Paya Lebar Methodist Chinese Church by ONG&ONG is an architectural renovation project focused on retaining existing spaces and tastefully redesigning them with contemporary sensibilities. The project also includes landscaping with biblical references to gardens, featuring a welcoming frontage, sky terraces, and attic roof terraces for socialising and engaging with visitors and worshippers.
Veiled House by Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects is composed of shifting white walls (veils) that both conceal and, in a subtle way, open up the house. The house’s language and experience are characterized by a duality between nature and built form, allowing open areas to remain inaccessible and wild. This wildness enters the house through gaps in the veils, transforming its architecture into an evocative symphony.
Dream Festiva by Avasiti Design Consultancy PVT. LTD. creates a unique event space environment achieved through sensitive and measured articulations of form, circulation, and architectural elements. The program is centered around a central kitchen, service facilities, and parking, ensuring independent and collective circulation between banquets, party lawns, and restaurants.
Avasiti Design Consultancy PVT. LTD. is an architectural practice whose works exemplify postmodern architecture with a minimalist touch. The practice believes in experimenting with new design ideas and concepts while providing a strong services and infrastructure foundation.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize announces Riken Yamamoto, of Yokohama, Japan, as the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor. Yamamoto, architect and social advocate, establishes kinship between public and private realms, inspiring harmonious societies despite a diversity of identities, economies, politics, infrastructures, and housing systems.
Aegean Business Lounge – AIA by K-Studio conveys the aesthetics and dynamic of technology, borrowed from the culture of air travel, with its curved, soft edges and shapes interpreted in the deep Aegean sea blue. Anodized inox combines fluid-form architecture with aeronautical design to create a unified lounge area. A complex geometry is created by curved panel segments and an aluminium louvre ceiling, blending modern technology with the symbolism of deep Aegean blue.
Casa Zicatela by Ludwig Godefroy is a unique house that responds to its surroundings, serving as a protective fortress and a large open space that blurs the line between inside and outside. Using a defensive architecture typology and a wall enclosing the site, the house creates an entirely controlled interior. It transforms into an open-sky fortress with a single main view towards the sky.
‘Among the Vineyards’ is a residential project by Stempel & Tesar architekti featuring two visually distinct forms that complement one another to create one compositional whole. The inclined property allowed the architects to set the house into the slope, design it with a flat roof, and connect all the living spaces with the garden. Black sheet metal is used on the façade and roof of the upper floor, displaying an abstract design of an archetypal form.
“অন্তর্যাত্রা” (Antarjatra) -Tareque Masud Memorial and Cultural Center is an architecture thesis by Nafia Binte Kibria from the Department of Architecture – BRACU, that seeks to design a memorial that meets the needs of the general public, researchers, cultural activists, and tourists while preserving Tareque Masud’s history and philosophy and adding a touch of neo-contextuality. The design aims to create a subtle environment that merges with the surroundings in a harmonious manner while embracing Tareque Masud’s philosophy.
Impala House by Estudio Galera, resembling a large container, features a plinth nestling services and a spacious public plan that takes advantage of the terrain, with a solarium/swimming pool enhancing the view. The access was achieved by transforming it into a sensory path with water and various materials. The program is organized into services, public areas, and private areas, providing flexibility and ensuring privacy in each space.
St. Olavsvei 18 by Oslotre AS is an example of how economical, competitive timber buildings can be built without losing architectural quality. The project prioritizes material efficiency and rationality, utilizing shorter spans for an efficient CLT structure with wall elements and floor slabs, allowing for flexibility and alternative arrangements within a tight structural system.
Oropol Industrial Unit by Em Paralelo aims to create a bold, distinct architectural approach between two buildings by utilizing blades for aesthetics, incorporating moments of shadow and controlled light, and also considering thermal concerns. Despite its wood-dominated veneers, the building seeks a symbiosis with the existing structure, transforming into a more neutral interior with a white-painted concrete structure.
Em Paralelo is an architecture practice based in Portugal, founded in 2014 by architects Cristina Vaz Santos and Paulo Rodrigues. At Em Paralelo, all projects are developed and matured based on the experiences acquired, valuing creativity, rigour, and technological advancement, which highlights redefining boundaries and differentiating themselves from others. By helping clients realise their dreams, the firm aims to forge a strong bond based on loyalty, respect, and commitment.
Better Together, an architectural project by VIVE Design Studio and Nirostina Nisani, features an exposed facade that functions as a window display, revealing interior building activities. Different functions are stacked vertically, creating an internally connected space. Using plants and natural materials, the design aims to create a clearer, airier space, reducing maintenance costs and enhancing its aesthetic appeal.
Casa Coronado by Apaloosa Estudio de Arquitectura y Diseño and Simetría Estudio de Arquitectura is a residence composed of simple cubes connected by vaults as transition spaces. The design focuses on ventilation, lighting, and natural perspectives, by separating elements into parts, each with perceptual and bioclimatic reasons. This resulted in a more streamlined housing and losing the plasticity of conventional houses.
Simetría Estudio de Arquitectura is an architectural practice based in Spain, founded by architects Djene Albrecht and Katarine Schmitt.
MB 110 – Bierbrunnen by Lechner & Lechner Architects is a project that tackles communal space deficits in a milieu dominated by commercial edifices and single-family dwellings. The building transforms into a three-dimensional urban beacon, featuring avant-garde cantilevers and a sheltered pedestrian and cycle path, promoting eco-conscious mobility and enhancing street allure.
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – The Lea Shell | UA Lab (Urban Architectural Collaborative). 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.
The Cold War Museum by Tchoban Voss Architekten is an interior design project that makes history accessible to visitors through interactive and virtual applications and selected exhibits. The design incorporates installations and graffiti by various artists to portray the Cold War throughout the museum. The exhibit features contemporary documentary film material, photos, animations, and videos on interactive monitors, with selected exhibits alternately displayed in display cases.
Casa Alangasí by Emilio López Herrera Arquitecto is a house articulated by taking the ‘folds’ of its surrounding landscape as one of the main references. The residence features load-bearing brick walls, which support the wooden roof structure with tile cladding. The materiality of the brick covers the house’s interiors and folds when receiving the roof, minimizing its impact on the existing geography.
Emilio López Herrera Arquitecto is a practice founded by architect Emilio López, who perceives architecture as a product of the immersive affectation that comes with rethinking one’s relationship with resources and with the world in which they live. He thinks of architecture as an open, evolving process influenced by experience, similar to the cocoon expressing the transition between suspended and shared existence.
Wellness Plesnik by Enota is an architectural project that features a rectilinear pool, a relaxation area with a fire ring, and an interior resting area with a fireplace that enhances the natural elements of water and fire, complementing the stunning hill range backdrop. The wellness centre’s facade, encased in glass, connects interior space with the exterior. The extension reduces the presence of architectural elements and blends in with the surrounding terrain.
Antiche Tentazioni Devoto, an interior design project by Hitzig Militello Arquitectos, features arches as a primary element, inspired by Italian architecture. Spanish roof tiles symbolize time and are reinterpreted as lighting fixtures in the design. Curves, tiles, and greenery provide a unified visual language. Arches are decorated in Arabesque style and painted imitation gold, creating a dynamic dialogue between the past and present.
The Cantabrian Maritime Museum Restaurant by Zooco is an interior design project involving the creation of a new volume that provides a solution to the pathologies present in the roof and façade of the building. The square morphology of the restaurant’s interior features four triangles that regularize and complete the original building’s paraboloids, transforming them into a recovered element and protagonist, framed by triangular wooden false ceilings.
