Vila Nova Apartment, a refurbishment project by Fcstudio, rethinks the home around the new owner’s way of living. Walls were suppressed and spaces integrated to increase the social area and create greater flexibility. A large woodwork panel organizes the apartment and enhances the social space, while architecture, lighting, and furniture design work together to create harmony throughout the interior.
Bihailou Art Village by MVRDV is a vertical reinterpretation of the surrounding village, based on the concept of the “Vertical Village.” Instead of a single large volume, the design stacks fragmented “houses” of different colours, shapes, and materials, inspired by the surrounding buildings. The project combines density with humanity, creating a three-dimensional cultural landscape that reflects the individuality and community of village life.
Parallel Territories by The Local Crew explores how architecture can exist without disrupting deeply rooted ecological routines. The design is rooted in non-interference, allowing humans and wildlife to share territory without crossing paths, yet remain visually connected. Rather than blending into nature, the architecture takes a contrarian stance—an alien presence that is deliberately stark, legible, and distinct, enabling parallel living.
The Local Crew is a multidisciplinary design practice established in 2019, working across architecture, interiors, landscape, and 3D visualization. Led by five partners with diverse interests, the practice collaborates to create sensitive, people-centric spaces. Their approach combines client needs, sustainability, local materials, traditional building techniques, and rigorous research across projects ranging from farmhouses and residences to offices and apartment interiors.
Green Heart Commercial Complex & A4X Art Center by E Plus Design reinterprets Chongqing’s traditional “mountain city” character through a contemporary, park-integrated destination. Cascading, pixel-like volumes follow the hillside, connected by stairs, ramps, courtyards, bridges, and terraces, recreating the spontaneity and layered circulation of old Chongqing. Commerce, art, landscape, and community life form a flexible “incubator” framework.
Portland Art Museum Transformation by Hennebery Eddy Architects and Vinci-Hamp Architects creates a more connected, accessible, and welcoming museum experience. At its centerpiece, the Rothko Pavilion bridges two historic buildings through a transparent, contemporary form, establishing a new main entry and intuitive circulation. The design respects its historic partners while opening the museum to its urban neighborhood and community.
Vinci-Hamp Architects is dedicated to enhancing the built environment through historic preservation and high-quality contemporary design. With extensive experience in preserving and reusing historic buildings, VHA values their character, materials, scale, and adaptability. Its new architecture emphasizes clear function, structure, refined proportions, quality materials, and timeless forms, creating dignified, well-organized, and enduring spaces.
Four Rooms by RC Architects is a bespoke healthcare sanctuary that seamlessly combines dental and ENT care under one roof. The design transcends the ordinary, creating a healing retreat where health meets harmony. Thoughtfully curated colours, natural sunlight, ambient lighting and a seamless blend of clinical efficiency with warmth create an inviting, soothing atmosphere that puts patients at ease.
Trimasys Control System Pvt Ltd by Design Studio Associates and Spectrum Designs envisions a workspace that reflects an open, collaborative, and flat organizational culture. The office design translates Trimasys’ progressive work culture into spatial form through open planning, seamless interaction, and a unified design language. A restrained palette with vibrant accents and varied textures creates a dynamic, balanced, and future-ready environment.
Design Studio Associates is an interior design practice based in Pune, India.
‘Revival of Muslin’ is an architecture thesis by Rajoana Islam from the ‘Faculty of Architecture and Planning – Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST).’ The project aims to revive Bengal muslin as a living cultural and economic heritage by creating a dedicated center for research, training, weaving, and public engagement. It seeks to support local artisans, preserve traditional knowledge, integrate modern technology, and establish sustainable, climate-responsive conditions for producing high-quality muslin.
By the way House by KWK Promes takes its form from the road that had to reach the middle of the plot. The architects lifted “the way” and wrapped it around the residence, allowing it to shape the floors, walls and ceilings. It then returns to the garden level, leading through the steep hill to the river without cutting out any trees. The road becomes the main motif of the project.
World of Volvo by Henning Larsen is designed around Scandinavian values of freedom of movement, access to nature, and openness and inclusion. Its expansive round structure and timber canopy create a welcoming, forest-like experience, bringing a native piece of Swedish nature into the heart of Gothenburg and encouraging visitors to create their own journeys indoors and outdoors.
Bodhisatwa, a residence by a+me Architects, is designed around a compact footprint, using the open edge of the site to introduce larger openings for abundant natural light and cross-ventilation. A minimal design language, clean lines, and a restrained material palette create calm, breathable interiors, while carefully considered window placements strengthen the connection between indoor and outdoor spaces.
Unit 163 by studio80 is conceived as an open, adaptable extension for multi-generational living, balancing privacy and independence. Instead of reintroducing walls, a continuous wooden element organizes the interior as a multifunctional spine, maximizing storage while maintaining visual clarity. A monolithic material palette and preserved visual axes reinforce a sense of continuity, openness, and connection to the cityscape.
Founded in 2020 by architects Ahaladini Sridharan and Trisha Patel, studio80 is a multidisciplinary practice rooted in research, collaboration and contextual design. Drawing on their extensive experience at Matharoo Associates, the practice explores residential, commercial and institutional architecture, while engaging with housing, urbanism, writing and architectural archives. Working between Chennai and Vadodara, studio80 approaches each project with a balance of rigour, sensitivity and curiosity.
Moore Street, an urban regeneration project by Fuinneamh Workshop Architects, aims to create a vibrant living quarter while respecting the history and urban grain of the Markets area. The design restores the Moore Street terrace, reactivates historic laneways, and creates new civic spaces at the heart of the block, preserving the character of the site while introducing a contemporary layer of housing, culture, and activity.
The Concrete Datum by Terra Firma Architects and Studio Hohma is an interior responding to material culture, adaptive context and collective occupation. Within the Alembic adaptive-reuse campus, the project extends the existing spatial language through material continuity and structural clarity. A continuous concrete datum organises the interior, creating a shared ground for working, meeting, eating and pausing, where everyday occupation shapes the space.
Baker McKenzie Office, an interior design project by Bit Creative, blends the calm aesthetics of Japandi with the dynamic spirit of New York, creating a workplace centred on balance. Natural materials, refined craftsmanship, art and light shape an understated yet elegant environment, designed around sensory experience, emotional wellbeing and contemporary ways of living and working, while offering flexibility, comfort and a sense of calm.
Hé Showroom by LubanEra·Design reimagines the retail environment as a flexible, multi-dimensional space where spatial aesthetics, function, and brand character converge. Eschewing rigid display models, the design creates an open, fluid layout shaped by box-like volumes, layered materials, and blurred boundaries, reflecting Hé’s ethos of unbounded style and effortless fashion expression while balancing artistic atmosphere and everyday ease.
Sanctum of Solace by SOHO Architects is conceived as a tranquil retreat for a family, shaped by the site’s distinct topography and southwest-facing entry. Intersecting volumes define courtyards, circulation paths, and shared outdoor spaces, while landscaped pockets, privacy screens, and filtered light create an intimate sense of tranquillity. The design balances openness and privacy through a calm, grounded architectural language.
The Brick Veil by VPA Architects is a home designed for seclusion through a layered architectural language centred around sensory comfort. A porous brick screen filters light, heat, ventilation, sound, and views, creating a gradual transition between public and private spaces. The house is imagined as an interwoven composition of breeze, shadow, texture, and silence, where landscape merges with built form.
Jezero Residence by Enota is a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Gorenjska house, adapted to Bled’s distinctive landscape and urban context. Two rows of low residential units form a paved inner courtyard, creating the impression of a dispersed settlement. Pitched roofs, wooden details, and a coherent composition preserve the local scale while introducing contemporary living.
‘CONVITE’ is an architecture thesis by Monja Céline Kulla and Hannah Merle Watzke from the ‘Fachbereich Architektur – TU Darmstadt.’ The project aims to transform a vacant department store into a permeable urban hub that combines everyday supply, public space, movement, recreation, and social interaction. It reimagines the supermarket as a social and urban anchor while adaptively reusing the existing structure to reconnect the city centre.
