Shanghai-based specialist street architecture practice 100architects has designed a new playground typology in Chongqing, China’s third-largest city that has grown exponentially in the past decade. Pegasus Trail is an example of the many avant-garde…
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Architecture Community architecture Leisure attraction Urban design
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Architecture Building Materials Community architecture Leisure attraction Surface design Sustainable design
ZAV Architects designs visitor centre made out of adobe in Iran’s Hormoz Island
One of Iran’s best-known practices Zav Architects has designed a community centre on the island of Hormuz, located in the Straits of Hormoz in the Persian Gulf. The island of Hormuz has been economically…
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Architecture Community architecture Leisure attraction Travel
D.LIM Architects designs boxy South Korean wellness centre in mountainous wilderness
D.Lim Architects has designed a wellness centre along the hiking route to Odo Mountain in South Korea’s Gyeongsangnam-do, a province in the country’s southeast part and adjacent to the port city of Busan. The…
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Adaptive reuse Architecture Community architecture Culture Leisure attraction
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects converts former brick brewery warehouse into contemporary art museum in Japan’s Hirosaki city
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects (ATTA) has designed the recently-opened Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (Hirosaki MOCA), located in northern Japan’s western Aomori Prefecture. The city is known for being the largest producer of apples…
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Architecture Hotel design Landscape architecture Leisure attraction Travel
Aidia Studio to design 25 luxury pods with collapsible shells in Abu Dhabi’s Empty Quarter desert
Mexican architecture firm, Aidia Studio, has been commissioned to design a complex of 25 luxury hotel pods with collapsible shells, located in the Rub’ al Khali Desert, also knows as the Empty Quarter in…
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Interiors Leisure attraction
K11 Art house Hong Kong by OFT Interiors introduces new theatre and retail experience
Following a revamp of the retail sector, other commercial establishments such as cinema halls are also undergoing a transformation. In 2019, OFT, founded by architects CM Jao and Ken Cheung, was commissioned to work…
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Community architecture Landscape architecture Leisure attraction Urban design
100 Architects proposes vibrant street concept for pedestrian bridge over Shanghai’s Suzhou Creek
Street architecture specialist 100 Architects has proposed High Loop, a concept aimed at renovating Puji Road pedestrian bridge in Shanghai, the iconic bridge over the Suzhou Creek that connects the districts of Zhabei and…