape and materiality. Through a guided, inclusive process, the firm partners closely with clients and builders, earning regional and national recognition over nearly 30 years.
Kûara Hotel by David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores is conceived as a private sanctuary where architecture establishes a solid symbiosis with nature, preserving native vegetation and reusing existing structures. The design merges vernacular and modern language, valuing wood, natural fibers, and handmade elements. Privacy, intimacy, and silence guide the project, allowing light, landscape, sounds, and views to become indissociable parts of the architectural experience.
Nafplioblu by Katerina Valsamaki Architects is a vacation house perched atop a lush valley, designed to immerse its spaces in panoramic views of Argolic Bay and the surrounding islands. Its layout blurs boundaries between indoors and outdoors, fostering Mediterranean living, while the residence’s split levels, terraces, and infinity pool seamlessly integrate with the sloping olive grove, creating a tranquil dialogue between light, shadow, and nature.
Ekam by SMASH Studios is a contemporary home envisioned for a family of three generations, embracing traditional Indian design while integrating the sophistication and functionality of modern day living. The design blends rich colours, Indian materials, and handcrafted elements with contemporary forms, creating spaces that honour the past while feeling rooted, timeless, and relevant to modern living.
SMASH Studios is a Hyderabad-based collaborative design firm founded in 2021. Known for its versatility, the studio works across architectural and interior projects of varied scales and typologies. Rooted in cultural context and climate-conscious thinking, each project is narrative-driven and experience-focused. By blending traditional influences with contemporary design, SMASH creates timeless spaces that foster flow, functionality, and a strong sense of belonging.
Tara Villa by ZAV Architects reinterprets the traditional KANDOOJ typology as a contemporary residential model, maintaining the morphology of the rural landscape while strengthening the occupants’ relationship with nature. Inspired by centuries of local shelter-building practices, the project adapts the open, central spatial logic of the silo to modern living, merging contemporary architecture with a form rooted in its agricultural context.
Halo by The Pinewood Studio is envisioned as a tropical refuge where you walk in and the city slips away. Designed as a Goan beach club–inspired restaurant, the outdoors is not an accessory but a living, breathing experience. Flowing planter boxes, layered palms, and cascading creepers blur architecture and landscape, creating an immersive green world that envelops visitors and transports them into a relaxed, warm, and timeless environment within the city.
Pudis Offices, an interior design project by Studio COSMO, emphasizes revitalization with respect for the original spirit of the building. The design removes insensitive alterations and restores the interior to its original form and materiality, emphasizing the concrete structural frame, natural light, and oak parquet flooring. These qualities are combined with contemporary interventions and accents of the company’s visual identity to create a cohesive, modern workplace.
Aakash Healthcare Super Speciality Hospital by IIDC Architects represents a bold reimagining of healthcare infrastructure through patient-centric design. The project seamlessly integrates vertical and lateral expansion within an existing facility, resolving MEP&F limitations while responding to urban density and clinical complexities. The design prioritizes functionality, clarity, and calm, elevating the hospital into a future-ready, globally aligned healing environment.
IIDC Architects is a healthcare-focused design practice combining visionary thinking, systems-level strategy, and human-centred design. Working across campuses, specialty centres, and adaptive reuse, IIDC brings deep insight into patient journeys, operations, and technology. Rooted in innovation, integrity, and impact, the firm partners with leading institutions to create compassionate, future-ready environments that evolve with changing clinical needs.
Workplace Tranche by Reasoning Instincts Architecture Studio – RIAS is conceived as a ‘tranche’ within a large industrial premise, reflecting the accomplishments and future growth of an established stainless-steel manufacturing unit. The unified, linear structure emphasizes horizontality, transparency, and openness, fostering workforce autonomy, collaboration, and a light-filled, efficient office with a clear spatial hierarchy.
Fulnek Kindergarten by XTOPIX Architekti and Simona Ledvinková is conceived as a sanctuary for play, quietly set into the northern part of the plot and immersed in an expansive garden. Open entirely to the south, the building follows the terrain with a low, welcoming form and frames distant views of the château. Carved courtyards let the garden enter the building, ensuring every classroom opens outdoors and blending architecture, landscape, and carefree exploration.
XTOPIX Architekti believes architecture should connect buildings, public space, art, and design. The studio works across scales, from house renovations and brownfield cultural projects to schools, kindergartens, urban planning, and the renewal of historic squares. Their contextual approach draws on local knowledge and each site’s story, emphasizing creative dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration.
King One Community Center by E Plus Design rethinks “built-then-abandoned” public buildings through urban regeneration. Anchored by an existing municipal park, a shared platform reconnects four isolated structures into a cohesive social space. With minimal financial resources and light-touch intervention, the project transforms underutilized assets into a vibrant community hub that fosters everyday activity.
E Plus Design practices an integrated, interdisciplinary design ideology that unites architecture, engineering, technology and art. Drawing on global perspectives and comprehensive in-house capabilities, the firm delivers holistic solutions from concept to implementation. Its work seeks to create better platforms, communities and environments, promoting sustainable balance between social, ecological and economic values.
Orange Obras Civiles Offices by Agustín Lozada reinterprets the workplace in Córdoba through a flexible open plan responding to constant growth and change. Organized in four modules, the interior design blends collective, external, and leisure areas, using saving walls and transparent limits. Material choices tied to corporate identity enhance lighting, spaciousness, and well-being. Exposed coffered slabs and clear equipment reinforce comfort.
Casa Passos by David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores was conceived as an oasis in the southwest part of the state, in a continental region with high temperatures and low humidity. Surrounded by trees and gardens, the residence is organized around a central courtyard, valuing natural lighting and ventilation. Open and integrated spaces balance privacy and convergence, creating a refuge that connects architecture, interior design, and nature.
David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores aims to combine creativity and functionality, always striving to create innovative and unique designs. Working in the fields of architecture and interior design, their work ranges from small-scale objects to large-scale public and institutional buildings. The team engages in thorough project research, emphasizing attention to detail and composition.
ES Office by Saransh is the result of a design idea that lets the outdoors pour in while offering a climate-friendly design solution. Shaped by its panoramic facade and green views, the office is conceived as a semi-open workspace where light, nature, and thoughtful planning merge to create an interior that feels open, connected, and protected. The concept emphasizes openness while responding to climate with simple, effective spatial moves.
Examilia House by Katerina Valsamaki Architects expresses a design that unifies indoor and outdoor living within a single straight white volume. Conceived as a rectangular parallelepiped of solid, open, and transparent surfaces, it acts like a cloister, merging house and patios. The residence creates spatial amplitude and a strong dialogue with the Corinthian bay and Examilia hill, enhancing its serene presence.
Habitat for Orphan Girls by ZAV Architects adopts an austere, honest tectonic structure that removes all undue elements, while its operable façade lets the girls choose how their housing interacts with the city. Set in the historic fabric, the project transforms heritage into opportunity, and with a domestic, protective layout, it becomes a true house that nurtures a sense of belonging.
JSW Sanjeevani Multispeciality Hospital by SJK Architects is designed to enhance both physical and emotional well-being. It maximises natural light and ventilation while fostering a strong connection with nature. Warm, earthy colours and traditional art create a sense of comfort and belonging. Together, these passive design strategies shape a healing, community-focused healthcare environment for patients, staff, and visitors.
Kohútka Cottage, a residence by SENAA Architekti, brings contemporary modern living together with traditional Wallachian architecture. The log construction with a saddle roof blends naturally into the sloping terrain, using small casement windows and a pronounced roof overhang while opening westward with large-format glazing that frames spectacular views of the Javorníky mountain range.
