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Project • By Brightside Architects • Private Houses
A careful reconstruction
The streets extending from Rotterdam city center have a mix of residential and commercial spaces on their ground floors. Graaf Florisstraat is no exception. A walk along this spacious tree-lined section of historic Rotterdam reveals a mix of different uses. With the growing attraction to inner-city living, and the city's imperative to increase density, ground floor commercial spaces are often converted to accommodate additions to residential spaces. This presents some challenges, but also affords new and interesting possibilities as this transformation demonstrates.
Understanding the value that living close to the center of a thriving city has, a young Rotterdam family commissioned P·A to transform the ground floor office space of t... More
Project • By Brightside Architects • Housing
A second chance
Renovation of the ‘Supercube’ into a twenty-room residence for former convicts by Personal ArchitectureAfter thirty years of vacancy the Supercube, being part of Piet Bloms world famous cubecomplex in Rotterdam, gets its first real destination. Under the guidance of the Exodus foundation the Cube is inhabited by 20 delinquents in the final stage of their detention.
Ossip van Duivenbode
Since its completion in 1982 the Supercube has been mostly vacant, some parts of the building weren’t even fully completed. According to the architects, Sander van Schaik and Maarten Polkamp, this is explicable: ‘the building was dark, it warmed up quickly and there was no relation whatsoever between the floors’. Not the id... More
Project • By HUMANSCALE • Restaurants
Humanscale unveils RE:CHARGE Café for Fuorisalone
The RE:CHARGE Café by Humanscale and designer Todd Bracher, offers a communal, urban oasis to recharge mind, body and devices - in the heart of the Brera Design District.March 2017: This April, Humanscale, the leading global designer and manufacturer of products that improve wellness at work, brings an engaging and innovative RE:CHARGE Café concept to the Fuorisalone during Milan Design Week. RE:CHARGE Café offers much needed respite to design crowds who will spend the week avidly travelling the streets to see the vast range of design exhibitions, presentations, and events. RE:CHARGE Café invites visitors to re-energise both physically and mentally - whilst promoting well-being through a carefully curated and researched space, educating and... More