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Yantai Experience Sales Centre and Exhibition

More Design Office Sales Centre and Exhibition Architecture Saturday, 7 March 2026

Yantai Experience

Mdo imagined the Yantai Experience Sales Centre as a contrast to the homogeneity of the new development, through form, materiality, and relationship with the landscape. Around the main central lounge and discussion area, all the other functions are placed equally accessible from the centre, encouraging more lines of communication and rendering an overall feeling of openness and link with the surroundings. The architecture becomes a unity of positive and negative spaces. Like a snow-crystal structure that can be read as a pattern in its presence or absence of matter.

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Kirin Island Exhibition Center

Zhubo Design Exhibition Center Architecture Friday, 6 March 2026

Kirin Island

Kirin Island is an exhibition center in Jining, Shandong Province, China. The building forms the first phase of an industrial park. The center is used for planning exhibitions and investment promotion in the early stage, and will later become an urban exhibition hall linked to the surrounding public space. The design follows the idea of a round sky and a square earth, so a square building holds a round courtyard. A frame-shear wall structure with a span of 18.6 metres creates indoor space without pillars. Overhangs of 10.3 metres on the north and south sides form semi-outdoor areas.

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Collina del Faro Residential Bulding

Torres Arquitetos Residential Bulding Architecture Thursday, 5 March 2026

Collina del Faro

Collina del Faro is a residential building with 8 apartments, located on a site in the foot of farol hill and next to the beach in the city of Torres-RS, in southern Brazil. It is a building that takes advantage of the natural beauties present in its surroundings to propose a dialogue between architecture and nature, achieved through the staggering of floors that, in addition to making reference to the topography itself, allow the creation of terraces with pools with a direct view of the sea for each apartment.

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Municipal Art Society Headquarters Civilian Mixed Use Building

Yang Zhao Civilian Mixed Use Building Architecture Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Municipal Art Society Headquarters

The Municipal Art Society is a nonprofit organization in New York City that encourages thoughtful planning and urban design. The architect designed a building where a gradual change of privacy is clearly stated: from the public half-underground café to the office on the fourth floor. Among all the programs, the civic forum is the most important, which is completely exposed to the neighborhood and designed in a truly welcoming gesture geometrically and spatially to encourage all citizens to interact and participate for the great cause of preserving the rich history and culture of the city.

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Villa Estelle Private Residence

Drew Gilbert Private Residence Architecture Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Villa Estelle

Villa Estelle, located in Dubai, is a masterfully designed ode to nature and luxury. Curating a signature mood throughout the spaces and delivering delicate meanings hidden in its various details. This luxury villa is a reflection of the owner's taste, personality, and lifestyle. Incorporating sustainable design principles such as solar panels, green roofs, rainwater harvesting systems, and smart home technology, reducing environmental impact and energy costs. Capturing effortless elegance beauty with bespoke furnishings and layouts that crafts the perfect symbiotic harmonious spaces.

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Minion Mixed Use Development

Aspa Kst Ltd Mixed Use Development Architecture Monday, 2 March 2026

Minion

The project is the redesign of an abandoned iconic retail building in Athens. The proposal is a mix use development, comprising of retail, office and residential functions. Each use has its own special feature. The retail has the iconic entrance and a fully glazed façade on street level, the offices have the protruding glass cube meeting room with views of the Parthenon and an emblematic glass cube corner entrance while the residential entrance is located in the central courtyard as a continuation of the adjacent pedestrian street, in line with the overall urban planning logic of the area.

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