Flexible

 The Hogeschool Rotterdam Business School is an energy-neutral, flexible, and light-filled educational building of 15,300 m², housing all economic programs of the university. The building was designed by a multidisciplinary design team, with Paul de Ruiter Architects responsible for the architecture and Studio Groen+Schild for the interior. This project marks a historic moment in the university's history, as four merged business institutes have now found a new shared home here for their 10,000 students. Aiste Rakauskaite Aiste Rakauskaite The complex, for which Paul de Ruiter Architects already designed a significant part in 2018, includes a new main entrance, a library, a business lobby, a grand café, and an imp... More

SOLID Event Crew, a company in the event industry, pairs the best staff with the best events. Studio Ninetynine designed their new office space, located in an existing office/warehouse building (in transition) called “Mainstage”. After a complete renovation and extension, also based on Ninetynine’s design vision, the Mainstage building will host a big group of companies related to the event industry. SOLID’s office space on the second floor stands out with almost 300 sqm and an 18-metre fully glazed facade overlooking the treetops. © Ewout Huibers Design concept The SOLID office is a flexible and cohesive space that allows team collaboration and social connection on the one hand, and houses a call centre... More

Located in a 1930s building, this garden-level apartment needed major structural repairs. Its odd layout and challenging features of exposed foundation walls and large structural columns were further complicated by being partially submerged below grade and hemmed in by foundations. This gave the apartment a subterranean feel that only allowed for brief moments of natural daylight. The renovation aimed to introduce more lightness, joy, and purpose into this unremarkable space. Fei Liu Fei Liu The new apartment uses a flexible targeted design, elevates simple materials, and carefully-proportioned spaces to raise the residents' quality of life. Extensive custom, locally-built millwork such as folding and pivoting doors, a rotating t... More

The Université de l'Ontario français (UOF) is Ontario’s first French-language university governed for and by Franco-Ontarians. Rooted in downtown Toronto’s East Bayfront, an emerging start-up and innovation neighbourhood, the 50,000 sf campus is home to the mobilization and creation of French-language education in Ontario. Occupying the entire second floor of a mixed-use building, Gow Hastings Architects designed the inaugural campus to retain existing industrial elements while introducing a new vision for academic design focussed on student-faculty interaction.  Tom Arban The design embraces the irregular shape of the building, its exposed concrete walls and structure to embody the spirit of the surroun... More

The home by principle is evolutionary, and adapts to new conditions. Doméstico refers to a habitable artifact that allows the condensing of everyday activities into one organizing element that transforms easily, and does not sacrifice comfort. JAG Studio This artifact is located in a 27,5 sqm mini studio inside Moshe Safdie & Uribe Schwarzkopf’s Qorner building, near La Carolina Park, in the city of Quito. The project is born from the need to solve, through architectural strategies, the spatial and formal limitations of this new way of living, that relates directly to urban and social mobility. JAG Studio The shape, orientation, and functions are conditioned by the geometry of the space, the relation with visuals, as... More

Revantage provides real estate services to one of the world’s largest investment firms. Their mission, to provide flexible and rewarding environments for their luxury apartment clients to thrive in, inspires the approach for the environmental branding throughout the space. More

A motorized sliding storage element glides from one end of the room to the other, revealing and exchanging spaces between daytime and nighttime zones. As the moving volume pulls away from the wall, it reveals a dressing room zone with built-in dresser drawers and clothing storage. Fully extended, the space for a queen-sized fold-down bed is created. The sliding element is powered and cabled for television and audio, and houses all of the audiovisual and networking components of the apartment along with additional storage and display space. A pivoting enclosure with custom speakers allows the television to rotate 180 degrees for viewing from the seating area, or the bed and dressing rooms. A built-in nightstand with power for a reading light... More

Floor to ceiling black tambour panels give this local coffee shop a modern, sleek appearance while the large store front windows create a perfect balance between the natural light and an open floor plan. More

In crafting The Standard Highline, the guestrooms had to speak to the ethos of The Standard while incorporating a finer material palette and making the experience sophisticated enough for the New York and international audiences. In contrast to the concrete shell of the building, Roman and Williams strived to give the rooms a warmth that harkened to a bee hive environment – organic and beautiful, but also efficient. The breathtaking views from the floor to ceiling starfire glass windows of the guestrooms served as the ideal backdrop to Roman and Williams’ open and airy design. Packed with texture and color and light, they are clad in customized handmade orange, black and cream tile.  The bedrooms have a tambour wooden ceili... More