Silver Pine | SAOTA

Silver Pine, designed by SAOTA, is a contemporary home set among the pine woods that introduces a revolutionary outward-looking approach to the city’s architectural tradition. The pinewoods that the site overlooks are thus a significant motivation for the design’s open, outward-facing orientation. This approach explores a new kind of architecture that invites as much natural light as possible during the dark winter months to compensate for the lack of sun and mitigate its absence.

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Casa Havai | Garoa + Chico Barros

Casa Havai, designed by Garoa, is a residence that turns itself to the inside; in a way, it is introspective, a feature that comes from the place’s specific constraints. The house’s structure is of structural masonry, with the walkway and the gable roof’s structure designed in metallic structure, the slabs – made in loco – are inverted to facilitate the distribution of the hydraulic installation, the electrical pipes are apparent, the floor used was hydraulic tiles, green as grass.

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Garoa

Garoa is a collective laboratory of architecture that takes practice by the bias of experimentation, not having preconceived methods of guiding. Based on the specific constraints of each situation, they choose the intervention methods and procedures. Collaborative because of the character in which the works are developed, where the different and complementary qualities of the team members are added up to develop a plural and concise work.

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MVRDV House | MVRDV

MVRDV House, designed by MVRDV, is an interior renovation for their new office with a core idea to capture and enhance their DNA. The Atelier for the project teams takes up the main bulk of the central space and is light and quiet. A glazed wall, covered in doodles and working diagrams, separates the atelier from the living room, stretching right across the center of three main arches. MVRDV’s new office is a large community of creative, technical, and entrepreneurial industries; everything ranging from small tech start-ups to larger design firms.

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Middle Park House | Mitsuori Architects

Middle Park House, designed by Mitsuori Architects, is a renovation and addition to an existing Victorian home responding to the changing needs of an active, growing family by creating flexible and relaxed spaces. The new addition merges into the existing house to reduce visibility from the street and minimize its impact on the rear garden and neighboring properties. Soft whites, muted color tones, natural timbers and dark polished concrete are used to create a sophisticated yet relaxed urban family home.

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Children’s Hospital Cluj Napoca | Winner Announced

Between the 13th and the 17th of June 2021, the competition jury debated in order to decide the results for the “Children’s Hospital Cluj-Napoca” International Design Competition. The Contracting Authority of the competition is the Cluj County Council.

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Mamun Residence | SHATOTTO architecture for green living

Mamun Residence, designed by SHATOTTO architecture for green living, is a single-family residence in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The intense southwest winds flowing from the Bay of Bengal and the scorching sun all year round are two major considerations affecting this design. The architect was motivated to create a ‘dream world’ of colors, greenery, and water bodies. The philosophical cue here came from the traditional mathal (hat) that farmers in this region wear during harvesting to protect them from rain and sun.

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Earth House | Svamitva Architecture Studio

Earth Villa, designed by Svamitva Architecture Studio, is a home interior that travels along the lines of earth and sustainability. The interior setting transcends with the Pairing of age old technique of lime plastering with mid-century themed furniture. With delicately chosen décor that complements the theme of wellness and the colour palette of natural tones exhibits strength, sound and health. Diffused natural light complements the warm hues of the decor to add a ethereal element to the space.

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Svamitva Architecture Studio

Svamitva Architecture Studio is an architectural and interior design studio with a team of dynamic architects, engineers, contractors, and interior designers who’ve come together to transform dreams into reality! They pride themselves in offering solutions that will make your spaces reverberate with an identity of its own. These modern, affordable, and sustainable solutions will not only set your spaces apart, but also give it the warmth to attract positive energies.

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Tiny Library 2021 | Result Announcement

We are extremely excited to announce the winners of the Tiny Library 2021 Architecture Competition. The architectural design competition posed a challenge for the participants to rethink and re-imagine the idea of the Library as a 21st-century self-learning and educational incubation space that not only sheds light on conventional means of knowledge but also encourages its users to interact, share ideas and grow together.

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Weekly Highlights 2021 #30

Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – Jetvan by Design Work Group. 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.

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Buda Mill & Grain Co. | Cushing Terrell

Buda Mill & Grain Co., designed by Cushing Terrell, is an adaptive reuse project preserving the bones of what was there while making the existing structures and new facilities a cohesive complex in Texas. The redeveloped site now offers more than 27,000 square feet of retail, restaurants, and community-oriented spaces that unite locals and visitors within a vibrant setting. Together, the renovations and new structures create a popular venue for the community.

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Restaurant City | FFWD Arquitectes

Restaurant City, designed by FFWD Arquitectes, evokes the region’s tradition where traditional cuisine roots and the use of the Palou area local products are its basic essentials. Used materials, such as enamelled ceramic tiles, oak wood, twill fabrics, marble and brass are related with the Valles’ industrial and artisanal tradition. This results in a traditional rooted space with sharply sophisticated and timeless aesthetics. We offer users a unique experience settled on gastronomy and design.

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Du Noon Primary School | Meyer and Associates Architects

Du Noon Primary School, designed by Meyer and Associates Architects, is a replacement school located within a very dense urban fabric. The existing school operation had to be accommodated on the site while the new school was built. A concept of “Fragmentation” was developed to reduce general building size & proportions, linking the scale of the building more closely to its surroundings. “Publicness” is maintained through height in certain areas to allow place-making in the otherwise very low, dense urban fabric.

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Mod Apartment | Sergey Makhno Architects

Mod Apartment, designed by Sergey Makhno Architects, is a home interior reflecting simplicity interpreted with an eye for details and emphasizing textures and tactility. Sergey Makhno team has no strict boundaries among the first-floor zones in the technological and multifunctional interior to keep it airy. Despite minimalist mood, the apartment was filled with touches meaning a lot to owners and based on their tastes. A spectacular view out of the windows was the additional point to leave the interior iconic.

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Project Awas | Studio PKA

Project Awas, designed by Studio PKA, is a conception of an art village and a residence of an art curator. A six-acre narrow piece of land in a village called Awas in Alibaug, near Mumbai, forms the base for this idea. The scattered individual shelters designed with workspaces marking their entrance, encourage communication, and motivate their art to initiate conversations and form new relationships.

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Jetvan | Design Work Group

Jetvan, designed by Design Work Group, is a residence blending perfectly with nature, giving the feeling of being one with its surroundings. The series of spaces unfold as one enters deep into the house. Various pockets have been created that aim to balance the layout of different void and solid mass. Respecting the context, we kept the material pallet very subtle and used exposed concrete(gray), Mud Brick(Gerua), Wood(brown), and Stone(Dark Gray).

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Mill Film Studio | Studio Nine Architects

Mill Film Studio, designed by Studio Nine Architects, translates the VFX process using two key design principles: modeling and performance and light, color, and texture. Monochromatic artist areas work as a passive backdrop to on-screen activities, as minimal distractions and visual interference are critical in these areas. The industrial aesthetic was developed to maintain consistency in built form within the global network of Mill Film studios. Building an edgy and industrial experience drove an outcome that celebrated the existing base-building elements.

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Studio Nine Architects

Studio Nine Architects is an Architectural and Interior Design practice specializing in multi-residential, workplace, and hospitality design. They create meaningful human experiences through a balance of curiosity, insight, and craft. They believe good design can and should be accessible to everyone. A significant contributor to the studio’s success has been its diversity across sectors and scale of projects.

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Dockside Cannabis – Ballard | Graham Baba Architects

Dockside Cannabis – Ballard, designed by Graham Baba Architects, defines the brand experience within a growing and shifting cannabis marketplace. By eliminating the clutter and the bottleneck of a traditional cannabis shop sales counter, customers can enjoy a personalized, leisurely browsing experience in a tranquil, visually calming environment. The project transforms an existing, nondescript one-story building into a 1,930-square-foot shop that retains the footprint and height of the original structure to preserve the neighborhood scale.

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