conceived as a continuous and integrated environment, the design is set back from the plot’s edge, creating a large entrance plaza that serves as a public place for congregation. in addition, the socially inclusive scheme also includes a library, theater and a variety of recreational areas. the design is characterized by a cantilever that soars dramatically over the ...
Called ‘meet & eat’, the facility will bring together a public conference center, an employee restaurant, and a showroom on the adidas group headquarters – known as ‘world of sports’ – in the german city of herzogenaurach. the envisioned structure takes a diamond shape in plan, and features a distinctive roof of vertical concrete fins enclosed with glass. with an init...
The enclosing surfaces operate in relation to the ground floor fuel cafe of the brand’s Czech Republic headquarters. the entities are separated by a glass wall, which simultaneously prevents physical contact, but develops a visual dialogue. this relationship is enhanced by two openings that are the main conceptual elements of artistic intention. As the company plans t...
The spectacular entrance space and five storey enclosed Atrium sits within the former Patent Office building. The dynamic and flexible interior incorporates a private meeting space, singular workstations, co-working desks and relaxed lounging areas, all elegantly fitted into a modest floorplate. The brief was to push the existing boundaries of coworking spaces at this l...
Nevertheless the artist wished to create a place that could be luminous, cosy and opened to the surrounding landscape. He wanted a place dedicated to his interests, art, drawing and engraving. To find the way to to meet his expectations, he asked architects Gwendal Hervé and Monique Bastos to conceive an artist studio inside an old barn from the XVIIth century, attach...
Integrated in a symbolical building from the sixties in the city of Porto, a former house for the cinema Lumiére, the space is defined by a rhythmical facade of windows, which covers all the length of the building. The architectural intervention is based on a continuous flexible system of sliding garage doors that create multiple spatial partitions, able to (re) orga...
Gardens on the terraced roofs of this brick office building in northern India were designed by SPA Design to reference an ancient Indian well and the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon . The headquarters for clothing sourcing company Triburg was designed by Indian firm SPA Design for a site in an industrial park in Gurgaon, just outside New Delhi. The layered arran...
“The idea to use glasses as the central expressive feature of this space was not born at once,” said designer Maria Yasko. “We considered stars and apples, which are central to the company’s signature style.” “The first agency was established in Chicago in 1935, and we have aspired for some style reference to that period. When we brought glasses scaled up several time...
The large complex, built in the 1970s, currently comprises a shopping center, offices, a public library, a hotel and an underground car park, all of which will be retrofitted so as to reintroduce the human scale to an environment largely characterized by wide boulevards and monolithic structures. in addition to the new façade, the accessibility and programmatic ident...
within the 865 m² of allied group’s workplace in tel aviv, paritzki & liani architects has developed a project called ‘I-office’. the main concept was to create the prototype of a furniture system that could withstand the load of existing slabs. thus, the designers needed to incorporate units to transfer the force to contiguous structural compression members and allow wi...
The original dance pavilion Valencia was built in 1861 and designed by H.S. Stilling and is a building with a long history in the Copenhagen entertainments. It has witnessed the rapid growth of the neighborhood as the Copenhagen Ramparts were released in late 1800, and has at first-hand felt the city's explosive growth as the detached dance pavilion in 1889 , was enclose...
It was destined first for housing use but later in time it hosted different businesses from a bakery to a brothel. All that experience is what gives to the building its essence and makes the space unique. The building acquires its personality and character as a real person, with all those experiences, in a practical way which results in a singular place with its own sca...
This square building with a hollow centre appears to balance over a cluster of hills, creating offices and a central plaza for a business incubator unit in a rural Portuguese technology park . Located close to the historic town of Óbidos in a rural region north of Lisbon, the facility for the Óbidos Technological Park was designed by Carcavelos-based architect Jorge Mea...
The new headquarters for China Central Television, OMA’s largest project to date, combines the entire process of TV-making – administration, production, broadcasting – into a single loop of interconnected activity. Rising from a common platform accommodating production facilities, two towers – one dedicated to broadcasting, one to services, research, and education – lean...
Here, we performed various designs based on the clear plan composition having the element of excursion / flexibility, the lighting plan with rationality / diversity, and the operation of the light which changes every moment. That is because I wished to find out rich space composition which is equal also to a city, and its complexity in the interior space of the limited s...
Thanks to the special facade system, which consists of alternating reflective steel panels and glass panels, the building seems to dematerialize, blending with the surrounding environment. The reflective steel panels are characterized by different depths depending on their position, assuring always different visual effects depending on the side from which the building is...
The project, which will form the headquarters of the antwerp port authority (APA) combines a new beam-shaped structure with a former fire station, a listed building which is being fully restored as part of the development strategically located between the city center and the famous harbor, the scheme will provide its occupants with expansive views of antwerp from behi...
Framed by the buildings, an urban park was established between the main building and the annex. The new building’s design does not repeat, but instead varies the design language of the neighbouring IBM building, where stone and glass were used as materials. The window formats of the new building are identical in their proportion to the ones on the standard floors of t...
The former brewery, together with its surrounding facilities, was in 2009 bought by up from Index Estate by Octapharma and the company has since strived to improve logistics on site. The brewery, first built in the early 1890s, peaked during a 15 year period but soon faced economic difficulties and bankruptcy. The building has since been used in various ways, slowly f...
Located at the Adidas Group's World of Sports Campus in Herzogenaurach, Germany, the building – named Adidas Meet & Eat – is part of a masterplan to transform the sports brand's headquarters into a visitor attraction. COBE designed the 11,000-square-metre building to include a public conference centre, a restaurant for employees and a showroom. Tree-filled winter g...
Known as The Bridge, the multi-level structure slots into a double-height space, uniting the two main office floors of the building that houses the headquarters for Bathroom Brands and fellow bathroom company Crosswater. "Conceived as a continuous folded surface, the 'bridge' is constructed from pre-fabricated cross-laminated timber," said Jack Hosea of Threefold Ar...
Aberrant Architecture worked with students from Canterbury School of Architecture to design an installation named Despite Efficiency for the university's Herbert Read Gallery. Conceived as a "celebration of time wasting at work", the installation mimicked an open-plan office with an unnaturally low ceiling of styrofoam tiles held in a metal grid, supported by thin whi...
In 2008, Galveston Fire and Rescue #4 was demolished after the effects of Hurricane Ike devastated the building and much of the island. Like many buildings on the island, it became part of the landfill. The increased number of storm occurrences in the Gulf of Mexico demands an architectural solution for emergency facilities that can survive such an event. The design ...
Top Towers: Formal complexity and constructive simplicity This project in São Paulo, Brazil, demanded the design of two office towers in a terrain of relatively difficult occupation, because of its narrow and elongated shape. Its location, however, is extremely privileged, situated in the confluence of some of the city’s most important avenues, Paulista Ave., Vergueiro A...
The old Vuurmolen was build at the beginning of 20th century as an industrial mill, considered as one of the oldest industrial building built entirely in concrete. A2D Architects restored the building and expanded it to a municipal administrative center in 2005. The architect aimed to reach a sustainable building with a maximum respect for the existing style of the build...
kinematix, an IT company whose office specializes in developing technology for healthcare and fitness products, required a working space that would be adaptable for multi-use scenarios. whether the team at the porto headquarters want to work or play, LIKEarchitects has conceived an architectural system to accommodate both. the porto-based architecture studio has conce...
the central feature of the design is an area of glass flooring, which provides a spatial connection between the scheme’s two levels. in addition, the transparency serves as a reminder of the building’s age, by exposing its timber construction. while the studio has been completely modernized, the restoration seeks to both retain and display the previous character of the ...
The twisting 67m-tall glass tower becomes an easily recognizable, almost sculptural form that will house the headquarters for many major corporations. the building form allows for a considerable energy efficiency, opening the north and south facades for solar gain while the east and west facades contain a string of suspended gardens and atria that filter the direct light...
titled ‘neutrabuilding’, the project did away with the existing single-storey façade to make way for a predominantly glass envelope. outboard of this, a thick shell of precast concrete panels wraps the façades to provide protection from excessive thermal gain. this robust veil is patterned with hexagonal openings, which allow for views from the interior spaces while crea...
Special attention was given to insolation to sunlight and eyesight on the east and west elevations, both of which are front facades. For insolation, aluminum mesh is fitted to the ALC outer wall just like rattan blinds to block the sunlight most effectively. The aluminum boards are made to be only 2mm thick not to burden the structure, with their curves allowing for ...
Standard rectangular plots 25x30 meters were given to sponsors of the Games in the Olympic park. One of the main requirements of the Olympic Committee was to locate a single volume on the site. But the clients wanted to create a public space where visitors could meet between competitions. So architects decided to rethink the proposed layout of a single building in the...
A CONCRETE MONOLITH Much is demanded of today’s office buildings, especially if they are to house many disciplines under one roof, as is the case here: In addition to the office for architecture and interior design, this building houses a firm that develops mono-brand concepts as well as an agency for communications, corporate design and visual merchandising. As the set...
The new RRA Studio is located in a renovated 19th century villa in Josefines gate 7, near Bislett in Oslo. The house was designed by the prominent Norwegian architect Georg A. Bull and has previously housed an embassy and a children’s theatre. The office has been renovated to modern standards while retaining and displaying the character of building. A glass floor between...
A LANDMARK FOR AHMEDABAD Two characteristics, which Mondeal Square satisfied already soon after its opening. Located in Ahmedabad's burgeoning suburb Prahladnagar on the S.G. Highway, the ensemble offers a total floor space of 17,000 square metres, of which 3,600 comprise commercial space, as well as ten storeys for office usage. During the day, the striking structure ...
