Architecture

Explore 968 award-winning designs tagged Architecture on DesignAmid Magazine.

Designer: Jungjae Park Work: Multifunctional Ramp Gallery Classification: Architecture

Temporal Graft

Temporal Graft is a multifunctional ramp gallery that connects the Seoul City Wall with the alleyway neighborhoods beside it. The lightweight timber structure follows the steep terrain with a continuous accessible ramp, free of stairs. Wider terraced platforms serve as places to rest, gather and host public exhibitions. The permeable facade acts as a buffer between visitors and residents. Precision-milled engineered timber refers to traditional Korean building methods and lowers embodied carbon. The design treats heritage preservation and daily local life as compatible.

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Designer: Dilek Karaman Work: Villa Classification: Architecture

Terraced Horizon

Terraced Horizon Villa is a contemporary hillside residence conceived as a continuation of its forested slope. Layered horizontal terraces step with the terrain, embedding lower floors while projecting upper volumes through deep cantilevers. Panoramic low e glazing and pronounced horizontal shadow lines draw daylight deep inside and extend views, reinforcing a continuous relationship between interior life and landscape. The steep topography is reconfigured into a calm sequence of inhabitable platforms and outdoor horizons, where shaded edges and terraces support comfort across seasons.

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Designer: Junghee Lee Work: Government Office Classification: Architecture

Miryang Election Platform

Seen from the street, the Miryang Election Platform conveys institutional calm through disciplined, understated architecture. A brick tile facade, laid out in measured rhythmic repetition, gives the building a grounded presence that fits naturally within the surrounding urban fabric. On the left, a rounded stair volume offsets the rectilinear office mass, softening the elevation while drawing daylight into shared interior spaces. The curve acts as a discreet signature, suggesting openness without losing authority. Together, these moves translate civic trust into built form.

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Designer: Yuki Yamada Work: Religious Institution Classification: Architecture

Chosen Temple

Chosen Temple is a small Buddhist temple located in Asakuchi City, Okayama, Japan. The building is made of reinforced concrete, with exterior walls clad in carefully selected Japanese granite. Traditional Japanese woodworking is used inside, creating a calm and warm interior. The temple stands on a site of 950 square meters and has a building area of 77 square meters. The design places the temple in harmony with the surrounding landscape and offers visitors a quiet place for prayer and meditation while enjoying the view.

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Designer: C.M.Chao. Architect & Planners Work: Library Aesthetic Living Center Classification: Architecture

Mailiao Township

Mailiao Township is a cultural park with a library and a cultural living center in coastal Yunlin, Taiwan. The two buildings frame an egg-shaped courtyard, the Aesthetic Incubation Plaza, which offers shade and shelter from strong sun and coastal winds. Deep overhangs, double-layered walls and semi-outdoor spaces support comfort through the year. Brick, long used in rural Taiwan, wraps the upper facades, while recessed glass at ground level links inside and outside. The library is planned around the needs of seniors and children.

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Designer: Syn Architects Work: Gallery Classification: Architecture

Tiangang Art Center

Tiangang Art Center is a renovated building in Baoding that houses art galleries, a hotel and catering services. The project covers 2586.95 square meters and reuses an original semi-circular concrete frame structure that had been left unused. The main body is coated with white granular paint to keep the color pure, giving the clean geometric form the look of a large object that catches sunlight. A curved skylight spreads even daylight through the main spaces, creating changing light and shadow during the day. The center serves as a gathering place for artists and art events.

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Designer: Haisheng Xu Work: Exhibition Classification: Architecture

Volcano Visitor Center

Volcano Visitor Center is a visitor center in Iceland that presents geological, historical, and cultural information about Icelandic volcanoes. The building covers 7,300 square feet and is set into the volcanic terrain, joining subterranean spaces with a sculpted roofscape. The material palette is simple, consisting of concrete, metal, and glass, with a green roof designed to support local plants. Parametric design tools shaped the curved form while keeping a rational geometry. Circulation guides visitors to experience the horizon, the land, and nature.

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Designer: ZEHUA ZHANG Work: Cultural Center Classification: Architecture

Time Catalyst

Time Catalyst is a proposal that adapts a former winery in Valencia for public cultural use. The design retains the existing structure and brick wall while introducing additional openings to improve light, access, and connections between interior and exterior. By removing portions of the roof, the designer creates an internal courtyard that brings daylight and landscape into the building. The interior accommodates studios, exhibitions, and community activities, balancing preservation with selective interventions to allow the building to remain in use.

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Designer: Nobuaki Miyashita Work: Residential House Classification: Architecture

Kinuta

Kinuta is a residential house built on a narrow urban plot in Tokyo, Japan. The site is 3.6 m wide, and setback rules reduce the effective frontage to under 2.6 m. The living, dining, and kitchen area is placed on the second floor to gain privacy and southern daylight. A walled courtyard with a timber deck and planted green walls turns the setback zone into a quiet outdoor room. The entrance, corridor, and stair form a linear sequence that emphasizes depth. Dark ceramic siding with a dry joint system keeps the facade joints continuous, including at corners.

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Designer: Seiwa Corporation Co., Ltd. Work: Collective House Classification: Architecture

Urban Dialogue

Calibrated Coexistence is a pair of residential buildings placed in an urban redevelopment district. The two reinforced concrete structures rise to 32.5 and 43.3 meters and face each other across a new street. The facades are formed by modular screens of milled cedar and polished anodized aluminum, set in three calibrated inclinations. The angled screens moderate light and airflow and balance privacy with open views. Double height partitions at the ground floor carry planting that extends greenery into the streetscape.

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Designer: gad Work: Multifunctional Area Classification: Architecture

International Islands Tourism Conference

International Islands is a conference center located in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China. The Maritime Silk Road is the main theme of the design. The building form derives from Tang and Song traditions and adopts the classic ratio and pattern of the roof and wall of the Tang Dynasty. Slightly inclined walls follow the traditional method of thick lower pillars and thin upper pillars. White stone at the base contrasts with the natural-color cornice. The spanning form links the mountains with the sea, and an open landscape corridor brings greenery to the city.

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Designer: Quincy Li Work: Display Center Classification: Architecture

West Suburban Elegance

West Suburban Elegance is a display center in Sijing Town, Shanghai, China. Sijing has a history of more than a thousand years, and the design follows the local settlement form to create a rich sequence of spaces. Small scattered volumes echo the surrounding residential texture, while flat and sloped roofs are combined to vary the ceiling height. Corridors, courtyards, water, stone and planting are arranged with traditional garden techniques and a modern architectural language. The building covers a floor area of 600 square meters on a site of 3,300 square meters.

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