Architecture

Explore 968 award-winning designs tagged Architecture on 8 Pixels Design Blog.

Designer: Rogerio Castro Conde Design: Mixed Use Building Tag: Architecture

Nex One Park View

Nex One Park View is a mixed use building on Cidade Jardim Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, near Parque do Povo, Marginal Pinheiros, and Faria Lima. The tower is composed of three volumes connected by an exoskeleton and combines corporate, residential, and leisure spaces. Biophilic elements bring nature into the design and reflect the nearby park. Energy efficiency, high-performance glass, and stormwater management are included, and the building holds LEED Core and Shell v4.0 certification.

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Designer: Nobuaki Miyashita Design: House Tag: Architecture

Urban Prism

Urban Prism is a three-story house built in a dense urban area of Tokyo, Japan. The wood structure covers a total floor area of 127.82 square meters on a site of 100.13 square meters. Boundary walls and a gate form a buffer zone that brings light and air into the interior. A courtyard extends the living room outdoors, and adjustable screens control privacy and daylight. Textured fiber cement siding clads the exterior, while oak flooring, steel and glass shape the interior. The sculptural form responds to local height and setback regulations.

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Designer: Snorre Stinessen Design: Chalet Tag: Architecture

Lyngen Aurora

Aurora Lodge is a chalet and small lodge located in the remote Lyngen Alps in Norway. The main building stretches across a natural plateau behind a single line of trees and holds a communal living space, five bedrooms with private bathrooms, and a kitchen and dining room. A separate suite and a sauna stand along the path and across a creek. The tilted A-frame form aligns the roof with the terrain, giving privacy on one side and open views on the other. Concrete floors, a steel and wood structure, copper cladding and tall structural glazing suit the exposed coastal site.

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Designer: TOMOHIRO ARAKI Design: House Tag: Architecture

Aperitio

Aperitio is a one-story wooden house built on a site facing the Sea of Japan in the northern part of Tottori Prefecture. The eaves are kept low so that the building blends into the surrounding landscape. Light, wind, sound and scenery are brought indoors. The north face toward the sea is clad in galvalume steel sheet, the same material as the roof, for easier maintenance. Large openings on the south side provide daylight and ventilation and link the rooms with an outdoor living area. The exterior is kept simple to avoid an overly symbolic form.

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Designer: cre-te Design: Complex Cultural Space Tag: Architecture

I Park The Urban

The project is the largest business-commercial-cultural complex in Seoul and is the world's first project by a large Swedish furniture brand to enter the capital. The work facilities, which account for a large portion of the program, were conducted with the first live-office concept in line with the lifestyle change due to the pandemic. It is planned as an independent work and residential space, and one-stop all-around services such as culture, leisure, shopping, and food are possible, enabling independent life.

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Designer: Kazuhiro Yasufuku Design: Office Tag: Architecture

Oak Konan Shinagawa

Oak Konan Shinagawa is a 12-story office building located near the harbor in Tokyo, Japan. The white lattice-like exterior frame is an outer shell made of precast concrete that serves as both structural frame and sun-shading device. Combined with the steel construction of the core, this hybrid structure creates a column-free office space that allows flexible layouts. The precast columns and beams are produced off-site and lowered into place from above, which simplifies work on site. The exterior windows include natural ventilation units that open with a detachable handle.

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Designer: Hiroki Watanabe Design: House Tag: Architecture

Murakoshi

An urban house integrating floodwaters into its design. This house with a monolithic facade and a drive-through garage with a high foundation is situated on a pentagonal corner lot that is expected to be crowded with pedestrians. The design features a planar and cross-sectional openness to allow light and wind to flow into the interior while also taking into account the convenience of people and cars while deflecting water. This work explores a simple and sensible approach to future urban housing with a focus on natural disasters.

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Designer: Kosuke Nishijima Design: Office and Residence Tag: Architecture

The Kaleidoscope

The Kaleidoscope is an office and residential building located at a factory site in central Vietnam. The building stands between a hill and the sea, and frames diverse views in different directions and at different times of day. The roof follows the form of the Non La, a traditional Vietnamese farmer's hat that blocks sun and rain while letting wind pass underneath. V-shaped solid walls create triangular private rooms and larger shared spaces between them. Custom perforated precast concrete blocks provide privacy and natural ventilation.

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Designer: Guanghai Cui Design: Protective Shelter Tag: Architecture

High Purity Taoist Palace on the Site

The architectural form of the shelter was designed to recall the classical Chinese architectural style with curved hip roofs and gable roofs with various volumes and other modern architectural features, clearly manifesting the hierarchic order of the historical buildings of the Taoist palace, which helps to recall the genius loci of this site. The spaces of the courtyard and the halls in history were built with modern architecture according to plan manifested by archaeological information to represent the sense of a traditional Taoist Palace.

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Designer: Mateusz Zajkowski Design: Residential Architecture Tag: Architecture

The Suburban House

The Suburban House is a house located in a heavily urbanized suburb of Warsaw. It is surrounded by various types of buildings that create spatial chaos. The designers' intention was to create a building that would improve the surrounding space. Due to the intensive development. Its terrace is surrounded by the walls of the building to ensure the privacy of the users, and on the north side it has only narrow windows, obscuring the surrounding intense development. The main openings are facing south, providing a view of the plot.

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Designer: Pawel Lis Design: Single Family House Tag: Architecture

RB23

RB23 Boutique Residence is a two-story single family house built in a forest village near Warsaw. The form is composed of three rectangular solids, inspired by scattered wooden blocks. The facades are covered with clinker tiles, the walls are built of construction brick, and the ceilings are monolithic. A wide and narrow window is pressed into the front of the first floor and opens toward the surrounding forest. The usable area is 285 square meters. Each household member has a separate room, and the day and night zones are clearly separated.

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Designer: Krista Watanabe Design: Residential Villa Tag: Architecture

Oiso Hillside

Oiso Hillside is a residential villa located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The design follows the natural shape of the sloping site instead of leveling the ground for construction. Skipped floors, a two-story ceiling above a sunken conversation area and a three-level deck form a dynamic interior. Views of the surrounding hills and mountains can be enjoyed from the living spaces. A Japanese seismic-resistant method with a wooden rigid-frame structure allows wide open spaces. Wood is the main interior material, and a few antique pieces add accents.

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