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Project • By Order Matter • Offices
Found Founded Headquarters
Found Founded is a design studio working across different scales and disciplines, from product design to furniture, spatial design, graphics and digital experiences. Its new headquarters provides a place from which the studio can continue to work and make in its own way, while establishing a new centre for what lies ahead. The building was conceived as an environment in which Found Founded’s people, work and the things they create can naturally accumulate over time.
Joel Moritz
Joel Moritz
Joel Moritz
Joel Moritz
Joel Moritz
The site lies within a low-rise residential neighbourhood in Seogyo-dong, one layer removed from its busy commercial streets. Multi-family houses and older homes sit alongside external st... More
Project • By RAMÓN ESTEVE ESTUDIO • Private Houses
Clos de la Vila
Located on a hill overlooking a rural town in Valencia, Clos de la Vila reinterprets the traditional local gable-roof house through a contemporary architectural language. Rather than replicating the vernacular model literally, the project transforms it into a composition of adjoining volumes, each topped with a mono-pitched roof. The alternating orientation of these roofs gives the house a dynamic silhouette and reinforces the identity of each volume, while maintaining a coherent overall form.
Mariela Apollonio
Mariela Apollonio
Composition and Spatial Strategy
The layout emerges from fragmenting the building into a series of offset volumes. These subtle shifts create gaps at their intersections, giving rise to exterior spaces s... More
Project • By MDSzerbaty Associates Architecture, LLC • Hospitals
SUNY College of Optometry 7th Floor Eye Center
The 7th floor University Eye Center at SUNY College of Optometry, located in a high-rise building overlooking Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, serves over 60,000 patients annually. After years of heavy use, the clinical exam rooms required renovation, and the Eyewear Retail Center—which provides glasses and lenses—had become outdated and was partitioned off from public view. The existing 11,000 sq. ft. layout was inefficient for both teaching and clinical care, with long distances between waiting areas, bathrooms, testing rooms, and exam rooms causing delays and overcrowding.
Pavel Bendov / Arch Explorer
Working with doctors and administration, MDSA developed a plan that organized the 24 exam rooms into three “pod&r... More