Alongside the SOM LAND hostel in Shanghai, China, sits a really standard-looking accompanying construction, offering multifunctional communal area for guests. Inside, nevertheless, bent bamboo slats curve as much as a full-length skylight above, filtering gentle by way of a ceiling that’s something however extraordinary. In a converse juxtaposition of inside and exterior kind, in the meantime, the No. 6 Sydney Road Flats in Prahran, Australia, turns the formal composition of the residing area’s ceilings into softened ground plates resting on fluted columns, giving the constructing ‘a way of visible motion,’ as defined by architects Wooden Marsh.