This townhouse in Shenzhen used to be a completely different look. The colonial-style and complicated decoration that was popular in a certain era in China, is no longer fit for current life. The owner of the house, a rational and logical lawyer, after experiencing the ‘past tense’ living experience for a short time, decided to invite KiKi ARCHi to...
Project name
Breathing House
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Photography
Eiichi Kano / Tony Tan
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Tianping Wang
Design year
2021.08.01 – 2022.01.01
Completion year
2023.01.01
Material
Diatom mud-Shikoku / Tile-Terrazzo / Facade-stainless mes
Typology
Residential › House
In an area of over 5,000 sqm, where an abandoned shopping center used to be, we created the new Olist office. Our starting point was to look at the problem:
A very segmented floor plan due to the building's structure of two existing towers. To minimize this, we created volumes that embrace these structures and house all the private offices and me...
Project name
Olist Headquarter
Architecture firm
Arquea Arquitetos
Location
Curitiba, Brazil
Photography
Eduardo Macarios
Principal architect
Bernardo Richter, Fernando Caldeira de Lacerda and Pedro Amin Tavares, Helena Engelhardt, Prisicla Vicentim
Design team
Bernardo Richter, Fernando Caldeira de Lacerda and Pedro Amin Tavares, Helena Engelhardt, Prisicla Vicentim
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
Designed with sustainability, low maintenance and natural ventilation in mind, OURHOUSEWANDAL is a low budget, family home with a difference. Having ravelled extensively and become accustomed to using minimal space wisely, the young family client wanted their first family home to reflect their love of the great outdoors and have a natural, rural fe...
Project name
OURHOUSEWANDAL
Architecture firm
Design+Architecture (in collaboration with N Veenstra)
Location
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Photography
Scott Burrow Photographer
Principal architect
Colin Strydom
Interior design
N Veenstra
Structural engineer
McMurtries Consulting Engineer
Construction
Raised timber framing floor, walls, roof framing
Material
- Bluescope Steel Zinc Cladding. - James Hardie Internal and external sheeting - Laminex Joinery - Bradnams Aluminium Windows and doors
Budget
$300 000 (Aus dollars)
Typology
Residential › House
The project is located in Shangqiu, which was known as Songdu or Songzhou in ancient times. The design concept is to recreate the elegant, quaint garden style of Song dynasty in a modern context. "Courtyard", "Garden" and "Lane" were arranged to make the space feel like home.
Project name
Lake Mansion
Landscape Architecture
IVVA (SHANGHAI), INC.
Location
Shangqiu, Henan Province, China
Design team
Song Yaping, Wei Hongcheng, Wang Bangyu, Jiang Zhihui
Completion year
June, 2022
Client
Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. of CSCEC 7th Division
Typology
Landscape Design
Minus Workshop has taken QUE at Citygate in Tung Chung, situated at one of the Swire group highlighted malls in Hong Kong, to another level of urban escape. Yiu, the founder and chief designer of Minus Workshop, considers the Japanese cafe label QUE to be newly established in Hong Kong of its clean and strong brand image , that the main concept app...
Project name
QUE - Citygate
Photography
Steven Ko Interior Photography
Principal architect
Kevin Yiu
Design team
Minus Workshop
Interior design
Minus Workshop
Construction
Kiwi Construction
Landscape
Minus Workshop team
Lighting
Lightitude, Lutron dimming system
Supervision
Kiwi Construction
Material
textured clay plaster, moss art, vinyl flooring, wood veneer, vinyl strips, wall cover, washi paper, etc
Typology
Hospitality › Restaurant
Tucked away on the edge of St. John’s historic downtown core, this private residence overlooks one of the city’s oldest cemeteries. The home is formally comprised of a series of overlapping rectangular masses creating both a highly contemporary form and a variation of interconnected spatial characteristics within the interior, ranging from intimate...
Project name
Empire House
Architecture firm
Woodford Architecture
Location
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Photography
Jane Brokenshire
Principal architect
Christopher Woodford
Design team
William Flynn, Tayrn Sheppard
Interior design
Woodford Architecture
Civil engineer
Robin Summers, MAE design
Structural engineer
Ken Tobin + Ryan Newburry
Environmental & MEP
none (subcontracted by general)
Landscape
Murray's Gardens
Lighting
Woodford Architecture
Supervision
(General Contractor): Jim Lannon
Visualization
Woodford Architecture
Material
Wood-framed on concrete foundation. Exterior cladding is a mix of wood and composite metal panel. Windows were triple glazed, aluminum glad UPVC, tilt and turn
Typology
Residential › House
In the design of Glass Palace Spa, MOSOM DESIGN with a focus on researching “new aesthetic power” has emerged from the design itself. It centers on spatial aesthetics and scenario emotions & brand operation under the strategic thinking of “space is brand, scene is marketing”, with efforts made to create a complex quality space that unifies aestheti...
Project name
Glass Palace Spa
Architecture firm
MOSOM DESIGN
Location
Guangzhou, China
Principal architect
Zhongchen Jin
Design team
Ting Xiu, Shihao Guo, Cui Cui
Completion year
June 15, 2022
Typology
Healthcare › Wellbeing, Spa
The flat carries out a work of reflection and precision concomitant with the project, allowing it to find its own identity for the place. With its character and atmosphere derived from evocation, experientialism, and an incessant desire to create an escape from the outside world.
Architecture firm
Studio Bomb
Location
Bangalore, India
Photography
Arjun Krishna
Principal architect
Shankar Kallutla
Environmental & MEP engineering
Visualization
Studio Bomb
Typology
Residential › Apartment
