The Beacon at South Market | EskewDumezRipple

The Beacon at South Market, designed by EskewDumezRipple, is a housing property that takes its inspiration from the city’s historic French Quarter courtyard buildings. Expanding upon the reinterpretation of New Orleans’ reputation as a “hidden gem,” the themes throughout this space are rooted in the imagery and textures of a geode–a vibrant array of colors throughout the interior in contrast to the subdued, austere exterior grays, and metallic features. Offering contemporary, loft-inspired and spacious one- and two-bedroom floor plans, the interior blends contemporary style with eclectic taste.

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EskewDumezRipple

EskewDumezRipple is an architectural practice with work ranging from intimate interiors to large-scale urban planning projects. The firm has retained its local roots to shape the community and the profession. Building upon the legacy of our founder Allen Eskew, the team strives to engage the world as he did—with humility, charm, and a deeply personal commitment to design as craft.

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The Abbey Cronulla | AJH+

The Abbey Cronulla, designed by AJH+, consists of an amalgamation of two lots containing a heritage-listed community. The proposal intensifies the site into seven homes to provide a new housing community. The existing dwellings are replaced with four new homes. Public seating beneath a tree and publicly accessible seats at the entry of each dwelling promote gathering and serendipitous interactions and continuing the sense of community on the site. The new dwellings built form responds to the surrounding context.

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Xerolithi | Sinas Architects

Xerolithi, designed by Sinas Architects, focuses on creating a house that blends into its natural environment in Athens. The main goal for this project was to experiment with alternative forms, au lieu of the archetypical Cycladic Architecture model (Greek Islands) yet respecting all the basic elements that comprise its character, always taking into consideration the amazing scenery that would host this new addition. To complete the “xerolithia” likeness, the roof of the house was covered with dirt and vegetation imitating the natural landscape.

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Sinas Architects

Sinas Architects is a small and dynamic architectural office with projects from hospitals, healthcare, retail stores, apartment buildings, and housing complexes. The team is present from design inception, all through to completion, including construction supervision.

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PILARES Lomas de Plateros Design Revealed by TEN Arquitectos

Designed by TEN Arquitectos, PILARES Lomas de Plateros includes characteristics of coexistence with open spaces and air circulation, accessibility for people with disabilities, simple and well-planned routes that communicate each space and in the same way, apparent materials have been considered for the execution of the works, which, together with having the best quality marks, provide the contemporary and iconic aspect of architecture.

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Takenoyama House 3 | Tomoaki Uno Architects

Takenoyama House 3, designed by Tomoaki Uno Architects, takes advantage of the location after resolving landslide structures, their laws and possible construction methods. The design of the third floor was designed so as not to make the scenery as fragmentable as possible to take advantage of this location. The seasonally changing views are an irreplaceable treasure of this house.

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White Cliff House | RDMA

White Cliff House, designed by RDMA, is built with steps and planter boxes arranged naturally as a hardscape stretched from the lowest to the highest point of the land. The height differences between facades emerged from the two roads attached. It was treated as the site power, which was brought up in the site planning as the major theme. Bringing in the outdoor qualities within the masses not only enriches the space experience inside but also enlarges the narrow width.

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Respublika Residential Complex | Archimatika

The Respublika residential complex, designed by Archimatika, comprises midrise buildings, urban block planning, separation of pedestrian zones and vehicles, closed courtyards – open streets. Urban blocks are not classical quadrangular, but pentagonal forms a slightly more lively and unpredictable space. The atmosphere here is cozy, slightly suburban: round-shaped playgrounds, hills and paths, tall trees, the grass is breaking through the tiles.

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Archimatika

Archimatika specializes in designing and planning large residential and mixed-use development sites and planning whole city districts. They aim to increase real estate value to satisfy businesses and citizens by emphasizing the site’s features. The team finds aesthetic, practical, and economical solutions to make every project the best in its category. Thus the main company’s principle is balancing human needs, the project’s profitability, and the urban environment’s requirements.

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CP Residence | Studionine Architects

CP Residence, designed by Studionine Architects, revels in delicate tracery and the warmth of natural light in suburban Ahmedabad. As a response to the client’s needs of simplicity, low-maintenance and soothing spaces, this home, designed specifically for an elderly couple unfolds through simple, efficient planning. A palette of easy-to-clean, anti-skid and cost-effective interior materials of wood, glass and washable wall paint makes for a seamless and easy interior experience.

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Studionine Architects

Studionine Architects is a creative design consultancy with a hotel, leisure, retail, commercial office, and residential projects. The projects include new build and the regeneration and renewal of existing places. The studio draws upon specialist knowledge in sustainability to deliver exceptional projects within the built environment for the benefit of our and future generations.

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Weekly Highlights 2021 #12

Archidiaries is excited to share the ‘Project of the Week’ – House That Rains Light by LIJO.RENY.architects. 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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Spa pavilion | Smartvoll

Spa pavilion, designed by Smartvoll, is a multidimensional space without clear boundaries between the outside and inside. It is also a stone monument that does not subordinate itself to pure functionalism, instead standing for itself—for its existence and meaning. The monolithic slabs of the pavilion structure the space in different ways, creating a variety of perspectives, directions, characteristics, spatial experiences, and outdoor interactions.

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Bijoy Jain has been announced as the 14th winner of the Alvar Aalto Medal 2020

The India based architecture firm “Studio Mumbai” and his director Ar. Bijoy Jain has been selected as the winners of Alvar Aalto medal 2020. Studio Mumbai’s skill that fusions architecture and craftsmanship reflects in their works by understandings about geography, climatic and social characteristic, insightful considerations to the work became fascinating elements for the selection.

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Smartvoll

Smartvoll, based in Vienna, Austria, comprises architects and thinkers who bond over exploring the unknown. The team loves designing, and they love that a design process is a fluid, vivid and ever-changing flow of things happening simultaneously. They believe in a strong and simple concept and vision. The designer thinks that form results from testing geometry against the content and principles established with the concept.

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House with a curved wall | Fala

House with a curved wall, designed by fala, transforms decrepit original construction to the bare structural existence of its perimeter walls. A sequence of rooms of various sizes and forms hides behind the new wall and a wide window frames the rediscovered garden. The wall facing the street was extended to balance its proportions and the entrance door painted in heavy salmon-pink; the greenish-blue gate, when closed, completes the deconstructed composition.

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fala

Fala is a naïve architecture practice based in porto that works with methodic optimism on various projects, from territories to birdhouses. Fala’s projects are a medley of formal languages, quotations, and tropes; its architecture is intuitive, rhetorical, hedonic, and post-modern.

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ECGL

DURIAN Exterior Compact Grade Laminate (ECGL) is a self-supporting HPL (High Pressure Laminates) which has excellent stability to withstand all shortfalls seen in other external application substrates. ECGL is an ideal option as cladding to decorate the exterior of a building.

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Cuckoo’s Nest | Between Spaces

Cuckoo’s Nest in Bangalore, Karnataka designed by Between Spaces is built on a corner plot measuring 45’x75’ with roads on the western and northern edge in a gated layout and surrounded by a silver oak tree and some palm trees.

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Cassina Innovation House | Laurent Troost Architectures

Cassina Innovation House, designed by Laurent Troost Architectures, is composed of several spaces to foster creativity and formal/informal meetings to develop this new economy. The beauty of the ruin’s imperfection raises interest, questions and invites reflection on the past and the action of time and man in the city and on heritage buildings in general. The Cassina Innovation House can be considered as the synthesis of Manaus economic cycles: the rubber era, its decline, the Industrial District era, and the new digital economy era.

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Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion | Wheeler Kearns Architects

Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion, designed by Wheeler Kaerns Architects, expresses the school’s unique identity, looks outward to their community, neighborhood, and beyond. The addition embeds timeless Jewish principles and ideas into the structure and experience of the building, while providing an efficient, sustainable innovative learning environment for future generations. The building uses daylight, open space, visual connection, and material cues so visitors can intuit their way through the building.

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