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Nippo Junction Head Office

Takahiro Ichimaru,Tetsuya Tatenami Head Office Architecture Monday, 16 June 2025

Nippo Junction

Nippo Head Office is built over a multilayered intersection of urban infrastructure, a traffic artery, an expressway, and a park. Nippo is a leading company in road construction. They define "Michi", which means "street" in Japanese, as the basis of their design concept as "what connects a variety of components". Michi connects the building with the urban context and also connect individual workspaces with each other. Michi was enhanced to forge "creative connections" and to realize the "Junction Place", a unique workplace possible only here at Nippo.

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Santos House

Fernando Abelleyro House Architecture Sunday, 15 June 2025

Santos

Using wood as the main constructive element, the house displaces its two levels in section, generating a glazed roof to integrate with the context and allow natural light to enter. The double height space articulates that relationship between the ground floor, the upper floor and the landscape. A metal roof over the skylight flies, protecting it from the incidence of the western sun and formally rebuilding the volume, framing the vision of the natural environment. The program is articulated by locating public uses on the ground floor and private uses on the upper floor.

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Medieval Rethink Cultural Center

QUAD studio Cultural Center Architecture Saturday, 14 June 2025

Medieval Rethink

Medieval Rethink was a response to a private commission to build a Cultural Centre for a small undisclosed village in the Guangdong Province, which dates back 900 years to the Song Dynasty. A four storey, 7000 sqm development is centred around an ancient rock formation known as the Ding Qi Stone, a symbol of the origin of the village. The project’s design concept is based on showcasing the history and culture of the ancient village whilst linking the old and the new. The Cultural Centre stands as a reinterpretation of an ancient village and a transformation into contemporary architecture.

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Mermaid Town Cultural Architecture

Yue Xu Cultural Architecture Architecture Friday, 13 June 2025

Mermaid Town

Mermaid Town Reception Hall is a cultural building in Zhouning, Fujian, China. The complex covers 12000 square meters and serves as a tourism distribution center and a cultural activity center. The design combines square and circular forms, inspired by the local earth fort architecture. A circular corridor marks the boundary between the two buildings and gives shelter from strong summer sun and from rainy, cold winters. Exterior walls are finished with white texture paint and handmade gray brick. Spatial axes link the halls to a nearby brook, a lake and a mountain.

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Journey of Nature Sales Center

Chao Yen Chen Sales Center Architecture Thursday, 12 June 2025

Journey of Nature

Journey of Nature is a sales center completed in 2019 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. The property covers 2426 square meters. The main space uses cultural references, while three model houses present contemporary, modern flat and neoclassical styles. Facilities include a meeting area with five tables, a coffee table area, two VIP rooms and a parent-child playground. A shallow water pond and grassland border a long hallway made of wood-plastic composite. The exterior layers stone balls, vermiculite, gray marble tiles, blackened steel and natural timber bark.

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Shared Yard

Tianqi Guan Yard Architecture Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Shared

Shared Yard is a rural guest house located in Beijing, China. Shared Yard was created by reconstructing an abandoned dwelling typical of northern China, with wooden window frames, brick walls and tiled roofs. The old house was preserved and connected to new buildings made of carbon steel plate, concrete and white oak finish. Existing trees shade the new volumes, which are placed in ventilated positions so that air conditioning is not needed in summer. Rainwater and purified water are used to irrigate the surrounding fields.

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