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How can architecture professionals transform the atmosphere of a structure? What kinds of interventions can go beyond adaptive reuse to modify spatial perception? As architectural structures are repurposed over time, new uses and needs emerge between spaces and their users. While the structures of old buildings keep the memory of communities alive, the introduction of new life through greenhouses, housing, commerce, offices, or cultural centers brings about new atmospheres where light, ventila

1. A warehouse was rehabilitated, exterior and interior facades and roof. 2. We conceived a traditional space, within a warehouse, without touching the exterior facades, freeing the new volume inside from the pre-existing space, generating two distinct transition sectors in between old and new.

A "Mother Ship" Hovering Just Above the Ground. – The theme of the Mitsubishi Group pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai—"keeping the world vibrant"—is reflected in the core design concept of life, nature, and human society as interconnected and interacting elements. The pavilion consists of a belowground level and two aboveground levels of layered geometries, beginning with a semi-underground elliptical space. Overlapping this space is a rhombus whose vertices touch the interior curve of the oval. A rectangle similarly laid out within the rhombus provides an additional layer for the structure. Each of these three geometric forms symbolizes a different element—the ellipse, life; the rhombus, nature; and the rectangle, society—while the architecture expresses their mutually supportive relationship. The pavilion has no single front-facing façade; rather, the all-directional design is meant to be visually e

Huachiao Vibrant Sports Park, located in Kunshan, Suzhou, opened in March 2024. Spanning 6,000 square meters along Greenbelt Avenue, its design draws inspiration from the flowing water sleeves of Kunqu opera, blending traditional Chinese culture with modern skateboarding. The park enhances both space and experience, making it a key cultural and sports hub for the community.

Situated along the route to Echo Beach in Canggu, Bali, Sensorium Tropical Sanctuary is a contemporary interpretation of tropical architecture, where built form, nature, and well-being converge. Designed as an open-air community hub, it invites guests to experience a deep connection with their surroundings while enjoying specialty cuisine against the backdrop of Bali's iconic rice fields.

The university period is a phase with unique characteristics where intense learning and transformation take place. Thus, the university housing project is an opportunity to create singular spaces, distinguishing itself from the standard of more common residential real estate developments in large Brazilian cities. Located in the Barão Geraldo district, one of Brazil's main hubs for education and research, the Uliving Campinas university housing project aims to be a dynamic space capable of offering distinct experiences and interactions.

Floating above a meadow, Whidbey Uparati minimizes visual and physical impact on the natural landscape by blending into the site rather than asserting itself upon it. Upon approach, the meadow vegetation surrounds a winding path up a steady slope to the house. The house is a family retreat for meditation, bonding, and uparati – "stillness" in sanskrit. 

Černošice's villa district is a spectacular collection of unique family homes at the northern and western foot of Babka Hill that stand out from their surroundings as one approaches on the road from Prague. Since the villa district dates back to the early twentieth century, it is home to Art Nouveau and First Republic villas. After 1989, Černošice once again became a popular place to construct showcase residential buildings, including in this neighborhood. The locality possesses a strong character that is not defined by any one architectural style as much as by the buildings' grandeur and scale. Located on steep plots of land, the houses stand out above a path carved into the hillside and lined by the gardens' retaining walls. Villa Sidonius was not going to be any different.

India today is a country of 1.4 billion people requiring every type of building imaginable—hospitals, colleges, housing, and more. Championing sensibility and practicality in design is Brinda Somaya, an internationally acclaimed architect, urban conservationist, and academician, recently named an honorary member of the 2025 class of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. Her work demonstrates a careful response to cultural contexts enriched with a grounded understanding of functionality, transforming them into modern relics. A four-decade career has built her portfolio that spans architecture, master-planning, and historic preservation - a constantly unfolding legacy.

Can architecture vanish into the landscape and guide us back to nature? At a site once untouched by human hands—later scarred by artificial interventions—this question became our starting point. Rather than imposing form on the wounded terrain, we sought to listen: to the ochre-colored soil, the quiet reservoir, and the forested backdrop of Goun Mountain. Architecture here was not designed to stand apart, but to move with the land—to form a gentle path through which nature and people might meet once again.