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James Tu

Hospitality Hall

Friday, 1 May 2026

Grand Overture

This hospitality interior is defined by an architectural rhythm of arches that guide the flow of light and shadow through multiple levels, creating an elegant and immersive spatial journey. The design layers off white stone, warm timber, and subtle metallic accents to form a balanced composition of texture and tone. Each surface is carefully refined to evoke both visual harmony and tactile warmth, offering guests an experience of understated luxury and timeless sophistication.

Kris Lin

Club House

Thursday, 30 April 2026

Timeles Elegance

This premium community clubhouse seamlessly blends social, fitness, and leisure spaces, fostering a warm and connected community. It features a library, dining hall, swimming pool, gym, and yoga room, encouraging wellness and interaction among residents.To enhance social engagement and family bonds, the design prioritizes openness and comfort despite limited natural light and a deep spatial layout. A holistic approach integrates architecture, interiors, and landscape, creating a harmonious and inviting environment.

Dmytro Shakal

Luxury Boutique Resort

Wednesday, 29 April 2026

Jumba Nungwi

Jumba Nungwi is a luxury boutique resort concept in Zanzibar combining hotel facilities and private villas within a carefully zoned tropical landscape. Inspired by local vernacular architecture, the design uses terracotta tones, natural materials and layered facades to enhance ventilation, shade and climatic comfort. Inspired by local vernacular huts, the architecture combines terracotta tones, natural textures, and soft organic forms. A secondary facade system filters sunlight and enhances ventilation, creating a stable microclimate. The project merges traditional principles and biomimetic.

Fumihiko Fujii

Hotel

Tuesday, 28 April 2026

OMO5 Hakodate

As a brand of urban hotels that boost your travel excitement, Hoshino Resorts is expanding its OMO hotels across Japan. This time, an existing hotel in a prime location in front of Hakodate Station, Hokkaido, has been rebranded as an OMO property, with extensions and renovations. This hotel's concept of 120 percent Hakodate incorporates unique local elements of Hakodate that are expressed throughout the hotel, aiming for a design that enhances the excitement of travel in true OMO style.

TORU TERAOKA

Hotels

Monday, 27 April 2026

Three Roofs Timber Hall

Set within the forests of Karuizawa, this hall is conceived as a place where architecture, nature, and community intersect. Developed over nearly a decade through collaboration between client, builder, and architect, it forms part of an evolving landscape with dog friendly facilities. The building serves as a communal lounge and indoor training space. When large openings are opened, the interior aligns with the forest, allowing landscape to flow through. A layered roof brings soft daylight, creating a calm atmosphere. Simple timber construction shows how modest means integrate with nature.

Muchuan Xu

Resort Hotel

Sunday, 26 April 2026

DHAWA Jinan Daming Lake

The feature of Dhawa Jinan Daming Lake is that the building was the Jiangxi Guild Hall, which was built in the Qianlong era (the middle and late 18th century), involving historical and cultural protection buildings. As the idea of the design, new knowledge of hometown extracts the traditional elements and culture through translation, constructs the design formal framework, and endows the original traditional architecture with new composition, material, and texture.

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Grand Overture

Timeles Elegance

Jumba Nungwi

OMO5 Hakodate

Three Roofs Timber Hall

DHAWA Jinan Daming Lake

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