Practice6 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.
Project6 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.
Project6 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.
Practice6 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.
Project6 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.
Project6 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.
Practice6 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.
Project6 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.
Project6 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.
Pedagogy6 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.
Project6 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.
Project6 years ago
Ecological house, designed by Dan and Hila Israelevitz Architects, has a relaxing, embracing environment that provides a view of the surrounding green, pastoral landscapes and maintains a sense of privacy. The result was an impressive architectonic structure in which both demands were perfectly combined and met, enabling all family members to enjoy all aspects of their vision. The facade and interior parts of the house feature ecological elements and various built-in solutions, designed to reduce electricity consumption.
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Practice6 years ago
Dan and Hila Israelevitz Architects is an architectural practice focused on planning and creating luxurious houses and pampering living spaces. The tight work processes are translated into meticulous and professional planning, assuring quick and accurate work in the field, with minimal changes and coordinated continuity between architectural stages and internal design, all under one roof.
Project6 years ago
Mitsubishi Corporation Dhaka Office, designed by Roofliners_Studio of Architecture, enhances their working philosophy of openness and transparency. Therefore, an open layout plan is devised to stimulate a group-working environment. The central Spine –Tunnel emphasizes the idea of a minimalistic aura with a crafted wall and ceiling as one device. A lighting screen modulated from the company logo gives a unique character to the space inside. The office’s overall scheme tries to create freshness with enhanced efficiency to rectify the bold corporate identity of Mitsubishi Corporation operating in Bangladesh.
Project6 years ago
Beaver Country Day School Research + Design Center, designed by NADAAA, boasts an innovative pedagogy based on student-centered design.The project involved the transformation of an existing library and a new addition that created a connected campus, placing the new R+D Center at the heart of it. The newly enclosed courtyard is an expansion of the Design Level that provides students with multiple ways to utilize the space; an opportunity for fresh air, an outdoor space to work and experiment, a spot to socialize, and a place for the school to host large events.
Practice6 years ago
NADAAA is a multi-disciplinary practice that bridges design disciplines, landscape, urbanism, architecture, interiors, industrial design, and furniture. The work of NADAAA demonstrates a commitment to new forms of knowledge through making. With an eye towards integrated thinking, we enter the discourse on technology, aesthetics, and building protocols as part of a holistic process. Rather than focus on typology, NADAAA’s portfolio is built on process, with examples of housing, institutional/academic buildings, commercial, retail, and design for civic places.
Project6 years ago
Bradco, designed by Em Paralelo, intends not to link the image of the Industrial Unit to a mere “warehouse” but an architectural landmark representing the brand in the best possible way in the municipality. Its coverage (sawtooth) stands out throughout the production area, causing stretches of natural light, constant throughout the day diffusely, its orientation being north. Around it is a green area punctuated by two cypress trees that rise through two circular slots communicating with the balcony while presenting it with more dynamism and different types of light.
Practice6 years ago
Em Paralelo is an Architecture Office that establishes itself as a reference in the world of architecture, design, and image. All projects are developed and matured based on acquired experiences, valuing creativity, precision and technological advancements where we aim to redefine boundaries and stand out from others.
Compilation6 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Shikor – A Country house by Spatial 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.
Project6 years ago
Stack-cube House, designed by Touch Architect, results from stacking multiple functional requirements to reduce the floor plan. The square-shaped plans pull out and eliminate unnecessary space creating a compact function together with the best utilizing all the circulation. The material finishing of this house is mainly white walls with glass voids. Ornament boundaries are created by a wooden-like aluminum trellis, with durability to conceal an inside space. Wood planks from an old barn are re-used for outdoor decks, ceilings, main entrance doors, and staircase.
Project6 years ago
Takahashi – Harb Loft and Library, designed by Naomi Darling Architecture LLC, is an interior renovation and conversion of an existing ground floor into a one-bedroom loft-style apartment and separate library workspace. The biggest design challenge was to bring in daylight and open the space to the exterior. This connects the apartment to the outdoors with associated biophilia benefits. The existing constraints helped to organize the plan into three simple sections – one for sleeping, the central space for living, play, and eating, and the final section for support spaces.
Practice6 years ago
Naomi Darling Architecture, LLC, is an architecture and design practice that emphasizes creative problem solving & optimizes given conditions of site and context. Naomi Darling Architecture, LLC aims in all of our work to produce socially responsible and environmentally conscious projects. The design process is highly rigorous and investigative. Taking cues from nature, the relationship between architecture and landscape is a prominent source of inspiration in the work.
Project6 years ago
Balmoral House, designed by Chrofi, orders living volumes and garden spaces to maximize access to view and sunlight and to structure these to accommodate an array of social situations. The architecture works as a series of stacked interconnected volumes that carefully manoeuvre down the site, wrapping around to establish a secluded light-filled courtyard and terrace area on the north-eastern side. The expression is ‘minimalist modern’ to avoid visually complicating an already dense set of circumstances.
Project6 years ago
Office 135, designed by Dhyey Chag Architects, is a workspace with the idea of thresholds with mediated movement from one type of spatial status to another. They seem isolated spatially but remain visually connected. The entire office is designed as per Vastu, as it was one of the major requirements of the client. Every furniture piece was customized fully and was raw in its live view. It was a challenge as to how values could be developed and transformed into objects but after understanding the user, the inspiration became an industrial setting most often sighted by the clients.
