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The site had been left undeveloped as it was a part of steep land. The form of the architecture, an angled volume, emerged from the topography of the site. Inside are five different levels, each one with a specific function.  Matsuyama Architect and Associates

The Project arises in a small land with a slightly slope, in the vicinity of Ansião Village. Bruno Dias Arquitectura

The former Lourcine barracks are located in Paris’ 13th district and comprise a parade ground with accompanying military buildings erected in 1875.  ChartierDalix

With breathtaking views of Mt. Rokko to the north and a vast waterscape to the south, Kobe sits as a strip of land with phenomenal views both inland and to the sea. Richard Beard Architects

Costa Rica Treehouse is inspired by the jungle of this densely forested site on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. The clients are surfers as well as avid environmentalists, and this project reflects their deep commitment to sustainable land management in Costa Rica. Olson Kundig Architects

These two houses are built on a plot of land densely populated by tall, slender pines, young cork trees, and holm oaks in a part of the Costa Brava where cork was formerly produced. Emiliano López Monica Rivera Arquitectos

On a wooded lot on the shore of Charlebois Lake, the clients wanted to build a contemporary house, luminous and open to the nature. They wanted most of the spaces of the house to be level with the land. Paul Bernier Architecte

LAN Architecture has delivered the 360˚ View Tower, a panoramic 18-story tower in Nantes, France. This new apartment building is located on the Brossette site, which completes the transformation of the Boulevard Vincent-Gâche, with the largest project built on the Île de Nantes. This... LAN Architecture

The concept for the siting and construction of the new visitor center for Seigneurie-des-Aulnaies, a registered Quebec cultural heritage site, is grounded in the characteristic elements of the surrounding landscape: the river, bridges, forest and stone buildings. The architects opted for a Land... Anne Carrier architecture

Located in an area of neighborhoods called Jardins, with single-family houses and green areas listed as heritage, this house has 550m2 of built area divided into two levels, the ground and upper floors. The original land had a four-meter slope height in relation to the level of the street. Drucker Architecture

The ASMA (American Society for Muslim Advancement) and Büro Koray Duman are working on a new cultural center prototype that aims for the full integration of American Muslims into society while promoting and enriching their religious identity. The new center will be in New York City and is... Büro Koray Duman Architects

Lane 189, located in the Putuo district in central Shanghai - opposite Chang Shou Park and close to the Jade Buddha Temple - is designed to provide a lifestyle destination for Shanghai’s young professionals. UNStudio

Located on the shores of Lake Memphremagog in the Eastern Townships, the House Lachance is a secondary residence designed for two clients who are native to the region, and currently oscillate between Montreal and Magog. Rapidly, the two clients who love music, nature and the land expressed their... ACDF Architecture

The client of this project, working in an advertising agency as a graphic designer, acquired a piece of land on a hilltop with a good view—then requested the design of a residence with airiness and openness. APOLLO / Satoshi Kurosaki

A verdant tower of green in the heart of Singapore’s dense Central Business District, Oasia Hotel Downtown is a prototype of land use intensification for the urban tropics. Unlike the sealed skyscrapers that evolved out of the temperate west, this tropical “living tower” offers... WOHA

Orange Architects has won the closed competition for Terra Project, an exclusive residential tower at the beach in Limassol, Cyprus, commissioned by Masharii & The Land. Orange Architects

Fletcher Priest is delighted that One New Ludgate has won the Developer Project of the Year with our client Land Securities at the LEAF awards. Entries were received... Fletcher Priest Architects

Situated at the end of Avenue Lefaucheux, the plot of land is located at the entrance to the joint development zone by the quay. Thanks to its position, it has exceptional views over the Seine, with the island of Billancourt opposite and the new urban park anchoring the riverbank.  Agence Beckmann-N’Thépé

This newly built house is located in the conservation area of Hampstead village in north-west London. Claudio Silvestrin Architects

The House in the Woods project site was an interesting challenge for the working team Officina29 Architetti, where the strong, powerful presence of oak trees and the sloping terrain imposed the design that blurs the boundary between building and land Officina29 Architetti

Located on slightly sloping land on the shore of the Gate Lake, the chalet takes place on the edge of a cedar wood with majestic mature incline trunk trees. Although the footprint of this two-story building is substantial, because the roof slope follows the landscape the impact of it site... BOOM TOWN

Surly Brewing MSP is designed as a destination brewery in Minneapolis’s Prospect Park neighborhood. The 8.3 acres for the project, on a brownfield site, is comprised of 7 separate parcels of land divided by the municipalities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. HGA

For this house-in-a-backyard, otherwise known as an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU), Waechter Architecture took Portland’s increased density movement and used it as an opportunity to explore housing iconoiconography, sculptural forms, dual-purpose elements, and explore how to massage small... Waechter Architecture

Consisting of primarily collective and social housing, the urban development project accommodating roughly 10,500 people and 50% of Lormont's population is now complete. LAN Architecture

Our clients wanted a glass house. The difficulty was that they wanted this house placed on a visually exposed 50’ x 100’ city lot that they owned in NE Portland. This posed the challenge of designing a glass house with privacy. Waechter Architecture

Born from an extreme transformation of a typical 90s bungalow, the “Maison Terrebonne” is located on a vast wooded plot of land. la SHED architecture

The G family home in Sorengo, on the edge of Lugano in Ticino, is the category of villa that Palladio put forward as a contrast with the town house.
 The site, a long narrow strip of land on a steep slope, is part of a hilly area, bordered on its sho SCAPE

KKA together with Riksbyggen has won a land-use competition in Helsingborg, Sweden. The proposal treated one block in the expanding harbor area Oceanhamnen. Kjellander Kaminsky Architecture

The Spirulina Fountain displaces the culture of landscape architecture and gardening towards contemporary issues of land and urban farming in restrained areas. BUREAU A

The architectural practice Kjellander + Sjöberg has, along with Diligentia, won a land transfer competition in Rosendal with the proposal Woodhouse. Kjellander + Sjöberg

The climbing gym of Bressanone was built on a prominent spot regarding the urbanism of the city, and in this way the building received an ambitious aesthetics and design. Lanz + Mutschlechner