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Discover 968 award-winning designs tagged Architecture on A Design Magazine.

Cover Residence

Cover

This home in a high density residential district in Tokyo's suburbs was commissioned by a designer at a large real estate company. The first floor entrance offers a view between the staircase and the bathroom clear to the back of the property. Thanks to a courtyard like layout that ensures privacy and a peaceful mood, it's hard to believe the street is just on the other side of the wall. The second floor is integrated with a loft and large void, forming a living area that takes advantage of the high ceilings.

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Doe O-Mega Urban Complex Building

Doe O-Mega Urban Complex

Doe O-Mega Urban Complex is a mixed-use building designed for a site in Bonifacio Global City in Manila. The elliptical, three-dimensional O-shaped form covers 400,000 square meters and contains offices, residences, a hotel, shops, and meeting spaces. The atrium stays shaded for most of the day, creating a comfortable outdoor space, while a wind tunnel guides natural air to cool the atrium and the lobby. Light-colored concrete, aluminum panels, and glass reduce heat absorption. Photovoltaic glass railings collect solar energy, and the podium roof holds a public garden.

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Sino Italian Cultural Exchange Center

Sino Italian

The refreshingly diverse piece of architecture includes multifaceted spaces for exhibitions, meetings, receptions, and catering, displaying an amazing marriage of Italian and China style elements in its contemporary architecture. The AOE carefully observed the intersection of the two cultures, celebrating the differences and union between East and West.

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The Tree Residential House

The Tree

This house is a prototype for a residential complex aimed to accommodate young families. It is designed to symbolize the tree. A tree that grows and continues to spread its roots down the earth and its branches up in the air. It's the symbol of a family. It's obvious that this house structure is growing the same as the tree structure. The stem of the tree is the core of the house which in this case is the stairs. The stairs that shape its journey. A journey from the bottom the entrance level to the top the roof garden. With all spaces cantilevered out of the core.

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Eth Country Villa

Eth

Eth is a single family country villa planned for a site near a river. The main building material is rammed earth, selected for its load bearing capacity, its appearance and its low environmental impact. Rammed earth also helps to regulate humidity and to keep the interior warm. Wood, metal and glass complete the design. The plan develops along a long line and is divided into two parts joined by a gallery. One part holds the main bedroom with separate access, wardrobe and bathroom. The other part holds an open living room, a dining area, a kitchen and two further bedrooms.

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Xixi Endliess Garden Multifunctional Club

Xixi Endliess Garden

Xixi Endliess Garden is a multifunctional club set in the Xixi Wetland of Hangzhou, China. The traditional structure of pavilions and corridors defines the buildings, the spaces and the functions. The pavilions stand within the wetland and are linked by corridors. A box like structure without central pillars adds a modern character to the traditional form. White walls and gray windows follow the building tradition of southern China. The construction area is 5,642 square meters. The planning limits the size of buildings and roads to protect the original wetland ecology.

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Polygon House Residential Architecture

Polygon House

The building is dominated by the broken geometries created by the reconstruction of the architectural form while maintaining at the same time the capacity of the lines and volumes, the desired functionality and the tranquility that the users of this holiday home are looking for. The open field of view both indoors and outdoors adds elements of visual comfort and relaxation to users who can see the horizon around them unobstructed. The relationship of the building with the environment is characterized as provocative in terms of highlighting its volumes.

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Kylie Residential House

Kylie

Kylie is a residential house located on the outskirts of a city near the countryside. Like a sunflower, the building rotates with the course of the sun. In winter, solar gains reduce the heating demand, while in summer turning into the shade prevents overheating. Kylie was built as a prefabricated timber frame structure, with oak used for the terrace decking, furniture, wall cladding and parquet flooring. Heating is provided by a groundwater heat pump, and a photovoltaic system on the roof generates electricity. Overall, the house produces more energy than it consumes.

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K Villa

K

K is a villa located in Nasu, Tochigi, Japan. The floors, walls and roofs are treated as thin separate planes rather than joined volumes. Slender columns of 90 millimetres in diameter support the reinforced concrete slabs, so the structure appears light. The underside of each tapered slab is finished with a stainless steel mirror, which reflects the surrounding landscape. Internal partitions are reduced to a minimum, so the rooms flow into one another. The design aims to connect daily life with the nature around the house.

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With Four Children House

With Four Children

A house for a couple and their four children. There is a playroom in the center of the house, and four children's rooms are located facing each other. There are steps and windows between them. When the children open the window, the floor becomes a big desk where they study face to face. The four children's rooms become an integrated space and are connected to the first floor because the desks are made of glass. It is a space that connects the family at various distances.

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Edge Meta Mansion Metaverse Design

Edge Meta Mansion

Edge Metamansion is a virtual residential building designed for the metaverse. The structure has five floors, each with a height of 4.20 meters, and a building area of about 1,400 square meters, matched by a similar area of green space. The building is shaped around a river that crosses a mountain, so the water passes through the design without being obstructed. The form is inspired by the cells of the body, which gain meaning only when connected. The intent is to keep technology close to nature and to support peace of mind.

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Villa Olympea house

Villa Olympea

The Residential Villa in the mountains of Lebanon is integrated with its surrounding nature. Its design consists of 2 L-shaped structures on the ground floor, which interact together to create an internal green patio, visible from all spaces in the house. This concept was thought of in order to avoid having corridors in the house, for aesthetic reasons as well as for avoiding loss of space. A cedar tree was planted in the internal patio,it being the emblem of the country found on the national flag , becoming the heart of the house.

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