in addition to the ‘nouveau chai’, a large new winery, the project includes a new vinothèque and the refurbishment of the site’s existing buildings, including the historic orangery. extending from the eastern wing of the early 19th century complex, the nouveau chai is a new building for the production of both red and white wine. the highly flexible, open enclosure is sh...
The entire compound is under one roof and comprised of conventional storage, areas of production and a 600-person dormitory and the resulting construction aims to bring together the production, brand building and employee well-being. internally, the architectural strategy involves taking into consideration of how the company’s products, their staff and visitors navigate ...
The town of Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania was home to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which churned out steel for buildings, ships, and weapons for close to 150 years. The company went bankrupt in 2001 after decades of decline, selling its six plants two years later. This move led to construction of a casino and SteelStacks, an arts and entertainment district overlo...
With only three months to design and build, 120 volunteers for a construction crew, and less than $60,000, NUA Arquitectures recently completed ‘SDA Campclar,’ a center for food distribution in Tarragona, Spain. The project is a remarkable labor of love, proving that extreme limitations can ultimately be harnessed as fuel for creative strategies and positive community en...
We are proud to announce the first installation of an ALFA 85 XL unit on the rooftop of a Heath Centre in Hellevoetsluis NL, it was installed to operate with a VRF system that handles the cooling side of things. As part of a larger renovation of the building, the ALFA 85 XL is operating at 10,000 m3/h and yet so quiet you can hear a pin drop..
Pardubice city has a brand new Airport terminal. The terminal bears the name of the first Czech pilot Jan Kašpar, a famous native of Pardubice. 2VV is also a Pardubice “native” and we are therefore proud to see that the new airport terminals are equipped with 2VV Air Curtains. Right when you enter the new terminal entrance, you will be met by high-performance FINESSE Ai...
Due to the economic price of land and the good transport connections to the conurbation around Linz a number of industries and businesses of considerable size have settled here, the way they are positioned in a setting that is still largely dominated by agriculture does not immediately suggest the strong influence of a spatial planning authority. Wherever people work ...
“At Wilkhahn, no two bricks will be placed on top of one another unless we are sure that a building is created giving equal consideration to ecological, economic, aesthetic and human aspects” The furniture manufacturer Wilkhahn is one of those quality, family-run German companies like Braun and Thonet that seized the moment in post-war Germany to strike out on an en...
Once a logistics warehouse shifting goods from trains to trucks in an industrial no-mans-land, the 600 metre long Entrepôt Macdonald has been renovated into a piece of city, helping bridge the gap between the infamously isolated banlieues of the Parisian periphery and the city centre. Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli look at the transformation of the longest buildi...
american/german architectural practice barkow leibinger has completed the ‘smart factory’ near chicago. the presentation and sales, center for the german machine tool and laser manufacturer TRUMPF, turns high-tech machines and production processes into exhibition-like showpieces. while the concepts of factory and exhibition space are ordinarily separated, the architects ...
global architecture and engineering firm HDR has proposed a design for the world’s largest data center to be built in ballangen, norway — 225 kilometers (140 miles) north of the arctic circle. in developing the ‘kolos data center’, the architects took cues from its setting, a fjord surrounded by mountains and glaciers. organized along a central spine, the building’s form...
Tchoban Voss Architekten designed a high performance test centre for large scale bearings in Schweinfurt, Germany. Two volumes of different height, positioned parallel to each other are the basis of the new construction. They celebrate the wind and the energy by their striking inclination. This dynamic form illustrates the power, which the test centres develop while test...
The Trucks Maintenance Centre is an antenna of the Ile et Vilaine departmental equipment park (Britany, France). The project proposes to create a dialogue between the new building and the landscape bocage. The technical aspect of the program is accentuated by a great rationality into the organisation of its functions. This rationality allowed a one way traffic system, sy...
The Kunming Rubber Factory occupies a hectare site area in the central Xishan District of Kunming, the capital city of the south-western Chinese province of Yunnan. The factory was founded in 1956, at a time when the city’s modern light industry was flourishing and it continued to expand reaching its peak economic output in the 1980’s and counted 2000 employees. However...
in terms of spatial experience, MOD was commissioned by PBA systems to shape the RACE robotics laboratory as a flexible unit where interchangeable modular robots can be featured and a series of training and lectures can be hosted. as a result, the facility carefully alters between a continuous open platform and a series of smaller clusters where training can take place. ...
Paul de Ruiter Architects designed the giant green-roofed facility in Maasdijk, where it serves as one of the largest Dutch importers of exotic fruits and vegetables. As a recipient of a BREEAM Excellent certificate, Nature’s Pride is also one of the top five most sustainable distribution centers in Western Europe.The design of the 37,000-square-meter Nature’s Pride fac...
Lake Chad in Africa spanned over 770,000 square miles in 50,000 B.C., according to Cameroon-based architecture firm Hermann Kamte & Associates (HKA). But over the centuries it has shrunk, dwindling to a mere 1,544 square miles in 2001. HKA hopes to use architecture to jumpstart regeneration of the dying lake in the form of a desalination and research center called The Fo...
Buffalo’s grain elevators have long been emblematic of the area but now could stand for a new era of innovation — both in brewing and architectural restoration. Once part of the Wheeler-GLF grain elevator, the old silos now house the Buffalo RiverWorks brewery. RiverWorks employees transformed the silos into a brewery with the help of local architecture firm Abstract Ar...
The soaring structure consists of alternating layers of industry and nature that support each other to create a sustainable urban environment.The forward-thinking design recently came in second place in the 2017 Evolo Skyscraper Competition. The multi-layered complexes would actively contribute to the environment of megacities, emitting zero CO2 emissions, improving loca...
Freedomes is known for their inexpensive DIY backyard dome kits. But you may not know they also created the domed habitat astronaut Mark Watney survives in for The Martian’s set design. Freedomes’ brand F.Domes created smaller versions of that big screen dome suitable as part of their glamping line, and set them up at SunCity Camp in Wadi Rum, allowing visitors to get ab...
in addition to providing increased floor area, the building also organizes the surrounding plaza, allowing film screenings, fashion shows, and concerts — programmatic opportunities familiar to OMA. the elevated volume also transforms the site’s existing ramp into a large space for theatrical events, while the covered area below can be used for more intimate functions. i...
As one of the world’s leading institutions in cosmology and space science, Durham University commissioned the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics to cement the university’s leading global position with larger research facilities and to set a benchmark for sustainability on campus. The 2,478-square-meter building includes eighty new offices for researchers, students, sta...
The first among them, the Schneider Electric office designed by Aevitas Group is a star-shaped structure optimized for a superior energy performance, targeting a LEED Gold certification. Located on a five-sided site, the building assumes a star-shaped form. It was designed as a perimeter building with a central, enclosed, quadruple-volume atrium flooded with natural l...
in the summer of 2015, berlin’s neue nationalgalerie closed to the public to prepare for a comprehensive refurbishment. famously designed by mies van der rohe, the museum was completed in 1968 and has since established itself as an icon of modern architecture. in 2012, david chipperfield’s berlin office was appointed to renovate the building for the first time in its his...
Situated next to a road that winds its way north from the Douro River towards the city of Vila Real, the building designed by local architect Belém Lima is incorporated into winemaker Alves de Sousa's Quinta da Gaivosa estate. Its position on the valley's western slope close to the estate's entrance was chosen to avoid disturbing the adjacent vineyards and to provide ex...
Located approximately six miles from the coastline, near the city of Santiago do Cacém, the 23-hectare Herdade do Cebolal wine estate has been in operation for over 100 years. But the original property had become outdated, so architects Miguel and João Ribeiro de Carvalho were commissioned to replace it with a more modern facility. The architects used the "rudimen...
The Datacube was designed by local studio FFBK Architects for communications and entertainment firm Quickline and is situated in the Münchenstein district to the south of the Swiss city. The three-storey building houses servers and data storage devices for corporate IT and cloud computing applications. According to the architects, it is the "most advanced data storage...
the construction is divided into two parts: the château-like visiting area located on the vineyard, and the winery that has been built into a hill resembling a work of land art, covering a surface area of 45,000sqm. traditional aspects on how wine should be made, aged and stored were taken into consideration when designing this contemporary space. located at the edge...
HDE 17 is a business park for startups in the agri-food sector in La Rochelle. It is the second of its kind in France. It is situated in an industrial area, near the seaport. The surrounding landscape is like any typical industrial zone, comprised of old and new big steel boxes without identity or quality. For the HDE 17 building, the client wanted a high level proces...
The job required durable storage capable of providing years of service, and visually appealing aesthetic for the window-heavy design of the warehouse. More specifically, Quinn needed 204 cabinets, 140 bin shelving units, 72 pallet racks, 12 cantilever racks, and 1 conveyor and carton flow system for the 18 shelves of each pallet rack. The CAT dealership ultimately pu...
The forward-looking construction project was completed by renowned Basel architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and the company Lehm Ton Erde Baukunst GmbH. Following 16 months of construction, the new Ricola Kräuterzentrum, which is directly adjacent to the production facility in Laufen, entered into operation at the beginning of May 2014. The center will clean, dry, c...
In addition to a large new winery, the Nouveau Chai, the project includes a new Vinothèque, and the refurbishment of existing buildings and the historic Orangery – together, these provide state of the art facilities to support this leading wine producer in its continued quest for excellence. The Nouveau Chai is a new building for the production of both red and white w...
Functionality was given a higher priority than aesthetic values in the new development of this logistics distribution centre for Hillfresh, an FVW (fruit, vegetables, waste) company. The construction company, Bouwonderneming Stout, faced the challenging task of combining a well-organised layout with a focus on climate control. The firm Cladding Partners was contracted to...
The facility supports a 2,000-acre property utilized for agriculture, recreation, wildlife habitat and conservation purposes. The facility program includes: enclosed storage for farm vehicles & implements, covered (roofed) hay & equipment storage, grain storage, insulated work area & tool storage, farm manager’s office, kitchenette, shower area, recycling area, and vehic...
When Aimer first approached Crossboundaries in 2004, it requested a factory compound of 14000 sqm gross floor area that could house conventional storage, manufacturing, and a 300-people dormitory by individual functions. However, as Aimer grew rapidly in China, the leadership quickly foresaw the importance to upgrade its operation shifting from a production-focused busin...
The Power Station is located on a natural harbor in the Bay of Baku, which used to serve as a small shipyard for the ships working for the oil platforms. The Power Station was built by Siemens around 1900s and has lost its function as a power station but the building, with its beautiful stone construction, stands out from all the other surrounding buildings and has a un...
