Project2 years ago
Narbo Via, designed by Foster + Partners, is a museum that provides a sense of restrained civic and architectural monumentality at the entrance to the city. The building incorporates galleries for permanent and temporary exhibitions, a multimedia education center, an auditorium, a restaurant, a bookshop, and research, restoration, and storage facilities. The architecture is informed by an honest approach to materials which extends to the expression of the coloured concrete walls.
Practice2 years ago
Foster + Partners is a global studio for sustainable architecture, urbanism, engineering and design, founded by Norman Foster in 1967. The firm believes the best architecture comes from a synthesis of all the elements that separately comprise and inform the character of a building: the structure that holds it up; the services that allow it to function; its ecology; the quality of natural light; the symbolism of the form; the relationship of the building to the skyline or the streetscape; the way you move through or around it; and last but not least its ability to lift the spirits.
Article2 years ago
Robert Konieczny’s lecture in the Pavillon de l’Arsenal opened ‘Moving Architecture’ exhibition by KWK Promes at the Galerie d’Architecture in Paris. It presents the studio’s realisations containing mobile elements, thanks to which architecture can interfere with the space around it and create new relationships with its surroundings. The exhibition ‘Moving Architecture’ remains on view at Galerie d’Architecture until 15 January 2022.
Project2 years ago
An average city transmute, designed by Ego Design Studio, explores revamping possibilities for typical urban small sites with existing dilapidated concrete buildings. The attempt was to arrive at a possible architectural type of revamping an existing building through a solution that required minimum demolition, while transforming it into a flamboyant city house. The congested old building was opened up to create democratic spaces for today’s living.
Project2 years ago
Yung Zingtung Copper Culture Exhibition Hall, designed by Salone Del Salon, is a gallery interior that incorporates product demonstration, culture impression and brand image. The form is a kind of interpretation to express the extended meaning that the design is from a concrete finite to an abstract infinite. This is a journey of artistic exploration of materials from the outside to the inside, from the vision to the imagination.
Practice2 years ago
SALONE DEL SALON, which means “SPACE OF SPACE,” is an interior design studio that integrates tradition and a new generation. One of them symbolizes the old and east, while the other signifies the new and west. SALONE DEL SALON believes that it combines traditional spatial logic with narrative conceptual spatial concepts.
News2 years ago
Furniture design is influenced by history, structural forces, material properties, the surrounding environment, ergonomics, and aesthetics.
Compilation2 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Star Engineers by architects Studio VDGA. 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.
News2 years ago
Weave 2.0, a challenge to design a fashion convention center to hold events and gatherings related to the fashion industry.
Project2 years ago
TT Devassy Jewellers, designed by ENVID Atelier, is a conflux of traditional jewellery and modern architecture, making for a unique shopping experience. The muted palette of the walls gives an unimpaired view of the displayed jewellery. The hanging lights give the jewellery good exposure at the counters as well as at the central wall displays. The overall design seems to have come together with the intention of giving the showroom a timeless feel.
Project2 years ago
Dysis Chapel of Poly Shallow Sea, Sanya, designed by UDG, provides a venue responding to people’s spiritual pursuit of happiness and brings them pleasure, joy, sensitivity, and inspiration. The architects captured the most essential elements of nature, i.e. sea, sky, and sunset, and combined them with two powerful artificial elements: triangle and circle. The simple yet compelling triangle structure pierces the sky with strong spirituality, like an eternal monument between the sea and sky.
Practice2 years ago
UDG is a comprehensive, diverse, international design group practicing construction engineering, urban & rural planning, and landscape design. UDG pursues unique creations and styles, while providing perfect solutions for clients with a professional and dedicated attitude. With the mission of “Discover Client Demand, Create Value by Design”, UDG adopts domestic and foreign cutting-edge design concepts and architecture technologies, reshaping the ideals and heights of urban architecture.
Selected Academic Projects
Project2 years ago
Clifton Terraces, designed by SAOTA, makes a striking yet sensitively integrated architectural statement in the area’s distinctive cliffside setting. Clifton Terraces accommodates ten apartments, including four levels of side-by-side simplexes, plus a level of duplexes above them and a pair of five-level penthouses set back behind private gardens. The restrained natural palette of materials blends in with the beautiful natural surroundings, while planted terraces on each level soften the building’s edges and blend in with the natural environment.
Project2 years ago
Heytea Zao Flagship Store (Nantou), designed by CCD / Cheng Chung Design, integrates the site’s millennia-old cultural heritage and the city’s modernization. Based on modern approaches, CCD introduced classical architectural elements to inject timeless charm into the architecture and interior space. The project’s pursuit of aesthetics goes beyond functions, which meets people’s spiritual needs. People can drink tea, chat with friends, enjoy being lost in thought and bathe in the sun here.
Practice2 years ago
CCD / Cheng Chung Design is one of the internationally renowned hotel interior design agencies and an icon in the hospitality design field. CCD / Cheng Chung Design is one of the internationally renowned hotel interior design agencies and an icon in the hospitality design field. CCD’s elite team, with its detailed design knowledge, international experience, and management skills, is poised to provide top quality services and product to its clients.
News2 years ago
Ecopolis competition organizes a meeting to determine the winner of international competition.
News2 years ago
The Port of Beirut Renew Competition has extended its duration – now the deadline is JULY 14th, 2022.
Project2 years ago
Kaizen house, designed by Rama Estudio, is implanted in a grove of carob trees in a slightly sloping topography, trying to influence the natural environment minimally. The circulation forms an important axis in the house as it is a route that joins the two wings in a straight line and allows one to appreciate the view of the forest from side to side. The intention was always to be part of the forest.
Project2 years ago
Star Engineers, designed by Studio VDGA, explores the rustic and discreet material palette aligning the client requirements to the site context. Being a corporate office and factory setup within the same campus, spaces were planned introverted. A series of courts interwoven in the work zones breathe freshness in the ambiance. The mass is a simple form-finished concrete envelope with long colorful perforated metal screen adorned with landscape. Grid planning while carving out the quintessential courtyards is the strength of design.
Practice2 years ago
VDGA derives architectural solutions through studying, analyzing, and exploring visual, spatial, formal, social, and technological ideas. Studio VDGA goal lies in creating ‘timeless meaningful spaces’ which induce harmony, happiness & peace in the lives of the users. The team endeavors to create more than just architecture, a lifestyle for the occupants. Simple intelligent ideas such as optimum use of natural light, ventilation & locally available natural building materials and techniques have been our continuous effort.
Project2 years ago
Idea Factory, designed by MVRDV, is an adaptive reuse of a former factory building that sustainably reuses and improves the building instead of demolishing and rebuilding it. The project contains a mixture of offices for the Urban Research Institute of China Vanke and offices for rent – yet despite this programme, its distinguishing features are public in nature. The Idea Factory shows us the wealth of possibilities offered by buildings that some may think are ‘dilapidated’ or beyond their useful lifespan.
Project2 years ago
Alas, Paraguayas House, designed by OMCM arquitectos, is a renovation project providing the building with a new identity, more adapted to the requirements of contemporary life and better adapted to the climatic context of our region. Inside the house and especially in the social areas, redundant walls and unnecessary unevenness were eliminated to achieve fluid, larger, ventilated, and naturally illuminated spaces. Meanwhile, the rehabilitation of the barbecue and service area located at the house’s rear end extended and organized the spaces more comfortably and functionally.
Practice2 years ago
OMCM Arquitectos designs and constructs sustainable architectural and urban proposals that contribute to harmony between people and their natural and built environment. Since its inception, OMCM has been characterized by constantly seeking quality and conceptual clarity in its projects and putting them into practice in a consistent manner, using construction techniques and materials in accordance with the environment and the context where it is necessary to intervene.
News2 years ago
WARMING Competition participants were challenged to propose new or adapted architecture that addresses issues of global warming.
