Pointe Living Apartment / Luigi Rosselli Architects

Set between an underground station on Sydney's rail network, and a busy thoroughfare that connects the city to the harbourside suburbs and beaches to the east, Point Living is a nine-storey apartment development designed as a model of hybrid housing that provides comfortably appointed accommodation with the scale benefits of a single residential dwelling, but with a level of convenience that would appeal, in particular, to downsizers.

Half Day House / Cabinet YFY

This house was originally built in the 1960s and once served as an auxiliary dormitory for the Japanese Navy's Sixth Fuel Factory during the period of Japanese rule. After renovation, it was transformed into a hybrid space for both living and working. Architect Lin combined his experiences exploring Eastern gardens with childhood memories of life in the community, weaving together elements of nature, historical memory, and religious imagination within the space. He sought to blur the boundaries between these scenes, allowing modern life to reorganize their relationships. In doing so, this historic house avoids being forcibly restored to its past form, disconnected from contemporary life, or facing demolition.

Zhuhai Planning Science and Technology Innovation Center / nsaaa + Zhuhai Institute of Urban Planning & Design

In architectural discourse, regionalism is no longer a novel concept. For small-scale projects, increasing numbers of architects strive to interpret locality. Yet for large urban developments, especially high-rises, regional identity often seems inherently suppressed. Most designs still place their focus on being formally innovative with the aid of evolving curtain wall technologies. Such form-driven approaches strip architecture of authenticity, allowing buildings to be placed anywhere without context. The highest objective of being iconic statements, mask hollow design logic and capital-driven agendas. This rigid separation of "bones" and "skin" subtly regresses modernism into classical formalism, reducing architecture to ornamented objects with costly exteriors—disconnected from their sites and internal functions.

Cabin in the Woods / Ediz Demirel Works

Cabin in the Woods is a small-scale cabin project designed for short-term rentals, located on a hill near a village in the Kozak Plateau of Pergamon, far from urban areas. Resting on one of the existing dry stone terrace walls of an old vineyard, the structure makes minimal intervention in the landscape. Yet, with its steel frame and metal cladding, it consciously stands apart from its natural surroundings.

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