Industrial architecture

Best Large Workspace Worldwide: destilat wins London’s renowned Dezeen Award 2020 with its project Weinmanufaktur Clemens Strobl and prevails over competing projects from around the world.   The top-class expert jury consisting of Norman Foster, Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects, Konstantin Grcic, Daniel Liebeskind, Joep van Lieshout, Paola Navone, and 70 further experts from the worlds of architecture, art, and design chose the best of the best from 4,300 submissions in the fields of architecture, interior, and design in the three-stage selection process.   Winner Large Workspacedestilat was the only Austrian design studio among the final 13 on the shortlist of the interior category. Ultimately, destilat a... More

As part of Ivanhoé Cambridge’s Projet Nouveau Centre, Le Cathcart Restaurants et Biergarten at Place Ville Marie, launched in last January, is conceived by Sid Lee Architecture and A5 Hospitality, and executed by Sid Lee Architecture and Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes in consortium.   The revitalization of the Place Ville Marie Esplanade forms part of Projet Nouveau Centre, Ivanhoé Cambridge's vision for downtown Montreal. The revitalization aims to position Place Ville Marie as a major urban gathering point, rivalling those of other great metropolises.   “Renovations performed in the 1980s had become quite dated, and the owners wante... More

360 POA Gastrobar restaurant is a restaurant-bar complex structured with metal, glass and wood, and a distinctive single-object format. In other words, it is a cylindrical prism, whose appearance evokes the industrial architecture of the 1930s and 1940s, with the intention of almost ‘leaning’ on the waters of the lake that borders the historic center of the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul state, in the south of Brazil. The main structure encompasses the glassy large room, and depicts the technical kitchen and the machine house.   A deck-shaped external plaza is connected to the main architectural element, with the purpose of providing enjoyment of the lake and sunset atmospheres – Porto Alegre citizens’ favo... More

Tombola House is an online bingo platform with thousands of daily users. A headquarters building of three floors of flexible office space around a central atrium, within a conservation area, on the banks of the River Wear. More

Near the old Suchard factory, the student accommodation building is located on a long plot delimited on one side by the Usines Street and on the other by an almost twenty meters high cliff, below Chemin de la Papéterie.   This strong topographical constraint has become the central theme of the project. The building is set back from the cliff. The slender and vertical space thus created becomes the singular heart of the project. This "atrium" is a distributive space, but above all a collective outdoor space for everyone. One can access accommodations and common areas through outdoor walkways that sometimes deforminto platforms that join the cliff,thus becoming outdoor spaces that interact between floors.   The living roo... More

The new Institute is located on a plot at the edge of the housing area of the Aimerigues sector, on the threshold of future city growth and an area of parks of important dimensions limited by the street Icaria. The implementation is defined by the location of the building's volumes within the plot: a compact volume aligned on the street Pablo Iglesias and a smaller volume that contains the gymnasium and that defines the access through a public space and the porch. The typological model proposed is of a compact nature with a bright and generous central corridor, with classrooms on both sides. An economical, compact, flexible and efficient volume.   Economical, for its constructive simplicity and the square meters built... More

Located in the quarter of the former Railroad Station downtown Querétaro, amidst a historical monument, yesteryear constructions and traditional “cantinas”; this little Mexican flavor oasis come into being as an alternative for the residents and visitors of the area. Found on the ground floor of a co-working giving service to its partners, the locals and the attendees of the cultural activities done during the weekends.   It is a space designed to solve harmoniously the diner’s comfort and the efficiency in the operation of CAO CAO´s team. Stands out the truthfulness of the apparent materials that were selected with intense traffic in mind, warranting that with daily cleaning and adequate maintenance do... More

Hal le Girard: transformed to house Lyon’s French Tech, the new incubator for digital businesses, a space for events and a base for digital s tar t-ups.   CONFLUENCE Confluence is one of the largest town centre expansion projects in Europe. Covering 150 hectares, at the end of the 1990s it was composed of 70 hectares of industrial wasteland and derelict logistics and port facilities at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers, extending out from the core of the city centre thus doubling its surface area. Confluence was designed to allow Lyon to welcome 30,000 new inhabitants and workers into the city centre. In addition to its geographic location, the transformation of this district has been founded on decision... More

This project is made in collaboration with Atelierzero Architects. The appearence is that of a small city loft in which the space of 53 square meters has been extendended thanks to a mezzanine that hosts the bedroom, the guest/study room and the walk-in closet. These spaces live in separate volumes. each characterized by peculiar architectural and structural qualities. On the lower floor there are the living area with a Vitra dining table, the kitchen and a secod bathroom that are organized around a central customized wooden element, a sort of a large piece of furniture with different useful compartments.   Material Used : 1. Floor finish - Kerakoll white resin2. Mezzanine floor finish - Smooth Rubber floor Sustem by Artigo3. Wall f... More

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A campus for innovation and industry 4.0 A “Hotspot for Industry 4.0” in Vienna: The newly-opened tz2 is located right next to the first phase of the Technology Center, the very first building in Seestadt. Known as “aspern IQ” this was completed in 2012 according to plans drawn up by ATP architects engineers (Vienna). As a ‘Plus Energie’ office building tz1 received a number of awards and was declared the flagship project of the 240-hectare Seestadt complex. The new building is now writing the next chapter of this story: ATP also won an anonymous, EU-wide, realization competition for the execution of this second phase, as a result of which it was commissioned to provide integrated design services with B... More

Liverpool, a major retailer, has commissioned different architects to design the facades of its new stores. Each store is a personal interpretation. We were commissioned to design a round-plan store on the corner of a shopping center.The project is at the entrance of Toluca City, in an industrial area of large metallic boxes on the Paseo Tollocan. It is a place that lacks human scale and cars travel incessantly above 80 km/h. We thought that the best strategy was a very simple building that coauld be understandable at a glance. We opted to regularize the original curved shape of the volume and hide a series of steps and breaks to obtain a continuous figure. We wanted to establish a contrast with the industrial architecture of the site, by d... More

The loft is situated on the 8th floor of a former Baťa shoe factory building in Zlín, overlooking the green heart of the town. Its design aims to integrate the town’s image into the space of the apartment. The design approach contradicts the usual loft-making procedure, which emphasizes industrial materials in the interior, by transforming the space into an abstract composition with the industrial aspect presented through the view of the surrounding area, framed by the Zlín skyscraper and the valley. The inner space features the gradual opening of the individual epicentres of the apartment. Its open space allows the separation of the social and private parts by using multi-level differentiation, rather than sharp divides. The interior is de... More

AMSTERDAM – Named after its area Amsterdam Noord, Pand Noord is an old industrial warehouse that has been transformed into a popular creative workspace.This 960m2 business complex has been created exclusively for creative industries. The building was purchased by Highbrook Investors in 19xx and has kept its industrial appearance throughout its renovation.To create a workable interior, High brookt asked Hollandse Nieuwe to designa series of calm and unified spaces that could inspire and support a variety of creative industries. The BuildingWhen walking from the north, in the site’s oldest buildingto the newest areain the south, the building reveals its expansion and history in a series oflinked boxes.From the reception, a long central c... More