Tag: architecture

Amersfoort – Koppelbrug Residence and Sport Complex

HEARTY CITY brings together Health, Energy Efficiency, Artificial Intelligence, Resilience, Tourism and Aspiration, and it encompasses our planning vision for the Amersfoort area. Recognized in the Athens Charter as “The vital needs of the individual: sun, space, greenery – these are the three essential joys of urbanism… The city must ensure both individual liberty and […]

Turku Passage

  “Streets are an integral part of the community—not merely conduits for traffic, but spaces woven into the lives, memories, and affections of residents. For visitors, streets also serve as urban symbols. As tourists, we readily recall iconic avenues such as Orchard Road, Omotesando, and Nanjing Road. Streets embody the spirit of a city.”— Yoshinobu […]

Seoul Sejong Cultural Center

The Sejong Arts Center is located within Yeouido Park, a cultural green space situated in the heart of Seoul. The competition brief envisions transforming Yeouido into a global financial hub, and the new arts center is positioned as a landmark to redefine Seoul’s urban and cultural landscape through innovative architecture along the Han River.  Our […]

Sanya Residential group of Ethnic Minorities of Li

Nishita Village is located in Hainan is where the Li people, an ethnic minority in China, labour and live. Thousands of years ago their ancestors migrated to the subtropical island of Hainan, and for a long time they have been living in the jungle in a close relationship with nature. The ancestors of the Li […]

Tartu Downtown culture center

Guided by the principle that true sustainability lies in a delicate equilibrium—a balance between honoring the past, serving the present, and protecting the future—we sought to create a design that allows history to breathe again within the daily rhythm of urban life. In this spirit, we propose not a static preservation but a dynamic reintroduction: […]

Zhoushan Performance Theater

In the land of the cliffs of Shengshan Island, something alien from the sky descends, the metallic theater that shimmers with strange light is biting cold in the night, as if it were a relic from the world of the future, or as if it were from an alien planet, standing as cold and hard […]

Zhoushan Exhibition Center

The structure appears to be suspended above the pier of Temple Lake Island, with mist rising from below like a breath of life. An indescribable, mysterious atmosphere permeates the space. People gather from all directions, as space itself seems to converge—amid peach blossoms red, plum blossoms white, and rapeseed flowers yellow. Each blossom resides within […]

Zhoushan Restaurant

On the shore of Miaozi Lake, rocks, ruins, sun and beach, suddenly, a large, thin roof covered with rocks. Above the roof is the sky, and under the roof is tea, rice, oil and salt. Without boundaries, the realm of undertaking is no longer space, disintegrating the boundaries of direction, distance and physics, and divinity […]

Zhoushan Church

Hua Niao Island, whose name translates to “Flowers and Birds,” is celebrated as the Island of Love. Love embodies an eternal aspiration—a longing that transcends time. Yet time itself serves as both a stern test and a faithful witness to love. Similarly, architecture is often expected to endure, standing unwavering through the ages. But what […]

Sichuan Ya’an Country Bridge

The olfactory memory will make us remember the space more deeply. The form of the countryside bridge is gathered to the center, concave close to the river surface, Ya’an city flower osmanthus interspersed between the bridge, every year in September, October is the flowering season of osmanthus, the aroma will be gathered in the concave […]

Sichuan Ya’an Art Exhibition Center

Hushan Art Exhibition Center, lying on the water, overlooking the lake light, with the original power of the site’s light, the experience from the dim corridor to the central semi-open gathering space, and then to the “eye” crystal meditation space, the natural light brings the linear original driving force.The inlaid crystal meditation space, with different […]

Sichuan Ya‘an Sound Museum

The specific essence of the place is fed back to the mind through the “body sense” – smell, sight, hearing, touch, etc., which interacts with the spirit of the place, thus generating the “awe” of the perceived space. Space carries a mysterious primordial power that grows out of the site. In Ya ‘an, we transfer […]

Sanya Deepsea Museum and Sport Center

In the Jin Dynasty, Zhang Hua wrote in The Annals of Natural History (Bowuzhi), Volume 10: “As the old saying goes, the river and the sea are connected. In recent times, there were people living on islands in the sea. Every August, a floating raft would arrive. A young man, seized by a fanciful idea, built […]

Foshan No.1 High School

A. Learning from Nature 1.Spirit of Place (Sangji Fish Pond) – The historical traces of the place give the space its qualities. The good ecological effect of the traditional Sangji Fish Pond conveys the green concepts of ecological protection and recycling, presenting a unique micro-ecological green space system that feeds generations of Foshan citizens. 2. […]

Nanjing Culture Center

The essence of architecture is the product of culture. The generation of architectural form is linked to a deep structure embedded in the collective memory accumulated through urban history—a “collectal unconscious” that embodies shared values and an archetypal identity within a specific cultural context.– Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City Urban Cultural Cross A cross-axis […]

Foshan Primary School

In Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, he describes the three metamorphoses of the spirit that humans undergo: first as a camel burdened in the desert, then as a lion, and finally as a child, representing a progression of three spiritual states. “The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-propelled wheel, a first […]

Wuhan Library

https://www.justopenarch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/BookTopia_video.mp4 The mental space begins to shape human social behavior. — Marc PimlottThe Garden of Earthly Delights: A piece from the triptych created by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch at the age of forty, depicting the fantastical landscape of an expansive earthly paradise, where utopian life activities are immersed in wild nature. Book Paradise: A […]

Foshan Hongwang Headquarters

This is a reimagining of urban lifestyles, seeking new breakthroughs in modern urban public spaces. The design of Foshan Hongwang Headquarters Building in Guangzhou has prompted us to propose a groundbreaking proposition for future urban development, marking a milestone where urban expansion transitions from confronting to balancing with our essential natural environment. Deterritorialized landscape spaces […]

Minimal Condition of Architecture

There is nothing specific about the zone. It’s purely a place where a certain limit is set. You set a limit, you put a certain zone off-limit, and although things remain exactly the way they were, it’s perceived as another place. Precisely as the place onto which you can project your beliefs, your fears, things […]

Book BOX

BACKGROUND Songdo city aims to be an international trading hub. It will become a strong economic zone in yellow sea economic basin. Songdo IBD as “smart city” had 20,000 residents and around 12 billion invested in 2012. Until 2018 the population is growing into 50,000. Library buildings have assumed social and symbolic roles in societies […]

Cheongju Cityhall

The new Cheongju Cityhall is not the grand utopia of political version of “total planning” , but it is the future collage of citizen participation and observation. It accommodates the whole range of utopias in miniature. It should project the requirement of everybody.The “City Projection” reflects the value of the past, the present, and the […]

Gwangju Library

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF CITY MAIN LIBRARY GWANGJU,S.KOREA Looking back at the evolution of library, globalization and digitalization is gradually eliminating  the identity of library. In the meantime, it also creates an opportunity for us to explore the new generation of future identity that represent the essence of a library——A hall of knowledge that integrate with the local […]

Warsaw Library

 “Libgen:Towards a new class of evolutionary libraries” international competition This model library is a fit for this city as an example for such fast paced development. The site selected for this project is located in the Mokotow district of the city>The challenge here is to design/complete rewrite the universal definition of public library and democratize education […]

Turin Sport Citadel

Archipelago: The Sports Archipelago can be defined with two principal of dimensions: Regional vs local. Regional dimension: Based on the larger scale, with the urbanisation of Turin, the Mappano town is merged into a whole domain. As a result of the development of Juventus stadium, the sports culture and environment further evolve into the space […]

Rwanda Chapel

The palace of Mwami in Rwanda shaped as a dome, become a symbol of local civilisation. The dome isthe important symbol to synchronise with local identity. In the meanwhile it also represents with publicand religious as new typology. Above the dome The space above the dome become a new public space for all races and […]

Iceland Guest House

Heima is the scenario to describe the condition when the home become important. The condition shows the harmonious surrounding by the peaceful landscape The shape of Pyramid aims to find the logic of the typology of architecture as local and to stand out in the wild. The Pyramid is the evidence. It is a prototype […]

Shenzhen Culture Kiosk

By subtracting a cone from a perfect cube with a 18m edge, we create the massing of the building and three openings to the plaza, the sea and the sky. The implementation of pure geometries expresses the order and power of human transformation of nature. The void left by the subtraction becomes the container of […]

Beijing Baita Temple Micro-renovation

“Yuan’er” (Courtyard), is the most essential element in the composition of the old town of Beijing. For a long time, “Yuan’er”contains all the possibilities of working, entertainment, leisure and dwelling for the local people. The space inside is usually very small, and living in it can be hard yet colorful. It is part of Beijing’s […]

Helsinki Museum

If we see the city of Helsinki as a house, this waterfront museum is conceived to be its veranda. Surrounded by the sea, greenery, historical buildings and urban squares, the given site has high quality panoramic viewing resources as its unique identity which, we think, should be kept for the public and strengthened by a […]

Seoul Tank Renovation

“New ideas need old buildings” – Jane Jacobs “The word ‘Loft’ originally referred to a generously large space with characteristic details, often in a former industrial building, which while retaining a certain degree of patina and decay was domesticated in a provisional way by its residents. – (City as Loft, 2012) Mapo oil-tank has lots […]