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News • News • 1 Aug 2022
Curving school complex by Joly & Loiret offers an inspiring range of interior and exterior learning spaces
In Villepreux, France, this new school by Joly & Loiret is thoughtfully inserted into the landscape. Gently curving in form, the complex offers a range of inspiring spaces both interior and exterior, including both private school spaces and more fluid urban concepts for the broader community.
Schnepp-Renou
The main façade of the school is a sweeping curve that progressively reveals an open area to the northwest corner of the site. Oriented to the sun and functioning as a buffer between the school and adjacent buildings, this urban square space is public and open to both the community and the school.
Schnepp-Renou
The main school buildings are arranged at the perimeter of the site to free up a central area for play... More
Product • By Autex Acoustics • Cascade™
Cascade™
Cascade™ screens are suspended from the ceiling to create subtle acoustic features. The screens can be used to create separate spaces whilst maintaining an open feel. The Cascade family consists of three styles–static, folding and expanding. More
Trade Fides
Reconstruction of history
They do not always build offices in new modern administrative buildings with doubled floor and modular layout system. Sometimes, the company decides to stay in their long-term headquarters and renovate it. Even if it has some bad predisposition and restrictions, but also it’s own Genium loci and history. This was the case of the Trade Fides technological company, which is a specialist on safety systems and IT technology. It has been based in the wider center of Brno, which transforms into a modern administrative city center. They decided to insert modern offices into the existing building.
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Modern environment in historic object
New spaces located on the ground floor of a two-storey building fro... More
Project • By LIKO-S • Showrooms
Czech Mint
History of minting
Czech minting has a tradition of more than a thousand years. Also thanks to the rich deposits of silver, which provided the mint masters with space for artistic expression. Thanks to the Czech Mint, which has continued the tradition and produced coins for the Czech state since 1993, anyone can be the owner - investor - of rare coins. In addition to the head office and branches in the Czech Republic, they also opened a new branch in neighboring Slovakia - in capital city Bratislava.
Bank and jewelry store in one
The new showroom is located in the business center in the downtown. The location on the ground floor allows direct access from the street. The interior is designed on two floors. Operationally, it is a c... More
Citrix Prague
Industrial time
The Karlín district of Prague is coming to life again after many years. Thnaks to the trend of construction on unused plots in the greater vicinity of the city center. On the site of the defunct important engineering company Ruston, popularly called Rustonka, a new office complex was built according to the design of David R. Chisholm and Vít Máslo from the CMC ARCHITECTS studio. The complex consists of 3 administrative buildings, which form a common square, and their layout respects the views and urban continuity. The clear order and rhythm of the buildings, when viewed from the street, shows an industrial legacy. Windows with black frames extending over two floors are proportionally divided into smalle... More
Project • By Skyfold Inc. • Exhibition Centres
OCEC, Oman, UAE
The renovation of this existing Convention Center added 48,000 square feet of usable space by reconfiguring the interior. Here's a quote from the Press Release issued by the Convention CenterThe Skyfold Wall provides a unique and dramatic approach to subdividing space. Skyfold partitions are fully showcasing one of the most advanced convention center facilities in the world, the ARC Middle East Symposium organized a pre-event tour of the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre (OCEC). The four massive Skyfold walls, 78m long x 8m high (256` x 26.3`) were the center’s most impressive attraction!Over 50 international architects and suppliers attended the tour of the OCEC to familiarize themselves with the latest technology and materials u... More