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British artist and creative lead Wolfgang Buttress' bee-inspired honeycomb Pavilion called 'The Hive Pavilion' has now been moved to Kew Gardens and reopened to the public on June 2016. Buttress' pavilion was originally created for the Milano Expo 2015 and will be on view until  November 2017 at the Kew Gardens. The honeycomb structure attracted over 3.3 million visitors at the Milano Expo 2015 and became one of the main attractions.

Beomki Lee's project seeks to redefine the notion of passageway and to find a way for revitalizing negative spaces in urban fabric, by offering human scaled architecture and encouraging the public to create their own spaces.

Called 'Ding Hui Yuan Zen & Tea Chamber', He Wei has rebuilt Tea Chamber into an office in the factory's latest renovation when the old factory experienced several times of renovation after its construction in 1970s.

Designed for an MIT University Professor, his wife, and their young son, the outer facade of the house creates a visual contrast between the crisp geometry of the house and the sinuous landscape.

The Blue Suites were designed as a continuing refurbishment of the hotel that KLab designed before and those fluid spaces emerge new type of rooms, using elements from the Cocoon Suites designed by the office in 2012. The projects includes a new open air bar called 'Sky Bar', and a gym.

Titled 'M Social Singapore', the new hotel has 293 rooms and thrives on an interplay of friendship, community and new experiences. It is built on the democratic premise of giving the best, while being affordable to the greatest number of people, particularly those with a millennial mindset. Guided by these principles, Starck conceptualised the project as an avant-garde laboratory in the ever-evolving neighbourhood of Robertson Quay.

The surrounding landscape was the starting point of design approach for Fran Silvestre, founder and design director of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in Valencia. Fran Silvestre's buildings always try to combine local materiality with natural environment through innovative, simplistic, pure but elegance design forms, which brings new formal identities in relation to different contexts.

AMO conceived new catwalk as a 'stratification of architectures', which creates a psychedelic effect throughout the space. The studio used the remnants of its design from the previous show on the periphery of the room as foundation and visible background for the new scenography, but the center is freed to host the new set.

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Snøhetta has collaborated with Aesop's ongoing projects and it opened three stores in Düsseldorf,  Singapore and Berlin.

The largest cultural project in Québec, the Pierre Lassonde pavilion is opening its doors on the Grande Allée in Québec City.

Mikou Studio's new swimming pool in the Fort at Issy les Moulineaux was designed according to a totally ecological and environment-friendly bioclimatic approach. The building’s envelope is created to attenuate the linear effect of the massing and to introduce a variation in the visual perception according to the viewing angle.

The store is a rectangular space with an area of more than 66 meter-square. Lily Nails is a nail and eyelash salon that owns numerous chain stores in Beijing and Shanghai.

The studio's basic design approach was to provide a breathtaking view over Oslo, it was a natural direction to emphasize this quality and to the strengthen the concept behind the summit. By establishing a highly reflective fourth wall reflecting a warm light out in the space, the wall disappears in the reflections from the cityscape, accentuating the space’s exceptional location.

Designed by prominent Japanese architect Tadao Ando and developed by Sumaida + Khurana in collaboration with Michael Gabellini, the project covers 32,000 square feet and consists of seven stories with seven residences. 

The office building covers 95,000m2 area at site, harmonized with transparent facade and linear 'pleats', which are made of aluminum mesh in -18mm width-like woven lace. The most attractive architectural element of the Hongkou Soho is the skin that creates a soft dress for women.

Li Xiang creates the most beautiful bookstore for readers, and constantly strives to work on the most culturally artistic bookstore, from learning how to walk, to live, to brave and to persevere. Zhongshuge Hangzhou is a new artistic- but probably the most triggering reading and working space of Hangzhou, which is shaped through the cultural domains of China.