Gabriel Konzevik
Gabriel Konzevik is an architecture practice located in Mexico City, Mexico.
Colectivo MX
Colectivo MX is an architecture and design practice dedicated to creating regenerative, sustainable spaces that align with natural systems and the aspirations of their communities. Through honest, responsible, and participatory design, the practice prioritizes environmental, social, and economic well-being, crafting inclusive places that celebrate diversity while shaping a resilient and hopeful future.
Four Walls | Studio Mango
Four Walls by Studio Mango is conceived as a simple architectural intervention that employs the minimum number of gestures to define different programmatic requirements. Four walls shape the visitor’s experience, guiding movement through the pavilion and carefully framing the journey before revealing the lake at its culmination, creating a sequence of spatial compression, openness, and connection to the landscape.
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Studio Mango
Studio Mango is a London-based architecture and design practice founded in 2022 by Fergus Davis and Utsav Jain. The studio creates thoughtful, context-driven architecture that emphasizes spatial quality, natural light, and materiality. Working across the UK, India, and China, it values collaboration, cultural sensitivity, and enduring design, delivering projects of every scale with creativity and purpose.
AKFC Stadium | K-Studio + ARUP
AKFC Stadium by K-Studio + ARUP reimagines the historic “El Paso” Grigoris Lamprakis Municipal Stadium as an inclusive hub for the community. The design preserves and highlights the stadium’s strong history and raw beauty while transforming it into a contemporary venue for sports and culture. Rooted in civic pride and well-being, the proposal strengthens its identity as a place for gathering, inclusivity, and everyday life.
ARUP
Arup is a global consultancy with extensive technical and advisory expertise, guiding, planning, and designing the future of the built environment. For over 80 years, the practice has helped clients navigate complexity through integrated design, enabling confident decision-making from strategy to delivery while creating resilient, practical, and enduring solutions.
Selected Interviews
Home of Theatrics | ForumAdvaita
Home of Theatrics by ForumAdvaita is conceived as a theatrical experience where everyday living shifts between the roles of actor and spectator. Split-level spaces create a stage-like journey, making the residence more imageable than readable. Light, shadow, textures, water, and materiality enrich the spatial experience, allowing moments of discovery, slow transition, and changing perspectives throughout the home.
Dymak HQ | BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
Dymak HQ by Bjarke Ingels Group is conceived as a circular building wrapped around a sheltered green courtyard, bringing daylight, landscape, and social interaction into the center of the workplace. Set between an industrial area and the natural landscape surrounding Glisholm Lake, the design combines a warm material palette with a sculptural form that connects architecture, nature, and everyday working life.
Baan You Yen | Studio Miti
Baan You Yen by Studio Miti is a family residence in Bangkok designed around passive cooling, privacy, and exposed brick. Inspired by traditional vernacular strategies, the house is fragmented into three volumes with vertical voids that channel natural ventilation, reduce solar heat gain, and create self-shading. The design reinterprets brick as both a climatic and architectural element, responding to the tropical context and contemporary urban constraints.
Selected Projects
Antarvan | Neogenesis+Studi0261
Antarvan by Neogenesis+Studi0261 is envisioned as a compact yet layered home that redefines the relationship between built and open. The design underlines out-looking spaces that extend the boundaries of indoor life, creating a seamless connection between interiors and the external environment. Through thoughtful spatial sequencing, natural light, ventilation, and openness, the residence elevates everyday living into an architectural experience.
The Uprising of Nocturnal Sovereignty: Adaptive Reuse for Human and Non-Human Coexistence | Architecture Thesis
‘The Uprising of Nocturnal Sovereignty’ is an architecture thesis by Helene Oppegaard from the ‘School of Architecture and Cities – University of Westminster.’ The project aims to redefine architecture as a shared habitat for both humans and nocturnal wildlife. By adapting an existing building using reclaimed materials, it reconnects fragmented urban ecosystems while creating spaces that support research, education, and biodiversity. The project demonstrates how architecture can actively foster coexistence rather than prioritising human needs alone.
Nieuw Bergen | MVRDV
Nieuw Bergen by MVRDV is a residential project that combines density with sunlight and greenery through a series of buildings with jagged, sloping roofs that create a mountainous silhouette. The design maximises daylight while retaining a sense of openness, character, and urban identity, demonstrating how thoughtful design can densify the city without compromising community or sustainability.
Selected Academic Projects
House with Brick N Arch | UA Lab (Urban Architectural Collaborative)
House with Brick N Arch by UA Lab reimagines residential living through a playful, staggered geometry that departs from the typical solid-block apartment typology. The design creates a rhythmic relationship between indoor and outdoor spaces, maximizing natural light, ventilation, and openness. A minimalist interior of exposed brick and soft arches reinforces a calm, grounded atmosphere defined by material honesty and spatial flow.
Symmetreat | Hutz Architects
Symmetreat by Hutz Architects is the partial restoration and revitalization of a 19th-century listed villa in Munich, transforming it into an aesthetic clinic through the synthesis of contemporary interior design and traditional characteristics. The concept emphasizes the dialogue between old and new, using playful colors, reflections, and sculptural interventions to create a unique continuity and immersive visitor experience.
BEL | tissellistudioarchitetti
BEL by tissellistudioarchitetti reorganizes a 300-square-meter law office within a 1937 building by Cesare Valle, balancing preservation and transformation. The design retains original elements while optimizing the interior layout through custom furnishings, bold color associations, and geometric details. Inspired by Italian interwar architecture, the project gives new identity and energy to the existing spaces while respecting their historical character.
Compilations
Hospital SENSUM – Simón Bolívar Hospital Renovation: Redefining Healthcare Architecture Through Sensory and Biophilic Design | Bachelors Design Thesis
‘Hospital SENSUM’ is an architecture thesis by Juan Sebastian Cornejo Hernandez from the ‘Facultad de Arquitectura y Artes – Universidad Piloto de Colombia.’ The project aims to redefine healthcare architecture by designing a specialized burn hospital where the built environment actively supports healing. Through sensory design, biophilic principles, and evidence-based strategies, the project seeks to enhance physical recovery, reduce stress, and improve the emotional well-being of patients, families, and healthcare professionals.
EM Chocolates & Patisserie | Think With Us
EM Chocolates & Patisserie by Think With Us transforms a weathered colonial bungalow into a warm, contemporary patisserie rooted in a “Soft Earth” design language. Inspired by EM’s branding and the colours of baking ingredients, the design balances muted softness with earthy tones, creating a cozy, chic, and intimate space that seamlessly connects indoors and outdoors while celebrating the joy of baking.
Multnomah County Library Operations Center | Hennebery Eddy Architects
Multnomah County Library Operations Center by Hennebery Eddy Architects transforms a vacant grocery store into the “beating heart” of the library system through adaptive reuse. The design centers on sustainability, efficiency, and employee well-being, creating a fossil fuel-free workplace filled with daylight, natural materials, and biophilic elements while supporting seamless operations that keep the entire library system running.
The Interweave: A Denim Experience Center for Jindal Worldwide | Studio Deshi
The Interweave by Studio Deshi is a B2B experience center for Jindal Worldwide Limited, inspired by the concept of the weave, an interplay of warp and weft. The interior design translates this foundational principle into a spatial experience through interlaced circulation, flexible display systems, and layered visual connections, creating a seamless dialogue between brand, material, and experience.
Deep Blue Restaurant | Contacto Atlântico
Deep Blue Restaurant by Contacto Atlântico reflects a refined approach to contemporary architecture in Portugal, where atmosphere, identity, and material expression come together to shape a distinctive dining environment. Inspired by classic French seafood houses and reinterpreted through a Portuguese lens, the design balances elegance, refinement, and the evocative spirit of the sea.
Simon de Cyrène | TAA (Taillandier Architectes Associés)
Simon de Cyrène by TAA (Taillandier Architectes Associés) is conceived as shared housing that places communal living at the heart of the project. Reinterpreting the cloister for the 21st century, the design brings together people with disabilities and able-bodied residents through central shared spaces, private studios, and a strong connection to the garden, encouraging inclusion, genuine relationships, and everyday community life.
Antriya House | 23 Degrees Design Shift
Antriya House by 23 Degrees Design Shift is conceived as a transgenerational weekend home rooted in memories, nature and togetherness. Designed using three linear stone walls, floating plinths and deep overhangs, the house balances openness with privacy while enhancing light, air, earth and sky. Modern in its usage yet timeless in character, Antriya is a space to self-reflect and become one with nature.
23 Degrees Design Shift
23 Degrees Design Shift (23DDS), founded in Hyderabad in 2010, creates context-driven architecture across residential, hospitality, and commercial projects. Led by Ar. Srikanth Reddy, Ar. Neelesh Kumar, and Ar. Raghuram, the studio emphasizes material sensitivity, natural integration, spatial openness, and environmental responsiveness, delivering award-winning designs that balance aesthetics, functionality, and sustainability.
The Roost | OPAL
The Roost by OPAL is a year-round retreat designed around a compact building form that maximizes a limited footprint while strengthening the connection to the surrounding woods and lake. A simple architectural move, the two-story porch, extends living spaces and brings flexibility to the home. Natural materials, openness, and Passive House principles create a warm, efficient residence rooted in its landscape.
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