Atrium design
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about atrium design
News • News • 13 Aug 2024
Key atrium designs by C.F. Møller Architects showcasing a flair for crafting light and space
C.F. Møller Architects is a leading Danish architectural studio with 100 years of experience. Established by Christian Frederik Møller in 1924, C.F. Møller Architects has completed a century’s worth of projects across the Nordic region and worldwide. A sustainable and aesthetic approach to architecture integrates a range of fundamental elements, including environmental concerns, social responsibility, and good craftsmanship. The studio emphasizes the importance of the physical environment, creating spaces that are relevant and practical: “Spaces that offer varied movement patterns, convey nuanced sensory experiences, and create the best framework for well-being, cooperation, and support of needs.” This... More
News • News • 12 Aug 2024
Ma Yansong/MAD Architects unveil an update on the new Shenzhen Headquarters of Tecent
Ma Yansong/MAD Architects has unveiled an update on the new Shenzhen Headquarters of Tecent, a global leader in internet and technology services.
The campus development for the new headquarters includes five parcels over 80 hectares east of Da Chan Bay Island in Qianhai, Bao'an District, Shenzhen. Lot 04, designed by Ma Yansong/MAD Architects, totals 412,000 square meters in gross floor area and features two biomorphic office towers interconnected with a raindrop-shaped building.
Courtesy MAD Architects
MAD's Lot 04 East design responds to Tecent's goals of creating a low-carbon, human-centred technology park. The company strives to meet the highest standards of ecological responsibility and accessibility in li... More
News • News • 4 Jan 2024
LMN Architects complete a sensitive and contextual design for an interdisciplinary building at the University of Cincinnati
Designed collaboratively by LMN Architects and KZF Design, the recently completed Clifton Court Hall at the University of Cincinnati is an interdisciplinary building dedicated to several departments within the University’s College of Arts and Sciences. With a total area of 185,000 square feet, the building accommodates various departments previously scattered across campus within a concept sensitive to the surrounding architectural heritage and building materiality.
Tim Griffith
The exterior of the façade is a modern application of terracotta, which was selected to blend with the surrounding brick buildings, while the overall massing steps down at the lower levels to navigate the sloping topography and engage wi... More
News • News • 13 Oct 2023
Foster + Partners completes a self-shading tower for Techcombank in Ho Chi Minh City
Following the completion of their design for the Techcombank Headquarters in Hanoi, Vietnam, Foster + Partners has completed a second, 21-storey tower for the company in Ho Chi Minh City. The concept for this latest tower revolves around two main approaches: programmatic – responding to different tenants and uses – and environmental, with a unique self-shading concept developed in response to the site's tropical climate.
Weerapon Singnoi
Overall, the tower appears as two main blocks, with the building core situated to the rear, facing the adjacent hotel. Reflecting the inner workings of the building, the recessed space between these two blocks is an amenities floor for employees.
Inside, three central atri... More
Project • By The Svetozar Andreev Studio / Hotei-Russia • Apartments
Zen Garden Residences by Svetozar Andreev
Svetozar Andreev: Zen Garden Residences a unique residential space - an evergreen oasis - in the historical center of St. Petersburg.
Northern architecture with a southern character.
Saint Petersburg is often called the star of the North, and like many cities located in cold climates, it lacks a warm summer atmosphere. As a practical consequence of understanding this peculiarity of the city, I came up with the idea of the ZEN GARDEN project - a unique living space of an evergreen oasis in the historical center of St. Petersburg.
© Svetozar Andreev 2023
The idea of an oasis or hidden garden formed the general layout of the ZEN GARDEN building, the core of which is a green atrium with hanging balcony gardens with tropical p... More
News • News • 7 Aug 2023
Zaha Hadid Architects to proceed with Daxia Tower in Xi’an
In Xi’an, one of China’s largest inland cities, Daxia Group has announced that Zaha Hadid Architects will proceed with the new Daxia Tower in the city’s thriving development zone.
Initial renderings revealed by the architects present a tower with a gently curving silhouette, accentuated by layers of patterned glazing and dramatic atriums that bring light deep into the floorplates. A cascade of planted interior terraces recalls mountainside waterfalls, with each atrium oriented to take advantage of a panoramic view of the historic north and east of the city or the high-tech zone to the south and west.
ATCHAIN
Once the country’s ancient capital and a historic eastern gateway to the Silk Road, modern Xi... More
News • Detail • 20 Jul 2023
Detail: The timber-hybrid and biophilic design of UBC Gateway
UBC Gateway is the new principal point of access to the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver Campus. Designed by Perkins&Will in partnership with the firm’s Danish studio, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, the Gateway is a timber-hybrid structure that draws inspiration from the university’s natural setting.
Perkins&Will / SHL
Situated on the western tip of the Point Grey peninsula (on Vancouver’s west side), the University of British Columbia is surrounded by nature: Pacific Spirit Regional Park lies to the south-east, Burrard Inlet and the Coast Mountains lie to the north, and the Strait of Georgia and Vancouver Island lie to the west. In a manner that echoes the environment, the university’s wish... More
News • Specification • 16 May 2023
10 dynamic atria in secondary schools
Secondary school education spans a momentous growth period in an adolescent’s life. With so much time spent in the school environment, the building and surroundings will inevitably influence a young person’s way of seeing and thinking about the world. The physical aspects of an educational setting can impact the capacity to learn and the ability to socialize.
The inclusion of an atrium in a secondary school building is particularly suited to fostering social cohesion. A dynamic architectural feature, an atrium typically rises through several stories. The design often includes a glazed roof, although the entire structure can be wholly or partially glazed, ensuring an abundance of natural light. The atrium serves as a conne... More
Project • By IPA - Architecture and more • Nurseries
BRITANICA Park School
As architects, we believe that architecture should enhance education and develop in children a sense of aesthetic appreciation for the environment.
BRITANICA Park School aims to promote tradition while building on it with modern education principles. It is located in the suburbs of Vitosha Mountain and caters to children from 2.5 years old (kindergarten) to 18 years old (school).
Todor Todorov
This project aims to design architecture that facilitates healthy living & learning. Socialization and communication, enriching social and behavioral habits are integrated in the concept.
Classical and modern ideas guide the building's exterior design. Ultimately, the form implies a connection to Great Britain's culture - tradition a... More
News • News • 2 Feb 2023
Custom façade by Greater Dog Architects floats like a feather
In Shaoxing, China, the new é é é | BSH headquarters is a mixed-use complex containing retail space, an office, R&D productions, restaurants, and a factory for the production of high-quality goose-down bedding products. Inspired by the nature of white goose down, Greater Dog Architects developed a façade concept for the complex that poetically interprets the soft material on the building’s exterior with a series of curving white aluminum plates that appear to float in a light, feather-like relief pattern.
Greater Dog Architects
The building comprises two parts: a grey concrete base containing prime programmatic elements, with white curving aluminum plates floating above. The constantly cha... More
News • News • 29 Jan 2023
Foster + Partners complete flexible urban workspace ICÔNE for a post-covid world
In Belval, Luxembourg, Foster + Partners has completed the new office complex ICÔNE. The project's design process began in 2016, well before the pandemic. However, during the building's evolution, the pandemic highlighted the need for a more flexible urban workspace, which the ultimate design strives explicitly to provide. Additionally, the project is part of a significant revitalization of the site and surroundings, which form part of Belval's rich industrial heritage.
Nigel Young / Foster + Partners
Designed in collaboration with local practice BFF architectes, the 18,000 square meter office complex comprises two wings surrounding a central atrium. The atrium is the heart of the project, open and bright with plentifu... More
News • News • 24 Jan 2023
Le Studium at the University of Strasbourg fosters sustainability, sociability, and sharing in a combined library and student union building
In the vein of a learning centre, Le Studium at the University of Strasbourg by Jean-Pierre Lott combines the function of a library and a student union building. Fostering sustainability, sociability, and sharing, the facility includes traditional reading rooms alongside modular rooms with easy-to-move furniture.
Christophe Bourgeois
Prominently located at the interface between the historic centre and the Campus de l’Esplanade, the project announces the entrance to the campus from the city. In response to the urban condition, the architects present two different conditions to the outside world: a largely transparent ground floor that invites passers-by to enter and a main body above, which takes on a sinuous form that... More
News • News • 1 Mar 2022
Hourglass by Powerhouse Company in Amsterdam projects approachability and allure
For a top tier law firm in Amsterdam, Powerhouse Company worked with the architecture of Dam & Partners’ hourglass-shaped building, reshaping and softening the spectacular main atrium of the design to create an interior space that embraces the firm’s values of transparency, inclusivity, and quality. The new space manages to welcome clients while balancing more closed and compact office space for legal work.
Sebastian van Damme Photography
Projecting approachability and allure, the lobby greets clients with a sweeping set of stairs, set against a green wall, that leads upwards to an expansive atrium bathed in light. A lobby coffee bar adds to the welcoming nature of the space.
Sebastian van Damme Photography
Funct... More
Project • By BWM Designers & Architects • Hotels
Hotel Gilbert
BWM Architekten have fully refurbished the well-known ViennArt Hotel in Breite Gasse in Vienna. Now reopened the hotel boasts an entirely new look as well as a new name. With its Scandinavian flair and abundant greenery, the Gilbert, as it is now called, aims to attract locals as well as international guests and position itself as a dynamic hub in the trendy Spittelberg quarter of Vienna.
BWM Architekten / Michael Koenigshofer
The long-established ViennArt Hotel in the middle of the trendy quarter around Vienna’s Spittelberg will reopen in early 2021 under its new name, Hotel Gilbert. In line with its slogan – “truly your hotel” – it has not only been fully refurbished, but also extended to include a roof... More
News • News • 6 Sep 2021
Woven characteristics of textiles leveraged as design inspiration at the Beijing Fashion-Factory
Inspired by the textile arts, the Beijing Fashion-Factory by AntiStatics Architecture is the transformation of a former industrial site into a dynamic workspace for creatives in the fashion industry. The woven characteristics of textiles are leveraged as design inspiration, defining space and acting as a means of both connectivity and separation.
Xiazhi
The total project comprises 12 different buildings oriented around a courtyard. The courtyard comes together as a diverse collection of techniques, incorporating new built elements, reuse of post-industrial waste and native landscaping all enhanced by intelligent lighting system to provide unique and changing experiences of the spaces throughout the day and into the night. Former... More