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Project • By Zaha Hadid Architects • Car Parks
Hoenheim-Nord Terminus and Car Park
During the 1990s the City of Strasbourg, France created a new tram network to encourage people to leave their cars outside the city in specially designed car parks and complete their journey into the centre by public transport. Two tram lines were completed – Line A, running east to west and Line B running north to south.
Artists were invited to create specific installations at key points. Zaha Hadid Architects were invited to design the tram station terminus and a car park for 800 cars at the northern apex of Line B.
Our concept for terminus and car park was based on the notion of overlapping fields and lines, which knit together to form a constantly shifting whole – each field echoing the movement of cars, trams, bicycles and pedest... More
Project • By Zaha Hadid Architects • Museums
Glasgow Riverside Museum
The Riverside Museum is derived from its context. The historic development of the Clyde and the city of Glasgow is a unique legacy. Located where the Kelvin joins the Clyde, the museum’s design flows from the city to the river; symbolizing a dynamic relationship where the museum is the voice of both, connecting the city to the river and also the transition from one to the other. The museum is situated in very context of its origins, with its design actively encouraging connectivity between the exhibits and the wider environment.
The building, open at opposite ends, has a tunnel-like configuration between the city and the Clyde. However, within this connection between the city and river, the building diverts to create a journey away from... More
Project • By 24H Architecture • Apartments
Reet barn
Recently 24H-architecture designed a new 'farmhouse-like structure' in the northern part of the Netherlands. At the square base of the building, a wooden roof was build that is tilled towards the prevailing south-western wind blowing over the open polders. With big overhangs the roof protects the structure from wind and rain as well as creates covered areas. The covering of the roof is being constructed of locally won reet. Its waiving pattern reflects the wind, like it makes waves in the water. More
Project • By Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects • Cities
Maritime Centre Vellamo
Vellamo: Beacon of the Cityscape
Kotka’s Maritime Centre Vellamo fulfils a visual as well as a strategical function within the cityscape. The figure of the Maritime Centre guides travellers from the heart of the city out to the north-eastern end of the City Terminal and into a harbour of culture. The Maritime Centre is the hallmark of the city’s cultural profile. The role of an individual building in determining the direction of a city’s overall architectural development is nowadays recognised as a model for city planning. The Maritime Centre is a notable addition to landmarks associated with Kotka both nationally and internationally.
Vellamo: Cornerstone of the Culture Harbour
The Old Harbour, or City Terminal, will soon be transforme... More
Project • By Overtreders W • Pavilions
The roof that goes up in smoke
The pavilion, a meeting place for sharing food and stories, was called “Het dak dat opgaat in rook” (the roof that goes up in smoke). It consists of two large picnic tables, a floating roof that provides shelter for the tables and a wood stove. The roof is blown up and lifted with hot air. The wood stove heating up the air is also the centre piece of the pavilion, to be used for making hot chocolate, roast chestnuts, pumpkin soup or jacket potatoes. The pavilion sits up to 40 people, and lights their picnic in the dark autumn night.
The pavilion was designed for Allerzielen.nu, an event inspired by the concept Allerzielen Alom from the artist Ida van der Lee. It was installed in three different locations in the south of Holland: at a gr... More
Project • By SCHULITZ Architekten • Concert Halls
Glass Roof
The design of the new Porschestraße was aimed at giving continuity and calm to the fragmented appea-rance that had resulted from disparate, obliquely angled buildings inserted along it. Our design is part of this focus on continuity. A glazed roof level is carried by upward soaring steel ‘tree columns’. These ‘tree columns’ continue the rows of trees on the street, yet through the change from natural to artificial trees set a special accent.
The construction of the glass plane is based on current innovations in building with safety laminated glass. Discoveries in the area of shaping and forming these glasses offer new geometric possibilities, making it possible to cold form panes of identical size in such a way that no triangular shaped... More
Project • By Philippe SAMYN and PARTNERS, architects & engineers • Train stations
Leuven Train Station
1. Introduction.
The project for the covering of the railway station in Leuven (Belgium) is part of a global project for the renovation of the existing station and its surroundings.
As prologue, a master plan was elaborated to reduce
the surface intake of the railway infrastructure, leading, after the completion of the new railway scheme, into the urbanisation of the land formerly occupied by the tracks.
The global project was developed within the guidelines of the Spatial Structure Plan of Flanders (Northern part of Belgium), a regional plan which defines the Leuven station as a first category station in the Flemish railway network.
The importance of the existing station building within the redevelopment of the neighbourhood was... More
Project • By Mario Cucinella Architects • Offices
Nuovo Sede Comune di Bologna
Bologna City Council commissioned a new 33,000 m2 office building to house their Municipal head offices. They needed to bring together 1,000 employees currently scattered in 21 locations throughout the city.
The new building is situated behind the central train station in the Bolognina district on the site of the former fruit and vegetable wholesale market. The project seeks to upgrade the area and re-connect it to the city centre.
The design concept is to break a single mass into three distinct blocks destined for different activities. The three blocks of different heights are unified by a folding shading roof, a four storey atrium entrance and a new sloping public space.
The shading roof serves the dual purpose of providing solar prote... More
Project • By SADAR+VUGA • Shopping Centres
Sports Park Stozice
SPORTS PARK STOŽICE
Sports Park Stožice is a hybrid project. Its realisation is the result of the public-private partnership between the city of Ljubljana and Grep development company. The 187,500sqm Sports Park Stožice combines a football stadium and a multi-purpose sports hall with a large shopping centre, which is covered by a recreational park landscape. The two storeys of the shopping centre and the indoor car park occupy the 12-metre deep disused gravel pit. The park covering the roof of the shopping centre links the landscape by the river Sava across the northern section of the outer road ring with the green urban space in the city centre. The newly-built structure is integrated into the space so as to retain and emphasise the horiz... More
Project • By MVRDV • Supermarkets
Market Hall
The Market Hall is a sustainable combination of food, leisure, living and parking, fully integrated to celebrate and enhance the synergetic possibilities of the different functions. A secure, covered square emerges beneath an arc, conceived as an inversion of a typical market square and its surrounding buildings. During the day it serves as central market hall, after hours the hall becomes an enormous, covered, well lit public space.
New laws in the Netherlands require covered areas for traditional open air meat and fish markets due to new hygienic constraints. MVRDV posed the questions 'can we use this operation to evolve the market typology as well as densify the the city centre?' and 'Can we increase quality as well as density of prog... More
Project • By Renzo Piano Building Workshop • Laboratories
California Academy of Sciences
Introduction
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is one of the few Natural Science Institutes where the public experience is directly related to in house scientific research, done in the same building, since its foundation.
The primary goal of building a new Academy was to provide a safe, modern facility for Exhibition, Education, Conservation and Research under one roof.
The new building will become one of the world's most innovative and prestigious scientific and cultural institutions.
The new Academy is designed on the same site of the previous facility in Golden Gate Park. This project required the demolition of most of the 11 existing buildings, built between 1916 and 1976.
Sustainable Design
The mission... More
Project • By AMP Arquitectos S.L. • Exhibition Centres
Magma Arte & Congresos Tenerife Sur
The Adeje Coast Convention Centre on Tenerife has to coexist with a difficult environment due to the proximity of the South Tenerife motorway. The only reference points in the surrounding area are the rocky, semi-desert landscape and the sea, its imposing presence framing the building with a constant vision of La Gomera Island in the background.
Our response to this situation arises from an appreciation of the landscape, which we extend with emerging geometric rocks that house the programme functions. These fault lines are arranged to encourage the flow of the roof, which we imagine as a liquid in movement that outlines the space in every direction. The liquid splits and multiplies, producing cracks of light and ventilation that intensif... More
Project • By SeARCH • Embassies
Ambassade
The compound of the Dutch Embassy consists of a seven-hectare wooded site that slopes steeply towards the city. The design task was to accommodate a chancellery, an ambassador’s residence, a deputy ambassador’s house, three staff houses, a small school and a plant room, while retaining and enhancing the quality of the site’s landscape.
The strict horizontal volume of the main building cuts into the hill with the sloping terrain naturally dividing the building into two programmatic units: the ambassador’s residence and the chancellery. Its roof is constructed as a shallow pool, an element that combines the Dutch tradition in water management and landscape technology, with the natural craggy countryside of Ethiopia. Living and working und... More