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.
Buwa Residence by Think With Us explores minimalism in the 21st century as an evolved pursuit of calm, clarity, and balance. The design uses clean lines, minimal details, clutter-free functionality, and recurring curves and arches to create a free-flowing, cohesive home. A restrained palette of neutral tones, warm wood, and subtle hues adds warmth while maintaining a sense of spatial fluidity.
Villa Corsica by Neel Buddhadev is conceived as a sculptural and deeply personal home shaped by art, color, and experience. The design treats architecture as a composition rather than a conventional container, using bold surfaces, abstract forms, and carefully choreographed movement to create moments of pause and discovery. Privacy, atmosphere, and visual expression come together to transform everyday living into an engaging spatial experience.
Neel Buddhadev is a Mumbai-based multidisciplinary design practice working across spatial design, graphic design and design strategy. Rooted in the belief that architecture should evoke emotion as well as serve function, the studio creates context-responsive environments shaped by art, color, form and movement, crafting immersive, expressive and deeply personal experiences.
Przełomy Dialogue Center by KWK Promes creates an urban design hybrid, combining the traditions of a quarter and a square. The museum is hidden underground as a background architecture, while the concrete floor rises into artificial hills and cuboidal blocks. The open public space encourages social interactions, transforming a place of historical memory into a contemporary urban interior.
SaaRang Skin & Laser Clinic by Studio V16 is designed as a calm, welcoming healthcare environment that balances clinical efficiency with patient comfort. The design emphasizes spatial clarity, material warmth, and a natural palette of warm wood, textured stone, soft neutral colours, and indoor planting. Clean geometry, layered lighting, and spatial continuity create a warm, human-centred alternative to the conventional clinical atmosphere.
Studio V16 is an architecture and interior design practice based in Surat, founded by architect Vikas Rakholiya.
Noira by Studio Deshi is a study in quiet restraint, navigating between shadow and light, surface and void, stillness and movement. Guided by the line and the light, its monastic palette, rich textures, warm wood, and distilled materiality create a calm spatial choreography. Geometry shapes flow while texture replaces ornament, allowing the home to recede into a sense of stillness and sanctuary.
Dr. Banerjee’s Homeopathy Clinic by Yellow Door Architects translates the clinic’s legacy and progressive outlook into a contemporary healthcare environment. Minimalism forms the foundation, creating a calm, organised, and welcoming setting through a restrained material palette, natural elements, and thoughtful spatial planning. The design balances functionality, comfort, and visual warmth while reinforcing the clinic’s commitment to holistic healing.
Yellow Door Architects is a young design practice led by Joshua John and Juhi Patel, rooted in an Indian contemporary ethos. The practice creates timeless, inspiring spaces through meticulous detailing, contextual sensitivity and close collaboration. Its approach responds to climate, site and natural light while seamlessly integrating architecture, interiors, landscape, furniture and lighting to create cohesive, personalized environments.
Evo Pavilion by Sankalp Designers reimagines the conventional sales office as an experience centre, where architecture becomes the first introduction to the project’s philosophy. The design creates a calm, contemporary bohemian environment through nature, materiality and tactile textures, while the central lounge becomes a flexible social nucleus for interaction, gathering and shared experiences.
This renovation project by Hutz Architects was conceived as an open-ended design process, allowing the historic building fabric revealed on site to guide the intervention. Original layers and traces were retained, while carefully designed contemporary insertions create a restrained dialogue between the historic fabric and contemporary working environments. The approach reflects a sensitive form of adaptive reuse, preserving the building’s character.
ForD Avenue Façade System Upgradation by Say Architects gives the flagship store a refreshed architectural identity and a “Golden Ambience.” The building is gently wrapped in a golden veil of fixed metal panels, with varied density and spacing creating a subtle gradient and rhythmic visual effect. The alternating composition invites river views and natural light, creating an organic dialogue between architecture and its environment.
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.
