Project4 years ago
LX Pavilion, designed by OLI Architecture PLLC, stands at the intersection of minimal and cerebral, material and space: dualities emanating from the Richard Serra sculpture within. The design team was tasked to create a permanent home for Serra’s sculpture composed of two fifteen-ton weathering-steel plates measuring 40’ long, 7’ tall, and 2-1/2” thick. The artist Richard Serra, who spent half a century experimenting with unconventional, industrial materials of rubber, neon, and lead before his large-scale installations in steel, considers space to be his “primary material.”
Project4 years ago
Maximinos Apartment, designed by REM’A, is a reformulation of apartment, allowing a more fluid circulation and a more practical and visually clean environment without the need for furniture and decoration. The proposal aims, at first, to redefine the arrival and connection between social and private areas and, secondly, the direct relationship between the kitchen and the social area. This measure aimed to establish occupation criteria for the essential furniture and to homogenize all the compositional elements of the space.
Project4 years ago
Outpost, designed by Skylab, is a phased, hybrid structure merging recreation, retail, and work environments to foster and reinforce a sense of community in a developing section of Hood River. Functioning as one large structure, each of the 15,000-square-foot, three-story buildings are aligned within the exterior envelope to form what appears to be a simple bar-shaped building. Outpost is the first step in reimagining Hood River’s reconnection to its waterfront. A venue featuring warm and sustainable spaces designed to engage people and elevate the process of making.
Project4 years ago
Devnanda, designed by Studio Infinity, breaks away from the typical framework of an urban apartment that will not give them a feeling of staying in a compact apartment. The room placements were governed by the services grid of the entire building. A light court was introduced to help us move away from tight space constraints. The patterned flooring and a traditional tulsi vrindavan was intended to make this space appear and function more like a courtyard. The drama played by shadows cast by the pergola keeps changing the space dynamics throughout the day.
Practice4 years ago
Studio Infinity has always been to create spaces with good design values integrating arts and traditional crafts as an inseparable aspect of the design process. The team believes that design interventions significantly impact the user and its surroundings. Keeping this in mind, the firm focuses on creating more meaningful spaces for its’ occupants, adhering to the realistic aspects of budget and time.
News4 years ago
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Project4 years ago
Framed House, designed by Crest Architects, is a modest house with a specific emphasis on natural light and ventilation. A cost-effective budget influenced the design process and choice of materials for construction. Our approach was to create a compact layout that accommodated the client’s requirements while also establishing a sense of spaciousness to create a balance of connectivity and privacy. The rustic character and design language throughout the house is intended to be simple and reflect the client’s lifestyle.
Project4 years ago
SMM penthouse, designed by Anna Solaz Arquitectes + CRUX arquitectos, covers one of the attic terraces to add a new room to the apartment. The intervention strategy seeks the indeterminacy of the space to enable multiple ways of occupation and appropriation, capable of accommodating not just one use but many. They seek a residential architecture close to its users, which allows movements to and dynamic events, changeable, psychoactive, and unpredictable, able to accommodate unexpected situations such as a long lockdown.
Practice4 years ago
CRUX arquitectos is an architecture studio rooted in rural areas that learns from the patterns of vernacular architecture to arrive at new forms of contemporary architecture. They seek timeless and flexible solutions that adapt to changing needs over time. The team collaborates with professionals from different fields to respond best to the client’s needs, who are also actively involved during the design process.
Article4 years ago
‘Umbre Ubhi Samblu re Bol Vhalam Na’ is the fourth article of the series ‘Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai’. This series of blog articles is centered around everyday life in traditional Indian homes. Using clues from Bollywood songs, regional poetry, TV advertisements and folk culture, the articles aim to highlight the various associations that people have with their homes, their neighbourhood and the city. What kinds of spaces and elements constituted traditional Indian homes before the living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen? What were these spaces called? What purposes did they serve? What meanings and values were associated with them? How was the home perceived in relation to the neighbourhood and the city? The tone of the articles is reflective and borrows from the authors’ personal experiences.
Project4 years ago
Logan Pavilion, designed by CLB, is a family home that borrows its form from vernacular hay sheds with a gabled roof held aloft on tall columns. The architect selected the exterior materials, including rusted sheet steel, for their ability to weather gracefully and blend with the colors of the landscape. Recycled and manufactured materials give the interior a contemporary feel. Built to maximize natural light, cross-ventilation, and surrounding views of the Teton Mountains, the home is firmly situated in the Western landscape.
Project4 years ago
My Dubai, designed by Apical Reform Studio, is a new interactive public sculpture inspired by and named after the social media movement. Delivering a definitive image of Dubai to the world, ‘MY Dubai’ is the latest chapter in the established traditions of large-scale city sign sculptures evidenced in iconic cities worldwide. The installation’s design blends Dubai’s innovative attitude with its natural landscape. Manifested in a color inspired by the UAE Flag, ‘MY Dubai,’ the city sign is a new emblem of Dubai and a cherished part of the Emirate’s urban fabric.
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Practice4 years ago
An evolving design practice, Apical Reform is a collaborative studio at the intersection of art and innovation, combining design with technology and manufacture. The diverse portfolio that encompasses functional art, bespoke art, kinetic art, and parametric design reflects the studio’s interest in a continuing journey of experimentation and discovery that is not limited by labels. Our ethos stems from the conviction that design is a powerful, intuitive, timeless medium that should create authentic, transformative experiences.
News4 years ago
The winners of competition “Tiny House” announced which aimed to celebrate individuality, redefine sustainability and exalt simple, resourceful living.
Project4 years ago
Loft Panzerhalle, designed by Smartvoll, is an apartment preserving the historical space and environment and fills the room with daylight instead of artificial illumination. Instead of creating an ordinary second level, sleeping areas were moved to the margin, placing them directly at the windows with a breathtaking view from the bed. Due to the spacious apartment of 8 meters’ room height, we could create a separate relax- and spa area with a sauna and cozy fireplace. Through this project, the Panzerhalle was restyled with temporary design and functional architecture.
Project4 years ago
Arrayed House, designed by Studio AVT, is rooted in old-school charm, resulting in a design language where yesteryear’s integrity meets the delightful modernity of the current era with a promise of timelessness. Visual establishment of the Name “Arrayed House” can also be seen as the design language of protruding array of bricks stacked in multiple layers onto the façade, flamboyantly displaying an old school charm, while Jali, rotating Fins, Pergolas, and hanging Chajjas are embracing the layered bricks with a contemporary cloak.
Practice4 years ago
Delhi-based Studio AVT is an architecture and interior design practice tethered & focused towards the craft of making lives more LIVEABLE. Studio An-V-Thot, a Design Consultancy Firm with a passionate approach to nurture new paradigms of Architectural & Interior Designs, started as a practice working out of a garage. The Studio has evolved as a Contemporary Design Practice with numerous Projects of diverse nature, scale & sizes in its strong portfolio of works.
Project4 years ago
St Joseph Residence I, designed by Wheeler Kearns Architects, is sited upon a coastal dune landscape that seeks proportional balance. A balance between elemental exposure and domestic intimacy of prospect and refuge. A balance between the natural and the manmade. Secondary architectural elements are introduced, extending the house into the landscape and back. The resultant is a deliberate sequence of domesticated spaces of varied scales, each with specific agendas, microclimates, sounds, smells, and effects. Contrast heightens the experience.
Project4 years ago
Round Hill Pavilions, designed by Spatial Affairs Bureau, is a collection of new structures responding to existing markers and creating new ones in this building and landscape masterplan in Orange, Virginia. Exploring the systems of the English Picturesque applied to a cluster of vernacular-inspired barns, the buildings and their setting are placed in a forced dialogue with dissecting view corridors and pathways. It speaks to traditional rural building forms but in order to create a contemporary intervention, taking up issues of The Picturesque for the 21st Century.
Practice4 years ago
Spatial Affairs Bureau is an award-winning architecture, design, and landscape firm based in the United States and the United Kingdom. Projects range across considerable scales and settings, with a consistency in design approach and an implicit commitment to headline strategy and detailed execution. The designers treat each new project as an opportunity for open-minded exploration whilst being committed to completing and building those strands of investigation.
Project4 years ago
Cortina, designed by Heliotrope Architects, is a modern Italian restaurant with relaxed elegance that establishes a strong connection to the street, lobby, and courtyard. The architectural lines are crisp and clean. The palette is a composition of white paneled walls, oak casework and ceilings, wide-plank oak floors, a granite-faced bar, and brown leather upholstered seating. The architecture exploits the very long rooms by using a repetition of form and fixture to establish a rhythm to the design akin to a musical beat.
Project4 years ago
Alaska Airlines Flagship Lounge, designed by Graham Baba Architects, provides a warm, welcoming space– to relax, work, refuel, and connect – a home-away-from-home with a sense of place deeply rooted in the Pacific Northwest. Leather banquettes, movable tables, and fixed counters offer flexibility for families or solo travelers. Moments of intimacy are possible, despite the 100-seat capacity. By showcasing local and regional fabricators and artists, Alaska Airlines honors their West Coast heritage and provides guests with a meaningful connection to the Seattle region.
Compilation4 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Ovoid by GreyScale Design Studio. 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
Jack Fruit Garden Residence, designed by Wallmakers, arose from trying to retain the huge jackfruit tree growing in one corner of the site. This gave form to the idea of a compound wall that revolves around the tree and twists upwards to join the house’s ferro-cement shell roof seamlessly. This in turn created a small intimate space landscaped like a Japanese Zen garden providing ample shade, privacy and is also easily accessible from the kitchen.
