Project3 years ago
Unilever Benelux Headquarters is a commercial space designed by the architectural firm Mecanoo. The mix of working, meeting, calling, consultation, presentation and other use and accommodation areas creates a dynamic environment to work in an activity-based manner. Unilever employees can find a place that suits their activity of the time. This stimulates collaborations, knowledge exchange, meetings and because you move more through the building, it also promotes health.
Project3 years ago
Hostivar Apiary is an installation designed by the firm HAMR Hut Architektury Martin Rajnis. What the firm designed then for the apiary was an elevated cupola of wooden slats with an octagonal ground plan, not unlike the cupola above the church of Santa Maria Del Fiore in Florence.
Project3 years ago
A white house is a residence designed by the firm RIGI Design. The residence is designed on the basis of creating small pockets of life. Having seen so many houses, the only concept we believe is that a person cannot be stuck with a settled life, whether in the house value or style. Skylight and staircase are designed to be the centre of the architecture, reshaping the whole logic and form of this 3-story building. With punched holes, the steel stairs can bring in light. The stairs go upward around the natural light patio from the 1st floor, extending the whole house vertically around the light.
Project3 years ago
El Lissitzky Business lounge is a hospitality space designed by the firm M+R Interior Architecture. The space is about the atmosphere, comfort, experience and well-being of an international audience with little to do with each other. Still, it has the same goal: a journey or a performance. A home away from home. The design is made with sustainable products, timeless and iconic.
Practice3 years ago
M+R Interior Architecture is an internationally operating interior architecture firm established in Eindhoven. The wishes and requirements of our clients are always the guiding principles for our designs. We carefully translate creativity, functionality, sustainability and ergonomics into a unique end product with its own identity.
Project3 years ago
Lake Lantern is a residence designed by the interior design firm Evans Lee Interiors Ltd. In his view, instead of the designers’ single idea, minimalism should refer to the sustainable co-creation of dwellers, providing comprehensive space for parent-child interaction with warmth and blessing. Spatial fluidity, the distinction of Lake Lantern, is born to be the top of private residence design, not the aesthetic. With multiple interactions in life, the poetic novel residence becomes like an art gallery. “Whether the mansion, villa or apartment, the first step of our design is to open the space, removing redundant walls and doors, realizing the embrace of light and circulation of breeze.”
Project3 years ago
Molteni&C｜Dada Showroom is a retail space designed by the firm Outin Design. The firm dug into the brand’s genes and character, incorporated business ideas into the space, and created a “home” setting focused on emotional experience. “For this showroom, we emphasized emotional experience rather than visual tension. The entire space is about emotions. By bringing in multiple furniture pieces designed by master designers, we created immersive, emotion-evoking home scenes to let customers better perceive the displayed furniture’s application in daily life.” the design team explained.
Project3 years ago
Suspended Office is an interior design project executed by the architectural firm DIG Architects. The design attempts to present a solution that was contextual and meaningful rather than merely functional and aesthetic, the new flood-resilient design disregarded the floor for any permanent placement of elements. It centred its strategy on suspension to ensure minimum property damage and data damage.
Compilation3 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Shunchang Museum by The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd. (UAD). 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.
Project3 years ago
Sinan Books Poetry Store is a library designed by the design firm Wutopia Lab in the historic site of St. Nicholas Church. In the past few decades, it was an office, factory, warehouse, canteen, residential place, and later became a club, restaurant, and finally was in a waste. A continuation of Wutopia Lab’s design style, magical realism based on antithesis, perforated steel plates, translucent, uncertain light, colour and dramatic poetry could be found in the poetry store.
Project3 years ago
Bricks is a commercial revitalization project designed by the architectural firm GRAFT. The firm revitalized the historical post office premises, expanding it with two new buildings and converting the original rooftops for commercial purposes. Thus a 32,000m² modern ensemble accessible to the public was created, comprising offices, restaurants, retail outlets and apartments. The interventions in the structure of the historically protected rooftops serve to preserve the building, and its ongoing utilization contributes to the identity of the Berlin district.
Practice3 years ago
GRAFT is a multidisciplinary architectural firm established in 1998. The firm’s design process is evidence-based and human-centered. Their approach stems from scenography and movement rather than tectonics. In this way, they are able to create dynamic, flexible architecture that allows multiple readings.
Selected Academic Projects
Project3 years ago
Balancing Barn is a residence designed by the architectural firm MVRDV. The Barn responds through its architecture and engineering to the site condition and natural setting. The traditional barn shape and reflective metal sheeting take their references from the local building vernacular. In this sense, the Balancing Barn aims to live up to its educational goal of re-evaluating the countryside and making modern architecture accessible. Additionally, it is both a restful and exciting holiday home.
Project3 years ago
Greenhouse is a conceptual residence designed by the architectural firm Archigardener. This prototype for temperate life within year-round nature imagines the communal areas of a private residence as a life-in-a glasshouse. This concept explores sustainable life with constructed nature within the context of a temperate climate.
Practice3 years ago
Archigardener is a multidisciplinary architectural firm based in Melbourne. The firm’s focus is on creating green spaces and places: both literally verdant and fundamentally environmentally sustainable, blurring boundaries between indoor & outdoor at the junction between urbanism, architecture, interiors & landscape.
Project3 years ago
Shunchang Museum is a cultural space designed by the architectural firm UAD. Designed in response to local context and based on a people-centred principle, the museum is not merely a space that collects and displays exhibits. The museum is an exhibit, platform, and symbol for the city where it sits. It carries the nostalgic sentiments of local people and interprets the past and future of local culture. Taking the architecture as a medium, the design team constructed a “traversable urban garden”, which opens to the city in multiple dimensions and connects the mountain and stream.
Project3 years ago
South Valley Country House is a residential project designed by the architectural firm Sthapotik. The project aimed to create a responsible architecture for its dwellers and, at the same time, connect them with the neighbouring community in a commercially developed project. The structure has been pushed back regarding the corner to provide relief for the neighbourhood. Instead of isolating the project by a solid boundary wall, the small urban green space on the ground tries to break the monotonous street view and encourage passers to sit and rest.
Practice3 years ago
Sthapotik is an architectural firm established by the architect Sharif Uddin Ahammed in Dhaka. “Responsive environments in architecture” – this is what the firm believes and hopes to make our clients feel through their excellent services. Sthapotik believes the promise of new possibilities for Architecture to engage and shape the future lies in the revision of boundaries between the urban, the rural and the natural.
Project3 years ago
Hingmire Residence is a renovation project executed by the architectural firm Amruta Daulatabadkar Architects. The said renovation project came up as an opportunity to re-establish the idea of a home for the client. An open concept evolved to connect the spaces and create an experience of grandeur in space. Hues of different colours on walls and upholstery complement timber textures and mark an exuberant perception of the living space. Traditional paintings and elements as artefacts give a touch of Indian roots in the chic space.
Project3 years ago
AA308 Offices is a commercial space designed by the architectural firm MCVR Arquitectos. The aim is to create a workplace that provides new possibilities for an ageing population and opens new collective space at a strategic point in the city. The proposal rehabilitated a prototypical residential property built in 1954 and executed halfway between vernacular tradition and local modernity. Later, the height was extended in 1976, using techniques of the modern practice with ceramic joist slabs and reusing the identical wooden beams from the original house for the roof.
Practice3 years ago
MCVR Arquitectos is an architectural firm based in Spain. The firm’s architecture intends to detect traces, milestones and pre-existing elements in the different places of work. From its analysis and synthesis, coherent response to the environment is elaborated from sustainability, good execution and an avant-garde perspective. The result is manifested in an ordered, rational and absent-of-aesthetics architecture focused on solving habitat problems and developing cutting-edge construction solutions that facilitate the best execution of the work.
Project3 years ago
Twin Peaks Residence is a home refurbished by the architectural firm Feldman Architecture. Rather than regrading and flattening the sloping yard, the renovation uses the existing topography of the site to its advantage, creating a tiered series of outdoor spaces connected via the new stair. Lush greenery, a kitchen garden, a fire pit, and ample seating were added. In addition to clarifying the floor plan and refreshing the interiors, the home is now more directly connected to the outdoors.
Project3 years ago
077 Residence is an interior design project executed by the architectural firm Lenka Mikova Architekti. The architecture of the building suggests a stylistic shift from art deco to early functionalism, which inspired our interior concept. It is based on timeless materials, refined details and many bespoke and in-built furniture. The aim and the brief were to provide modest, almost minimalistic contemporary living, striving for simplicity while offering a diverse atmosphere and experience.
Practice3 years ago
Lenka Míková Architekti is an architectural and design firm based in Prague and established in 2014. The main topics are reconstructions linked with interiors for both private and commercial use, various residential projects, and exhibition installations. All tasks are approached with high attentiveness and empathy to the clients’ desires and needs and the given place and context.
