Teki Design
Teki Design is an architectural firm founded by Tatsuya Nishinaga in 2021, and it is based in Hiroshima, Japan.
Burden Welcome Center | EskewDumezRipple
Burden Welcome Center by EskewDumezRipple is an architectural project for a community center that seeks to create a liminal space that would spark interest and enthusiasm for the site surroundings hile also serving as a legible point of arrival and orientation in order to honour this vision of the Centre as a contemplative retreat to nature. The design will emerge from the landscape, a welcome centre that is embedded in the land.
City Cube-Square Cultural Catalyst | ZXD Architects
ZXD Architects’ installation, City Cube-Square Cultural Catalyst, is a conceptual model for the City Cube project which seeks to revitalise urban areas. This exhibit uses a porous glass wall to speak to the square in a very subtle way. To show rich expressions and contents, modern invisible LED screens are mounted to the glass surface. A complex and varied space is created inside the exhibit for the public to freely explore every corner.
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ZXD Architects
ZXD Architects is an architectural practice that makes substantial attempts to incorporate innovation and creativity into its designs. No matter how big an area a project covers, they anticipate that people from all over the world will be interested in what it produces. Their works draw on both existing knowledge and emotional responses to a scene, which helps them generate an original notion and concept.
A Spiritual Journey Through The Mythological Route of Chandranath Hill, Sitakunda, Chattagram | Architecture Thesis
A Spiritual Journey Through The Mythological Route of Chandranath Hill, Sitakunda, Chattagram, is an Architecture Thesis by Shovo Shaha Dip from Department of Architecture – AIUB, Bangladesh, that is centred on religious tourism. This thesis’ main objective was to design a path that meets all pilgrims’ concerns whilst offering them a spiritual journey through Hinduism’s ten precepts. To raise awareness about the importance of cultural and natural assets, the conservation of old temples close to the site was also taken into account.
Buck Mountain Cabin | Heliotrope Architects
Heliotrope Architects’ Buck Mountain Cabin focuses on limiting site disturbance by designing an effective floorplan, using cantilevers and point-load columns with minimal footings, and pouring the structure without excavating on exposed bedrock. Large protective overhangs and south-facing clearstory windows enabling for solar heat gain during the winter complement the building’s purposely plain aesthetic.
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Piaget Flagship Boutique | Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
The architectural project Piaget Flagship Boutique by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office repurposes the retail façade to give it a new monumental presence and civic potency. The store’s architectural presence is enhanced by customised ceramic tiles with subtle blue glazes. These tiles are complemented by a variety of metals and concrete that were also customised to order, and are all woven together like a fine instrument.
CR Land Urban Exhibition Hall | Tomo Design
With careful overall planning, the interior design project CR Land Urban Exhibition Hall by Tomo Design delivers a seamless user experience while adhering to its existing architectural conditions. The designers produced appealing visual experiences that were in line with the circulation routes while also optimising the functional arrangement of the plane. It presents a fresh design for workspace and is more than just a centre for property sales.
Weekly Highlights 2023 #34
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – Mountain Dust | Architect Mahesh Naik. 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.
Selected Projects
Ballard Food Bank | Graham Baba Architects
Graham Baba’s Ballard Food Bank is an architectural project with a building form that draws inspiration from the programme elements. It has a larger industrial shed-like form that houses a market and a warehouse and a smaller, more residentially scaled sloped roof form that serves as a welcoming entrance and houses the kitchen, Hub and offices. An old brownfield property was renovated as part of the project.
Zhongmeishan self-service BBQ PLUS | Funun Lab
Zhongmeishan self-service BBQ PLUS by Funun Lab is an interior design project that reflects modern inspiration of cuisine and environment, making the grand space lively and interesting, and making everything fully functional. The designers break the monotony of the square space by incorporating blocks, so there are more details and readability from the match between light and shadow.
Funun Lab
Mr. Fan Jie established Funun Lab, an interior design company, in 2016. The firm is committed to producing inspirational, high-caliber work and researching the ideal outcomes of space design and branding integration. In addition to providing distinctive aesthetic insights and creative ideas, the lab accurately communicates the brand’s attributes and offers each customer a one-of-a-kind experience.
Selected Academic Projects
House with Blue Bridge | Story Architecture
The House with Blue Bridge by Story Architecture is a linear residence divided into two blocks to create a courtyard in the centre of the house. This solution allows for the desired number of bedrooms while still maintaining adequate lighting and ventilation in each room. A blue bridge in the courtyard minimises a feeling of segregation between the blocks and infuses the area with tranquillity and vibrancy.
A house for gardeners | Haddock Architecture
Haddock Architecture designed “A house for gardeners” with the maintenance and caretakers of parks and gardens in mind. This facility has changing areas for agents as well as related areas like the workshop and equipment storage. The idea aims to develop contemporary vernacular architecture by reinstating an obvious relationship between rational structure, economical architecture, and constructive truth.
Chagee Tea Bar | Still Young
The tea colour serves as a visual focal point and a means for fusing the Chagee Tea Bar’s decor with the brand’s culture and goods in this Still Young interior design project. Tea culture’s aesthetics constitute the root of the Tea Bar’s design concept. The grottoes of Dunhuang act as an inspiration for the interior design. Minimalist structures and unique forms are created, evoking a sense of compactness in a tunnel.
Compilations
The House within the Grid | LIJO.RENY.architects
The House within the Grid by LIJO.RENY.architects is a residence making use of the remarkable spatial flexibility offered by a modular grid. A unique spatial language developed as a result of juxtaposing the house’s strict yet peaceful geometry with the chaotic terrain of its site. While ensuring privacy, the thoughtfully designed layout also enables comprehensive cross-ventilation by directing wind across its rooms due to its orientation.
M’Masterhall Fortunepot | LDH Architectural Design Firm
The M’Masterhall Fortunepot interior design project by LDH Architectural Design Firm incorporates artistic aesthetics into the commercial space, creates a dining environment with an oriental ambiance, and uses spatial order as a link between people and food. It is inspired by the Manmanhai brand concept. The oriental space aesthetic aims for a handcrafted design that combines items with the natural world and traditional culture.
LDH Architectural Design Firm
By defining the character of the space and bringing the project’s inner harmony from the physical to the spiritual, LDH Architectural Design Firm displays the traditional oriental aesthetics of the commercial restaurant itself. In keeping with the idea of “making valuable design,” the designers create Chinese-inspired spaces with light, colour, shape, and air, and infused creative passion into the commercial iteration of Manmanhai.
Re-Mining Giali: A new scenario for the manufactured landscape_Baths and a Power Production Facility | Architecture Thesis
Re-Mining Giali: A new scenario for the manufactured landscape_Baths and a Power Production Facility is an Architecture Thesis by Dimitrios Mitsimponas from Department of Architecture – University of Thessaly, exploring the relation between recreational spaces and energy production infrastructure. The proposal provides an alternate scenario for Giali Island’s artificial landscape, which has been irreversibly transformed by mining with several detrimental social and environmental effects.
Ansan Hotel | WJ Studio
Ansan Hotel is a renovation project by WJ Studio based on the idea of symbolization. It was intended that the building’s exterior form, material, and colour will reflect the local qualities and urban culture of Keqiao. The team also focused on reimagining public and private indoor and outdoor spaces to add a sense of freshness while maintaining the integrity of the original location.
Casa Floresta | Estúdio Zargos
Casa Floresta by Estúdio Zargos is a residence that alternates between the simplicity of contemporary materials and the preservation of volumetric qualities. The first issue was to reverse the initial request to entirely demolish the old structure because the original shapes and proportions of this project date back decades and tells the tale of a hospitable and responsive city, just like the neighbourhood.
Estúdio Zargos
Estúdio Zargos is an architecture studio based in Belo Horizonte, and, since its foundation in 2012, they have worked in the design and creation of livable spaces. The designers believe in a free and creative architecture capable of transforming space and people, exploring what involves them in deep synesthesia with people and places always looking for a genuine expression of the poetics of living and spaces that inspire and enhance emotions.
Journey Through The Lost Glory – A Trail Along Kolar Gold Fields – KGF | Architecture Thesis
Harsha S. M.’s architecture thesis, Journey Through The Lost Glory – A Trail Along Kolar Gold Fields, examines spatial experience in architecture through a journey across the abandoned mines in KGF and a discussion of the viability of spatializing the abandoned mining zone in KGF. The objective of this thesis is to analyse underground architecture and how it influences architectural space design.
Holiday Home At Nuwara-Eliya | Damith Premathilake Architects
Damith Premathilake Architects designed the Holiday Home At Nuwara-Eliya, a dwelling that embraces the very essence of its surroundings. The vacation home is intended to be an elegant building that lightly touches the ground on three axes. Every area of this residence is surrounded by panoramic views of the lovely surroundings thanks to its strategic placement. The design permits a subtle infiltration of the environment into the interiors.