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Browse this year's shortlisted architecture projects and choose your projects to be awarded in this year's public vote. Once submitted, votes cannot be amended or revoked. To cast your vote, you will be prompted to log in with a Dezeen Awards Evessio account.

Voting closes 16 October. 

Civic project

New-build or significant extension to and/or refurbishment of civic buildings, including civic centres, places of worship, community buildings, council buildings, visitor centres, libraries, sports halls, swimming pools and leisure centres, or any building containing a significant public-facing facility and completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Sydney Fish Market

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<div class="e-intro">3XN, in association with BVN Architecture and Aspect Studios, has designed the new Sydney Fish Market in Sydney, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Sydney Fish Market at Blackwattle Bay on Sydney Harbour is a bold architectural statement and new urban landmark.</p><p>By integrating public and wholesale operations under one roof, this project reimagines the traditional working fish market as a contemporary public institution and global destination.</p><p>While physically separated to maintain rigorous standards of operational efficiency, safety and hygiene, carefully orchestrated visual connections reveal the inner workings, live auctions and choreography of daily trade.</p><p>By turning the market-typology inside-out, visitors are offered an authentic, behind-the-scenes experience of one of Sydney's most-visited waterfront destinations.</p></div>
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TCC DAKA Renewable Resource Recycling Center

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<div class="e-intro">KPF has designed the TCC DAKA Renewable Resource Recycling Center in Hualien County, Taiwan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The TCC DAKA Renewable Resource Recycling Center is a living laboratory that demonstrates the connections between culture, industry, the built and natural environments.</p><p>This mixed-use development, located next to an operational cement factory, includes a waste-to-energy plant, a visitors centre, a public park and Taiwan's largest seed conservation centre.</p><p>"How often do we consider what happens to the trash we throw away?" asked KPF. "Here, instead of hiding the process, visitors are invited to engage with waste disposal and the natural beauty of the site."</p><p>As a result, processing can be observed at close quarters and a series of landscaped spaces – home to a collection of rare ferns – put nature at the forefront of the centre.</p></div>
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New Government Quarter

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<div class="e-intro">Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic Architects have designed the New Government Quarter in Oslo, Norway.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>In central Oslo, the New Government Quarter reimagines the site of the 22 July 2011 terrorist attack as an open and integrated civic district.</p><p>Government ministries, public life and memory are brought together in a connected network of buildings, streets and squares that restores the area to the city.</p><p>Completed in 2026, Phase 1 establishes a new public ground where governance is not set apart, but shared.</p><p>As a result, the New Government Quarter supports everyday movement, encounter and participation – while embodying the Scandinavian values of democracy, openness, and humanity.</p></div>
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Bairro Padre Cruz Market Hall

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<div class="e-intro">REDO Architects has designed the Bairro Padre Cruz Market Hall in Lisbon, Portugal.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project is located on the outskirts of Lisbon in Bairro Padre Cruz, one of the largest social housing neighbourhoods on the Iberian Peninsula.</p><p>The market originated from a former dairy farmhouse converted into a market hall in 1962, becoming a longstanding community hub.</p><p>The renovation has transformed the existing building by restoring its main hall and introducing an overarching timber roof that unifies and extends the programme.</p><p>Through new spaces for commerce, culture and social exchange, the Bairro Padre Cruz Market Hall reconnects the market with public life.</p></div>
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The Street

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<div class="e-intro">Studio VDGA has designed The Street clubhouse in Pune, India.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Street is a community clubhouse on Pune's outskirts for a residential development of up to 250 plots.</p><p>Inspired by traditional Indian streets, The Street forms an open, flowing space that fosters interaction, movement and community.</p><p>Partially sunken into the site to harmonise with the landscape, the design connects shared amenities and encourages everyday encounters, celebrations and a sense of belonging.</p><p>This project offers families a rare opportunity to build homes in a vibrant, well-organised setting that balances intimacy, social engagement and strong community values within a gated development.</p></div>
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Zando Central Market

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<div class="e-intro">THINK TANK Architecture has designed the new Zando Central Market in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located in Gombe, this multi-purpose project combines a wholesale and everyday market, 650 shops, some logistic storage, a fire station, a police station, an infirmary, the administration and vet offices and a food court.</p><p>Built using local materials, terracotta bricks and concrete, this project follows bioclimatic and passive principles, such as thermal mass or natural ventilation through the brick facades like moucharabiehs.</p><p>"Zando [looks like] a new modern African construction, as well as an heir to the modernist Brutalist architecture of the continent," said THINK TANK.</p></div>
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Skövde Crematorium

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<div class="e-intro">White Arkitekter has designed Skövde Crematorium in Skövde, Sweden.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Skövde Crematorium is a new crematorium that combines a highly technical industrial process with a dignified, nature-oriented ceremonial experience.</p><p>Designed by White Arkitekter, the building is embedded in the landscape and defined by strong horizontality, carefully controlled sightlines and a limited, carefully calibrated palette of natural materials.</p><p>Pine forest, daylight and a secluded diorama form a calm counterpoint to the building’s technical core.</p><p>This project successfully demonstrates how architecture can transform essential infrastructure into a place of reflection, care and long-term civic value.</p></div>
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TCLP

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<div class="e-intro">Zita Architectes has designed the TCLP community facility in Loon-Plage, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed to host regional, national and international competitions, TCLP features refined and elegant woodwork.</p><p>A timber-led sports and community facility, this project aims to showcase the meticulous and precise use of this noble material.</p><p>Bathed in high-quality natural light from the two glass roofs, an atmosphere of solemnity and focus is created.</p><p>By incorporating a welcoming forecourt and a central meeting space, TCLP encourages interaction between players, visitors and residents, thereby strengthening the club's social role beyond simply providing a place to play sport.</p><p>This focus on conviviality and the quality of the spaces is part of an inclusive approach, where everyone can come together and share a collective experience in a welcoming and uplifting setting.</p></div>
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Cultural project

New-build or refurbished cultural projects completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026 that promote culture and the arts, including theatres, archives, cinemas, museums, stadiums, art galleries and music venues.

Glasshouse Theatre

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<div class="e-intro">Blight Rayner Architecture and Snøhetta have designed the Glasshouse Theatre in Brisbane, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>After opening in March 2026, the Glasshouse Theatre is already renowned for its undulating glass wall that acts as a veil to the theatre box behind.</p><p>"It was inspired by a poem by Aboriginal Artist Lilla Watson referring to the ripples of the adjoining river with fish visible below; the glass wall blurs and reveals people inside, forming a kind of 'public theatre'," said Blight Rayner.</p><p>This project aimed to engage the public with cultural life, further accentuated by positioning flexible performance spaces at street level where the design enables passersby to view rehearsals and performances as they walk around the building.</p></div>
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Grand Palais

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<div class="e-intro">Chatillon Architectes has designed the renovation of the Grand Palais in Paris, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This major restoration and enhancement project allows for the rediscovery of its striking architecture by restoring the coherence of its composition, the generosity of its spaces, its natural light and the fluidity of its circulation within a contemporary layout.</p><p>In addition, the new Grand Palais brings back into the spotlight the great North-South and East-West perspectives and allows for an understanding of the interdependence of spaces and the restoration of the monument's full power.</p><p>As a result, the renovation of the Grand Palais contributes to society by transforming this historic monument into a more accessible, sustainable and open cultural facility.</p><p>This project improves visitor reception by simplifying circulation, enhancing wheelchair access, creating clearer spaces and improving connectivity between different parts of the building.</p></div>
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ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery

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<div class="e-intro">Carmody Groarke has designed the ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The ArtPlay Pavilion and the adaptive reuse and extension of the historic Gallery Cottage are designed to support creativity, learning and environmental responsibility in the listed grounds of Dulwich Picture Gallery, marking a new chapter for the institution.</p><p>The scheme expands access to the historic site, strengthening its relevance for today's visitors and implementing site-wide decarbonisation measures across the gallery's new and existing buildings.</p><p>Reinterpreting the architectural legacy of Sir John Soane's gallery building through contemporary means, this project places children, families and the landscape at the centre of a playful and low-carbon transformation.</p></div>
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Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women

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<div class="e-intro">Diller Scofidio + Renfro has designed Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha, Qatar.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Al-Mujadilah is the first contemporary purpose-built women's mosque in the Muslim world, created to foster a society where all women are engaged, their participation is recognised and their concerns and perspectives help shape contemporary Islamic thought and discourse.</p><p>This project reinterprets traditional mosque architecture through a contemporary lens, seamlessly bringing together programs of worship and education.</p><p>Al-Mujadilah is situated in Education City, a 12-square-kilometre campus in Doha comprised of educational and research institutes.</p></div>
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Ismaili Center Houston

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<div class="e-intro">Farshid Moussavi Architecture has designed the Ismaili Center Houston in Texas, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The new Ismaili Center Houston is a civic and cultural centre for the Ismaili Muslim community and the wider public.</p><p>Free and open to all, its pluralism is expressed through space: the building is distinguished by its openness and interior-exterior continuity, qualities rooted in the spatial intelligence of Islamic architecture and suited to Houston's climate.</p><p>In response to this, three verandahs open the building in all directions – while stone screens modulate light and privacy.</p><p>In addition, three atria allow gatherings to spill outdoors, drawing daylight deep into the interior, creating a setting for public life, worship and learning that belongs to everyone.</p></div>
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The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum

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<div class="e-intro">Lahdelma &amp; Mahlamäki Architects has designed The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum in Šeduva, Lithuania.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum commemorates the village of Šeduva and its 664 residents who were murdered in nearby forests in August 1941.</p><p>Designed by Lahdelma &amp; Mahlamäki Architects, the museum's cluster of minimalist, hipped roof forms evokes a dreamscape of a village, a 'shtetl'.</p><p>Rather than dwelling on horror, the architecture uses natural light, handcrafted details and tranquil views to honour the lost community.</p><p>Scale-like aluminium facades shift with daylight and seasons, recalling both weathered Lithuanian vernacular buildings and wooden shingles.</p><p>Inside, each gallery's ceiling mirrors its hipped roof, creating an intimate yet airy canopy over the narrative exhibitions.</p></div>
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Jacob’s Pillow Doris Duke Theatre

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<div class="e-intro">Mecanoo has designed Jacob's Pillow Doris Duke Theatre in Massachusetts, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Jacob's Pillow Doris Duke Theatre is a visionary architecture of connection that bridges Indigenous stewardship with future-looking technology.</p><p>Located in the Berkshires, the mass timber facility serves as a digital-first dance-making lab. Inspired by the 'seven generations' philosophy, the design features an organic form oriented to the four cardinal directions.</p><p>Blurring the boundaries between nature and performance through its permeable veranda, the Jacob's Pillow Doris Duke Theatre incorporates a state-of-the-art digital backbone for AI and robotics.</p><p>As a result, this sustainable, inclusive space honours its historic legacy while redefining contemporary dance.</p></div>
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Historical Oberamteistraße Museum

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<div class="e-intro">Wulf Architekten has designed the new building of the Historical Oberamteistraße Museum in Reutlingen, Germany.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The historic row of houses at Oberamteistraße 28-32 – and the basement of the Stone House that had occupied plot 34, but was demolished in 1972 – are among the oldest rows of half-timbered houses in southern Germany and authentically reflect the building and living culture since the Middle Ages.</p><p>The rehabilitation, which is in keeping with the building's heritage status, includes the restoration of the old buildings and construction of a new building where the former corner house once stood.</p><p>This ensemble serves as a museum, with the old buildings themselves as exhibits, displaying over 700 years of cultural and architectural history.</p></div>
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Education project

New-build or refurbished projects for early years provision, primary and secondary schools, colleges, universities and other further or higher education institutions completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Kinder Rain

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<div class="e-intro">Atelier Architettura Chinello Morandi (AACM) has designed Kinder Rain in Piove di Sacco, Italy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Kinder Rain is a kindergarten that seeks to translate new pedagogical needs into spatial form, focusing on an architecture enriched by the interaction between gathering spaces and classrooms – while generating continuous opportunities for exchange and dialogue.</p><p>This project proposes a renewed vision for early-years architecture, where spatial experience becomes an active pedagogical tool.</p><p>The school is conceived as a constructed landscape, a synthesis of memory and invention, capable of translating rural archetypes into a contemporary educational environment.</p><p>At its core lies the civic and ethical value of creating public architecture with durable materials — ensuring dignity and longevity for future generations, alongside responsible recovery and recycling at the end of the building's life cycle.</p></div>
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Cube UT Enschede

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<div class="e-intro">Civic Architects, VDNDP and Studio Groen+Schild have designed Cube UT at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cube is a stacked workshop building of 4,734 square metres for the Faculty of Engineering Technology on the Drienerlo campus of the University of Twente in Enschede.</p><p>Created in collaboration with Civic Architects, VDNDP and Studio Groen+Schild, the building forms a compact extension of the Horst complex.</p><p>Upon entering, you overlook the seven-meter-high metal and welding workshop. Through a large void, the upper workshops are also visible.</p><p>Below, students and researchers work with machines, while above, prototypes are built and teaching takes place. In this way, Cube functions as an expo for the faculty.</p></div>
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The Crafts College

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<div class="e-intro">Dorte Mandrup has designed The Crafts College building in Herning, Denmark.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Crafts College in Herning is conceived as a living teaching tool, formed to inspire and nurture community.</p><p>Designed by Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup, the building celebrates the close connection between craftsmanship and architecture.</p><p>In response to the decline in vocational training enrolment, a place where young craftspeople can thrive personally, socially and professionally is offered.</p><p>Shaped like an ellipse, the Crafts College brings together housing, workshop facilities and communal spaces in a gesture that promotes collaboration and togetherness.</p></div>
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Library of the French Lycée

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<div class="e-intro">Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza and Laps Architecture have designed the Library of the French Lycée in Madrid, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The French Lycée in Madrid is a complex of buildings dedicated to education, built in the mid-1970s and a brilliant example of rationalist architecture in concrete.</p><p>It is also included in the Catalogue of Protected Buildings in Madrid, which means that any new intervention must be highly respectful of the existing structure.</p><p>"In this spirit, we proposed an exposed concrete building that blends in perfectly with its surroundings, using Holcim's Ecopact ecological concrete," said Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza.</p><p>"We wanted to create the most beautiful library in the world for the French Lycée in Madrid, but at the same time, we wanted it to be very logical, very rational and capable of making the most of the conditions of the site."</p><p>Glazed from top to bottom, the windows are doubled at both corners and in one corner, the roof is glazed, forming a trihedron of light – a "true boîte à lumière" – where there is more light inside than outside.</p></div>
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24/7 Latelab

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<div class="e-intro">Kosloff Architecture has designed the 24/7 Latelab at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The 24/7 Latelab at Swinburne University has transformed an underused Student Union building into a vibrant, student-focused learning and social hub.</p><p>Located within a fragmented inner-urban campus, this project prioritises adaptive reuse, retaining over 85 per cent of the existing structure to reduce embodied carbon significantly.</p><p>Extensive co-design with students informed a flexible, welcoming environment supporting diverse study and social needs around the clock.</p><p>New landscaped terraces, outdoor study areas and a central skylit void introduce light, greenery and spatial clarity.</p><p>Now the most-used building on campus, Latelab serves as a dynamic centre for student life and a model for sustainable campus renewal.</p></div>
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Lei Wa Lakom Library

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<div class="e-intro">Parallel Studio has designed the Lei Wa Lakom Library in Kazole Village, Zanzibar.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Lei Wa Lakom Library is a socially driven educational project in Kazole Village, developed under the Parallel Gives program.</p><p>Conceived as part of a wider initiative to establish a network of learning nodes across the island, the library provides an accessible, flexible space for children and the community.</p><p>The design responds to climate and context through passive strategies, including shaded areas, cross-ventilation and filtered daylight.</p><p>By combining simplicity, cultural references and environmental sensitivity, this project creates a welcoming environment that supports education, interaction and long-term community engagement.</p></div>
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Prestige University

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<div class="e-intro">Sanjay Puri Architects has designed the Prestige University building in Indore, India.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Prestige University is attuned to the climate of its location, creating an energy-efficient building that, in addition to housing numerous activities, also serves as a large open public space with an accessible ground floor and a landscaped roof.</p><p>Situated within a 32-acre university campus, the main offices, along with an auditorium, seminar halls, library and cafeteria, form the functions of this building.</p><p>As opposed to creating an imposing edifice, the building gradually steps up from the approach direction, belying its 28-metre height and becoming a multifunctional stage.</p><p>Stepped up diagonally from the northern point, the entire terrace of the five-level building is accessible to the students and faculty, transforming it into an open auditorium amid the landscape.</p><p>As a result, the stepped platforms become multiple spaces for different activities simultaneously and form an open-air auditorium for large-scale events, seating 9,000 students at a time.</p></div>
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Chandigarh University D6

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<div class="e-intro">Charged Voids has designed the Chandigarh University D6 student hub in Mohali, India.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Chandigarh University D6 is a 94,000-square-foot multi-program student hub within a 23-acre campus in Mohali.</p><p>Serving over 7,000 students, this project consolidates a library, cafeteria, guest accommodation and gathering space – originally planned as three separate buildings – into one vertically stacked form.</p><p>Two rotated triangular prisms interlocked with a cuboid create a central courtyard, terraces, multiple approaches and no singular front or rear.</p><p>Aligned with the campus axis and amphitheatre, the open ground floor allows movement through and beneath the building, making D6 a permeable connector for everyday campus life.</p></div>
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Heritage project

Refurbishment, retrofit or extension of historic buildings completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

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Maison de l'Art de Grand-Bassam

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<div class="e-intro">Koffi Diabaté Architectes has restored the Maison de l'Art de Grand-Bassam in Côte d'Ivoire.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This restoration project of the former Post and Customs building in Grand-Bassam transforms a deteriorated colonial structure into the Maison de l’Art: a new museum dedicated to contemporary African art supported through a public-private partnership.</p><p>Located in Côte d’Ivoire’s first capital and a Unesco heritage town, this project seeks to recover the architectural integrity of a significant heritage building while adapting it to contemporary use.</p><p>Through historical research and the revival of original tropical bioclimatic principles, the intervention aims to become a model for heritage restoration in Côte d’Ivoire and a symbol of renewed value given to the country's architectural history.</p></div>
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Canning Factory

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<div class="e-intro">OODA has rehabilitated and redesigned the Canning Factory in Matosinhos, Portugal.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This rehabilitation project of the former Brandão &amp; Companhia canning factory in Matosinhos, part of Álvaro Siza's urban plan, restores its industrial identity.</p><p>Through the preservation of the chimney and reconstructed facades, a mixed-use program with housing, services, offices and public space is introduced.</p><p>The Canning Factory project reconfigures the original volume into articulated blocks with courtyards and green areas, improving light, ventilation and urban permeability.</p><p>In addition, material choices and an integrated artwork reinforce the site's memory, ensuring long-term adaptability, spatial clarity and continuity between heritage and contemporary urban life.</p></div>
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Soho Theatre Walthamstow

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<div class="e-intro">Pilbrow &amp; Partners has redesigned the Soho Theatre Walthamstow in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>In 1930, theatre architect Cecil Massey and interior designer Theodore Komisarjevsky took inspiration from the Alhambra to create an extraordinary Moorish extravaganza on a modest north London high street.</p><p>This remarkable interior accommodated cine-variety, bingo, rock and roll and Bollywood before closing in 2003.</p><p>Pilbrows worked with the community and Soho Theatre to show that the dilapidated building could be successfully converted to live performance.</p><p>"After three years of (unpaid) work, we persuaded Waltham Forest Council to purchase and restore the building, which opened in May 2025 to critical acclaim," said Pilbrow &amp; Partners.</p><p>As a result, this project delivers substantial value to the local community by creating a vibrant hub for social interaction, artistic performance and outreach.</p><p>The renewed venue strengthens Walthamstow's night-time economy and expands opportunities for engagement through performance and education programmes.</p></div>
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Pantheon Micro-Architectures for Archaeology

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<div class="e-intro">STARTT has designed the Pantheon Micro-Architectures for Archaeology in Rome, Italy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This intervention project provides access to the archaeological area behind the Rotunda of the Pantheon – while promoting inclusivity through tailor-made micro-architectural insertions.</p><p>The spaces opened to the public – between the Rotunda and the remains of the Basilica of Neptune at its rear – testify to how the Pantheon was the head of a continuous longitudinal urban system.</p><p>"Like a cinematic sequence, visitors move through the spaces between the curve of the Rotunda and that of the apse of Neptune: the character of the space emerges from the relationship between the materials of contemporary architecture and those of Ancient Rome," said STARTT.</p></div>
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The Colosseum's Southern Ambulatory Enhancement

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<div class="e-intro">Stefano Boeri Interiors has designed the Colosseum's Southern Ambulatory Enhancement in Rome, Italy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This enhancement project of the southern ambulatory of the Colosseum, developed by Stefano Boeri Interiors for the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo, restores the spatial legibility of the monument's southern perimeter through a precise archaeological and architectural intervention.</p><p>Based on extensive excavations and research, the design reinstates the original ground levels and the ancient crepidine, reestablishing the relationship between the amphitheatre and the surrounding piazza.</p><p>A new travertine paving, structured according to the Colosseum's radial geometry, reconstructs the missing ambulatory surfaces while ensuring continuity with the monument's material language.</p></div>
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Australian War Memorial New Southern Entrance

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<div class="e-intro">Studio SC has designed the new Southern Entrance at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Australian War Memorial New Southern Entrance is a contemporary intervention within one of Australia's most significant heritage settings.</p><p>This project improves accessibility, visitor services and public programming while carefully preserving the Memorial's silhouette, sightlines and ceremonial character.</p><p>Through reused materials, matched sandstone, restrained reflectivity and symbolic alignment with the Hall of Memory, the design strengthens the Memorial's heritage values while supporting its future use.</p><p>As a result, this project benefits the Australian War Memorial by strengthening its heritage significance while enabling it to meet contemporary public needs.</p></div>
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Olympics Utilities

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<div class="e-intro">Chartier-Corbasson Architectes has restored and redesigned the Olympics Utilities in Paris, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located in the Trocadéro Gardens, this project restores a 1937 bush-hammered pink concrete structure designed by Roger Lardat.</p><p>The intervention focuses on a clear material contrast: the systematic use of stainless steel highlights the original flint walls and concrete, further enhanced by strategic artificial lighting.</p><p>The restoration involved meticulous technical work, including re-issuing custom glass blocks and hydro-blasting the concrete.</p><p>To manage water infiltration from the heavy overhead traffic, internal stainless steel gutters and soffits were integrated.</p><p>Finally, a sculptural Corten steel sliding gate, featuring built-in seating, secures the passage while providing a functional waiting area for visitors.</p></div>
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Hangzhou Loft49 Regeneration

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<div class="e-intro">Line+ Studio has designed the Loft49 regeneration in Hangzhou, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Loft49 transforms a former chemical fibre factory in Hangzhou into a mixed-use creative district through adaptive reuse and selective new construction.</p><p>Two existing industrial buildings are retained and reactivated by converting former production routes into publicly accessible circulation systems, linking different levels through bridges and walkways.</p><p>Ground floors are opened to improve permeability, while new office buildings introduce flexible spaces for contemporary use.</p><p>Material strategies maintain traces of the original structures alongside clearly articulated new insertions.</p><p>The project redefines the site from a closed industrial compound into an open, connected urban environment that supports work, culture, and everyday public activity.</p></div>
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Hospitality project

New-build or refurbished projects, including bars, restaurants and hotels completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

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Caffè Nazionale

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<div class="e-intro">AMAA has designed the new Caffè Nazionale in Arzignano, Italy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Through the colonnade of the 19th-century City Hall, the public space of the square merges with the new Caffè Nazionale.</p><p>The main hall, a mosaic of memory fragments and spatial devices, opens to the quiet courtyard.</p><p>Caffè Nazionale's design orchestrates a sequence of spaces, reminiscent of theatrical stages, establishing a visual dialogue between the square, the colonnade and the interior hall.</p><p>The contrast between restored historical features and new interventions defines this project, as do the deliberately unfinished parts that suspend the temporality of construction.</p></div>
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Architects Holiday at Great Park Farm

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<div class="e-intro">Built Works has designed Architects Holiday at Great Park Farm in Catsfield, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Architects Holiday at Great Park Farm is a hospitality model where architecture becomes the experience.</p><p>Designed and operated by Built Works, the East Sussex woodland retreat comprises a masterplan of five architect-designed cabins and a communal sauna, each centred around a restorative ritual.</p><p>Phase 1, completed in 2026, includes the Drying Shed Sauna, Bather's Cabin and Yogis Cabin – all crafted buildings that sit lightly within the landscape and encourage slower, more intentional occupation.</p><p>Phase 2 introduces the Explorer's Cabin, Musician’s Cabin and Chef's Cabin, extending the idea that hospitality can be designed around practices rather than rooms.</p><p>This project combines architecture, interiors, landscape, operations and branding into a single integrated proposition, where buildings are predominantly timber construction with natural, locally-sourced materials designed to sit within the existing woodland.</p></div>
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Hotel Humano

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<div class="e-intro">Plantea Estudio has designed the interiors of Hotel Humano in La Punta Zicatela, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Hotel Humano is located in a largely undeveloped coastal area within a youthful atmosphere and a strong surf culture, where its original architectural design was developed by the studio of Jorge Hernández de la Garza.</p><p>In addition to its 40 guest rooms, the property features a lobby space, landscaped gardens, a swimming pool and restaurant sheltered beneath a traditional palapa roof, as well as a spa and a rooftop bar terrace and sunset-facing pool.</p><p>Plantea joined the project in late 2023 to lead the interior design, a role that ultimately resulted in significant contributions to the planned architectural scheme.</p></div>
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Central

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<div class="e-intro">JAR Office has designed the Central restaurant in Brisbane, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Central was conceived as a high-performance Cantonese restaurant that could shift gears effortlessly – "from corporate power lunch to late-night rager" – while expanding Brisbane's relatively polite dining hours.</p><p>"The client’s ambition was clear: create a venue that felt as alive at midnight as it does at noon," said JAR Office.</p><p>"Central offers a city hungry for late-night venues a place that can seamlessly switch gears from a corporate power lunch to an up-late rager.</p><p>As a result, Central tells the story of a city coming of age, a venue that respects its past; its design sympathetic to heritage while keeping its gaze firmly on nights yet to come.</p></div>
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Perma

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<div class="e-intro">Mold Architects has designed the Perma retreat on Serifos Island, Greece.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project is conceived as an orchestrated inhabitable collage of materials, textures, views and voids drawn from the island's landscape.</p><p>A concrete grid acts as the main ordering device, holding together Perma's different elements.</p><p>"Through architecture, these materials become tangible: defined, given scale and brought closer to the body," said Mold.</p><p>"Beyond a poetic intention to draw nature into the experience of dwelling, this approach became a real construction principle."</p><p>As a result, the site materials are recycled into the architecture itself, forming inhabitable spaces anchored to the ground.</p></div>
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Teshima Factory

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<div class="e-intro">Schemata Architects has designed the Teshima Factory on Teshima Island, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project transforms a former ironworks near a main port of the island into a pair of twin programs – a restaurant and food factory – organised symmetrically within the existing structure.</p><p>Rooted in Teshima's long-standing practices of organic farming and fishing, it reinterprets the island's self-sustaining food culture as a new cycle of production and exchange, seeking to upcycle local values for future generations.</p><p>Conceived as a catalyst for new economic activity and a place attracting young practitioners, Teshima Factory divides the approximately 360-square-metre building into two continuous zones: a brewery adapted within the existing framework and a newly inserted restaurant.</p></div>
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SOIL Nihonbashi Hotel

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<div class="e-intro">staple studio and Kiyoaki Takeda Architects have designed the SOIL Nihonbashi Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project is a newly built 14-room hotel by Staple in Tokyo's Nihonbashi-Ningyocho district, designed to extend hospitality into the surrounding neighbourhood.</p><p>The building takes its cues from a generations-old local practice: neighbours sharing and propagating over 100 varieties of plants along the backstreets.</p><p>Rust-red corrugated steel curves around the facade like rows of terracotta planters – while a rooftop farm garden supplies the ground-floor pizzeria.</p><p>One node in a walkable network of Staple-run spaces – a bakery, wine bar and co-working space – built to last in the neighbourhood it serves.</p></div>
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Hotel Sevilla

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<div class="e-intro">Zeller &amp; Moye has designed Hotel Sevilla in Mérida, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project's inspiration came from local architecture, craftwork and rituals, evident in the now-restored XVIII-century villa – once an abandoned ruin.</p><p>Listed as a historical monument, Zeller &amp; Moye have restored the building to new grandeur – reimagining it as a grand hotel, while maintaining the charm of its as-found condition.</p><p>"Our design approach follows the concept of a palimpsest," said Zeller &amp; Moye.</p><p>"Present and past layers coexist next to each other and form one rich entity where one can still identify the interventions from different periods."</p></div>
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House (rural)

New-build individual dwellings in a low-density or non-urban setting (includes conjoined developments of up to two houses). Must be completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Simpsons Bay House

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<div class="e-intro">Dock4 Architects and Giles Newstead have designed the Simpsons Bay House in Simpsons Bay on Bruny Island, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Simpsons Bay House was created using a salvaged warehouse that was relocated to Bruny Island, just off the coast of Tasmania.</p><p>"The rural context and the shed structure complement the surrounding landscape and the existing farm structures," said Dock4 Architects.</p><p>As a result, the house is structured around island living, with large internal and external fires that allow year-round outdoor living and cooking and internal courtyards that mediate the climate throughout the colder winter months.</p><p>With a strong emphasis on the reuse of up to 50 per cent of materials – alongside local island artisans as part of the construction team – Simpsons Bay House is a greenhouse-style, sustainability-focused home, filled with warmer climate plant varieties and a new way of living.</p></div>
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Shoreline Studio

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<div class="e-intro">Norm Architects has designed Shoreline Studio in Odsherred, Denmark.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Shoreline Studio is a secluded atelier in Odsherred, conceived as a retreat for artistic immersion and uninterrupted creative work.</p><p>Designed by Norm Architects as a refined counterpart to an existing summerhouse, this project reinterprets Danish building traditions through a dialogue with Japanese spatial sensibilities.</p><p>Rooted in craftsmanship, material honesty and a deep connection to nature, the atelier is shaped through tactile materials, filtered daylight, layered thresholds and carefully framed views of the coastal landscape.</p><p>The result is a contemplative environment that supports stillness, sensory awareness and creative focus.</p></div>
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Toronjos

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<div class="e-intro">PPAA has designed Toronjos in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Toronjos is a residential retreat designed to exist in close continuity with its natural surroundings in the State of Mexico.</p><p>Conceived with a minimal footprint and a sustainable approach, this project prioritises environmental integration and material honesty.</p><p>A sequence of staggered walls and generous openings allows light, air and vegetation to move fluidly through the house – while framing views toward the lake, which also collects rainwater and supports the site's ecosystem.</p><p>Organised around rest and contemplation, Toronjos features open social spaces and is constructed with locally sourced adobe and exposed wooden beams, built with regional labour and intention.</p></div>
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Jiang Deng Lu

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<div class="e-intro">Shisuo Design Office has designed Jiang Deng Lu in Anhui, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project began with a deeply personal brief: to build a dignified gathering space for an elderly mother and visiting relatives in rural Anhui, while simultaneously serving as a memorial for the client's late father – a stonemason and master of the local Zouma Deng opera.</p><p>Floating above a sloped site, the home's angular volume is clad entirely in upcycled stainless steel offcuts and unused window prototypes, where the building's geometry was strictly reverse-engineered from these salvaged materials.</p><p>As a result, this surreal, industrial sanctuary creates a profound architectural dialogue between the father's heavy, traditional stonecraft and the son's lightweight, modern metalwork, transforming surplus components into a poetic bridge between reality and memory.</p></div>
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House Under the Pagoda

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<div class="e-intro">Studio FSJ has designed the House Under the Pagoda in Beijing, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located beneath a thousand-year-old pagoda and surrounded by forested hills, this project's site carries a strong collective memory that extends beyond its physical boundaries – shaped by memory rather than monumentality.</p><p>As opposed to treating the pagoda as a distant visual object, the design transforms its symbolic presence into a sequence of spatial experiences.</p><p>Elevated above the terrain, the House Under the Pagoda unfolds through courtyards, terraces and a tower-like volume that anchors daily life within a landscape of forests, mountains and enduring cultural presence.</p><p>Instead of creating a home that simply overlooks its surroundings, this project reinterprets local cultural memory as an inhabitable architectural framework, enabling its residents to experience the landscape, history and rhythms of the site as part of daily life.</p></div>
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South Barn

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Weave has designed South Barn on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>South Barn is a family home created through the careful adaptation of a modest mid-20th-century agricultural building.</p><p>Instead of replacing the barn's existing structure, Studio Weave worked with its concrete blockwork, timber frame and simple form, retaining its agricultural identity and material memory.</p><p>A calming, open central space brings together living, dining and kitchen – while more private rooms are efficiently arranged to minimise intervention – alongside an elegant glazed elevation that draws in soft light and long views across the surrounding farmland.</p><p>Through restraint and precision, this project delivers a sustainable, characterful home shaped by reuse, craft and landscape.</p></div>
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Hata-Mazanka Guesthouses

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<div class="e-intro">YOD Group has designed a trio of guesthouses named Hata-Mazanka in Ukraine.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project was conceived as a modern interpretation of the traditional Ukrainian mazanka – a vernacular rural home historically defined by whitewashed walls, natural materials and thatched roofs.</p><p>As a result, the Hata-Mazanka guesthouses reinterpret the traditional Ukrainian rural house through contemporary architecture, combining oversized reed roofs, transparent facades and eco-minimalist interiors immersed in the surrounding landscape.</p><p>Following the principles of durability and timeless design, Hata-Mazanka extends the building's long-term relevance and reduces the likelihood of future reconstruction or material replacement.</p><p>"Hata-Mazanka contributes to society by reimagining Ukrainian cultural heritage and creating a calm, restorative environment that encourages reconnection with nature, local identity and slower rhythms of living," said YOD Group.</p></div>
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Casa Plaj

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<div class="e-intro">Extrastudio has designed Casa Plaj in Lourinhã, Portugal.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Casa Plaj's plot is set on a steep, narrow strip of land in the heart of the countryside and a five-minute walk from the beach, offering panoramic views over the sea, valley and village in the distance.</p><p>Inspired by its surroundings, this project is designed in a radically simple form, combining elements used in historic local buildings in a way only possible in the present.</p><p>Given its proximity to the sea and a modest budget, the structure utilises reinforced concrete – the only viable structural material in the region, where its walls are constructed from common brick masonry and finished with a pigmented lime render, keyed to the tones of the distant village.</p><p>By using local, minimally processed materials, Casa Plaj is designed to age naturally, eventually becoming as much a part of the landscape as the elements surrounding it.</p></div>
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House (urban)

New-build individual dwellings in a densely built-up setting (includes conjoined developments of up to two houses). Must be completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Casa Tao

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<div class="e-intro">HW Studio has designed Casa Tao in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located in Puerto Vallarta, Casa Tao is a concrete refuge that reimagines shade as an emotional necessity.</p><p>Responding to the clients' desire for "a home evoking a Japanese museum," the architects turned their attention inward, avoiding direct exposure to the intense sun.</p><p>The design elevates the social areas into a floating volume to capture breezes from a nearby plaza – while bedrooms anchor the ground floor around a silent, contemplative courtyard.</p><p>Through tactile concrete and filtered light, the project embodies Junichirō Tanizaki’s philosophy, creating a sanctuary where shadow ennobles the space and daily life slows down.</p></div>
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Walled Courtyard, Cleaver Square

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<div class="e-intro">Inglis Badrashi Loddo has designed the Walled Courtyard house on Cleaver Square in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Walled Courtyard house is a discreet single-storey home within a former walled garden plot in Kennington, central London.</p><p>Built on a tightly constrained infill site behind a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse, this project transforms what was once a walled garden and subsequent car park into a compact and bright home.</p><p>"It is the first house built on the historic Cleaver Square in over 175 years," said Inglis Badrashi Loddo.</p><p>With an extremely compact site, this is a project about creating richness within constraint. By thoughtfully choreographing natural light and framing views, Inglis Badrashi Loddo were able to create a home that feels generous and unexpectedly expansive.</p><p>"The memory of the original walled garden informed every aspect of the scheme – from the inward-looking arrangement of rooms to the material palette of reclaimed brick and lime mortar," added Inglis Badrashi Loddo.</p></div>
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House 144º

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<div class="e-intro">Jaime Prous Architects and Pineda &amp; Monedero have designed House 144º near Barcelona, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Set on a steep forested hillside in the Maresme, House 144º explores how to build a home – without reshaping the landscape.</p><p>Designed as a single-storey, nearly zero-energy home for a retired couple, it sits lightly above the terrain, preserving existing trees and topography.</p><p>The house's 144° plan directs the living space towards distant views, while the ground below remains largely untouched.</p><p>Built from prefabricated timber and wrapped in galvanised steel, House 144º combines passive environmental strategies with a clear structural logic, proposing an architecture that seeks not only to reduce its footprint, but to make that reduction visible.</p></div>
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Bank Street House

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<div class="e-intro">Prior Barraclough has designed Bank Street House in Melbourne, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>At the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in Northcote – which transforms each weekend into a lively communal space animated by neighbourhood children – lives Bank Street House.</p><p>As a compact, single-storey dwelling capped by a large, habitable green roof, Bank Street House reimagines the suburban home through its modest scale and generous engagement with both landscape and community.</p><p>The front facade folds down to meet the footpath, transforming the roof into an extension of the public realm, blurring the threshold between public and private space and allowing the informal play of the court to extend up onto the house itself.</p></div>
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Amami House

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<div class="e-intro">Sakai Architects has designed Amami House on Amami Island, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located in the heart of Amami Island, this off-grid house reimagines self-reliant living in a humid subtropical climate with limited solar resources.</p><p>Inspired by the island's traditional buntō layout, five independent volumes create fluid in-between spaces that connect the interiors, veranda and garden.</p><p>Elevated like a takakura granary and shaded by deep eaves, the structure harnesses wind, insulation and controlled light, instead of air conditioning.</p><p>Solar power enables full autonomy, while composting, a vegetable garden and a wood-fired sauna establish a circular ecosystem.</p><p>As a result, Amami House becomes both a resilient shelter and communal platform, sustaining local traditions of gathering and collective living.</p></div>
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Light House

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<div class="e-intro">Studioninedots has designed Light House in Amsterdam, Netherlands.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>A couple with two children, long-rooted in Amsterdam, approached architecture firm Studioninedots with a simple yet generous request: design a home defined by connection — between themselves and their children – while also interacting with the surrounding environment.</p><p>"From that single ambition, they entrusted us with an almost complete carte blanche," said Studioninedots.</p><p>The house sits on Centrumeiland, a new neighbourhood with strong sustainability ambitions and where a self-build culture drives individual expression and experiment.</p><p>"As such, we created Light House, a home made of playfully stacked boxes," added Studioninedots.</p></div>
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Ananda

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<div class="e-intro">Thought Parallels Architecture has designed Ananda in Kerala, India.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Situated in a dense urban fabric and accessed via a narrow thoroughfare, Ananda's site offered limited opportunities for a conventional elevation.</p><p>"To address the lack of a clear vantage point, we shifted the visual focus upward, driving the eyes towards the roof," said Thought Parallels Architecture.</p><p>Consequently, the expansive overhanging roof serves as the primary design anchor, creating a riveting presence that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing.</p><p>Named after a Sanskrit word translating as 'bliss', Ananda was designed for a couple based in the USA who desired a contemporary residence with airy interiors close to their ancestral home.</p></div>
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Casa Refugio

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<div class="e-intro">Taller Segovia Molina has designed Casa Refugio in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located in the suburbs of Santiago de Querétaro, Casa Refugio is a 450-square-metre residential dwelling, where its clever design "prepares visitors to leave the outside world behind when they enter," said architects Taller Segovia Molina.</p><p>The architecture slowly unfolds around a central staircase enclosed within a barrel vault, visually and acoustically connecting multi-level spaces.</p><p>Designed to evolve with its inhabitants, the home features an intimate social area, internal patios and a reimagined roof garden that fosters a constant relationship with nature, shifting light and daily domestic rituals.</p></div>
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House extension

An outstanding extension added to an existing home that has been completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

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Red Annexe

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<div class="e-intro">Mecozzi Verdini has designed the extension of the Red Annexe in the Marche region of Italy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The extension project of a traditional 1960s countryside villa in Marche became an opportunity to carry out a conversion project that indissolubly links the simplicity of rural life with a more contemporary way of living.</p><p>"The intervention tells a story of continuity and innovation, where past and present engage in dialogue with the surrounding landscape, breathing new life into a place rich in memories and traditions," said Mecozzi Verdini.</p><p>As a result, the Red Annexe extension discreetly references an almost brutalist aesthetic, while maintaining a strong connection with the surrounding rural landscape.</p></div>
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Clay House

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<div class="e-intro">Muci has designed the extension of the Clay House in Sydney, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Clay House transforms a narrow, south-facing terrace in Sydney into a family home centred on light, materiality and carefully defined spaces.</p><p>Conceived as two tower-like volumes separated by a central lightwell, the extension draws northern light deep into the plan – while creating a sequence of distinct yet interconnected rooms.</p><p>Developed for the owners of a ceramic building materials company, this project explores the architectural potential of clay across structure, enclosure and interior elements.</p><p>The result successfully demonstrates how a compact inner-city site can accommodate family life with generosity, character and spatial richness.</p></div>
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TH+ House

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<div class="e-intro">ODDO Architects has designed the extension of the TH+ House in Hanoi, Vietnam.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>TH+ House is a narrow urban house extension in Hanoi, designed for a growing family within the city's dense alley fabric.</p><p>Built on a 2.5-metre-wide plot, this project extends and connects to the original adjacent TH House, while establishing its own architectural identity through a distinct spatial and structural approach.</p><p>Layered vertical spaces, internal voids, skylights and large openings create visual continuity, natural ventilation and flexibility throughout the home.</p><p>In addition, integrated greenery and planted terraces improve the microclimate and bring nature into the compact interior – while a central red steel column organises the house and reinforces its spatial openness.</p></div>
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Stone Brick House

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<div class="e-intro">Proctor &amp; Shaw has designed the extension of the Stone Brick House in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Stone Brick House's extension celebrates low-carbon stone brick construction, demonstrating how innovative design can elevate the London terrace house extension typology.</p><p>The brief for the extension included creating more space for entertaining and relaxing, with references to airy Majorcan villas for inspiration.</p><p>"Utzon's Can Lis house became a key precedent and we sought to achieve a purity to the architectural design with deep reveals to openings, material restraint, and statement furniture," said Proctor &amp; Shaw.</p><p>All these elements come together in the principal rear kitchen dining space; volumetric generosity, high levels of natural light and serene craft to create a powerfully tranquil space.</p></div>
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Chr Tomters Veg House

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<div class="e-intro">Rever &amp; Drage has designed the extension of the Chr Tomters Veg House in Raelingen, Norway.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Set on a narrow sloping plot between two roads, this extension transforms a modest traditional wooden house into a spatially varied home for a large family.</p><p>Rather than absorbing the original house into a single extension, this project splits the programme into smaller interconnected volumes.</p><p>This approach preserves the scale and character of the existing house – while creating varied transitions between indoors, outdoors and surrounding landscapes.</p><p>As a result, two new red volumes extend the existing house, forming a sequence of buildings linked by courtyards and winter gardens that connect everyday life to the surrounding landscape.</p></div>
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St George Villa

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Grieveson has designed the extension of the St George Villa in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>St George Villa is a deep retrofit and extension that transforms a dark, damp Victorian basement in North London's Walthamstow into a light-filled home with an extra bedroom and expanded living space, immersed in nature.</p><p>The new extension, connected by a glazed link, sits apart from the original structure, where arched openings, echoing the villa's Victorian arches, give it a distinctive identity.</p><p>In addition, a planted courtyard draws daylight deep into existing rooms – while lush garden planting wraps the floor-to-ceiling glazing.</p><p>"Sustainability was a cornerstone of the brief: operational and embodied carbon were reduced, materials reused, and circular economy principles guided the design," said Studio Grieveson.</p></div>
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Golmorad

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<div class="e-intro">ZAV Architects has designed the extension of Golmorad in Tehran, Iran.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Golmorad extension transforms a weekend villa into a permanent home in Kouhsar town on the outskirts of Tehran and Karaj – where temporary stays are intended to become permanent.</p><p>"The concept addresses an anatomical growth, where new members are added to an existing body to provide space needed for permanent habitation," said ZAV Architects.</p><p>This is achieved through a sequence of interconnected vaults that crawl into the garden, integrating the villa into a larger whole.</p><p>Using a carved design language with low-tech masonry and local craftsmanship, Golmorad proposes an alternative model for suburban development based on extension, rather than replacement.</p></div>
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Hemp House

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<div class="e-intro">Nimtim Architects has designed the extension of the Hemp House in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The existing house for this project was a 1930s semi-detached with broad proportions and a pronounced textured rough-cast render.</p><p>"There was a shared ambition to celebrate the good qualities of the house but add something new that could provide the additional space, but also a sense of joy and playfulness that the house so far lacked," said Nimtim.</p><p>As one of the clients was a sommelier, an efficient and elegant kitchen was a pre-requisite for the extension.</p><p>The result was a rear addition that was simple in form, yet borrowed from the simple pitched roofs of the existing home.</p></div>
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House renovation

Outstanding refurbished homes that have been completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

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Haniyasu House

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<div class="e-intro">Aatismo has renovated Haniyasu House in Kamakura, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Named after the Japanese deity of clay, Haniyasu House is a combined residence and studio for two generations: architects and their parents, who are ceramicists.</p><p>This project involved stripping a 1967 wooden house to its structural frame and inserting four truncated pyramidal volumes composed of site-excavated soil, fired ceramic clay and oxidising metal powders.</p><p>By scaling up the material transformation processes of ceramics to an architectural level, the design creates a space reminiscent of a "primitive settlement," connecting Kamakura's geological time with contemporary creative practice through the physical accumulation of material strata.</p><p>By transforming a decaying suburban residence into a low-impact, productive cultural hub, Haniyasu House serves as a rigorous prototype for revitalising ageing infrastructure into high-quality architectural assets for future generations.</p></div>
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Islington House

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<div class="e-intro">Architecture for London and Hamish Vincent Design have renovated Islington House in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This house extension and refurbishment in Islington features an elegant arched garden door and a striking cantilevered stair that builds upon the Georgian revival style of the original 1950s property.</p><p>The reconfiguration enhances natural light, improves circulation and strengthens the connection between the interiors and the rear garden, resulting in a bright, modern family home.</p><p>"At the heart of the project is a bespoke staircase with Douglas fir treads and refined stone detailing," said Architecture for London.</p><p>"By repositioning the staircase, we created a generous double-height entrance, creating a dramatic sense of arrival and a visual link between the ground, first and second floors."</p></div>
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Lauriston

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<div class="e-intro">Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects has renovated Lauriston in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Lauriston is the renovation of a Victorian terrace in Hackney, London, for a sociable family of four.</p><p>"The defining move was counterintuitive: relocating the heart of the home, kitchen, dining and living, to the previously dark lower-ground floor," said Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects.</p><p>A new double-height arched entrance floods the space with light – while a stepped rear extension and multi-level garden dissolve the boundary between inside and out.</p><p>Spatial ingenuity runs through every floor, from borrowed eaves space in the bedroom to a bespoke bunk bed designed to grow with the family.</p><p>"The result is a home that shapes how its owners live," added Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects.</p></div>
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Nativa House

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<div class="e-intro">From Architects has renovated Nativa House in Montevideo, Uruguay.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project involves the renovation of an existing house built in 1956, where all interior partitions and staircases were removed to expose the building's structure.</p><p>"This [approach] allowed us to reorganise the spaces, incorporating new functional elements: a greenhouse-style vault, an indoor-outdoor staircase and multipurpose furniture," said From Architects.</p><p>Access to the house, previously via a bridge to the upper floor, is now achieved by descending through a wild garden, opening up and connecting the front with the backyard – while the upper floor contains the most intimate spaces and the greenhouse dome is located on the top level.</p><p>Nativa House demonstrates that adaptive reuse of existing residential buildings is not only viable but architecturally desirable.</p><p>By retaining the original concrete structural frame in its entirety – all beams, columns, and slabs – this project avoids the significant embodied carbon cost of new construction.</p></div>
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Minka Farmhouse

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<div class="e-intro">I-Kanda Architects and Atelier RYO has relocated and renovated the Minka Farmhouse in Massachusetts, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Minka Farmhouse renovation embodies a dialogue between two cultures – a thoughtful exchange of traditional craftsmanship, techniques and customs.</p><p>In 2020, a 300-year-old traditional timberframe farmhouse was identified in the village of Tane, Japan, for relocation to the United States.</p><p>The house had suffered damage in a typhoon and the family of rice farmers who had owned it for generations faced the difficult choice between costly repairs and its demolition.</p><p>Meanwhile, the structure sat in a state of increasing disrepair; therefore, relocation offered a unique opportunity.</p><p>In giving a second lease of life to the farmhouse, a balance was found between authenticity to the past and longevity for the future.</p></div>
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Tucker

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<div class="e-intro">SSdH has renovated Tucker, a warehouse in Melbourne, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project transforms a historic manufacturing warehouse through a series of careful adjustments and light-filled additions.</p><p>A raised landscaped courtyard and double-height atrium reconfigures a previously dark interior by drawing northern light deep into the plan – while exposed commercial glazing systems, retained trusses and a lightweight steel mesh stair tower extend the industrial language of the original building.</p><p>Working within the existing footprint, the project focuses on adaptation, reuse and collective care as an approach to both the warehouse typology and an evolving suburb.</p><p>Tucker focuses on what architecture can enable over time: adaptability, reuse, collective care and the ongoing cultural contribution of existing buildings within an evolving city and culture.</p></div>
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The Stepwell House

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<div class="e-intro">Wadhal has renovated The Stepwell House in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Wadhal has redefined a two-storey London flat into a home of three parts: an art gallery, a private dwelling and an outdoor stepwell.</p><p>"The Stepwell House examines how both ancient and contemporary elements alike can be recontextualised," said Wadhal.</p><p>Drawing on a traditional South Asian typology, the stepwell is reinterpreted as a sculptural element that rationalises access, while being deliberately irrational in its formal articulation.</p><p>The fully refurbished interiors result in a contemporary home where old and new collide, characterised by the considered and contrasting use of stainless steel mesh.</p></div>
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Fisherman's House in Cadaques

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<div class="e-intro">Bea Portabella Arquitectura, Max de Cusa Arquitectes and Jordi Pagés Studio have renovated the Fisherman's House in Cadaqués, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Fisherman’s House renovation reactivates a century-old fisherman's dwelling in the historic centre of Cadaqués.</p><p>This project demonstrates how the careful rehabilitation of existing buildings can contribute to more sustainable and culturally sensitive development.</p><p>By preserving and restoring a century-old fisherman's house in Cadaqués, the intervention extends the life of an existing structure, avoiding the environmental impact associated with demolition and new construction.</p><p>Fisherman's House demonstrates how careful, minimal interventions can reinterpret traditional Mediterranean architecture and make historic buildings compatible with contemporary ways of living.</p></div>
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Housing

Multiple new-build or significantly refurbished dwellings or extended housing projects of three or more units completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026. Must include three or more units.

Lagmansgården Reform School

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<div class="e-intro">Anttinen Oiva Architects has designed the new Lagmansgården Reform School in Jakobstad, Finland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The newly designed Lagmansgården Reform School is located in a scenic pine forest on Finland’s west coast.</p><p>Designed to provide a safe, homelike and therapeutic environment for children and young people in need of intensive foster care and special-needs education, the facility combines residential functions with shared learning, recreational and administrative spaces.</p><p>Emphasising resilience, local materials and low-carbon solutions, the timber-built complex features compact and flexible architecture rooted in the simple building traditions of Ostrobothnia.</p><p>The layout centres a sheltered courtyard opening towards the lakeside, encouraging outdoor activity and a closer connection with nature.</p></div>
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105 Honor Oak Park

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<div class="e-intro">Dowen Farmer Architects has designed 105 Honor Oak Park in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>105 Honor Oak Park transforms a constrained woodland site into a pioneering low-carbon housing community.</p><p>Inspired by the nearby Walters Way, six lightweight timber homes are arranged around a mature London Plane tree and connected by a raised boardwalk that preserves the woodland floor below.</p><p>Elevated on stilts using Walter Segal construction principles, the scheme minimises site disturbance, protects tree roots and reduces embodied carbon.</p><p>Seamlessly integrating architecture and landscape, 105 Honor Oak Park creates a rare urban retreat that fosters biodiversity, neighbourliness and wellbeing, demonstrating how sustainable housing can enrich both people and place.</p></div>
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158 Purley Downs Road

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<div class="e-intro">Harp and Harp has designed 158 Purley Downs Road in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>158 Purley Downs Road is a development of seven new family homes in the place of one house in Sanderstead within the London Borough of Croydon.</p><p>The intensification of the site was facilitated by the since-revoked Croydon Suburban Housing design guide, which encouraged densification of the suburbs to tackle the borough's housing shortages.</p><p>"The suburbs are traditionally areas that are resistant to change and often ignored by architects and design professionals, but are actually highly connected and sustainable areas for new, intensified brownfield development utilising creative solutions," said Harp and Harp.</p><p>As a result, this project illustrates how density can be massively increased on a corner plot, while still providing family-sized houses with modern architectural approaches.</p></div>
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Inhabited Landscape

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<div class="e-intro">Herault Arnod Architectures has designed Inhabited Landscape in Laval, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This 92-unit mixed-tenure project is organised as a 10-metre-thick square ring around a central garden, allowing every apartment to be dual-aspect or set on an outer corner.</p><p>"The client's brief was to develop a mixed-tenure residential building on a strategic plot at the hinge between the new Arsenal eco-district and the existing suburban neighbourhood across rue Voltaire," said Herault Arnod Architectures.</p><p>The brief also called for social rental, subsidised home-ownership and market-rate units within a single architectural ensemble, with attention to the transition with smaller-scale neighbours, including a daycare and an apartment block 15 metres from the site.</p><p>As a result, Inhabited Landscape offers residents freedom in their way of living: a connection to the outdoors and to greenery, the ability to move between different types of spaces, additional storage units on the balconies and the possibility of riding their bike to and from home.</p></div>
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Root

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<div class="e-intro">Levs Architecten, in collaboration with Boom Landscape, has designed Root in Eindhoven, Netherlands.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Root is a residential project in Eindhoven, a U-shaped wooden-frame structure that integrates seamlessly with the surrounding forest.</p><p>By preserving 80 per cent of existing trees, Root offers an urban treehouse experience, with its climate-adaptive, nature-inclusive design featuring curved living galleries and spacious balconies.</p><p>Utilising traditional materials with extensive use of wood for external structural components, cladding, and interior walls, Root reduces its carbon footprint by up to 40 per cent.</p><p>This project enhances biodiversity, strengthens the local green infrastructure and provides a harmonious living environment, connecting residents with nature and the urban fabric.</p></div>
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La Querola

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<div class="e-intro">Ribas &amp; Ribas Arquitectos has designed La Querola in Ordino, Andorra.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>La Querola proposes an architecture radically bound to its place. Located in the valley of Ordino, Andorra, the building is not presented as an autonomous object but rather emerges as a natural extension of the landscape.</p><p>The silhouette evokes a stratified, eroded rock – 'Quer' translates as a Catalan word for 'large stone' – and its form, materiality and implantation derive directly from the topography.</p><p>The duplex and triplex dwellings are organised according to the logic of the terrain, oriented by topographic conditions and visual relationships with the valley.</p><p>"The local slate skin binds the building to the memory of its place," said Ribas &amp; Ribas.</p></div>
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144 Vanderbilt

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<div class="e-intro">Tankhouse and SO-IL have developed and designed 144 Vanderbilt in New York City, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>144 Vanderbilt is an eight-story, 26-residence condominium in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, developed by Tankhouse and designed by SO–IL as a sculptural reinterpretation of urban living.</p><p>Designed to bring the light, air, privacy and outdoor connection of single-family homes into a multifamily setting, the building features 21 unique layouts, multiple exposures and private outdoor space in every residence.</p><p>144 Vanderbilt's pink precast concrete facade reimagines the neighborhood’s red brick context through scalloped, light-responsive surfaces.</p><p>With terraces, breezeways, over 11,000 square feet of amenities, landscaped gardens and fully electric sustainable systems, 144 Vanderbilt sets a new benchmark for design-led, community-centred housing.</p></div>
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Oudemansstraat

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<div class="e-intro">Woonwerk Architecten has renovated Oudemansstraat in Antwerp, Belgium.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project involves the transformation of two buildings on Crauwelengang and Oudemansstraat — a former nightclub converted into affordable housing and a renovated building containing three compact homes.</p><p>An area historically associated with prostitution, Antwerp's Schipperskwartier is gradually developing into a lively neighbourhood, where affordable housing is a key catalyst for social change, opening the district to diverse target groups.</p><p>"Our project on Oudemansstraat is part of this transition, contributing to the development of a contemporary and attractive district," said Woonwerk Architecten.</p><p>"The collective garden resulting from this renovation assignment enriches residents with shared spaces, social interaction and a sense of safety."</p></div>
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Infrastructure and transport project

New-build infrastructure or refurbishment and upgrade work of existing facilities where the projects exhibit a significant spatial or structural design emphasis such as underground, rail or bus stations, bridges as well as buildings constructed to deliver public utilities. Must be completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Gordie Howe International Bridge

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<div class="e-intro">AECOM and Erik Behrens have designed the Gordie Howe International Bridge between the United States and Canada.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Gordie Howe International Bridge, designed by AECOM and architect Erik Behrens, transforms vital cross-border infrastructure into a powerful civic landmark linking Windsor, Canada and Detroit, United States.</p><p>Blending engineering innovation with refined aesthetics, its slender deck, soaring 220-metre towers and fan-shaped cables create a striking, light-filled presence animated by the interplay of structure, light and movement.</p><p>Inspired by hockey legend Gordie Howe, the bridge expresses shared cultural identity while strengthening economic connectivity.</p><p>By day and night, its dynamic form, moiré cable patterns and lighting artistry by Douglas Coupland establish it as both essential infrastructure and an enduring work of contemporary public art.</p></div>
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Nujiang River 72 Canyon Viewpoint

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<div class="e-intro">Archermit has designed the Nujiang River 72 canyon viewpoint in Tibet, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project features a glass-floored cantilevered viewpoint at the Nujiang River 72 Turns Canyon Scenic Area that transforms a perilous landscape in Tibet into a visitor destination.</p><p>Inspired by the G318's Devil's Road – due to its dangerous hairpin turns above the Nujiang Grand Canyon and river below – the viewpoint uses a 37-metre cantilevered glass observatory, a suspension bridge and 666 Heavenly Stairs to immerse visitors in the canyon's thrill.</p><p>"Built over six years by 329 workers without heavy machinery, the viewpoint honours resilience and transforms barren slopes into orchards," said Archermit.</p></div>
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Clever Charging Stations

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<div class="e-intro">Cobe has designed the Clever charging stations in Fredericia, Denmark.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cobe's design for Clever's ultra-fast charging stations rethinks the EV charging experience as a meaningful break.</p><p>By combining fast-charging infrastructure with a calm, nature-integrated setting that enhances local biodiversity, the stations offer drivers and passengers a place to rest and recharge.</p><p>"A modular system of timber canopies can scale from a single unit to multiple structures, depending on site conditions," said Cobe.</p><p>Designed to support the rapid shift toward electric mobility, the stations demonstrate how even highly technical infrastructure can contribute positively to landscape, climate and quality of life.</p></div>
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Techo International Airport

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<div class="e-intro">Foster + Partners has designed the Techo International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Techo International Airport is Cambodia's primary international airport, located south of Phnom Penh, replacing the former Phnom Penh International Airport in September 2025.</p><p>Designed by Foster + Partners, the 2,600-hectare airport's design embodies a strong sense of place, drawing inspiration from one of the oldest civilisations on earth, inspired by its vernacular forms that respond to the tropical climate.</p><p>The overall masterplan included plans for a new airport city with a state-of-the-art terminal building at its heart, providing the highest levels of passenger experience and setting new standards for sustainability.</p></div>
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Naples Underground Central Station at Centro Direzionale

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<div class="e-intro">EMBT has designed the Naples Underground Central Station at Centro Direzionale in Naples, Italy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The new Naples Underground Central Station at Centro Direzionale reimagines a major transport hub as both infrastructure and public space.</p><p>This project introduces warmth, movement and civic identity into Naples' modern business district by integrating flowing public areas and wooden structural elements within the existing urban framework.</p><p>As a result, the station enhances metropolitan connections while creating a new urban piazza: a forest-like passage through one of the city's most artificial environments.</p></div>
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Kebag Enova

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<div class="e-intro">Penzel Valier has designed the Kebag Enova power plant in Zuchwil, Switzerland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Kebag Enova is organised into two distinct elements: a solid plinth that houses the main infrastructure and the machinery positioned above it.</p><p>This configuration enhances the legibility of functional relationships, while balancing the overall proportions.</p><p>"Our goal was to develop a cohesive and powerful overall form that seamlessly integrates the different infrastructural components," said Penzel Valier.</p><p>Resting on the massive base, the technical facilities are enclosed in a lightweight shell – akin to the bodywork of a car.</p><p>The result is a continuous band of glazing that marks the transition between these elements, emphasising their contrast while offering glimpses into the impressive machine hall.</p></div>
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Wuhan Qianzishan Waste-to-Energy Power Plant

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<div class="e-intro">United Units Architects has designed the Qianzishan Waste-to-Energy Power Plant in Wuhan, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>In a former quarry in Wuhan, the Qianzishan Waste-to-Energy Power Plant redefines industrial architecture through machine aesthetics.</p><p>"Its design transforms functional machinery into refined artworks by capturing an art unveiling moment – a soft, curtain-like glass facade rises to reveal machines as exhibits," said United Units Architects.</p><p>As a result, the pale green, scale-like glass creates shifting reflections and psychedelic light.</p><p>By infusing architectural values into an industrial facility, this project transcends mere function to demonstrate regenerative impacts on nature and community.</p></div>
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Petit Quai Footbridge

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<div class="e-intro">À Part Architectes has designed the Petit Quai Footbridge in Morez, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Petit Quai Footbridge appears as a simple hyphen inserted between the riverbanks in Morez – both minimal and timeless – while surprising users with its unique geometry.</p><p>More than just a structural artwork, the footbridge becomes a belvedere offering stunning views over the Bienne river.</p><p>"Benches are integrated to invite people to stop, relax and feel the river," said À Part Architectes.</p><p>"Thus, the footbridge turns out to be a vibrant space for daily life and a place of contemplation."</p></div>
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Landscape and urban design

Landscape architecture or urban design projects, including masterplans and design for the public realm, completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Cycling Between Terrils

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<div class="e-intro">BuroLandschap has designed Cycling Between Terrils in Limburg, Belgium.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cycling between Terrils is a 400-metre floating bicycle bridge in Limburg, connecting two former mining municipalities across a reclaimed extraction lake between historic terrils.</p><p>Inspired by the Golden Section, the bridge follows a gentle, organic curve that slows cyclists and enhances the experience of the surrounding landscape.</p><p>Composed of 30 hinged pontoon elements, it adapts to fluctuating water levels while ensuring stability and comfort.</p><p>More than a functional crossing, this project transforms an industrial past into a contemporary leisure landscape, reinforcing the region's identity as a leading cycling destination.</p></div>
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Parque del Jaguar

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<div class="e-intro">Colectivo C733 has designed Parque del Jaguar in Tulum, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Parque del Jaguar is a large-scale ecological restoration and public infrastructure project in Tulum commissioned by Sedatu.</p><p>It transforms a fragmented protected area into over 1,000 hectares of connected landscape, safeguarding biodiversity while enabling controlled public access.</p><p>Through strategies of delimiting, expanding, and organising the territory, this project restores ecosystems, integrates cultural and archaeological sites and introduces low-impact mobility and architecture.</p><p>The result is a model for inhabiting fragile environments through regeneration and long-term stewardship.</p></div>
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Shipyard 1914 Heritage Park

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<div class="e-intro">DDON Planning &amp; Design has designed Phase 1 of the Shipyard 1914 Heritage Park in Guangzhou, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Faced with the renewal of grand urban industrial heritage, the old Guangzhou Shipyard abandons blind demolition and static preservation.</p><p>Trapped by physical relics, value transformation and homogeneous renovation, this project adopts the strategy of ultimate preservation and top-level intervention.</p><p>The shipyard retains original industrial texture and profound site spirit and introduces Kengo Kuma-designed cultural architecture.</p><p>This project connects shipping history, riverside scenery and contemporary urban life, inheriting the industrial context and activating public vitality, turning the century-old shipyard into a distinctive riverside cultural landmark.</p></div>
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Jonas Amsterdam

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<div class="e-intro">Felixx Landscape Architects &amp; Planners has designed Jonas in Amsterdam, Netherlands.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Jonas is a pioneering residential building in Amsterdam's IJburg that merges high-density living with a rich, nature‑inclusive public realm.</p><p>Designed as a social and ecological 'living room', this project weaves four distinctive landscapes throughout the architecture, creating shared outdoor spaces that enhance community life and biodiversity.</p><p>With circular material strategies, zero‑emission energy systems and nature‑based water and habitat solutions, Jonas achieves long-term resilience.</p><p>More than a building, it serves as a catalyst for sustainable urban living, offering residents and the wider community an accessible, climate‑positive environment.</p><p>In doing so, this project was awarded the highest sustainability certification: BREEAM Outstanding.</p></div>
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Presidio Tunnel Tops

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<div class="e-intro">Field Operations has designed Presidio Tunnel Tops in San Francisco, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Bridging over seven lanes of the tunnelled Presidio Parkway, Presidio Tunnel Tops reclaims highway infrastructure as 14 acres of public parkland, reconnecting San Francisco's Presidio Main Post to the Bay for the first time in generations.</p><p>Through choreographed topography, accessible circulation and ecologically grounded landscapes, the park transforms a once-divisive transportation corridor into a civic destination of trails, meadows, overlooks and gathering spaces.</p><p>Since opening, Presidio Tunnel Tops has welcomed nearly 6 million visitors and hosted more than 100 community-based organisations.</p><p>Outpost Meadow extends this success, reinforcing the park as a model for reclaiming infrastructure in service of public life.</p></div>
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Shenzhen Guangming Science Park

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<div class="e-intro">Guangzhou SPI Design has designed Shenzhen Guangming Science Park in Shenzhen, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Guided by a 'one core, two wings' strategy, Guangming Science Park is a large urban park in northern Shenzhen integrating ecological restoration, science education and public recreation.</p><p>Through biodiversity assessment, habitat rehabilitation, low-impact planting and ecological corridor construction, this project restores a migratory bird habitat and strengthens ecosystem resilience.</p><p>Three Science Trails and six Nature Theatres form a spatial network translating scientific concepts into experiential sequences, creating a public landscape of education, ecology and daily life.</p><p>This project establishes a public landscape framework for Guangming Science City, supporting regional ecological regeneration and urban development.</p></div>
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Panlong Tiandi

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<div class="e-intro">Sasaki has designed Panlong Tiandi in Shanghai, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Panlong Tiandi renews an ancient 700-year-old Jiangnan water-town village in Shanghai as a contemporary public landscape.</p><p>The 55-hectare, landscape-led master plan preserves the historic core while transforming a former highway setback into a 22-hectare park that reconnects canals, bridges, lanes, courtyards, neighbourhoods and transit.</p><p>In this project, restored waterways, adaptive reuse, shaded walks, pocket gardens, wetlands and public programs turn heritage into everyday civic life rather than a preserved image.</p><p>Rooted in water-town memory and designed for contemporary use, Panlong Tiandi unites culture, ecology and public space as a living urban retreat.</p></div>
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Olive Leaf

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<div class="e-intro">ZAV Architects has designed Olive Leaf in Minoudasht, Iran.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Olive Leaf is a playground set within a 40-hectare olive orchard in Minoudasht, commissioned by Fresh Farm and Khalil Farshbaf.</p><p>This project transforms an existing metal grid structure – originally used for arboricultural training – into a multi-level play landscape to engage and interact with trees.</p><p>A series of circular platforms, either suspended from or supported by the structure, spiral around tree trunks and gradually ascend towards the adjacent Cheshm Cheran building.</p><p>Integrating swings, slides and rotating elements, the design creates a stepped playground that enables children to move through, around and within the orchard canopy in a soft landscape.</p></div>
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Leisure and wellness project

New-build projects or significant refurbishments or extensions of a building used for leisure, health and wellbeing. Includes hospitals, doctors' and dentists' surgeries, care homes, clinics and spas completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Lagmansgården Reform School

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<div class="e-intro">Anttinen Oiva Architects has designed the new Lagmansgården Reform School in Jakobstad, Finland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The newly designed Lagmansgården Reform School is located in a scenic pine forest on Finland's west coast.</p><p>Designed to provide a safe, homelike and therapeutic environment for children and young people in need of intensive foster care and special-needs education, the facility combines residential functions with shared learning, recreational and administrative spaces.</p><p>Emphasising resilience, local materials and low-carbon solutions, the timber-built complex features compact and flexible architecture rooted in the simple building traditions of Ostrobothnia.</p><p>The layout centres a sheltered courtyard opening towards the lakeside, encouraging outdoor activity and a closer connection with nature.</p></div>
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Daichi Silent River Tree Sauna

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<div class="e-intro">Daichi has designed the Daichi Silent River Tree Sauna in Kanagawa, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Daichi Silent River Tree Sauna is a project that redefines the forest itself as part of the architectural structure.</p><p>"Conventional architecture clears nature away, cutting down trees and transforming naturally thick and strong materials into standardised structural components," said Daichi.</p><p>In this project, however, the existing trees were preserved and integrated directly into the architectural framework, creating a seamless fusion between nature and the built environment.</p><p>Therefore, the forest is not treated as scenery or background, but as an essential structural presence itself, generating an immersive experience where visitors feel deeply connected to nature.</p></div>
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Bukit Canberra

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<div class="e-intro">DP Architects has designed Bukit Canberra in Sembawang, Singapore.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Bukit Canberra is a large-scale community, sports and lifestyle hub situated on a lush 12-hectare wooded site in Sembawang, crowned by a conserved national monument at its highest point.</p><p>Designed to serve approximately 100,000 residents, this development integrates a wide range of sports and community programmes – while preserving the site's natural hilly terrain and rich forest character.</p><p>Guided by regenerative design principles, Bukit Canberra recognises the environment as an equal stakeholder, fostering harmony between social and ecological systems.</p><p>This approach supports long-term resilience, sustainability and holistic community development.</p></div>
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Wave 4 and Wave 5: ECR Medical Complex

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<div class="e-intro">FAAB has designed the Wave 4 and Wave 5 buildings of the ECR Medical Complex in Sopot, Poland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located 400 metres from the Baltic Sea in Sopot, the Wave 4 and 5 buildings form part of the ECR medical complex, offering pre- and post-procedure care and rehabilitation, as well as a curated on-site restaurant.</p><p>Inspired by Pierre Carreau's AquaViva seascapes, the facades employ wave geometry and 'Flower of Life' perforated aluminium panels symbolising healing.</p><p>Bespoke shutters, refined through 1:1 physical modelling, deliver effective solar shading. Inside, discreet medical technology that encompasses laser therapy, cryotherapy and high-pressure wound healing integrates into calming interiors.</p><p>All 44 patient rooms feature furniture designed by FAAB and custom wicker shading, overlooking a native seaside garden and revitalised brownfield landscape.</p></div>
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Maloca Yoga Pavilion Tierramor

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<div class="e-intro">Ibuku Studio and Loop Design Studio have designed the Maloca Yoga Pavilion for Tierramor in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Maloca is Ibuku's first work in Costa Rica, in collaboration with Loop Design Studio for Tierramor, a regenerative wellness retreat in Guanacaste dedicated to land healing and conscious living.</p><p>This 12-metre-high, 120-square-metre yoga, meditation and ceremonial pavilion draws inspiration from indigenous structures and the surrounding wave-like mountains, rolling hills and a protected hilltop tree.</p><p>Built from locally sourced bamboo and natural materials, this project fostered knowledge exchange, trained local carpenters in bamboo craftsmanship and transformed unfamiliarity into confident skill.</p><p>Maloca proves bamboo architecture can cross oceans, not as a product but as a shared craft, connecting people, material and land.</p></div>
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Mazaua

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<div class="e-intro">Manuel Cervantes Estudio has designed Mazaua in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Mazaua is a network of independent buildings embedded within the mountainous landscape of Valle de Bravo, Mexico.</p><p>Conceived as a master plan for vacation homes, this project evolves into a dispersed architectural system that prioritises environmental integration over formal presence.</p><p>Each pavilion – dedicated to specific activities such as dining, wellness or exercise – is carefully positioned to preserve vegetation, respect topography and follow natural water flows.</p><p>Built primarily in wood, the architecture enhances sensory connections through light, texture and atmosphere.</p><p>Linked by open-air paths, Mazaua creates a continuous spatial experience where architecture becomes an extension of the forest.</p></div>
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Three Roofs Timber Hall

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<div class="e-intro">Office of Toru Teraoka (OOTT) has designed the Three Roofs Timber Hall in Karuizawa, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Set in the forests of Karuizawa, this project explores architecture as a device that mediates the relationship between humans and nature.</p><p>Developed over nearly a decade through collaboration, Three Roofs Timber Hall forms part of a landscape with dog-friendly facilities and open spaces.</p><p>Instead of dissolving boundaries, the building carefully frames them, allowing the forest to visually pass through while maintaining enclosure – a three-layered roof brings soft daylight, creating a calm atmosphere.</p><p>Using simple timber and local craftsmanship, with minimal concrete and metal, this project demonstrates how modest means can produce a refined environmental response.</p></div>
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Sanctum

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<div class="e-intro">Arches has designed Sanctum in Bezdonys, Lithuania.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Sanctum is a nature retreat complex designed as a quiet dialogue between architecture and landscape.</p><p>Rooted in the traditions of Lithuanian wooden architecture, this project integrates seamlessly into existing forest clearings, preserving mature trees and the site's natural character.</p><p>The complex combines retreat spaces, cabins and wellness buildings into a fragmented yet unified composition that balances community and solitude.</p><p>Built primarily from timber and CLT, the architecture uses light, texture and framed views to create calm, sensory environments.</p><p>"Sanctum is not conceived as an object in nature, but as an atmospheric extension of it," said Arches.</p></div>
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Mixed-use project

New build, extended or refurbished mixed-use developments designed for at least two distinct uses such as residential, commercial or cultural, completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Ložionica

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<div class="e-intro">AKVS Architecture has designed Ložionica in Belgrade, Serbia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Ložionica revitalises Belgrade's historic railway site through adaptive reuse and new structures, offering a unique mix of public spaces and cultural programs within a challenging urban context.</p><p>The 100-year-old boiler room, water tower and turntable are preserved and complemented by new yellow-steel structures: a levitating gallery, pedestrian bridge and rotating community table.</p><p>As a result, the vast open space is revitalised and opened to the public – while a new mixed-use office building is added to the complex, featuring a large public panoramic terrace accessible via an open-air escalator and a bamboo oxygen envelope surrounding it.</p></div>
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Kalasatama Community House Talas

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<div class="e-intro">AOR Architects has designed Kalasatama Community House Talas in Kalasatama, Finland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed as a shared living room for residents, the Kalasatama Community House brings restaurant, event, work and sauna facilities together under one roof.</p><p>The building's name and conceptual identity are rooted in the word 'Talas' – a traditional coastal shelter – serving as a sanctuary for residents and a place of tranquillity amid the hectic pace of urban life.</p><p>The community house is a timber-framed structure, with materials kept intentionally simple – even ascetic.</p><p>The load-bearing frame is based on a glulam column and CLT slab system designed with sustainability in mind, where bolted connections were prioritised to ensure that building components can be easily replaced.</p></div>
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Yanbu 1432 Distillery Renovation

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<div class="e-intro">Atelier cnS has renovated the Yanbu 1432 Distillery in Nanhai Dali, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Yanbu 1432 Distillery Renovation, along the historic Shengfo Thoroughfare, revitalises industrial relics – chimney, water tower and cooling tower – into a waterfront public space.</p><p>Anchored by the 600-year-old Yanbu Old Dragon Boat culture, this project creates an elevated walkway system, pocket parks and park-like commercial zones.</p><p>Adopting a decentralised, pleasant-to-wander design strategy, the distillery reconnects the town to its river, restoring everyday public life.</p><p>The result is a three-dimensional urban block that integrates office, leisure, entertainment and sightseeing, transforming a former factory into a vibrant community hub.</p></div>
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La Friche d'Oloron Sainte-Marie

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<div class="e-intro">Collectif Encore has renovated the La Friche in d'Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project transforms a former industrial warehouse into an open civic infrastructure reconnecting fragmented neighbourhoods through a covered public street, collective spaces and evolving mixed uses.</p><p>Developed through temporary occupations, participatory workshops and open construction processes involving residents, La Friche combines low-carbon adaptive reuse, bioclimatic design and intentionally open-ended spaces supporting changing collective practices over time.</p><p>Locally sourced timber from nearby communal forests, minimally transformed materials and reversible construction systems reinforce a frugal architectural approach where sustainability, public life and collective appropriation are inseparable.</p></div>
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La Fondation

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<div class="e-intro">PCA-Stream has designed the rehabilitation of La Fondation in Paris, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>In the heart of Paris's 17th arrondissement, La Fondation carries out the rehabilitation of a former 1960s parking garage and an office building.</p><p>This project opts for an ambitious transformation of the existing structure through a programmatic reuse strategy for the concrete mass, adapting it to new uses under a single operator.</p><p>By preserving the original structures and integrating a mixed-use approach, including a five-star hotel, spa, rooftop restaurant, offices, and event spaces, PCA-Stream has designed a hybrid building addressing a series of contemporary challenges.</p></div>
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The Creamery

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<div class="e-intro">Stonewood Design has designed The Creamery in Somerset, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Stonewood Design has transformed a century-old former creamery beside Castle Cary railway station into a contemporary cheese-making facility with a cafe, restaurant and shop.</p><p>Retaining the landmark chimney, this project restores the building's original dairy purpose – while reimagining its relationship with the railway.</p><p>Once used to distribute dairy products, the station now brings visitors to the site, where the cafe also functions as an informal railway waiting area with live train information.</p><p>Designed to celebrate food production, The Creamery offers direct views from the cafe into the factory floor, allowing visitors to observe mozzarella-making processes firsthand.</p></div>
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York Minster Centre of Excellence

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<div class="e-intro">Tonkin Liu has designed the new York Minster Centre of Excellence buildings in York, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>York Minster Centre of Excellence consists of two new buildings built into existing structures, to conserve traditional craft skills and embrace advanced digital tools.</p><p>"Embedded in the clients' brief was a wish for the buildings to make a bold statement in low-carbon development, whilst sitting quietly in their context and confidently putting a 21st-century mark," said Tonkin Liu.</p><p>Developed through international cooperation and an apprenticeship program, the Centre of Excellence has established York Minster as the vanguard of heritage, research and advancement in digital masonry fabrication technology and commitment to training and craftsmanship.</p></div>
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Xinchang Globular Center

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<div class="e-intro">Line+ Studio has designed the Xinchang Globular Center in Xinchang, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Xinchang Globular Center rethinks the conventional stadium model by introducing a 'sports mall' concept that integrates professional sports venues with commercial, leisure and civic functions.</p><p>Designed for a small city context, this project addresses the common challenge of underutilised large-scale sports facilities by enabling continuous, all-day use.</p><p>The complex combines a main arena, training halls, fitness and aquatic facilities and mixed-use public spaces within a unified system.</p><p>By accommodating both international competitions and daily activities, the Xinchang Globular Center transforms a typically event-driven venue into an active urban destination, where sports, social life and economic activity are interwoven.</p></div>
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Small project

Any standalone project up to 150sqm and with a contract value of £400,000 and under, including pavilions, shelters, cabins, open-air structures, temporary structures, micro-homes, pop-up boutiques, kiosks and classrooms. Must be completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Ring of Bjólfur

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<div class="e-intro">Arkibygg Arkitektar and Esja Architects have designed Ring of Bjólfur in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Ring of Bjólfur is a circular viewing platform on the mountain ridge above Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, at 650 metres above sea level.</p><p>The name is inspired by Bjólfur, the first settler of Seyðisfjörður, who, according to legend, was buried on this mountain. His silver ring, never found, gave the project its form and name.</p><p>The platform forms a continuous ring, framing a 360-degree experience: from the fjord and town below to the valley and peaks above.</p><p>Walking it, views shift with each step; a cantilevered section reaches beyond the mountain edge and the ground falls away below.</p></div>
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Casa Sem Pele

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<div class="e-intro">Didier Faustino has designed Casa Sem Pele in Ribatejo, Portugal.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Casa Sem Pele is conceived as a rural, contemporary shelter; a manifesto in built form, a house reduced to essentials.</p><p>Through three different types of spaces, this project proposes a bold way of living, centred on domestic behaviours and human relations with one another, rather than appearances.</p><p>By transposing the codes of communal living spaces – as often found in camping facilities – to the world of private housing, Casa Sem Pele blurs the lines between intimacy and the collective, between the individual and the common.</p></div>
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Extra House

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<div class="e-intro">Fernanda Canales has designed Extra House near Mexico City, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed as an independent pavilion, Extra House provides spatial flexibility within its minimal 38-square-metre footprint on an 8,000-square-metre plot.</p><p>This adaptable space can function as a studio, bedroom, or retreat – while its varying ceiling heights create distinct interior atmospheres and promote diverse uses.</p><p>Large, strategic openings frame panoramic views of the Nevado de Toluca volcano and forest, extending the interior directly into the landscape.</p><p>Built using an innovative blend of concrete and local soil, Extra House requires minimal maintenance and shifts in tone with the changing seasons.</p></div>
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The Root

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<div class="e-intro">Kasawoo has designed The Root, a custom prefab cabin on wheels on the island of Zakynthos, Greece.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Conceived as an experiment into minimal living, this project poses the question of how small a home can be without diminishing comfort, dignity or connection to place.</p><p>Installed on ancestral farmland that belonged to the family for generations, The Root regenerates the site while leaving it mostly untouched.</p><p>Tucked behind an existing stone house, its red structure provides cosy accommodation for a young couple and their two daughters when they visit the island from their home in London.</p></div>
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Exeter Road Pavilion

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<div class="e-intro">Neiheiser Argyros has designed the Exeter Road Pavilion in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Exeter Road Pavilion reimagines a modest Victorian garden outbuilding in northwest London for an art collector and DJ.</p><p>Designed by Neiheiser Argyros, this project centres on a continuous cabinet of curiosities – clad in perforated stainless steel – that flows from interior to garden; housing art, vinyl records, a DJ booth and outdoor fitness equipment.</p><p>In addition, a new polycarbonate canopy hovers above with structural ingenuity inspired by the work of Fischli &amp; Weiss.</p><p>The materials of marble, stainless and galvanised steel and polycarbonate layer rawness with refinement, creating a pavilion where storage, structure and landscape remain in constant dialogue.</p></div>
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Floating Pavilion

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<div class="e-intro">Studio RE+N has designed the Floating Pavilion in Zhejiang, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>At 500 metres elevation, tea terraces cascade toward the horizon where the Floating Pavilion sits at the summit — a slender white form that appears lifted by wind rather than placed by construction.</p><p>The pavilion's composite steel roof spans seven metres in a depth of just 150 millimetres, tapering to a blade-thin edge against the sky.</p><p>"Granite steps follow centuries-old tea-picking paths upward as the pavilion appears and vanishes through terrain folds," said Studio RE+N.</p><p>Inside, stepped platforms descend with the slope, gradually releasing a full valley panorama.</p></div>
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The Ablutions at Wybalenna

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<div class="e-intro">Taylor and Hinds Architects, with the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, have designed The Ablutions at Wybalenna in Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>From 1833 to 1847, Wybalenna operated as an open-air concentration camp for hundreds of Aboriginal men, women and children.</p><p>Reckoning with this difficulty, in 2023 the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania initiated 'Truth-telling at Wybalenna', which sought to increase awareness, remediation and care for the spirits of the Old People buried there.</p><p>Today, the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania has prioritised Aboriginal communal amenity at Wybalenna, where a small Ablutions pavilion is the first new structure at Wybalenna in over a century.</p><p>The result is a prosaic structure that is an architectural manifestation of truth-telling at one of the most sacred sites for Palawa.</p></div>
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Floating Meditation Pavilion

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<div class="e-intro">Wendell Burnette Architects has designed the Floating Meditation Pavilion in Arizona, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Floating Meditation Pavilion is a 14-square-metre stand-alone structure within the ongoing remodel of a 1960s house at the base of Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona.</p><p>Designed for a couple – the daughter of first-generation Hindu parents from India and the son from a family of Russian Mountain Jews born along the Caspian Sea north of Tehran – the pavilion supports the family's daily meditation practice.</p><p>Located at the southwest corner of an existing pool, the Floating Meditation Pavilion offers sunrise meditation and stargazing.</p><p>Clad with vertical copper water pipes, its small wood-framed structure interacts with desert light and becomes one with the mountain.</p></div>
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Sustainable building

New-builds that excel in their approach to sustainability, including zero-carbon or negative-carbon projects, zero-energy projects, circular projects, reversible buildings or buildings that employ environmentally friendly construction techniques, materials, energy sources etc. Must be completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

Maison des Solidarités

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<div class="e-intro">ABF-Lab has designed Maison des Solidarités in Langon, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed to respond to the crucial challenges of the environment, energy, climate and health, the Maison des Solidarités is based on a radical environmental scenario where bioclimatism, passive systems and total use of natural materials are combined to implement a new construction approach.</p><p>This project boasts a low-carbon construction footprint and eschews products emitting volatile organic compounds, energy-consuming and petrochemical-based materials, as well as non-renewable resources.</p><p>The entire structure and all the finishing work are made of wood, earth and more than a thousand bales of straw – with no petrochemical products in this building apart from its waterproofing membrane.</p></div>
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Pier Pavilion

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<div class="e-intro">Besley &amp; Spresser has designed the Pier Pavilion in Sydney, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>After winning a national competition, the Pier Pavilion is a permanent civic space on Sydney Harbour.</p><p>Recently described by the Architectural Review as "A people's pavilion," the building asserts public values within a precinct dominated by commercial towers.</p><p>Its form responds to the geometry of surrounding coves and peninsulas, opening toward a view to Me-Mel (Goat Island).</p><p>Perimeter columns support a landscape roof of endemic planting, while a large oculus draws a circle of light across the ground.</p><p>The pavilion is entirely clad in Oyster Terrazzo, a material developed for the project from 500,000 recycled Sydney Rock Oyster shells.</p></div>
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Na-Eh Bamboo Market

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<div class="e-intro">Chat Architects has designed the Na-Eh Bamboo Market in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Na-Eh Market, created for the Karen Indigenous community of Ratchaburi Province, consists of nine open-air 'indigenous food' stalls on ground level and an elevated eating loft that frames views of the nearby forest.</p><p>"Its triangulated bamboo structure was envisioned not only as a forest food court, but as a breeze vessel that invites the wind," said Chat Architects.</p><p>"Vendors and customers can 'hear' and 'see' the wind while cooking and eating as the scaffolding allows members to customise the space with 'tungs' (traditional Karen string mobiles) and bamboo wind chimes."</p><p>The Na-Eh Bamboo Market allows the community to create an additional source of income by selling local authentic dishes to the public along the interstate road, supplementing their traditional rotational crop farming practice.</p></div>
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Anjung

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<div class="e-intro">Eleena Jamil Architect has designed Anjung in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Anjung is a retreat house and studio space occupied by Malaysian architectural practice, Eleena Jamil Architect.</p><p>Developed by the practice itself, this project reflects and embodies its values and aspirations.</p><p>Experimental in approach, it builds on the studio's longstanding interest in investigating the relationship between contemporary architecture and place through the articulations of form and materiality – as well as a direct engagement with its surrounding context.</p><p>Sitting on a one-acre site that was formerly part of a palm oil plantation 40 minutes south of Kuala Lumpur, the development draws from vernacular forms and local materiality and craftsmanship.</p></div>
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543 Hortus

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<div class="e-intro">Herzog &amp; de Meuron has designed 543 Hortus in Basel, Switzerland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>543 Hortus creates a modern and flexible working environment for a new generation of technology companies that are settling in the Basel metropolitan region.</p><p>"We were commissioned to design a radically sustainable office building made of renewable and recyclable building materials," said Herzog &amp; de Meuron.</p><p>The brief initiated a design process aimed at combining the lowest possible grey energy during construction, an energy-optimised concept during operation and a surplus of self-generated energy.</p><p>After 31 years, the building, which has around 600 workplaces, will have fully offset the energy used during its construction.</p></div>
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The Place to Be

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<div class="e-intro">Overtreders W has designed The Place to Be in Zelhem, Netherlands.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>On the site of a derelict cowshed in the Dutch Achterhoek, Overtreders W designed two freestanding guest buildings and a dining hall for retreat centre, The Place to Be — its first permanent project.</p><p>Three volumes around a sheltered courtyard, clad in herringbone-patterned repurposed timber slats, open to fields and woodland.</p><p>Every material was sourced within five kilometres: structural timber from an adjacent estate, repurposed slats from a local wood treatment plant and straw and miscanthus from a cooperative of six local farmers.</p><p>The result proves that regional circular construction can be refined, precise and cost-competitive with conventional building.</p></div>
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Land's Sake Farm

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<div class="e-intro">Payette has designed Land's Sake Farm in Massachusetts, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Land's Sake Farm is a non-profit community farm located on public land that donates 30 per cent of its produce for hunger relief to communities in need and serves as an educational venue for 8,000 children annually.</p><p>The new farmstand and animal barn are the result of a seven-year pro bono effort that began with a master plan; they form the heart of the Agrarian Campus.</p><p>The structures are sited to preserve its infinite vista through the heart of the historic site and explore the craft and materiality of 'First Settlers' building techniques, with a confident nod toward modernity.</p></div>
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Rammed Earth House

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<div class="e-intro">Tuckey Design Studio has designed the Rammed Earth House in Wiltshire, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>On the site of a former brickworks in rural Wiltshire, Tuckey Design Studio have completed the construction of a bold and boundary-pushing new residential project, crafted from one of the oldest and most sustainable building materials: rammed earth.</p><p>The rammed earth composition is formed from clay excavated from the site, demolition aggregate from unremarkable out-buildings and locally quarried limestone gravel, meaning this project is highly localised.</p><p>The house itself performs as a walled garden, with east and west facing courtyards protected from the elements by the building's presence.</p><p>Rammed Earth House is one of only a few in the UK to use unstabilised rammed earth; a circular construction method that contains no cement.</p></div>
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Sustainable renovation

Renovations or retrofits of existing buildings to make them more efficient, which demonstrate both embodied and operational carbon savings and a holistic whole-life carbon approach to sustainability. Must be completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026.

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La Friche d'Oloron-Sainte-Marie

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<div class="e-intro">Collectif Encore has transformed La Friche in d'Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project is the transformation of a former industrial warehouse into a low-carbon civic infrastructure through adaptive reuse, frugality and passive bioclimatic design.</p><p>By partially opening the roof, Collectif Encoure converts a deep enclosed commercial shed into a naturally ventilated public street and covered garden square, drastically reducing conditioned surfaces, technical systems and operational energy demand.</p><p>Developed through participatory workshops and collective construction processes, La Friche combines minimal intervention, locally sourced timber and reversible systems within an evolving democratic framework designed to support changing collective uses over time.</p></div>
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Sallarès Deu

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<div class="e-intro">JAAS has transformed Sallarès Deu in Barcelona, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Sallarès Deu transforms a former textile factory in Sabadell through adaptive reuse, converting an obsolete industrial complex into a civic campus for education, entrepreneurship and social support.</p><p>This project restores the original courtyards and introduces greenhouse-like bioclimatic atriums that regulate temperature naturally and reduce energy consumption throughout the year.</p><p>Reversible timber structures allow future adaptation while preserving the material integrity of the existing buildings.</p><p>By prioritising reuse over demolition, passive environmental strategies and low-impact construction systems, the intervention significantly reduces the Sallarès Deu's carbon footprint and proposes a resilient model for the sustainable transformation of industrial heritage.</p></div>
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Oulu Central Library Saari

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<div class="e-intro">JKMM Architects has restored and transformed the Oulu Central Library Saari in Oulu, Finland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Oulu Central Library Saari is the restoration and transformation of a protected Rationalist library in Oulu, renewing a beloved 1980s civic landmark for contemporary public life.</p><p>Originally designed by Marjatta and Martti Jaatinen with interiors by Studio Nurmesniemi, the library is recognised as a nationally significant built cultural heritage site and "a rare total work of art," said JKMM Architects.</p><p>Working closely with the local heritage authority, the Museum of Northern Ostrobothnia, JKMM has restored the clarity of the original design while upgrading accessibility, functionality and energy performance, reimagining the library as an open and flexible cultural destination.</p></div>
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Cardinet

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<div class="e-intro">LBBA Architecture has renovated Cardinet in Paris, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cardinet is a resilient and sustainable renovation project of an office building designed by architect Bernard Zehrfuss in the 1960s.</p><p>Now obsolete –both in its uses and its thermal and energy performance – the building offers workspaces designed to meet the practices and needs of tomorrow's offices.</p><p>This modern heritage is enhanced by preserving the existing structure and volume while integrating low-impact solutions: exposed raw structure, off-site prefabrication of new timber-frame facades, material reuse and green roof terraces.</p><p>Facing the climate challenges, Cardinet combines resource efficiency, brightness and serenity within its workspaces.</p></div>
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De Nederlandsche Bank

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<div class="e-intro">Mecanoo has renovated De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam, Netherlands.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>De Nederlandsche Bank has undergone a major renovation to transform its 1968 headquarters into a transparent, circular landmark.</p><p>Following the relocation of gold reserves, the opportunity arose to open the building to the public in an engaging way.</p><p>"The most secretive part of the bank is now its most public: the new treasury," said Mecanoo.</p><p>A new entrance now cuts straight through the former gold vault, where visitors can experience exhibitions.</p><p>The design replaces a former round tower with a publicly accessible city garden and a street for social interaction. Inside, a new five-storey atrium revives the historic 'people’s palace' vision.</p></div>
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Church House

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<div class="e-intro">Scott Whitby Studio has designed the retrofit of Church House in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Scott Whitby Studio's retrofit of Church House in Westminster is the most comprehensive renewal of this Grade II-listed building in its modern history.</p><p>Decades of incremental alterations – raised floors, suspended ceilings and ad-hoc partitions – were stripped back to recover spatial clarity, daylight and natural ventilation.</p><p>In their place, an ambitious low-carbon material strategy was introduced: spray-applied cork insulation, over 6,000 square metres of cork flooring, graphene-based carbon-absorbing paints and natural clay plasters.</p><p>Together, these measures sequester approximately 1,260 tonnes of CO₂e, delivering a net-zero, carbon-negative workplace without compromising the building's historic fabric or civic character.</p></div>
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Cloaked House

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<div class="e-intro">TRIAS has renovated Cloaked House in Sydney, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cloaked House retains and adapts a dilapidated mid-century home in Sydney – while the house appears new, its facade cloaks an existing structure, improving its thermal performance.</p><p>Inside, a new atrium courtyard is carved from the home's heart, drawing light, air and garden within. Materials and details reference the original building, layering recycled and salvaged textures alongside new work.</p><p>As a case study, Cloaked House demonstrates how existing housing stock can be radically transformed rather than demolished.</p><p>"In this era of climate emergency, it suggests that the best new houses are our existing ones, reimagined for another generation," said TRIAS.</p></div>
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Lambeth Palace Masterplan

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<div class="e-intro">Wright &amp; Wright Architects has designed the retrofit of the Lambeth Palace Masterplan in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Lambeth Palace Masterplan is a deep retrofit of the Grade I listed Lambeth Palace estate and a test bed for the Church of England's Net Zero Carbon 2030 ambitions.</p><p>Completed while the Palace remained operational, this project combined estate-wide electrification with extensive conservation works, retaining more than 80 per cent of the existing fabric.</p><p>A fabric-first strategy included upgraded insulation and 160 historically accurate double-glazed windows, reducing heating demand by 41 per cent, alongside a new Energy Centre powered by three air-source heat pumps and photovoltaics.</p><p>This project achieved a 63 per cent reduction in operational energy demand and BREEAM Excellent.</p></div>
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Workplace project (large)

New-build, refurbished and retrofitted workplaces, offices or studios that are more than 2,500 square metres and completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026. Includes laboratories, research buildings and office campuses.

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270 Park Avenue

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<div class="e-intro">Foster + Partners has designed 270 Park Avenue for JPMorganChase in New York City, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>270 Park Avenue is the new state-of-the-art global headquarters for JPMorganChase in New York City.</p><p>This project is New York's largest all-electric tower with net-zero operational emissions and exceptional indoor air quality that exceeds the highest standards in sustainability, health and wellness.</p><p>270 Park Avenue defines the modern workplace with 21st-century infrastructure, smart technology and 2.5 million gross square feet of flexible and collaborative space.</p><p>Designed to achieve LEED Platinum v4 and WELL Health-Safety Rating, 97 per cent of demolition materials have been recycled, reused, or upcycled throughout the project.</p></div>
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COFCO Qianhai Innovation Center

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<div class="e-intro">Goettsch Partners has designed the COFCO Qianhai Innovation Center in Shenzhen, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Commissioned by Grandjoy Holdings Group, the COFCO Qianhai Innovation Center in Shenzhen's Qianhai district is a headquarters and multi-tenant office complex composed of two slender-stepped towers.</p><p>The design incorporates internal atria, sky terraces and interconnected sky villages that encourage collaboration and community.</p><p>Angled curtain wall facades maximise daylight and city views, while pedestrian plazas, elevated bridges and an underground retail network strengthen connectivity with surrounding neighbourhoods.</p><p>Emphasising transparency, nature and public access, this project creates a distinctive urban landmark that integrates workplace, retail and social spaces within Shenzhen's rapidly evolving urban environment.</p></div>
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Chambre des Notaires

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<div class="e-intro">L'Atelier Senzu has designed Chambre des Notaires in Paris, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project represents a thoughtful transformation of an existing structure, balancing the preservation of Parisian heritage with contemporary architectural interventions.</p><p>"Overall, the aim was to maximise utilisation of the existing while holding interventions to a necessary minimum, evolving the profession's historic head office into a space of life and encounter," said L'Atelier Senzu.</p><p>Therefore, the renovation is based on the reuse of materials in-situ, improved thermal performance and the creation of open, adaptable spaces that can evolve.</p><p>Moreover, the evolution of the courtyard marks the renewal of the Chambre des Notaires, reimagining the Parisian courtyard in a unique way to enable a healthy environment.</p></div>
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The Ragon Institute GSF Facility

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<div class="e-intro">Payette has designed The Ragon Institute GSF Facility in Massachusetts, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT and Harvard's new 323,000 GSF facility embodies a forward-thinking vision for research design.</p><p>Bringing together multidisciplinary scientists and engineers to combat infectious diseases such as HIV and COVID-19, the building integrates advanced laboratories, collaboration spaces, a cafe, a childcare centre and public gardens.</p><p>Guided by sustainability and well-being, its biophilic features – ample daylight, natural views and operable windows – enhance comfort and connection to nature.</p><p>A minimalist facade of scalloped sunshades creates a dynamic, light-filled exterior that responds to program and solar orientation while concealing mechanical systems.</p><p>As a result, this landmark facility redefines how research environments can foster discovery, community and resilience.</p></div>
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Sany Irootech Headquarters

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<div class="e-intro">Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill (SOM) has designed the Sany Irootech Headquarters in Guangzhou, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed for Sany's new cloud-technology venture, the Sany Irootech Headquarters rises as two interconnected towers in Guangzhou's rapidly developing Pazhou business district.</p><p>An expressive diagrid and internal hanging system articulate the building's technological ambition, creating flexible, column-free floor plates filled with daylight, while providing resilience against seismic events.</p><p>A spanning elevated podium bridges the towers, opening the site as a multi-level public destination where abundant landscaping, tree-lined terraces, site-specific artwork, tactile materials and civic amenities temper technological expression with a human-centred public realm.</p></div>
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Florentia Village

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<div class="e-intro">Turner Works has designed Florentia Village in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Situated in the Harringay Warehouse District, Florentia Village seamlessly weaves the new into the old, breathing fresh life into a historic campus that now flows into a striking 100,000-square-foot light-industrial extension, creating a unified space.</p><p>"First established in the 1970s as a hub for garment manufacturers, Florentia has since evolved into a creative powerhouse, with businesses across food, design, film, photography, music and more," said Turner Works.</p><p>"The challenge was how to extend a much-loved village without losing its distinctive spirit. "</p><p>Designed around communal yards and connected by raised walkways, the scheme is a playful take on traditional warehousing.</p><p>Targeting BREEAM Excellent and net-zero in use, this project sets a new benchmark for high-quality, long-life, loose-fit industrial design.</p></div>
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AVG Modulars

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<div class="e-intro">Charged Voids has designed AVG Modulars in Panchkula, India.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>AVG Modulars is a manufacturing, showroom and office building for a kitchen, wardrobe and modular furniture company in Panchkula.</p><p>Located within a polluted and visually compromised industrial area, the building turns inward through green buffers and a controlled envelope.</p><p>Revised FAR, setbacks and mandatory fire-tender movement resulted in an elongated linear footprint – while a diagonal grid, combined with sectional shifts and double- and triple-height spaces, disrupts this constraint, creating helical movement and visual expansion through the display showroom.</p><p>As a result, factory, showroom and office functions are sectionally organised, while exposed brick, Mandana stone and cavity-wall construction provide durability and comfort.</p></div>
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Spark·761

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<div class="e-intro">LLLab has designed Spark 761: Beijing Digital Economy AIDC in Beijing, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The architectural concept of Spark 761 overturns the traditional, enclosed data and information centre systems, enabling society, people and activities to coexist with the building, its content and the invisible world of intelligent information.</p><p>Beyond the intelligent computing rooms, energy-related support and functional hardware requirements, the building manifests as a physical grid system under sunlight.</p><p>"At night, its physical form visually fades away, replaced by a new architectural body formed by virtual information, which continuously evolves and grows, existing within the city," said LLLab.</p></div>
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Workplace project (small)

New-build, refurbished and retrofitted workplaces, offices or studios that are less than 2,500 square metres and completed between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2026. Includes laboratories, research buildings and office campuses.

Please include photographs of the interior spaces, where possible with people.

Ame Design Studio

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<div class="e-intro">BetweenSpaces has designed the Ame Design Studio in Bengaluru, India.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Ame Design Studio was envisioned as a contemplative workspace, embodied in a solid yet weightless form – like a monolithic rock hollowed and lifted above the ground.</p><p>Designed for a textile designer, the studio accommodates a jacquard loom, gallery, material store, boutique, team workspace and the client's private studio.</p><p>The stone-clad building is organised along an east-west axis, maximising daylight and culminating in a double-height weaving space.</p><p>In addition, whitewashed walls, terrazzo floors and skylights create a calm interior – while tropical landscaping and shaded decks connect the studio with nature.</p></div>
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The Scoop

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<div class="e-intro">Corstorphine &amp; Wright has designed The Scoop in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Scoop transforms and extends an existing office building within London's Union Street Conservation Area through a bold yet contextually sensitive intervention.</p><p>Reusing much of the original structure, this project introduces a striking concave facade in white glazed brick, framing views of the neighbouring Grade II-listed Church of Most Precious Blood – while creating a distinctive new identity.</p><p>The extension delivers BREEAM Excellent workspace and a rooftop garden overlooking the city skyline.</p><p>Balancing heritage, sustainability and architectural expression, The Scoop demonstrates how inventive adaptive reuse can enrich the urban fabric and contribute positively to its cultural surroundings.</p></div>
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Ibira Work

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<div class="e-intro">FGMF has designed Ibira Work in São Paulo, Brazil.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located near Ibirapuera Park, Ibira Work redefines the post-pandemic corporate environment by integrating nature with architecture.</p><p>Utilising a steel structure, the building features expansive spans, hanging planters and metal brises that create a comfortable microclimate.</p><p>The design prioritises well-being, offering offices with cross-ventilation, lush landscaping and a secluded lower-level garden.</p><p>Rather than a traditional office feel, this project emphasises social interaction through large terraces on every floor and a rooftop with park views.</p><p>By blending professional and relaxation spaces, Ibira Work offers a refreshing, sustainable alternative to conventional urban workspaces.</p></div>
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Barbette

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<div class="e-intro">LBBA Architecture has designed Barbette in Paris, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Barbette is an atypical and bold transformation project, converting a 1930s parking lot into a mixed-use program of offices and housing.</p><p>Invisible from the street, the fully built plot – once dedicated to cars – is now an open, luminous and inhabited space.</p><p>Users and greenery reclaim their place in this urban core, creating a vibrant hub of activity and a true urban breath of fresh air.</p><p>This project highlights the site's industrial past: preserved materials, restored Hennebique frames and a rethought skylight to ensure visual and thermal comfort.</p><p>In addition, new patios and terraces enhance the different areas with vegetation and freshness.</p></div>
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Design Studies Collaborative

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<div class="e-intro">O'Neill Rose Architects has designed Design Studies Collaborative in New York City, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project transforms a neglected local landmark in Brooklyn into a serene, contemplative workspace.</p><p>Originally a social club, the building became a dance hall and later a church, before falling into disrepair.</p><p>"Our client, Design Studies Collaborative, wanted a resourceful, inventive new home; our design centres on re-use," said O'Neill Rose Architects.</p><p>"We preserved the original building and utilised found materials throughout: wood abandoned due to rain damage, stone salvaged from a defunct stoneyard, surplus handmade tiles."</p><p>As a result, the new design provides workspaces, a community gathering area and a maker's space – while new openings allow daylight to fill the space and a perforated steel stair floats from the skylight.</p></div>
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Carpenter's Home

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<div class="e-intro">Primary Architects has designed Carpenter's Home in Xinyang, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Carpenter's Home seeks to break through the existing formal paradigms of rural construction, responding to the land, craftsmanship and daily life with a deeper sense of imagination.</p><p>With contemporary timber structure as its medium, this project brings traditional woodworking back to rural daily life, making the building not only a space for accommodating activities, but also a continuously unfolding lifestyle.</p><p>"For Haotang Village, it is not only a craft workshop, but also a timber vessel embodying local memory, artisan spirit and the vision of the future countryside," said Primary Architects.</p></div>
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Uchida Shōten New Head Office

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<div class="e-intro">Schemata Architects has designed the Uchida Shōten New Head Office in Fujisawa, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>A regeneration of a narrow-fronted, deep townhouse-type building along the historic Tōkaidō Road, this project repositions the new head office for Uchida Shōten, a 160-year-old hardware manufacturer in Fujisawa.</p><p>The street-facing portion is allocated to occasional artist residencies, allowing the atmosphere of production and inhabitation to seep into the city.</p><p>Awning windows that open and close like breathing devices constantly recalibrate the boundary between interior and exterior.</p><p>Set within a former post town, the design reactivates the street with human activity and subtle presence, gently reconnecting the city, the company and creative practice.</p></div>
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In-Between Ecologies: Henshan Lab

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<div class="e-intro">Soar Design Studio has designed In-Between Ecologies: Henshan Lab in Taichung City, Taiwan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located along Taichung Green Boulevard, this adaptive reuse project reimagines an existing residence.</p><p>The Henshan Lab design is rooted in the chaotic character and collage culture of Taiwanese urbanism, translating these qualities into spatial language.</p><p>Through the alternation of materials and construction, white boxes, timber-framed volumes and weathering steel frames are offset and juxtaposed – their interplay reflecting the layered additions and informal transformations typical of Taiwanese shophouse streetscapes.</p><p>By retaining the structural frame and removing the enclosed envelope, independent volumes for exhibition, meeting and culinary arts are inserted.</p></div>
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Interiors categories

Browse this year's shortlisted interiors projects and choose your projects to be awarded in this year's public vote. Once submitted, votes cannot be amended or revoked. To cast your vote, you will be prompted to log in with a Dezeen Awards Evessio account.

Voting closes 16 October.

Bar and cafe interior

Cafe On-Site

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<div class="e-intro">Aptdotapt has designed the interiors of Cafe On-Site in Zhejiang, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cafe On-Site (Kai-Chang) is conceived as a spatial stage where energy unfolds through movement, interaction, and time.</p><p>Located in Zhejiang, China, the cafe transforms everyday rituals into choreographed sequences: doors slide, tables glide, curtains shift and displays circulate among people.</p><p>This project translates an abstract notion of a field into a series of kinetic gestures, where bodies, objects and space continuously reconfigure relationships.</p><p>A semi-enclosed front facade filters the intensity of the street – while the rear dissolves into a park landscape.</p><p>Here, architecture is not static form, but an evolving performance of presence and connection.</p></div>
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Cateto Club

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<div class="e-intro">Cateto Cateto has designed the interiors of Cateto Club in Costa Del Sol, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cateto Club is an experimental interior club that reinterprets the club culture of the Costa del Sol in the 1960s through a contemporary architectural language.</p><p>Organised around the cylinder as a primary gesture, the space explores form, colour and light across multiple scales, from seating areas to lighting and circulation.</p><p>References to designers such as Mario Bellini and Verner Panton coexist with local architectural icons – while rough textures and vernacular materials are intentionally incorporated.</p><p>An integrated landscape installation reflects on abandonment and natural reclamation, introducing a narrative of transformation and renewal.</p></div>
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Brown's of Leith

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<div class="e-intro">GRAS has designed the interiors of Brown's of Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Opened in November 2025, Brown's of Leith is the first phase in transforming George Brown &amp; Sons Engineering Works on The Shore, a Category B-listed building and home to engineers for over 130 years.</p><p>Brown's of Leith extends the Custom Lane creative ecosystem GRAS established across the Water of Leith in 2016.</p><p>Independent food, drink and whisky-blending partners share the ground floor, with resident makers in textiles and jewellery above.</p><p>Future phases will give space to artists and architects while new elements are limited to three materials: softly shaped free-standing steel furniture, a bar of reclaimed sandstone and linen to settle the room.</p></div>
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Palace Coffee

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<div class="e-intro">Kerry Kounnapis Architecture Practice has designed the interiors of Palace Coffee in Melbourne, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Palace Coffee is a compact espresso bar tucked into a Melbourne laneway, designed as a standing bar with no seating.</p><p>The architecture is recessed from the street to create a threshold where queuing, waiting and conversation spill onto the street.</p><p>A sculptural oxide-red steel service window operates as facade and worktop, establishing direct interaction between barista and street.</p><p>Referencing familiar elements of iconic Melbourne buildings, the interior combines spotted gum timber, a back-lit fibreglass ceiling and a powder-blue wall.</p><p>Despite its modest size, Palace Coffee comfortably serves close to 800 coffees a day while maintaining a warm and social atmosphere.</p></div>
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Peckham Palais

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<div class="e-intro">Nikjoo and Fare Inc have collaborated on the interior design of Peckham Palais in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Peckham Palais is the adaptive reuse of a derelict former department store in south London, reimagined as a multi-level nightclub and bar.</p><p>The design preserves the building's worn material character – while introducing new interventions tailored to contemporary music culture.</p><p>Spaces are organised vertically, from a raw street-level entrance to a richly detailed ballroom and an acoustically isolated basement club.</p><p>Existing surfaces, traces of occupation and repaired elements are retained to create a layered, atmospheric interior.</p><p>As a result, this project balances conservation and performance, delivering a high-quality sound environment while reactivating a culturally significant venue within London's nightlife scene.</p></div>
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Acid Cafe

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<div class="e-intro">Plantea Estudio has designed the interiors of the Acid cafe in Berlin, Germany.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located on a prominent corner facing Teutoburger Platz in Prenzlauerberg, Acid occupies a serene, materially consistent ground-floor space.</p><p>This project transforms the initial austere atmosphere into a warmer, more domestic café interior while preserving the original architectural language of concrete, aluminium and galvanised steel.</p><p>A large chestnut wood structure organises the space, enclosing the stair, supporting service elements and framing the sound system.</p><p>Stainless steel, granite, timber, textiles, ceramics and carefully selected objects introduce comfort, depth and character, creating a welcoming enclave that connects the cafe's identity with its urban setting.</p></div>
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Laibei 1087

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<div class="e-intro">Tant A Temps Design has designed the interiors of Laibei 1087 in Shaanxi, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Laibei 1087 sits in the Xi'an Stele Forest Museum, named after the forest's founding year of 1087 AD.</p><p>Led by Tant A Temps Design, this conservation project transforms a Republic-era building into a cultural hub for traditional experiences, creative goods and study tours.</p><p>The space provides speciality coffee, Stele Forest-themed signature drinks and light meals, as well as a professional rubbing experience area where visitors can create traditional rubbing works by hand.</p><p>Guided by "minimum intervention," Laibei 1087 preserves all original features – every new addition is detachable and reversible, achieving a perfect fusion of antiquity and modernity.</p></div>
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Other

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<div class="e-intro">Verhaal has designed the interiors of Other in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Other is conceived as a living canvas, an immersive hospitality space where art, colour and form exist in constant dialogue.</p><p>Set along Al Wasl Road, the design brings together contrasting eras, materials and moods to create a layered, emotionally charged environment.</p><p>A deep architectural blue forms the backdrop, punctuated by moments of red and sculptural interventions.</p><p>Art is embedded into the spatial experience rather than applied, transforming the venue into a dynamic, evolving gallery.</p><p>The result is a bold yet cohesive interior that feels both theatrical and intimate.</p></div>
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Bathroom interior

Emerald House

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<div class="e-intro">Alexander &amp; Co has designed the bathroom interiors of Emerald House in Sydney, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Emerald House bathroom connects to the master suite within a heritage-listed 1890s Victorian residence in Sydney.</p><p>The home is conceived as a sanctuary for the practicalities of family life, with interiors informed by the client's passion for art and desire to honour its historic character.</p><p>As part of the parents retreat, the bathroom was replanned to improve visual connection to the adjoining walk-in wardrobe – while prioritising light and functionality.</p><p>Preferencing dark, richly toned materiality, the palette is expressed in contrasting cream and brown stone, aged brass and Murano lighting that sit in concert with Victorian-era features.</p></div>
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LDS II Residence

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<div class="e-intro">Davidov Architects has designed the bathroom interiors of LDS II Residence in Melbourne, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The master ensuite at LDS II Residence is a calm retreat for the parents within a large family home.</p><p>Located in the smaller of two combined dwellings, it forms part of a reworked master wing designed to feel connected to the retained fabric of the original house.</p><p>Travertine custom basins, vanity fronts, bath cladding, shower walls, shelving and seating give the space a carved and continuous quality.</p><p>Rounded edges and brass fixtures add warmth and tactility – while the Palladiana floor contrasts the travertine and ties in with new flooring throughout the house.</p></div>
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Fermetti bv, Bathroom_Mlft

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Project Malfait is a compact bathroom renovation executed entirely in polyester, allowing the creation of a seamless and fully waterproof space. Despite the very limited footprint, the design integrates a circular bathtub, shower, washbasin, storage and toilet into one cohesive layout. Glass partitions and mirrored surfaces preserve openness and enhance the sense of space.
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William King Apartment

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<div class="e-intro">Kan Atelier has renovated the bathroom interiors of the William King Apartment in Athens, Greece.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The William King Apartment project is the transformation of a full-floor residence in a late-1950s post-war building in Patissia.</p><p>This project balances restoration and renewal, preserving original elements while introducing contemporary materials and spatial clarity, reinterpreting Mediterranean bathing traditions.</p><p>Designed as a ritual-led space for daily restoration, the bathroom expands the original footprint to introduce an open shower and improved accessibility.</p><p>Materials such as marble, stone, wood and glass are integrated through precise detailing – while concealed elements support intuitive use.</p><p>The result is a calm and immersive environment that complements the apartment as a whole.</p></div>
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Full Circle

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<div class="e-intro">Kaitlyn Wolfe has designed the bathroom interiors of Full Circle in Arizona, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Full Circle is a warm, mixed modern residence designed for a busy, outdoorsy family, balancing clean lines with organic materials.</p><p>The powder bath reflects this vision through a refined yet approachable palette of textured wall coverings, amber quartzite and soft metallic accents.</p><p>Sculptural lighting and streamlined fixtures create contrast – while layered materials add depth and warmth.</p><p>The result is a sophisticated, low-profile space that feels elevated yet effortless, capturing the home's overall sense of comfort, functionality and understated character.</p></div>
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1930

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<div class="e-intro">LAM Studio has renovated the bathroom interiors of 1930 in Paris, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>1930 is a 175-square-metre family apartment renovation in Paris, designed by interior architect and designer Léonie Alma Mason.</p><p>Conceived as an exceptional family setting, this project combines the timeless elegance of the Art Deco style with a contemporary vision of volumes and materials.</p><p>Completed in 2025, every detail has been carefully orchestrated to reveal the soul of the place and sublimate its original architecture.</p></div>
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This is Lumeah

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<div class="e-intro">Pepper &amp; Well has designed the bathroom interiors of This is Lumeah in Melbourne, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This is Lumeah is a bathroom ensuite renovation within one of the most intact examples of Paul Couch's residential work.</p><p>This project restores clarity to the home's only compromised interior by reading the DNA of the original house: its exposed concrete beams and walls, raw finishes and rigorous material honesty.</p><p>Rather than imitate Couch's architecture, the intervention extends its logic with a new in-situ concrete wall and bench that echo the house's beam-and-wall stacking and rare Mintaro Brown Back slate, paying homage to Couch's work elsewhere.</p><p>The result feels inseparable from Lumeah, yet quietly of its own.</p></div>
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Rosedale Residence

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<div class="e-intro">Sidetracked Studio has designed the bathroom interiors of the Rosedale Residence in Texas, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>After living in the home for over 10 years, the clients loved their home and neighbourhood but needed a more functional design with refreshed materials for their family in Austin.</p><p>The previous primary bathroom had tight, cramped spaces, with outdated materials and the primary closet was too small to be functional.</p><p>"We used the existing closet space and gave it to the primary bath, creating a walk-in shower with a skylight across from a double vanity," said Sidetracked Studio. "We carved out space for a private water closet with a pocket door and linen storage."</p></div>
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Exhibition design (interior)

Hospitality, Gathering and Research Spaces at Zayed National Museum

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<div class="e-intro">Agata Kurzela Studio has designed the interiors of the hospitality, gathering and research spaces at Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project reimagines the museum as a place of hospitality, gathering and research, extending its role beyond the exhibition.</p><p>Through a curatorial and design approach developed by Agata Kurzela Studio, in collaboration with local designers, artists and makers, the spaces showcase contemporary voices grounded in regional culture.</p><p>As a result, histories of ritual, material traditions and craft become a framework for translating cultural narratives into contemporary spatial language, creating connections between past and present.</p></div>
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Life Behind the Walls

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<div class="e-intro">B2 Architecture has designed the interiors of the Life Behind the Walls exhibition in Prague, Czech Republic.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Life Behind the Walls is an immersive exhibition exploring North Korea, totalitarianism and the fragile boundary between image and reality.</p><p>Conceived with children as equal participants, this project translates the children's book 'Tota lítá' by Nina Špitálníková into a spatial experience of play, discovery and reflection.</p><p>A modular maze of timber and semi-transparent textiles leads visitors from light and openness towards darkness, silence and direct encounters with testimonies of North Korean defectors.</p><p>Through simple materials and a carefully staged spatial sequence, the exhibition uses architecture as a medium for accessible, emotional and socially engaged storytelling.</p></div>
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Fanshan Alunite Crystallisation Ponds

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<div class="e-intro">Flip Studio has designed the interiors of Fanshan Alunite Crystallisation Ponds in Hefei, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Fanshan Alunite Mine is an industrial heritage site of profound historical significance in Lujiang.</p><p>After the mine ceased operations in 2001, the end of its prosperity left behind not only dilapidated factories and the crystallisation ponds, but also a deteriorating ecological environment.</p><p>As a result, the project adopted a core strategy of 'conservation-activation-insertion-regeneration'. Through creative intervention, the site is no longer merely an object of contemplation.</p><p>The renovated Pit Cafe, now embedded with contemporary life, serves as a public vessel that combines modern living with ecological restoration – ultimately achieving the revitalisation of the industrial heritage and the reshaping of the cultural-ecological landscape.</p></div>
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Matter and Shape

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<div class="e-intro">JA Projects has designed the interiors of the Matter and Shape exhibition in Paris, France.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project was created for Paris Fashion Week 2026, rooted in the cultural and geographic history of the Jardins des Tuileries.</p><p>"The client brief called for two architectural pavilions for the third edition of the Matter and Shape design salon, sited within a Unesco-listed garden and requiring sensitivity to strict heritage constraints," said JA Projects.</p><p>Working as lead consultant and architect alongside Paris-based graphic design studio Studio Hugo Blanzat, JA Projects developed a low-carbon material palette of timber, green oil-stained pine and locally sourced hempcrete blocks.</p><p>The form references historic gatherings on site whilst the materiality speaks to the garden's history as a productive landscape, where material, memory and circularity are woven together into a single spatial language.</p></div>
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Art Vital – 12 Years of Ulay / Marina Abramović

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<div class="e-intro">Prostorske Prakse has designed the interiors of Marina Abramović's Art Vital – 12 Years of Ulay exhibition in Ljubljana, Slovenia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The spatial design for the Art Vital – 12 Years of Ulay / Marina Abramović exhibition at Cukrarna gallery employs transparent and reflective partitions as central elements of spatial design, functioning as both symbolic and physical structures.</p><p>It provides visitors with directed views and insights into the artworks and their context, reflecting the dynamic interplay between viewing and experiencing, which is also a central aspect of performance art.</p><p>As a result, visitors navigate a space between the revealed and the hidden, the private and the public, intimacy and presence, poetry and analysis, concept and visibility and physicality and power relations.</p></div>
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RogExpo

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<div class="e-intro">Sara&amp;Sara has designed the interiors of the RogExpo exhibition in Ljubljana, Slovenia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The exhibition elements for RogExpo form a modular and reusable exhibition system for Center Rog in Ljubljana.</p><p>First developed for RogExpo 2024 and expanded for the 2025 edition, the system is based on continuity rather than replacement.</p><p>Suspended modules combine the functions of chandeliers and display cabinets, operating as permanent spatial elements outside exhibition periods and transforming into adaptable display infrastructure during exhibitions.</p><p>The result is a system extended from the glass extension into additional floors and programmes, demonstrating how a single exhibition architecture can evolve across time, spaces and curatorial formats.</p></div>
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Unraveling: New Spaces

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<div class="e-intro">A team of architects and designers, including Davor Ereš, Jelena Mitrovic, Igor Pantić, Ivana Najdanović, Sonja Krstić and Peter Laušević, have designed the interiors of the Unraveling: New Spaces exhibition in Venice, Italy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Unraveling: New Spaces was created for the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.</p><p>A kinetic structure of knitted wool segments hung from the ceiling, forming a suspended textile landscape whose density, texture and opacity changed over time.</p><p>From opening day, solar-powered motors gradually pulled the threads, allowing the structure to move, deform and slowly unravel over the six-month exhibition.</p><p>By the end of the Biennale, the installation had returned to its raw state as yarn.</p><p>This project rethought architecture as a temporary, tactile and circular process, shaped through textile knowledge, material experimentation and kinetic control.</p></div>
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Design and Disability

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<div class="e-intro">V&amp;A Design Studio has designed the interiors of its own Design and Disability exhibition in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The V&amp;A's Design and Disability exhibition celebrates the profound contributions of Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent communities since the 1940s.</p><p>By treating integrated access as a foundational principle rather than an afterthought, it fundamentally reshapes design history.</p><p>Co-created with lived-experience experts, the display features 170 objects designed to dismantle physical and perceptual barriers.</p><p>This masterclass in inclusive curation serves as a life-affirming manifesto and a powerful catalyst for change, challenging traditional narratives to inspire a more accessible future.</p><p>"It is a vibrant call to action that proves inclusive design is essential, not optional," said V&amp;A Design Studio.</p></div>
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Hotel and short-stay interior

Fairmont Tokyo

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<div class="e-intro">BAR Studio has designed the interiors of Fairmont Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Fairmont Tokyo occupies the upper floors of the mixed-use Blue Front Shibaura South Tower in Tokyo's emerging waterfront district Shibaura, offering striking views from its high-rise setting over Tokyo Bay, Tokyo Tower and the iconic Rainbow Bridge.</p><p>Taking its cues from the location's intriguing meeting of urban and natural environments, BAR Studio's refined interior design for the 217-room hotel embraces the contrasts of both the city and Tokyo Bay.</p><p>From master planning to layered details and art curation, the holistic design harmonises Tokyo's diverse spirit – traditional yet contemporary, calm yet energetic, connected to nature yet plugged into urban culture.</p></div>
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Hotel Indigo Nalati

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<div class="e-intro">Cheng Chung Design (CCD) has designed the interiors of Hotel Indigo Nalati in Xinjiang, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located along the Duku Highway in Nalati, Hotel Indigo reinterprets Kazakh nomadic traditions through contemporary hospitality design, creating an immersive resort experience connected to nature.</p><p>"The client envisioned a destination resort deeply rooted in Nalati's grassland culture while aligning with Hotel Indigo's neighbourhood storytelling philosophy," said CCD.</p><p>Inspired by Kazakh yurts, nomadic migration and seasonal change, this project adopts a decentralised masterplan connected by forest pathways.</p><p>Local materials, including stone, timber, brick, felt-inspired textiles, textured plaster and handcrafted decorative elements, were integrated to create a warm, inviting hospitality environment.</p></div>
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Locke Canary Wharf

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<div class="e-intro">Holloway Li has designed the interiors of Locke Canary Wharf in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>A new lifestyle hotel, Locke Canary Wharf, which opened in summer 2026, draws on the opulence of 1960s corporate culture and the cinematic atmosphere of 'Mad Men'.</p><p>This project reinterprets mid-century interiors through a contemporary hospitality lens across lounges, bars, rooftop spaces and modular guest rooms, with a design that balances graphic sophistication with warmth and theatricality.</p><p>Rich timber finishes, dramatic lighting and carefully framed spatial sequences – and a conversation pit in every guest room – create an immersive guest experience inspired by cinema and set design.</p><p>This project introduces the UK's first upscale modular lifestyle hotel rooms manufactured off-site.</p></div>
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Hotel Humano

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<div class="e-intro">Hernandez Delagarza has designed Hotel Humano in La Punta Zicatela, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Hotel Humano is located in a largely undeveloped coastal area within a youthful atmosphere and a strong surf culture, where its original architectural design was developed by the studio of Jorge Hernández de la Garza.</p><p>In addition to its 40 guest rooms, the property features a lobby space, landscaped gardens, a swimming pool and restaurant sheltered beneath a traditional palapa roof, as well as a spa and a rooftop bar terrace and sunset-facing pool.</p><p>Plantea joined the project in late 2023 to lead the interior design, a role that ultimately resulted in significant contributions to the planned architectural scheme.</p></div>
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Nazuna Hakone Miyanoshita

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Aluc has renovated the interiors of Nazuna Hakone Miyanoshita in Hakone, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project sees the renovation of an existing reinforced concrete building in Hakone, translating the spatial principles of the Kyoto machiya – traditional wooden townhouses – into a different structural system.</p><p>Rather than replicating its appearance, the design reinterprets the sequence of alley, entrance, doma (earth floor), courtyard and living space, together with an ambiguous boundary between inside and outside.</p><p>Through layered thresholds and a delicate gradient of light and shadow, the space evokes a quiet, introspective atmosphere.</p><p>As a result, Nazuna Hakone Miyanoshita proposes a contemporary ryokan that reimagines the understated depth of traditional Japanese architecture.</p></div>
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Lost Villa Huanglong Island Lighthouse Hotel

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<div class="e-intro">SZ-Architects has designed the interiors of the Lost Villa Huanglong Island Lighthouse Hotel in Zhejiang, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Nestled on Huanglong Island in the Shengsi Archipelago, this Lost Villa hotel sits beside an old lighthouse with 270-degree ocean views.</p><p>Spanning over 4,000 square metres over six years, the architecture is rock-inspired and nature-integrated, preserving lighthouse history.</p><p>Inspired by the unique rocks of Huanglong Island and centred on "coexisting with nature", the architecture is embedded at the top of the rocks, preserving the historical traces of the lighthouse.</p><p>The result is a pathway that links the hotel and lighthouse like a maritime museum.</p></div>
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Hotel Palacio de Godoy

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<div class="e-intro">Szymon Keller Studio has designed the interiors of Hotel Palacio de Godoy in Cáceres, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project was set out to restore the Renaissance Palace of one of the most important figures in the history of Extremadura and Peru: Francisco de Godoy y Aldana, who commissioned its construction after returning from founding the city of Lima in Peru.</p><p>After three decades of abandonment, breathing new life into this building also revitalised a very impoverished neighbourhood in the historic city centre of Cáceres, a Unesco World Heritage Site.</p><p>"The biggest challenge was fitting the demands of a five-star hotel into a historic building while developing an interior narrative rooted in the cultural exchange between Spain and Peru," said Szymon Keller.</p></div>
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Moon Gang

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<div class="e-intro">YSG Studio has designed the interiors of Moon Gang in Ubud, Bali.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Raising the dial on unbound travel experiences, Moon Gang is a liberating holiday destination for music and wellness enthusiasts to decompress and realign with like-minded creatives.</p><p>Nestled amongst Ubud's rice fields and hillside jungles above the town, the hotel comprises five spacious suites, a sound lounge filled with vinyl and a DIY DJ station, plus a spa set around a pool patio.</p><p>Once a private vacation residence in severe disrepair, the concrete bunker was radically transformed into a modern-day Babylon infused with cosmic references and hybrid Japanese architectural elements, including the spa's sliding bamboo doors depicting lunar phases.</p></div>
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Vinyl House

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<div class="e-intro">Benjamin Wilkes has designed the kitchen interiors of Vinyl House in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Vinyl House centres around a kitchen designed to support both cooking and music – while a dedicated record room sits directly alongside, allowing the two spaces to operate together or independently via sliding screens.</p><p>The kitchen is defined by a restrained palette of oak joinery, terrazzo, terracotta and leather, creating a tactile and cohesive environment.</p><p>Cork-lined vinyl storage enhances acoustic performance while adding warmth and texture.</p><p>Rather than a standalone feature, the kitchen is embedded within the architecture of the home, forming a calm and enduring backdrop to daily life.</p></div>
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Deco House

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<div class="e-intro">Farid Karim Design has refurbished the kitchen interiors of Deco House in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Deco House is the refurbishment and extension of a narrow Edwardian terrace in Ealing, West London.</p><p>The design reconfigures the plan to create a sequence of contrasting spaces, from a triple-height entrance hall to a lowered rear extension.</p><p>A new kitchen opens onto a landscaped garden organised around a koi pond and a circular pavilion, strengthening the connection to the park beyond.</p><p>Art Deco references inform the interiors, with green ceramic tiles, timber, brass detailing and Scottish marble used to create a cohesive material palette.</p></div>
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Infinitum Kitchen

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<div class="e-intro">Jessy Van Gorp has designed the kitchen interiors of Infinitum Kitchen in Zeebrugge, Belgium.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Infinitum Kitchen is part of a coastal residence where bespoke design meets functionality, highlighting panoramic views, custom-made elements and a warm minimalist aesthetic, with practical solutions seamlessly integrated.</p><p>To preserve spatial fluidity, sculptural custom components are carefully incorporated – while technical sophistication allows appliances and functions to remain discreetly concealed.</p><p>Sustainable materials – such as stainless steel, wood and lime – emphasise longevity and ecological awareness.</p><p>Focusing on convenience and accessibility, the kitchen features smart storage solutions and abundant natural light.</p><p>The result is a contemplative space where cooking becomes intrinsically connected to landscape, light and atmosphere.</p></div>
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House in Hakusan

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<div class="e-intro">Kenta Hirayama Architect &amp; Associates has designed the interiors of the House in Hakusan in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>House in Hakusan is the renovation of a 57-square-metre apartment in central Tokyo overlooking a botanical garden.</p><p>The 50-year-old concrete structure was stripped back to reveal its raw frame, creating a dialogue between aged concrete and carefully crafted wood elements.</p><p>Organised around furniture and sliding partitions rather than fixed walls, the compact home feels open and fluid.</p><p>A central kitchen anchors daily life, while cherry and recycled zelkova wood introduce warmth, connecting the interior with the greenery beyond.</p></div>
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The Teahouse

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<div class="e-intro">Minimuc Design Studio has renovated the kitchen interiors of The Teahouse in Eindhoven, Netherlands.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Teahouse is a residential renovation in the Netherlands, commissioned as a kitchen redesign for clients who rarely cook.</p><p>"Opposing the popular belief that the kitchen is the heart of the house, the project began with a different question: what is a kitchen when cooking is no longer its primary purpose?" said Minimuc.</p><p>The answer is a functional node from which two spatial vectors extend: one inward toward an enclosed teahouse for pause and daily practice; the other toward the dining area, supporting gathering while drawing light and views deep into the interior.</p><p>As a result, The Teahouse becomes a domestic landscape shaped by life.</p></div>
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Fukagawa Residence

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<div class="e-intro">Note Architects has renovated the kitchen interiors of the Fukagawa Residence in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project is a kitchen renovation at a residential home in East Tokyo.</p><p>"The client wished for an open lifestyle where they could feel the presence of a family in a compact living environment where they could get in touch with nature, such as wind and sunlight," said Note Architects.</p><p>"We created an open and comfortable space by dividing the area."</p><p>The materials that have slight unevenness, the Japanese paper wall, tile in the kitchen and lauan plywood transmit the texture of light.</p><p>The kitchen captures the abstract nature of the central city with certainty and rebuilds a new relationship with humans.</p><p>This result is a small house where life unfolds in harmony with the changing seasons.</p></div>
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Casa Riviera

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Julliana Camargo has designed the kitchen interiors of Casa Riviera in São Paulo, Brazil.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Casa Riviera's kitchen was conceived as an extension of the home's architecture, integrating functionality, materiality and landscape.</p><p>Set within a contemporary exposed-concrete residence, this project combines concrete floors and ceilings, Donatello marble countertops and a sea-inspired palette of deep navy and green tones.</p><p>The central island, featuring the cooktop and facing the garden, transforms cooking into a social experience.</p><p>A custom stainless steel hood with suspended pot storage contrasts with handcrafted clay elements, balancing modern and rustic influences.</p><p>Furthermore, Zenithal natural light creates dynamic patterns of light and shadow, enhancing the kitchen's sculptural presence while fostering a warm, inviting atmosphere.</p></div>
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Pine Island Cottage

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<div class="e-intro">Bureau Tempo and Thom Fougere have designed the interiors of Pine Island Cottage in Ontario, Canada.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This serene family getaway unfolds as a series of gathering spaces that gently cascade along the island's sloped bedrock formations.</p><p>Designed in close dialogue with the family over four years, Pine Island Cottage reflects how they live – a place to retreat and reconnect with nature.</p><p>"The clients were fundamentally interested in engaging with the site and were open to experimenting with how a family might live within this wild Canadian landscape as opposed to the city," said Bureau Tempo.</p><p>This project also considers inclusivity through its emphasis on clarity, accessibility, and comfort in daily use. Spaces are designed to be intuitive and adaptable, supporting a range of occupants over time.</p></div>
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OAKV

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<div class="e-intro">Atelier Carle has designed the interiors of OAKV in Toronto, Canada.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Situated within a generic Toronto suburban business centre, OAKV seeks to humanise the clinical experience through a conceptual approach grounded in the articulation of light and intimacy.</p><p>A stratified spatial organisation arranges treatment areas around a central double-height volume, where diaphanous light enhances its sense of grandeur.</p><p>In addition, walnut cladding predominates, its warmth forming a counterpoint to the arid exterior landscape.</p><p>A café and boutique flank this central zone, forming a public threshold that transitions gradually toward treatment rooms via softly lit corridors – a sensitive spatial progression from arrival to care, dissolving clinical austerity in favour of calm and well-being.</p></div>
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Unravel

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<div class="e-intro">Atelier Write has designed the interiors of Unravel in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project is the renovation of a timber warehouse in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa into a hair salon.</p><p>In addition to everyday salon work, Unravel was designed to accommodate seminars for fellow hairdressers, photoshoots and pop-up events by local shops.</p><p>In response, while preserving the building's generous scale, large mirrors and shelving units with integrated power outlets were suspended from overhead hanger rails, allowing the space to be reconfigured for different activities.</p><p>By adapting to different uses over time, this project seeks to create layered relationships between the salon and the city beyond the conventional role of a hair salon.</p></div>
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The Willow Play Cafe

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<div class="e-intro">Denizens of Design and DS Studio have designed the interiors of The Willow Play Cafe in Toronto, Canada.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>A former neighbourhood bar is reimagined as a quintessential cafe and whimsical play landscape in Toronto.</p><p>This family-focused third space rejects clinical aesthetics in favour of walnut millwork, checkerboard linoleum and vintage lighting.</p><p>The interior unfolds through a keyhole portal into a world where STEM-based play is embedded directly into the architecture – while seating is integrated within the play field to balance adult comfort with proximity.</p><p>By merging hospitality rituals with developmental exploration, the design creates a cohesive sanctuary where leisure and discovery coexist.</p><p>As a result, this project redefined how urban families gather by prioritising both parental wellness and childhood wonder.</p></div>
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Bon Secours Hospital Limerick

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<div class="e-intro">HOK and Reddy Architecture + Urbanism have designed the interiors of Bon Secours Hospital in Limerick, Ireland.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Bon Secours Hospital Limerick is a new 96-bed, 19,405-square-metre acute hospital designed by HOK with Reddy Architecture + Urbanism to expand specialist care in Ireland's Mid West.</p><p>The facility combines surgical, cardiology and diagnostic services within a clear, patient-centred layout that supports efficiency, safety and dignity.</p><p>A curving form creates a strong civic identity and leads to a light-filled concourse that simplifies wayfinding and flexible clinical modules and generous servicing enable future adaptability.</p><p>Sustainability is achieved through a high-performance envelope, electrified systems and low-carbon materials, while biophilic design, natural light and therapeutic finishes promote wellbeing.</p></div>
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The Ginza Lounge

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<div class="e-intro">I IN has designed the interiors of The Ginza Lounge in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Ginza Lounge reinterprets Japanese luxury through the concept of tsuya — gloss and shifting sheen — reflecting the luminous aura of Ginza.</p><p>Rather than creating a conventional VIP lounge, this project translates the district's urban atmosphere into an immersive spatial experience shaped by reflection, translucency and layered light.</p><p>Reflective aluminium, washi-like illuminated surfaces, hinoki wood and accents of Edo purple create an environment that feels calm yet vibrant.</p><p>Through changing daylight, soft illumination and restrained materiality, the lounge proposes a lighter, contemporary vision of luxury rooted in Japanese aesthetics.</p></div>
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Room for Max

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<div class="e-intro">Lekker Architects has designed the interiors of Room for Max in Singapore.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Room for Max is an inclusive sensory space built for an autistic boy in a home in Singapore, which has become an informal community centre for neurodivergent children.</p><p>It is a small but endlessly reconfigurable space, built according to extensive research into the needs and comforts of neurodivergent children.</p><p>Rather than conform to the typical, clinical norms of sensory spaces, this new typology adopts a language of childhood fantasy.</p><p>As a result, Room for Max is a playful and dream-like space that its young users can use to build their agency and a world of their own design.</p></div>
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Shang Residences at Wack Wack Amenities

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<div class="e-intro">LTMC has designed the interiors of Shang Residences at Wack Wack Amenities in Manila, Philippines.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Developed by LTMC, Shang Residences at Wack Wack reimagines residential amenities as restorative wellness environments inspired by nature.</p><p>Overlooking the Wack Wack Golf &amp; Country Club in Metro Manila, this project integrates sculptural timber ceilings, woven screens, tactile materials and filtered natural light to create calming communal spaces.</p><p>The interiors establish a continuous dialogue between architecture and landscape, transforming the lobby, lounge, gym, yoga room and mailroom into immersive environments that promote emotional wellbeing, sensory comfort and a slower pace of urban living.</p></div>
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Salt Salon

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<div class="e-intro">Unknown Works has designed the interiors of Salt Salon in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Salt Salon is both a state-of-the-art salon and a vibrant cultural space in London's Borough Market.</p><p>Unknown Works has transformed a listed Victorian brick storehouse into a highly crafted listening environment, where hairdressing rituals are shaped by sound and club culture.</p><p>Each of the three levels of the hair salon has a distinct hairdressing function and acoustic identity and a soundsystem is integrated into the bespoke interior.</p><p>On the first floor, a listening room doubles as a venue for performances and deep listening, allowing the space to transition with ease from service to event mode.</p></div>
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Casa Co

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<div class="e-intro">Aagnes has designed the interiors of Casa Co in Guadalajara, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>In this project, beauty does not reside in surface-level sensory appeal, but in an order of existence that spans past, present and future, shaping form, guiding proportion and ultimately determining how space comes into being.</p><p>"In today's architectural discourse, beauty is often perceived as a primitive and ineffable notion – something increasingly overlooked rather than consciously embraced," said Aagnes.</p><p>"Yet in the making of Casa Co, beauty is reestablished as both the point of departure and the core of the design process."</p><p>As the most direct expression of existence itself, this beauty does not rely on visual gratification, but arises from the resonance between structure,</p></div>
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Plinth House

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<div class="e-intro">Cambra Buró has designed the interiors of Plinth House in Hasaniya, Kuwait.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Plinth House is a 3,000-square-metre luxury coastal villa, where minimalist architecture, bespoke craftsmanship and integrated sustainability redefine contemporary Gulf living.</p><p>Shaped around calm architecture, natural materials and a precise relationship with the sea, the residence is grounded by a sculpted travertine base – while soft interior volumes, handmade surfaces and filtered daylight create a quiet domestic rhythm.</p><p>This project brings architecture, interior design and landscape into one continuous language.</p><p>Exterior terraces, arched arrival spaces, family rooms and private suites are connected through material restraint, curved geometry and carefully integrated technical systems.</p></div>
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W Apartment

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<div class="e-intro">Cuaik | CDS has designed the interiors of W Apartment in Mexico City, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>W Apartment is a 1,030-square-metre residence in Mexico City where the boundary between architecture and art is not negotiated – it is dissolved.</p><p>Designed across two levels and a rooftop, this project operates as a single composed system: wood-slat walls, a sculptural brass staircase and large-scale works conceived by the studio's in-house art practice in direct relationship with the space.</p><p>"Every material decision, every piece of furniture, every light source was chosen in relation to the whole," said Cuaik.</p><p>The result is a home measured not in square metres, but in the quality of stillness it makes possible.</p></div>
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Aimasia Residence

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<div class="e-intro">Tom Dixon's Design Research Studio and A31 Architecture have designed the interiors of the Aimasia Residence in Mykonos, Greece.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Aimasia Residence is a collaboration between A31 Architecture and Tom Dixon's Design Research Studio.</p><p>Geology is the central narrative; local marble, Mykonian stone and mineral finishes ground every surface in the island's rugged terrain.</p><p>Spaces are divided thematically, each expressing a distinct materiality – while custom lighting prototypes, bespoke sculptural artworks and a curated selection of design icons give the interiors a layered, collector's intimacy.</p><p>A suspended boulder in the entrance staircase sets the tone on arrival: dramatic, unexpected, and unmistakably of this place.</p><p>The result is a residence that feels both deeply site-specific and quietly extraordinary.</p></div>
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Garden Home

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<div class="e-intro">Gisbert Pöppler has redesigned the interiors of the Garden Home in Ruhr, Germany.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The villa is part of the Hagener Impuls, a significant architectural ensemble from 1921 in Western Germany, shaped by architects such as Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius.</p><p>Following wartime destruction and subsequent renovations, Gisbert Pöppler radically reimagined the property, preserving the façade and completely reorganising the interior.</p><p>The concept connects the landscape and the interior, deliberately shaping the transition between them, yet despite the technical complexity and traditional craftsmanship, the atmosphere remains cosy and minimalist.</p><p>The result is a home that serves as a contemporary continuation of a union with architecture, art and craftsmanship.</p></div>
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Valverde Apartment

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<div class="e-intro">Lind + Almond has designed the interiors of the Valverde Apartment in Madrid, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located in a 19th-century courtyard block, this Madrid residence serves as both a family sanctuary and a European showroom for Zia Tiles.</p><p>Designed by Lind + Almond, the home blends Madrid's 'old-world charm' with a refined, conceptual edge.</p><p>A grounded Hispanic palette of terracotta and ochre connects the interiors to the local vernacular – while bespoke Zellige gradients and a striking copper-wrapped kitchen island anchor the communal spaces.</p><p>By pairing handcrafted materials with vintage local finds, this project achieves a masterful balance of spatial storytelling – creating a fresh, unexpected home deeply rooted in the vibrant spirit of the city.</p></div>
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House of Quiet Exchange

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Muka has designed the interiors of House of Quiet Exchange in Los Angeles, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>A reimagined bungalow reinterprets the modest postwar architecture of West Los Angeles through a contemporary lens.</p><p>Designed for Tom Quinn of NEON and Celeste Wright, the home balances intimate family life with vibrant social gathering.</p><p>Inspired by Gregory Ain's modernist ideals, the interior design elevates humble materials, particularly Douglas Fir plywood, through craft and custom fabrication.</p><p>In addition, operable garage doors dissolve boundaries between interior and exterior, creating a warm, eclectic home that serves as both sanctuary and creative salon.</p></div>
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Pine Island Cottage

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<div class="e-intro">Bureau Tempo and Thom Fougere have designed the kitchen interiors of Pine Island Cottage in Ontario, Canada.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This serene family getaway unfolds as a series of gathering spaces that gently cascade along the island's sloped bedrock formations.</p><p>Designed in close dialogue with the family over four years, Pine Island Cottage reflects how they live – a place to retreat and reconnect with nature.</p><p>"The clients were fundamentally interested in engaging with the site and were open to experimenting with how a family might live within this wild Canadian landscape as opposed to the city," said Bureau Tempo.</p><p>This project also considers inclusivity through its emphasis on clarity, accessibility, and comfort in daily use. Spaces are designed to be intuitive and adaptable, supporting a range of occupants over time.</p></div>
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Slice of Paradise

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<div class="e-intro">Alana Marie Interiors has designed the interiors of Slice of Paradise in California, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Set within Malibu's iconic Paradise Cove, Slice of Paradise reimagines a 1960s trailer as a sophisticated, multi-generational coastal retreat.</p><p>Alana Marie Interiors' redesign emphasises openness, light and connection to the ocean, with expansive glass doors dissolving the threshold between interior and deck.</p><p>A tactile palette, informed by nearby rocks, brings warmth and depth, grounding the home in its setting.</p><p>The concealed loft for storage and sleepovers, integrated carpentry and sunken outdoor seating area maximise space within the compact footprint.</p><p>The result is an enduring home that balances durability with luxury – a renovation "beyond the wildest dreams of its owners," said Alana Marie.</p></div>
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The Atrium

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<div class="e-intro">Anna Carin Design has designed the interiors of The Atrium in Sydney, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>An outdated 1990s Alexandria townhouse held one true asset: a central atrium pulling daylight deep into the plan.</p><p>"We let that light lead every decision," said Anna Carin Design.</p><p>"Our role was to translate an international life and a shipped collection into a nostalgic oasis of light composed like a small gallery, where walls stay quiet and each piece has its own moment of arrival."</p><p>A bespoke sculpture by Anna Dudek fractures atrium light into shifting, cinematic colour – while gardens by The Garden Social animate the interiors with planting that gently taps the windows.</p></div>
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Old Bakery Conversion

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<div class="e-intro">BekArch has designed and converted the interiors of an old bakery workshop in Prague, Czech Republic.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This old bakery renovation transforms an enclosed, single-volume space into a skylight-filled, functional studio apartment.</p><p>Preserved roof skylights and a large glass portal opening onto a private covered terrace maximise natural light while ensuring privacy within the dense urban context.</p><p>The design celebrates raw industrial character, pairing exposed concrete beams and a Cemflow cement floor with bespoke spruce bioboard joinery and stainless steel accents.</p><p>Softened by climbing plants and textiles, this restrained material palette creates an avant-garde yet inviting urban hideaway that beautifully balances industrial rawness with residential comfort.</p></div>
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House in Hakusan

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<div class="e-intro">Kenta Hirayama Architect &amp; Associates has designed the kitchen interiors of the House in Hakusan in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>House in Hakusan is the renovation of a 57-square-metre apartment in central Tokyo overlooking a botanical garden.</p><p>The 50-year-old concrete structure was stripped back to reveal its raw frame, creating a dialogue between aged concrete and carefully crafted wood elements.</p><p>Organised around furniture and sliding partitions rather than fixed walls, the compact home feels open and fluid.</p><p>A central kitchen anchors daily life, while cherry and recycled zelkova wood introduce warmth, connecting the interior with the greenery beyond.</p></div>
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House Montagna

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<div class="e-intro">Maison Osaïn has designed the interiors of House Montagna in Courmayeur, Italy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>House Montagna is a restored alpine chalet at the foot of Mont Blanc, conceived as a contemporary retreat rooted in stillness, material honesty and connection to the landscape.</p><p>Through a restrained palette of natural materials and a minimal architectural language, this project reinterprets traditional mountain living into a serene, tactile and timeless interior.</p><p>House Montagna promotes a more conscious way of living, rooted in simplicity, longevity and a strong connection between people, place and material.</p><p>By transforming an existing, derelict structure rather than building anew, the interiors preserve embedded value while reducing the need for additional resources.</p></div>
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La Casa del Pirata

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<div class="e-intro">Raul Sanchez Architects has designed the interiors of La Casa del Pirata in Mataró, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Antoni Cuyàs left Mataró in 1820, became a feared corsair in Argentina and later a wealthy advisor to presidents. He returned in 1865, rebuilt two houses on the Rambla, and created a palatial home later inherited by his adopted heir.</p><p>Generations followed until Manuel Cuyàs and Nuria renovated the remaining historic rooms in 2023, adapting them for contemporary living while preserving their character.</p><p>A stainless-steel plinth organises the main space, integrating functions and concealing systems, while original materials and traces of time are preserved.</p><p>This project blends restoration and intervention, treating history as something living rather than frozen or idealised.</p></div>
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Apartment On A Hill

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<div class="e-intro">Wunderwall Design has designed the interiors of the Apartment On A Hill in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project is an overhaul of an old apartment unit, rooted in nostalgia and memories of growing up in suburban Kuala Lumpur.</p><p>"The design direction is a tangible manifestation of the client: eclectic, lots of personality and a fearless sense of colour," said Wunderwall Design.</p><p>"Compact living in the urban fabric typically implies tight and multi-purpose functions stacked on each other, allowing only small navigating spaces."</p><p>The interior design of Apartment On A Hill addresses this issue and provides a different lens: compact living without sacrificing visual comfort and spatial generosity.</p></div>
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The Gentleman

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<div class="e-intro">YSG Studio has redesigned the interiors of The Gentleman in Sydney, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located within an upper level of a stately inner-city Art Deco building, this apartment, offering glimpses of Sydney Harbour, was revived with scholarly sophistication.</p><p>Home to a professional couple with a penchant for cosy nights in with vinyl spinning or the piano lid raised, newly constructed internal angles, built-in features and enlarged entrances expand its modest footprint, also increasing natural light flow.</p><p>Streamlined for efficiency, rooms are woven together with both sleek and sensual materials, including patterned textiles, expressive stone and exquisite carved timber details, along with metal finishes to reinstate clarity and enhance the home's original Art Deco elements.</p></div>
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Jeju

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<div class="e-intro">&amp;Daughters has designed the interiors of Jeju in Vancouver, Canada.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Jeju is a 44-seat Korean restaurant in Vancouver that reinterprets the vernacular architecture, rituals and material traditions of Jeju Island through contemporary spatial, lighting and craft interventions.</p><p>Rooted in the Korean concept of jeong – a bond of care, generosity and shared experience – this project brings together family, food and hospitality within an interior shaped by memory, communication and gathering.</p><p>Suspended hand-thatched light structures reinterpret traditional Jeju houses – while a contemporary jeongnang gate installation creates a daily ritual connecting the life of the restaurant to the street beyond.</p></div>
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Milló

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<div class="e-intro">AÉ02 has designed the interiors of Milló in Bucharest, Romania.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Milló is a restaurant in central Bucharest located on the ground floor of the Milló office building.</p><p>The interior draws on the building's Art Deco context while introducing a contemporary spatial language defined by light, geometry and material contrast.</p><p>A sculptural ceiling feature – described as a "volcano of light" – anchors the main dining area, while LED lighting highlights the space's textures and forms.</p><p>The design combines glossy wood, terrazzo, microcement and marble surfaces, creating a layered, theatrical atmosphere that balances intimacy with visual drama.</p></div>
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Casa Fiero

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<div class="e-intro">Cristina Carulla Studio has designed the interiors of Casa Fiero in Barcelona, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Casa Fiero is a contemporary restaurant in the heart of Barcelona that reinterprets the traditional Catalan 'casa de comidas' through a sophisticated and characterful lens.</p><p>Conceived as an intimate refuge open from afternoon through evening, this project integrates design, gastronomy, music and cocktail culture into a cohesive spatial experience.</p><p>Inspired by Barcelona's counterculture of the 1970s and 1980s and the spirit of the pre-Olympic city, the interiors blend classical references, eclectic gestures and subtle Art Deco influences.</p><p>The result is a warm, layered and personality-driven space that feels both elegant and welcoming at different moments of the day.</p></div>
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Super Peach

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<div class="e-intro">INC Architecture &amp; Design has designed the interiors of Super Peach in Los Angeles, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Super Peach translates chef David Chang's hybrid culinary vision into an immersive Los Angeles restaurant.</p><p>The space synthesises the spatial mechanics of black box theatre-in-the-round with the democratic energy of an American diner.</p><p>Designed around a strict horizontal and vertical datum line, the interior contrasts a grounded, pale-green tiled base with a high-energy upper envelope of saturated orange, industrial plywood and reflective stainless steel.</p><p>Seamlessly extending its colour logic and mesh canopies to an outdoor patio, the design erases public thresholds to turn cooking and dining into a shared, collective ritual.</p></div>
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Mocha

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<div class="e-intro">Loop Design Studio has designed the interiors of Mocha in Pune, India.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Mocha evokes the raw, monolithic grandeur of ancient quarries and the sculpted cave dwellings of the dwarves of Moria.</p><p>Dominated by massive, stratified columns and overhanging volumetric forms, the design creates an immersive spatial experience that blurs the boundaries between structure and enclosure.</p><p>The scale of the space is both awe-inspiring and intimate, creating a paradoxical interplay between vastness and enclosure.</p><p>The result is the meticulous detailing of junctions, where surfaces transition seamlessly between horizontal and vertical planes, reinforcing the notion of an architecture that has been sculpted rather than constructed.</p></div>
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Plumbago

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<div class="e-intro">Oficina de Práctica Arquitectónica (OPA) has designed the interiors of Plumbago in Mexico City, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Plumbago is a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant and cultural venue set within a compact infill site in Mexico City's Cuauhtémoc neighbourhood.</p><p>Designed by OPA as an "urban greenhouse", this project brings natural light, vegetation and domestic warmth into a calm, open space that contrasts with its surrounding high-rise setting.</p><p>Two pitched-roof volumes define the scheme: a translucent polycarbonate structure containing the dining room and bar and a smaller galvanised steel shed housing the kitchen and service areas.</p><p>In addition, a crafted palette of brick, timber and planting completes a welcoming environment that supports both daily dining and a wider cultural programme.</p></div>
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Lucia

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<div class="e-intro">Preen has designed the interiors of Lucia in Los Angeles, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Lucia is a modern Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Los Angeles offering an innovative take on the opulence of dining's Golden Era, transformed with a breath of air and island colour.</p><p>"The design challenge was to convert a former burger bar into a world-class kitchen and to create an intimate, rich and highly social nighttime space offering a fresh take on glamour to Angelinos," said Preen.</p><p>"The restaurant innovates by juxtaposition; it is designed to be a referential show-stopper."</p><p>As a result, Lucia is a rich, immersive dining experience – while at the same time, creating breathing room that speaks to nighttime island culture.</p></div>
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Rosso

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<div class="e-intro">YOD Group has designed the interiors of Rosso in Bukovel, Ukraine.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located within the Hrybova Khata hospitality complex in Bukovel, Rosso is a family-oriented Italian restaurant that blends the warmth of Italian dining culture with the natural character of the Ukrainian Carpathians.</p><p>The interior translates this project's mushroom-inspired identity into a contemporary spatial experience through biomorphic forms, custom lighting and a distinctive gradient palette.</p><p>Centred around an open kitchen and communal dining, Rosso creates an inviting atmosphere where food, design and social interaction come together in a setting designed for guests of all ages.</p></div>
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Espacio M300

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<div class="e-intro">Bulthaup Barcelona has designed the interiors of Espacio M300 in Barcelona, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Espacio M300 is a non-invasive architectural intervention within a 1930s rationalist building in Barcelona.</p><p>Rather than replacing the existing interior, this project works with its accumulated historical layers, including a 1970s renovation defined by sculptural curves.</p><p>Demolition is avoided; only two freestanding brick volumes and updated technical systems are introduced to reactivate the space.</p><p>By prioritising reuse, material continuity and spatial neutrality, this project creates a flexible environment capable of hosting exhibitions, work and cultural activities.</p><p>Espacio M300 demonstrates innovation through restraint, allowing the existing architecture to remain the primary spatial protagonist.</p></div>
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COS Sanlitun, Beijing Store

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<div class="e-intro">COS has designed the interiors of its own Sanlitun store in Beijing, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>COS unveils its latest flagship store in Beijing's Sanlitun district. Designed in-house, the space brings together contemporary design with a considered appreciation of traditional craftsmanship and the city's architectural heritage.</p><p>Curated alongside Singchan Design and local artisans, the interior opens a dialogue between past and present.</p><p>Drawing from Beijing's historical fabric – from the Jing Bricks of the Forbidden City to the poetic interplay of light and the iconic red palace walls – the space translates timeless symbols into a contemporary spatial language that frames the latest COS collections.</p></div>
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Gaoping Zhongshuge Library

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<div class="e-intro">Eternal Architectural Design has designed the interiors of Gaoping Zhongshuge Library in Gaoping, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This 1,500-square-meter bookstore takes "a museum of ancient architecture" as its core design concept, a tribute to the over 1,500 precious cultural heritage sites scattered across Gaoping.</p><p>Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves form continuous, wave-like arched profiles, echoing the rhythmic layering of traditional Gaoping residential roofs and their overlapping tiles.</p><p>Wrapped around a central atrium, the shelves create a ring circulation – while mirrored ceilings and reflective floors transform the space into an endless sea of books, where history and reading converge in an immersive experience.</p></div>
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Central Park

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<div class="e-intro">Linehouse has designed the interiors of Central Park in Bangkok, Thailand.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Central Park is a landmark mixed-use development in central Bangkok, built on the former Dusit Thani Hotel site.</p><p>Anchored by a seven-level podium, it integrates hotel, residential and office towers with 40,000 square metres of retail and dining designed by Linehouse.</p><p>Responding to Bangkok's vibrant contrasts, the design blends heritage and modernity, combining cultural symbolism with contemporary urban living.</p><p>Organised as a series of distinct neighbourhoods, the interiors offer varied spatial experiences and seamless connections to Lumpini Park.</p><p>Dining spaces extend into greenery, culminating in Bangkok's largest rooftop sky garden, creating a vibrant cultural destination for residents and visitors.</p></div>
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Polène Flagship Store

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<div class="e-intro">Norm Architects has designed the interiors of the Polène Flagship Store in Milan, Italy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located in the heart of Milan, the Polène flagship store unfolds as a considered spatial narrative that invites visitors to move not only through a retail environment, but through a sequence of atmospheres shaped by material, light, and rhythm.</p><p>Inspired by Milanese interiors, this project draws on the tradition of enfilade spaces and the city's rich material palette to create a layered and immersive experience.</p><p>Conceived as an architectural interpretation of the brand's essence, the design translates Polène's dedication to craftsmanship, natural sensibility and sculptural form into a refined spatial language.</p></div>
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H&M Seoul Store

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<div class="e-intro">Skynoa has designed the interiors of the H&amp;M Seoul Store in Seoul, South Korea.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Skynoa was appointed to create H&amp;M's unique brand destination in South Korea, setting a cultural stage for fashion and self-expression in the heart of Seoul with global resonance.</p><p>Located in one of Seoul's most dynamic cultural districts, the space redefines what a fashion store can be.</p><p>More than a retail destination, H&amp;M Seoul is a hyper-transformative, immersive environment; part stage, part gallery, part playground – designed to evolve with the pulse of the city.</p><p>The result is a dynamic environment that continuously evolves, allowing the store to function not only as a retail space, but also as a platform for expression, storytelling and cultural dialogue.</p></div>
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Gooder

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Pheasant has designed the interiors of Gooder in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Gooder is an indoor skatepark and community hub in Alserkal Avenue, designed by Studio Pheasant as a hybrid space where skateboarding, retail, coffee, coworking and creative activity converge.</p><p>Built on the idea of "for skaters, by skaters", the skatepark acts as the social anchor – while flexible retail areas, a coffee counter, pizza pop-up and mezzanine coworking lounge host work, events and community gatherings.</p><p>At the centre, a sculptural fountain inspired by traditional Damascene courtyard fountains links regional heritage with contemporary skate culture.</p><p>Through adaptable design and locally sourced materials, Gooder evolves alongside Dubai's growing youth and skate community.</p></div>
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Messa House

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<div class="e-intro">Up2date Architects has designed the interiors of Messa House in Almaty, Kazakhstan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Design studio Up2date has revealed the minimalist Messa House store in Almaty, which reimagines the form of a Kazakh yurt.</p><p>Commissioned for womenswear brand Messa, the 350-square-metre store was designed with breakout areas and an on-site cafe to encourage "a quieter alternative to typical fast-paced retail environments," said Up2date.</p><p>A truncated domed partition – which evokes the rounded architecture of a yurt – was added to separate the main shop floor from the surrounding cafe, lounge and fitting rooms.</p></div>
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Botti Store

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<div class="e-intro">AIA Estudio has designed the interiors of the Botti Store in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located in Ipanema and founded in São Paulo by designer Bruna Botti, the brand embodies not only the sophistication and urban sensibility of its city of origin, but also a strong connection to craftsmanship and nature.</p><p>This project therefore sought to translate these elements into an architecture that unites urban and natural references in a symbiotic way.</p><p>The flooring is divided by a curved line that evokes the meeting of sea and sand: on one side, an earthy carpet; on the other, a light-toned microcement surface that abstracts coastal landscapes through materials more commonly associated with the urban environment.</p><p>The result is a light, ethereal, and sustainable surface that becomes the central atmosphere-defining element of the store.</p></div>
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OnLand

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<div class="e-intro">Amass has designed the interiors of OnLand in Hangzhou, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>OnLand in Hangzhou draws inspiration from improvised street structures observed through 'Walking Towards the Street', a self-initiated research project by Amass documenting everyday street-built objects.</p><p>Elements such as flatbed trolleys, ladders and temporary worktables are reinterpreted as flexible display systems, creating a retail space that feels closer to a workshop or street market where handcrafted objects can be encountered intuitively.</p><p>Instead of designing a fixed and highly controlled shop interior, this project adopts the logic of improvised street setups – structures that are simple, adaptable and built from readily available materials.</p></div>
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Onland Shanghai

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<div class="e-intro">Amass has designed the interiors of Onland Shanghai in Shanghai, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Onland Shanghai is a retail space in Shanghai organised around a system of movable, reconfigurable display elements.</p><p>Rather than relying on fixed fixtures, the space is structured by foldable, double-sided display units that function as screens, stalls and partitions.</p><p>Inspired by workshop and street practices, lightweight hanging systems with cotton ropes and simple counterweights allow small objects to be arranged flexibly.</p><p>Standard industrial shelving is combined with inserted wooden cabinets, forming an adaptable base structure.</p><p>As a result, this project shifts retail from static display toward a continuously adjustable system shaped by use.</p></div>
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FUBA

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<div class="e-intro">Isern Serra has designed the interiors of FUBA in Madrid, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>FUBA (Futuristic Bakery) is an innovative bakery in Madrid's Chamberí district that redefines gluten-free pastry through a disruptive spatial concept designed for the client Fabián León.</p><p>The design explores the duality of origin and future, manifesting as a continuous, organic architectural "skin" reminiscent of an ancestral cave.</p><p>A central stainless steel table and curved display niches anchor the retail area, which transitions through organic arches into an on-site production workshop.</p><p>By blending natural stone with futuristic metallic finishes under an ethereal skylight, FUBA creates an immersive environment bridging tradition with culinary innovation.</p></div>
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Colima 162

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<div class="e-intro">Manu Bano and Laura V Lasagabaster have designed the interiors of Colima 162 in Roma Norte, Mexico City.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Colima 162 is a luxury concept store set within a historic 1919 townhouse in Roma Norte.</p><p>This project is conceived as a minimal, non-invasive intervention that preserves and amplifies the existing architecture.</p><p>A restrained material palette allows a series of hand-hammered recycled copper pieces – crafted by artisans in Santa Clara del Cobre – to define the spatial and conceptual narrative.</p><p>Operating simultaneously as furniture and display, these sculptural elements introduce light, texture and continuity throughout the space, resulting in a retail environment where contemporary design coexists with the building's historical character and local craftsmanship.</p></div>
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Gunia Project Showroom

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<div class="e-intro">Temp Project has designed the interiors of the Gunia Project Showroom in Kyiv, Ukraine.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Created by Temp Project, the new flagship showroom for Ukrainian brand Gunia Project transforms a historic late-19th-century space in Kyiv into a contemporary cultural destination.</p><p>Balancing preservation with modernity, the interior carefully retains original architectural features – while introducing a restrained, atmospheric design language inspired by Ukrainian nature, craft traditions and pastoral motifs.</p><p>Conceived as a hybrid between a gallery, concept store and showroom, this project reflects Gunia Project's poetic interpretation of Ukrainian identity through subtle symbolism, tactile materials and curated spatial storytelling.</p></div>
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Light Silos: Decima One Flagship at Yunjian Granary

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<div class="e-intro">Uncommon Architects has designed the interiors of Light Silos: Decima One Flagship at Yunjian Granary in Shanghai, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located in Shanghai's Yunjian Granary, this 200-square-metre project transforms iconic industrial silos into a retail space for fragrance brand Decima One.</p><p>This project preserves the industrial heritage while embedding contemporary commerce and brand storytelling.</p><p>The core concept extends the existing silo axis, creating a dialogue between real and fictional silo-like forms – using 'light silos' as a motif to reinterpret the memory of the place.</p></div>
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A Sourdough House

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<div class="e-intro">Whatever Design Office has designed the interiors of A Sourdough House in Chengdu, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Commissioned by bakery brand BA, Whatever Design Office created A Sourdough House on Luzhen's Mulian Street – a 2025 renewal project amid European-style architecture and sloped alleys.</p><p>Guided by BA's philosophy that "bread has life", the key design challenge explored how to create a space that supports the sustainable development of both the brand and the surrounding block.</p><p>This project breaks away from the conventional design logic of traditional bakery retail spaces; it is a contemporary translation and initial exploration in line with the brand's production philosophy.</p></div>
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Kamakura House

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<div class="e-intro">AtMa has designed the interiors of Kamakura House in Kamakura, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Kamakura House is the full renovation of a 40-year-old timber residence designed by AtMa as their own home in Kamakura.</p><p>Rather than treating renovation as replacement, this project explores how architecture can continue evolving through time.</p><p>Existing spatial qualities, structural flexibility and material continuity were reinterpreted to create a home capable of adapting to changing seasons and ways of living.</p><p>A previously unused raised-floor void was reconstructed as an insulated DOMA space – while exposing the timber structure to restore airflow, natural light and spatial openness, creating a home where different rhythms of living, environmental change and multiple temporalities coexist.</p></div>
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Cosy House

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<div class="e-intro">Enbee Architecture and Design has designed the interiors of Cosy House in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Through deep retrofit and careful material reuse, an end-of-terrace Victorian house has been transformed into a light-filled, atmospheric, low-carbon home.</p><p>This project creates many curious and surprising moments through its spatial design, while insulation and fabric upgrades are calculated to reduce energy use by approximately 85 per cent.</p><p>A salvaged spiral stair and natural material palette bring texture, warmth and surprise, resulting in an enchanting, high-performance home fit for the future.</p></div>
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Mason & Fifth Belsize Park

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<div class="e-intro">Holloway Li has designed the interiors of Mason &amp; Fifth Belsize Park in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Holloway Li transforms a historic late-19th-century mansion block in London's Belsize Park into a 56-bed boutique guesthouse for Mason &amp; Fifth.</p><p>Developed in collaboration with architects New-Works, this project reimagines hospitality retrofit interiors through a low-impact, circular economy approach centred on reuse, adaptability and repair.</p><p>Rather than relying on conventional strip-out refurbishment, the interiors use rejected limestone, demountable joinery systems and expressive repaired finishes to minimise waste and embodied carbon.</p><p>Shared communal spaces organised around the idea of the hearth create a warm, domestic atmosphere, demonstrating how heritage buildings can be sustainably adapted for contemporary long-stay hospitality.</p></div>
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Cloudhaus Hotel

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<div class="e-intro">RooMoo Design Studio has designed the interiors of Cloudhaus Hotel in Chongqing, China.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Located on Chongqing's Jinfo Mountain, Cloudhaus Hotel transforms a former five-level sales office into a 24-room boutique B&amp;B.</p><p>Driven by a sustainable, low-waste philosophy, the design is deeply rooted in local craftsmanship and ethical material sourcing.</p><p>"We reimagined the architecture, landscape and interiors by creatively upcycling construction waste – such as concrete cores and red bricks – alongside repurposed cabin wood, local bamboo, shoot shells and mountain stones," said RooMoo.</p><p>Harmonising with the natural terrain, Cloudhaus weaves environmental responsibility and regional heritage into a compelling spatial narrative, setting a new aesthetic standard for sustainable mountain habitats.</p></div>
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The Burghley Room

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<div class="e-intro">Scott Whitby Studio has designed the interiors of The Burghley Room in Cambridge, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Set within the Grade I Listed Chapel Court of St John's College at the University of Cambridge, this project transforms a series of internal rooms into versatile meeting and workspaces.</p><p>At its heart is a commitment to reuse: forgotten historic oak benches and tables, unused on campus for decades, were meticulously dismantled and reworked into the room's table, wall panelling and a dividing screen.</p><p>Walls and ceilings are lined with sprayed cork for acoustic and thermal performance – while bespoke cork flooring made from recycled wine-cork offcuts sequesters 193kg of carbon dioxide per square metre.</p><p>In addition, a new platform lift delivers step-free access to the historic building for the first time.</p></div>
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London Coffee Factory

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<div class="e-intro">Steve Jensen Design has designed the interiors of the London Coffee Factory in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The London Coffee Factory is the adaptive reuse of a Victorian bottle factory in South London into a fully electric coffee roastery, community hub and civic workspace.</p><p>Rather than preserving the building as a static heritage object, this project reactivates it through production, reuse, and participation.</p><p>Existing structures were stripped back to reveal the original industrial fabric – while a central 'Dojo' framework made from reclaimed timber organises roasting, cupping, logistics and public gathering.</p><p>Electric roasting technology and an electric delivery fleet minimise emissions while reconnecting manufacturing to the city centre.</p><p>As a result, this project demonstrates how heritage buildings can become a sustainable future.</p></div>
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The Forest

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<div class="e-intro">Woods Bagot has designed the interiors of The Forest in Hobart, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Forest at the University of Tasmania is a highly connected campus that unifies the existing on-site built elements with integrated landscape, through-block connections and publicly accessible thoroughfares.</p><p>As an example of mass timber construction, adaptive reuse and the largest commercial use of hempcrete in Australia, the new campus combines innovative and experimental approaches to resilient and sustainable design while reviving an iconic piece of local heritage.</p><p>Using found conditions to drive the conceptual direction of the new, the design celebrates history, biophilia and climate responsiveness.</p><p>As a result, the building's demountable design enables the campus to adapt and flex with the university's evolving pedagogical needs.</p></div>
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Pizza 4P’s Indonesia

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<div class="e-intro">Suha has designed the interiors of Pizza 4P's in Jakarta, Indonesia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed by Suha, this 600-square-metre Jakarta restaurant places Indonesia's biodiversity at its core.</p><p>Zones evoking forest, cave and shoreline invite visitors on a journey across the Indonesian archipelago.</p><p>"All 17 product types were designed from scratch with over 20 craftspeople across Java and Bali," said Suha.</p><p>Materials draw from two worlds: Indonesia's living nature – water hyacinth, rattan, indigo, mycelium, banana, FSC-certified teak and more — and urban waste streams that have become the new geology of its cities including fishing nets, roof tiles, coffee grounds, eggshells and mussel shells from Jakarta's coastline/</p></div>
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Coworking Spaces at C1 Central One Alexanderplatz-Berlin

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<div class="e-intro">Bruzkus Greenberg has designed the interiors of the coworking spaces at C1 Central One Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project saw the shared spaces on the lower two floors of the Berlin-Alexanderplatz office building C1 offer upstairs tenants settings to supplement their primary offices as an integral part of the overall workplace.</p><p>Bruzkus Greenberg combined references from hospitality, residential and workplace design to create a comfortable and functional environment.</p><p>A range of shared amenities is provided for the office workers above: meeting rooms and informal lounges, a library, a cafe, a cinema and a gym.</p><p>These spaces are intended to support the entire range of work activities – concentration, collaboration, relaxation, well-being and informal social exchange.</p></div>
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Courthouse Building H

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<div class="e-intro">i29 and DP6 have designed the interiors of Courthouse Building H in Utrecht, Netherlands.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The former secondary school building in the centre of Utrecht has been transformed by i29 and DP6 and their design team into the new training institute for the Dutch Judiciary and the Public Prosecution Service (SSR).</p><p>The stately building has been carefully restored and made more sustainable, allowing its original qualities to shine once again.</p><p>A new time-layer has also been added to Courthouse Building H, connecting with the existing architecture while aligning with the identity and ambitions of the training institute.</p></div>
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Culture Hub

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<div class="e-intro">Kokuyo has designed the interiors of Culture Hub for Mercari in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Culture Hub is the new Tokyo headquarters for Mercari, Japan's leading C2C marketplace app.</p><p>In the hybrid work era, this project redefines the office not as a mandatory workspace, but as a dynamic incubator for corporate culture.</p><p>Spatialising the brand's core concept of "circulating value", the design extensively upcycles waste materials and user-traded items into highly functional, everyday furniture and fixtures.</p><p>By minimising physical and cognitive friction, this fluid spatial design fosters serendipitous encounters.</p><p>Culture Hub empowers a diverse global team to collaborate, innovate, and unleash their creativity within an uncompromisingly sustainable, human-centric environment.</p></div>
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Not A Hotel Office

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<div class="e-intro">Not A Hotel has designed the interiors of its own Not A Hotel Office in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Commissioned by Not A Hotel, Not A Hotel Office is the new headquarters for the hospitality brand.</p><p>Designed by its in-house team, Not A Hotel Architects, this project converts a historic 1967 warehouse in Tokyo into a brand showcase.</p><p>Retaining the original seven-metre ceilings and brutalist structural elements, the design uses three-meter-high glass partitions to create a seamless, layered space.</p><p>The office blends diverse work zones with an art gallery atmosphere, featuring vintage masterpieces like Jean Prouvé’s 6x6 Demountable House, custom-made furniture and a massive Globe-Trotter trunk storage system, fostering a collaborative environment for diverse professionals.</p></div>
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One Triton Square

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<div class="e-intro">Piercy &amp; Co has designed the interiors of One Triton Square in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>One Triton Square is a series of shared interior spaces for working, collaboration and socialising that sits at the heart of an Arup-led scheme to transform an existing 1990s office building into a new hub of office and lab space for technology and innovation-led businesses in London.</p><p>The design language for the spaces reconsiders a typical scientific aesthetic in favour of a more contemporary expression.</p><p>As a result, a refined palette of materials creates a warm, natural and humanising interior identity for the building, with varied spaces for exchange, presentation, contemplation and recharge.</p></div>
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The Bell

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<div class="e-intro">Ste Marie has reimagined the interiors of The Bell in Chicago, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Bell reconsiders a 1966 Chicago landmark office tower at a time of shifting demand within the downtown market.</p><p>Rather than altering the building's form, this project works within its existing structure and material language, introducing 100,000 square feet of shared amenity space organised as a continuous interior sequence.</p><p>Hospitality, work, wellness and social environments are integrated throughout the tower, supporting a broader range of occupation beyond the desk.</p><p>Original materials, including marble, terrazzo, and walnut, are retained and extended, allowing the building's mid-century character to remain present as it accommodates contemporary patterns of use.</p></div>
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The Jellicoe

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<div class="e-intro">Universal Design Studio has designed the interiors of The Jellicoe in London, United Kingdom.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Conceived as "Worlds within a World", this project offers diverse spatial experiences that are human-focused and adaptable to support a new generation of workspace users.</p><p>Universal responded to the evolving needs of workers by integrating multiple modes within each zone, from collaborative hubs to quiet retreats.</p><p>These zones are clearly differentiated through contrasting materials and layouts, allowing occupants to choose environments based on mood or task.</p><p>The Jellicoe sets a new benchmark for contemporary workspace, providing spaces that are flexible, inclusive, immersive and sustainable.</p><p>By rejecting the one-size-fits-all model, this project offers an innovative framework for the future of work and community.</p></div>
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Mov Kuramae

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<div class="e-intro">Yohak Design Studio has designed the interiors of Mov Kuramae in Tokyo, Japan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project transforms an eight-storey building in Kuramae into a shared office developed and operated by Kokuyo.</p><p>A street-level café extends the character of Kuramae's artisan neighbourhood into the building – while a second-floor lounge draws surrounding greenery inward.</p><p>Studios, workspaces and communal areas are distributed across floors three to eight, each shaped by the conditions it inherits: a recessed corner becomes a retreat, a constraint becomes character.</p><p>Circulation is designed as a sequence of inhabitable spaces, encouraging movement through the building as a continuous experience, rather than a series of isolated floors.</p></div>
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Double Trip Press

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Lieu has designed the interiors of Double Trip Press in Chicago, United States.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Double Trip Press is a modern letterpress studio inspired by the vintage craft; its interior emphasises letterpress-like tactility through richly textured materials like wood, concrete, plaster and cork.</p><p>Custom shelving, designed with a gridded modular system, echoes the form of antique wood sorts.</p><p>The layout places all fixed elements along the perimeter, while central elements are mounted on casters for maximum flexibility – supporting both daily production and occasional workshops or events.</p><p>The result is a light-filled, adaptable workspace that balances the precision and rigour of letterpress printing with a warm, welcoming atmosphere for clients.</p></div>
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A Studio

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<div class="e-intro">A Studio has designed the interiors of its own office space, A Studio, in Barcelona, Spain.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project transforms a former street-level commercial space into a contemporary office designed around light, flexibility and human interaction.</p><p>The design combines carefully crafted walnut joinery, stainless steel and continuous mineral finishes to create a calm and sophisticated working environment.</p><p>A series of adaptable spaces support both focused and collaborative work, while custom-designed furniture integrates technology, storage and everyday functions into a coherent architectural language.</p><p>Large openings, transparent partitions and warm natural materials maximise daylight and visual continuity throughout the office, creating a workplace that promotes wellbeing, productivity and connection.</p></div>
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Banda Agency Office

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<div class="e-intro">Ater Architects has designed the interiors of the Banda Agency Office in Kyiv, Ukraine.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Banda Agency Office reimagines a historic floor of an early-20th-century building in Kyiv as a creative workspace for the Ukrainian advertising agency Banda.</p><p>Rather than a conventional office, this project was conceived as a spacious apartment-like environment that supports collaboration, experimentation and everyday studio life.</p><p>Restored decorative details coexist with vintage furniture sourced across Europe, custom stainless-steel elements and flexible communal areas.</p><p>The office includes a main hall with a stage, meeting rooms, Zoom rooms, a workshop and a playful mezzanine lounge, reflecting Banda's culture of creativity, curiosity and self-irony.</p></div>
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Cinderella Deep

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<div class="e-intro">Geller Studio has designed the interiors of Cinderella Deep in Sydney, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cinderella Deep is the street-level entry and gathering room for Cinderella House in Redfern, designed as a flexible workplace for collaboration, hosting and creative exchange.</p><p>Inspired by the South African phrase of 'Ubuntu' (meaning "I am because we are"), the adaptive reuse fit-out transforms an industrial shell into a warm, non-hierarchical space anchored by a nearly eight-metre communal walnut table.</p><p>Retained brickwork, galvanised steel, cork, leather and clay finishes balance durability with tactility – while reuse-first design strategies minimise demolition and extend the life of existing elements and furniture.</p></div>
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Rowie HQ

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<div class="e-intro">Occupy Studio has designed the interiors of Rowie HQ in Byron Bay, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Rowie HQ reimagines a Byron Bay fashion brand's workspace as a warm, home-like environment with a communal kitchen and dining at its core.</p><p>The brief called for a workspace that felt welcoming and communal rather than corporate and one that was reflective of Rowie's relaxed identity while supporting collaboration, design, content creation and daily operations.</p><p>"A large part of the brief was also the necessity to be in by Christmas, which was really tight considering the project was only commissioned in late October," said Occupy Studio.</p><p>Delivered in just under four months, the design maximises natural light through sculptural skylights and a lantern-like meeting room, fostering interaction and adaptability within an industrial shell.</p></div>
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Rosadoce

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<div class="e-intro">Reims 502 has designed the interiors of Rosadoce in Querétaro, Mexico.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Rosadoce is a flexible commercial building by Reims 502, commissioned as a long-term income-generating real estate asset.</p><p>Designed during the COVID-19 pandemic, this project rethinks commercial architecture in response to changing patterns of work, consumption and urban life.</p><p>Located near Querétaro's historic centre, in a low-density neighbourhood transitioning from single-family housing to mixed-use, the building acts as an urban catalyst.</p><p>Rosadoce can operate as one commercial unit, four independent platforms or 16 smaller modules. Through open plans, exposed construction, passive environmental strategies and an active rooftop, it offers a resilient framework for urban regeneration.</p></div>
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Good Finance Taichung Downtown Branch

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<div class="e-intro">Snøhetta has designed the interiors of the Good Finance Downtown Branch in Taichung, Taiwan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Snøhetta's design for Good Finance's Taichung Downtown Branch reimagines the finance office as an open, inclusive environment centred on dialogue and collaboration.</p><p>Commissioned by Good Finance, the 800-square-metre workplace replaces conventional layouts with a central forum that serves as a shared space for learning, exchange and community engagement.</p><p>Radiating outward, the office transitions from informal work zones to more private areas, creating a balanced and human-centred workplace.</p><p>This project reflects the firm's ambition to demystify finance and foster a culture of openness, interaction and continuous learning.</p></div>
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Cinderella House

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<div class="e-intro">YSG Studio has designed the interiors of Cinderella House in Sydney, Australia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cinderella House rides an industrial corner warehouse conversion in Sydney's inner-city suburb of Redfern towards a glorious sunset.</p><p>Built in the early 1900s, it recasts the building's more recent incarnation as a contemporary art gallery with highly minimal residential quarters aloft into "rancho relaxo", given its wild Western flair.</p><p>Cinderella House features flexible co-working zones, meeting rooms and generous break-out spaces above its entry level.</p><p>Combining a kitchen, dining area, lounge room and outdoor entertaining terraces, plus a crash pad for guests, this project is a modern fairytale setting that straddles both domestic and commercial realms.</p></div>
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Voting closes 16 October.

Architectural lighting design

Shanghai Muh Shoou Zhujing Hotel

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<div class="e-intro">Beijing Pro Lighting Design has designed the lighting for the Shanghai Muh Shoou Zhujing Hotel.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The lighting design of Shanghai Muh Shoou Zhujing Hotel redefines light as a gentle medium connecting people, space and nature, aiming to integrate these three elements through luminous narrative.</p><p>With minimal intervention, it creates an immersive, perception-led environment that lets visitors naturally experience the subtle nuances of spatial form, scale and materials.</p><p>The result is the tranquillity of coexisting with nature and achieving physical and mental restoration.</p></div>
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USA Pavilion, Expo 2025 Osaka

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<div class="e-intro">DPA Lighting has designed the lighting for the USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>DPA designed the exterior lighting scheme for the USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka in Japan.</p><p>Designed by Trahan Architects in association with BRC Imagination Arts, ES Global and Alchemy, the pavilion immersed visitors in a vibrant experience, with exhibitions celebrating the country and its iconic vistas and landscapes.</p><p>Located within the Expo's Grand Ring, the pavilion sat between the Forest of Tranquillity and the East Gate Entrance Plaza, serving as a visual gateway for visitors.</p><p>Open, grand, yet minimalistic in form, the architecture drew inspiration from the natural and urban canyons of the USA and traditional Japanese footbridges.</p></div>
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Yerevan TV Tower

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<div class="e-intro">Expolight has designed the Yerevan TV Tower lighting installation.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Expolight has transformed the Yerevan TV Tower into the world's first and largest interactive media art installation on a TV tower.</p><p>A unique long-range laser system, dynamic lighting and a custom-developed application have turned the tower into a living symbol of urban unity.</p><p>Content is generated in real time based on city life data, including traffic flows, temperature, wind and sunset – while every resident and guest of Yerevan can send their personal light message to the universe via the app.</p><p>As a result, the project brings Yerevan to the level of the world's leading capitals.</p></div>
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Cologne Cathedral

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<div class="e-intro">Licht Kunst Licht has designed the lighting for the Cologne Cathedral.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>With over 700 discreet surface-mounted LED luminaires for the Cologne Cathedral and not a single drill hole, this project reduced light pollution from 80 per cent to 10 per cent.</p><p>The concept emphasises depth, rhythm and verticality through grazing, shadow play and backlighting – while presenting the monument as a sculptural icon, offering civic identity and intimate detail.</p><p>The combination of soft backlighting and vertical grazing highlights its soaring traces and pointed arches.</p><p>From near and far, the monument now reads clearly as a sculptural icon, offering both civic identity and intimate detail.</p></div>
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Kettl Sen Mon Ten

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<div class="e-intro">Michael Tower Architecture has designed the Kettl Sen Mon Ten lighting for Kettl Tea.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Kettl Tea partnered with Michael Tower Architecture to create Sen Mon Ten, a Greenpoint cafe devoted entirely to matcha and its ceremonial qualities.</p><p>The design features two interconnected spaces: a bright, tactile public café with smooth concrete, plaster and stone surfaces, balancing refinement with imperfection.</p><p>The second, more intimate private tasting room is centred beneath a glowing suspended wood light feature and a ceremonial matcha mill display.</p><p>Together, the spaces create an immersive journey that reflects both the social and meditative aspects of matcha culture.</p></div>
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China Merchants Shekou Nantong Heyuan

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<div class="e-intro">Music of Architects has designed the lighting for China Merchants Shekou Nantong Heyuan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Inspired by a century-old wisteria, the pavilion's lighting design embraces a philosophy of restrained illumination.</p><p>Custom fixtures are seamlessly concealed within the timber and ceramic crevices, integrating light with architecture.</p><p>Through a subtle internal glow and deliberate unlit blank spaces by the lake, the building is transformed into a breathing lantern at night, creating a warm, narrative-driven environment that harmoniously coexists with nature.</p></div>
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A Collector's Clubhouse

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<div class="e-intro">Orsman Design has designed the lighting for A Collector's Clubhouse.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Composed of video screens, colour-tunable LEDs, luminous ceiling panels and intentional reflections, the lighting design transforms the lower level into a cinematic, immersive environment with a moody 'James Bond' atmosphere.</p><p>Designed around collectable automobiles and group activities, the space shifts easily between a refined gallery setting and a high-energy space for entertaining guests.</p><p>Glossy surfaces amplify light and movement throughout A Collector's Clubhouse – while concealed architectural lighting balances dramatic, saturated moments with softer, more intimate lounges.</p></div>
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Melbourne Metro Tunnel

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<div class="e-intro">Speirs Major Light Architecture and RSHP have designed the new Melbourne Metro Tunnel lighting.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>As Melbourne Metro Tunnel's design evolved, simplified interiors elevated lighting into a defining architectural and civic element across five underground stations: Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac.</p><p>Designed by Speirs Major Light Architecture in collaboration with RSHP, the scheme transitions passengers from natural daylight into carefully curated artificial illumination that shapes orientation and civic identity within vast subterranean spaces.</p><p>The lighting humanises the underground experience by introducing warmth, clarity and a sense of scale.</p><p>Bespoke luminaires balance technical performance with architectural character, creating a distinctly Melburnian transport experience shaped by precision engineering and each station's unique design identity.</p></div>
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Bespoke design

Ark Cabinet

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<div class="e-intro">Adam and Arthur has designed the Ark Cabinet.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Ark Cabinet is a sculptural, museum-grade credenza that translates the tonal depth of a companion painting into a fully immersive object, realised through 20,000 hand-laid rye straw marquetry elements.</p><p>The piece is designed and made in Australia by Adam&amp;Arthur, in collaboration with highly skilled artisans.</p><p>The result is a series of custom-machined solid brass hinges that were developed specifically for the project, enabling the cabinet's complex folding geometry and precise movement.</p></div>
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Exteña Conversational Sofa

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<div class="e-intro">C Cúbica Arquitectos has designed the Exteña Conversational Sofa.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This conversational sofa celebrates Mexican craftsmanship through a seven-month collaboration designed by C Cúbica Arquitectos, in collaboration with Raúl López de la Cerda and woven by 21 artisans from Teotitlán del Valle, led by Josefina Ruiz.</p><p>Conceived as a continuous circular form that encourages gathering and exchange, the piece merges contemporary design with weaving traditions.</p><p>Exteña's geometric textile, created on traditional pedal looms, was naturally dyed in indigo through a community-wide process rooted in Oaxacan heritage.</p><p>Every stage, from dyeing and weaving to upholstery and construction by master craftspeople, was entirely handcrafted, transforming knowledge, cultural memory and mastery into an object.</p></div>
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Rail Clock

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<div class="e-intro">Design Bridge and Partners, with RIBA and The Design Museum, has designed the Rail Clock.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>For over half a century, the UK railway hasn’t had a unified clock design, leaving passengers without a consistent source of time.</p><p>This project introduces Rail Clock: a new face of time for the UK's railway that keeps people punctual and connects millions of travellers daily.</p><p>Created in partnership with RIBA and The Design Museum, the design challenge was to create an accessible, iconic clock that emotionally reconnects the nation with its railway heritage.</p><p>At its core is the iconic Double Arrow symbol, transforming a beloved visual icon into a timeless story across physical stations and digital screens.</p></div>
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Amoreba

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<div class="e-intro">Golem has designed Amoreba, a modular furniture system.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Developed for this unique project, Amoreba transforms a former bedroom into a soft interior landscape for conversation, reading, hospitality and rest.</p><p>With this curator's pit, Ariel André creates a bespoke upholstered surface that settles into the architecture as a communal terrain, bringing a new mode of inhabitation into dialogue with the mid-century interior designed by Jules Wabbes.</p><p>Amoreba is composed of upholstered fabric elements filled with fibres, using locally produced textiles and fillings with a significant proportion of natural materials.</p><p>It was made entirely in France by skilled artisans, under André's design direction, using a dry assembly method with no glue, so the individual components may be separated, repaired and recycled.</p></div>
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Upcycled Pegboard Lamps

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<div class="e-intro">Freitag, in collaboration with Job van den Berg, has designed the Upcycled Pegboard Lamps for its new store interior.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Zurich-based bag maker Freitag collaborates with designer Job van den Berg to give a retired Freitag store interior a new life.</p><p>Old pegboards and hooks used for many years to display Freitag bags and accessories are transformed into a bold collection of one-of-a-kind lamps – colourful, surprising and unmistakably repurposed.</p><p>The pegboards are hand-cut, laser-cut and welded into luminous table, pendant, wall and floor lamps, supplemented by truck tarp leftovers and hooks that hold the lamps.</p><p>This approach has resulted in endless possibilities to move bulbs around – honouring the previous and new life of the pegboard.</p></div>
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Real Time Schiphol People's Clock

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<div class="e-intro">Maarten Baas has designed the Real Time Schiphol People's Clock.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Baas replaces the traditional clock face with a 12-hour video in which 1,000 people collaboratively form the time.</p><p>The hour and minute hands emerge through synchronised movement, while a single runner creates the second hand along the perimeter.</p><p>Each screen shows a continuous sequence of participants physically linked in precise choreography.</p><p>"The clock functions because people literally create the time," said Maarten Baas.</p><p>Filmed in a Schiphol hangar, most volunteers were airport employees, including security staff, baggage handlers, airline crew and cleaners.</p><p>The work is a tribute to the thousands who keep Schiphol running and highlights the airport as, above all, a human place.</p></div>
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Swell Light Installation

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Rootfull has designed the Swell Light installation.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Studio Rootfull bridges the gap between biology and design by guiding plant roots, as they grow, into intricate, coral-like structures.</p><p>Their latest lighting installation, for Irongate's Japanese restaurant, creates a seamless transition between the indoor dining space and the breathtaking vistas of Baja California Sur.</p><p>The root structure acts as a natural diffuser and casts a soft illumination that honours the Japanese appreciation for raw materials.</p><p>As a result, Swell Lights are a physical record of time and growth, captured in the delicate, fossilised lattice of plant roots.</p></div>
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Freeze Frame 82.2

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<div class="e-intro">Unfold has designed the Freeze Frame 82.2 for Design Museum Gent.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Unfold has created a monumental work for DING, the new wing of Design Museum Gent in Belgium.</p><p>Freeze Frame 82.2, a 3D-printed aluminium curtain, is seemingly in motion yet stilled at one precise moment – frame 82.2 – the charged instant just before opening.</p><p>Positioned on the museum's threshold, it forms a soft, almost permeable boundary that doubles as a gateway: revealing by day, concealing by night.</p><p>"Freeze Frame 82.2 mirrors the moment we inhabit, a time of movement and transition, in which design is called upon not only to question but also to help shape what is yet to come," said Unfold.</p></div>
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Collectible design

Sur+Plus

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<div class="e-intro">AtMa has designed Sur+Plus.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Sur+Plus asks how materials that become surplus through systems of production might be received rather than discarded and how coexistence might emerge.</p><p>"Surplus is not accidental; it is embedded within production itself," said AtMa. "Under the ordering system of required quantity and a few per cent, some materials remain unused after construction."</p><p>Using stainless-steel joints, Sur+Plus connects surplus fragments while preserving cracks, chips and traces of time.</p><p>Rather than homogenising materials, Sur+Plus allows different conditions and histories to coexist within collectable furniture objects.</p><p>As a result, this project makes visible what production structures often overlook: the surplus inherently generated through contemporary interior construction processes.</p></div>
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The Inverted Earth: Fugue for Windows

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<div class="e-intro">Aya Kawabata has designed The Inverted Earth: Fugue for Windows textile.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Inverted Earth: Fugue for Windows is a series of one-of-a-kind jacquard textiles by Aya Kawabata.</p><p>This project explores alternative possibilities for contemporary jacquard weaving beyond conventional industrial repeat systems.</p><p>The works use five thread colours, diverse woven structures and integrated selvedges to create layered spatial compositions that challenge the convention of the repeating textile pattern.</p><p>The target audience includes collectors, architects, interior designers, galleries, museums and cultural institutions interested in contemporary craft, textile innovation and collectable design.</p></div>
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Woodstrokes

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<div class="e-intro">Brodie Neill has designed the Woodstrokes furniture collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Woodstrokes is a series of sculptural furniture that transforms discarded timber into fluid, three-dimensional forms.</p><p>The collection utilises irregular veneer offcuts layered into surfaces that pay homage to abstract art and the act of marking time.</p><p>By bonding these fragments with a revolutionary plant-based bio-resin, Neill creates "paintings in wood" where material seams and tonal shifts remain visible, honouring the timber's history.</p><p>As Neill said, "I aim to reveal the potential in what we overlook – transforming waste into thoughtful, refined design."</p><p>As a result, this collection embodies circularity as a design imperative with regeneration at its core.</p></div>
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Flora Lamp II

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<div class="e-intro">Marcin Rusak Studio has designed the Flora Lamp II.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Continuing Marcin Rusak's exploration of nature, time and emotional value, Flora Lamp II builds on the existential tension between living matter and synthetic resin preservation.</p><p>Hand-composed from locally sourced botanical waste and suspended within amber-like translucent resin, each unique work captures a fleeting moment as if in a contemporary herbarium.</p><p>Light – both artificial and natural – becomes an active ingredient, revealing dramatic depths, vivid colours and fragile floral structures.</p><p>Creating an intimate aura that subtly resonates with its surroundings, each piece transforms ephemeral remnants into a rare atmospheric presence – reflecting humanity's enduring impulse to preserve fragile life against time.</p></div>
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Press Furniture Series (PFS)

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<div class="e-intro">Masaya Kawamoto Design has designed the Press Furniture Series (PFS).</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This collectable series explores the design potential of compressing stainless-steel pipes.</p><p>While round pipes are typically used as structural elements in furniture, this project treats flattening as a deliberate design gesture, transforming cylindrical forms into structural surfaces that define both function and identity.</p><p>The Press Furniture Series spans furniture and objects of different scales, including chairs, tables, lighting and small objects, forming a unified design language.</p><p>Surface finishes combine mirror polishing with an experimental salt bath colouring process that creates oxide layers on stainless steel, producing subtle hues and unique patterns without pigments or coatings.</p></div>
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De-goose

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<div class="e-intro">Personal Studio has designed De-goose.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>De-goose is an experimental furniture series by Personal Studio and its founder, Woojin Park, that reinterprets the industrial gooseneck as a primary structural element.</p><p>This project develops a reconfigurable system spanning chairs, plinths and spatial elements by combining flexible joints with rigid structures.</p><p>Through variations in angle, placement and connection, forms and uses evolve in response to material behaviour, spatial conditions and user interaction, positioning furniture as an adaptable system rather than a fixed object.</p></div>
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Lima Charlie

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Laurids Gallée has designed the Lima Charlie lighting collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Lima Charlie brings together five hand-cast resin light works and machined aluminium pieces, presented as a solo exhibition at Objects With Narratives.</p><p>The title references radio shorthand for "loud and clear", framing transmission as both subject and structure.</p><p>Light is captured within tinted resin volumes and reshaped through refraction, shifting as the viewer moves through the space.</p><p>Forms inspired by satellite dishes and antenna masts are paired with aluminium studies in support and infrastructure, where brackets and suspension hardware remain visible.</p><p>The exhibition expands Laurids Gallée's ongoing investigation into resin as an architectural material for shaping light.</p></div>
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Mano Edition

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<div class="e-intro">Tom Fereday has designed the Mano Edition series.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Mano represents a celebration of the unique, enduring beauty of hand-cast recycled glass in the form of unique cast glass breeze blocks.</p><p>Presented as a limited edition series of sculptural tables comprised of 50 per cent recycled glass, cast by hand, resulting in a raw, unique textured lustre.</p><p>Through the hand-cast process, each piece is unique, with ripples and variation derived from the pouring process of glass.</p><p>As a result, the modular forms act to celebrate the purity of the material and unique optical properties of glass through an intricate modular building block.</p></div>
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ADP Bench

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<div class="e-intro">Spacon and +Halle have collaborated on the design of ADP Bench.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The ADP Bench, created by Copenhagen-based studio Spacon in collaboration with +Halle, explores how subtle behavioural triggers can encourage interaction in public spaces.</p><p>Inspired by research from the University of Southern Denmark, the bench uses a graphic line and adjustable swivel seats to invite users to instinctively align, rearrange and personalise the furniture.</p><p>Combining seating and table functions, the bench adapts to changing social needs, from solo work to group interaction.</p><p>Rather than relying on gimmicks, the ADP Bench promotes intuitive play, ownership and communication, demonstrating how thoughtful design can shape behaviour and spark social engagement in everyday public environments.</p></div>
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Dado Series

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<div class="e-intro">Allen Kaufmann Objects has designed the Dado Series.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Dado Series is a family of tool-free solid timber furniture by Allen Kaufmann Objects, the object-design branch of the Berlin architecture studio Allen Kaufmann Architekten.</p><p>The series includes shelving systems and the Dado x Table, based on a patented interlocking joinery system by Justin Allen and presented at Berlin Design Week 2026.</p><p>Each piece assembles without screws, glue, metal fittings, or tools, using precisely milled timber components that slide and lock together.</p><p>Built from a limited set of repeatable parts, the system transforms a single jointing principle into diverse furniture typologies, treating furniture as architecture at a smaller scale.</p></div>
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Sail Table by Tom Fereday for Design By Them

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<div class="e-intro">Tom Fereday has designed the Sail Table for Design By Them.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>An ode to the beauty and resilience of aluminium, the Sail Table combines formed sheet metal alongside triangulated profiles for a table collection that is both architectural and light.</p><p>Utilitarian in approach yet considered in detail, the design leverages the structural strength of formed aluminium – while remaining soft and inviting, particularly where the base meets the tabletop.</p><p>Rustproof and built for versatility, Sail works equally well indoors and out, across dining rooms, meeting rooms and outdoor settings.</p><p>Sail Table is available in three sizes and three finishes, including hand-burnished aluminium, textured bone and textured bronze.</p></div>
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Junnuo

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<div class="e-intro">Yabu Pushelberg has designed Junnuo for HC28 Maison.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Junnuo is a dining table developed by Yabu Pushelberg for HC28 Maison that interprets architectural principles through furniture design.</p><p>Inspired by the structural logic of traditional Chinese timber architecture, the table translates the relationship between columns and beams into a sculptural composition of stacked cylindrical forms and a horizontal structural element.</p><p>The base structure expresses strength and rhythm, while maintaining visual balance, bringing a quiet architectural presence into everyday life.</p><p>Rounded volumes soften the rigour of structural geometry, creating a dialogue between rational order and emotional warmth.</p></div>
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Wa Side Table

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<div class="e-intro">Noo.ma and Cono Studio have collaborated on the design of the Wa Side Table.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Wa is a side table that adds a modern twist to interiors of every kind, designed in collaboration with Cono Studio, a Milanese trio focused on elevating day-to-day life with thoughtfully designed objects.</p><p>Wa's extremely minimal form creates an expressive, dynamic design: engineered for maximum material efficiency, it comprises just four steel elements, with dimensions optimised to be cut from a single steel sheet.</p><p>Bent, welded and powder-coated, the Wa Side Table is airy in appearance and surprisingly robust in use.</p><p>Available in five colour options, Wa works equally well as a practical side table beside a sofa or as a nightstand.</p></div>
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Circulari

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<div class="e-intro">Pablo Castillo Design and Carlos Jiménez Design have designed Circulari, a children's furniture collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Circulari is a collection of children's furniture designs with a pioneering circular economy system that focuses on sustainability and functionality in homes with children.</p><p>The design features a genuine aesthetic with a unique formal language that avoids the 'childish' label and focuses on pieces for everyday life.</p><p>The Circulari system allows the furniture to be returned when no longer needed, to be artisanally remanufactured with the same quality as new, promoting multiple life cycles.</p><p>Circulari is produced locally using renewable energy, native solid wood and water-based varnish, in flat-pack format.</p><p>Its design is intended to accompany daily life, promoting children's autonomy and family wellbeing.</p></div>
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Museum Trolley

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<div class="e-intro">TAF Studio has designed the Museum Trolley for String Furniture.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>String Furniture unveils a new edition of its iconic and longstanding Museum Collection – the Museum Trolley.</p><p>Designed by the Stockholm-based design and architecture practice, TAF Studio, the Museum Trolley launches in June 2026 at Copenhagen's 3daysofdesign festival.</p><p>The Trolley continues the distinctly functional design and solid build that runs through the entire five-edition Museum Collection, seamlessly pairing flexibility with a refined Scandinavian aesthetic.</p><p>Founded by Gabriella Lenke and Mattias Ståhlbom, TAF Studio designed the original Museum Collection for Sweden's National Museum of Fine Arts, which reopened in 2018.</p></div>
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Mast Shelving System

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Ville Auvinen has designed the Mast Shelving System.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Mast is a modular shelving and storage system built around a floor-to-ceiling compression structure.</p><p>Shelves, desks and storage elements attach to vertical wooden masts, allowing the system to adapt to different spaces and uses over time.</p><p>The construction keeps the structural logic visible and understandable, making assembly, modification and repair straightforward.</p><p>Designed for local CNC manufacturing and flat-pack transportation, the Mast system aims to combine long-term usability with efficient production and reduced material waste.</p><p>Mast can function as shelving, workspace, a room divider or entrance storage, depending on its configuration.</p></div>
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The Lego Group's Boston Hub

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<div class="e-intro">Acrylicize has designed the navigation system for the Lego Group's Boston Hub.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Acrylicize has designed a three-dimensional navigational system for the Lego Group's 157,000-square-foot, six-floor workplace in Boston's Back Bay – one that draws entirely from the visual and structural language of the Lego brick.</p><p>Scaled-up interlocking brick forms serve as directional markers, room identifiers and floor indicators: sculptural, immediately legible and familiar to almost anyone on the planet.</p><p>"This is a wayfinding system that refuses to separate navigation from narrative where finding your way through the building is, itself, part of the experience," said Acrylicize.</p></div>
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Wayfinding as a Visual Mantra Signage

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<div class="e-intro">Atelier Andrea Gassner has designed the Wayfinding as a Visual Mantra signage for the Education Center Kössen.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Atelier Andrea Gassner designed the signage system for a building developed by Pedevilla Architects.</p><p>The system reinterprets traditional regional cross-stitch: first visible as 'stitched' lettering in the deep entrance canopy, then continued through custom typography, numerals and icons in pearl copper.</p><p>Milled into wood, set against warm lime plaster and activated by light and shadow, the signage connects narrative, materiality and architecture in a new way.</p></div>
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Ensemble Prize Certificates 2025

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<div class="e-intro">Jäger&amp;Jäger has designed the Ensemble Prize Certificates 2025 for the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation has introduced a new sponsorship award: every year, two ensembles will be supported in their further artistic and structural development.</p><p>The individual sequences of this animation are used in turn, for example, in the design of the certificates as a superimposed code.</p><p>The visual language is created by combining performance and rehearsal photos of the two award-winning ensembles.</p><p>The two Ensemble '26 awards go to the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn and No Hay Banda from Montreal.</p></div>
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V&A East Storehouse

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<div class="e-intro">Fieldwork Facility has designed the V&amp;A East Storehouse experience.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The V&amp;A East Storehouse is a new type of immersive museum experience that makes the V&amp;A's stored collections radically accessible.</p><p>"We approached the V&amp;A's radical new outpost with an outlandish question: What if we approach V&amp;A East Storehouse as if it's software?" said Fieldwork Facility.</p><p>Visitors are invited behind the scenes into a working museum environment and offered unprecedented public access to 250,000 objects, 350,000 books and 1,000 archives across 16,000 square metres.</p><p>As a result, V&amp;A East aims to create an experience that welcomes, resonates and engages a younger, diverse and underserved audience.</p></div>
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Driscoll Children's Hospital

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<div class="e-intro">Formation has designed a new signage system for Driscoll Children's Hospital.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Formation has developed a comprehensive wayfinding and environmental graphics system for Driscoll Children's Hospital.</p><p>This project involves research into existing wayfinding challenges, as well as the institutional and regional culture of South Texas.</p><p>This knowledge informed a refreshed naming system for buildings and parking lots, a reworked signage program that integrates with playful environmental graphics and corresponding printed materials to enhance both the patient and operational experience.</p></div>
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Song Mountain Tea

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<div class="e-intro">Lin Shaobin Design has designed the Mountain Tea packaging for Song.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Created for the high-end Song Dynasty-themed restaurant Song, this packaging for high-altitude roasted tea features an original teacup-shaped paper structure.</p><p>With hot stamping, ink-free printing and eco-materials, it blends simplicity with Song tea elegance, embodying the brand's luxury and cultural essence through practical, culturally rich design.</p><p>"The design solves the pain points of traditional tea packaging, such as monotonous form, rigid cultural expression and lack of experience," said Lin Shaobin Design.</p><p>As a result, the design realises the integration of structural innovation, visual appreciation and fun with minimalist craftsmanship, endowing the packaging with unique creative value and experience in a brand-new way.</p></div>
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LivinUp SeiMilano

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<div class="e-intro">Migliore+Servetto has designed the environmental graphics for LivinUp SeiMilano.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project transforms the wayfinding for the SeiMilano district into a cornerstone of urban identity: an inclusive, dynamic visual language that provides orientation while generating a deep sense of community.</p><p>Through this intervention – which encompasses the entire graphic apparatus, from orientation maps to a custom-designed icon set – the studio promotes a new form of hospitality, establishing an open dialogue with a multi-generational community.</p><p>The intervention aims to transform the urban signage system into a true visual punctuation: a polychrome narrative that accompanies residents and visitors, defining an evocative landscape perceptible even from a distance.</p></div>
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The Whale

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<div class="e-intro">Schnitler&amp;Co has designed the visual identity of The Whale.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Whale is a new knowledge and experience centre in Andenes, Northern Norway, opening in June 2027, told through science, art, storytelling, sound and architecture.</p><p>The iconic building by architect Dorte Mandrup, designed as a vibrant meeting place, invites exploration, reflection and learning about essential topics related to the ocean and whales.</p><p>"The task was to develop a visual identity for The Whale that could capture and communicate the project's core idea: the world's most meaningful encounter between humans and whales," said Schnitler&amp;Co.</p><p>"The solution is built around a single, unifying concept, 'The Encounter', inspired by the moment a whale breaks the surface."</p><p>The result is an identity that is both conceptually grounded and highly adaptable, capable of expressing The Whale across platforms while consistently reinforcing the idea of encounter.</p></div>
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Ninho Globo

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<div class="e-intro">Atelier YokYok has designed Ninho Globo.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Ninho Globo is a monumental, hand-built sphere set in the windswept landscape of Salvaterra-do-Extremo, Portugal.</p><p>Crafted from local black schist and granite, it evokes celestial bodies, nests and the geological memory of the land.</p><p>The artwork invites a direct, physical encounter, questioning the human relationship with habitat, the common good and the passage of time – all while bridging local history and contemporary artistic practice.</p></div>
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Einder for USB002 Tour by Boris Acket x Fred Again

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<div class="e-intro">Boris Acket has designed Einder for the Fred Again USB002 Tour.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Boris Acket has developed a touring adaptation of his installation Einder for Fred Again's USB002 world tour.</p><p>Suspended above the dance floor, the 20m×60m work is composed of fabric, motors, custom software and light design, forming a responsive environment shaped by air, heat, gravity and audience presence.</p><p>Unlike earlier site-specific versions, this iteration is nomadic – continuously installed, dismantled and recalibrated to diverse venues, climates and regulations.</p><p>As a result, each presentation becomes unique, transforming the performance space into a living system that evolves in real time with its surroundings and visitors.</p></div>
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Human Perches

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<div class="e-intro">Daily Tous Les Jours has designed Human Perches (Perchoirs Pour Humains), in collaboration with Keiko Devaux.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Punctuating the boardwalk of a birds-of-prey sanctuary, this project's interactive human-sized perches compose a sonic narrative of the forest's inhabitants.</p><p>"Perching calls for a moment of presence and suspension, engaging a new form of active listening," said Daily Tous Les Jours.</p><p>"Once the perches fall silent again, visitors can hear new layers of sound from the forest."</p><p>Created in collaboration with internationally acclaimed composer Keiko Devaux, the 10 interactive perches play a layered and evolving soundscape that reveals the dynamics that animate the surrounding ecosystem and the changing soundscape of local birdlife.</p></div>
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Ghost Orchid

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<div class="e-intro">Marcin Rusak Studio has designed Ghost Orchid.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Ghost Orchid is a site-specific installation presented within the abandoned Pasino glasshouses near Villa Bagatti-Valsecchi in Milan.</p><p>Combining sculptural works, living plants and material research, this project transformed the former orchid greenhouse into an immersive environment exploring preservation, collecting, disappearance and regeneration.</p><p>Developed in collaboration with the Łukasiewicz Research Network Institute for Engineering of Polymer Materials and Dyes, the installation presented biodegradable 3D-printed sculptures alongside ongoing research into controlled PLA decomposition systems.</p><p>Premiered at Alcova 2025, Ghost Orchid proposed an alternative material lifecycle in which objects are conceived together with their biological afterlife, rather than designed solely for permanence.</p></div>
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Bouwurk

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<div class="e-intro">Overtreders W has designed Bouwurk.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>In the summer of 2025, Overtreders W built Bouwurk next to the Oldehove – Leeuwarden's famously leaning medieval tower.</p><p>Bouwurk is a cruciform structure of warm timber frames, colourful sails of retired hot-air balloon fabric and knitted wool panels, built with over 5,000 Frisian residents, craftspeople and businesses with local salvaged materials.</p><p>Standing for 70 days as a place for gathering, making, dancing, debating and celebration, the programme – entirely shaped by the community – turned a building into a summer.</p><p>When it ended, the structure was dismantled and every element was catalogued for reuse.</p></div>
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Myriad Cloud

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<div class="e-intro">Pills has designed Myriad Cloud.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Myriad Cloud is a public installation located at the entrance of Dongguan Mixc Village, a seafront commercial destination.</p><p>Acting as a gateway landmark, the cloud transforms the entrance into a dynamic spatial experience that combines movement, atmosphere and narrative.</p><p>Inspired by a fictional voyage following a mysterious cloud to an unknown island, Myriad Cloud serves as the opening chapter of a broader site-wide narrative, introducing visitors to an immersive slow-retail environment where architecture, landscape and emotion intersect.</p></div>
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Limbo Engawa

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<div class="e-intro">Taelon7 has designed Limbo Engawa for the Limbo Museum.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Limbo Engawa is a site-specific installation in Accra, Ghana, commissioned by Limbo Museum and Art Omi.</p><p>Occupying the threshold between unfinished concrete structure and cultivated urban farmland, this project transforms overlooked spatial conditions into spaces for gathering, rest and exchange.</p><p>Inspired by woven daybeds commonly found on West African construction sites, the installation translates an everyday object into civic infrastructure.</p><p>Lightweight modular frames made from galvanised steel and salvaged billboard material create shaded spaces for farmers, caretakers and museum visitors – while proposing a reusable, adaptable architectural system shaped by informal urban practices.</p></div>
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Pentad

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<div class="e-intro">UHA has designed Pentad.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>In this project, UHA challenges the notion that "parliaments today are fortified spaces, monofunctional, inaccessible and largely devoid of public ownership" through antithesis, where the Pentad pavilion becomes about observation, participation, and belonging.</p><p>It experiments with wrapping, overlapping and stacking the five modes of parliamentary meeting within a single, reconfigurable pavilion.</p><p>A hidden system of talk tubes is woven through its structure, inviting visitors to listen, eavesdrop and interrupt, disrupting segregation and urging intergenerational interaction.</p><p>Pentad is both parliament and playground; it is a temporary installation with lasting cultural ambition, returning civic space to the people it was always meant to serve.</p></div>
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93

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<div class="e-intro">Bocci Design has designed the 93 lighting series.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>93 is an exploration of the volatile behaviour of aluminium as it meets glass and air. Created in the glass studio through the direct pouring of molten aluminium into a heated glass vessel, 93 foregrounds a visceral interaction between metal and glass.</p><p>As the glassblower moves and responds, the aluminium flows across the interior surface, leaving visible pathways that record the material’s movement in real time.</p><p>What remains is a contained articulation of material behaviour, made visible through heat, pressure and movement and suspended within the glass.</p><p>The resulting forms are both sculptural and documentary, preserving a moment of pressure, heat and transformation.</p></div>
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Cast | Wästberg

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<div class="e-intro">Foster + Partners has designed Cast for Wästberg.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed in collaboration with Wästberg, the Swedish lighting manufacturer, Cast is a compact spotlight system defined by a magnetic, interchangeable lens that allows light to be angled with precision and ease.</p><p>"The name Cast refers both to the high-pressure aluminium die-casting manufacturing process and to the quality of light it produces," said Foster + Partners.</p><p>Within the spotlight typology, often shaped by exposed mechanics and technical expression, Cast integrates performance and engineering into a single, coherent volume using soft geometry, controlled proportions and concealed mechanics without compromising on performance.</p></div>
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Nova

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<div class="e-intro">Esben Bala Skouboe has designed Nova for Frandsen.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Nova is a sculptural pendant lamp designed by Esben Bala Skouboe for Frandsen that combines design, mathematics and the aesthetics of nature.</p><p>Inspired by the golden ratio and the harmonious patterns found in galaxies, flowers and seashells, the lamp consists of eight spiralling cones that together form a poetic and harmonious ensemble.</p><p>Nova stands as a work of art, providing not only light but also a visual sculpture that engages and captivates the viewer, even when unlit.</p><p>As a result, the design challenges traditional notions of lighting by combining function, form and mathematical precision into an elegant yet dramatic whole.</p></div>
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Gambosa

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<div class="e-intro">Mathias Hahn has designed Gambosa for Marset.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Gambosa reinterprets the traditional table lamp as a balanced sculptural object. Designed by Mathias Hahn for Marset, its steel composition simplifies the classic shade, stem and base into harmonious geometric forms that appear delicately disconnected.</p><p>The curved shade seems to float above a flat circular base, creating a dynamic sense of equilibrium.</p><p>A carefully curated palette of colours and finishes allows combinations ranging from restrained and subtle to bold and expressive, turning each lamp into a distinctive visual composition.</p><p>The result is a product that combines accessibility, longevity and strong visual identity – while offering a fresh interpretation of what a contemporary table lamp can be.</p></div>
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Port Onyx

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<div class="e-intro">Tom Fereday has designed the Port Onyx light for Rakumba.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Handmade in Australia, Port Onyx was developed by Sydney-based designer Tom Fereday in collaboration with Australian lighting brand Rakumba.</p><p>Port Onyx is an exploration of the beauty and nuance of solid stone in the form of a unique reversible table and wall light collection.</p><p>Intricately machined from solid onyx and housed in a solid aluminium base, the light may be reversed simply by flipping the body, providing two varied moods and light interactions.</p><p>Through a modular base, the Port Onyx light was developed to accommodate a minimal table light and wall light option.</p></div>
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Hoop Table Lamp

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<div class="e-intro">John Tree has designed the Hoop Table Lamp for Vaarnii.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Hefty solid pine and fine veneer contrast and combine in the Hoop Table Lamp, developed by John Tree for Vaarnii.</p><p>The solid wood base acts as a naturally robust anchor, holding everything firmly in place – while a minimal band of pine veneer serves as the shade, softly filtering light.</p><p>The lamp base begins as a knot-free block of solid timber carefully machined to accommodate and conceal electrical components.</p><p>The shade is made from high-quality veneer purposefully cut to reveal a characterful grain. Simple yet painstakingly engineered, monolithic yet delicate, Hoop is effortless and essential.</p></div>
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Closer

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<div class="e-intro">Ichiro Iwasaki has designed Closer for Vibia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed for proximity, subtle presence and visual lightness, Closer complements welcoming outdoor spaces; its delicate shade is made from a braided textile that appears to inflate into spherical forms.</p><p>"The brief focused on creating a versatile, portable solution capable of accompanying everyday life across residential and hospitality settings, fostering a sense of proximity, comfort and calm," said Ichiro Iwasaki.</p><p>The collection is aimed at users who value flexible, human-centred lighting that supports relaxed, intimate atmospheres and adapts to different moments and environments.</p><p>By combining flexibility, material resilience and refined light quality, Closer offers an original response to contemporary living, where light moves naturally between spaces and moments.</p></div>
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So-Colored

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<div class="e-intro">We+ and Algal Bio have collaborated on the So-Colored light.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>So-Colored is a pendant light by We+, developed in collaboration with Algal Bio to explore microalgae as a colour source in design.</p><p>Microalgae harbour a rich diversity of colour – not only green but vivid reds, yellows and blues depending on species and growth conditions – yet their chromatic potential remains largely unexplored.</p><p>The light is formed from a nature-derived translucent resin blended with microalgae pigment powder, held within a minimal stainless-steel frame.</p><p>As light passes through, the pigments reveal a warmth and depth that synthetic dyes cannot replicate – colour that carries the complexity of living matter.</p></div>
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Oyster Terrazzo

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<div class="e-intro">Besley &amp; Spresser has designed Oyster Terrazzo.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Oyster Terrazzo is a new architectural material developed over 18 months of research and testing in Australia.</p><p>It combines whole Sydney Rock Oyster shells with ochres, recycled aggregates and various admixtures to produce a durable, visually complex cladding which can withstand a marine environment.</p><p>When honed, the material expresses the distinctive and variegated forms of the shell, captured in various states of rotation.</p><p>The material was first developed for the Pier Pavilion on Sydney Harbour, where approximately 500,000 shells were used, where it has since been exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria and shortlisted for the Australian Furniture Design Prize.</p></div>
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Datecrete

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<div class="e-intro">Datecrete Studio and Lab FZC have designed Datecrete.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Datecrete is a patent-pending, cement-free, resin- and petrochemical-free architectural material made from waste date pits intercepted from the food industry, combined with an innovative binder system and transformed into tiles, cladding, furniture and architectural objects.</p><p>This project's focus is not only to substitute one material for another, but to demonstrate how local agricultural waste can become part of a serious architectural material language.</p><p>Developed in the UAE, Datecrete rethinks an abundant regional byproduct in the MENA region as a high-value building material.</p><p>As a result, Datecrete can be produced as floor and wall tiles, cladding, furniture, lighting elements and smaller design objects.</p></div>
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Mimmik Tile

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<div class="e-intro">Front has designed the Mimmik Tile for Biomason.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed by Front and produced by Biomason using Zymecrete technology, Mimmik Tile is the first flooring tile grown with the help of bacteria and now manufactured on an industrial scale.</p><p>Inspired by coral, one of nature's most durable structures, the technology uses bacteria to bind carbon and calcium into a biologically formed material.</p><p>The result is a strong, durable tile that performs to the standard of conventional alternatives – while cutting carbon emissions by at least 60 per cent.</p></div>
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Agrocrete

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<div class="e-intro">GreenJams has designed Agrocrete.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Agrocrete is a carbon-negative structural bio-concrete made from agricultural residues and industrial by-products.</p><p>Designed to replace conventional bricks and blocks, it combines structural strength with superior thermal insulation, reducing both embodied and operational carbon in buildings.</p><p>The product is made from agricultural residues such as rice straw, combined with industrial by-products, mineral fillers, ground slags and a proprietary blend of alkali salts.</p><p>Through an advanced mineralisation process, biogenic carbon from the agricultural fibres is permanently locked into the material matrix, making Agrocrete carbon-negative.</p><p>By permanently mineralising biogenic carbon within the material matrix, Agrocrete transforms buildings into carbon sinks – while integrating seamlessly into mainstream construction practices.</p></div>
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Other Matter Leather

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<div class="e-intro">Other Matter has designed Other Matter Leather.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Globally, fewer than 10 per cent of all plastic ever produced has been recycled, because the economics of reprocessing rarely justify the value of the output: Other Matter Leather is designed to invert that logic.</p><p>Debuting at Melbourne Design Week 2026, Other Matter Leather is a furniture-grade upholstery surface made entirely from offcuts and returned end-of-life OM Signage Film – Other Matter's own algae-derived, non-petrochemical signage material.</p><p>It is the first product of a complete circular system in which signage is manufactured, used, returned and reformed into upholstery with no material exiting the loop.</p></div>
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Basic Third by Pretty Plastic

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<div class="e-intro">Pretty Plastic has designed the Basic Third facade.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Basic Third transforms post-consumer rigid PVC from construction waste streams into a demountable facade tile.</p><p>The material, sourced from old window frames, gutters and downspouts, is mechanically processed and injection-moulded without additional binders or composites.</p><p>By using recycled PVC as opposed to virgin PVC, a lightly marbled surface where each tile has individual character is created.</p><p>As a result, the 30cm modular width aligns with standard building grids and the mono-material design ensures full recyclability at end of life.</p><p>The system debuted on Wageningen's Plus Ultra III, wrapping the Netherlands' first timber laboratory building in 30,987kg of upcycled plastic.</p></div>
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Loopglue

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<div class="e-intro">We+, Hakuten and Cemedine have designed Loopglue.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Loopglue is a seaweed-derived adhesive co-developed by We+, event production company Hakuten and adhesive manufacturer Cemedine.</p><p>Used in exhibition booth woodwork to bond paper facing to wooden panels during construction, Loopglue releases cleanly with water during disassembly – enabling wooden panel reuse without residue or surface damage.</p><p>Conventional adhesives make separation difficult, forcing most exhibition components into single-use waste: Loopglue inverts this by incorporating disassembly into the design of the adhesion itself.</p><p>Based on sodium alginate extracted from seaweed, Loopglue achieves bond strength equivalent to conventional wallpaper adhesives – while remaining fully water-soluble, proposing a new ecosystem where making and returning coexist.</p></div>
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Soft Wood-Based Washbasin Collection

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<div class="e-intro">Woodio has refined a series of wood-based washbasins for its Soft collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Woodio renewed its Soft washbasin collection in Spring 2025, with the renewed basin models made from the brand's proprietary material, a waterproof and lightweight wood composite that combines wood chips with bio-based resin.</p><p>The new colours, Earth, Sand and Coal, launched at the same time with the basin models, are derived from a fine mix of Finnish spruce and pine, originating from the forest industry's sidestreams – waste that would otherwise end up burnt.</p><p>As a result, the washbasins have up to 80 per cent lower carbon footprint than comparable traditional ceramic basins.</p></div>
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Mood

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<div class="e-intro">AF Design Lab has designed Mood.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Mood is a stainless-steel faucet collection by AF Design Lab as part of the DaVinci Collection.</p><p>Precision-machined from stainless steel, the collection moves beyond chrome-plated brass to prioritise durability, clean geometry and long-term material integrity.</p><p>Designed for architects and designers specifying refined residential, hospitality and commercial interiors, Mood offers a highly adaptable system without compromising performance or durability.</p><p>Its design language shifts through a wide range of brushed, polished and PVD finishes, from satin stainless to gunmetal black, British gold, copper bronze and warm bronze – along with multiple handle variations, including smooth, notched, indented, rounded, cross-knurled and linear-notched details.</p><p>The result is a cohesive faucet collection with a meaningful range: adaptable in expression, consistent in quality and built for long-term use.</p></div>
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Massicci

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<div class="e-intro">Marco Zito has designed Massicci for Agape.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Crafted from 18kg of solid glass fused at over 1,200º, Massicci captures the natural irregularities of its formation, giving it a dynamic texture and a unique interaction with light and water.</p><p>Unlike blown glass, solid glass absorbs and refracts light, producing ever-changing reflections and an unexpected sense of depth.</p><p>A tribute to the material itself, Massicci embraces glass's raw beauty and expressive potential, staying true to Agape's commitment to material experimentation.</p><p>The name, meaning 'solid' and 'authentic', reflects its essence – an elemental yet powerful presence.</p></div>
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The Tembo Collection

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<div class="e-intro">Apaiser and Yoo Studio have designed The Tembo Collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Translating as 'elephant' in Swahili, Tembo is defined by a sense of quiet strength and grounded presence.</p><p>Each piece is conceived as both object and anchor – balancing sculptural clarity with a quiet sense of restraint, inviting thoughtful interaction; Tembo approaches bathware through a more considered spatial lens.</p><p>Elongated silhouettes, continuous curves and grounded bases create a sense of permanence, while softly sculpted forms enhance the sensory experience of bathing – reinforcing moments of pause, restoration and daily ritual.</p><p>The collection includes two bathtubs, three basins and a bath stool, each handcrafted in the Apaiser atelier by master artisans.</p></div>
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Modello I

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<div class="e-intro">Emmesteel has designed Modello I.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Emmesteel's Modello I is an advanced heating system that goes beyond the traditional towel warmer, transforming it into a liquid-free heating appliance.</p><p>Based on dry technology, it offers maximum design flexibility thanks to its 360° rotation and modular architecture.</p><p>At the heart of the system is the digital heat controller, which can be integrated into the architecture or installed remotely, intelligently managing energy flows and temperature regulation.</p><p>Connected to a web platform and designed to meet eco-design criteria, I-Model combines engineering, digital technology and sustainability into an aesthetic, functional solution for contemporary architecture.</p></div>
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GROHE Spa AquaTree Collection

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<div class="e-intro">Grohe has designed the GROHE Spa AquaTree collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The GROHE Spa AquaTree collection revolutionises the bond between product design and the built environment.</p><p>By overcoming traditional tooling limits, advanced 3D printing 'grows' organic, biophilic forms.</p><p>Featuring an outdoor shower and a ceiling-suspended faucet with dual water sources (laminar and skincare-fountain flows), the collection blends absolute precision with profound sensory appeal.</p><p>By transforming standard hardware into a sculptural masterpiece, the GROHE Spa AquaTree collection moves people emotionally while elevating daily rituals.</p></div>
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Dekoda by Kohler Health

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<div class="e-intro">Kohler Health has designed Dekoda, a toilet-mounted health tracking device.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>By combining discreet, intuitive design with breakthrough health technology, Kohler Health's Dekoda transforms a user's everyday bathroom routine into a powerful moment of proactive care.</p><p>Dekoda empowers users to track changes in gut health, hydration and the presence of blood in the toilet bowl, allowing them to draw meaningful conclusions about what factors influence their personal gut health.</p><p>By transforming bathroom data into actionable intelligence, each use of Dekoda unlocks deeper health insights that become the building blocks for sustainable, personalised healthy routines.</p></div>
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Oltre

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<div class="e-intro">Meneghello Paolelli has designed Oltre for Cesana.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Oltre is a modular shower system designed by Meneghello Paolelli for Cesana, conceived as an architectural interpretation of the bathroom space.</p><p>This project redefines the traditional shower enclosure through a clean, essential and highly flexible system, where structure and transparency work together to create spatial continuity.</p><p>Profiles, glass panels and functional elements are integrated into a coherent design language that reduces visual complexity and enhances lightness.</p><p>Oltre allows multiple configurations, adapting to different spatial contexts – while maintaining a strong and recognisable architectural identity.</p></div>
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Aerra Haze by Vallone

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<div class="e-intro">Pierre Neirinckx has designed Aerra Haze by Vallone.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Aerra Haze by Vallone is a wall-mounted washbasin ensemble that combines natural stone and stainless steel within a clear architectural composition.</p><p>A monolithic basin in Tundra Grey marble meets a vertically aligned stainless steel mirror, defined by a gradient that shifts from soft diffusion to sharp reflection.</p><p>Basin, mirror and the hydroprogressive Aerra Tap are conceived as a unified system, precisely aligned to create a calm, reduced presence.</p><p>Contrasting materials and refined surfaces interact to form a balanced composition, where function, perception and materiality are brought into a cohesive spatial expression.</p></div>
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Bora S Pure Matte

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<div class="e-intro">Bora has designed Bora S Pure Matte.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Bora S Pure in a matte finish is a next-generation 60cm induction cooktop combining refined aesthetics with intelligent performance.</p><p>The new matte surface resists fingerprints and scratches, supporting a clean, durable kitchen environment.</p><p>Advanced features include Fry Assist, Boil Assist, auto-pan detection and automatic extractor control for precise cooking with minimal input.</p><p>A centrally positioned tri-colour touch display provides intuitive control – while integration with the Bora Joy app enables connected, personalised cooking experiences.</p><p>Designed for compact spaces, Bora S Pure Matte retains full functionality, quiet operation and seamless extraction performance.</p></div>
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Yoto Mini

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<div class="e-intro">Heirloom has designed the Yoto Mini.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Yoto Mini has no screen, no phone, no AI and no interruption – just immersive sound, rich storytelling and the joy of choosing what comes next.</p><p>The Mini supports truly independent listening with up to 1,000 hours of storage and Bluetooth for wireless headphones.</p><p>To ensure better on-the-go performance, this new Yoto Mini adds improved durability, water resistance, a green dial to access all on-player content and a softer, more holdable design.</p><p>The result is a screen-free experience that feels magical for kids and effortless for parents – fast, intuitive and fun.</p></div>
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Pedal 4

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<div class="e-intro">Minimal has designed Pedal 4.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Governed by a strict philosophy of functional minimalism, the Pedal 4 replaces the conventional van with a four-wheeled, zero-emission mobility solution.</p><p>"Cities are paralysed by inefficient commercial vans," said Minimal. "To decarbonise urban logistics, the industry requires a radical architectural shift."</p><p>"Engineered in our London microfactory, we reimagined cargo geometry, eliminating traditional drivetrains and drastically reducing part counts, to create an ultra-serviceable ecosystem."</p><p>Blending an exposed zinc-coated steel frame with native fleet telemetry, the Pedal 4 distils urban logistics to its smartest, most responsible essentials, proving humans can move more with less.</p></div>
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Novy Undercover

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<div class="e-intro">Novy and Cosentino have collaborated on the design of Novy Undercover.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Novy Undercover is an invisible induction hob fully integrated into a 20mm Dekton worktop, developed in collaboration with Cosentino.</p><p>Designed to eliminate visual clutter, it allows users to cook directly on the surface without visible zones or hardware.</p><p>The system combines high-performance induction technology with a durable, heat-resistant material, creating a seamless, multifunctional workspace.</p><p>When inactive, the hob disappears entirely, transforming the kitchen into a calm, uninterrupted environment for cooking, dining or working.</p><p>By merging appliance and architecture into one continuous plane, Novy Undercover rethinks the role of the kitchen in contemporary living.</p></div>
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Caligra C100 Developer Terminal

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<div class="e-intro">Pentagram Design has designed the Caligra C100 Developer Terminal for Caligra.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>New computer company Caligra believes the world needs a brand of computing that stands behind creative technical work, dedicated to creating instead of consuming, with a focus unlike anything available from big tech.</p><p>"Modern computers can distract from work because they are built to serve consumers with entertainment, shopping and advertising, which means that productivity can be reduced, despite the speed of hardware continuing to increase," said Pentagram.</p><p>"Consumer software design creates lag between user input and system output, creating unnecessary delays," added Caligra.</p><p>As a result, Caligra's Workbench OS and the Caligra C100 Developer Terminal are Caligra's attempt to design a computer focused exclusively on helping experts to create, instead of consume.</p></div>
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Polestar 5: The Electric Performance GT

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<div class="e-intro">Polestar has designed Polestar 5: The Electric Performance GT.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Polestar 5 brings the future vision of the Polestar brand into the present – where advanced design, technology and sustainability become a reality.</p><p>Launched in 2025, this electric four-door performance Grand Tourer combines minimalistic Scandinavian design with innovative engineering and technology, resulting in a vehicle that doesn't compromise.</p><p>With its refined elegance, true Polestar handling, exceptional range and modern sophistication, it sets a new benchmark in electric performance design.</p></div>
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Tangerine x Buzz Airline Soft Product Collection

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<div class="e-intro">Tangerine and Buzz have designed the Airline Soft Product Collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Tangerine x Buzz Airline Soft Product Collection redefines comfort in premium economy through a coordinated set of four in-flight products designed to improve sleep, posture and wellbeing on long-haul journeys.</p><p>The collection includes a cocooning blanket, a sensory eye mask with integrated earbuds, a reconfigurable flat-pack neck pillow and a fold-out lumbar cushion.</p><p>Developed through a collaboration between cabin designers and onboard product specialists, the collection shifts airline amenities from isolated items to a cohesive, adaptable system that responds to evolving passenger expectations and operational constraints.</p></div>
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Telo Truck MT1

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<div class="e-intro">Fuseproject and Telo Trucks have designed the Telo Truck MT1.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Telo MT1 is a sub-compact electric pickup truck that redefines urban utility by packing the capability of a full-size vehicle into a 152-inch footprint.</p><p>Designed for the "urban adventurer", it features a five-passenger cabin and a 60-inch bed that expands to eight feet via an innovative mid-gate.</p><p>By utilising a specialised EV powertrain that eliminates the traditional engine bay, the MT1 provides rugged functionality without the logistical burden of a massive vehicle.</p><p>MT1's cab-forward architecture prioritises human-centric utility, improved driver visibility and enhanced pedestrian safety.</p></div>
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Lution Home Air Monitoring System

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<div class="e-intro">Ammunition has designed the Lution Home Air Monitoring System.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Lution is a home air monitoring system designed to help people understand the air they live in.</p><p>Rather than relying on standalone room sensors, the device integrates with a home's HVAC circulation to sample air that has moved through multiple rooms.</p><p>Paired with a companion app focused on interpretation rather than raw data, the system reveals long‑term exposure patterns instead of momentary readings.</p><p>By showing how everyday activities, ventilation and seasonal changes influence indoor air quality, Lution turns an invisible environmental condition into something legible and manageable over time.</p></div>
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Powerbeats Fit for Beats

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<div class="e-intro">Ammunition has designed the Powerbeats Fit for Beats.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Powerbeats Fit is a second-generation true wireless earbud designed for both movement and everyday listening.</p><p>The design refines an in‑ear stabilisation system that uses a flexible wingtip to hold the earbud securely during activity – while remaining comfortable for long listening sessions.</p><p>This project focuses on balancing stability and portability, with the earbud geometry recalibrated to improve long‑term comfort and the charging case significantly reduced in size to make it easier to carry throughout the day.</p><p>Positioned between casual listening earbuds and high‑retention sports models, Powerbeats Fit supports both exercise and daily use within a compact form.</p></div>
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Avira Health Smart Feeding Pump

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<div class="e-intro">Blond has designed the Avira Health Smart Feeding Pump.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Avira Health's Smart Feeding Pump, with industrial design by Blond, supports the physical and emotional challenges of early motherhood.</p><p>Developed to address the high incidence of breastfeeding difficulty in the first postpartum weeks, Avira takes a biomimetic approach – enabling breastfeeding by reducing discomfort and building maternal confidence through real-time tracking.</p><p>Moving beyond the utilitarian aesthetic of traditional pumps, the design offers a soft, integrated form that feels intuitive and reassuring across home and clinical settings.</p><p>As a result, modular functionality and a minimal interface make Avira a discreet, empowering tool for supporting lactation.</p></div>
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Aiora by DavidHugh

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<div class="e-intro">DavidHugh has designed Aiora.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Aiora represents the culmination of over 20 years of work by Dr David Wickett, bringing together furniture and industrial design with biomedical engineering and neuroscience.</p><p>At its heart lies Floatation technology – a precision-engineered reclining mechanism that transforms the way humans experience motion and balance.</p><p>Using planar motion mechanics, Floatation technology minimises the effects of gravity and friction, allowing users to experience the inertia of their entire body without external force.</p><p>"Through ongoing research, studies in neuroscience suggest that Floatation technology can alter brain activity, with patterns resembling those observed in long-term meditators," said DavidHugh.</p></div>
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Meco Razor

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<div class="e-intro">Meco Studios has designed Meco Razor.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Meco Razor began as an exploration of the cartridge razor category, a well-established and widely adopted shaving architecture shaped by manufacturing realities, cost constraints and a wide range of user preferences.</p><p>This project asked what other possibilities the object itself might hold if craft, materials and interaction were allowed to meaningfully shape the experience.</p><p>The work pursued greater purity in form – while introducing more thoughtful touchpoints, including magnetic wall mounting, magnetic cartridge attachment, an open-loop design for rinsing and a design language that allows the razor to blend into modern home environments.</p></div>
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Oura Ring 5

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<div class="e-intro">Ōura has designed its latest health wearable, Oura Ring 5.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Oura Ring 5 redefines what a health wearable can be. At 40 per cent smaller than its predecessor, it's crafted from scratch-resistant titanium in six finishes and boasts a full week-long battery life.</p><p>Completely re-engineered LED sensors deliver four times more powerful readings across 12 signal pathways, achieving accuracy in a form that disappears on the finger.</p><p>Paired with a growing platform spanning cardiovascular health, metabolic health, cognitive research and AI-powered guidance, Oura Ring 5 is the clearest expression yet of Ōura's belief that "the best health device is the one you never want to take off."</p></div>
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CurifyLabs PharmaPrinter Aurum

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Aslak Siimes has designed CurifyLabs PharmaPrinter Aurum.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>PharmaPrinter Aurum is a semi-automated non-sterile compounding system designed to improve the precision, consistency, and efficiency of patient-specific medicine production.</p><p>Combining patented dispensing technology, real-time mass verification and modular manufacturing capabilities, the system supports multiple dosage forms within a continuous workflow.</p><p>Developed in close collaboration with pharmacists, Aurum reduces manual variability and preparation time – while supporting confident, controlled operation.</p><p>Aurum's integrated ecosystem of hardware, software and consumables enables a repeatable and scalable compounding process tailored to modern pharmaceutical care.</p></div>
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Suri Refillable Toothpaste

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<div class="e-intro">Suri has designed Suri Refillable Toothpaste.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>This project rethinks toothpaste not just as a formula, but as a complete product system.</p><p>"In a category dominated by disposable plastic tubes and incremental innovation, we set out to redesign both the experience and lifecycle of toothpaste from the ground up," said Suri.</p><p>"We challenged that model by creating a refillable toothpaste system centred around a reusable forever bottle designed to stay on the countertop, paired with compostable refills and a precision one-press dispensing mechanism for a cleaner, more intuitive experience."</p><p>Ultimately, Suri aims to demonstrate that oral care can be beautifully designed, clinically effective and lower impact, without compromise.</p></div>
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Lijn Seating by Carole Baijings for Geiger

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<div class="e-intro">Carole Baijings has designed the Lijn Seating collection for Geiger.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Lijn Seating collection begins with a pure, minimal chair with armrests. From this essential form, the design evolves into multiple expressions: without armrests, upholstered and complemented by a quilted cushion.</p><p>"Like a body being dressed, the chair transforms through layers, textures and finishes while preserving the clarity of its original structure," said Carole Baijings.</p><p>The quilt is another way of dressing the chair, adapting it to different levels of comfort and to different moods.</p><p>"For this chair, we designed a capsule collection; we wanted to dress the chair," added Carole Baijings.</p><p>"Every piece has its own unique quality, yet they all belong to the same family."</p></div>
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Pico Lounge Chair and Ottoman

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<div class="e-intro">Andreas Engesvik has designed the Pico Lounge Chair and Ottoman for Fogia.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Pico is a lounge chair defined by contrasts: light yet stable, informal yet carefully crafted.</p><p>Designed by Andreas Engesvik, it pairs a slender tubular steel frame with generous cushions that appear to float, creating both visual lightness and a surprisingly spacious seat.</p><p>Easy to move at just 12.3kg, it adapts effortlessly to changing needs.</p><p>Pico reflects Fogia's approach to combining materials and craftsmanship without compromise, resulting in a chair that feels modest in size, yet generous in comfort and character.</p></div>
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Join by Isokon

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<div class="e-intro">Foster + Partners and Isokon have designed the Join collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Developed with the renowned British wooden furniture manufacturer, Isokon, the Join collection includes a lounge chair, a footstool and a series of tables and has evolved through a hands-on process of prototyping and iterative refinement.</p><p>The innovative yet functional pieces have been designed to showcase Isokon's expertise in plywood production and layered veneer techniques.</p><p>Inspired by folding techniques and engineered through extensive full-scale prototyping, the Join collection was developed by exploring how flat surfaces can translate into three-dimensional forms.</p></div>
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Peaks Couch

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<div class="e-intro">Moooi has designed the Peaks Couch.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Peaks Couch is a modular seating landscape composed of triangular modules that transform the traditional sofa into a flexible social terrain.</p><p>Inspired by the natural topography of the Swiss mountain range, the system utilises sculptural geometry and a unique soft hinge construction.</p><p>Integrated textile joints and concealed zippers replace traditional mechanical hardware, allowing the modules to rotate 360º to instantly create backrests, armrests or lounging platforms.</p><p>This adaptable architecture fosters human interaction and accommodates the diverse ergonomics of modern life within a single, cohesive and least sofa-like aesthetic.</p></div>
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Kino

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<div class="e-intro">Pablo Castillo Design has designed Kino.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Kino is a 3D-printed dining chair inspired by the importance of honesty and purpose in modern industrial design.</p><p>Its form emerges from exploring the possibilities of materials and manufacturing, integrating function and materiality seamlessly.</p><p>The design avoids superfluous elements, presenting a clear and recognisable chair silhouette reinterpreted through the aesthetic of 3D printing.</p><p>Its cantilevered seat defines the structure – while the surface beneath doubles as storage or display space.</p><p>This dual function reinforces the relationship between form and use, creating a piece that is both practical and expressive, highlighting how contemporary production methods can redefine everyday furniture.</p></div>
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Hug

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<div class="e-intro">Pearson Lloyd has designed Hug for Cozmo.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Hug is a high-back modular seating system exploring how comfort can be made both visible and deeply felt.</p><p>Designed by Pearson Lloyd for Cozmo, this project combines a lightweight foldable steel frame with layered cushions filled with foam, memory foam and feathers to create a soft yet highly supportive seating experience.</p><p>Developed through full-scale ergonomic experimentation, Hug rethinks conventional upholstery through removable textile jackets and modular construction – enabling efficient delivery, simple assembly and long-term adaptability for contemporary urban living.</p></div>
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Istanbul Collection

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<div class="e-intro">Sylvain Willenz has designed the Istanbul Collection for Papatya.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Istanbul Collection is a series of six monobloc, injection-moulded plastic chairs for outdoor use, available with or without armrests, designed for Turkish company Papatya.</p><p>Engineered with a shared frame structure, the collection allows for the efficient production of diverse chair models through the use of a unique tool for injection moulding comprising interchangeable parts — making it a truly unique project from a manufacturing perspective.</p><p>Each chair is named after a distinctive neighbourhood of Istanbul and incorporates design details tailored for specific settings and uses.</p><p>As a result, the Istanbul Collection includes Galata, Balat, Bomonto, Hisar, Beykoz and Tarabya.</p></div>
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Maasto Dining Armchair

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<div class="e-intro">Ronan Bourollec has designed the Maasto Dining Armchair for Vaarnii.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Maasto Dining Armchair is a simple and archetypal dining chair that celebrates the character of Finnish pine.</p><p>The design combines solid pine with pine plywood in a bold and unexpected construction, where its plywood sides and arms provide structural strength and slimness, while solid pine forms a durable seat and back.</p><p>The result is a chair that feels both elegant and robust. The pronounced grain of the pine plywood amplifies the natural expression of the material, creating Vaarnii's distinctive super-pine aesthetic.</p><p>Designed for everyday use in homes, restaurants and public spaces, Maasto is a hardworking chair and a contemporary ode to pine.</p></div>
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Nougat and Fabric Tiles for Alternative Artefacts Danto

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<div class="e-intro">Teruhiro Yanagihara Studio has designed the Nougat and Fabric tiles for Alternative Artefacts Danto.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Nougat and Fabric are porcelain tile collections designed by Teruhiro Yanagihara Studio for Alternative Artefacts Danto.</p><p>Nougat is a tile created by blending crushed granules of varying sizes into coloured clay, resulting in a finished surface that recalls the texture of the French confectionery nougat, where, due to irregular particles kneaded in at random, no two tiles share the same pattern.</p><p>Fabric, on the other hand, is a collection that captures the texture of cloth, translating it into moulded relief on the surface of each tile. The subtle shadows created by its irregular undulations lend a softness reminiscent of textile, despite the material's inherent solidity.</p></div>
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3D-Printed Ceramic Tiles

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<div class="e-intro">IOUS Studio has designed a 3D-printed ceramic tile series.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>IOUS Studio's 3D-printed ceramic tiles collection redefines architectural surfaces through the convergence of computational design, material intelligence and 3D-printed clay.</p><p>Conceived as an adaptable ceramic cladding system, this project transforms digital precision into buildable architectural components with controlled geometries and textures.</p><p>Each tile operates within an open computational framework, allowing patterns, relief and density to evolve according to specific architectural conditions, rather than fixed repetition.</p><p>By merging advanced fabrication technologies with ceramic craftsmanship, the system proposes a new architectural language, where customisation, scalability and material expression coexist, positioning digital fabrication as a new form of contemporary craftsmanship.</p></div>
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Shiki

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Hasuike has designed the Shiki collection for Mirage.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Shiki transforms the traditional Japanese tatami into a contemporary ceramic grammar.</p><p>Designed by Studio Hasuike for Mirage, the collection operates as a compositional system rather than a decorative pattern.</p><p>Two slab typologies (with border and without border) combine with mosaics and linear elements to create endless spatial configurations.</p><p>The surface reads as woven fibre to the eye but reveals ceramic to the touch, creating a calibrated sensory displacement.</p><p>Four tones evoke natural states rather than colours, personally calibrated by Makio and Naomi Hasuike to resist trend cycles and age within architecture.</p></div>
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Fat Wood Shoji

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<div class="e-intro">Muneji Toh Architects has designed Fat Wood Shoji.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Fat Wood Shoji is a Japanese sliding door made from fat wood, a precious material extracted from pine trees, often rich in resin.</p><p>The resin, which has accumulated over many years, glows a "bewitching red when it catches the light," said Muneji.</p><p>By transforming previously unused wood into beautiful materials and creating a sliding door for everyday life, Fat Wood Shoji recycles the fat wood of Japan's vast forest resources.</p></div>
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Basic Third by Pretty Plastic

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<div class="e-intro">Pretty Plastic has designed the Basic Third facade.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Basic Third is a demountable facade system that transforms post-consumer PVC waste into a versatile architectural surface.</p><p>Developed as Pretty Plastic's third tile design, it balances simplicity with architectural flexibility, where three vertical bands create subtle relief. The overlap system allows architects to generate rhythmic patterns by aligning or offsetting rows.</p><p>Available in 12 colours and adaptable to custom reliefs for larger projects, Basic Third makes circular construction both visible and viable.</p><p>The system debuted on Plus Ultra III at Wageningen University, wrapping the Netherlands' first timber laboratory building in 30,987kg of upcycled plastic.</p></div>
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Arlecchino

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<div class="e-intro">Slalom has designed Arlecchino for Teklan.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Arlecchino is a high-performance acoustic system that merges technical sound absorption with a bold geometric and chromatic design language.</p><p>Developed as a flexible wall solution for contract and hospitality interiors, it rethinks acoustic surfaces as active architectural elements designed to enhance spatial comfort and user well-being.</p><p>Designed for Slalom by Teklan, the system is available in two complementary versions designed to be combined within the same space: a thermoformed 3D panel and a printed PET felt option, developed with consideration for recycled content and material recovery.</p><p>This duality enables designers to build layered compositions that balance acoustics and aesthetics.</p></div>
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Di Canapa

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<div class="e-intro">Studio Onesta has designed Di Canapa.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Di Canapa is a high-performance acoustic solution consisting only of pure natural materials.</p><p>By fusing industrial hemp, upcycled coffee, natural cork and a 100 per cent bio-binder, this surface doesn’t just have an aesthetic function – it creates an earthly experience using all five senses.</p><p>The result is a fire-resistant, food-safe, formaldehyde-free, lightweight, waterproof panel with excellent acoustic properties that exudes a subtle natural smell and creates a tactile and stunning surface for any interior.</p><p>Bespoke intricate geometric patterns, 3D textures, or logos can be embossed directly into the surface, resulting in Di Canapa a sustainable choice for those who value function and design.</p></div>
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iQ Motion

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<div class="e-intro">Tarkett has designed iQ Motion.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>iQ Motion is part of the broader iQ family, offering one of the widest ranges of patterns and colours on the market.</p><p>Inspired by timeless terrazzo, it features a refined palette of 16 natural tones, combined with six dual‑sized accents in opaque and pearlescent finishes.</p><p>Incorporating the unrivalled technical characteristics for which iQ is known, iQ Motion embodies everything expected from the world's highest-performance homogeneous vinyl flooring – with a radiant new design expression.</p><p>As a result, iQ Motion is an outstanding choice for high-intensity environments such as healthcare facilities, retail spaces, educational institutions and workplaces.</p></div>
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Datecrete

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<div class="e-intro">Datecrete Studio and Lab FZC have designed Datecrete.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Datecrete is a patent-pending, cement-free, resin- and petrochemical-free architectural material made from waste date pits intercepted from the food industry, combined with an innovative binder system and transformed into tiles, cladding, furniture and architectural objects.</p><p>This project's focus is not only to substitute one material for another, but to demonstrate how local agricultural waste can become part of a serious architectural material language.</p><p>Developed in the UAE, Datecrete rethinks an abundant regional byproduct in the MENA region as a high-value building material.</p><p>As a result, Datecrete can be produced as floor and wall tiles, cladding, furniture, lighting elements and smaller design objects.</p></div>
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Recycled Book Lantern for Readings Bookstore

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<div class="e-intro">Edward Linacre Studio, Kerstin Thompson Architects and Ambience Lighting have designed the recycled book lantern for Readings Bookstore.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Suspended within Readings Bookstore, the monumental lantern is crafted from the store's own discarded books, once rejected due to printing errors, now reimagined as a luminous architectural feature.</p><p>This transformation is more than functional; it is symbolic. The material returns to its place of origin with renewed purpose, guiding readers through the space and illuminating new narratives.</p><p>The installation embodies a closed-loop approach – reframing waste as potential, challenging disposability and affirming the enduring value of the printed word.</p><p>The result offers a quiet yet resonant commentary on sustainability, storytelling and design's responsibility in shaping a more resilient future.</p></div>
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Floral Affairs

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<div class="e-intro">Floral Affairs has designed its own long-lasting floral arrangement collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Floral Affairs redefines the role of flowers as long-lasting design objects rather than disposable gestures.</p><p>Using real blooms preserved through a plant-based process, the collection maintains the natural appearance of each arrangement for over 8 months without water or sunlight.</p><p>This project addresses the environmental cost embedded in conventional floristry, where short lifespans drive ongoing production, transport, and waste.</p><p>Floral Affairs reduces environmental impact while shifting the perception of flowers from ephemeral to enduring.</p></div>
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Compound Nested Lattice Modules: Reconfigurable Structures for Sustainable Robotic Assembly

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<div class="e-intro">MIT Center for Bits and Atoms has designed the Compound Nested Lattice Modules: Reconfigurable Structures for Sustainable Robotic Assembly system.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Compound Nested Lattice Modules for Sustainable Robotic Assembly is a reusable architectural assembly system made from self-aligning lattice components.</p><p>Each module encodes robotic grasping, alignment, reversible connection, structure and aggregation directly into its geometry.</p><p>The modules can be assembled by mobile robots and robotic arms into chairs, benches, tables, surfaces, spans and vertical frames, then disassembled and reconfigured into new structures.</p><p>This project proposes a circular approach to robotic assembly, where architecture is not a fixed object but an adaptable material system designed for reuse, repair and repeated assembly.</p></div>
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Basic Third by Pretty Plastic

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<div class="e-intro">Pretty Plastic has designed the Basic Third facade.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Basic Third is a demountable facade tile made from 100 per cent recycled rigid PVC sourced from construction waste.</p><p>Designed for disassembly and mechanical recycling, Basic Third keeps plastic in continuous use, rather than sending it to landfill or incineration.</p><p>The 30cm width aligns with standard building grids, reducing cutting waste, where architects can create varied patterns by aligning or offsetting rows, with options for custom reliefs in larger projects.</p><p>Available in 12 colours, the system balances circularity with aesthetic choice. Basic Third debuted on Plus Ultra III at Wageningen University, wrapping the Netherlands' first timber laboratory building in 30,987kg of upcycled plastic.</p></div>
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Mars II

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<div class="e-intro">Reef Design Lab has designed Mars II.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Coral reefs are threatened globally by destructive practices like dynamite fishing, bottom trawling and increasingly powerful storms.</p><p>Mars II was designed to recreate complex, three-dimensional habitat underwater, improving biodiversity outcomes with a modular system.</p><p>The lightweight units are cast from moulds with marine-grade concrete. Designed to be diver-deployable, the units are bolted together underwater by hand.</p><p>Overhangs, cavities and caves create habitat for fish and other marine life, while their channelled texture offers stable surfaces where coral can be planted or colonise naturally.</p><p>"As corals and algae engulf the modules, the artificial structure establishes a living reef," said Reef Design Lab.</p></div>
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Buoy

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<div class="e-intro">The New Raw has designed Buoy.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Buoy transforms discarded maritime ropes from Rotterdam's harbour into sculptural public seating objects.</p><p>Developed together with local harbour maintenance and recycling networks, this project brings industrial maritime materials back into everyday urban life.</p><p>Resting between balance and instability, the forms echo the movement of floating maritime buoys, while subtly shifting with the weight of the body.</p><p>The current pieces emerge from a specific recovered batch of ropes, allowing the colour, texture and a number of objects to remain directly shaped by the material itself.</p></div>
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Pakha

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<div class="e-intro">The Vernacular Modern has designed Pakha.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Pakha is a critique of how modern cooling has been defined. For decades, comfort has been engineered through speed, rotation and sealed environments.</p><p>Pakha challenges this model, reviving a mode of air movement that predates electricity, translating it into a contemporary, mechanised and computerised system.</p><p>Operating across scales, Pakha redistributes air through slow, rhythmic motion, delivering immediate comfort even in humid and still conditions.</p><p>Developed over four years, this project was significantly advanced through the Godrej Design Lab Fellowship (2025), positioning craft as performance and material as intelligence within a new typology of cooling.</p></div>
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Textile design

Bianni Wool Paper

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<div class="e-intro">Arudeko has designed the Bianni Wool Paper.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Bianni reimagines an ancestral material by uncovering the hidden value of discarded wool from handmade carpet production.</p><p>Through Bianni, this wool, sourced from a weaving community in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, is reclaimed and transformed into a new material that honours the knowledge, craftsmanship and cultural memory embedded in each textile.</p><p>At a time when synthetic dyes have displaced traditional practices, Bianni restores the richness of natural dyeing, merging heritage techniques with contemporary exploration to reframe waste as a cultural resource and propose a new material language.</p></div>
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The Inverted Earth: Fugue for Windows

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<div class="e-intro">Aya Kawabata has designed The Inverted Earth: Fugue for Windows textile.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The Inverted Earth: Fugue for Windows is a series of one-of-a-kind jacquard textiles by Aya Kawabata.</p><p>This project explores alternative possibilities for contemporary jacquard weaving beyond conventional industrial repeat systems.</p><p>The works use five thread colours, diverse woven structures and integrated selvedges to create layered spatial compositions that challenge the convention of the repeating textile pattern.</p><p>The target audience includes collectors, architects, interior designers, galleries, museums and cultural institutions interested in contemporary craft, textile innovation and collectable design.</p></div>
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Viktor

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<div class="e-intro">Byborre x Viktor Hachmang have designed Viktor.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Viktor is Byborre's translation of Viktor Hachmang's world into knitted textile: rain, mud, wind, overgrown riverbanks; the quiet, evocative side of Dutch nature.</p><p>Hachmang's hand-drawn illustrations, experimental colour work and traditional manga-inspired patterns become knitted structures.</p><p>Image, texture and atmosphere built directly into the fabric – made possible by circular knit technology and Byborre's core mission: giving creators the tools to build their identity directly into the textile, responsibly and without waste.</p></div>
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Room

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<div class="e-intro">Lidewij Edelkoort has designed and curated the Room collection for El Espartano.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Room is a collective rug collection presented by El Espartano during the 2026 edition of Milan Design Week at Galleria Rossana Orlandi.</p><p>Curated by Lidewij Edelkoort, the collection brings together 11 limited-edition rugs developed with five female designers: Carole Baijings, Kiki van Eijk, Ina Meijer, Mariola López Mariño and Edelkoort herself.</p><p>Manufactured in Buenos Aires, Argentina, using 100 per cent locally sourced wool and hand-tufting techniques, the collection was developed in collaboration with El Espartano's Design Lab.</p><p>Room explores the idea of the room as a place of intimacy, shelter and emotional connection through texture, colour and material experimentation.</p></div>
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Underground Vol III

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<div class="e-intro">Kirkby Design has designed the Underground Vol III.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Underground Vol III is a distinct collection of upholstery velvets derived from original, iconic designs historically used across the TfL network.</p><p>Kirkby has reinterpreted and recoloured eight archive designs that were used across London Transport lines from the 1910s to the present day.</p><p>From the 1930s, Christian Barman was London Transport's Publicity Officer. During this time, Christian commissioned special upholstery designs from artists and designers including Marion Dorn, Norbert Dutton, Enid Marx, Paul Nash and later, Marianne Straub.</p><p>Underground Vol III sophisticatedly commemorates an iconic and integral aspect of London's design identity, tapping once again into the rich legacy of Transport for London.</p></div>
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Hafnon by Kvadrat

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<div class="e-intro">Raf Simons has designed Hafnon for Kvadrat.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Hafnon is an exquisitely crafted mohair velvet with a kinetic checkerboard effect integrated within the luminous pile.</p><p>The natural sheen of the mohair combined with a jacquard shadow structure produces a dynamic interplay of light and shade.</p><p>With Hafnon, Raf Simons translates the past into the future, reinterpreting references to Gustav Klimt and the 1900 Vienna Secessionist movement into a modern, rhythmic pattern expressed in the sumptuous luxury and tactility of mohair velvet.</p></div>
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Cala

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<div class="e-intro">Samuel Accoceberry has designed Cala for Warli.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Cala is an outdoor rug designed by Samuel Accoceberry for Warli, inspired by the soft contours of Mediterranean coves and the shifting reflections of light on water.</p><p>Combining sculptural geometry with tactile richness, the piece explores the dialogue between craftsmanship, materiality and emotion.</p><p>Cala's organic composition and subtle relief create a sense of movement and depth, transforming the rug into a quiet architectural landscape.</p><p>Rooted in Accoceberry's poetic and minimal approach to design, Cala offers a contemporary interpretation of comfort and atmosphere – while celebrating Warli's expertise in handmade textile production.</p></div>
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GBO 1B

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<div class="e-intro">Swallo's founder Kelechi Ejikeme has designed GBO 1B.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>GBO 1B is the second chapter of the GBO handwoven jute rug collection, designed for Swallo by Kelechi Ejikeme.</p><p>Where the first collection mapped the geographical lines of Igbo land in Eastern Nigeria, GBO 1B shifts focus to colour – distilling the region's natural topography into three elemental shades: white sand, dusty earth and deep sea.</p><p>The collection champions jute for its raw texture, natural colour absorption and sustainability.</p><p>Each rug is a meditative object – considerate of the planet, the craftsperson and the end user who seeks lasting, quiet beauty.</p></div>
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Workplace design

Levra

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<div class="e-intro">Allsteel has designed Levra.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Levra is Allsteel's response to the hybrid, multi-device and multi-posture realities of today's workplace.</p><p>Moving beyond rigid, prescriptive ergonomics toward a 'true fit', Levra reflects years of iterative prototyping in collaboration with ITO Design and three patent-pending innovations.</p><p>Designed to balance human-centric engineering with refined material expression, the chair supports natural movement, multiple postures and changing work modes throughout the day.</p><p>Rather than forcing users to conform to the chair, Levra is engineered to respond more intuitively to how people actually work now – moving with the body, not against it.</p></div>
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Work Series Three

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<div class="e-intro">Another Country has designed Work Series Three.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Work Series Three is designed with co-working spaces and meeting rooms in mind.</p><p>Drawing inspiration from public and academic British library interiors, the design utilises a palette of solid oak, veneered oak and desktop linoleum.</p><p>This selection ensures natural durability and longevity while providing a tactile, acoustically softened surface – creating a calm workspace that reduces the ambient noise of daily use.</p><p>The Work Series Three collection is completed by a boardroom table and a range of under-desk storage units; these additions allow the series to accommodate a wide variety of workplace needs.</p></div>
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HÅG Minu

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<div class="e-intro">Andreas Engesvik and Jannicke Grung have designed HÅG Minu for Flokk.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>HÅG Minu rethinks the ergonomic task chair for contemporary hybrid living.</p><p>Designed by Andreas Engesvik in collaboration with Jannicke Grung for Flokk, the chair responds to the growing overlap between domestic and professional spaces by combining workplace-level ergonomics with the warmth and tactility of residential furniture.</p><p>Reduced in scale and mechanical complexity, HÅG Minu is compact but prioritises intuitive movement, comfort and adaptability within smaller interiors.</p><p>A softened upholstered form on top of a four-legged wheeled base is paired with HÅG's ergonomic mechanism and movement philosophy to support an active and dynamic sitting experience – while integrating naturally into home and workplace environments.</p></div>
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Area | Kettal

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<div class="e-intro">Foster + Partners and Kettal have designed Area, a modular furniture collection.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Developed in collaboration with Kettal, Area is a modular furniture collection which includes a series of structural columns, tabletops and integrated accessories.</p><p>Designed for adaptability across a variety of collaborative settings – including meeting rooms, co-working spaces, libraries, and cafes – its name reflects the intention to create a range of surfaces for work.</p><p>The aluminium column is a structural element, while also accommodating power, data and lighting infrastructure.</p><p>Available in three diameters – 90, 160 and 450 millimetres – the system enables different spatial arrangements, including both seated and standing tables.</p></div>
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PLC Studio

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<div class="e-intro">Pearson Lloyd has designed PLC Studio for Modus.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>PLC Studio is a light-touch work chair for shared, flexible workplaces where people move between tasks.</p><p>At its core is a simple observation: postural change supports focus. PLC Studio is designed for more active settings, where users move frequently and do not require the full complexities of task seating, yet still need reliable ergonomic support.</p><p>Understated and immediately legible, its softened seat and arms invite easy use – while a slim steel frame gives it a crisp, graphic presence.</p><p>Essential comfort is built in with minimal complexity: controlled seat tilt backwards and forwards and a responsive pivoting backrest for consistent lumbar support.</p></div>
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Blink

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<div class="e-intro">Formway has designed Blink for Teknion.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Designed in partnership with Formway, Teknion's Blink is a multi-use chair featuring innovative ergonomics and sustainability-driven design.</p><p>Blink is designed to deliver intuitive comfort, supporting the needs of today's hybrid workplaces with minimal user adjustment.</p><p>Blink's hidden intelligence is centred on movement; its shell is precision-moulded with over a thousand perforations, creating a breathable, flexible surface.</p><p>The design draws inspiration from impact-absorbing auxetic patterns, honeycomb and lattice-like structures known for their ability to flex and contour curved forms.</p><p>The chair features a patented Keel Mechanism, which provides dynamic movement to respond to the user's body shifts, automatically calibrated based on body weight.</p></div>
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WiChair

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<div class="e-intro">Wilkhahn has designed WiChair.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>The compact, minimalist WiChair "makes your day go with a swing, literally," as its springy, curved steel bracket delivers intuitive 3D comfort.</p><p>Distilling five decades of dynamic seating research into just 34 components, WiChair harmonises timeless design with genuine sustainability and is equally at home in creative studios, contemporary offices or learning spaces.</p><p>As a result, FSC-certified plywood, infinitely recyclable steel and EMAS-certified manufacturing achieve a carbon footprint of just 31kg of carbon dioxide equivalent.</p></div>
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Alta

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<div class="e-intro">Jones + Partners have designed Alta for Workstories.</div><div class="e-expand"></div><div class="e-detail"><p>Defined by its conic form and available in three heights, the Alta collection creates a consistent visual language across boardrooms, reception areas and informal collaboration spaces.</p><p>An integrated central beam accommodates power and data management while maintaining a clean architectural appearance.</p><p>Manufactured from FSC-certified wooden veneers using a shared tooling strategy, Alta reduces material waste and production complexity – supporting long-term durability and timeless appeal.</p></div>
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