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As an inseparable part of modern urban life, sports are undoubtedly an important expression of people's pursuit of high-quality lifestyles. Sports culture has therefore become a new exploration for brands and designs to break traditional boundaries and update the space experience.  King Ou / Neon Wang Focusing on the space concept of “Park is Community”, Karv One Design and Shenzhen Vanke started from the exterior facade design inspired by baseball elements, and carried out a full-plan design. To integrate sports social activities, installation art and café into the 4000 m² of park life, the space delivers the beauty of life in the name of sports.  King Ou / Neon Wang King Ou / Neon Wang The enti... More

Churches in The Netherlands are getting more and more unoccupied. In order to preserve a small church in the South of The Netherlands, this church is transformed to residential housing.   The length of the building is divided into 7 parts to accommodate 6 dwellings and 1 commercial office.   The new inhabitants where given the flexibility to change the presented base floor plans to their own wishes and demands. One of the dwellings is designed to create a loft-like living space. The challenge was to create an open continuous floor plan in the existing long and narrow three-level dwelling.   Closed sanitary blocks are carefully positioned in the open space, leaving functional rest spaces. A storage cabinet spans the who... More

As they say, time flies when you’re having fun! So, to celebrate Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays’ thirtieth anniversary, they appointed world leading architect and designer PENSON to create a visionary new HQ at Gatwick. In collaboration with the VAA Design Team, PENSON have created a dynamic workplace community that brings the two groups together under one roof for the first time. The entire open plan build is a culture and experience transformation for Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holiday’s staff – with future-proofed offices made a reality. We welcome you to the new VHQ.Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays were given an opportunity to review the way they operate and take their office environment to the next level by moving int... More

An ancient and listed building, heritage of the past, becomes a new home/office, intertwining a dialog between indoor and outdoor, place and space, voids and levels, walls and glasses. The roof with terrace, skylight and pv panels becomes a fifth "facade". Like in a Piranesi's work you can move in many directions through the space.The architectural recovery of the historical listed settlement Casa Gualerzi is based on the preservation of the typological and morphological building’s characters.The project works on existing indoor levels, reinterpreted contemporarily, whereas voids and full spaces of the historical facades and the typological elements such as the porch, don’t change but becomes key points to define free plans inside the volum... More