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Dutch designer Caspar Schols, wins the WAF World Hotel Building of the Year 2022 Award for his Cabin ANNA Stay - a modular, cyclical, vacay option that can be produced locally anywhere in the world. With hand-movable walls and windows, its sustainable design allows guests to reconnect with themselves and nature.

MAD Architects unveil the design for the Nanhai Art Centre in Foshan, China. Resembling a continuous wave of water, with three main buildings looming underneath the floating sun canopy, this biomorphic building will be developed as the new public gateway on the waterfront, harmonising social, creative, and natural attributes. 

Tetris Design and Build crafts the Heineken Beverages South African office with the onus on fostering connections to 'brew a better world'

Providing fast, modular, affordable and sustainable construction systems for the community, architects Shilpi Dua and Abhimanyu Singh of Hexpressions aim to support underserved communities with permanent shelter, empowering people to build their own homes and live a dignified life. The honeycomb-panel paper homes initiative also hopes to inspire architects and builders to promote eco-friendly alternatives and challenge traditional building norms.

This old Royal Bank building is a sensitively rendered adaptive re-use project.

Studioninedots' latest apartment building is a pre-fab concrete structure on the waterfront in Amsterdam

Architecture and fashion have a long standing relationship; but actually incorporating the textile weave in a building façade is another thing. SPARK's 'pleated' and 'woven' façade for the award-winning mixed-use development Jing Mian Xin Cheng in Beijing demonstrates that depth of experience need not be forgotten despite the speed of the central city's expansion. 'Pleats' of perforated aluminium sheeting and a 'weave' of rippling windows resolve a variety of practical issues, while referencing a textile market that formerly operated on the site. Check it out here…

The Konan Cultural Centre in Japan ascribes to an identifiable building design - a significant aspect of a community centre. Check it out and leave us your views…

Why does a building of commemoration like a monument or a memorial have to be artistic? Do check out the monument-in-the-making in Lucknow and leave us your views…

The new City hall building in Buenos Aires is a climate responsive approach to design. Check it out here and leave us your views...

Light can work wonders for a building. Check out the library renovation at Oxford and leave us your views...

Don't you think school buildings with built-in sustainability features serve as excellent education tools in themselves? Read about one such school in Ootacamund and leave us your views.

Don't you think colours add an altogether new dimension to the spaces we inhabit? Get to know about a school building that oozes warmth by means of its diverse colour palette and leave us your views...

Does steel construction work better for durable, natural ageing of the building? Check out Ar. Sanjay Puri's latest outing at Surat, Gujarat and leave us your views…

Inspiration can be found anywhere, amidst anything, literally! Check out this flower-inspired built form and leave us your views…

Though "#context-sensitive", "#diverse", and "#community-focused" may not be the first terms that come to mind when imagining a building that houses over 5,000 people, MVRDV's #FutureTowers in #Pune is an attempt to upend those perceptions. Check out the full story here…

Architecture studio, #Sasaki weaves a #sustainable #design story at #AnantNationalUniversity, #Ahmedabad, dissolving the rigid lines of the #indoors and #outdoors to augment #collaborative and #experiential #learning - defining a unique #building-user relationship, its #architecture #teachingbyexample. Check it out…

#LacimeArchitects draw out poetry in the built form in their #iconic #design of the #GuofengLibrary in #Dalian - reportedly the most liveable city in China. Read on to know more…

@fran-silvestre-arquitectos build the Fababu House in Valencia, literally emerging from the rugged landscape like a premeditated vantage point. Check out this out-of-box, open to the elements hideout and tell us what you think about it….