Walker Hall Graduate Student Center / LMS Architects

Walker Hall is an adaptive reuse of a 1927 building at the core of the University of California, Davis campus. The project transformed a vacant, seismically unsafe building into a graduate and professional student center with meeting rooms, a lecture hall, and sophisticated active-learning classrooms that serve the entire campus. It coalesces history, community, and advanced educational environments at a hub of university life.

Urban Gauze Textile House and Office / DOT

Surat, a historic trade city, has been a textile hub since the Mughal era. Today, it is known for its large-scale production of silk sarees, cotton fabrics, machine embroidery, and predominantly polyester textiles. Alongside, the city has fostered a dense network of chemical and textile dyeing industries.

No. 8 House in Dongnan Village / xiān Architects

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a young man shut down his start-up company Someet, a platform that has organized tens of thousands of self-initiated interest offline activities for young people. Then he decided to move from Beijing to Shaxi, hoping to live freely and settle down here through this building. This is a spring-like all year round Chinese ancient town, people have lived and thrived here for over a thousand years. The Bai people have lived here for generations. Here, anyone who can walk can dance and anyone who can speak can sing. All of he people often hold gatherings.

St Kentigerns Childcare Centre / Smith Architects

The project brief was to craft a unique early childhood centre that would inspire children to develop confidence and humility through a sense of community. A detailed site analysis looked at possible locations for the building within the school. Access and car parking requirements indicated the optimal location, further reinforced by the extensive bush-lined outlook on three sides.

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