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School of the Future III | Shenzhen

A visionary school campus prototype for Shenzhen, passive bio climatic systems, and flexible learning environments for 21st-century education.

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Helsinki Museum of Architecture and Design

Helsinki Museum of Architecture and Design is UFO Architecture’s 2024 international competition entry for a new cultural institution on Helsinki’s waterfront, combining museum programme, public space and civic landscape.

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N-Tower – Seoul

Façade and exterior architecture study for a new office tower in central Seoul, exploring curtain wall design, urban windows, vertical fins and a dynamic colour gradient.

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Sarajevo National Concert Hall Competition

1st prize international 2-stage competition proposal for Sarajevo National Concert Hall, combining a 1,500-seat vineyard hall, 500-seat chamber music hall tucked under a continuous landscape extending into the underground and the auditoria.

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Daebudo Golf Resort Fields

Daebudo Golf Resort Fields is a landscape and prototype design study by UFO Architecture for a residential development connected to a golf resort on Daebudo Island, Korea.

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Shenzhen Voxel Tower

Shenzhen Voxel Tower is a 2019 residential tower proposal by UFO Architecture – Shenzhen Studio, exploring differentiated apartments, structural frames, inserted pods, colour and varied transparency.

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Fang-Tee Towers

Fang-Tee Towers is a 2020 competitive tender proposal by UFO Architecture for a 100 m media headquarters tower in Shenzhen, using colour, stacked plates and playful interior pods to challenge the generic glass skyline.

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Science Island — National Science and Innovation Centre

Science Island is UFO Architecture’s 2016 competition proposal for Lithuania’s National Science and Innovation Centre in Kaunas, conceived as a public landscape, climate showcase and hands-on science environment.

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Liantai Savoy Gateway — copper tinted glass residential tower Shenzhen by UFO Architecture

Liantai Savoy Gateway

A luxury residential project in Shenzhen with a copper-tinted glass facade inspired by a curved glass vessel.

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Huanggang Port — border crossing infrastructure Shenzhen by UFO Architecture

Huanggang Port

The Huanggang Port development in Shenzhen integrates border crossing infrastructure, public space and urban connection.

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Cloud Citizen, Shenzhen, China

Top-prize-winning proposal for Shenzhen Bay Super City IT cluster, developed as a 170-hectare regenerative vertical village city with sky parks, ecological infrastructure, renewable energy systems and a 680-metre interconnected mega-structure.

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Palermo Port Terminal — ferry terminal architecture Sicily by UFO Architecture

Palermo Port Terminal

The Palermo Port Terminal integrates maritime infrastructure, passenger flow and waterfront public space.

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Universal House Sun House — 3D printed modular house Seoul by UFO Architecture

Universal House | Sun House

A compact house of interlocking, offset room-size modules, designed for CNC-milled formwork cast in concrete.

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Casa Francesco — hillside villa Aeolian Islands view by UFO Architecture

Casa Francesco

A hillside villa in Pace del Mela, Sicily, with the landscape folded into the living spaces and panoramic views toward the Aeolian Islands.

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Paper Mill Visiting Centre & Hostel — paper mill hostel adaptive reuse by UFO Architecture

Paper Mill Visiting Centre & Hostel

Paper Mill Visiting Centre & Hostel is a 2003 adaptive reuse proposal by UFO Architecture for a historic paper mill in Amalfi, part of a Holcim Gold and Silver Medal-winning sustainability project for the Valle dei Mulini.

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Falcon Crest Hotel & Resort — CLT timber hotel resort by UFO Architecture"

Falcon Crest Hotel & Resort Malta

Falcon Crest Hotel & Resort is a 45,000 sqm CLT timber hotel and resort proposal in Valletta, Malta, exploring cross-laminated timber construction, landscape integration and balcony-led façade articulation.

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Norrberget Housing – Cross Laminated Timber (CLT)

Norrberget Housing is a cross-laminated timber scheme exploring ecological density, prefabrication and sustainable design.

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Warka Brewery — translucent coloured screen facade for industrial brewery buildings in Poland by UFO Architecture

Warka Brewery

Warka Brewery is a 2002 industrial facade design study by UFO Architecture for the Heineken Group brewery in Warka, Poland, using translucent coloured screens to transform and strengthen the identity of the industrial facilities.

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Dapeng IT Campus — technology campus architecture Shenzhen by UFO Architecture

Dapeng IT Campus

The Dapeng IT Campus explores workplace innovation, landscape integration and sustainable campus design.

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Shenzhen Future School

The Shenzhen Future School integrates computational design, flexible learning spaces and ecological systems.

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Messina Cultural Center — cultural centre architecture Sicily by UFO Architecture

Messina Cultural Centre

Messina Cultural Centre is a 1st prize international competition proposal by UFO Architecture – Messina Studio and Camerana & Partners, integrating cultural programme, civic space and public landscape into the regeneration vision for Messina.

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Haparanda Timber Tower

A cross-laminated timber tower in Haparanda, northern Sweden, exploring tall timber construction and climate-responsive design

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Asplund Stockholm City Library Extension

The Asplund Library Extension in Stockholm mediates between modernist heritage and contemporary public space.

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Universal House Metal House — laminated timber courtyard house Seoul by UFO Architecture

Universal House | Metal House

A courtyard house defined by a single volume turning back on itself, in laminated timber with a black Corten steel facade.

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Universal House Community Center — engineered timber community centre Seoul by UFO Architecture

Universal House Community Center

An engineered timber community centre integrated into the landscape contours of the Universal House pattern village near Seoul.

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Eucalypt Tower – laminated timber tropical twin towers in Jakarta, Indonesia by UFO Architecture

Eucalyptus Towers

A laminated timber twin tower and public podium in Jakarta, with a colourful facade and passive strategies for tropical cities.

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Valle dei Mulini Adaptive Reuse of Paper Mills

The Paper Mill Visiting Centre & Hostel combines adaptive reuse, hospitality and cultural heritage.

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Saponara Pattern Village — prototype housing and residential masterplan in Sicily by UFO Architecture

Saponara Pattern Village

Saponara Pattern Village is a 2010 residential masterplan by UFO Architecture in Sicily, exploring prototype villa types, terrace housing and landscape-integrated domestic architecture.

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Messina Tower

Messina Tower is a 2012 mixed-use high-rise design study by UFO Architecture – Messina Studio, forming part of a wider urban vision for Messina, Sicily.

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Tutti Frutti Housing

Tutti Frutti Housing is a shortlisted Urban Splash commission by UFO Architecture, exploring a colourful new residential housing typology for the UK with innovative domestic space planning.

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I-City Ho Chi Minh City — waterfront redevelopment of Bason Shipyards in Vietnam by UFO Architecture

I-City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

I-City, Ho Chi Minh City is a competition entry by UFO Architecture for the redevelopment of the Bason Shipyards waterfront, transforming a former industrial basin into a mixed-use urban district.

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Cheboksary Towers

Cheboksary Towers is a 2009 mixed-use masterplan by UFO Architecture, structuring a new district on the Volga around a cluster of towers, public space and landscape.

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Paju Duplex Housing — stacked residential duplex design in South Korea by UFO Architecture

Paju Duplex Housing

Paju Duplex Housing is a residential design study by UFO Architecture in South Korea, exploring stacked duplex living, landscape integration and contemporary Korean domestic space.

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Lima Future School — ecological school design competition in Peru by UFO Architecture

Lima Future School

Lima Future School is a competition entry by UFO Architecture for a new school in Peru, exploring flexible learning environments, ecological design and future models of education in Lima.

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Reggio Calabria Urban Redevelopment — civic landscape masterplan in Southern Italy by UFO Architecture

Reggio Calabria Urban Redevelopment

Reggio Calabria Urban Redevelopment is a 2006 competition entry by UFO Architecture for the regeneration of the city opposite Messina, proposing a continuous civic landscape where park, ecological infrastructure and public buildings merge.

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Kristiansand Performing Arts Centre

Kristiansand Performing Arts Centre is a cultural complex integrating concert hall, theatre and opera spaces through urban geometry, timber canopy and acoustic design.

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Milazzo Cable Car — public transport infrastructure proposal in Sicily by UFO Architecture

Milazzo Cable Car

Milazzo Cable Car is a transport infrastructure proposal by UFO Architecture for Milazzo, Sicily, exploring a cable car connection as part of a wider civic mobility and public realm strategy.

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Cambridge IT Campus

Cambridge IT Campus is a 2001 workplace and technology campus design study by UFO Architecture, exploring expandable office clusters, green courtyards and sustainable campus design for the Cambridge knowledge-economy sector.

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Royal Danish Opera House — waterfront opera house competition entry in Copenhagen by UFO Architecture

Royal Danish Opera House

Royal Danish Opera House is a competition entry by UFO Architecture for a new opera house in Copenhagen, combining performance spaces, public foyers and a civic waterfront presence.

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Salerno Art Centre — cultural building and open public concourse in southern Italy by UFO Architecture

Salerno Art Centre

Salerno Art Centre is a competition entry by UFO Architecture for a new cultural building in southern Italy, combining gallery spaces, public programme and an open ground-level concourse for civic life.

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Holiday Inn & Resort Oxford

Holiday Inn and Resort is a 2000 hospitality design study by UFO Architecture London in Oxford, exploring contextual hotel architecture, guest experience and sustainable resort planning.

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