- Year: 2023
Featured Fika Café / NAAW
Parramatta Town Hall / DesignInc + Lacoste + Stevenson Architects + Manuelle Gautrand Architecture + TKD Architects
Pass-Through Windows: Inspiring the Design of Easy-Open Spaces
The desire for fluid integration between spaces has become increasingly relevant in contemporary architecture. This reflects a search for more connected and harmonious living experiences, especially in urban environments, where the cityscape can saturate us. By transcending conventional boundaries and blurring the lines between interior spaces and the vast outdoors, living environments can be created to celebrate connectivity, sustainability and the well-being that comes from being alongside nature. These types of integration not only make it possible to unite spaces with their surrounding contexts, but also to segment indoor environments when necessary, maintaining a visual connection while keeping them functionally separate. By creating these integrations, architects and designers allow spaces to merge with each other or with nature, promoting a sense of tranquillity, balance and rejuvenation, as well as integration and fluidity—a seamless transition that blurs the distinction between the two. This is achieved through architectural elements such as large windows and doors, which dissolve barriers through the simple action of opening and closing.
Renovation of East Nanjing Road Sub-district Community Comprehensive Life Service Center / TJAD Original Design Studio
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Architects: TJAD Original Design Studio
- Area: 3339 m²
- Year: 2023
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Manufacturers: Zhongfan International Engineering Design Co., Ltd.
Ritratana Office Building / Urban Praxis
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Architects: Urban Praxis
- Area: 4900 m²
- Year: 2023
Brown Hill House / Eldridge Anderson Architects
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Architects: Eldridge Anderson Architects
- Area: 280 m²
- Year: 2023
Lourosa-Fiães Transport Interface / Atelier d'Arquitectura Lopes da Costa
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Architects: Atelier d'Arquitectura Lopes da Costa
- Year: 2023
SOLO luminosa / CONTRA arquitetura
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Architects: CONTRA arquitetura
- Area: 1507 ft²
- Year: 2022
The Stoic Wall Residence / LIJO RENY architects
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Architects: LIJO RENY architects
- Area: 680 m²
- Year: 2023
Ana Skobe Wins the Architecture Photography Category at Sony World Photography Awards 2024
The Sony World Photography Awards 2024 has announced its category winners and shortlist, showcasing the best single images from around the world captured during the last year. With over 395,000 submissions from 220 countries and territories, the competition aims to highlight established and emerging photographers from around the world. The Open Competition is divided into 10 category sections, covering a diverse range of themes, from Architecture and Landscape to Portraiture, Lifestyle, and Wildlife photography.
For the Architecture category, ArchDaily collaborator Ana Skobe has been declared the winner with a photograph titled “Falling Out of Time.” Bathed in the soft hues of evening light, a sleek geometric structure rises from the coastal landscape, its clean lines contrasting with the natural elements surrounding it. Positioned at the base of the lighthouse, a solitary figure gives a sense of scale to the composition, as it contemplates the vastness of the ocean.
Gotham House / Plan:b arquitectos
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Architects: Plan:b arquitectos
- Area: 985 m²
- Year: 2023
Exploring the Grand Egyptian Museum Through Photography: Bridging Past and Present in Cairo
Showcasing millennia of Egyptian history and culture, the Grand Egyptian Museum is a monumental project in Cairo, Egypt, designed by the Irish firm Heneghan Peng Architects. Home to over 100,000 artifacts spanning Egypt’s storied past, the museum is on the brink of opening its doors to the public after multiple setbacks. Recent updates offer glimpses of the structure’s progress, with photographs captured by Egyptian photographer Farida Bustani providing sneak peeks of the architectural landmark.