News5 years ago
Ronald Lu & Partners (RLP) is proud to unveil the design for Chinese tech giant Tencent’s 77,000 square metre East China Headquarters in Shanghai. This bespoke innovative architecture inspired by ‘A Myriad of Twinkling Household Lights’, which reflects Tencent’s vision, identity and culture, is set to become a new landmark for the Xuhui District upon its completion by the second half of 2021.
Project5 years ago
Ardmore Residence, designed by UNStudio, is a multi-layered architectural response to the natural landscape inherent to the ‘Garden City’ of Singapore. This landscape concept is integrated into the design utilizing four large details: the articulation of the façade, expansive views across the city, the interior ‘living landscape’ concept, and the introduction of transparency and connectivity to the ground-level gardens using a raised structure supported by an open framework.
Project5 years ago
The Hovering Gardens, designed by Niraj Doshi Design Consultancy (N.D.D.C.), merges seamlessly with the environment while making it stand out because of its architectural beauty. The brief for N.D.D.C. was a modest material template culminating into a residence that would be rich in spatial experience. Ample cross-ventilation, keeping in mind the occupants’ need for privacy, as well as flexibility in space change in accordance with family evolution was also an important consideration.
Practice5 years ago
Ar. Niraj Doshi founded N.D.D.C. with a vision to build a design organization and involve dynamic international partners. This office space is located in Pune, India. His designs are backed by strong research and a commitment to sustainable design practices, providing solutions with a global insight within a local context.
Project6 years ago
P.C. Hooftstraat 138, designed by UNStudio, sets the stage for a unique and distinctive flagship store by reimagining the display of clothes. The facade of P.C. Hooftstraat 138 is a celebration of textiles, both in form and function; three curved glass panels flow down from the upper floors in a design that mimics billowing transparent cloth. This play with glass creates opening spaces on a pedestrian eye-level that unveil the latest designs.
Project6 years ago
Parques del Rio Medellín (Medellin river park), designed by Cauce Arquitectura Del Paisaje, is born from a need for infrastructure improvement to the national highway that goes through the city, parallel to the river. The local administration saw the project as an opportunity to think beyond engineering and conduct a public competition where the main focus was to combine the highway with public space through the recovery of the city’s waterfront, an idea that had been in the making for 50 years.
Practice6 years ago
Cauce Arquitectura del paisaje is linked to the study and understanding of the territory, finding its topography, landscaping, environment, visual, culture and climate to develop architectural and urban spaces that adapt to physical and ecological conditions, understanding the relationships between the biotic environment and anthropic conditions.
Project6 years ago
The House that Habitate, designed by Natura Futura Arquitectura, treats architecture as a diversifier of urban centres: Productive Urban Housing + Education Space. A program was created that allows dialogue between living, educating, and producing. Regarding materiality, brick, wood and ceramics have traditionally been interpreted as a resource for low-income buildings. However, the project revalues these local elements using them in 95% of the construction.
Project6 years ago
House of Memory & Community Space is a cultural space designed by Taller Sintesis, Angelica Gaviria, and Juan Caidedo. It serves to regain and strengthen community life while honoring the memory of the 500 victims of the violence. A diagonal wall creates the entrance to the building, an element that attacks the geometry of the rest of the building as a mark of the violence that affected Pueblo Bello in the past. This building materialized in 2014 harboring an architectural program designed directly by the community in accordance with their wishes and needs. The design will start from the recognition of the place and its people, history, needs, way of living and future projection.
Product6 years ago
Durian’s Britannia range is a collection of premium laminates available in 0.70 mm thickness. Keeping current market conditions is mind.
Practice6 years ago
Her professional practice has been focused on making use of architecture and urbanism as a main tool for improving vulnerable communities’ quality of life, within different Global South urban and rural contexts.
Practice6 years ago
(“Text as submitted by Architect”) Juan Guillermo Ca Juan Caicedo, Pasto 1981. Visual artist (2007) from the National University of Colombia and…
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Selected Academic Projects
Project6 years ago
Tack Barn, designed by Faulkner Architects, is a residence with strong agricultural history that are confusingly morphed between the two vocabularies. The reuse of an old barn to house people, on weekend getaways from urban life presents a conflict in identity for the built form. Uses change over time, the intention here was to maintain and use the embodied energy of the familiar barn in the neighborhood while allowing the signs of human inhabitation to be subtle, but evident.
Project6 years ago
Raffles City Hangzhou, designed by UNStudio, is a sustainable urban hub for living, working and leisure, becoming a major landmark. The project furthers the practice’s ongoing research into Superliving, in this case into (integral) strategies to create sustainable, healthy cities that offer a high quality of life, while addressing future needs for greater efficiency and density in cities in times of rapid urbanisation and growth.
Article6 years ago
“From practice, academics to organising art festivals, Architect Falguni Desai has been actively practicing, discussing and propagating sustainability in all streams of her work. In this talk she shares with us her projects, concerns and her journey. Starting from her projects to discussing the changing times and variety of materials, the talk gives us a glimpse of how her journey has been guided by her intuitive processes.
Project6 years ago
Phutthamonthon-Y House, designed by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is a small house with a concrete rooftop garden, which makes a dialogue with the leaves surrounded and provides a view to a vegetable plot and a garden below. The concrete rooftop garden is close to the branches of the tree to create an experience of touching from one plane to another. In other words, this is how to use the space most efficiently. The wall emits light as if it is a firefly.
Project6 years ago
Project Array, designed by 1405 Design Studio, is an ever-growing, innovative, open layout space responding to their assorted working styles and design sensibilities. The space needed to be both extremely functional, user-oriented as well as design intrinsic representing the brand and its various facets. A Space that has a very subconscious connects between the seller, the designer and the craftsman. This interpretation became a guideline: a highly personalized unit with individually defined and controlled space.
Practice6 years ago
1405 Design Studio delves into various projects: creating luxurious residential spaces, small dwellings, commercial offices, experience centers, schools, and retail spaces. The Studio’s design language is situation and solution-based, wherein aesthetics is not an add-on but a by-product. It is what makes design timeless and holistic. Every object and space reflects its environment, people and process; that becomes the underlying concept for our unique, bespoke, cohesive designs.
Project6 years ago
Fashion Meets Architecture, designed by The Red Studio, is inspired from Anthropomorphic sculptures of Anthony Gormley. This Sculpture can be internally accessed thru a lift which forms a vertical structural spine. Various programmatic spaces including the studio and display areas are stacked vertically at various levels within the Anthropomorphic Man. The outstretched leg further accommodates a spectacular Ramp Walk offering out of this world setting for exuberant displays.
Project6 years ago
The Screen House, designed by tHE gRID Architects, is a beautifully integrated development comprising three discrete spaces, each one serving the needs of sub-sets of the unit yet linked in spirit and design. Water-bodies, semi-open spaces and vegetation articulate the connectivity of the three homes. The architecture explores the interplay of alliances between plant life, water, sky, built-form and humans. The building comprises of sections interlocked with the functionality of the spaces to create a balanced whole.
Article6 years ago
Prof. Surya Kakani talks about ‘Material Pragmatism’ at his practice – Kakani associates, Ahmedabad. The practice explores architectural resolutions within a resource conscious framework by reusing existing buildings, reducing carbon footprint by using energy efficient materials, recycling materials and harnessing construction technologies that involve skill and craft.
News6 years ago
With the Campus of Religions in aspern Seestadt, an interreligious center and a new location for the Church Educational University of Vienna / Krems is being created. The Viennese architecture firm Burtscher-Durig ZT GmbH emerged as the winner of the urban planning competition and was able to prevail with its architecture. All 42 submissions will now be presented in a one-week exhibition.
Project6 years ago
Bardales – Urban Training Center, designed by Natura Futura Arquitectura, integrates needs within the urban area, providing spatial possibilities and strengthening a community. They proposed to use part of the existing infrastructure of their current one-story home in the city’s urban center, partially exchanging their residential space to make it productive, living alongside it. Bardales reflects on the way in which urban facilities are developed in cities and the usual conditions in which people exercise.
Project6 years ago
Hosne Aziz Villa, designed by In Quest Design Studio, is a multi-family dwelling unit with an idea of long lasting regional expression. So basically it’s a vertical impression of the traditional village joint family house format. The public and private spaces are designed in such a way that they can be merged together to form a larger periphery. Alongside ample natural light and ventilation inside individual apartment, we paid special attention towards glare free light.
