IET, Ahmedabad University Campus | vir.mueller architects From the architect. The architectural design for the Institute of Engineering and Technology at Ahmedabad University Campus exemplifies the typology of an academic quadrangle – a central courtyard garden, flanked by student and faculty rooms. Timeless yet contemporary, this cloister anchors a community of students and scholars – many of whom […]
Located at the center of a dense residential development in southern China, the first design gesture for the Guiyang Membership was not to create a built form, but rather to create an elliptical reflecting pool carved from the landscape. This allows the design to create its own site, to which it...
Image 10 of 20 from gallery of 7800 Çeşme Residences and Hotel / EAA - Emre Arolat Architecture. Courtesy of emre arolat architects
Since 2020, Chinese government has tightened macro control of the real estate sector, and the policy of rating real estate firms into four classes based..
Image 5 of 12 from gallery of La Fantaisie Hotel / PETITDIDIERPRIOUX Architects. Photograph by Sergio Grazia
The architects are 3XN and SLA whose design is based on Lemvig’s historic boat-building facilities found in the spectacular natural scenery of the..
Around the back of a weatherboard house in Melbourne is a new, two-story modular extension, named Ivanhoe, designed by Modscape to transform the lives of the homeowners.
Each block is differently coloured along the internal face of the bay windows of the hostel in bright colours to create an identity.
Image 7 of 26 from gallery of Chinese Traditional Culture Museum / gmp Architects. Photograph by CreatAR
Living The Noom's design is everything you want from a building - an unusually beautiful organic structure, covered with a lush tone of green brought about by t
Designed by H&P Architects in Phu Ly City in Vietnam, this private residence is a modernist reinterpretation of a vernacular style of building.
Image 8 of 25 from gallery of Dumbo Townhouses / Alloy Design. Photograph by Cameron Blaylock
A single-level home by an owner/builder in Sydney’s north proves that child-friendly can also be cool.
Image 8 of 27 from gallery of Crafting a Retail / Metropolitan Studio of Architecture. Photograph by MIrza Omer
In the village of Gualdicciolo, in the microstate of San Marino, a far-sighted client opted to bring archiNOW! in on a project to revamp a dilapidated old building and turn it into a key part of the area, dynamically interacting with the context. The zone is a mix of factories, businesses and homes, but sorely needed public spaces where people could gather and enjoy a sense of community. The decision to refurbish an existing building is paradigmatic of the approach to regenerating this built-up area. Banks are often closed, silent structures that jealously guard their own land, rather like forts, but this time, the building is open, interconnected, permeable and transparent, a cultural and social magnet for the area. The exteriors lead into the surrounds, encouraging people to enjoy their time together through urban furniture, flowerbeds, water features, and covered walkways, some heading to the parking lot. They also connect to the adjacent shopping arcade and a small amphitheater. The public is invited into these spaces, helping to regenerate the local urban fabric and encouraging social interaction. Modelling the existing volume was central to the new design, forging solids and voids with meticulous additions and subtractions from this original.The exterior composition drew heavily on a careful analysis of the surrounds, with an identifiable, raised silhouette in a uniform, neutral hue that merges into the local area, almost like a silent, measured presence. At the same time, the façades have their own, syncopated rhythm created by the placement of glazing and dry zinc and titanium panels in a pattern that echoes the fragmentation of this urban zone. The glazed ground-floor perimeter lightens the structure, creating visual permeability with the public areas and a rather charming sense of floating upper floors. At night, such transparency takes on a whole new meaning. The copper-tinged lighting turns the complex into an urban lantern, flooding the interiors with light to make them visible from the road. The interiors were planned using rigid functionality premised on integrating the traditional spaces of a bank with new outlooks for the future, such that informal meeting areas, breakout spaces and co-working areas are never in short supply.The basement level floor is dominated by a 180-seater auditorium equipped with the technology, acoustics and annexed spaces to host almost any event. Asset Banca's new headquarters thus become a dual invite. On the one hand, the public are welcomed back into the public spaces around the building. On the other, the bank is showing, through this experience, how a bank can become an open, innovative place that adds quality to the local area.
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Each block is differently coloured along the internal face of the bay windows of the hostel in bright colours to create an identity.
East London school expansion will sit on off-limits ecology site
Image 7 of 26 from gallery of Chinese Traditional Culture Museum / gmp Architects. Photograph by CreatAR
Image 8 of 27 from gallery of SD Residence / BMA - Besian Mehmeti Architects. Photograph by Vase Petrovski