City landmark

Located in the Central Business District of Gaozhou in Maoming, Guangdong Province, the project is planned to be a high-rise city landmark with a height of 150m. The site is next to the largest shopping mall in the local area, and given the fact that this project is the final development phrase of the plot, all other volumes have been completed and put into use from the very beginning of intervention. SPDG was commissioned to redesign the façade, circulations, and interiors of the 2/3 built tower in 10 months. SPDG This is a project of atypical urban regeneration, as it is facing a ‘renovation’ object that has not yet been entirely completed but has been formed as a whole. A thorough study of major urban issues in t... Meer

The Baiyun Window is located in the core business district of Baiyun New City, Guangzhou, with a height of 130m and a total construction area of 110,000㎡.  In combination with the regional environment, the overall layout is meant to being open to the city. City squares and commercial blocks were designed for the public, with a three-story staircase on the northeast side of the entrance, the sense of ceremony is emphasised. While Tower A mainly for retails, catering, conference centres and other office supporting services, Tower B serves as a residential zone, facing the best view of the Baiyun Mountains. The twin towers are connected by a platform on 25F, of which the hollow volume subverts the closed logic of office buildings that ce... Meer

Designed by SPDG, The Landmark is a residential project catering to distinctive accommodation demands for the select-few. With its 198-metre height, the tower consists of a 52-storey tower and a three-storey podium with a basement, delivering limited 99 units of high-end residence. SPDG Situated in ‘The City of Rice Plant’, the tower pays homage to Guangzhou city with the spiral rise of vegetation. This unforgettable visual language is extended from the existing city fabric, where The Landmark responds to the skyline Canton Tower and Pearl River system. Wrapped by a glass-aluminium curtain-wall system, the tower is constructed with triple-glazed glasses arranged in an irregular pattern, which forms the fluidity of architec... Meer

The intervention area, close to a S.I.C. area (Site of Community Interest), stands out on the skyline of the Aeolian Islands, at the center of a mythological-landscape context of notable cultural relevance. The particular constraints and landscape conditions, combined with the foresight of a client that we can define as enlightened, have allowed the design experimentation to be expanded in an unusual way to external and internal spaces, in an integral and integrated logic, almost mindful of the late modernist lesson " from the spoon to the city” by Ernesto Nathan Rogers. Caption Caption In the face of a local construction tradition, defined by ancient residences that characterize the surrounding agricultural landscape with... Meer

The new library sits on a city-owned 2½ acre property, east of Market Street on Mission Inn Avenue, within walking distance of the Mission Inn and the city’s cultural and business district. The two-floor library volume sits 36 feet in the air on massive concrete piers, creating an 8,900-square-foot shaded outdoor public plaza as the entrance to the phase two paseo.  The new covered plaza will host evening performances, weekly farmers markets, book fairs and other community events.   A new City Archive, Community Room, and Friends of the Library Bookstore are at street level at the perimeter of the plaza. Caption The elevated library provides views of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains to the north. &nb... Meer

two rivers come a long way to become one. a point that is not only where history is remembered with respect but also the future is dramatically envisioned.a magical line is coiling up to the sky to illuminate the night smoothly, emulating the flow of the water with a glowing breeze sweeping a mesmerizing mist of light.   for the remembrance and the legacy of the San Jose light tower, that illuminated the city for two centuries up to just before the city becomes a leader of global digitalization and technology, pOInt reveals itself as the new landmark of the valley, taking the roots of the city before the industrialization on one side of the ribbon, looping us into today's situation on the other side, that ribbon pursues an artist... Meer

With its central location in the new district of Verket in Moss and its strong references to the papermaking history of the area, the Paper House will become a landmark building for the district with a view of the scenic fjord, Mossesundet. Paper-thin architecture Caption Inspired by the papermaking history of the district of Verket – in shape of the former paper factory M. Peterson & Son – Papirhuset (The Paper House) has been designed so that its bright façades with their sharp lines evoke images of the folds and origami of paper. The result is an almost paper-thin architecture shaped by the daylight and the view towards the fjord. Together with the retracted glass facade, this gives the house a light and flo... Meer

Al Wasl Utility Building is a landmark with a design that is inspired by the Expo 2020 logo. Expo 2020 is the first and largest global event hosted in the Middle East taking place in Dubai, UAE. Anticipating millions of visitors from all over the world. However, it’s postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For such an event, the country decided to hire the best consultants, designers, and engineers to ensure creating a memorable legacy that will benefit present and future generations.   Meer

Completed in December 2019, Greyfort House is a residential development of 8 units on a prominent corner plot in South Croydon.The challenge was to create a design that would successfully respond to the various urban conditions around the site.The building acts as an interface between the different scales and patterns of development surrounding it, whilst addressing the busy corner junction in a coherent and composed manner. Its form evolved through a contextual analysis of the scale, proportions, building lines, materials and architectural details of the surrounding streetscapes and was sculpted by the arising opportunities. Photography by Martin Gardner Meer