Architecture Dialogue is a Bangalore-based design practice that believes in designing for the future by reflecting on the past. Their vision is rooted in optimism, spiritual connection, and understanding the balance between humanity and nature. Through thoughtful use of materials, sensitivity to orientation and climate, and a deep respect for what already exists, they aim to create architecture that is grounded, resourceful, and responsible.
The Fusion Nest, designed by Z-Design Studio, features a sensitive renovation of a 15-year-old residence into a serene, inward-looking retreat. The interior design internalizes the staircase and reorganizes layouts to improve flow, privacy, and daylight. Featuring roof skylights, built-in furniture, and a minimal palette, the refurbishment offers a calm, clutter-free home connected to nature.
House in Fukuyama by Reiichi Ikeda Design is a refurbishment project of a two-story wooden residence, featuring a large atrium and a new sub-living space for flexible use. The symbolic element of the design is the copper plate “pillar,” seen as an inheritance of time. The walls display washi artworks illuminated by natural and artificial light that create various expressions in the space.
The ANTA Basketball Arena, an interior design project by Still Young, is a space that combines ancient Greek athletic heritage with modern sports culture. Spanning over 2,000 square meters, it offers an immersive Olympic journey, highlighting the passion for sport, the allure of competition, and the enduring ideals of Olympism. The arena is more than just a flagship store; it inspires visitors to push limits and pursue excellence.
‘Urban Edge: Landscape Corridor’ is a Masters Design Project by Colin House and Deniz Tokman from the ‘Pratt Institute School of Architecture.’ The project aims to create a sustainable architectural system that integrates ecological processes with public space and community infrastructure. It seeks to convert urban food waste into valuable resources like compost and heat, supporting food production and habitat restoration. The project also contributes to New York City’s vision of a continuous waterfront landscape corridor.
The White Triangles, an interior design project by YCL Studio, is a pure minimalist 60 sqm apartment featuring a light and sterile aesthetic. The key feature is painted white triangles on the concrete ceiling, reflecting wall light to enhance brightness. With a palette of white, grey, and darker grey, sculptural plaster walls and clean details create a bright, unified interior where subtle changes of light and shadow bring the space to life.
Curve Haven, a residence by Studio Flux, redefines luxury through fluid, curved architecture. The design eliminates rigid, angular intersections, promoting a more organic and intuitive circulation, allowing residents and guests to move effortlessly between spaces. This curvature enhances physical flow and creates a softer, more welcoming atmosphere, free from sharp corners.
Studio Flux crafts bespoke architectural and interior designs that blend innovation with luxury, creating functional as well as visually stunning spaces. With a commitment to sustainability and a passion for excellence, Studio Flux transforms environments into works of art that elevate users’ lifestyles. The practice believes in creating exceptional design solutions that redefine spaces and inspire lives.
Maha Residence by RP Architects features a sustainable design, reimagining home as a space that treads lightly on land, resources, and the planet. Using reclaimed materials, passive design strategies, and local craftsmanship, the design blends traditional South Indian elements with climate-responsive planning. The residence emphasizes heritage, slow living, and low-impact construction while fostering a deep connection to place and community.
The AnShe Headquarters Park by Milanesi | Paiusco transforms a former natural pocket into a human-scaled complex with offices, exhibitions, and retail spaces. Designed around the metaphor of “The Net,” the project symbolizes connection and structure while embedding itself quietly in the urban fabric. With open, flexible spaces, rich planting, and sustainable concrete use, it creates a contextual, shared community environment.
Taller Estudio Daniela Riquelme by AMASA Estudio features the refurbishment and expansion of a residence into an art studio and production workshop. Centered around a spiral staircase, the design enhances space, natural light, and functionality through new openings, custom carpentry, and a sawtooth roof. Garnet red ironwork accents reflect Daniela’s artistic identity, while terraces and skylights enable a naturally lit space.
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – Casa Tobi | Espacio 18 Arquitectura. 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 Dancing Bricks House by Andblack Studio balances spatial autonomy and shared living within a multi-generational 8BHK residence. Featuring a dynamic ceramic-block façade, the design plays with light and shadow while providing privacy and ventilation. Each floor functions as an independent home yet stays connected as part of a larger whole, creating an adaptable and cohesive urban residence.
SP Apartment, an interior design project by Studio Rei, is designed as a serene urban refuge that balances minimalism with warmth. The design combines cool grey textures and warm wood tones, using geometric volumes and rectilinear forms to create rhythm and proportion. Natural oak and teak accents, curated lighting, and seamless transitions enhance openness and intimacy, offering a cozy, modern atmosphere.
Studio Rei is an Ahmedabad-based design practice that blends creativity with a deep understanding of clients’ needs and dreams. By crafting personalized narratives, it creates bespoke architectural and interior experiences that resonate with each client’s story. With a focus on empathy, innovation, and detail, Studio Rei offers thoughtfully tailored designs that merge functionality with meaning.
‘School for Living Ruins’ is a Masters Design Project by Nicole Zhao from the ‘Bartlett School of Architecture – UCL.’ The project rethinks heritage preservation by transforming the Baths of Titus into a space that combines public engagement, conservation research, and sustainable material reuse. It seeks to challenge conventional, static approaches to preservation through a “care without conservation” strategy, treating the ruin as an active cultural resource rather than a fixed monument.
Shwet Villa by The Grid Architects is a sustainable, eco-conscious residence designed for a multi-generational family within the urban fabric of Ahmedabad. The design embraces minimalism, creating an ideal canvas for shadows. With 70% unbuilt, it promotes landscape and biodiversity, aiming to create a dialogue between the built and open, harmonizing architecture, nature, and cultural values into a serene, environment-friendly sanctuary.
Ammoudi House by Katerina Valsamaki Architects is designed as a flexible vacation home that integrates seamlessly with its natural landscape. Through a linear arrangement of low volumes that follow the site’s slope, the residence opens completely to the sea while remaining discreet from the street. Large glazed surfaces and pergolas blur boundaries between interior and exterior, creating a fluid connection with nature and light.
Katerina Valsamaki Architects is a practice focused on the design and construction of new buildings, renovations, interior design, and restorations. The office’s philosophy is to create aesthetic and experiential spaces that offer quality of life. The architecture focuses on simplicity, functionality, timelessness, equal interior/exterior relationships, a sense of spatial enlargement, and the effective use of natural and artificial light.
CPG House, designed by Obra Arquitetos, is organized in split levels, using staircases to separate and connect spaces without strict hierarchies. The residence’s design follows the upward-sloping terrain, allowing indoor areas to flow into outdoor spaces while minimizing earthworks. Inclined roof slabs bring in morning light, and a suspended garden at the lowest level opens views to the forest.
Magno Menino Deus, a housing project by OSPA Arquitetura & Urbanismo, features a luxury senior living development designed to balance autonomy and care. With medical support, social spaces, and rich neighborhood amenities, the design encourages independence without compromising on assistance. Thoughtful design integrates comfort, connection, and well-being across 190 units, crowned by rooftop spaces with panoramic views.
The Kaneka Wellness Center by Kengo Kuma and Associates and Taisei Design Planners Architects & Engineers is a welfare and healthcare facility designed to embody Kaneka’s “wellness first” policy. Set in a neglected thicket, the design preserves existing trees and integrates buildings into the woods with polyhedral roofs. Combining green roofs, solar cells, and environmental technologies, the architecture merges nature and sustainability.
Taisei Design Planners Architects & Engineers is a practice focused on social changes like modernization, post-war reconstruction, economic growth, and globalization. They have also contributed to community recovery and reconstruction after large-scale natural disasters, enhancing national resilience. They aim to create a vibrant environment for all members of society and create an ecologically sustainable global community.
‘Vertical Nurturing Community’ is an architecture thesis by Kaung Htet from the ‘Department of Architecture – National University of Singapore (NUS).’ The project explores how architecture can help Singapore address its demographic challenges of an aging population and declining fertility rates. It focuses on how built environments can foster social cohesion and family formation. The project reimagines urban housing as more supportive and less isolating, integrating human needs with spatial design to reclaim community in the vertical city.
