Locally sourced materials
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Project • By Simple Architecture • Primary Schools
Hway Ka Loke School
Hway Ka Loke School, located in Mae Sot, Thailand, recently completed new classrooms for Burmese migrants and refugees on the Thai border. These classrooms were built using natural building techniques and locally sourced materials, including earthen bricks, as part of a project focusing on sustainable and culturally relevant design.
Jonathan Wiedemann
Jonathan Wiedemann
Jonathan Wiedemann
The project also included workshops to involve the community in the construction process, promoting both skills development and awareness of the complex political situation faced by Burmese migrants fleeing civil war. This initiative, supported by the Stiftung Deutscher Architekten and in collaboration with the school community, stands as a... More
News • News • 30 Oct 2022
Kiln at Ace Hotel Sydney is the latest addition to Surry Hills’ artful rooftop experience
Set atop Sydney’s newly opened Ace hotel, the Kiln pays homage to the site’s history of Australia’s oldest known kilns and later as a textile factory. Designed by Melbourne-based firm Fiona Lynch Office, the restaurant seeks inspiration from Australian craftsmanship, everything from colours, culture, and visual identity.
Anson Smart
The space is distinctive to Ace Sydney, yet it evokes the Australian landscape with its palette of earthy hues and mellow wood-and-leather accents. Located on the 18th floor, the 108-seat restaurant comprises two dining rooms, two bars, a lounge area and two terrace areas with retractable roofs, each with its distinct patina.
Anson Smart
The open kitchen and wood-fired... More
News • News • 28 Sep 2022
The Cocoa Project Café by T3 Architects embraces the past to create a sustainable future
T3 Architects undertook the restoration of a 1950s modernist villa in Saigon to reconnect people with Vietnamese heritage and create a welcoming and fresh place dedicated to cocoa and pastry.
Hiroyuki Oki
The design seeks to revive the existing structure by integrating sustainable architecture and sustainably sourced cacao chocolate trace.
Hiroyuki Oki
Natural light was brought into the structure by breaking a few concrete slabs and creating a tropical garden. The structural details like the terrazzo staircase, cornices, old handrails, vertical concrete louvres and coat of lime paint were restored in their raw state, slowly unveiled layer by layer, reflecting the history and past of Saigon.
Hiroyuki Oki
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News • News • 17 Dec 2021
Adjaye Associates completes nature inspired civic and cultural hub inside Florida park
Adjaye Associates envisions the new civic and cultural hub as a micro-village of two pavilions inside the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, on the north side of Orlando, Florida. Each pavilion has a different scale and function, but all three share a common formal language.
Dror Baldinger
The architectural language takes inspiration from the local fauna and the region’s vernacular and translates it into locally sourced rose-pigmented concrete, arched windows and vaulted rooflines.
Dror Baldinger
“It’s been humbling and inspiring to work together with the City of Winter Park and the many local champions of this project to realize this 21st century prototype of a multi-purpose knowledge campus in the public realm.... More