The value of restraint!

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Marc Goodwin, Xia Zhi; courtesy v2com

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anySCALE Architecture Design studio restores, conserves and readapts a 300-year-old Huizhou-style property deep in East China’s Jiangxi Province with a sensitivity that blends the grace of ancient China with the luxury of a 21st-century hotel.  

Wellness at the workplace

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: People’s Architecture Office, Jing Weiqi 

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Surpassing the clichéd norm of the office gym, People’s Architecture Office designs the Leping Foundation headquarters in Beijing as a workplace that focusses on wellbeing. 

A prismatic passage

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: Amey Kandalgaonkar; courtesy the designers

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100architects designs a vibrant walkway to offer shoppers an immersive experience enroute a newly opened retail space in Shanghai. 

Man-made mountains!

By Archit Raj Thapar

Photography: Miran Kambič; courtesy the architects

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ENOTA transforms a classic health centre built in the 1980s in a small settlement of Eastern Slovenia into a modern relaxing thermal spa, popularly known as Termalija Family Wellness…

Cultural expression in the built form!

By Vinita Wagh

Photography: Courtesy the architects

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photography: Marc Goodwin & Zhang Yong

PES-Architects present China with The Fuzhou Strait Culture and Art Centre, a catalyst that induces cultural momentum in a city dominated by rapid development.

Cocooned by nature!

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Photography: Adrian Ozimek; courtesy v2com

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Ar. Trevor McIvor uses clean lines, a multi-tiered flat roof and an elegant composition to chisel this home as a stand-out dwelling in a rural subdivision near the seaside town of Whitby, in northern England…

Breaking away from conventional formwork!

Compiled by Vinita Wagh

Photography: Juan Pablo Allegre; courtesy ZHA

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Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich introduce KnitCandela – an incredibly thin concrete shell, built on an ultra-lightweight, knitted formwork that can be suitcase-condensed. How’s that for revolutionary?