East Village Karrinyup, designed by Hames Sharley, consists of 94 residences on the eastern edge of the new Karrinyup Shopping Centre, offering incredible views over Lake Gwelup, Perth city, and Karrinyup Golf Course. The philosophy in East Village Karrinyup is to take a holistic approach and create places where feelings of vibrancy, comfort, security, and home develop organically as individuals occupy the space and make it their own.
TTSWTRS clothing buffet, designed by Aisel Architects, uses mostly white color and light wood, neon, and industrial elements in detail. The shape of the premises dictated the zoning. The coffee shop and showroom were divided by a glass partition and visually united using a block of refrigerated display cases. Instead of the usual curtains, industrial blinds were used for the fitting room.
Technology School of Laayoune is an educational institution designed by Saad El Kabbaj Architect, Driss Kettani Architecte & Siana Architecte. The various buildings are fragmented to allow maximum natural ventilation and lighting and are connected by a set of external paths, squares, covered squares, mineral gardens to justly enhance this notion of urbanity. The architectural vocabulary is solid, geometric and plays with the contrast-ocher-exterior and interior-light.
Archidiaries is announcing another series named ‘Technology in Architecture’ launching on January 16th, 2021 via Facebook live at 11:00 AM (GMT + 5:30).
Paraiso, designed by PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados, is a weekend house within a golf course in a residential area. The main design intention in this project was to create a sense of openness on its rear side, as it enjoys a panoramic view of the golf course and a mountain chain on the horizon. LCMX interior design stressed the contrast between the building’s materials: Guanacaste, hardwood, steel, granite stone and concrete.
Wall of knowledge, designed by Tarik Zoubdi Architectte & Mounir Benchekroun Architect, is shaped by the site and its orientation to the sun. The compactness of the project makes it possible to shorten the maximum walking distances. The building is set back. It unfolds its facade’s covering on the ground to create a public plaza, serving as a socializing space. The hermetic and protective character of the facade is meant to be monumental.
Archidiaries is announcing another series named ‘Technology in Architecture’ launching on January 16th, 2021 via Facebook live at 11:00 AM (GMT + 5:30).
Designed by ODDO Architects, CH house is a multi-generation house inspired by the old traditional houses of Hanoi, with spaces full of natural light, ventilation, and inner courtyards. The design aims to bring a breath of traditional spirit to modern life, simultaneously creating spaces full of natural light and ensuring natural ventilation within the house. The double layer facade combined with a green layer provides cover from sun, the dust and allowing natural ventilation throughout the entire length of the house.
ODDO Architects is a young architectural firm based in Vietnam and Czech Republic.
Leaf and Bean Coffee Co Pavilion, designed by Mask Architects, is a sustainable pavilion using innovative & contemporary approaches to integrate nature with architecture. Through the utilization of local wood the structure’s material palette percolates with it’s background and implements sustainable production strategies. A meandering procession where visitors can wander in an undulation of forest and exhibition discoveries.
Taroudant University is an educational institution designed by Saad El Kabbaj Architect, Driss Kettani Architecte & Siana Architecte. The Polydisciplinar Faculty of Taroudant is an attempt to reinterpret that heritage through a building that carries a vision for the future. Therefore, this project draws inspiration from the land and its manifestations to the senses.
eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Skyscraper Competition. The Jury selected 3 winners and 22 honourable mentions from 473 projects received. The annual award established in 2006 recognizes visionary ideas that through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.
FG OFF, designed by Aisel Architects, is an office with neutral universal interior & it integrates the company’s corporate color — orange. It was important for the designers to strike a balance between functionality and the purity of the geometry of the space. The company’s identity was implemented in the design of the reception area — the corporate orange arch, which became the accent of the overall minimalistic interior.
Aisel Architects is the architecture & interior design bureau led by Aisel Kononenko and Karina Sydorenko in Kyiv and Ukraine.
Valley, designed by MVRDV, is a mixed-use complex combining offices, shops, catering, cultural facilities, and apartments in one building. Designed for developer Edge, Valley is an attempt to bring a green and human dimension back to the inhospitable office environment of Amsterdam Zuidas. It is a building with multiple faces; on the outer edges of the building is a shell of smooth mirrored glass, which fits the context of the business district.
Hishiya, designed by Fumihiko Sano Studio, is a renovation of an 80-year-old folk house built in a castle town. A concept to create an inn that uses local materials, craftsmanship, and local culture to symbolize the town’s identity was selected. By creating a place to stay, one vacant house becomes an occupied facility; visitors can stay in the city, and local craftsmen and writers have employment through experiencing the craftsmanship of the local materials.
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Yingliang Stone Archive by Atelier Alter 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.
Technology School of Guelmim is an educational institution designed by Saad El Kabbaj Architect, Driss Kettani Architecte & Siana Architecte. The starting point was to provide a strong architecture, contemporary but inspired by the context in which it occurs. The challenge was to recreate a certain mood, a certain scale with modern tools and architectural vocabulary.Thus, the architecture is voluntarily massive, powerful and plays with the contrast between interior and exterior.
Driss Kettani Architecte is an architectural practice based in Casablanca, Morocco. Driss Kettani has a constant interest in the place, the culture and the inhabitants as an essential starting point for a reflection, a project. This approach goes hand in hand with an imperative of modernity and contemporaneity, in a constant quest for creativity and meaning.
Operating in the fields of architecture, urban planning and interior design, the Saad El Kabbaj agency was founded in 2005. Engaged in an architectural approach rejecting everything a priori and keeping as constant only the search for creativity, quality and meaning. We impose ourselves to master the architectural process, from the initial concept to its successful materialization.
ARCHASM Competitions announces the winners of idea competition “Fashion Pavilion Milan”.
Realrich has been operating Realrich Architecture Workshop – RAW Architecture- since 2011. The intent of RAW Architecture is to preserve a long history of craftsmanship while innovating in a current practice context. RAW Architecture is active in designing architecture that is focused on locality and craftsmanship.
Oasys + System, designed by Mask Architects, is a network of gridded stations and hubs acting as islands of harbor and refuge. Space can be used for temporary pop-ups, sitting areas, cafes, exhibitions, sports etc. It will also help with creating an eco-friendly space which will help to create the image and sensation of a green oasis in the middle of the city.
Mask Architects and Design Company is a young international architecture and design firm based in Sardinia, Italy, and Istanbul, Turkey. The team practices in priority public, cultural, workspaces, mix-use, luxury industrial design, health, education, living space, yacht and watch design, and production and master planning sectors worldwide. The vision is to combine Science, Architecture, and Technology in the Parametric and Kinetic design field.
