News about our Dezeen Awards China programme, including entry deadlines and announcements. Plus occasional updates. Harris-Brandts: In the course of working on other projects, we came to drive by some of these mosques and realised that there was very little documentation of them. It was a precarious moment for their documentation since we noticed that while some were physically deteriorating, others were being rapidly renovated or re-decorated in a manner that was not in keeping with their original designs. In both cases, the mosques were losing some of their original character. So we teamed up and decided to start documenting them in their present conditions. Why do you call your project Indigenous Outsiders?

Our team brought to life the idea of ​​creating a complex that reflects the national spirit of Georgia and the originality: the national flag of Georgia became the cause of the red roofs of buildings, as well as the shape of the hotel’s roof. This project of a Hotel Complex has been successfully implemented in the famous ski resort of Bakuriani in Georgia. For sure, it’s the best variant to stay for a weekend with family or just to have a peaceful rest outside the city. Harris-Brandts: Very few mosques are abandoned in Adjara, because most are maintained by their communities, using the humble means available to them. There are a few abandoned structures; some that accidentally suffered fires during Soviet times when they would often be used to store hay and fertilizers, and others that have now been replaced with larger, nearby mosque facilities. In the case of the latter, the old mosques are often converted into madrasas or other community facilities and therefore remain in use. There has been some support by the Cultural Heritage Preservation Agency of Adjara for renovating them, and to provide some expertise and funding. Mosque in Purtio. The Caucasian nation might be predominantly Christian Orthodox, but it also harbours a valuable, often forgotten, Muslim heritage. The architecture and photography project “Indigenous Outsiders” carried by Suzanne Harris-Brandts, Angela Wheeler and Vladimer Shioshvili aims to let people discover the old wooden mosques of the Adjara province and raise awareness about their preservation.Nowadays, hotel business is actively developing. Those who promote it are interested in the hotels from wood. This material has one important quality - environmental friendliness, safety for human health and the environment. Wood has low thermal conductivity, so even in the bitter cold it’s always warm inside a wooden house. |Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego have captured the architecture and monuments of post-war Soviet Georgia in their latest photography collection. More Katie de Klee News from Dezeen Events Guide, a listings guide covering the leading design-related events taking place around the world. Plus occasional updates. Dezeen Awards China

|Tbilisi designer Max Machaidze has created a range of jewellery made up of found objects including pom-poms, skateboard wheels and industrial ceramics from Soviet-era machinery. More Marcus Fairs Harris-Brandts: There were particular components of different ones that I found to be really captivating. The interior of Dghvani is absolutely stunning, but I also really liked the mosque in Chao , which is quite small and on three levels. You enter through the basement and it has really great pastel colors. The walls are made from pine. May be variants from cedar or larch. The project involves the construction of 13 houses on the project "Till", as well as the central building - administrative complex with separate hotel rooms. The main feature of these buildings is windows, which allow guests to admire the scenery from the comfort rooms. The walls of houses are made from glued laminated timber (if you want the wall material can be replaced by dried profiled timber or round logs).During Georgia Biomass’ design phase, the ANDRITZ hammer mill and pellet mill were identified as the best equipment for meeting the extreme production needs Georgia Biomass would face and from the wood yard to pellet production, ANDRITZ technology can be found throughout the plant. One of the challenges with locating many of the mosques is that the communities can dismantle them and move them,” says Shioshvili. they combine traditional craftsmanship with modern technology. Sustainably sourced, our wooden windows are also perfect for conservation areas and listed buildings. News about our Dezeen Awards programme, including entry deadlines and announcements. Plus occasional updates. Dezeen Events Guide

Sash windows georgian are a wonderful way to maintain the character of your home. Precision-crafted,

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|Hotelier Valeri Chekheria explains how his team transformed the headquarters of a Soviet printing press in Tbilisi into the Stamba Hotel in this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD hospitality awards. More Calum Lindsay Shioshvili: They are all really photogenic, I particularly like the ones that are painted inside and that they all have their own style. We think that in some cases the painting is more recent. We’ve also seen a couple where there’s absolutely no painting. We don’t know exactly how old the paintings are since the walls could have been repainted numerous times. Details of the minbar in Gegelidzeebi mosque. Minbar in Zundaga mosque. The company’s product, made from Southern Yellow Pine, is exported to several European countries currently attempting to reduce their use of fossil fuels by utilizing renewable energy sources such as solar power, wind power, and sustainable wood pellets.

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The total number of rooms: 24. The area of the ground floor is 454 sq.m. There’s a large guest room, dining room, bar, billiards, fireplace. First floor - 212 sq.m. and 242 sq.m. of terraces: eight standard double rooms. Second floor - 212 sq.m. + 89 sq.m. of balconies: eight standard double rooms. On the fourth floor - 212 sq.m. + 89 sq.m. of terraces: also eight standard double rooms.