The site of this project is located in the northern part of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, adjacent to the historically significant transportation and trade hub of the medieval period—the Samarkand Gate. During the Soviet era, this area was an industrial center, home to numerous industrial enterprises and a bus station. In 2010, the Bukhara City Council decided to relocate all industrial enterprises to the outskirts of the city to restore its historical appearance and promote the development of tourism and handicraft industries.

About an hour and a half drive from Shanghai and Suzhou lies a small village called Jijiadun. Once a typical Jiangnan water town, the village saw its population gradually decline over time, leading to increasing hollowing-out. In response, the local township government invited a professional team to redevelop and revitalize the area. To breathe new life into the village, Jijiadun leveraged its original rural scenery and introduced cultural and creative industries, attracting a group of “new villagers” from the city. This effort has transformed the village into an ideal rural living community. Our project, Jiangnan Half House Homestay, is located here. The homestay is situated near the entrance of the village, with its site surrounded on three sides by a small river and facing farmland not far away.

A-Jiao 78 Hotel is located within the headquarters campus of Dong’e Ejiao, a complex that also includes functional areas such as factories, research and development centers, corporate headquarters, and a museum in addition to the hotel. The campus receives a large number of visitors daily, and the completion of this cultural hotel will enhance the campus’s overall capacity to accommodate tourists. Dong’e Ejiao is one of the oldest traditional Chinese medicine companies in China and is considered in the field of traditional Chinese medicine to be one of the most beneficial supplements for women’s health. Ejiao can exist in various forms, ranging from a viscous liquid during production to a semi-transparent solid block in its finished state.

For the interior design project of the Almenat Hilton Hotel, located in Embu das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil,

BLOCO Arquitetos, a firm based in Brasília and led by partners Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, and Matheus Seco,

redesigned much of the hotel’s public areas through targeted interventions, creating spaces that differ entirely from the previous design.