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Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital nurse dormitory, designed in Bangkok by Thailand-based architecture office Plan Architects, started to serve.

The only house designed by TEAM Project Architecture was built in Istanbul in 2019. The biggest challenge of our project was the disconnection effect of the transformation we will make, since it is a twin villa.

New York-based architecture studio MN DPC transformed an old shipbuilding factory in Brooklyn into a headquarters for a firm that manufactures military supplies and equipment. The 10,000-square-meter facility unites the company's once-dispersed management, design, testing, manufacturing, manufacturing and meeting facilities under one roof.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has completed a circular toilet in a Tokyo park as his contribution to the Tokyo Toilet project.Built in Jingu-Dori Park, the toilet was created as part of a scheme run by non-profit Nippon Foundation to upgrade public facilities in the city's downtown Shibuya district.The initiative has already seen by toilets built by Ando's fellow Japanese Pritzker Prize-winners Fumihiko Maki and Shigeru Ban.

Technology manufacturer Apple has revealed its spherical Apple Marina Bay Sands store in Singapore designed by architecture studio Foster + Partners, which it describes as its "most ambitious retail project".Built in Singapore's Marina Bay alongside the Moshe Safdie-designed Marina Bay Sands hotel, the Apple Store is completely surrounded by water.The transparent glass sphere designed by Foster + Partners has been revealed ahead of the store's opening tomorrow. Instagram users had previously posted images of the globe-shaped store wrapped in a grey covering.

Architecture studio Red Deer carried out an understated overhaul of a centuries-old mansion near Hertfordshire, England to form the Birch hotel, which is designed to challenge the idea of luxury. Birch is set on a 55-acre estate in the English town of Cheshunt, occupying a heritage-listed brick mansion that dates back to 1763.

Organisers of the annual Antepavilion commission in London are fighting to prevent "oppressive" Hackney Council from demolishing a series of subversive canalside pavilions. The local authority is demanding the removal of a series of architectural structures at Hoxton Docks on Regent's Canal in east London, built as part of the annual competition run by arts and architecture charity Antepavilion and organised by the Architecture Foundation.

Surman Weston has built a house in Surbiton, south-west London, with a facade that riffs off the mock-Tudor facades of the surrounding suburban homes. Named Ditton Hill House, the home was designed to combine...

Schemata Architects has renovated a traditional sento, or public bathhouse, in Tokyo adding modern touches including a bar serving beer.

Named Koganeyu after the after the famous Koganeyu Onsen baths in Sapporo, the project involved refurbishing a public bathhouse that was originally built in 1985.

With the advent of coronavirus, The entire community of architects and designers in the world have resorted to working from home. With the pandemic spreading like wildfire, adopting this new work culture is posed as a challenge to many. Although some of us are loving this arrangement, most of us are dying to get back to our office life. Lets discuss some of the mundane problems we face everyday! "LOCKED DOWN ARCHITECTS"