2A Continental Architectural Awards | Winners Announced
The 2A Continental Architectural Awards (2ACAA) is a stage designed to appreciate the pioneering works of architecture, planning practices, and design.
Le Copenhague | Christophe Rousselle Architecte
Le Copenhague, designed by Christophe Rousselle Architecte, emerges as a single, sober volume with simple shapes that oscillates between massiveness and transparency due to the alternation between concrete and glass. The building is configured as a large solid body of almost white concrete. The use of raw concrete has been chosen for being a unifying element – sober and elegant -, for its robust and durable quality, as well as for its structural advantage.
Rosby Wines Cellar Door & Gallery | Cameron Anderson Architects
Rosby Wines Cellar Door & Gallery, designed by Cameron Anderson Architects, respects historic earth buildings’ alignment and materiality. Rosby Wines was launched in a mudbrick hut overlooking the vineyard at the top of the property. The site configuration creates a service area behind the new building concealing services and associating them with the main workshop areas of the property away from public access. Critical to the project was the structural engineer who pushed the boundaries of rammed earth design eliminating a lot of structural steel.
Sponsored
Cameron Anderson Architects
Cameron Anderson Architects is an architectural design practice with a strong focus on innovation and Sustainable Design. The design process focuses on collaboration and the desire to question conventional models where our extensive contextual analysis yields sensitive and appropriate design responses. The collective experience spans many areas including small and large scale residential developments, educational, retail, tourism and commercial facilities.
TURF | Winner Announced
‘Turf’ is an architecture competition that invites thoughtful and effective design solutions to create healthy living environments for students in their accommodations.
Weekly Highlights 2021 #49
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Found Wedding Venue by architects PHTAA Living Design. 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.
Selected Interviews
Decode | Winners Announced
‘Decode’ is an architecture competition that intends to encourage an authentic understanding of one of the ‘-isms’ in the history of architectural styles.
Acute House | MCK Architecture & Interiors
Acute House, designed by MCK Architecture & Interiors, is a wedge shaped home consisting of two long concrete pavilions lapping over each other on the acute corner. The House Acute is both robust and compact and provides it’s owner’s with the means to escape their hectic city lives. It is built in off-form concrete, the ground and first floor pavilions are separated by a shadow line and in texture.
Casa Diagonal | Frari – architecture network
Casa Diagonal, designed by Frari – architecture network, is a non-homogeneous piece composed of different volumes that form a single body. This house is the result of a pragmatic game, where the intention of internal and external spatial organization, command the formal definition of the ensemble, ensuring that Casa Diagonal is endowed with all the characteristics requested by the Work Owner, in a game of effectiveness regarding the urban restrictions imposed.
Selected Projects
Frari – architecture network
Frari – architecture network is an architecture practice that operates within architecture, urbanism, and interior design fields. The atelier counts on regular collaboration of external service providers, in diverse areas, such as engineering, topography, construction, landscaping, interior design, architectural photography and legal support, promoting knowledge of each multidisciplinary area of construction, and so, contributing to the appreciation of architecture as an exclusive product.
Eco-Ware | Winners Announced
‘Eco-ware’ is a product design competition to improving our day-to-day modern lives while being sensitive towards the natural environment.
THRONED | Winners Announced
Throned is a public toilet designed competition.
Selected Academic Projects
Rooiels House | Elphick Proome Architecture
Rooiels House, designed by Elphick Proome Architecture, is a single-space vacation house that fully embraces the remarkable seaside location. Capitalizing on its unique context with panoramic views across the Atlantic Ocean, the house is thus conceived as a minimal steel framed glass box with a hull shaped hardwood clad roof to facilitate distant views to the surrounding mountains.
Casa Cabo de Vila | Spaceworkers
Casa Cabo de Vila, designed by Spaceworkers, is a residence reflecting the way of living of its owners in Portugal. The proposed volume materializes its shape through two concrete slabs with concave sides, allowing a light glass and wood wall to unroll between them, which is a positive and negative game that lets the house’s interior communicate with the exterior. There are no barriers between the different spaces, only an organic geometry that establishes hierarchies and allows mutual visual contact.
Spaceworkers
Spaceworkers is an architecture and design studio in Paredes based on exploring and constantly searching for new paradigms of contemporary architecture to achieve a close relation between the form and emotions. The studio’s work reflects the pragmatic vision with which they face the challenges, and the critical spirit that evaluate the context that surrounds them, appealing to the sensibility of its clients for a new way to face and perceive space in its sensorial dimension.
Compilations
Shrine of Everyman | Wutopia Lab
Shrine of Everyman, designed by Wutopia Lab, is a conversion of the abandoned pump house at Dongtanyuan’s Qian Shao Farm of Bright Food (Group). The old pump house was replaced with a new structure of 13 layers of translucent polycarbonate panels standing on the water, symbolizing milk. Using my daughter’s favorite motif, “cloud,” as a symbol, the layers of polycarbonate panels form jagged doorways and overlapping silhouettes to rewrite the flat experience of the landscape as well as provoke conversations and inspirations.
Kushakusha | Keisuke Kawabe Architecture Office
Kushakusha, designed by Keisuke Kawabe Architecture Office, is an installation inspired and designed considering a crumpled sheet of paper. The shape of the paper is adjusted and expanded while considering the line of flow, line of sight, acoustic effect, and functionality as a screen. Part of the structure lands on the floor and part of it hangs from the ceiling to maintain the interior space. The goal was to create a space where passionate energy gathered, as if the space itself had been condensed.
Keisuke Kawabe Architecture Office
Keisuke Kawabe Architecture Office is an architectural firm connecting inside experience with local context and historical background.
Emotional Rocks by Apical Reform exhibited at Design Miami – Curio 2021
Emotional Rock – An installation by Apical Reform has been exhibited at Design Miami – Curio 2021. It is premier venue for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating collectible design. Top galleries from around the world gather to present twentieth and twenty-first century furniture, lighting and objects of art.
PANDEMIC MEMORIAL – The Crucifix and the Void | The Red Studio
PANDEMIC MEMORIAL – The Crucifix and the Void, designed by The Red Studio, is inspired by the morphology of the formation of natural craters on the earth’s surface. The designers’ draw their inspiration for the memorial from the suprematist diagrams, sketches, and paintings of Russian Constructivist Artist Malevich particularly the non-objective series wherein he explores the superimposition of the crucifix with the circle.
Gantry House | OOF! Architecture
Gantry House, designed by OOF! Architecture, is a house/warehouse/workshop to enjoy doing and collecting of all sorts – pot plants, art, toys and dogs, gardening/farming, building, cooking, and op-shop treasures. This is a robust and easy-going home for busy, independent people who are always making or doing something indoors and out. The construction of the house, with its revealed structure, raw materials, exposed fixings, and other fine construction details, demonstrates the skills of the people who built it.
OOF! Architecture
OOF! architecture is a design office devoted to projects ranging from renovation to make-overs to residences and townhouses. The team believes that quality is always better than quantity, and great ideas trump bling every day of the week.
Sienna Apartments | Sameep Padora & Associates
Sienna Apartments, designed by Sameep Padora & Associates, looks to further the craftsman’s expertise and help in evolving the extent of their craft. While working with approved building envelope extents, the team re-planned the floor layout so that the two apartment units on each floor were cross-ventilated through terraces and balconies on the adjoining faces of each unit. To ensure the structural integrity of the wall corbelling, wooden templates were designed for the masons to work with.
Le One | Christophe Rousselle Architecte
Le One, designed by Christophe Rousselle Architecte, is a housing project trying to be sensitive and respectful through sober and refined lines, standing out in the historic center of the Rennes in France. It is a timeless architecture where the main façade has its own identity and subtly creates a sophisticated composition. The rationality of the plans, the relationship with the outdoor public spaces, and the chosen coatings enhance the quality of the building, giving the sensation of living on the top floor on all floors.
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