Viraam by Avani Mudra Design embodies its literal meaning, “a pause,” conceived as an urban sanctuary for retreat, relaxation, and introspection. The project reimagines a contemporary home as an introverted, light-filled void centered around a landscaped courtyard, allowing natural north light while maintaining privacy. Interconnected spaces, earthy materials, and integrated landscapes create a calm refuge from the constant demands of modern life.
Avani Mudra Design explores architecture as a transformative backdrop for life, balancing material pragmatism, cultural aspirations, and imaginative poetics. Approaching each project with curiosity and humility, it creates honest, elegant, and meaningful spaces that reflect identity, respond to site and climate, and leave lasting, thoughtful imprints on people and the planet.
COR Cellars by GO’C is a winery organized around a protected exterior courtyard that becomes the heart of the project. Responding to the Columbia River Gorge landscape and steady westerly winds, the courtyard acts as a central organizing system that provides refuge while welcoming visitors into the tasting room. The winery berms into the hillside and opens toward Mount Hood, using simple forms and a refined palette to rest comfortably within the site.
GO’C is an award-winning architecture studio blending rational design with artistic expression. Working across residential, commercial, and civic projects, the firm embraces site-specific challenges through a collaborative, research-driven process. Listening to place, culture, and client vision, GO’C pursues expressive, enduring architecture defined by clarity, material honesty, and responsible, timeless design.
Raigarh Guest House by SpaceMatters revitalizes VIP accommodations and social spaces through a regionally rooted interior retrofit. The design blends minimalist modernity with rustic warmth, introduces shaded transitional corridors for comfort and privacy, and celebrates local craftsmanship. Inspired by Chhattisgarh’s landscape, art, and materials, the project enhances function while honoring cultural context.
Roost by Furman + Keil Architects is conceived as an elevated pavilion that allows the users to inhabit nature. Floating lightly over the water, it provides views into the trees and along the slough while minimizing impact on the wetland. By lifting habitable space above the ground plane and reusing existing piers, the design reduces its footprint and creates a light, airy structure that dissolves into its natural setting.
Furman + Keil Architects is a collaborative design firm creating enriched, memorable environments that connect people to place. Balancing local precedents with innovative, sustainable design, FKA crafts timeless architecture grounded in landscape and materiality. Through a guided, inclusive process, the firm partners closely with clients and builders, earning regional and national recognition over nearly 30 years.
Kûara Hotel by David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores is conceived as a private sanctuary where architecture establishes a solid symbiosis with nature, preserving native vegetation and reusing existing structures. The design merges vernacular and modern language, valuing wood, natural fibers, and handmade elements. Privacy, intimacy, and silence guide the project, allowing light, landscape, sounds, and views to become indissociable parts of the architectural experience.
Nafplioblu by Katerina Valsamaki Architects is a vacation house perched atop a lush valley, designed to immerse its spaces in panoramic views of Argolic Bay and the surrounding islands. Its layout blurs boundaries between indoors and outdoors, fostering Mediterranean living, while the residence’s split levels, terraces, and infinity pool seamlessly integrate with the sloping olive grove, creating a tranquil dialogue between light, shadow, and nature.
Ekam by SMASH Studios is a contemporary home envisioned for a family of three generations, embracing traditional Indian design while integrating the sophistication and functionality of modern day living. The design blends rich colours, Indian materials, and handcrafted elements with contemporary forms, creating spaces that honour the past while feeling rooted, timeless, and relevant to modern living.
SMASH Studios is a Hyderabad-based collaborative design firm founded in 2021. Known for its versatility, the studio works across architectural and interior projects of varied scales and typologies. Rooted in cultural context and climate-conscious thinking, each project is narrative-driven and experience-focused. By blending traditional influences with contemporary design, SMASH creates timeless spaces that foster flow, functionality, and a strong sense of belonging.
Tara Villa by ZAV Architects reinterprets the traditional KANDOOJ typology as a contemporary residential model, maintaining the morphology of the rural landscape while strengthening the occupants’ relationship with nature. Inspired by centuries of local shelter-building practices, the project adapts the open, central spatial logic of the silo to modern living, merging contemporary architecture with a form rooted in its agricultural context.
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – House for a Daughter | Khuon Studio. 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.
Halo by The Pinewood Studio is envisioned as a tropical refuge where you walk in and the city slips away. Designed as a Goan beach club–inspired restaurant, the outdoors is not an accessory but a living, breathing experience. Flowing planter boxes, layered palms, and cascading creepers blur architecture and landscape, creating an immersive green world that envelops visitors and transports them into a relaxed, warm, and timeless environment within the city.
Pudis Offices, an interior design project by Studio COSMO, emphasizes revitalization with respect for the original spirit of the building. The design removes insensitive alterations and restores the interior to its original form and materiality, emphasizing the concrete structural frame, natural light, and oak parquet flooring. These qualities are combined with contemporary interventions and accents of the company’s visual identity to create a cohesive, modern workplace.
Aakash Healthcare Super Speciality Hospital by IIDC Architects represents a bold reimagining of healthcare infrastructure through patient-centric design. The project seamlessly integrates vertical and lateral expansion within an existing facility, resolving MEP&F limitations while responding to urban density and clinical complexities. The design prioritizes functionality, clarity, and calm, elevating the hospital into a future-ready, globally aligned healing environment.
IIDC Architects is a healthcare-focused design practice combining visionary thinking, systems-level strategy, and human-centred design. Working across campuses, specialty centres, and adaptive reuse, IIDC brings deep insight into patient journeys, operations, and technology. Rooted in innovation, integrity, and impact, the firm partners with leading institutions to create compassionate, future-ready environments that evolve with changing clinical needs.
Workplace Tranche by Reasoning Instincts Architecture Studio – RIAS is conceived as a ‘tranche’ within a large industrial premise, reflecting the accomplishments and future growth of an established stainless-steel manufacturing unit. The unified, linear structure emphasizes horizontality, transparency, and openness, fostering workforce autonomy, collaboration, and a light-filled, efficient office with a clear spatial hierarchy.
Fulnek Kindergarten by XTOPIX Architekti and Simona Ledvinková is conceived as a sanctuary for play, quietly set into the northern part of the plot and immersed in an expansive garden. Open entirely to the south, the building follows the terrain with a low, welcoming form and frames distant views of the château. Carved courtyards let the garden enter the building, ensuring every classroom opens outdoors and blending architecture, landscape, and carefree exploration.
XTOPIX Architekti believes architecture should connect buildings, public space, art, and design. The studio works across scales, from house renovations and brownfield cultural projects to schools, kindergartens, urban planning, and the renewal of historic squares. Their contextual approach draws on local knowledge and each site’s story, emphasizing creative dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration.
King One Community Center by E Plus Design rethinks “built-then-abandoned” public buildings through urban regeneration. Anchored by an existing municipal park, a shared platform reconnects four isolated structures into a cohesive social space. With minimal financial resources and light-touch intervention, the project transforms underutilized assets into a vibrant community hub that fosters everyday activity.
E Plus Design practices an integrated, interdisciplinary design ideology that unites architecture, engineering, technology and art. Drawing on global perspectives and comprehensive in-house capabilities, the firm delivers holistic solutions from concept to implementation. Its work seeks to create better platforms, communities and environments, promoting sustainable balance between social, ecological and economic values.
Orange Obras Civiles Offices by Agustín Lozada reinterprets the workplace in Córdoba through a flexible open plan responding to constant growth and change. Organized in four modules, the interior design blends collective, external, and leisure areas, using saving walls and transparent limits. Material choices tied to corporate identity enhance lighting, spaciousness, and well-being. Exposed coffered slabs and clear equipment reinforce comfort.
Casa Passos by David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores was conceived as an oasis in the southwest part of the state, in a continental region with high temperatures and low humidity. Surrounded by trees and gardens, the residence is organized around a central courtyard, valuing natural lighting and ventilation. Open and integrated spaces balance privacy and convergence, creating a refuge that connects architecture, interior design, and nature.
