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 firm addressing climate resilience, urban development, and environmental challenges. With offices in Chennai, Bengaluru, and Lyon, it combines nature-based solutions, human-centered design, and systems thinking across architecture, landscapes, infrastructure, water, and planning. Its multidisciplinary team creates locally grounded, practical, and scalable solutions.
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.
TMC Apartment by NOARQ is a refurbishment conceived as a synthesis and a rewriting of the existing tale. The conservative layout was transformed to flexibilize the space and respond to contemporary habits. Around an organic sycamore wood body, the scenario changes through opening partitions, reinventing the action of preparing, cooking, dining and living with a sober line and a clear picture.
‘Sekali+Semua’ is a Masters Design Project by Gwendolyn Chan Mei Yee from the ‘School of Architecture & Built Environment – UCSI University.’ The aim of the project is to explore how the social life of Jakarta’s kampung can be translated into vertical housing. Rather than treating high density as simply a matter of accommodating more people, the project seeks to retain everyday rituals, informal activities, shared spaces, and community relationships within a new vertical form of living.
Rotterdam ROCKS!, an architecture project by MVRDV + ARUP, is conceived as a vertical extension of the Green Maas, where the river landscape enters, climbs, and continues through the building. Two interconnected towers are sculpted into rounded, rock-like forms, creating a three-dimensional park of caves, terraces, vegetation, water, and public routes. The building becomes less an object than an organism—a living urban ecosystem.
PANE Shenzhen Bay New Concept Store by Say Architects re-examines everyday footwear through a spatial language that bridges the classical and the contemporary. Inspired by the brand’s slogans as its point of departure, the interior design oscillates between ease and competition. Classical order, refined materials, and traces of use create a timeless space that honours craftsmanship and the lifecycle of objects.
Ripples of Light, designed by Murali Architects, with interior design by Collage Architecture Studio, transforms a residence into an immersive interior experience shaped by light, texture, and movement. Inspired by the geometry of the mandala and the fluidity of water, the design creates a continuous experience where natural light, crafted materials, and shifting perspectives connect spaces, making the home feel calm, open, connected, and constantly unfolding.
Mandarin Oriental Costa Navarino by Alexandros N. Tombazis & Associates Architects and K-Studio is conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the Greek rural “mandria,” creating a decentralized masterplan that follows the contours of the hills. The architectural design is expansive yet intimate, using clustered, earth-sheltered villas to create a meaningful connection to land, culture, and climate.
Alexandros N. Tombazis and Associates Architects is an internationally active practice offering architecture, urban planning, interior and furniture design. The firm follows a client-focused, multidisciplinary approach, integrating culture, place, function and sustainability. Its long-standing expertise in bioclimatic and low-energy design has shaped its work since the 1970s.
