The Architects Diary

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The Architects DiaryIndiaFor These Marathi Actors, Home Is A Reflection Of Who They Are | Amoeba Design “Give us a home that reflects who we are as people. “Everything else is temporary!” This was the simple brief from a celebrity actor couple.

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The Architects DiaryIndiaLodha Sterling Rewrites Japandi Through The Rituals Of An Indian Home | Maksideo Design Consultants LLP. As global design trends move across cultures, this 1,400 sq.ft. residence at Lodha Sterling offers a fresh interpretation of Japandi.

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The Architects DiaryIndiaThe House That Softens Finds Warmth Behind Its Monumental Architectural Expression in Jaipur | Spacemakers Studio From the street, the house presents itself as a composed architectural object – substantial, sculptural and almost monolithic. Yet, as one moves inward, its character gradually shifts.

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The Architects DiaryIndiaAmravati Residence Turns Cantilevered Terraces Into Layers Of Shade | Nord 360 Studio A residence celebrates intermediate spaces, layered cantilevers, exposed brick, and crafted materiality.

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The Architects DiaryIndiaModern approaches to transitional residential architecture Designing a home involves much more than just interior spaces. The exterior environment plays a huge role in how we experience daily life.

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The Architects DiaryIndiaHow Built-In Furniture Shapes Modern Architectural Design In modern architecture, built-in furniture is more than an interior feature. It shapes how spaces function, improves space utilisation and creates a consistent design throughout a building.

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The Architects DiaryIndiaKeyed Alike Locks: When Matching Keys Across Several Doors Makes Sense Keyed alike locks is usually searched for when front, rear, side or garage doors all use euro cylinders but each currently has a different key.

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The Architects DiaryIndiaBranded Tech Gifts: Why Power Banks, Cables and Wireless Chargers Are Rising Fast Introduction As daily life becomes more connected, branded technology has become one of the most desirable areas of promotional merchandise.

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The Architects DiaryIndiaDesigning the Modern Live-Work Home: Architectural Strategies for Upper-Floor Studios and Workspaces The traditional boundary between domestic sanctuary and professional workplace has dissolved. Across global metropolitan centers, hybrid employment models, freelance consulting, and remote enterprise…

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A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. More than a hundred sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo