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A Recyclable and Modular Housing Complex in India and A Secluded Cliff House in Iran: 8 Unbuilt Residential Projects Submitted to ArchDaily

May 30, 2022 Maria-Cristina Florian 0

This week’s curated selection of Best Unbuilt Architecture highlights residential projects submitted by the ArchDaily community. From a small community-dwelling in Ghana to a villa tucked under a hillside in Portugal, this roundup of unbuilt projects explores how architects react to various site topographies, cultures, and material availability when designing spaces that provide more than shelter to their users. The article also includes projects from India, Iran, Ireland, Latvia, Georgia, and Saudi Arabia.

Center for Community Life in Trinitat Vella / Haz arquitectura

May 30, 2022 Pilar Caballero 0

The Centre for Community Life in Trinitat Vella, situated at one of the entrances to the city of Barcelona, is the new multifunctional complex in the neighborhood. This public building is the result of an innovative proposal designed with a collaborative spirit to allow local people and social agents in the neighborhood to express themselves. The new space will form part of a community facility hub for the districts of Sant Andreu and Nou Barris to be built in the coming years, which will also include community housing and homes for young people and the elderly. The project is the work of the architects Manuel Sánchez-Villanueva and Carol Beuter of Haz Arquitectura, a studio with extensive experience in the construction of public and private facilities in the health, cultural and social sectors, as well as offices and sports amenities.

Prime Seafood Palace / Omar Gandhi Arquitect

May 30, 2022 Paula Pintos 0

Located in the heart of West Queen West, Prime Seafood Palace (PSP) is a culinary escape from the bustling streets of Canada’s most populated city, Toronto.

Baker Boys Beach House / refresh*design

May 30, 2022 Hana Abdel 0

This new holiday house on Minjerribah embodies calmness and simplicity, so its occupants can enjoy being immersed in nature at the beach. Influenced by local campsites – where cooking, gathering, and sleeping zones are united under a large tarpaulin – the house incorporates essential functionality in a compact footprint, beneath an elegant butterfly roof.

a public toilet in china’s atour village is embedded into the hillside

May 30, 2022 kat barandy I designboom 0

the GN architects-designed public restroom is organized entirely by its many arching walls.
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Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage / gh3*

May 29, 2022 Paula Pintos 0

Edmonton’s Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage (KATG) is a municipal bus maintenance and storage facility designed to set new standards for an often-overlooked building type. Reconciling demanding technical requirements with simple and rigorous architecture, KATG elevates a conventionally utilitarian building and honors its important role within a growing, equitable, sustainable, and resilient contemporary city. Functional efficiency and high sustainability are matched by formal refinement, historic preservation, and public art, enriching both the lives of the people who work there and the wider community it serves.

Inner Garden Villa / 123DV

May 29, 2022 Luciana Pejić 0

This 1400 m2 high-end freestanding villa in Tehran is built against a mountainside, with a garden that is raised 17 meters above street level. The facade is clad with natural travertine stone: a famous high-quality local product collected from the Iranian mountains. The wish of the owners to park their cars underground, resulted in a 20-meter-long tunnel below the garden, leading towards the parking underneath the villa.

Hawthorn Studio / Wallis Design

May 29, 2022 Hana Abdel 0

The Brief – The brief was to create a collaborative design studio for Wallis Design, ZD Construction, and JPM Bathrooms that could be flexible and accommodate the needs of everyone. The studio needed to incorporate semi-private workstations, as well as a collaborative meeting zone, a trading library, and a kitchenette area. We wanted to restore some of the existing features within the space like the exposed Brickwork, lofty ceilings, and archway to create a sense of calm amongst the hustle of Burwood Road.

LOHA utilizes “material layering” for Nike Icon Studios building in Los Angeles

May 29, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture firm LOHA used “material layering” to create a light-filled workspace in California for photographers, videographers and other creatives involved in brand imaging for sportswear brand Nike. The project – formally called The Nike Icon Studios LA – is the flagship studio space for the company’s operations for global brand imaging. Located near LA’s border

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Delfina House / TATŪ Arquitectura

May 29, 2022 Valeria Silva 0

The project is located in Villa Serrana, in rugged terrain and far from the most qualified areas of urbanization and therefore with precarious infrastructures compared to the rest of the area. This condition of austerity that comes from the available infrastructures themselves gave the landscape a wild feeling or almost unexplored rurality that we wanted to take advantage of and enhance.