Maria Manzil School in Nuh by Myspace Architects creates an architectural identity that serves as a catalyst for social change. Planned as interconnected wings around courtyards, it prioritizes ease of movement, climate-responsive classrooms, and interactive corridors that foster belonging. With a welcoming brick vault, red bridges, and framed vistas, the design shapes a nurturing, open, and engaging learning environment.
Amity International School in Mohali by Vijay Gupta Architects reimagines conventional learning spaces by lifting the building mass onto a shared podium and weaving activity zones across all levels. With playful punctures, louvres, and a vibrant curtain wall, the design balances formal and informal environments to foster exploration, climate responsiveness, and holistic education in a dynamic, engaging setting.
The Banyan Farm by Dhulia Architecture Design is envisioned as a simple, open-plan residence that encourages slow living, togetherness, and shared moments. The design remains intentionally modest, allowing the site’s natural richness—banyan trees, mango orchards, and open landscape—to guide the experience, using honest materials and openness to stay deeply connected to the land and daily family life.
Ribbon House by DesignAware is an inward-looking residence shaped by a tiny site, existing neem trees, and a desire for a Scandinavian style with sunlight and greenery. Vernacular elements like courtyard, verandah and jaali are reinterpreted to create a minimal, airy house where light, ventilation and privacy define its design. Set in the Heritage Zone, its perforated wall and folded façade filter views and connect the home to its context.
The Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka by Mario Cucinella Architects is conceived as a living, regenerative ecosystem that reinterprets Italian hospitality through an open, permeable architecture. It embodies a renewed balance among humanity, nature, and technology, creating a dynamic space where tradition and innovation can come alive. The design forms an immersive laboratory that expresses a contemporary vision of a sustainable future.
G – 5 Houses by SUMMARY is based on total prefabrication in reinforced concrete, using modular panels for façades, roofs, and interior partitions. The design highlights a free span and a modular rhythm, contrasting the grey concrete base with green pigmented boxes above, whose irregular arrangement reinforces the building’s expressive image and relates to terraces, cross ventilation, and east–west orientation.
Janošík Headquarters and Showroom by Jakub Janošík transforms a closed 1950s hall into an architecture of connection and merging. The design reflects on quality windows and their ability to shape space and atmosphere. It opens the building to the meadow and landscape so the essence of windows, openness, and smooth transitions with nature can be clearly felt and continually experienced in everyday use.
Jakub Janošík, who guides design at a family window-making firm, developed a deep interest in architecture through his work and admiration for architects’ creative freedom. Travel shaped his own perspective, leading him to value architecture that harmonizes with landscape and nature—visually, materially, and culturally—remaining contemporary and expressive while causing minimal harm.
‘Economy of Straw Bale’ is an architecture thesis by Kotaro Shiraishi from the ‘UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design.’ The project aims to use straw bale construction as a visible, experiential model of sustainable and circular design while creating a welcoming community gateway for O2AA. By integrating natural materials into everyday programs, the project demonstrates how low-carbon building methods can support art, living, and public engagement.
Shilamay by SferaBlu, Naman Shah Architects is a residence that breathes, plays, and belongs, using stone, lime, reclaimed wood, and nature to form a grounded yet lively ecosystem. It blurs boundaries between inside and outside, rooting sustainability in memory. The design invites light, water, plants, and play to shape a simple, warm, joyful way of living that reflects the family’s rhythms and spirit.
Casa Tao by HW Studio is conceived as a residence shaped by memory and shade, responding not to an image but to a way of living. Turning inward, it seeks coolness, stillness, and the aesthetics of emptiness, using indirect light, essential geometry, and elevated patios that create calm, contemplative atmospheres. Here, shadow becomes refuge, and dwelling grows quietly, intentionally, and attentively.
Den talamh by Fuinneamh Workshop Architects serves as a meeting point for talks on the environment and biodiversity within Tramore Valley Park. The pavilion frames a view to Carroll’s Bog and draws visitors closer to this unique landscape. Using a rudimentary form that recalls a miniature temple, the building becomes an agora for park users to observe, contemplate, and discuss the beauty of the site.
Fuinneamh Workshop Architects focuses on producing well-designed and considered architecture that is appropriate both to the client’s brief and the site context. Fuinneamh Workshop has extensive experience working on housing schemes, historic area master plans, public buildings, art installations, and conservation projects, as well as bespoke domestic houses. Their work has been published and exhibited internationally.
‘Kampung Education’ is an architecture thesis by Jovan Theophilus Amin from the ‘Department of Architecture – National Cheng Kung University.’ This project aims to redefine educational architecture by applying the adaptable, community-driven spatial logic of Jakarta’s Kampung to a contemporary campus. By fostering meta-learning, spontaneity, inclusivity, and deeper urban integration, it creates a flexible environment that evolves with its users and supports continuous, collaborative learning, preparing communities for future uncertainty.
Nukui House by Roovice features the renovation of a 1976 wooden home that retains the old while enhancing the new. The design concept focuses on maintaining the original structure, selectively removing walls, and improving spatial quality, light, and functionality. By balancing traditional elements with modern updates, the project shows how aging residential stock in Tokyo can be preserved and adapted for contemporary living.
Shivoham Villa by AMLD is a symphony of nature and design, where lush gardens and native Indian trees blur the lines between indoors and outdoors. This residence bathed in natural light revolves around a central courtyard, with natural materials creating warmth and character. Seamless connections to tranquil garden views foster peace, tranquility, and immersion in the beauty of the natural world.
AMLD is an Ahmedabad-based architecture and landscape design firm with 18+ years of experience and 100+ completed projects across Gujarat. Rooted in nature-based design, the firm creates built environments that blend seamlessly with their natural context. AMLD emphasizes sustainability through organic methods and eco-sensitive construction, combining traditional wisdom with emerging technologies to ensure environmentally responsible design.
‘Memory Vessels: Architecture as a Living Archive’ is a Masters Design Thesis by Seah Jia Jun from the ‘Department of Architecture – National University of Singapore (NUS).’ The project aims to explore how design can preserve a Mother’s fading memories by transforming her recollections of past homes into tangible spatial forms. Through drawing, reconstruction, and memory vessels embedded in the present home, it seeks to support remembering, foster understanding, and offer permanence to fragile personal histories.
Oasis Brewery by Nilay Patalia Architects reinterprets the microbrewery as a calm urban retreat, integrating mature trees and natural materials to create a relaxed setting. The project combines contemporary architecture with a sensitive approach to landscape, retaining trees and positioning the building to reduce noise, blurring indoor and outdoor spaces. Defined by clean volumes and soft muted tones, it creates an oasis where nature meets calm in city life.
The Travelers’ House by BBGK Architekci was designed as a refuge — a “home of one’s own,” deeply personal yet open to its surroundings. Inspired by nomadic shelters like tipis and yurts, it gathers all life beneath one wide, tent-like roof. Rooted among pine trees, the single-storey residence blurs the boundary between interior and exterior, creating a calm, light-filled space for togetherness, reflection, and return.
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The Long House by Crest Architects embodies minimalism and intention through pure geometry and purposeful design. Defined by three cuboidal volumes and a bold 24-foot cantilever, the residence balances form and function with effortless clarity. Open courtyards, natural materials, and restrained details create a calm dialogue between structure and landscape, offering a timeless expression of precision and simplicity.
‘Rethinking The Urban Facade Of Mohammadpur Town Hall Bazaar’ is an architectural urban design studio project by Adib Bin Abrar, Asfat Islam Abir, Nadira Anjum Neeha, & Wasifa Nusrat Shamma from the ‘Department of Architecture – Military Institute of Science and Technology.’ The project aims to restore Mohammadpur Town Hall Bazaar’s cultural identity by redesigning the everyday activity in a more organized way and form. Through a network of channeling functional activities gradually in a form—the bazaar, the civic building, and the local and artisan spaces—the project re-established the bazaar as a celebration of daily activities.
One Central Park by CCD (Cheng Chung Design) embraces history and the present, echoing the idea that to engage is not to fill, but to embrace—fostering unprecedented vitality. Rooted in Shanghai’s old city and Haipai culture, its interior design reinterprets warm, timeworn red to create a poetic, cross-temporal space where past and present softly converge in a resonant, modern dialogue.
