LEED Platinum

A “terminal in a garden” is an apt description for Terminal 2 at Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR). Inspired by Bengaluru’s reputation as India’s “garden city”, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has created an oasis of biophilic design. The interdisciplinary architecture, design, and engineering firm has reimagined the conventional airport experience in its design for the new terminal. By rethinking the architectural homogeneity of airport infrastructure, SOM has combined architecture and ecology to create a calm space for hurried travellers. Ar. Ekansh Goel © Studio Recall Ar. Ekansh Goel © Studio Recall   A new civic gateway Terminal 2’s design bridges... More

In central London, England, Perkins&Will has designed a landmark smart, sustainable head office building for Sidara, a global collaborative of specialist firms providing services in architecture, engineering, sustainability consulting, digital strategy, and energy systems. 150 Holborn replaces an old 1980s office block and provides a shared company headquarters for Sidara’s London-based brands, including Dar, Perkins&Will, Portland Design, Currie & Brown, Introba, Maffeis Engineering, and Penspen. Described as a “living lab”, 150 Holborn harnesses intelligent building technology to self-optimise and provide real-life data that will inform future projects for Perkins&Will and the wider industry. Perkins&a... More

2 Harbor Life Sciences Center is a 500,000-square-feet development in Boston’s Seaport District. Situated on four acres in the South Boston Waterfront, the ten-storey building provides a mix of lab spaces and office facilities. Designed by Handel Architects in collaboration with STUDIO ENÉE, this LEED Platinum-certified building draws inspiration from the surrounding marine industrial architecture. A high-performance and healthy hub, 2 Harbor Life Sciences Center is pursuing WELL Platinum Certification™ and meets the “9 Foundations” of a healthy building as defined by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Robert Benson   Architectural design and flexibility of 2 Harbor Life Sciences Center... More

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) Headquarters and Multi-Tenant Commercial Building is a progressive, mass timber project built on a foundation of social, environmental, and financial sustainability. Designed by Canadian architectural studio Moriyama Teshima Architects (MTA), the building was constructed using net-zero strategies. The defining design integrates commercial opportunities with the relocation and revitalisation of the OSSTF’s offices in Toronto. Tom Arban Salina Kassam Moriyama Teshima Architects   A progressive mass timber building The OSSTF is an organisation that represents all educational professionals in the secondary school system in Ontario. The three-storey mass... More

  The building complex, designed to house the headquarters of the state government of São Paulo, Brazil, combines office space, retail space, mixed-use facilities and common spaces for employees and visitors over 210,817 m² (or 2,269,215 ft²). The building concept is based on advanced sustainable architecture principles such as Passive House standards, the pursuit of CO2 neutrality and the circular economy, with BREEAM Outstanding, WELL Platinum, LEED Platinum and FitWel 3 stars certifications, emphasising integration with nature and a regenerative approach to design. Provisual.pro Studio Our 3d visualizations depict the unique architectural appearance of the complex, which aims to be an example of energy effic... More

Studio Gang, the international architecture and urban design firm led by Jeanne Gang, has completed its first project in France: the University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris. Serving as a European hub for scholarship and research in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, the new academic center is described by the architect as "a gracious campus environment" where intellectual work is enlivened with social activity and biodiverse habitat. The Center, part of a new development in the rapidly transforming Paris Rive Gauche neighborhood in the 13th arrondissement, also includes a mixed-use residential building by the locally-based PARC Architectes. The project builds on the successful existing collaborations between the University... More

Koepenicker Strasse is, in terms of architectural history, an important artery between Berlin-Mitte and Kreuzberg. Here rough-and-tumble Berlin can still be experienced today in all its richness of contrast – from turn-of-the-century industrial buildings to the practical functionality of post-war architecture. Here brickwork meets plaster, and metal meets concrete. Klemens Renner coe48 Berlin stands on the corner of Koepenicker Strasse and Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg at Koepenicker Strasse 48, directly opposite the Mediaspree business centre. With its emphatic relief and sculptural interplay of bay windows, green terraces, and large window openings the façade strikes a new note amidst the historical ensemble of buildings on th... More

In the unique Wood City building in Helsinki, Fyra designed a top-notch office space crafted to meet the needs of the information security solutions company WithSecure. The interior design concept strives to express brand identity through a welcoming and warm design, infused with positive vibrancy and modern detailing. The design philosophy is driven by principles of collaboration, storytelling, and a focus on simplicity and care. Wooden architecture is given space to stand out, with design choices carefully curated to elevate, rather than overshadow it. By aligning user needs with extensive research and workplace development process, the workplace design concept embraces elements such as hybrid work, togetherness, diversity, and trust.... More

LMN Architects is pleased to celebrate the completion of the Seattle Aquarium’s new Ocean Pavilion expansion. The project designed in collaboration with Thinc Design is the first substantial addition of the Aquarium since 2007, and features 50,000 SFT of immersive habitats, back-of-house elements, educational spaces, and views of the surrounding natural landscape and the urban waterfront. Guided by an ethos of interconnectivity and mutual care of the one world ocean, the Seattle Aquarium’s Ocean Pavilion is the latest addition to the Seattle Aquarium’s existing facilities on Piers 59 and 60, expanding the Aquarium’s sustainable campus. The new Ocean Pavilion highlights the connection between people and marine life a... More

An obsolete factory in the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona has been carefully restored by Spanish architectural studio b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos (b720). Once the Simon electrical material factory, the building has been transformed into Simon’s new corporate headquarters. The headquarters integrates over 350 employees previously dispersed across two offices into one unified campus. The rehabilitation preserves the concrete structure of the mid-20th-century industrial building while introducing new elements to support its function as a corporate hub, promoting openness and connectivity with the surroundings. Simon was first established in 1916 in the Catalonian town of Olot. The heritage brand is a specialist i... More

Located some thirty miles east of Los Angeles, the new 140,000-square-foot Student Services Building (SSB) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona serves as the primary arrival point for students, families, and alumni. Designed by CO Architects, the facility houses essential administrative and student-facing functions including admissions, financial aid, human resources, and university leadership offices. The building is not only a hub of services but also a symbolic gateway that connects the surrounding parking, student union, and library with the academic core of the campus. The project comprises two wings—one three stories and the other two stories—linked by an open, shaded breezeway that forms a central circulati... More

Maxx Royal Bodrum Resort, a luxurious beachfront property in Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey, sprawls across 250,000 square meters of diverse Aegean landscape. Adjacent to key tourism destinations featuring forests and marine areas, the resort provides an elevated experience and serves as a sustainable model for ecological hospitality, significantly contributing to habitat preservation and biodiversity protection. The design of the resort is a collaboration between the sister companies GEOMIM, which handled the architectural design, and GEO_ID, which led interior design. İbrahim Özbunar   A protected habitat Maxx Royal minimized habitat destruction by revitalizing materials from the abandoned hotel it replaced, significantly reduci... More

Once a series of mercantile piers and industrial uses cut off from the city by Interstate 95, Philadelphia’s Delaware River waterfront has been the subject of numerous planning studies over five decades. The new Park at Penn’s Landing will reconnect Philadelphia to its river’s edge by constructing a transformational civic space at the heart of the city’s waterfront. The I-95 Central Access Philadelphia (CAP) project will guide pedestrians from city sidewalks to an 11.5-acre park with a series of public amenities and attractions.  KieranTimberlake Our scope of work includes the architectural design of the central pavilion which will house and support several park amenities, including a café, ska... More

The Institute for Energy Efficiency at UC Santa Barbara was founded with a mission to develop breakthrough technologies that save energy while advancing the standard of living worldwide. As such, it required a headquarters as forward-thinking as its mission, one that could be a home for dynamic collaboration that extended beyond high-quality laboratory spaces. The new Henley Hall, a 49,900 sq. ft., LEED Platinum laboratory and education building, provides highlyfunctional laboratories, offices, and collaborative space in a long-lived building. Bruce Damonte Henley Hall’s massing is bifurcated along programmatic lines to optimize comfort and operational costs while minimizing energy use. This innovative approach to program organi... More