Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

OPEN’s response to the design brief was to establish a purposeful structure that connected to this history and evoked the ancient rituals of nature worship while providin.

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Project Design Brief Firms Industrial 246

Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2025

The pavilion was created to serve as an event space According to Base, the pavilion was created to be an add-on or annexe to a residential house, which was part of the design brief for Lanza Atelier. It was also created to be easily assembled and disassembled.

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Cities Technique Design Brief Events 122

Archinect

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Looking for a formal frame that would consistently answer the requests of the design brief, we were inspired by a style that can be defined as Mediterranean Modern.

Modern 223

Modern Design Brief Residential Clients 223

Dwell

APRIL 28, 2025

The client sought to take advantage of elevated views toward distant Mount Ninderry and and Mount Coolum while ensuring the home remained functionally versatile and energy-efficientall within a modest footprint.

Home 85

Home Civil Engineering Contract Structural Engineering 85

Deezen

MAY 7, 2025

The exhibition includes a film by Diller Scofidio + Renfro "The design brief for almost all storage is: try to be as invisible as possible," V&A East Storehouse chief curator Brendan Cormier told Dezeen. For the most part, storage design has been incredibly successful in fulfilling this brief," he continued.

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Events Design Brief Information Inspiration 107

Archinect

MARCH 14, 2024

The 742,000-square-foot design for the Surbana Jurong corporation aims to establish a better work-life balance for employees while connecting to its natural rainforest setting.

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Design Brief Nature Architect Project 130

Archinect

JUNE 27, 2023

With the resounding message that psychological and thermal comfort were the major considerations for the workers, a design brief was articulated. This was followed by a critical analysis of the existing hostel building in an effort to understand what worked and what didn’t. A predominantly industrial campus, along.

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Design Brief Management Industrial Developer 130

Archinect

MARCH 27, 2023

It had no design brief; no space requirements; no specific site, no budget. The first step in the design process was to anchor the idea to a specific, immutable location in the master plan; in a manner that its position could never be undermined; nor it’s status ever be reduced. It’s concept was simple.

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Design Brief Students Technology Technology 130

Hotel Designs

MAY 21, 2025

The selection of Shinnoki is a great example of where a highly-prescriptive design brief dictates the selection of the material, and arose when DLM started to consider the project fixtures, fittings and features.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Canyon run home was designed as a response to the mass migration created by the COVID pandemic. The design brief for the Canyon Run project sought to break the current trend of oversized, sprawling mountain homes, which are devouring land and the unique character of the rural towns they inhabit. © Migration Studios.

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Mining Design Brief Landscape Concept 102

Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

We asked ourselves how our clients could live on this land in a modern but thoughtful way, what a modern farm and farmhouse should and could look like, and how we could integrate the building into a site that has been cleared of its bushland.

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Roofing Clients Client Structural Engineering 138

Dwell

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Few homeowners have as clear a vision of how to compose a design brief as Trish and Andrew McKechnie. As creatives who do advertising work in the tech industry, Trish and Andrew McKechnie know the elements of a great project brief. Just ask their architect, David Cunningham.

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Home Design Brief Restoration Design 124

Dwell

MAY 5, 2024

In their design brief, the couple asked for "a house that breathes naturally," with spaces that are naturally ventilated and varied: cold and warm, light and dark, raw and crafted, private and public, playful and serious, strong and delicate.

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Windows Nature Home Finances 110

Dwell

APRIL 9, 2025

Go behind the scenes of how ambitious design briefs became reality. How They Pulled It Off is our ongoing series where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality.

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Design Brief Architecture Inspiration Landscape 92

The Spaces

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Tallinn-based studio b210 designed the holiday home, which is part of the Maidla Nature Resort – a collection of forest cabins set in the wetlands of a 15th-century manor complex. The design brief was to create a space for visitors to ‘contemplate the fragility of the yet natural, wild and free world’ that surrounds the estate.

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Design Brief Exterior Nature Glass 98

Habitus Living

JANUARY 30, 2024

It was imperative in the design brief that the main living areas had to complement the views of the garden and pool while provoking a sense of homeyness and honouring the surrounding environment.

Environment 98

Environment IT Housing Design Brief 98

Deezen

MAY 20, 2023

Cabin House was designed by Taliesyn "Embracing a quiet reflection of modern lifestyle and vernacular nuances, the design was developed from a simple brief of experiencing nature at close quarters," Taliesyn co-director Mahaboob Basha told Dezeen. "It

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Housing Architecture Design Brief Finishes 145

Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The centre by Line+ Studio sits atop a mountain in Shenzhen "The unique site of the station sets the stage for a truly unique atmosphere in the design," the studio said. The design brief emphasized functionality and identity, with the goal of creating a popular spot for citizens that would contribute to the development of the Banshan park."

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Glass Architecture Firm Landscape Design Brief 133

Habitus Living

MARCH 5, 2024

The design brief for Snow House was simple: to design a home that honours the French snow scene and comprises sustainable elements, to maximise the restoration of natural features. In contrast to Bangkok’s dense urban environment, Snow House provides respite from its surrounding context.

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Design Brief Visualization Restoration Residential 96

Habitus Living

MARCH 3, 2024

The design brief evolved throughout the iterative process, through conversation and sketching. Conceived by Kerry Phelan of K.P.D.O Architects, the name of the project is informed by its location, labelled as Toorak House 2.

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Inspiration Sketching Design Brief Residential 105

Dwell

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Our client’s design brief was loose in that they were open to any ‘blue sky’ ideas, as long as the design met the core function of a close knit family home that could accommodate frequent visitors from overseas, intergenerational living, and prolonged periods of vacancy while the clients are traveling.

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Home Design Brief Landscape Regulation 118

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

According to Rettig, key elements of the design brief included recognising Oman's "cultural and architectural heritage", while designing contemporary built forms for the city.

Cities 139

Cities Masterplanning Transportation Technology 139

Dwell

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When the Studio 3H team took on a renovation of a traditional Gambrel-style Hamptons home, the design brief was both clear and complex: to completely transform the existing house inside and out into something much more contemporary.

Home 105

Home Design Brief Renovation Clients 105

Hotel Designs

JULY 12, 2024

Debra Ryan, Design Manager at Modieus explained the design brief; “Woods Bagot drew inspiration from several Indigenous artists. Image credit: Nicole England / courtesy of Woods Bagot Sustainably minded, Woods Bagot deployed an inventive reuse of existing assets, alongside new materials selected for durability and longevity.

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Design Brief Landscape Inspiration Interior 105

Habitus Living

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Cradled in a skyrise apartment in India, the design brief for the Gurgaon Apartment was simple: to create a space devoted to showcasing the client’s illustrious collection of contemporary artworks, within its constraints as a rental. Housing the likes of M.F.

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Modern Art Design Brief Installation 97

Deezen

MAY 10, 2023

The design brief for the theatre project was set by a group of students in 2019, who wanted to create a performance space that blurred the boundary between performers and audience, but the project was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Space Building Students Design 126

ArchiDiaries

AUGUST 6, 2022

Excerpt: Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat is an adaptive reuse hospitality project designed by the architectural firm Neri & Hu. The design brief called for the adaptive reuse of several old buildings by giving them new functions while adding new buildings to accommodate the hotel’s capacity needs.

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Design Brief Design Site Landscape 78

ArchiDiaries

APRIL 6, 2022

Gibert&Tan, who was tasked with designing this new office-slash-warehouse, decided that the only way to address the dichotomic qualities inherent to the design brief (almost irreconcilable in language and character), was to embrace them and specifically in their terms.

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Design Brief Design Commercial Nature 74

Architizer

APRIL 1, 2022

When tasked with designing this new office-slash-warehouse, it was decided that the only way to address the dichotomic qualities inherent to the design brief (almost irreconcilable in language and character), was to embrace them and specifically in their terms. © Gibert&Tan. © Gibert&Tan. © Gibert&Tan.

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Design Brief Nature Glass Client 75

Architonic

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As this list of Architonic’s most popular new commercial spaces shows, the use of environmental materials, sustainable building practices and spaces that integrate themselves and their visitors with the serenity and balance of the natural world around them, are all key features common in contemporary design briefs.

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Commercial Project Design Brief Contemporary 69

Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Under their ownership, all the parameters of the design brief, including almost all the initial design teams for each of the towers and the masterplan were changed," the studio told Dezeen. After negotiations, we remained as designers of the landmark tower which had then become a residential tower.".

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Windows Cities Masterplanning Design Brief 122

Architizer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design? Michael Leckie: The design brief called for a ‘unique and distinctive’ work of architecture. Socially, the ground floor was designed as an extension of the public realm – with a high degree of transparency.

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Students Art Space Design Brief 98

Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2024

An airless pump is concealed in the main container The design brief called for "an innovative and sustainable delivery system" which led Blond to develop an integrated airless pump that is concealed within the main container.

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Design Brief Sustainability Materials Manufacturing 105

Deezen

APRIL 19, 2022

The design brief required collaboration with Mujeres de la Tierra, a local community organisation. Articles of Protection by Taina Campos. Taina Campos worked with corn from the Milpa Alta, a neighbourhood in Mexico City.

Technique 98

Technique Deconstruction Design Design Brief 98

Hotel Designs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As part of the strategic and creative approach to bridging the 18th century manor house with its contemporary extension, lead design agency DesignLSM appointed Northern Lights to develop bespoke lighting across four focal areas – the Orangery, Market Kitchen, Brassey Bar and Theatre.

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Design Brief Renovation Contemporary Development 97

Habitus Living

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“The goal was to create a design that would enhance the ecosystem rather than impose upon it, and that would restore the well-being of our client,” says Kate Symons, director Studio Ilk.

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Clients Client Design Brief Safety 98

Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Hong Kong-based brand JEB was engaged to provide acoustic partitions and furniture solutions that could be adapted to support different styles of learning and encourage student interaction.

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Modern Education Students Environment 98