Channel glass

Client: Daegu Metropolitan CIity Dalseong–gun Office Location: Republic of Korea, Daegu city Project Year: 2014 Authors: S.Oreshkin – Project Manager R.Andreeva – Project Chief Architect P.Kochnev, E.Oreshkina, E.Belyat, E.Kretova, E.Karetina, A.Khramova, N.Palnikova, A.Shetinin - Architects The Compositional solution. General Plan. The town planning contexture of the designed district is mostly formed under the influence of the local area natural landscape. The streets and roads network primarily follows the relief and develops non-regular picturesque structure with numerous random directions. While the complex design was in processing the necessity occur in provision of a particular compositional framework that... More

This new five-thousand-square-foot downtown Palo Alto home captures the opposing energies of Silicon Valley: the precision of technology and the exuberance of nature. Sited on the existing footprint of a 1950s ranch house, in order to preserve the site's spectacular live oaks, the two-story residence translates California's midcentury architectural vocabulary of indoor/outdoor living into a new modernist aesthetic. The transparent living room volume exposes the front and back gardens to full view, both from the street and the interior. Open glass corners connect to the sky and the towering oaks. Private and public realms are thus dissolved to give primacy to nature, which defines the residents' fluid living space and invites the flaneur'... More

The owners of this waterfront home asked DeForest Architects to design a welcoming modern home with a seamless connection between indoors and out, a warm and elegant material palette, and "a view of Mount Rainier at our feet." Squeezed between a narrow private lane and the lake, the main challenge was to create a sense of privacy and retreat while making the most of expansive views. DeForest Architects responded with a main floor that flows from private entry courtyard through the great room and out to a series of waterfront entertaining spaces. Floor-to-ceiling lift-slide doors and hidden steel structure maximize the sense of openness. At the same time, the house is warm and welcoming thanks to a weathered limestone floor, fir ceiling,... More

The new Topfer Theatre at ZACH, the regional theater for Austin and Central Texas, was completed in the fall of 2012. Andersson-Wise Architects designed the building and its surrounding outdoor spaces to define a dramatic, iconic image for ZACH within the context of the city, as well as to create a performing arts campus that engages its strategic site on Lady Bird Lake. The theater’s stage fly loft, with its elegant, vertical proportion, is visible from downtown Austin, whether one is approaching from the Lamar Street Bridge bycar, or from the Pfluger Bridge on foot. A large rain garden-filledwith native planting and bisected by pedestrian paths- forms the foreground of the building, with its transparent lower volume. The towerand gatherin... More

Jashn, a hindi/urdu word for 'celebration' describes the mood of the project. The five story, 30,000 sf. building is designed to house the head-quarters of an established real-estate developer in the city of Chennai. The building will house marketing and executive offices and in essence become the home for the developers' management group Merge Studio was asked to develop a design that would demonstrate the design and construction capabilities of the clients and become the new home that the occupants can be proud of. Nestled in the heart of Chennai and at a corner of narrow tree-lined streets, our studio designed the shimmering 'jewel box' (as we like to call it) and clad it in shades of white transparency. Aware of the challenge of d... More

Located in the heart of a fast-growing biotech community, this facility is comprised of research laboratories, offices, support spaces, and ground-level retail. A design paradigm was developed to reflect the pursuits of the biotech industry and relate to the existing architectural fabric of Cambridge. Contemporary materials from Europe—terra cotta panels and channel glass—form a lively exterior composition of overlapping planes and cubic masses. Respecting the traditional brick architecture of the city yet achieving a lighter tone, the terra cotta’s warmth contrasts with the cool translucence of the channel glass. The surface patterning of the terra cotta rain screen alludes to the nature of the activity taking place inside the bui... More

A Civic Gateway A recently completed Master Plan for the Civic Center in Santa Monica, California designates a new civic gateway at Fourth Street and the new Olympic Drive to the new district that includes the renovated historic City Hall and Courthouse, and the new Public Safety Building. Intended as an integral part that completes a quadrant of civic buildings, the 300,000 square feet Civic Center Parking Structure provides 900 parking spaces on six levels above grade and two below grade while visually uniting the tableau of diverse buildings. The design team was additionally challenged to create a building that exemplified the city's commitment to sustainable design while strengthening the urban fabric and providing public amenities.... More

HASSELL was invited to participate in a competition for the Advanced Manufacturing Centre (AMC), a new landmark building at the Hawthorn Campus of Swinburne University in Melbourne. The competition entry reflected Swinburne's developments in the fields of research, innovation and technical excellence. To allow for maximum flexibility and accessibility, the design placed the factory spaces in the centre of the building, surrounded by a flexible program layout. This concept of a factory 'heart' generates a high level of possible interaction between the learning and office space, promoting maximum integration and opportunity. Translucency and natural light were also major components of the design. Various types of channel glass and their diffe... More

Perched on the edge of the Scarborough Bluffs, the dramatic views afforded by this site encompass lake and sky through the tall trunks of mature trees. The foundations of the owner’s childhood home have been reused to create a new residence that celebrates this spectacular location. This allowed us to leave the trees, some of which are growing very close to the house, untouched. Viewed from the street, the house is a simple stucco box distinguished by a screen of vertical channel glass that provides privacy while allowing diffuse natural light into the stair, guest bathroom and master bathroom. At night it glows like an oversized lantern. Ontario Algonquin limestone wraps from the front wall around to the recessed entrance and then... More

Fort York, considered the birthplace of Toronto, is a National Historic Site. It represents the single most important visual and contextual cultural heritage link to British military and social history remaining in the City of Toronto. In 2009 Patkau Architects, together with Kearns Mancini Architects, won the international design competition to design a new Visitor Centre on the 18 hectare historic site to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812.  The site, once on the shores of Lake Ontario at Garrison Creek, but now isolated from the lake shore due to the expansion of the city, has an immensely rich archaeological past. To the north is Garrison Common, the site of the Battle of York in 1813 and a potentially rich source... More