“Taking the chairs out to the street” How many Dmes have our grandmothers reminded us that back in the village, every evening they would take their chairs out to the street and gather with the neighbors “to catch the evening breeze”
Grounded in earth and shaped by light, the building dissolves the boundaries of the conventional office, creating a workplace that is at once social, climatic and deeply connected to its surroundings. David Adjaye
Anna Bakay’s office occupies the first floor of a historic building in the heart of Kyiv, reading more like a private gallery or an intimate workshop than a conventional notary practice. From the outset, the project was guided by a clear set of values – silence, tactility, soft light, a grounded connection to nature, and the complete absence of visual noise. Located on Tereshchenkivska Street, the space opens onto Shevchenko Park on one side and a quiet inner courtyard on the other. Designed for a team of five, the office unfolds as a calm, cohesive environment rather than a sequence of strictly functional rooms.
With only 5.6 meters in width and 20 meters in length, the lot houses an architecture office and a multi-purpose hall. The spatial constraints imposed not only the compression of functions but also an articulation between constructive and architectural solutions based on the scale of intervention. The building, with its discreet facade and lack of expressive gestures, explicitly conveys the intention of creating an austere, silent, contemplative space; with the minimum necessary elements.
The architect’s office and private residence, located in a suburban residential area of Kobe. The site faces two roads—one to the south and one to the north. The southern side faces a 26-meter-wide arterial road lined with large commercial facilities. The northern side, however, faces a 6-meter-wide residential street in a quiet neighborhood. Furthermore, while the southern half of the site is flat, the northern half is a sloped area with a gradient of approximately 30 degrees, resulting in a height difference of about 5.5 meters between the north and south.
PROSTIR Business Hub in Zymna Voda, near Lviv Circular Road, redefines the typology of logistic hubs by merging office, warehouse, and commercial spaces into a unified modular ensemble. The project bridges the domestic scale with industrial tectonics through dynamic gabled roofs.
Facing Vannes train station, the project is part of the rehabilitation of a 19th-century industrial complex, composed of a house, a 44-meter-long hall, and a glass roof vestige of a winter garden. Long abandoned, the site was in a state of advanced decay.
The Embassy of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in Pretoria is a contemporary diplomatic landmark that expresses unity, identity, and openness. Set among Pretoria’s mature jacaranda trees, the building balances symbolic presence with contextual sensitivity, offering a refined architectural response rooted in West African cultural traditions.
The office on the 42nd floor of Torre Picasso (Madrid) was born from a competition in which the client had a peculiar program for only 4 permanent workers in an area of 330 m2, to which occasionally are added more employees coming from different company locations to hold meetings in the rooms of this office.
Kamioka, in Hida City, Gifu Prefecture, is a town shaped by layered histories. Once flourishing with the Kamioka Mine—formerly one of the largest in the East—it has since faced depopulation, aging, and a shortage of successors, conditions now shared by many regional towns in Japan. The client is a company that has long supported everyday life in this area through forest maintenance, hazardous tree removal, specialized logging, snow clearing, civil engineering, landscaping, pest control, and even local festivals. As the organization expanded and a generational transition began, questions about the future of both the company and the region became increasingly urgent.
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