Harrierfall Hostel / DL Atelier

B&B and Games. At the end of 2020, near the Great Wall at Shuiguan in Huairou, Beijing, we designed three projects for Xiaoxi B&B simultaneously, perhaps it is more appropriate to call them rural hotels than B&Bs. I have designed and run such hotels before, and I would love to have a unique living experience of "breaking away from daily life" and a lifestyle of "here and now". Architecture, as a carrier of this conception, is not a "home building" in the first place, for it holds little real life and memory of the owner, instead it resembles a "theme park" with the characteristics above, a reciprocating game between reality and fantasy. Since it is a game, there must be rules. The owner’s requirements are simple: to keep the characters of the three existing houses. And we will make up the rules.

Last Week to Vote for the 2023 ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards Finalists

It has been a vibrant first week of voting for the Building of the Year Awards. With more than 50,000 votes, gathered up till now, this prize has shown to be, one of the most relevant and democratic in the architecture community.

Sunrise Studio / Bark Design Architects

Bark Architects designed Sunrise Studio as a small tree house with big views. It recedes into and embraces the surrounding bush landscape whilst embracing its expansive coastal views over the Pacific Ocean. This two-bedroom studio is for our client’s daughter and grandson to live connected to family but with privacy and their own secluded space. It is a separate dwelling sited adjacent to an original Quadroped house designed by Gabriel Poole in 1983. Gabriel Poole (1934–2020) was a celebrated Queensland architect known for innovative residential projects and pioneering low-cost, prefabricated designs.

The Circus House / CUBO Design Architect

“Spending time with cars” is the concept behind this vacation house intended as a fun retreat for a car-loving client and friends. In contrast to a typical house with a built-in garage, the aim here was to blur the boundaries between people, cars, and rooms in a relaxed environment.

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