Yada Theater / goa

Yada Theater is located in Yangxian Xishan of Yixing, a county-level city of Jiangsu Province in China's southeastern region rich in cultural and natural resources. Since the Song dynasty, Yixing has been the capital of Chinese pottery production, known for its clayware. In addition, it contains China's largest bamboo forest, a significant tourist attraction. In the contemporary context of urbanization, Yangxian Xishan is a successful rural revitalization practice of Yixing. It is the first small town development to achieve territorial openness and self-operation, and Yada Theater is the cultural landmark of the town. Adjacent to Yangxian Lake, the site is in a hilly terrain covered by 400 hectares of primitive bamboo forests. Mountains, bamboo groves, and lakes comprise the local landscape system. Within this unique geographical condition, Yada Theater incorporates existing ecological aesthetics into its design. It develops a new approach to a cultural venue by integrating architectural morphology with nature in a manner that embraces modernity while conserving regional identity.

Chengdu Co-Innovation and Cooperation Center / Laguarda.Low Architects

Designed by Laguarda.Low Architects, Chengdu Co-Innovation and Cooperation Center has a total GBA of 150,000 square meters that seamlessly integrates office, dwelling, and retail uses. Its core design concept is to create a vibrant and pleasant urban ecological public space while giving the project a distinct and recognizable form, and promoting communication and interaction between people. The curvilinear architectural form creates a dialogue with the surrounding high-rise buildings in a sweeping gesture within the urban grid, forms a dialogue with the surrounding environment in the contrast, and creates a new ecological urban and business space.

aMa House / XTEN Architecture

Located above Sunset Boulevard in the hills of the Pacific Palisades, the aMa House is a custom home designed for a married couple and their art collection. The site is wrapped by a curving hillside street to the North, rising nearly thirty feet along the length of the property. To the South, the site opens up to views over Santa Monica Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The mass of the building follows the form of the street, beginning as a 2-story structure and gradually fully embedding itself into the hillside. This is expressed as a solid curved wall, embracing the site, creating privacy from the passing cars. 

Ridge House / Estudio Diagonal

Looking for new ways to traditional barn-house is one of the most common exercises in contemporary architecture practice, and even one of the most applied in the south of Chile.

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