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Living The Noom Housing

sanzpont [arquitectura] Housing Architecture Sunday, 16 August 2026

Living The Noom

Living The Noom is a residential complex designed around three principles: wellness living, sustainability and flexible living. The complex consists of three buildings of five stories each, built with a concrete structure and an independent bamboo facade. Every floor is an open space that can be arranged in several apartment layouts with one, two or three bedrooms. Bioclimatic strategies include rainwater harvesting, greywater treatment, green roofs and solar panels. The buildings occupy 30 percent of the lot, so much of the existing vegetation is preserved.

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Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel Lighting Design

AlexXu&Partners Lighting Design Architectural Lighting Saturday, 15 August 2026

Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel

Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel is an architectural lighting design for a resort hotel in Huzhou, China. The resort covers 24,000 square meters and includes 178 guest rooms and villas arranged around a central lobby. Light is used to emphasize the character of the interior design, to express spatial hierarchy and to create visual focus. Warm color temperatures, selected light sources, measured illumination levels and a lighting control system support a calm and restful atmosphere. The design refers to local tea culture and Zen tradition.

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Longking Pro Environmental Campus Industrial Public Landscape

Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM) Industrial Public Landscape Landscape Design Friday, 14 August 2026

Longking Pro Environmental Campus

Longking Pro Environmental Campus is a landscape design for an industrial site in Longyan, Fujian, China. The campus covers 54,000 square meters of former agricultural land in a mountain valley. Factories are arranged around a central quad structured by a six meter grid of camphor trees. A water channel runs through the quad and gathers spring water, roof runoff and treated sewage, which is cleaned further by a biofiltration wetland. Recreational and social spaces, including a basketball court, are placed among the filtration systems for staff use.

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Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd Office and Commercial

Aedas Office and Commercial Architecture Thursday, 13 August 2026

Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd

Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd is an office tower located in Chongqing, China. The building rises to a height of 201 metres and is defined by a double curved facade. The facade links the northern and eastern sides from bottom to top, and the form was inspired by the dancing aurora. Rectilinear volumes are set beside tower surfaces with double curves. The maximum twisting angle reaches 8.8 degrees per floor. Cold bent glass and building information modelling were used to resolve the complex geometry. The tower was completed in 2022.

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YN International School Educational Facility

Nobuaki Miyashita Educational Facility Architecture Wednesday, 12 August 2026

YN International School

YN International School is a planned international school campus in Yokohama, Japan. The design interprets Japanese rice terraces as a spatial system for learning. A stepped mass rises from north to south to satisfy strict shadow control, while planted roof terraces are stacked as daily outdoor learning landscapes. A central skylight and an open atrium bring daylight deep into the elongated plan and help students keep orientation. Glass classroom fronts keep learning visible, supporting curiosity and cross-cultural exchange. The site covers about 11,300 square meters.

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Embraced in Recycled Steel Office

Nobuaki Miyashita Office Architecture Tuesday, 11 August 2026

Embraced in Recycled Steel

Embraced in Recycled Steel is an office building for a steel recycling company in Yamaguchi, Japan. The exterior adopts a stacked structure inspired by steel billets, with special coatings that create textural variation. The interior uses angle steel, flat bars and deformed steel bars as finish materials, bringing structural elements into open view. Barcode and QR code motifs extend through the spaces, and seamless LED fixtures shaped like billets are combined with steel louvers on the ceiling. The building has four floors above ground and a maximum height of 19.9 meters.

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