Location: Shenzhen, China
Lead architect: Binke Lenhardt, Dong Hao
"'INFINITY 6' is a small demo version of a future school vision. The idea is a fun-inducing manifesto for future schools, which extends beyond its walls and becomes an open, interactive space. In a world where education is becoming a lifelong journey, no longer limited to a certain age, place, or linear teaching program, the notion of school should transform as well, to include a more flexible, improvisational, and collaborative mindset."

Client: Narsi & Associates
Lead architect: Mr. Sanjay Puri
"A series of volumes within volumes create an office for a furniture contract company within their factory, lending each functional part of the office its own identity and creating organic circulation spaces between them. A material palette of glass, metallic paint, walnut and wood, sound insulation boards, cork, and concrete accentuates each area differently. Lighting is integrated with the design in multiple ways. Perforated partitions of wood fused with Plexiglas, ceilings of pyramidal modules, and a conference room with an installation of aluminum pipes are all infused with lighting."

Location: Beijing, China
Lead architect: Wang Yong
"Tongrentang Zhima Health has created a complex functional system of healthy diet + medical center + health examination + social entertainment. The designer Wang Yong has applied a large area of contrasting materials like solid wood and brass in the store. From the ground floor to upstairs, Zhima Health Concept Store has four themes: inquiry, food, convalescence, and cure."

Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lead architect: Dwayne Smyth
"The South Haven Centre for Remembrance creates a new non-denominational facility for the City of Edmonton. The design features a symbolic thirteen-meter tower that emerges from the prairie landscape which makes reference to the existing gravesites, monuments, columbaria, and the latent memory that they embody. Our memory of visiting a cemetery is marked by time: the position of the sun, the quality of light and the weather on that particular day. For some, it may be a solitary visit for a ceremony, while for others it may be experienced through ritual visits that span the rest of their lives."

Location: Zoetermeer, Netherlands
Lead architects: Jeroen van Schooten, Beate Vlaanderen
"The new Lansingerland-Zoetermeer Station in the Netherlands is a future-proof, sustainable and green transport hub. By anticipating the future mobility issue early on during the design process, the design has been created with maximum flexibility in terms of growth opportunities. The main concept of the station is the creation of green urban space at height, a park-like avenue above the Utrecht-The Hague railway line and the A12 motorway. The station forms the heart of an intersection of railway lines, bus routes, light rail, bike lanes, and motorways."

Location: Athens, Greece
Lead architect: Ioulietta Zindrou
"Renovation of the interior of the Amphitheater in the cylindrical building of the old gasholder of the industrial gas park of Athens. Perceived as a new tank defined through the new folding and flowing topologies, the amphitheater was designed as an "acoustic device".The design of the roof enhances passive acoustics by designing geometric sound-reflectors and sound absorbers, oak surfaces, that form prismatic pyramid clusters of different typologies. It consists of 564 pieces belonging to basic typologies, sub-typologies, and uniquely designed pieces, all custom designed and fabricated."

Location: New Orleans
Lead architect: Ammar Eloueini
"Designed in 2008 after Hurricane Katrina, the construction of this single-family house started in 2011 and was completed in 2018. Situated in the historic fabric of the city of New Orleans, the project considers the identity of a place as something in flux rather than immutable. The project adapts to the specificity of the context by using adequate materials for a subtropical climate and state-of-the-art contemporary construction methods. Most importantly, the project responds to our current way of life."

Location: India
Lead architect: Hiroki Hakamada
"The three-story open-air structure from the first floor to the basement expresses the curvaceousness of the overlapping grids, creating a connection with the inside and outside. Inside the store, the living rooms are arranged on the left and right from a single passage, creating a vague atmosphere. The aim was to create a space where the flow and sound of the fresh air make you feel the outside air, the light, and shadow that can be felt from inside and outside of the room, the openness and the closedness, and the vitality of people and the richness of mind and body."

Location: Fu Yang City, An Hui Province, China
Lead architect: Hu Qimin
"Fuyang has the laudatory name of "calligraphy city". Our design concept comes from the artistic conception of writing, the atmospheric lines outline the charm of splashing ink, and a small bridge and flowing water on the shore is like the finishing piece under the tip of the pen. This classical Chinese art is presented with modern art techniques, to form a unique earth landscape art like "flowing clouds and flowing water". Savor the happiness of slow enjoyment and return to the origin of life."

Location: Maipú, Santiago, Chile
Lead architects: Maurizio Angelini, Benjamín Oportot
"In the middle of an old factory, it was requested the renovation of a warehouse and a series of industrial sheds for a new industrialized building solutions company called E2E. The proposal was to recycle the warehouse, increase the green areas and locate a new office building next to a group of existing trees. The project aimed to integrate nature into the workspaces. Through a mass timber structure based on coffered beams and CLT that allows wider and more flexible spaces, the building exhibits the main materials used in the production at E2E, such as wood and fiber cement."

Location: Tehran, Iran
Lead architect: Hooman Balazadeh
"This project is the headquarters for Kohan Ceram Brick Manufacturing Company, including a showroom, sales office, and a guest unit. Situated alongside a highway in Tehran, this project marks the boundary between the residential neighborhood and the freeway in the urban fabric. The main criterion here was to remain neutral on the urban scale while creating a tangible entity on the local scale. The brick (design for this project) was used as the main representative of the company. The brick module not only forms the facade but also forms both on the interior and the exterior."

Location: Montreal, Canada
Lead architect: Joan Renaud
"Barely five years after moving to their new Montreal HQ, Lightspeed decides to transform the attic of the famous Gare Viger, into various training, meeting, and working areas. The rehabilitation of the space faced many challenges which undeniably guided each of our design and spatial planning decisions: optimization of a narrow and cramped linear space; integration of an ambient lighting strategy to respond to the low penetration of natural light; integration of a new evacuation corridor for the 6th-floor boardroom crossing the attic."

Location: Private
Lead architect: Oliver Schütte
"The prototype of the No Footprint House (NFH) is based on a systemic component design for prefabricated residential typologies. The NFH can be configured according to personal needs and site-specific requirements, including off-grid locations. The project is designed to blend with its natural surroundings and minimize the impact of construction on the environment. It offers a wide range of adjustable, affordable and replicable solutions to cater for a broad customer segment. The NFH seeks for integral sustainability in terms of its environmental, economic, social and spatial performance."

Location: Mexico
Lead architect: Fernanda Canales
"The project seeks to make the house disappear within the landscape while a strong atmosphere is created in contrast to the immensity of the wild landscape. A series of patios establish a transition between the domestic space and the vastness of nature. Between these two poles, the shelter and open landscape, different zones were conceived in order to allow nature to become part of the house and extend the inner spaces to the exterior. The house is structured in one level and the roofing was designed as part of the landscape, where vaulted ceilings resemble the forms of the mountains."

Location: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Lead architect: Tyler Sharp
"The Springdale library and Komagata Maru park provide the city of Brampton with a new public library and outdoor community recreation space. The ambition for this project was to create an inclusive gathering place, an experiential counterpoint to the otherwise typical suburban fabric, and a point of pride for the city. The design concept for this project aspires to establish an organic public landscape. The new Springdale branch provides the Brampton library with an emboldened presence and a valuable resource to the Springdale community."

Firm location: Hong Kong, China
Lead architect: Eureka
"In designing a new campus to accommodate 300 students in 8 classrooms, we focus on breaking down the boundaries between the classroom and indoor play area for kids to explore freely as they wander around the kindergarten. The design sought to introduce a touch of the warm learning environment through extensive use of timber and diffused ceiling features. The PLAYWALL is not to isolate but to connect spaces. Children penetrate the PLAYWALL via different access, climbing, crawling, sliding, searching, and discovering their kindergarten."

Location: Washington, CT, USA
Lead architect: Stewart R. Skolnick
"A new swimming pool, pool house, and surrounding gardens are set on a scenic 70-acre gentleman’s farm in Washington, CT. The pool and pool terrace are designed to reflect the simple, clean geometry of the pool house. The surrounding planting beds provide a lively contrast, with sweeping curves leading around the rear of the building. The goal was to create a resort-like atmosphere, with lush plantings that both complement and contrast those of the surrounding property. The pool terrace is framed with tall grasses which provide privacy and capture the breeze, creating an intimate outdoor room."

Location: Shenzhen, China
Lead architect: Ming Leung
"This is a renovation project. The owner is a professional woman and looks after her daughter independently. Time and space are important to improve life efficiency. Before transformation, low space utilization rate, only 55%. Limited space for her daughter to grow up and space for her hobbies. After transformation, space utilization rate increases, by reorganizing functions distribution, extending living space, designing hobbies area, and using the vacant space to be a guest room in a composite way. We exchange space for a lifetime, improve life quality, and take all-around needs into account."

Location: Shenzhen, China
Lead architects: Qiu Ge, Zhong Yongcheng, Li Bing
"This project, located at the foot pf Yinhu Hill, is a low-density residence community of unique natural ecological resources. Developed by Shenzhen Vanke, it boasts the convenience of a metro and road network, three parks, and Vanke brand property management service. The regional landscape design goes deeply into the relationship between the city and architecture, conceiving the theme from the perspectives of ecology, etiquette, streamline and space, to create a composite symbiotic landscape in a multi-dimensional angle."

Client: Confidential
Lead architect: Nader Tehrani
"For centuries, the enclosed courtyard has been overlaid on various geographic settings—each time transformed according to the place. Villa Varoise’s slipped court provides simultaneous interiority and exteriority, leveraging the site’s sloping terrain and producing sustainable systems for amplification and cultivation. The result of this landscape integration is the production of a monumental vaulted threshold to a central courtyard. The vault is a ruled surface that mediates between the supporting stair, the pool, and the living areas above."

Location: Xi'an, China
Lead architect: Licheng Wu
"Located in the middle of the white deer plain in Xi'an, China. Undertake the best viewing platform and natural scenery. Defined as a mountain land homestay facility-type hotel, the project is an overall remold plan, including architecture, planning, and environmental landscape, also adding some individual buildings and public facilities. The main building is demolished and only its concrete frame structure is retained, taking advantage of the characteristics of the terrain to build a highly visual impact of the tin box dimensions."

Location: London, United Kingdom
Lead architect: Stanton Williams
"At the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children, Stanton Williams reimagined the healthcare environment as a shared civic experience in the heart of London. Designed for Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London, the 13,000sqm facility combines pioneering research with clinical care. It is the first purpose-built pediatric center of its kind in the world. Facing Coram’s Fields - a site dedicated to children’s welfare for over 250 years – the building invites views into the 600sqm double-height laboratories and actively engages science with urban life."

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Lead architect: Mieke Winkel
"With 45000㎡ of mixed-use space and a unique steel structure built through the existing monumental warehouse, Rotterdam gained a bold and iconic building: Fenix I. The original Fenix warehouse (1922) has been preserved and redeveloped for mixed-use, including an extensive culture cluster. The new residential volume on top of the warehouse comprises 214 lofts with a high degree of flexibility in size and layout. Only a few months after completion, Fenix I shows to contribute to the neighborhood's social interaction and solidarity and be the home to an inclusive and caring community."

Location: St Kilda, Australia
Lead architect: Rodney Eggleston
"The Jackalope Pavilion is a temporary gallery space for Random International’s Australian edition of ‘Rain Room.’ Situated above the Prince of Wales car park in St Kilda, the pavilion is designed entirely around the requirements of the Rain Room, its temporary residence at the site, and the potential re-use of the building and its’ components on another site. The ephemeral experience of the artwork along with its limited residency is celebrated through the transient construction method of the architecture, and it’s disappearing act in blending with the typical cloudy Melbourne sky."

Location: Quanzhi Technology Innovation Park, Baoan District, Shenzhen
Lead architect: Guansheng Zeng
"Zhi Art Museum was transformed from a concrete plant. The first floor has a hallway and a multi-functional hall, while the second floor functions as exhibition halls and workshops. The stairs and slopes in the atrium connect the first floor and the second floor. The alternation makes people feel different rhythms and paces during walking. With tortuous path, plentiful materials and changing light, walking in the atrium become an interesting tour. Meanwhile, people interact with each other by gazing, following, interacting, which is a way to develop the audience's relationship."

Location: Beijing, China
Lead architects: Yingfan Zhang, Xiaojun Bu
"Transparency in space inspires trans-disciplinary dialogues among students. New social space triggers new networking and new education models: learning from being inspired in an active open field. The project offers 15,692 sqm of indoor athletic space, including a basketball hall, swimming pool, and spaces for gymnasium, taekwondo, table tennis, etc."

Client: University of West Florida
Lead architects: Nataly Gattegno & Jason Kelly Johnson
"Constellations is a dynamic and immersive artwork, animated by flowing patterns and formations of light and shadow. Constellations create a theater-in-the-round that acts as a portal into an invisible world of dynamic visual poetry. Inspired by early studies and translations of animal locomotion using chronophotography and planetary motion simulations, Constellations uses geometry, light, and shadow to create a meditative internal space that becomes playful at night illuminated sculpture displaying constellations of motion. Never the same - always in flux."

Location: Elounda, Crete
Lead Architects: Ermis Adamantidis, Dominiki Dadatsi
"The project consists of small wooden pavilions that make up space for boutiques, workshops and art galleries. The volumes sit on a grid-like arrangement in the center of a sloped park in Elounda, Crete. The pavilions' characteristic skin is made of plywood lamellas in a woven pattern that reflects traditional basket weaving techniques. The skin's uniformity that functions as a vertical sun shading device is interrupted by large windows that frame the products on display. At night the volumes light up like lanterns illuminating the surrounding pathways in the park."

Location: Melbourne, Australia
Lead architect: Jacob Alsop
"The Link is a beautiful new pedestrian walkway connecting Melbourne’s Chadstone Shopping Centre with the new Hotel Chadstone. Formed from a diagrid vaulted glulam-timber structure with a semi-translucent PTFE fabric stretched over, it is designed with the local climate in mind. It offers shade but is an open structure and provides a welcome change from the hermetic air-conditioned buildings that dominate cities. Its form is inherently urban and thereby establishes The Link as a street and also public, civic space. The flexible design can also accommodate pop-up retail, F&B, and event spaces."

Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Lead architect: Filipe Lourenço
"The studio is a storefront within an 18th CE historical Palace located in central Lisbon. Space had a shallow ceiling, below the windows' height, reducing natural light incidence—a lower level to the street where the windows frame different parts of the ceiling. While exploring the references and Archetypes found in the palace, we were drawn to the traditional Portuguese brick vaulted ceilings in what used to be the corridor from the patio leading to the stables. This Archetype would be our response to the issues we were facing and the history we wanted to tell."

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lead architect: Michael Green
"The Dock Building, located on Jericho Beach in Vancouver, serves a large marina of sailboats. The facility provides washrooms and showers, offices for the Harbour Master, instruction space for children, and a variety of workshops to maintain boats, sails, and gear. The project’s practical working needs, a very modest budget, and prominent siting required a simple solution that honored the cannery and industrial heritage of waterfront buildings that were once found on the site a half-century before. The design demonstrates that all projects can be realized with grace and architectural dignity."

Location: Cancun, Quintana Roo
Lead architects: Victor Ebergenyi Kelly & Miguel Vega Ruiz
"Brava Estudio is the adaptation of a commercial venue in Cancun, Quintana Roo, where pole dance, functional training, and yoga classes are offered. The premises' division was contemplated based on a single wooden element (pine wall paneling), which functions as the object that divides and joins all the rooms. This wooden wall is, in addition to the black atmosphere, the main object of the project."