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Xiangchun (toona sinensis) holds a unique significance in the lives of people in Shandong, symbolizing nostalgia and regional culture. Often rain-grown, its seeds drift with the wind. Due of their intense spring aroma, it becomes a key ingredient for “tasting the spring.” In the valley of Zibo City, Shandong, four Xiangchun seeds once took root and grew beside a solitary rock, eventually transforming into four large trees encircling the rock. They witness the natural succession and have become symbols carrying local memory and emotion, forming the core and narrative starting point for the “Circle Pit” installation.

A joyful and thoughtful reinvention, Treehouse stands as a generous community gesture. A home where passersby can’t help but stop and stare, and the owners marvel at their bespoke forever home, which will serve them throughout all stages of life. “Though not perched among the trees itself, there’s an undeniable feeling of living within the canopy, the lively song of cockatoos just outside their bedroom window.”

on display at the museum of the city of new york, the model by artist joe macken takes over the dinan miller gallery, where the public can study the city ‘from above.’

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In the city of San Bernardino, within a residential development set on a hillside overlooking Lake Ypacaraí, this project consists of two twin houses designed to engage directly with the landscape.

In the city of San Bernardino, within a residential development set on a hillside overlooking Lake Ypacaraí, this project consists of two twin houses designed to engage directly with the landscape.

Warsaw’s HOOD represents an exercise in duality across 108 square meters. Located at 37 Poznańska Street, the space operates on a continuous cycle, seamlessly transforming from morning coffee service to evening sets. The project consciously eschews decoration, offering instead a dialogue between raw materiality and surgically precise geometry, where calm and dynamism coexist.

Excess space is a luxury that most of us do not enjoy while our kids are living at home. But many of my clients find that once their grown children have moved out of the house and established their own households, they suddenly have extra unused space…

Site – A gentle slope, of 1/10 towards west with oaks, fruit trees, and a vast landscape of pastures, and with a backdrop of forest, inevitably demanded an envelope consisting of individual bodies, carefully situated within existing plateaus, flower beds, and ground conditions. Anything else would have posed as a big wall with a subterranean level, with all the problems that come with it.