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Project • By By Will Alsop • Libraries
PECKHAM LIBRARY
Peckham Library won Britain's most celebrated architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in November 2000.
The brief called for a building of architectural merit which would bring prestige to the borough and engender a sense of ownership and pride for the building by local people. Will Alsop created a building of unique appearance which satisfied both criteria, comprising innovatory solutions to design problems, creating working, archive and meeting spaces of genuine delight and stimulating appearance.
Suspending the main reading room on a cantilevered plane allowed the creation of a new public space below the soffit. Within this room, 'pods' contain meeting rooms and independent collections, with workstations clustered below.
The br... More
Project • By Robert M. Gurney Architect • Private Houses
Buisson Residence
The journey down a winding road and thru a pine tree forest ends at the Buisson Residence. Situated on a grass knoll and commanding views of Lake Anna in central Virginia, the house emerges as a long, white painted brick wall with a copper clad volume cantilevered above the wall.
The primary organizational elements are two “L” shaped brick walls connected by a glass enclosed bridge. Mahogany clad walls combine with the smaller “L” to provide a service volume while glass walls combine with the larger “L” to create the primary living spaces and to provide southern and western views toward the lake. The experience of arrival and the wall are intertwined as the wall establishes a threshold between the pine forest and views toward the lake... More
Project • By FoRo Arquitectos • Offices
Van der Laat & Jimenez Headquarters
The clients, one of Costa Rica’s oldest and most prestigious construction companies, requested a new addition on a corner lot to their existing 30+ year old building and an integral redesign of the interiors.
They wanted a building that expressed both solidity and novelty to symbolize their corporate structure formed by three original founders and five young junior partners. Thus, the building consists of two main volumes: the existing two-story building and the new one, both supported on a strong first floor clad in concrete tilesrepresenting V&Js soundness, and to symbolize the new “young blood”.This level is dedicated to parking. Above, a lightweight second and third floors clad in prepatinated copper sheathing, a material that... More
Project • By Art Arquitectos • Offices
Heineken House Mexico
The project for the Heineken bar and corporate offices of Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Heineken Mexico located in a big house in the Polanco area of Mexico City —catalogued as historic patrimony by INBA— was selected through a competition organized by the client.
It was very important that the original and main architectonics features of the residence were preserved and at the same time incorporate, in a very contemporary trend, the brand image by creating the office areas and the Bar House for special guests and tastings.
The main facade with classic ornaments remained untouched. The original partitions of the perimeter wall were partially covered with shade glass that gives privacy and shows a glimpse of the house architecture. A big copper m... More
Project • By Hugh Broughton Architects • Art Galleries
Maidstone Museum East Wing
Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery has re-opened in March 2012 following an extensive £3 million refurbishment and the addition of a new East Wing by Hugh Broughton Architects.
Clad with ʻgoldʼ shingles which hint at the museumʼs collection of ʻtreasuresʼ on display inside, the new East Wing provides the museum with a reinvigorated look making it the cultural focus for the town centre. Housing a collection of over 600,000 artifacts and specimens that are outstanding in their diversity and quality, Maidstone Museum forms the largest mixed collection in Kent and one of the largest in the South-East of England.
Hugh Broughton Architectsʼ 2006 RIBA competition-winning architectural scheme transforms the museumʼs display, storage and v... More
Project • By Studio Pacific Architecture • Passenger Terminals
The Rock
A challenging brief with a double ambition meant that the 2010 redevelopment of the Wellington International Airport Passenger Terminal required a unique and innovative design.
The first task was to meet a set of complex technical specifications that included functionality, planning efficiency, economy in building materials and optimisation of the available pocket building site, heavily constrained by aircraft choreography. In conjunction with external apron works, the project involved the expansion of interior floor area, new retailing, linkages from the recently reconfigured passenger processing area, and an increase to eight aerobridge-capable gates from the original six. The project encompassed 3500m2, of which 2017m2 was additional... More
Project • By Reynaers Aluminium • Banks
Yapi Kredi Bank Academy
Text: Ömer Kanipak
Photography: Cemal Emden
The Yapi Kredi Bank Academy building is an extension to an existing complex located just outside of Istanbul.The 65,000 m² bank operation complex was designed by John McAslan in 1998. It is formed by ten cube-shaped volumes clustered together in a grid pattern, creating a campuslike environment housing up to 2500 employees. The cubic volumes incorporate courtyards in the middle and they are linked together with streets that act as the common and circulation areas between the cubes. The existing structure, with its exposed concrete texture and tinted glass façades, portrays a rigid but comfortable environment.
When the bank administration wanted to create a new space for the educational serv... More
Project • By C.F. Møller Architects • Hospitals
HOSPICE DJURSLAND
The Hospice Djursland is a palliative treatment facility with room for 15 patients, located in a beautiful landscape setting overlooking the bay of Aarhus.
In hospice design, the architect's finest task is to create surroundings which will provide the best possible conditions to promote quality of life, respect and a dignified death.
Djursland Hospice is first and foremost a building within a landscape. No matter where you go in the building - the reception area, the garden of the senses, the atriums, the staff room, the lounge, the reflection room or the patient rooms - the beautiful landscape is always present.
We have aimed to create a very humane building; by which we mean a building which is not an institution, but rather a... More
Project • By Lassila Hirvilammi • Churches
Kuokkala Church
The wish of the Parish of Jyväskylä was to build “a church that looks like a church”. Our proposal was a simple, sculptural form within which all of the church’s different functions could be contained. The design is “of our time”, yet permeated with nods to and re-interpretations of church-building tradition. The east-west oriented building stands centrally on Kuokkala Square, the focal point of Jyväskylä’s Kuokkala district. The church is roofed and clad in overlapping slate tiles, and wooden and copper details around the entrances supplement the overall visual aspect. The church is flanked by a granite stairway and walls which, together with the bell tower on the square, usher visitors towards the main entrance. The church’s functions are... More
Project • By ARKÍS architects • Community Centres
Snæfellsstofa
1) How would you describe this building?
Snæfellsstofa Visitors’ Center communicates the dignity of the surrounding nature and is closely connected to its immediate surroundings. It attracts visitors by its unique appearance and simultaneously works as an attractor for both indoor and outdoor activities.
The Visitors’ Center is placed at the location of a pronounced change in elevation, where the building gently glides over the terrain. In plan, the building is shaped in X-form, as the building is divided into four parts where each of them can be utilized in different ways, depending on the season of the year.
2) What were the most important wishes/demands of the clients/in the competition?
The main objective of the competition wa... More
Project • By Charles Rose Architects Inc. • Auditoriums
Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center, Brandeis University
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center includes a library, bookstore, cafe, auditoriums, a three-story atrium and a variety of offices and function rooms. Brandeis, which was founded in 1948 and lacks a traditional quad layout, offered no obvious site for the campus center. Charles Rose Architects tackled this problem by placing the Shapiro center at the geographical heart of the campus, a nod to the center’s goal of heightening the quality of student life and a symbolic gesture that puts the student at the center of the university. A parking lot and aging building were demolished to make way for the center, which opened the way for new lines of access that link the center to the admissions and administrative building, the Rose Art Museum... More
Project • By (designed by) Erick van Egeraat • Bars
Popstage Mezz
This conversion of a former officers’ mess into a venue for live music is part of a development plan prepared by OMA for an abandonned military campus in Breda. Located at the southwest corner of the campus, the original building, now housing a café, public facilities and offices, faces the parade ground and the planned residential development. A voluptuous form accommodating the new auditorium and foyer is tucked behind the old mess hall giving the venue a new identity that is clearly visible from Breda’s entertainment district. An opening created where the organic form of the extension meets the old building links the café and the foyer.
In order to meet the acoustic requirements of live performance, the auditorium envelope is a doubl... More
Project • By Genesis PD • Wellness Centres
Sauna Devrana
For this wellness resort we created a copper look-a-like bar. Real copper is very expensive. With our epoxy copper bar we created the perfect look-a-like for a better price . Also the bar is very useable because of its scratch resistant character.
The back wall of the reception is wall paper coated with epoxy. Because this is a wellness resort the area is humid and needs to be cleaned according to special regulations. Wallpaper without protection is not suitable for a place like Sauna Devrana. Treating the wall paper with our coating makes it suitable. With this technique wall paper can be used for totally different purposes like tables or bars.
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