Port of BEIRUT | DEADLINES EXTENDED
The Port of Beirut Renew Competition has extended its duration – now the deadline is JULY 14th, 2022.
Kaizen house | Rama Estudio
Kaizen house, designed by Rama Estudio, is implanted in a grove of carob trees in a slightly sloping topography, trying to influence the natural environment minimally. The circulation forms an important axis in the house as it is a route that joins the two wings in a straight line and allows one to appreciate the view of the forest from side to side. The intention was always to be part of the forest.
Star Engineers, Administrative Building and Factory | Studio VDGA
Star Engineers, designed by Studio VDGA, explores the rustic and discreet material palette aligning the client requirements to the site context. Being a corporate office and factory setup within the same campus, spaces were planned introverted. A series of courts interwoven in the work zones breathe freshness in the ambiance. The mass is a simple form-finished concrete envelope with long colorful perforated metal screen adorned with landscape. Grid planning while carving out the quintessential courtyards is the strength of design.
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Studio VDGA
VDGA derives architectural solutions through studying, analyzing, and exploring visual, spatial, formal, social, and technological ideas. Studio VDGA goal lies in creating ‘timeless meaningful spaces’ which induce harmony, happiness & peace in the lives of the users. The team endeavors to create more than just architecture, a lifestyle for the occupants. Simple intelligent ideas such as optimum use of natural light, ventilation & locally available natural building materials and techniques have been our continuous effort.
Idea Factory | MVRDV
Idea Factory, designed by MVRDV, is an adaptive reuse of a former factory building that sustainably reuses and improves the building instead of demolishing and rebuilding it. The project contains a mixture of offices for the Urban Research Institute of China Vanke and offices for rent – yet despite this programme, its distinguishing features are public in nature. The Idea Factory shows us the wealth of possibilities offered by buildings that some may think are ‘dilapidated’ or beyond their useful lifespan.
Alas Paraguayas House | OMCM arquitectos
Alas, Paraguayas House, designed by OMCM arquitectos, is a renovation project providing the building with a new identity, more adapted to the requirements of contemporary life and better adapted to the climatic context of our region. Inside the house and especially in the social areas, redundant walls and unnecessary unevenness were eliminated to achieve fluid, larger, ventilated, and naturally illuminated spaces. Meanwhile, the rehabilitation of the barbecue and service area located at the house’s rear end extended and organized the spaces more comfortably and functionally.
Selected Interviews
OMCM Arquitectos
OMCM Arquitectos designs and constructs sustainable architectural and urban proposals that contribute to harmony between people and their natural and built environment. Since its inception, OMCM has been characterized by constantly seeking quality and conceptual clarity in its projects and putting them into practice in a consistent manner, using construction techniques and materials in accordance with the environment and the context where it is necessary to intervene.
Warming 2021 | Results Announced
WARMING Competition participants were challenged to propose new or adapted architecture that addresses issues of global warming.
RIBA 2022 | B V Doshi
RIBA is pleased to announce that Balkrishna Doshi will receive the Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture.
Selected Projects
The Travellers | Studio Infinity
The Travellers, designed by Studio Infinity, is an office interior focusing on visitor movement and carving simplified volumes from the available irregular floor plate. It is focused on properly utilizing this odd-shaped floor space and creating a design vocabulary that will personify ‘TRAVEL’ as a very subtle, but integral part of the entire office setup. An earthy material palette, customized furniture, integration of arts, and use of green inserts wherever possible helped us define this project’s overall outcome.
Villa in Percvhtoldsdorf | Jan Proksa – Architect
Villa in Percvhtoldsdorf, designed by Jan Proksa – Architect, maximizes the volume of a narrow plot of land to create a modern living space for a two-generation family. The outlines and the façade of the house are reminiscent of the unique and traditional craftwork of Viennese houses. From the intimate entrance to the large open plan living space, this interaction between the perpendicular and the oblique defines a certain perception that pervades the experience of the structure.
Jan Proksa – Architect
Jan Proksa – Architect specializes in interior and landscape design projects, small and large-scale buildings, sculpture, and urban planning. The architect believes that a project can only be successful when the goals and expectations are clearly communicated between client and architect, so that they can work together to achieve a result that they are both proud of.
Selected Academic Projects
ORDYNKA | AI Studio
ORDYNKA, designed by AI Studio, consists of seven high-end residential buildings connected by a spacious internal courtyard. The project is designed pragmatically, divided into separate objects to address the complexity of hosting such a large structure in the historic city center. To do so, a universal module was used in planning the facades of all buildings. The main feature, the “heart” of the project, is a spacious, linear internal courtyard, unique for this very dense and bustling part of the city.
Casa moinho de vento | BOX arquitectos
Casa moinho de vento, designed by BOX arquitectos, answers to a program for an extremely small single-family house. The main facade is exclusively the boundary between interior and exterior, with no reason for a relation between both, besides being in its way. The only social space of the house gains dimension in its depth when it finds the garden at the end of the space.
Box Arquitectos
Box Arquitectos is an architectural firm exploring the dialogue between form, place and function, in order to reach an explanation of the man on the farm. The rigor of the scale with the ratio of proportion is the obsessive theme in the dynamics of the atelier’s architectural project. The “creative box” BOX architects, takes on a fascination for the formal and spatial experimentation, grounded by a technical approach inseparable from the act of projecting.
Compilations
Women in Architecture | Results Announced
Women in Architecture’ is competitions inviting participants to engage in conversations on selected themes from several disciplines of architecture and design.
Chicland Hotel | VTN Architects
Chicland Hotel, designed by VTN Architects, brings in the tropical essence and comfortable guests’ stay built with a green approach. Plants cover three sides of the building to express the strong greens’ local dynamism to symbolize this area. A Roof top pool introduces guests to a panorama of beautiful beach and sun rise. Roof top café will get both view of the city and sea.
Casa Mono | Patio Estudio
Casa Mono, designed by Patio Estudio, has a monolithic concrete structure that envelops the house and gives it an introverted character. It generates intimacy with the neighbors and orients the visuals towards the “inside” patios. The patio is the element that separates and connects the different functions of the house. It is used to expand the volume of the house on the ground, generating complementary spaces that allow the interior/exterior link, taking the outside as part of the inside, perceiving it as another part of the house.
Patio Estudio
Patio Estudio is an architectural firm based in Argentina.
Weekly Highlights 2021 #50
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Season of leaves by Nilay Patalia 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.
Hotel fountain | Associated Architects Pvt. Ltd.
Hotel fountain, designed by Associated Architects Pvt. Ltd., reflects a lavish and opulent language yet contemporary arrangements of modern elements. The design was intended to meet the requirements of tourists, business meetings, and for a wedding function. So, the designer has created an ambiance that reflects a lavish and opulent language yet contemporary arrangements of modern elements.
Safdarjang Residence | AKDA
Designed by AKDA, Safdarjang Residence’s facade could be seen as a response to the context or a reflection on materiality. However, what it truly represents, is an ongoing conversation in the history of modern architecture in India. Within the interior, exposed brick walls contrast with the board-formed concrete of the slab. The project illustrates an evolving understanding about the durability of materials in our harsh climate.
AKDA
AKDA integrates the disciplines of architecture, interior design, sustainability, furniture, lighting and product design under a singular ethos. The studio philosophy is to make regional specificity and sustainability intrinsic to the design process and product. The quest for absolute quality implies follow a unique system of design development; one in which the team allow themselves to learn and imbibe from the skills and experience of people who actually craft the buildings and objects that they design.
Museu Damião de Góis e as Vitimas da Inquisição | Spaceworkers
Museu Damião de Góis e as Vitimas da Inquisição, designed by Spaceworkers, is an installation focusing on the creation of an exhibition structure. The exhibition space is assumed as a delicate black element that invites its discovery and that stands out from the remaining chromatism of the existing space, without ever overlapping it but without losing its spatial characteristics.
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