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Atelier Chen Hung’s Mapleton House in Australia. Seen from the road at dusk with shutters open, letting out light from inside and showing the deep blue sky and the view to the valley below

Mapleton House by Atelier Chen Hung in Mapleton, Australia

A house in the mountains near Brisbane by Atelier Chen Hung is a contemporary and generous take on the picturesque

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Casa Cosmos by S-AR in Puerto Escondido, Mexico

A holiday retreat by S-AR on the Pacific coast of Mexico exposes visitors to an intimate contact with its surroundings

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The Old Byre by Gianni Botsford Architects on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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Déchelette Architecture, France
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Life lesson: Le Vau Pavilion in Paris, France, by L’Atelier Senzu
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BookWorm in Mumbai, India, by Nudes
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Cultural centre and kindergarten in Tlatenchi, Mexico, by Taller CD
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Railway Forest Park in Xalapa, Mexico by JSa
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Muelle de San Blas in San Blas, Mexico by Colectivo C733
The Ger Innovation Hub was designed by the Hong Kong-based architecture research group Rural Urban Framework (RUF) with the Mongolian non-profit GerHub

Ger Innovation Hub in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia by Rural Urban Framework
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