Chateau Cantemerle Winery / BPM Architectes
Located in Macau, in the Haut-Médoc region, Château Cantemerle is one of the oldest wine estates in Bordeaux. The estate extends over twenty-eight hectares of wooded parkland.
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Changzhou Tian An Clubhouse Renovation / HATCH Architects
Located on West Tai Lake in Changzhou, Tian An Clubhouse originally served the surrounding villa community for over a decade. As residents’ lifestyles evolved, the building required renewal. HATCH Architects was commissioned to redesign the clubhouse with an architectural language that bridges Oriental philosophy and contemporary comfort—reviving a sense of harmony between nature and order.
Pré de l’Enclos 2 Housing Rehabilitation / SOL Architecture & Urbanisme
In France, where the housing crisis meets the urgency of energy transition, rehabilitation has become both a civic act and an architectural challenge. For SOL Architecture & Urbanisme, a Paris-based practice specialising in occupied-site upgrades, the transformation of Pré de l’Enclos 2 in Villiers-le-Bel exemplifies a new way to renew the existing through design, participation, and care.
Manor Mirage / BUZZ/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang
Manor Mirage is located in the wilderness of Huai’an County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, adjacent to the Zhangbei Grassland. Its design core lies in the lightweight translation and functional regeneration of the abandoned concrete bridge on the site. With “mirage” as a metaphor, the project, on the basis of respecting the site memory and grassland culture, constructs a spatial form with both a sense of disappearance and transience through low-intervention strategies, realizing the dialectical coexistence of architecture and nature, tradition and modernity.
La Seigneurie Funeral Home / ultralocal architectes
In late 2020, La Seigneurie Funeral Home approached ultralocal architects to undertake a major renovation and expansion of their building in the Beauport neighborhood of Québec City. The initial request was to double the existing floor area by adding a second level. However, early in the design process, our team proposed a different, more meaningful approach: to expand horizontally rather than vertically.
House Z / Benoit Rotteleur Architecte
This house was built in the 1980s, following the design codes of the time: a semi-subterranean ground floor housing the garage and boiler room, a raised floor above the garden for the living areas, and an attic converted into bedrooms. In the early 2000s, an extension was built on the garden side to accommodate a large living room, but it quickly showed signs of deterioration. After a decade of legal proceedings, the owners were finally compensated for the damages suffered. They then decided to move on from those difficult years by considering the construction of a new house. However, the architect proposed a different approach: to retain as much of the existing structure as possible and demolish only the damaged sections.
House in the Ostuni Countryside / Tela Architettura
The project completes and reinterprets a residence in the countryside of Ostuni, surrounded by centuries old olive trees and long views toward the Adriatic Sea and the white skyline of the city. When the owners first encountered the site, the house existed only as an unfinished concrete shell abandoned on the slope. Instead of demolishing it, they chose to work with what was already there, using the existing volume as the starting point for a new spatial and material vision.
The Blue Box / Bruzkus Greenberg
When the clients found the rooftop apartment in Prenzlauer Berg, the thing they liked the most about it was how the wind blew over the roofs from one side of the apartment to the other when all the doors to each of the rooms were open. There were a lot of walls making a lot of small spaces that were cut off from each other.
Loos Music Conservatory / Beal Blanckaert Architectes
The project involves the redevelopment of a former building that was once part of the industrial site of the Léonard Danel printing house.
Greenkamp House / Atelier ST | Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH
In the west of Berlin, nestled between the historic Grunewald forest and the old AVUS route, lies the Eichkamp estate, designed by Bruno Taut – a residential neighborhood that was conceived as a forest estate in the early 1920s. The plot is one of the last undeveloped plots in this unique ensemble. The special character of the estate, characterized by old deciduous trees, small detached houses, and an almost village-like atmosphere, despite its proximity to the ICC, can still be clearly felt here. The immediate neighborhood is heterogeneous, combining public buildings such as daycare centers and schools with private single-family homes from different eras. A new residential building has been created in this evolved context, which blends in respectfully and only catches the eye at second glance.