Project5 years ago
Cork Oak House, designed by Hugo Pereira Arquitetos, is a single family house on a plot of extraordinary morphological characteristics, which remained almost intact and unchanged. The development of this project took into account the strong relationship with nature, making it an integral part of the house and a key element in the enhancement of interior spatiality. The natural environment and the panorama that is enjoyed were the decisive elements for its construction.
Practice5 years ago
Hugo Pereira Arquitetos is an architectural practice offering expertise in architecture, interior design, and urban planning. The team is committed to delivering high-quality projects that present innovative design, functionality, sustainable solutions and excellent value through careful control of cost that ensure client satisfaction. Their goal is to design buildings and environments that work, inspire people and transform communities.
Project5 years ago
Daniels Building at One Spadina, designed by NADAA + Adamson Associates Architects, embodies a holistic approach to urban design and sustainability. As the new home for the John H. Daniels Faculty of architecture, landscape, and design, its purpose is to engage students and the broader community in dialogue about the built environment. It restores the historic and forgotten building to its original grandeur while also integrating a new addition.
Practice5 years ago
Adamson and AAI provide architectural services offering a full range of architectural, planning, interior, and urban design services in both the private and public sectors. The portfolio encompasses projects in virtually every market sector — commercial; cultural; hotel and residential; justice; colleges and universities; hospitals and healthcare; airports and transportation centers; retail; entertainment; and large-scale, mixed-use development sites.
Project5 years ago
Cube House, designed by RDMA, considers its primary motive to be privacy and is defined by using a layering method to generate high privacy yet an un-massive border. The house area is set by a double-skin wall. Air circulation is maximized by creating openings above the house, generating privacy and resulting in skylights all over the house. As for the massing, the house is shaped as one big mass split by the main stair and one big skylight in the middle of the house as the main air circulation and natural lighting source.
Practice5 years ago
RDMA is a design office focused on architecture, interior design, furniture development, lighting, and landscaping that has always been integrated. RDMA examines design style as an attitude towards the context of the task given where the program should meet not only function but also aesthetic value within the constraints of the local climate. Tropical climate in its comfort of modern Architecture. By an innovative way of thinking through the contemporary way of making.
Article5 years ago
Construction has started on the Pyramid of Tirana, the brutalist monument in the heart of Albania’s capital city. MVRDV’s design will see this crucial heritage building, once the showpiece of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, dramatically renovated. The concrete structure will be reused, the atrium and its surroundings greened and opened, and a small village of cafes, studios, workshops, and classrooms – where Albanian youth will learn various technology subjects for free – will permeate the site, both inside and outside the pyramid itself. The Pyramid is thus expected to become a new hub for Tirana’s cultural life and a carrier for the new generation. “Working on a brutalist monument like the Pyramid is a dream”, says founding partner of MVRDV Winy Maas.
Project5 years ago
Floating Planes, designed by Compartment S4, is a retail experience design for a jewelry brand defined by a harmonic play of vertical lines and horizontal planes. Slender mild steel bars are used to design the hanging display shelves, display tables, stools, chairs and even the waiting bench. The olive green walls and tapestry add a certain touch of grandiose and poise to the otherwise populated space. Its composition with all the other elements triggers hidden memories of halcyon days and nostalgia of celebrations that are associated with jewelry in India.
Project5 years ago
House in Famalicao, designed by Pedro Lima da Costa, Arquitectura, leaned against the north for the best land usage and solar orientation. The spaces are articulated along a structuring corridor that is ended by the main suite. Constructively the house presents 3 dominant materials, ETICS system, stone, and glass. As much as possible, the team kept the house constructively simple so that the articulation between volumes and the shadow plays they drew were the element that characterized the house.
Practice5 years ago
Pedro Lima da Costa, Arquitectura is driven by the challenge of drawing affordable houses with a high-end design that transmits the image and quality of more expensive solutions. The client’s needs are the main priority when conceiving and imagining the spaces, giving them the opportunity of living in a space they can call their home.
Compilation5 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – The Lap Pool House by Aristides Dallas 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.
Project5 years ago
Mazanka Apartment, designed by Sergey Makhno Architects, is a dialogue with the past and is a step towards the originality of modern Ukrainian design and Ukrainian culture as it is. The home interior is eco-housing with natural materials and modern technologies being harmoniously combined, and the design sophisticatedly emphasizes the space’s uniqueness. The designers combined kitchen, living room, and balcony but left a fairly clear thematic division due to different textures and materials. Here, the main beholder of such a force of nature is the Ochi lamp created by Serhii Makhno.
Selected Academic Projects
Project5 years ago
Halaman -The Courtyard House, designed by Zero studio, feels like an escapade to serenity from all the urban commotion. This house is a modern, minimalistic one with original rustic finishes with a lot of greenery inside and personal and intimate spaces, well-lit and ventilated naturally. In extracting the maximum from a fairly complex context, open interior planning played a key role. This resulted in an inward-looking house that essentially opens out as the user enters from the chaos outside; to a large volume that is accentuated with elements such as greenery, natural light, and water.
Practice5 years ago
ZERO STUDIO is a creative design studio focused on architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, accessory/product design, restoration, and renovation, aiming to create quality spaces. The forte is experimenting with architecture under the varying contexts of need and, most importantly, the user. Zero wouldn’t make a signature range of products; instead would attend to details and design customization, considering need as the prime factor and rendering the space for the priorities of the user.
Project5 years ago
The Lap Pool House, designed by Aristides Dallas Architects, is inspired by the cavities and ledges of the rocks emerging from the natural landscape as a man-made cave, re-creating spatial points of exposure and introversion. A single slab of concrete, planted so it appears as an extension of the landscape, covers the three building volumes in the Lap pool house and shapes the individual architectural qualities of open and closed space in residence. The building urges the habitant to live with an absolute connection with the scenery of Tinos and with nature.
Project5 years ago
Harvard Artlab, designed by Barkow Leibinger, is a cross-curriculum space for the arts designed to be curated and adapted by its users. The building, a one-story “pinwheel-like” plan, consists of studios, workshops, and media spaces surrounding a common “Hub” space. The Hub can be opened and closed by four large sliding partitions, enabling performances and exhibitions and cultivating interactivity at the ArtLab’s center. The building, which complies with Massachusetts’ high energy efficiency standards and is projected to be net-zero, is constructed of lightweight steel columns and open web steel trusses on a concrete slab on grade.
Practice5 years ago
Barkow Leibinger is an architectural practice with a discursive research-based approach to architecture and design, allowing it to respond to advancing knowledge and technology and locating the practice as an international leader in digital and analog fabrication techniques. This know-how expands to include new materials and their applications in driving the practice forward, a continuously evolving activity. The office’s focus revolves around a commitment to academic teaching, research, and the practice itself — autonomous work areas that simultaneously inform one another.
Project5 years ago
MVRDV’s Marble Arch Hill is a temporary installation designed to renew interest in the area as London emerges from the effects of pandemic. MVRDV’s proposal for this installation takes inspiration from the site’s history. MVRDV’s design introduces a park-like landscape of grass and trees and ‘lifts’ this recreated corner of Hyde Park to create a spectacular 25- meter-tall viewpoint that gives visitors an overview of Oxford Street and the park a new perspective on Marble Arch itself.
Project5 years ago
A Hill Side House, designed by Abramson Architects, is a large home on their dramatically sloping site with an informal layout woven into the topography. The home’s massing is located on a lower level that daylights onto the downslope side of the house. This modest massing arrangement allows neighboring properties to see over the home’s roof. Meticulous craftsmanship and authentic building materials are recurring themes best exemplified by the widespread use of board-formed concrete walls, white oak shiplap cladding, and painted galvanized steel doors and windows.
Practice5 years ago
Abramson Architects is a robust firm of diverse professionals with expansive expertise in architecture and interior design. Their collective creative perspective includes global studies of cultural, artistic, and architectural treasures. With continued growth, the practice remains personal and purposeful by bringing a rare human touch to an increasingly corporate landscape.
Project5 years ago
Bread & Butter, designed by Sergey Makhno Architects, is a space for informal meetings at the office with modern design and advanced technologies that create a special futuristic comfort. “Waves” in the bar area is one of the main design solutions here that sets the dynamics of the completely white space. Each rail was made according to individual drawings developed specifically for this project. The lounge area features The Elephants big-eared armchairs designed by Sergey Makhno Product.
Project5 years ago
Designed by Taller David Dana, Camilo Apartment’s selection of materials and furniture broadens the user’s perception, in which lighting is not a separate element but implies the spirit of the space. The fundamental and discreet purity of the materials create a neutral atmosphere of dialogue between all its elements. Perceptible modern notes are created by a mixture of light and translucent elements, the play of these makes the continuity of the materials consistent and rhythmic, attributing elegance, comfort and functionality.
Pedagogy5 years ago
“Natural Building – Basics” will guide learn how to identify different properties of earth, lime-how to procure it, prepare it and learn different ways of using it in your building.
Project5 years ago
Falaknuma mosque complex, designed by Compartment S4, has ideas that emulate obsolete Muslim architectural elements like carvings, jaalis, brackets, etc. The team interpreted the design with something sensitive to context and material while addressing the issues and religious needs of the targeted users. Light, sound and textures create a sense of place. Old muslim architectural elements are reinterpreted in more subtle contemporary ways, still keeping the core essence of the feeling and experience that they stimulate in people.
