Villa G01, designed by Mask Architects, is a unique luxury villa with a panoramic sea view. The villa ensures the sustainability of Sardinia’s local architectural and material texture using today’s technology with robotic construction techniques. It generates an atmosphere of slow, laid-back summer living, encouraging mindful connection with family and friends and the freedom to exist peacefully in nature.
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Takenaka Clinic by TSC 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.
Casa Mais Linda, designed by Leo Romano, appropriates the sites characteristics for the definition of the architectural party. It is this evident structure that makes the volumetry appear to float over the terrain. The pillars are treated as sculptures and receive the slabs that duplicate at the ends of the building. Although robust in size, it translates in a poetic way and takes the way of life of the residents. It combines boldness with simplicity of materials.
Artist Residence, designed by Heliotrope Architects, is a home with an art studio inside having a contemporary style but not out of place with the rest of the Capitol Hill neighborhood. A visual connection to the street balanced with privacy; a strong relationship between the interior and exterior; lots of natural light; an interior with an art-gallery-feel to accommodate their growing art collection; and a separate guest wing.
Heliotrope Architects is a group of curious architects who design residential, commercial, and hospitality projects. Each project is unique and reflective of its setting – whether rural or urban environment, a building, an interior, or a home. The team value design that is responsive to one’s physical surroundings, culturally sensitive, and considers the climate and environment as a whole.
Japanese Cuisine Tokiwa, designed by Fumihiko Sano Studio, reflects the chef’s fondness for tea ceremonies in a Sukiya style. The design and materials were selected to differ, like the space based on the aesthetics of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony room. As the design will develop with age, the space successfully represent the identity of the chef with an interest in tea ceremonies.
Regatta Foreshore Walk Pavilion, designed by Day Bukh Architects, redevelops a unique cultural and historical existing public recreation space. The site’s critical location between the lake and the town center reinforces the importance of the project and the visual, physical, and cultural connection with the community. The design aims to incorporate the unique lakeside environment by extension of the land’s and bush’s inherent physical forms.
Day Bukh Architects has a public, urban, and residential design focus on ecological and sustainable buildings. The ecological concerns extend beyond reducing energy use to social sustainability. The focus on social and environmental sustainability is expressed in our aim to create buildings that have a harmonious relationship with their natural environment rather than dominating it.
The Momentary, designed by Wheeler Kearns Architects, is a new contemporary art space envisaged as a satellite to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The Momentary purposefully overlaps social, performance, and culinary activities with art spaces to champion contemporary art’s role in everyday life. It deliberately differentiated its additions by using contemporary materials, an open and visible intervention that brings the old and new together in a diverse but holistic program.
Upside Down Akubra House, designed by Alexander Symes Architects, is an off-grid home inspired by the iconic Australian Akubra hat. At this point, one of the key challenges for this project presented itself: how to create a low-energy, thermally comfortable home that celebrated views all around. What makes this off-grid home unique however, is how the technology has become the home’s aesthetic.
Alexander Symes Architects aims to advance sustainable architecture by utilizing resources to contribute to a sustainable future. This vision for sustainable architecture is layered through all aspects of our practice and all the stages of a project.
The first CLT Workshop will attempt to orient cross laminated timber to participants. The workshop will discuss the merits of using CLT as the primary building product in the industry.
GVS Associate Lawyers, designed by Arqbr Arquitetura e Urbanismo, is an office working environment for a law firm with work desks, computers, and a meeting room. Furniture and carpentry are the main defining elements of the space, through the harmonic arrangement of white and light wood planes.
Takenaka Clinic, designed by TSC Architects, generates a space where the patients can feel a sense of security outside the building, symbolizing the town. The large eaves and the L-shaped open ceiling space generate a gradation for the boundary between the gradation town and the clinic. Plenty of wood material was used for portions touched by people directly to reduce nervousness. This building has “Warm transparency” for the town.
TSC Architects have a deep relationship with person and architecture with a commitment to design housing. To that end, they believe it is important to grasp the locality of the premises that make up the cityscape and make a meaningful design that comes from client dialogue. If the building is beautiful, naturally blends into the surrounding environment, and becomes special for the client, the relationship between people and architecture will be better.
Podcetrtek Sports Hall, designed by ENOTA, appears as a response to its role in the town, being the only large indoor venue. Though it is designed primarily as a sports hall, it also plays the role of the main municipal hall for cultural events with larger audiences. The main design cue is a “red carpet” that leads the visitors to the events taking place in the building. The activity inside is directly mirrored on the facade and contributes to the promotion of the events and attractiveness of the building.
Jinlong Prefab School, designed by Crossboundaries, attempts to maximize the potential of prefab architecture but also an opportunity to realize and contribute to a project of significant social impact. Result: A multifunctional, predominantly prefab structure with maximum flexibility and aesthetic personality through design accents while providing clever solutions for a high-density project. Additional advantages such as energy conservation, environmental friendliness, and earthquake resistance were also incorporated.
Crossboundaries contribute to a vital built environment through architecture, environmental design, and urban regeneration. The studio creates enduring architecture that often deals with remarkable technical processes yet always has a pleasant material touch and human atmosphere. Crossboundaries practices by name, crossing the boundaries into activities and dialogues in the broad field of design and studio is engaging, evolving, and adapting.
The Charette has unveiled the results of the Alternate Realities 2020 competition.
Urania, designed by Studio 3LHD, is an adaptive reuse project converted and reused into a new office and public space. Most of the original structural materials have been retained with minimal intervention – original brick walls, raw plaster, and concrete on floors and ceilings. At the same time, all new equipment has oak for floors, spruce veneer, and raw steel for wall cladding and interior finishes. The project integrates new cultural spaces into the existing historic fabric.
MVRDV was tasked with rethinking the façade designs for new Bvlgari stores, adding a contemporary touch to their classic image. Taking the heritage of Roman Art as a starting point, MVRDV’s designs took inspiration from the portals and distinctive cornices on Bvlgari’s very first store in Rome. The cornice pattern façade is completed in brass combined with different types of glass, giving a golden effect and creating a striking impression.
Seoul Photographic Art Museum, designed by Mask Architects, has the purpose of structuring and shaping itself as a big camera. Concerning the local and national visitors, this installation will expand the educational opportunities, cultural and economic growth for the residents of the Northeastern region. At the same time, this cultural center takes INSPIRATION from TAEKKYEON. This traditional Korean martial art uses fluid, rhythmic dance-like movements to strike or trip up an opponent.
Lune de Sang Pavilion, designed by Chrofi, is a unique multi-generational venture transformed into a sustainably-harvested forest & a house. The project’s latest component, the Pavilion, defies easy definition as a ‘house,’ belonging as it does to a suite of 5 structures that collectively shape the place experience. The ambition is an elemental and atavistic architecture. Structures that may appear to be a rediscovered ruin from the day they are built.
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Maitland Riverlink by Chrofi. 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.
