A Forest Where Luminous Green Forms Resonate and Reverberate – An office and retail space for an automotive enterprise. Envisioned as a landscape of creativity, the space was conceived to embody the company’s signature hue of fresh green, an image of new vitality, and to serve as a catalyst for the spontaneous exchange of ideas among those who work within it.
A former 1978 campus building at Narxoz University in Almaty has been transformed into a contemporary Business School that redefines how executive education is experienced in Central Asia, turning a forgotten architectural feature into the driving force of a new institutional identity.
Sanofi Offices in Tehran were entrusted to Persian Garden Studio in the interior design phase. This office space, with an area of 680 square meters, has been designed as a work, interaction, and meeting space with the idea of a hybrid space that emphasizes creating flexible and diverse workspaces.
A tiered gathering place that draws students from the campus center – Steeped in history and tradition, Hannan University is a private liberal arts university celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2025, located in a lush green area along the Yamato River, to the south of central Osaka. Ahead of this milestone year, alongside a faculty reorganization, the university has advanced plans to integrate the previously separate south campus into the main campus grounds.
This building is the new construction for our architectural office and woodworking shop. Why did we, an architectural firm, start a woodworking shop? In Okinawa, it has become common for many buildings to use reinforced concrete (RC) frames with aluminum sashes for commercial buildings. However, for many of our buildings, we have designed and installed wooden sashes for openings—elements people directly touch in daily life and which greatly affect the quality of the space—rather than bland aluminum sashes.
Sited on nearly 2 hectares, this house takes advantage of its secluded and elevated position, capturing views across rolling hills to the Swan Valley, Perth CBD, and coastal plain. Positioned on the brow of a hill and located among mature trees to reduce its visual impact – and constructed with rammed earth and rural vernacular materials – it blends into the landscape.
Sited on nearly 2 hectares, this house takes advantage of its secluded and elevated position, capturing views across rolling hills to the Swan Valley, Perth CBD, and coastal plain. Positioned on the brow of a hill and located among mature trees to reduce its visual impact – and constructed with rammed earth and rural vernacular materials – it blends into the landscape.
SYMBOLPLUS Office is located in a timber building owned by architect Akio Hayashi, whose long-standing advocacy for natural materials became the starting point of the renovation. The brief was clear: avoid synthetic materials and work with what already existed. Rather than pursuing visual impact, the project focuses on continuity―between architecture, material, and time.
SYMBOLPLUS Office is located in a timber building owned by architect Akio Hayashi, whose long-standing advocacy for natural materials became the starting point of the renovation. The brief was clear: avoid synthetic materials and work with what already existed. Rather than pursuing visual impact, the project focuses on continuity―between architecture, material, and time.
‘Kulhads’ or ‘mud cups’ (terracotta cups) used to be a familiar sight at railway stations, used to sip hot tea or cool buttermilk (lassi), and eventually thrown away across beaches and train tracks in India.
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