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.
Villa Suki by Alexis Dornier is conceived as a quiet composition of geometry, landscape, and light. Organized around a central void, the rotated square opens into triangular gardens that extend the architecture into the site. Japanese modernist principles of clarity, proportion, and framing shape a restrained tropical residence where privacy, atmosphere, and a measured relationship between people, space, and landscape define the experience.
The Folds by Ahmedabad Matrix is a corporate headquarters conceived around a central courtyard that serves as its spatial and visual core. Inspired by origami, the design abstracts paper folds into irregular, fragmented planes, creating a multi-faceted facade clad in Indian white marble that evokes a blank sheet. Internally, sculptural walls reinterpret architectural elements to create a calm, geometry-driven workspace.
Ahmedabad Matrix is an architecture practice creating clean, restrained, and timeless spaces rooted in context. Its work draws from local culture, climate, craftsmanship, and materiality, while responding to site, light, and landscape. Through courtyards, filtered light, framed views, and seamless transitions, the practice dissolves boundaries between built and natural environments, creating calm, honest, and emotionally resonant spaces.
Vedic Vidya Kendra by Shanmugam Associates is designed as an integrated spiritual centre rooted in Vedic learnings, where earthy and raw character, meditative spaces, and green environments create a sense of spiritual calmness. Traditional Indian spatial planning is reinterpreted through courtyards, semi-open spaces, natural light, and landscapes, fostering self-learning, reflection, well-being, and growth.
One Milestone Life Science Campus by Henning Larsen and Studio Gang creates a welcoming, flexible environment that encourages interaction, experimentation, and contemplation. Its distinct buildings connect indoor and outdoor spaces through transparent façades, cascading terraces, landscaped areas, and shared amenities, creating a strong relationship with daylight, nature, and the broader life of the campus.
Studio Gang is an internationally recognized architecture and urban design practice founded and led by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang. With offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Paris, its multidisciplinary team uses research-driven, iterative design to create meaningful connections between people, communities, and nature. Its award-winning portfolio spans cultural, civic, educational, public, and high-rise projects across Europe and the Americas.
Konieczny’s Ark by KWK Promes is designed as a framework that crops the mountain view. The one-storey house is fully open to the landscape, while its form is “twisted” so it touches the ground at one corner and hangs over the edge of the hill. Supported on three independent walls, the residence works as a bridge, creating a symbiosis with nature and a feeling of floating above the slope.
Curtain House by Zero Studio reinterprets privacy and openness within a dense neighborhood fabric through a layered façade system that acts like a “curtain.” The metal screen forms a permeable skin, filtering light, views, and ventilation while creating a calm, inward-looking home connected to nature. The design balances solid and void, achieving privacy without isolation and openness without exposure.
Plow by Studio Loes follows a “Leftovers” approach, taking a look at what was already there and using the existing structure wisely. Instead of planning everything from scratch, the interior design makes minor changes to overlooked spaces and expands their potential. By collecting and utilising these spatial “remnants,” the project creates maximum living quality while extending the life of the existing structure.
Isha Srinidhi Nilaya by a+me architects is a vertically organized residence designed around a gradual transition from semi-public to private spaces. The design concept focuses on a strong connection with nature, using a linear courtyard, double-height spaces, shaded balconies, and east-facing park views to bring in daylight, enable passive cooling, and create spaces for leisure, contemplation, and family gatherings.
a+me architects is an architecture practice rooted in context, collaboration, and thoughtful design. The practice responds to each project’s site, culture, environment, and purpose through a disciplined balance of aesthetics, functionality, and buildability. By integrating architecture, interiors, and landscape, a+me creates distinctive, timeless spaces that enhance quality of life, embrace sustainability, and remain relevant over time.
La Vie Residence by Soho Architects is conceived as a composition of three interconnected volumes arranged around a central courtyard. The house is designed as a private, inward-looking home, with most openings oriented toward the courtyard for natural light and cross ventilation. A restrained material palette and lush tropical landscaping allow the residence to sit comfortably within its Kerala setting.
Terra House by Studio AA is a quiet expression of timelessness, imagined as an atmosphere rooted in rawness, light, shadow, and silence. The design revolves around a central courtyard, the soul of the home, where spaces breathe naturally and life unfolds around a living canvas of changing moods. Earthy materials, restrained forms, and climate-responsive spaces create a deeply personal home connected to memory and nature.
Studio AA, established in 2022, creates sustainable, functional, and meaningful architecture rooted in environmentally conscious and climate-responsive solutions. The practice balances functionality, aesthetics, and human interaction to craft timeless, efficient, and inspiring spaces. Innovation, creativity, and meticulous attention to materials, junctions, and spatial elements shape its purposeful designs.
MLL Residence by Dado Castello Branco explores an organic connection between architecture and landscape. Built in a densely wooded area, the design allows pathways to flow seamlessly into the interiors, creating a natural connection between the two family homes. Expansive openings, generous wooden eaves, and lush greenery reinforce the feeling of living closely with nature.
Matria House by Laura Ortin Arquitectura explores how a home can support a new stage of life, creating a setting for comfort, independence, and well-being. The interior design reimagines the house as an open, flexible, and intuitive space, where natural light, spatial clarity, and ease of use shape everyday living. Conceived as a home prepared for the future, it responds to changing needs without sacrificing openness or comfort.
Chalet Sara by Studio Bressan and Studio Botter reinterprets the compositional language of mountain architecture through a contemporary lens, combining traditional aesthetic principles with current materials and construction solutions. Simple volumes, double-pitched roofs, exposed timber, natural stone, and large glazed openings create a dialogue between the residences, the landscape, and the mountains.
Park Lane ICI by Permanent is conceived as “a place where one can experience a small town,” integrating clothing, food, living, and beauty within one environment. The interior design evokes the feeling of being outdoors, allowing air and movement to flow through the space like walking along an open lane. “LANE” reflects a small path leading towards the adjacent park, creating a spatial experience that changes with time and season.
‘A Path Towards Resilience Through Community-Driven Activities at Gora-Digha, Kishoreganj’ is an architecture thesis by Faria Tabassum Sujan from the ‘Department of Architecture – American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB).’ The project aims to develop a resilient, multifunctional community hub for Bangladesh’s flood-prone Haor region, ensuring year-round access to education, healthcare, livelihoods, and social life. By embracing seasonal flooding rather than resisting it, the project seeks to sustain dignity, connectivity, and community resilience through adaptable architecture.
