Project4 years ago
Mill Film Studio, designed by Studio Nine Architects, translates the VFX process using two key design principles: modeling and performance and light, color, and texture. Monochromatic artist areas work as a passive backdrop to on-screen activities, as minimal distractions and visual interference are critical in these areas. The industrial aesthetic was developed to maintain consistency in built form within the global network of Mill Film studios. Building an edgy and industrial experience drove an outcome that celebrated the existing base-building elements.
Practice4 years ago
Studio Nine Architects is an Architectural and Interior Design practice specializing in multi-residential, workplace, and hospitality design. They create meaningful human experiences through a balance of curiosity, insight, and craft. They believe good design can and should be accessible to everyone. A significant contributor to the studio’s success has been its diversity across sectors and scale of projects.
Project4 years ago
Dockside Cannabis – Ballard, designed by Graham Baba Architects, defines the brand experience within a growing and shifting cannabis marketplace. By eliminating the clutter and the bottleneck of a traditional cannabis shop sales counter, customers can enjoy a personalized, leisurely browsing experience in a tranquil, visually calming environment. The project transforms an existing, nondescript one-story building into a 1,930-square-foot shop that retains the footprint and height of the original structure to preserve the neighborhood scale.
Project4 years ago
Beyond Rest, designed by FMD Architects, is a floatation center using sacred geometry to plan the space and the fine detail seen in the custom-made joinery and light fittings. The use of the geometry elevates the spatial experience, which is in line with the heightened mental state one achieves through floating. There appears to be no end to the spaces as you move around the space, reflecting philosophies of infinite cyclical life forces.
Project4 years ago
Hill Country Wine Cave, designed by Clayton Corte, is a residence serving as a destination along a secluded bend of the Blanco River. The unassuming exterior entry court reveals a bit of mystery as it provides just a glimpse of what lies within. Heavy limestone boulders collected from the excavation and lush vegetation further camouflage the entry as you descend into the mouth of the cave. Custom insulated and thermally broken steel and wood windows separate the interior and exterior, the entertaining lounge, and the chilled cellar.
Project4 years ago
Debris House – Residence for Mr. Biju Mathew, designed by Wallmakers, employs recycled and eco-sensitive materials in its making with much care all the while ensuring that the material limitations are overcome and an expressive architecture is allowed to emerge from the constraints. The levels of the site are explored for connections within and the house maintains a scale with sensitivity towards the neighbourhood. Looking at the local context, the project strikes out, humbly maintaining its commitment to the society and the environment.
Project4 years ago
Hillside, designed by SAOTA, is conceived more as a self-contained oasis than a conventional house featuring 300-degree views over the LA skyline. The architecture is defined through the floating, overlapping horizontal floor and roof plates curating specific view axes rather than mass walls or external structure. The forms and articulation of Hillside’s roof planes, pushed as far forward as possible to create meaningful external covered living spaces, set its architecture in dialogue with the iconic silhouette nearby and connect it to the drama of its context.
Project4 years ago
Casa C is an example of residential architectural project designed by Estudio PKa in Buenos Aires – Argentina. The house is completely developed on the ground floor, being a perimeter wall of stone, where the bearing walls support a large roof that acts as a perforated mantle, consisting of a thin concrete slab.
Project4 years ago
Grace, designed by APOLLO Architects & Associates Co Ltd, is a residence catering to a work-from-home lifestyle with functional features built into the walls to enhance unity and continuity in the long, narrow space. A key design challenge was assimilating contradictory elements such as work/leisure, interior/exterior, and private/public in order to achieve that harmonious lifestyle within a limited space.
Practice4 years ago
APOLLO Architects & Associates Ltd is an architectural firm that believes the space created must express the rich spirituality that clients and society demand. The space derived from the relationship with humans, nature, and all kinds of man-made objects gradually evolves with the times while being connected to society and the environment, and people also change in response. Coexistence with such fluctuating life forms is the essential role of architecture, and it is a major factor that determines the design.
News4 years ago
The Omuli Museum of the Horse competition tasked participants with redesigning and reimagining the historic Omuli School building into a multipurpose space that would function as a museum for horses, located within the UNESCO-recognised North Latvia Biosphere Reserve.
Project4 years ago
Traumhaus Funari, designed by MVRDV, is a redevelopment delivering affordable, high-quality housing thanks to its mass-produced, standardized elements. The Funari design expands on this standardized approach, creating a catalog of dwelling typologies – a huge set of variations on Traumhaus’ original design, with a variety of materials, sizes, interior layouts, and connections to the outside, with each offering a variety of options that future residents can choose from.
Selected Academic Projects
Project4 years ago
S.A. Residence, designed by SHATOTTO architecture for green living, has a simple architectural vocabulary adopted through a subtle intervention with form, material, and vegetation. The traditional spaces like a courtyard, pond, ghat (steps to the water), and green from urban and rural typology merged and transformed into one in this urban context. The center “water court” acts as a natural exhaust, which flows out the hot air and makes the middle court a solace.
Project4 years ago
Apartamento Sao Felix, designed by Paulo Moreira Architectures, features a home interior whose material expression enhances a breathtaking view. The ocean is the most striking feature of the Sao Felix Apartment’s landscape. The Sao Felix Apartment offers an architectural experience based on spatial quality, material restraint, and exquisite natural resources in harmonious dialogue with one another.
News4 years ago
In support of the call to ban all nuclear weapons, “The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial” competition asked for designs of a conceptual memorial to be located on any known decommissioned nuclear weapon testing site.
Compilation4 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque by SHATOTTO architecture for green living. 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 years ago
Cushing Terrell ATX Office, designed by Cushing Terrell, is a 13,000-square-foot project that allows all employees to join forces and create their own space. The shared digital models ensured that the design and its amenities would meet staff needs, including comfortable workstations, collaboration areas, and conference rooms with flexibility to accommodate future growth. The familiarity and comfort of the home influenced the layout and design of many spaces. Wood-clad walls and a brick accent wall recalling a fireplace contribute to that aesthetic.
Project4 years ago
Oficina L264, designed by FFWD Arquitectes, is an elongated space with an entrance of natural light in the opposite wall to the studio entrance. The studio is organized in two areas: the meeting room in contact with the access, and the work space that is located at the back of the room and in contact with the entrance of natural light. Light sequences are programmed to simulate natural light and change it throughout the day to adapt to the circadian rhythms of people.
News4 years ago
Archstorming, an architectural platform that organizes international humanitarian competitions, has released the results for the Ethiopian Satellite Preschools contest. In this competition, participants were challenged to design a school for the NGO Abay Ethiopia, a non-profit organization from Spain that operates in Walmara, Ethiopia, with the aim of fighting against poverty and promoting equal opportunities, mainly through the development of Education, Health and Community support projects in general.
Project4 years ago
Kuyasa Public Transport Interchange, designed by Meyer & Associates Architects & Urban Designers, is a transport interchange to facilitate intermodal transfers. The project is structured around a series of high-quality public spaces which will form the backbone of a future urban center. The edge of the public space is clearly defined by colonnaded arcades, where repetition is employed to create an interplay between light and shade, give character and identity to the individual buildings, and provide depth to the facades.
Project4 years ago
Makhno Village Resort, designed by Sergey Makhno Architects, is a recreation complex concept for a new generation that can be located wherever needed. Makhno Village Resort is a space for those who need a restart. It has everything you need: clay eco-houses, a greenhouse, an observatory, a spa complex, restaurants, places for spiritual practices, swimming pools, and a bunch of trails that go somewhere.
Project4 years ago
House in Fontinha, designed by Aires Mateus, is a balance between a courtyard, a protected core relating to the sky, and an opening to the distant ocean view. The perimeter delineates the interior rooms and the transitional spaces. Vertical volumetric spaces are occupied by elements that define functions and atmospheres.
Project4 years ago
House of Light Voids, designed by byrayboedi, is a residence with a hint of nature’s greatest source of life – light forming a perfectly balanced architecture. The concretes, timbers, and colors inside the house work harmoniously to create tranquility inside the space. Every characteristic of the materials makes the house a whole. Every drawn line is always connected, just like the undisclosed connection between the house and its dwellers, always completing and protecting each other.
Project4 years ago
Living warehouse, designed by Haddock Architecture, is an adaptive reuse of a former workplace by transforming it into housing. The project plays on the contradiction and the complex relationship between low and high-tech. They constitute the traces of its industrial past.
