Roco Cantabria, designed by ARQMOV WORKSHOP, is a restaurant that cannot be classified into a particular style and feels like a standardized space. As a design premise, They started with the idea of a restaurant & bar space; warm, elegant, but not pretentious or exuberant; where each corner has been made to measure, highlighting the particularities of the interior. Rocco Cantabria provokes a unique spatial experience in a place with different environments.
Wentworth House, designed by MHNDUnion, is a family home that provides generous amenities yet sits quietly within the landscape. The intent was to capture the site’s story through the house’s design. The response was to create a series of planar elements in both plan and section to define the spaces which interlock and extend into the landscape. The sense of touch is heightened with the warmth of the native timbers complementing the smooth finishes of the concrete walls and stone floors.
MHNDU specializes in developments ranging from bespoke houses and small to medium size multi-residential projects to large-scale urban renewal projects. MHNDU has established a strong reputation in the architecture industry based on its unique blend of technical excellence, commercial acumen & design sensibilities. The collaborative approach, experience, strategic thinking, and use of advanced technologies combined with energetic service-driven team results in a legacy of quality design and practical, enduring, and sustainable buildings.
Casa Buho, designed by BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal, combines an industrial standardized structural system, which hastens the building process, and a traditional brick system that allowed the use of local labor. The project had a double challenge: how to occupy a large site with a building that couldn´t exceed 130 square meters while leaving it open to the future urban fabric that will develop in the area.
AB07, designed by 0studio, is a residence characterized by the interaction between two volumes, linked with its heart and nucleus, the vertical circulations, and its three-level open patio. Main objective in the planning of the house was to create an efficient environment for the user and as many usable square meters as possible, reducing extra circulation areas with only an 8.88% of circulations.
0studio is a Mexican architecture firm that explores conventional forms and rustic materials that seek order and aesthetical atmospheres for the user. The main agenda is to merge the building and the user into one living thing. Studying the client’s needs, they perform designs that bring out the potential in materials such as bricks, concrete, wood, steel, and glass.
Home_2121 is a design architecture competition organized by Archiol in association with Artuminate. The most significant architectural space that we experience throughout our life is our home, what will be the idea of home in the year 2121?
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Casa Rodney by BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal. 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.
Songzhuang Micro Community Park, designed by Crossboundaries, helps grow the largest gathering place for artists in China in a symbiotic relationship with the community. The space is created to suit the site environment with a proper choice of material and plantation, combined with carefully designed spatial configuration, sequence, and atmosphere. This project is the first realized vibrant design of many to come that will follow the lead of the new communal spirit.
Mothimahal Gold & Diamonds, designed by ENVID Atelier, is a retail where the facade & interiors align with the ideology of creating an unconventional design exclusively developed for the specific client. A dark theme was chosen for the jewelry interiors to develop a unique experience different from conventional well-lit interiors, which are usually the norm. Shopping under the starry desert sky was the main theme that came into play, gaining inspiration from the middle eastern roots of the client.
ENVID; Environmental Design Studio is a collaborative platform with its origins in Kochi, where architects, designers, and professionals who believe in creating contextually appropriate solutions merge their expertise. The studio’s work perceives the interrelationship between the environment and design in unconventional ways to meet the user’s stipulations.
Point in Architecture is an architecture competition organized by archiol in association with artuminate. Primary elements in architecture are the basics of architecture design.
Villa City, designed by Story Architecture, organizes a reasonable living, working, and resting space and relieves the inhibitory mentality. The narrowing of the living room, eliminating bedrooms and making bunk beds for the children to share a room leads to plenty of space to plant trees, swimming pools, and tree houses for the babies to play.
26 IVY Park House, designed by Alkhemist Architects, is a residence with a private, open, and calm atmosphere in an expatriate community on the outskirts of Bangkok. With this strong intention, it is clear from the beginning that the design must focus on creating a dialogue and cultivating an atmosphere between interior public spaces and the outdoor living area. By connecting indoors & outdoors seamlessly, the owners can enjoy the sequences of spatial experiences that encourage them to reach nature all year long in this tropical climate of Thailand.
Alkhemist Architects is a research and design studio providing architecture, interior, branding identity, and graphic design. We strongly believe that design can help society re-embrace the values of tangible materials within our constantly changing world. We embrace tradition as well as are excited by evolution. We are constantly in search of a balance in preservation and progression.
Vårbergstoppen Playground Spheres, designed by AndrénFogelström, is an installation series of spheres for playing, climbing, and hiding in a public park in Stockholm. The perfect geometries of the constructed landscape worked as inspiration for the work, designing a bird-watching tower, viewing platforms, signs, and playground equipment for the public park. The project is made in collaboration with Land Arkitektur, who has been responsible for the overall landscape architecture of the playground.
Audrey Irmas Pavilion, designed by OMA, is designed to be a machine for gathering, forging new connections with the existing campus activities, and inviting the urban realm to create a new civic anchor. They wanted the building to be iconic enough to be recognized as a new civic entity but subtle enough to complement the iconicism of the existing temple. The facade draws from the geometries of the temple’s dome interior. It is both enigmatic and familiar, creating a counterpoint to the temple that is at once deferential and forward-looking.
OMA is an international practice operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism. AMO, a research and design studio, applies architectural thinking to domains beyond. OMA-designed buildings currently under construction are Taipei Performing Arts Centre, Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) renovation in Berlin, The Factory in Manchester, and the CMG Qianhai Global Trade Center in Shenzhen.
Village Underground Lisbon, designed by ARTE TECTóNiCA, uses containers and buses as primary parts to go from an ephemeral to an “ethernal” long-lasting building. The provided existentialist architecture makes good use of every euro spent, in a really multifunctional building, that evens net office rental space with communitarian circulation/living space.
Castle of Morella Restoration, designed by Carquero Arquitectura, is a historical restoration and consolidation of the existing masonry, maintaining its ruinous physiognomy. The main work has focused on the structural consolidation, being at risk of collapse, and cleaning and restoration. Four buttresses have been placed outside the walls, reinforcing the foundation, recovering the exported land and sealing and consolidating cracks.
Carquero Arquitectura is an architectural design firm led by Carlos Quevedo Rojas and Carlos Peinado Madueño based in Spain.
House in Rua de São Mamede, designed by Aires Mateus, elected spatial values, geometric affinities, and precision concerning exterior windows. The garden made it possible to enhance the depth of the view over the Baixa rooftops and the river. The unexpected discovery of a cistern crosses the depth horizontally and connects with the sky, the most protected space of the house.
Casa Rodney, designed by BAAG – Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal, is developed between the horizontal mediations and the two formal systems, closing towards one of its sides and opening towards the north, generating a containment and an interior landscape of its own. From the interior, the baseboards, the walls and the sequences of the vaults compose and configure the spaces, providing different degrees of use and privacy..
BAAG, Buenos Aires Arquitectura Grupal, is an office that seeks to employ collective work to contribute to the discipline, understanding architecture as a practice and an opportunity to build critical thinking. BAAG has conducted institutional and housing projects, research projects, cultural facilities, and public competitions. BAAG has been invited to conferences and participates in panels and workshops in national and international institutions and universities.
