Academic Project4 months ago
‘MAHJONG’ is a Bachelors Design Project by Siow Qian Yin from the ‘School of Architecture, Building and Design – Taylor’s University.’ The project aims to revive the communal spirit and cultural heritage of Petaling Street by transforming mahjong into an experiential activity that encourages connection, memory, and belonging. It seeks to create a space where heritage is actively shared, promoting intergenerational interaction and reawakening the street’s vibrancy through immersive design, communal activities, and cultural storytelling.
Project4 months ago
The Huanglong Island Lighthouse Hotel by WJ STUDIO explores the essence of time by integrating architecture into the island’s existing fishing village and rugged landscape. Through stepped layouts, open walkways, and visual corridors, the design merges indoor and outdoor spaces, allowing visitors to experience the island while preserving its cultural heritage and transforming rural depopulation into an opportunity for ecological tourism.
Academic Project4 months ago
‘Pravah’ is an architecture thesis by Anish Bhim Shinde from the ‘Aditya College of Architecture.’ The project explores regenerative architecture as a means to restore the interconnections between water, culture, and ecosystems in Poladpur. It envisions a multifunctional rural node integrating sustainable water management with community spaces, while reviving traditions, supporting livelihoods, and fostering biodiversity, resilience, and social cohesion.
Project4 months ago
Shanghai Red Depot by Milanesi | Paiusco is a renovation project that transcends spatial renewal to become a reweaving of urban memory. Embracing the philosophy “Respect Time, Begin from the Future,” the design applies adaptive reuse and follows three strategies—Connect, Preserve, and Rebuild—to integrate history with contemporary life, transforming the industrial relic into a resilient and vibrant urban memory community.
Project4 months ago
The Alcantara-MAXXI project presents ‘Seed Bed,’ an installation by Studio Ossidiana, on the island of La Certosa. Inspired by cultivation and the ancient enclosed garden, the installation imagines a fence as both boundary and threshold, protecting man-made nature. Using Alcantara, a sustainable and circular material, the work creates ephemeral architecture that invites visitors to sow seeds and engage with biodiversity.
Project4 months ago
EDGE HafenCity by HENN is designed as an energy-efficient office building that actively fosters interaction and collaboration among its users. Shaped like a small town, it combines spaces for working, meeting, leisure, and relaxation. With its open atrium, terraces, and lushly planted roof, the building connects with its social environment and blends into the urban fabric of the Elbbrücken neighborhood.
Academic Project4 months ago
‘Rooting Cities’ is an architecture thesis by Edgardo José Gómez Rodríguez from the ‘Departamento de Diseño, Arquitectura y Artes Plásticas – Universidad Simón Bolívar.’ This project aims to revitalize Gustavo Knoop Park by analyzing its historical, cultural, and ecological connections with Los Teques. Rooted in the legacy of the Gran Ferrocarril de Venezuela, the park embodies memory, resilience, and natural heritage. Strategies focus on heritage preservation, environmental education, green infrastructure, and recreational design, fostering a symbiosis between city and nature.
Project4 months ago
House of Curves, an interior design project by andblack design studio, showcases a seamless blend of modern and fluid design. The design features clean lines, geometric shapes, and curvilinear forms, crafting spaces that are both functional and aesthetic. Soft edges, sculpted surfaces, and organic textures create gentle transitions, while a restrained palette enhances warmth and tactility, shaping a timeless and contemporary living experience.
Project4 months ago
Capiche, a restaurant interior by Neogenesis+Studi0261, seamlessly blends architectural elegance with rustic charm and contemporary design. Inspired by the timeless allure of brick ovens, its dome-like structure and earthy brick cladding radiate warmth and sophistication. The open kitchen, natural furnishings, and thoughtful lighting create a harmonious flow, making the restaurant a feast for the eyes as much as for the taste.
Compilation4 months ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – Pravaah | tHE gRID Architects. Along with this, the weekly highlight contains a few of the best projects, published throughout the week. These selected projects represent the best content curated and shared by the team at ArchiDiaries.
Project4 months ago
Inari, a restaurant interior project by Arch.lab, is designed to create a delicate and contemporary ambience while maintaining an Indian identity. The project uses pink hues as its soul, wrapping surfaces in a monolithic feeling while allowing subtle geometry and texture to add depth. White marble baluster installations reinterpret traditional motifs in a contemporary framework, defining zones with visual permeability.
Academic Project4 months ago
‘Firefly’ is an architecture thesis by Raphaël Brun from the ‘Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio – USI.’ The project aims to create a resilient and sustainable link between the Cais do Ginjal waterfront and the elevated town of Almada. By designing an inclined steel structure anchored at just two points, the project addresses geological fragility while enabling new forms of mobility. Alongside vertical connectivity, the project integrates housing, public amenities, and services, fostering social, cultural, and ecological regeneration of the site.
Selected Academic Projects
Project4 months ago
The DESCENTE Flagship Store, an interior design project by Still Young, envisions a “Future World” inspired by the brand’s skiing roots. Crafted as an immersive snowy and icy realm, the concept explores the synergy between people and space, blending technology, speed, and motion. Through dynamic forms, icy tones, and futuristic details, the design creates a distinctive retail experience that embodies energy, innovation, and exploration.
Academic Project4 months ago
‘Re-Framing the Hollow’ is an architecture thesis by Yana Shaban from the ‘Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA).’ The project addresses stone misappropriation in the West Bank by reclaiming abandoned quarries and fragments as essential resources. Through site-specific, sustainable techniques and traditional stone construction, it proposes a socially integrated architecture. Rooted in Palestinian cultural expressions, it envisions spaces of resilience, education, and community transformation.
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Marquês 650, a housing project by OSPA Arquitetura & Urbanismo, is designed as a deliberate gesture to preserve the past as a catalyst for a renewed urban narrative. Around a historic house, the project composes a dialogue between permanence and transformation. A grounded plinth engages the pedestrian scale, while a recessed tower, elevated on inclined columns, appears to float, balancing continuity, landscape, and the neighborhood’s layered history.
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Naturub Factory Head Office by ICONCAST Chartered Architects transforms constraint into creativity, using locally sourced materials and the company’s own products as its design elements. Inspired by Naturub’s colorful tapes and fibers, the interior forms a vibrant core installation, while muted tones of rubber, timber, and dark ceilings frame it. The result is a functional, resourceful workspace with a unique spatial identity rooted in the brand itself.
Academic Project4 months ago
‘Dinosaur Museum: Museum of Extinction’ is an architecture thesis by Divyansh Kumar from the ‘Parul Institute of Architecture & Research.’ The thesis explores the use of subterranean architecture in museums, particularly in places with historical and geological significance. Set in Balasinor, Gujarat, where a significant dinosaur fossil discovery took place, the museum is designed as a journey, resembling the process of discovery. The project aims to connect people to deep time and buried history through an environment that evokes mystery and wonder.
Project4 months ago
The Brainergy Hub by HENN is designed as a striking rotunda structure and social knowledge hub, embodying the transition to renewable energy and a green future. Using modular timber-hybrid construction, it combines sustainable materials with energy-efficient technologies. Its circular shape fosters collaboration, flexibility, and connectivity, while the interior design creates an inspiring, workshop-like atmosphere for innovation.
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Desai Residence by andblack design studio is designed as an ‘L’-shaped form that responds to the hot, arid climate by minimizing heat gain and creating a shaded garden as a cool microclimate. The design fosters fluid spatial experiences, with interconnected living spaces oriented to greenery and natural light. Exposed concrete, brick, wood, and stone define an earthy palette, while balconies and terraces blur boundaries between inside and outside.
Academic Project4 months ago
‘Building a Woman’ is a Masters Design Project by Sarina Patel from the ‘Bartlett School of Architecture – UCL.’ The aim of this project is to provide an alternative to the Maasai Emuratare ritual by creating a rite of passage centered on learning, preserving, and innovating vernacular architecture through the construction of Manyattas. By combining ancestral wisdom with architectural education, the project empowers girls to participate in cultural continuity while fostering sustainable building practices.
Project4 months ago
Servifinques, a refurbishment project by Guillem Carrera, transforms two adjoining premises in the Minerva Galleries into a contemporary office space. The interior design introduces a new metallic structural framework and a central staircase that becomes the main connecting, generating, and distributing element. The project emphasizes natural light, transparency, and simple but radical glass façades, improving the image of the Avenue.
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BEIGE Café & Bakery, an interior design project by Arch.lab, serves as a seamless canvas of calm, nature, and modern minimalism. The space unites open-to-sky and structural zones into a single volume envisioned as a jungle, where nature thrives at the core. Wooden coffers, planter beds, and diffused light create warmth and intimacy, while concrete, stone, terrazzo, and light wood maintain continuity.
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Casa Bianca by The Grid Architects is a tranquil home in urban Ahmedabad that re-establishes the urban axis and enriches urban space quality through green architectural and interior intervention. Integrating light, air, greenery, materials, and views, the residence creates a harmonious indoor-outdoor dialogue, embodying serenity, harmony, and the biophilia principle of connecting humans with nature.
Academic Project4 months ago
‘In/Formal Imaginaries: Textiling Futures of Repair’ is a Masters Design Project by Sarina Patel from the ‘Bartlett School of Architecture – UCL.’ The project aims to transform Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite by repurposing textile waste into a circular, community-driven economy. The project promotes ecological, infrastructural, and socioeconomic repair, fostering collaboration and local knowledge. It challenges modernist and capitalist top-down planning by promoting collective labor and circular economies.
