Poetry Wine (Pinyin translation: Shijiu), the name of this restaurant, means picking up the taste of the old days. When we think about the old taste, we may recall the taste of home where we spent our childhood, with chimney, leaky roof, sunlight, leaves, silhouette.
Project name
Poetry Wine (Solana)
Architecture firm
LDH Architectural Design
Location
Solana, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Principal architect
Liu Daohua
Completion year
June 2021
Typology
Hospitality › Restaurant
A parametric system of 1 km wooden bars makes the pavilion flexible, easy-to-assemble and highly sustainable and recyclable. The concept of the shelter is further explored in our design process by finding inspiration in the aquatic animal species of the Sea urchins, or Echinoidea.
Architecture firm
GG-loop
Photography
Alice Turazza
Principal architect
Giacomo Garziano
Design team
Giacomo Garziano, Bogdan Chipara, Simone Piccolo, Mariam Sherif
Collaborators
Event by Interni Magazine
Structural engineer
Rubner Haus
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Pavilion, Installation for the Milan Design Week 2022
Plumbing issues are an inconvenient– sometimes disgusting– part of owning and maintaining a home. Some of these issues may be due to the regular wear and tear and aging that comes with using your plumbing fixtures. Others may be a result of how you use and maintain your system.
Written by
William Parkes
Photography
PV Productions
The project's starting point was the research into the meaning, usage, and features of a 21st-century library. Studio noa* reimagined it as a hub of creativity, aiming to create a stimulating environment for freeing the mind and acquiring new knowledge. As a prerogative, a relaxed and quiet atmosphere, as an added value, the possibility of moving i...
Project name
European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC)
Architecture firm
noa* network of architecture
Location
Porta Vittoria, Milan, Italy
Visualization
Dima Visualization
Client
International design competition held by the Municipality of Milan and the BEIC Foundation
Changping District is 30km to the north of Beijing, the scenery of which is completely different from that of an international city. KiKi ARCHi has completed a renovation project within 15 months there. Carrying the happy time of its owner’s childhood in the country, it seeks not the concrete object of memory, but the memory itself.
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi
Photography
Eiichi Kano, PRphoto
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Yoshihiko Seki, Saika Akiyoshi, Tianping Wang
Collaborators
Plant Design: WILD - SCAPE
Interior design
KiKi ARCHi
Civil engineer
Sun Corporation
Lighting
ChenYi Lighting. Co., Ltd.
Tools used
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, V-ray
Construction
Sun Corporation
Material
Micro cement-Gobbetto, Diatom mud-Shikoku, Kitchen-TJM kitchenhouse
Typology
Residential › House
Illyrius was born by the request for a high-density residential project just outside the first urban circle, on an empty lot on the Rruga Dritan Hoxha artery, which connects the city center to Tirana International Airport, and to the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
Architecture firm
GG-loop
Principal architect
Giacomo Garziano
Design team
Giacomo Garziano, Giulio Angeli, Matteo Bettoni, Bogdan Chipara, Gianmarco Daniele, Chelsea Fu, Rozhin Khani, Annika Kappner, Simone Piccolo
Typology
Residential › 500 apartments residential complex + commercial plinth
The site of the Emperor Hotel, Qianmen was once occupied by a public bath and so the spirit of bathing and mystery lives on in the new hotel. The design is organized not by spaces and circulation but by emotions and dreams; not by materials and details but by illusions and memories. From the l’Occitane Spa below ground to Beijing’s largest hotel ro...
Project name
The Emperor Hotel
Architecture firm
asap/adam sokol architecture practice
Photography
Jonathan Leijonhufvud
Principal architect
Adam Sokol
Design team
Adam Sokol, AIA, principal; Daymond Robinson, Gregory Serweta, Nicole Halstead, Nicole Lee, Ana Misenas
Lighting
Smith + Anderson
Material
Concrete, Brick, Glass, Metal
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel
If you're in the market for a new siding contractor, you may be wondering how to find the best one. There are many qualified contractors out there, but not all of them are created equal. How do you separate the good ones from the bad? Here are six tips that will help you find the top siding contractor for your needs.
Photography
Adkins & Sons
The 'Kaira Looro' international architecture competition, held by humanitarian organisation Balouo Salo, has this year also, established itself as one of the most important in the field of humanitarian and development design, attracting students and young architects from all over the world.
Written by
Kaira Looro Competition
Photography
Winning project of Kaira Looro Competition– 2022’s Edition. Project by Ziyu Guo from China
This french rustic stone house furnished without excess reveals the beauty of raw materials. In the heart of downtown Bordeaux, France, ‘Sacre Coeur, stone house’ by Theo Coutanceau Domini, takes shape as a restructured and redone ruin in which the main living space combines all the functions.
Project name
Sacré Coeur Stone House
Architecture firm
Theo C. DOMINI
Location
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Photography
Theo C. DOMINI
Principal architect
Theo Coutanceau Domini
Design team
Theo Coutanceau Domini
Interior design
Theo C. DOMINI
Material
Stone, Steel, concrete, wood
Typology
Residential › House, Workshop
