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Project • By dhk Architects • Offices
Sable Park
Leading South African architecture and urban design studio, dhk, has completed Sable Park in Century City in Cape Town. The commercial development comprises two buildings – one of 8 000 sqm and another of 8 300 sqm – and sits at a prominent entry point into Century City forming an iconic front face for the suburb. Situated at the southern edge of the blossoming Bridgeways Precinct, it boasts unobstructed panoramic views of Table Mountain.Originally dubbed the ‘macro-chip shuffle’, the buildings’ composition was inspired by shuffling forms that operate independently and adapt to their immediate surroundings. The development was intentionally designed to appear as a single large complex and simultaneously as four small independent volumes dep... More
Project • By Atelier PRO architekten • Secondary Schools
IJburg College 2
Atelier PRO’s design for IJburg College 2 in Amsterdam was selected as part of a European tender. IJburg College 2 is a new secondary school that will accommodate approximately 800 students at VMBO-T and HAVO levels. The aim is to realise a ‘High Tech Green’ school that fits well with this site.
Jan Paul Mioulet
Compact Building
IJburg College’s main school is located on IJburg, in Amsterdam. For its extension, a branch of the school will be built on neighbouring Zeeburgereiland. The school’s site is surrounded by greenery and water, typical for Zeeburgereiland. Atelier PRO’s design comprises a compact building that is adapted closely to the urban design framework. The main concept of the design wa... More
Project • By Viereck Architekten • Housing
House T - living in the treetops
The building owners, both gardener and florist by trade, came to us with the idea of a lighty tree house – this means living among treetops, so that you do not have to look at the plants, trees and flowers just from below.After we have been dealing with such floating concepts with natural materials for some time the idea of a house above the ground arised, so that you are able to look over the site.In the middle of Gumpoldskirchen, a small but finely made floating place to live was built surrounded by beautiful old trees.It went without saying to taken wood as basic building material because of the natural environment.The entrance to the living area is situated in the first floor accessible through a staircase made out of panels of solid ti... More
Project • By BFV ARCHITECTES • Social Housing
HOUSING PROJECT (Place de la Bastille)
Is there an architect who has not dreamed of designing a building for the Biscornet site, which lay abandoned for so long? Its location is truly spectacular : slightly set back from the Place de la Bastille, it lies where the rue de Lyon and the road running along the canal basin meet; on one side you have a perspective towards the Gare de Lyon, on the other a view of the Bassin de l’Arsenal.Looking at the building that now stands here, one has to admit that the architectural response provided by BP fits like a made-to-measure suit: it's a hand-stitched design that oozes a very Parisian form of elegance. Making best use of the trapezoid shape of the plot, the building abuts onto the neighbouring building then gradually tapers forw... More
Porsgrunn Maritime Museum and Exploratorium
Today is the grand opening of a new spectacular Maritime Museum and Exploratorium in the Norwegian town Porsgrunn. The building is designed by the Danish architects COBE and TRANSFORM, and has already, before the opening, become an architectural landmark of the town.
From backside to frontside
Porsgrunn Maritime Museum and Exploratorium is situated in the Norwegian town of Porsgrunn, 100 km south west of Oslo. The new museum will tell the story of the town’s dock yard industry and its maritime history, which has employed thousands of people from the whole region. In addition, the attractive location of the museum right on the riverside opens up an important process for the city concerning the future extensive urban renewal of the entire... More
Project • By Ayutt and Associates design • Private Houses
Aluminium House
This Aluminium House tackles head on the brief of combining sculptural modern architecture with the everyday requirements of a good ventilation, heat protection, liveable and home. The house is located on a single land plot in suburb of Bangkok, Phutthamonthon Sai3 road, Thailand. The house was designed by Ayutt and Associates design (AAd) for 3 families of the 3 generations :grand parent, Daughters and grand son. The house comprises of 1,500 sq.m. of useable space. There are 5 bedrooms with their own private bathroom, main living space, Asian and Western kitchen, Multi-function space and Support function. The main living space, corridors, swimming pool, terrace and garden were designed as the open plan layout for the visual-linkage for all... More
Project • By Brigada • Offices
50's style above Zagreb
Top two floors of one of the oldest Zagreb skyscrapers were transformed into an elegant office space reminiscing the spirit of the 50’s decade of the last century. Skyscraper has a symbolic meaning in the history of the city. At the time of its erection from 1957 to 1959, it was the highest and most elegant office building, not only in the city of Zagreb, but of the former state, too. However it was the first tall building with an aluminium facade 16 stories high, with height 70 meters above the ground.
It is the contextual history of the skyscraper that was a breath of inspiration for the reconstruction. The result is almost three full floors of attractive ambient, which subtly remind of popular series Mad Man scenography, interpreting th... More
Project • By Andersen & Sigurdsson Architects • Nurseries
Godthaab Kindergarden
Frydendalsvej kindergarten is a small extension to a kindergarten housed in an old villa in Frederiksberg. Frederiksberg is an independent municipality located as an enclave within the Copenhagen. It is the smallest municipality in Denmark area-wise, but the most densely populated. With 100,000 inhabitants spread over 8.70 km2, it goes without saying that the inhabitants live in close coexistence and that any new constructions in the area happen within a dense context. The extension to the kindergarten is no exception in this regard.
The extension to Frydendalsvej kindergarten contains two classrooms and associated facilities, a total of 140 m2. The site is narrow and located between two large villas from the 1900s.
The extension aims... More
Project • By C.F. Møller Architects • Universities
Maersk Tower extension of the Panum Complex, Unive
The extension of the Panum complex has been designed with the aim of creating the best possible environment for modern research and teaching. A parallel objective has been to create a building which will stand out as an identity-creating, sculptural linchpin for the entire Panum complex and the university's Nørre Campus (i.e. the North Campus) as a whole. The new complex is also intended to act as the generator of a positive urban development in its immediate neighbourhood and in relation to the entire city.
At sixteen storeys tall, the Maersk Tower will provide the complex with a unifying and dynamic focal point in a clear and readable form. But just as a tree has its root network, the tower rests upon on a series of smaller buildi... More
Project • By Nita Architects • Art Galleries
EXPO 2016 Antalya Observation Tower
ANTALYA
At the heart of Mediterranean, Antalya carries the trace of ancient history surrounded with a splendid natural beauty. With a prospective climatic state and an average temperature of 35°C and 300 day a year being sunshine, Antalya becomes one of the vibrant touristic city in the world.
EXPO 2016 ANTALYA
Focused on botanic, EXPO 2016 Antalya along with the motto “A green life for future generation” adopted the theme as “Flowers and Children”. Along with its motto and the theme a master plan layout was drawn on an area of 1,100,000 m² (110 h). According to the functional layout the location was seeking for an iconic Tower to represent the event. An architecture competition was opened to design the tower.
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Project • By HPP Architects • Museums
German Football Museum in Dortmund
The German Football Museum opened in Dortmund following 3 years of construction. The façades and form of the structure reflect the dynamism and emotion of the game.
The new premises of the German Football Museum were officially opened on October 25h with a 3-day celebration. Four years after winning the Europe-wide competition to design the museum, HPP have created a new and permanent home for the 140 years of German Football history. HG Esch has now photographed the building.
Situated in a prominent location opposite Dortmund’s central station, and complementing the existing artistic and cultural context, footballing history can be experienced for the first time on 7,700 m² of GFA in a context outside of the usual realms of the sport... More
Project • By Renzo Piano Building Workshop • Museums
The Whitney Museum of American Art at Gansevoort
The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Due to open in 2015, the project will substantially enlarge the Whitney’s exhibition and programming space, enabling the first comprehensive view of the Museum’s growing collection, which today comprises more than 19,000 works of modern and contemporary American art. Founded in 1930, the Whitney moved to its current Madison Avenue home, designed by Marcel Breuer, in 1966. At the time, its collection numbered some 2,000 pieces of 20th-century American art, so its nearly 100-fold expansion needs space to flourish. The new museum is to be situated in New York’s vibrant Meatpacking District. Fronting onto Gansevoort Street, the site lies between the H... More
Project • By Aliva UK • Car Parks
Grafton Street NHS Car Park
Sustainable gold aluminium facade for stunning landmark
Aliva UK was commissioned to develop an eye-catching, 3D-effect façade that would bring vitality to a hospital parking ‘super-hub’ for visitors. Architect Sheppard Robson’s brief was to extend the existing Grafton Street car park and create a striking local landmark for the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust’s complex, which cares for a million patients every year.
The stunning gold anodised aluminium façade was a Finalist in the 2017 Surface Design Awards.
The brief
The car park building is normally seen from the side, not face-on, so the architects wanted cladding that would ‘step off’ the building, pushing out a further 800mm.
Sheppard Robson specified a... More
Project • By Jaspers-Eyers Architects • Offices
Barco Campus One HQ
Technology giant Barco officially moves into its new Kortrijk campus. The new headquarters, ‘The Circle’, is the crowning jewel. The circular, transparent icon takes centre stage on the campus, with the goal of connecting the Barco employees and visitors with each other. Jean-Michel Jaspers, CEO at Jaspers-Eyers: “The building just is really dynamic, and gives Barco the appearance it deserves.”Barco needed a centralised infrastructure because the distance between the sites in Kortrijk and Kuurne was getting to be too much for the employees. This centralising structure has been located next to the existing corporate buildings in Kortrijk, close to the E17. The new campus’s crowning jewel is ‘The Circle’, Barco’s new headquarters. With a diam... More
Project • By Buzzi studio d'architettura • Apartments
Cà Bianca
Locarno, southern Switzerland.Picturesque landscapes and remarkable light qualities; the historical small town, with all amenities at hand.A privileged property straight on the lake promenade. On one side the open space of the Lake Maggiore, encased in a circle of monumental mountains, on the other the tight grid of the city. And all around the spare remains of the ancient groves, that until the late eighteenth century covered the river delta, just few steps away. The clients: an institutional investor group. Our brief: to plan a discerning residential estate in this extraordinary position. The drawbacks: only a small section of the plot faces the magnificent views, and the proximity to the lake doesn’t only provide breathtaking vistas, but... More