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Top 10 of 2022: The Year’s Best Architecture

Azure Magazine

What defined the best architecture of 2022? This year, our list includes an eclectic array of projects, reflecting a diversity of cultures, geographies and contexts: These are projects that expand the possibilities of what architecture can accomplish — and what it’s for. And it’s easy to see why.

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The Patina Maldives by Studio MK27 Is a Minimalist Oasis

Design Milk

The island’s architecture promotes a fluid interaction between indoor and outdoor programming. Public areas are designed to be open and welcoming, forming the core of the community at the Fari Marina Village and Fari Beach Club. These include bed frames with integrated control panels and hidden device charging areas.

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Brick Beguiles in Retail Design for Leica’s New Manhattan Store + Gallery

Design Milk

As hubris pushes architects and developers to new, literal heights in an effort to maximize price per square inch, pedestrian scale projects and the public realm continue to suffer. Additional fenestration includes a steel bifold glass door that opens onto a 1,000-square-foot outdoor terrace.

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In China, a Factory Replete with Sensory Splendour

Azure Magazine

The vast majority of industrial architecture can best be described as utilitarian. But while the plant is mostly automated, the space still needed to serve people, and accommodate offices, as well as a shop and café open to the public. Designed primarily for efficiency, it gets the job done.

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Apple Tower Theatre Opens in Downtown Los Angeles, An Architectural 2.0 Upgrade

Design Milk

’s most historically significant remnants of its architectural past – including the Broadway Theater District – are beloved for the “if you know, you know” hidden beauty hidden behind the closed doors of their dilapidated facades.

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Kelly Wearstler’s Design for Ulla Johnson Delivers Retail Therapy

Design Milk

A symphony of rich textures play while gossamers dance in the sunlight of Ulla Johnson’s Los Angeles, California, flagship store designed by Kelly Wearstler whose repertoire of collaborations with furniture makers, craftsmen, and artisans give the space its local gusto. It was our first exterior architecture project.

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A New Vision for Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

Azure Magazine

When it comes to replacing an existing venue, the emphasis is often on making the new facility more accessible to the public than its predecessor. Open to the public, the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts reimagined and expanded ground floor would open on two sides to a park and new plaza. Lovely, yes. Surprising? Not really.

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