Aisel Architects
Aisel Architects is the architecture & interior design bureau led by Aisel Kononenko and Karina Sydorenko in Kyiv and Ukraine.
Valley | MVRDV
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 | Fumihiko Sano Studio
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.
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Weekly Highlights 2021 #2
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 | Saad El Kabbaj + Driss Ketani Architecte + Siana Architects
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
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.
Selected Interviews
Saad El Kabbaj Architect
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.
Fashion Pavilion Milan Result Announcement
ARCHASM Competitions announces the winners of idea competition “Fashion Pavilion Milan”.
Forming Bricolage | Reflection on RAW Architecture Practice in Indonesia
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.
Selected Projects
Oasys + System | Mask Architects
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
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.
Folkart Blu hotel and residences | Dilekci Architects (DDA)
Folkart Blu hotel and residences, designed by Dilekci Architects (DDA), reduces the perception of high-rise construction; the mass is fragmented horizontally and vertically. The structure is designed in overlapping, segmented horizontal blocks. Material choices hold the most important place in the expression of the dynamic form that constitutes the design. Glass and stone together describe the space and occupancy areas of the form.
Selected Academic Projects
Dilekci Architects (DDA)
Dilekci Architects (DDA) is an Istanbul-based architectural practice with projects with diverse functions for both the public and private sectors. And they have a wealth of knowledge and perspectives on urban and architectural problems. They are also enthusiastic about the collaborating with international design offices on projects in the sense of sharing knowledge and experience.
Technology in Architecture: An Engineers Sketchbook an interview with Manjunath BL
Archidiaries is announcing another series named ‘Technology in Architecture’ launching on January 16th, 2021 via Facebook live at 11:00 AM (GMT + 5:30).
Villa Z | Siana Architecte
Villa Z, designed by Siana Architecte, draws its inspiration from Moroccan cultural roots, while opening up to new horizons. The principal intention was to go out from the cube perception to answer to the program and routine and to find the best way to preserve privacy and protect the project from the noise of the prominent front avenue. The Project is an experience which try to develope practical-spaces for the new way of morrocan life, a cultural dilemma between privacy and the cotemporary opened way of life.
Compilations
Yingliang Stone Archive | Atelier Alter Architects
Yingliang Stone Archive, designed by Atelier Alter Architects, converts a storage space into a stone archive: to showcase the diversities of stone craft and to create a space for architects to contemplate their designs with stone. This project attempts to propose a critique of modern construction. By inventing new construction methods based on levels of local craftsmanship, we strive to find coherence between the architecture scale and the detail scale of the work.
Authority of IIM-A Holds the Plan for Demolishing Dorms
The chairman and Board of Governors Indian institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad have withdrawn the plans for demolishing dorms designed by Louis Kahn after opposed by architectural fraternity and alumni over the globe.
Edificio Turin | C2D
Edificio Turin, designed by C2D, uses the shape of the plot as an advantage by dividing each floor plan into two offset strips bound by the vertical circulation core. The vertical and horizontal circulations play an important role in the design, helping to separate public and private areas inside the apartments and creating efficient access to each unit from the street while minimizing futile space.
C2D
C2D is an architecture office where we work on designing projects of different scales and uses not defined by a current or a style. However, each project has a close relationship between site, structure, and architecture, looking for timelessness and character in the result. They collaborate with a wide network of consultants and experts in various areas and have experience in costs, construction processes, work execution and regulations.
Technology in Architecture: Structures in Architecture, A PROCESS an interview with prof. Gurdev Singh
Archidiaries is announcing another series named ‘Technology in Architecture’ launching on January 16th, 2021 via Facebook live at 11:00 AM (GMT + 5:30).
White Canvas | ACA Architects + Kirin Design & Living
White Canvas, designed by ACA Architects & Kirin Design & Living, is a modern minimalist white plane with a composition of textures: steel mesh, aluminum composite panels, and simple paint finish wall. By combining two buildings with the horizontal façade on the 2nd floor and the fence on the ground floor, the center courtyard was created between the buildings making visual linkage to the landscape design and using as a main function terrace for the family.
Kirin Design & Living
Kirin Design & Living is an architecture and design practice based in Bangkok, Thailand, headed by Kirin Chaichana and Pakkapon Boonmee.
Villa F | Siana Architecte
Villa F, designed by Siana Architecte, tries to feature a philosophical discourse between tradition and modernity. The morphology is conceived as a contemporary update of the modernist architecture of Casablanca and as well as an evolution of the Moroccan way of life. The openings are placed and generally grouped in order to offer the best possible orientations and to benefit all the spaces by freeing the maximum of facades.
Siana Architecte
Siana Architecte attempts to reconcile traditional North African architecture with the modernist move¬ment’s imposition on the built environment in public and residential buildings. Research into Arabic medina city planning inspired their inclusion of courtyard gardens typical of the traditional Moroc¬can house, or riad, within cellular clusters of buildings grouped off the campus’s main axis.
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