Paddington Terrace is a minimalist home located in Sydney, Australia, designed by Pandolfini Architects. The project is a finely detailed concrete and zinc addition to an existing terrace house. The architects utilized insulated concrete walls in order to maximize thermal retention and heat deflection. Most notable is a listening room in which folded aluminum panels are utilized to eliminate ech..
The project tries to listen to the place and to imagine a potential city that, without discarding our era, is capable of preserving the way the city breathes. It is a matter of finding the common territory between what is contemporary and what allows the city to recognise itself; a figure, or better yet, a strategy, that contains both sides in itself. A strategy considered in terms of opportunit..
On the one hand simple masses, basic geometric shapes, admitted materiality and the time, esprit, airiness, elegance on the other. Clean solutions like these do not often occur in Slovakia. There are no borders for housing. It does not end with the interior but smoothly continues to the exterior. A house worthy of an investor who recognizes true qualities and an architect who can make a generous..
The refurbishment of this semi-detached house, a very common type in São Paulo, was planned to receive a Therapeutic Residential that attends, guide and shelter patients in a state of mental suffering. Its use, extremely specific, has several project dynamics that differ from a common project:The patients must have their identity preserved as well as their privacy.The access to medicines, knives..
Designed by Sanjay Puri Architects with a focus on energy efficiency, the school building is organized around a central patio in a play of geometries and shadows.With its red volumes, as if illuminated by the light of sunset, the Rajasthan School is a primary and secondary school located in the Indian city of Nagaur. Sanjay Puri Architects’ project provides open, semi-closed and closed spaces in..
In 2019, the Architectural Bureau WALL created an author's boutique for the famous russian premium brand RASARIO. The boutique is located in Moscow, on Smolenskaya embankment in a building of the 50s. While working on the project, the architects of the WALL bureau created a flexible transformable art space, the center of which was a monolithic concrete "staircase-sculpture". The interior of the ..
The Catholic Diocese of Pécs intended to establish a new kindergarten institution in the historic downtown of Pécs, in the immediate vicinity of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site, like much of the town centre regarding Pécs, has been structured in overlapping layers for the past 2000 years, which have always and continuously determined its development. As they were transformed or rebuilt,..
Tori Tori Santa Fe becomes the fifth project of the renowned Japanese restaurant chain in Mexico City, it is located on the ground floor of a corporate building in the Santa Fe neighbourhood. Inspired by the subtlety and sobriety of Japanese craftsmanship, with a serene and monochromatic atmosphere, the project seeks to emphasize the scale of the space with two suspended elements made of oak woo..
Special attention has been given to this small scale building, designed to house the changing facilities and lavatories of the tennis complex, in order to ensure it harmoniously blends in with its surroundings. This is achieved through a demonstration of the contemporary relevance of half-timbering, a traditional Norman structural principle. This type of construction presents the added benefit o..
Situated within Columbia Circle, the recently completed OMA-designed commercial development in Shanghai, Neri&Hu has created a flagship store for Jisifang, a new multi-brand retailer. Specializing in garments and accessories made from the highest quality silks, wools, cottons and linens, the interior design for the shop is an homage to these natural textiles, their material authenticity, viscera..
