Architecture

Explore 968 award-winning designs tagged Architecture on Cool Design News.

Brand: Gyula Takács Project Type: Floating Spa Tag: Architecture

Hungarosauna

An important aspect of the investment is scheduling, sustainability and expandability. Adapting to unexpected economic situations. This is also true of landscape architecture and architectural elements. The medicinal water steam chamber, the potable spa water and the swimming pool swimming on the surface of the lake provide a new quality of sauna, which can only be here in Hungarosauna. The building has a cross-laminated bridging beam with a wooden pillar frame. In a homogeneous way, a wood-like statue is covered inside and out with timber surfaces like a tree trunk.

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Brand: Qingfan Zhang Project Type: Tea Space Tag: Architecture

Phoenix Tree Garden

Phoenix Tree Garden is a tea house garden set in a hutong courtyard in Beijing. The design turns a single large space into a series of linked scenic spots. A folding cloud wall and a curved moon door shift the internal axis and divide the outside of the garden from the inside. Small bridges, waterways and a stacked red rock mountain organize the new landscape order. Materials include a steel grille bridge, gray and colored cobblestone paving and small gray tiles. Several tea rooms with different views were created within 214.99 square meters.

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Brand: Tengyuan Design Project Type: Residential Area Tag: Architecture

Caishi

Caishi China Railway City is a residential complex built in Jinan, China. The design follows a new Chinese style that joins classical order and proportion with modern function. Local features such as swallow tail ridges, gable heads and lattice walls are reinterpreted in a simple form, and the colours stay calm and quiet. Polycarbonate panels are used for the roof decoration boards, which allows slender supporting members. A four constant air system controls indoor air quality, temperature and humidity. The layout follows the existing terrain to limit earthworks.

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Brand: Hactor Kabo Malete Project Type: Integrated Center Tag: Architecture

The Worm

In the history Botswana's culture, Mophane worm has always been one of the local delicacies. The design concept was inspired by Mophane Worm. The geometric form of the building mimics the body shape of the worm. This Worm lives its life as a worm on Mophane Tree. This relationship between Mophane Worm and Mophane Tree was translated into how the building relates to the natural vegetation surrounding it. The building's connection to nature and natural landscape was crucial in the design. Furthermore, the use of local natural material evokes the character of Tswana vernacular Architecture.

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Brand: Torres Arquitetos Project Type: Medical Office Building Tag: Architecture

Vitra Tower

The Vitra Tower is a medical office building with offices and clinical rooms with eleven floors, located on a corner lot in the city of Santo Angelo, in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. With a total of 22 private offices, the building sought an architecture that conveyed seriousness, bringing legitimacy to the services offered inside, but that was also pleasant and comfortable for users.

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Brand: Francisco Eduardo Sá and Felipe Savassi Project Type: House Tag: Architecture

Zen Mood

Zen Mood is a conceptual project centered in 3 key drivers: Minimalism, adaptability, and aesthetics. Individual segments are attached creating a variety of shapes and uses: homes, offices or showrooms can be generated making use of two formats. Each module has been designed with 3.20 x 6.00m arranged in 19m² within 01 or 02 floors. The transportation is mainly made by trucks, also it can be delivered and installed in just one day. It is a unique, contemporary design that creates simple, lively and creative spaces made possible through a clean and industrialized constructive method.

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Brand: Aamer Qaisiyah Project Type: House Tag: Architecture

Basalt

Built for comfort as well as being elegant. This design is truly eye-catching and remarkable inside and out. Features include oak wood, windows made to bring in plenty of sunlight, and it is soothing to the eyes. It is mesmerizing by its beauty and the technique. Once you are in this house, you can't but notice the serenity and the oasis feeling that takes over you. The breeze of the trees and the surrounding with the sun rays makes this house a unique place to live in away from the busy city life. The Basalt house is built to please and accommodate a variety of people.

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Brand: Boney Keriwala Project Type: Sales Office Tag: Architecture

Wrapped Volumes

Wrapped Volumes is a temporary sales office located on the outskirts of an industrial city. The site has no strong immediate context, so the design takes its cues from the approach road. The movement of the road is translated into a continuous wrapped facade that lifts the structure from the ground. Parts of the wrap form a landscape layer, while other parts act as a protective skin that reduces heat gain from the south. The facade is ribbed plaster, crafted by local craftsmen. The compact interior spaces are washed in natural light.

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Brand: Toshiaki Tanaka Project Type: House Tag: Architecture

Morimachi

House in Morimachi is a single storey house designed in a minimal form. The house is clad in metal sheets and kept low to respect the surrounding scenery. Steel framing forms the main structure, with dimensions standardized to the module of the traditional Japanese timber house to keep a familiar sense of scale. Wood sliding doors add depth, continuity and openness to the interior. The garden combines water scenery with gently undulating ground, creating a different view from each room along the south facade. Traditional carpentry and plaster techniques were used throughout.

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Brand: Niroop Kumar Reddy Nallari Project Type: House Tag: Architecture

H2O

H2O House is a private residence in an urban residential area of Hyderabad. The house is designed for a family of four and covers an area of 12500 square feet. Indoor and outdoor water bodies support passive cooling and lower indoor temperatures during the day. Light weight fly ash bricks and thermal insulation sheets are used as masonry to limit heat transfer. Large openings on opposite walls allow cross ventilation, and solar panels are placed on the terrace. Spaces are zoned vertically according to privacy, with shared rooms below and bedrooms above.

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Brand: Zhang ZhaoYong Project Type: Hotel Tag: Architecture

Chinese Quadrangle

Chinese Quadrangle is a hotel built in the form of a traditional Chinese courtyard house in Luoyang. The project covers 5460 square meters and was completed in 2019. A brick screen wall marks the entrance, followed by heads shaped as the twelve Chinese zodiac signs. The arrayed brick walls are made entirely of grey recycled bricks. The second inner courtyard holds guest rooms and public facilities, reached through a winding veranda, and the third inner courtyard contains the reception hall. Layered spaces bring the landscape into the courtyard.

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Brand: Michihiro Matsuo Project Type: Shop Tag: Architecture

Yosakoi

This is a store/factory plan that manufactures and sells Mizunasu, a specialty of Japan. The interior of the store is simple and finished in a modern space where you can feel Japanese elements. The exterior, which can be seen from the road in front, contrasts with the windowless factory area on the right, and the store on the left has an opening overlooking the store, designed to encourage customer guidance. A different material is used as an accent in the center, and the design takes into consideration the balance between the left and right sides.

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