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Dynamic site fotos following the completion of our Bar Center project in Fier in collaboration with

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Construction is underway for our project Sphinx Lofts in Albania with

Foto by Gianko

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Varna Library on a a as architecture!
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The ground floor is delivered and overal construction is almost finished for our Bar Center project in Fier in collaboration with Cityförster

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Circular stairs are in place and finishing is in progress for our Bar Center project in Fier in collaboration with Cityförster

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Construction is in progress for your Bar Center project in Fier in collaboration with Cityförster

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The central stairwell is almost complete on our Durrës Beach Hotel project in Albania, with the separating walls cladded with natural stone from all over the country and fragmenting the large facade while introducing their order and directing the views towards the sea and the surrounding mountains - in collaboration with Cityförster

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The facade is almost complete on our Durrës Beach Hotel project in Albania, with the separating walls cladded with natural stone from all over the country and fragmenting the large facade while introducing their order and directing the views towards the sea and the surrounding mountains - in collaboration with Cityförster

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Local stones in two colours and two types of finishes are installed in our project Sphinx Lofts in Albania under construction

in collaboration with

Foto by Eni Ajdini

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Primitive yet daring, our project Sphinx Lofts in Albania is now restarting construction

- in collaboration with Cityförster

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Construction is in progress for your Bar Center project in Fier in collaboration with Cityförster

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Did you miss Irgen Salianji ‘s discussion with Georgi and Desiree of The Creative Insider?

It is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7nag9QAvwC8

#0100 TCI Live Part 3 | Architects for Urbanity | Built and Unbuilt architecture W/ Irgen Salianji is part 3 of our live stream episode 0100 with Gr...

AfU διαδικτυακή διάλεξη στο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών με θέμα την αρχιτεκτονική των σύγχρονων δημοσίων βιβλιοθηκών, την Τετάρτη 16/03/2022 19:00, στο πλαίσιο του μαθήματος Αρχιτεκτονικής Σύνθεσης "Πλατφόρμα Κοινωνικής Ενδυνάμωσης, Βιβλιοθήκη στο λιμάνι του Βόλου". Η διάλεξη θα είναι ανοιχτή και θα πραγματοποιηθεί μέσω Teams στα Ελληνικά, θα βρείτε το link στον παρακάτω σύνδεσμο:

http://www.arch.uth.gr/el/activities/2644?fbclid=IwAR2ZENXbTm-QpZizwThgrpkuF9l5qILZdLD6p_Tdd_bUoU1V6Sv4HPL1d08

The ‘Frame of Co-existence’, check out our latest competition proposal for a unique brief combining a daycare, a kindergarten, an elderly home and a neighbourhood park in one of Chania's most central plots:

https://architectsforurbanity.blogspot.com/2022/02/frame-of-co-existence-in-chania-crete.html

The ‘’framework of coexistence’’ refers to the urbanity and synergy that is created when two or more different programmatic entities are called to socially and spatially synchronize. This is exactly the purpose of our proposal for a modern public building that respects the context on the one hand and on the other makes a statement about how a sensitive public program can be supported by a neighbourhood park and vice versa. The physical frame binds the buildings and their courtyards together into a unified cluster while it defines the edge of the park and serves as its porous background. The momentum of the city culminates at the neighbourhood park and the building infrastructure comes to enrich this relationship through its materiality, connections and architectural expression.

Team: Irgen Salianji, Joni Silaj, Liana Sofiadi, Orestis Kaklamanis
Masterplan: Studio JUAJ
Model: Mike F Moritz
Status: Competition project
Location: Chania, Crete, Greece
Program: Daycare, kindergarten, elderly home and neighbourhood park
Area: 1.322m2
Landscaping: 2.520m2

If you missed Irgen 's recent AfU lecture for the American University of Madaba, you can now check it out here: https://youtu.be/wcB9LpMoT5w

Irgen Salianji presents the thinking methodology of Architects for Urbanity and gives an update on the office's ongoing research and architectural projects such as Varna Library, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Chania 'Frame of Coexistance' (in collaboration with Studio JUAJ), as well as three projects in collaboration with Cityförster, Durrës Beach Hotel, Sphinx Lofts and Bar Centre Fier.
The lecture was held online on 23/01/2022 in the context of the American University of Madaba following an invitation from the students and Head of the Department of Architecture Prof. Dr. Yasir Sakr.

Irgen Salianji AUM Jordan Lecture | Architects for Urbanity Irgen Salianji presents the thinking methodology of Architects for Urbanity and gives an update on the office's ongoing research and architectural projects s...

Shop drawings for the steel structure of our Bar Center project in Fier in collaboration with Cityförster

The steel structure will be produced and installed by the local APM factory in Fier, thus eliminating any need for transportation

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This Sunday afternoon Irgen Salianji presents AfU's current preoccupations, projects' updates and research agenda in the online seminar organised by the American University of Madaba (AUM) Faculty of Architecture and Art Department of Architecture in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

The lecture is open to everyone and can be joined online via this link on Sunday 23rd Jan by 14:00pm CET: meet.google.com/kcn-vysv-dnh

Work in progress reflections | Construction on our Durrës Beach Hotel project is nearing completion, in collaboration with Cityförster

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Living on the edge | Sphinx Lofts project by the seafront of Durres, Albania - in collaboration with Cityförster

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Architecture’s primary aim to frame the natural and start a discourse

Sphinx Lofts project by the seafront of Durres, Albania - in collaboration with Cityförster

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Custom staircase detail | Construction on our Durrës Beach Hotel project is nearing completion, in collaboration with Cityförster

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Balcony detail | Construction on our Durrës Beach Hotel project is nearing completion, in collaboration with Cityförster

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If you missed Irgen Salianji’s podcast discussion with and are interested to learn more about the early story of AfU, it is now available on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/JSaSM02zxYI

#0013 Starting Architects for Urbanity with Irgen Salianji Welcome to this new episode of TCI Podcast!In this episode, we had the honor and pleasure to chat about architecture with the incredibly talented Albanian / ...

Construction on our Durrës Beach Hotel project is nearing completion, making it the first realized product of our fruitful collaboration with Cityförster

photo by Elham Baruti

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Subscribe to Urbanity Studios YouTube channel, AfU's multimedia arm, and follow the upcoming series of architecture lectures, musical live streams, research & projects presenations, as well as future initiatives & actions that we are currently planning such as podcasts, special cultural events and happenings!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu5sgt6p9N7-pwnrsHYVl-A

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Watch Irgen's presentation on Sustainable Urbanity and give us your feedback! What can we do as architects? Where is the next radical idea going to be born? Are we modern day Homo Ludens and have our cities become New Babylons? Will it be harder to solve the climate crisis or create cities on Mars? And is it all rocket science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbwx-qomwy8

Irgen Salianji presenting Sustainable Urbanity at the14th Green Building Convention in South Africa Irgen Salianji of Architects for Urbanity | AfU presents 'Sustainable Urbanity; an architect's role' at the 14th Green Building Convention held in South Afri...

Irgen Salianji to speak about 'Sustainable Urbanity' at the 14th Green Building Convention held in South Africa from 2 to 4 November 2021, more info about the speakers and the event here:
https://gbcsaconvention.org.za/speakers-2021/

Sustainability and climate change have been focal concerns in the last decades, linked to and affected by the growing urbanisation rates of our global cities and our consumerist contemporary lifestyles. Urbanity has been our most precious invention and the catalyst for a rapid cultural and humanitarian development, however, may it be the reason for our demise and for how long can we sustain it as such anyway? Which is our role as architects and where are the next big sustainable ideas going to get born?