Mixed use building

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

OLVIA is located on a plot of special relevance for the neighborhood of Bellavista in Quito, Ecuador since it’s on the main access street and has a prominent slope that helps to enhance the position of the building in its surroundings. JAG Studio The morphological complexity of the terrain and its pronounced topography made the boundary between the building and the public space one of the determining elements in designing the project. To provide a correct solution and avoid the creation of walls as enclosures, the volume that was proposed opens up to the public space as it descends along the perimeter of the property. JAG Studio In this strategy, the pedestrian access was located in the highest point of the lot, and the ac... More

Designed in 1958, the CNIT is a mixed-use center (offices, shops, services), an emblematic building of Paris La Défense and an icon of modernist architecture. For the past 20 years,  Cro&Co Architecture has accompanied the transformation of the CNIT, adapting it to changes in its environment while preserving its identity. © Jad Sylla In May 2024, to coincide with the arrival of the new Eole RER station in the CNIT basement, where up to 70,000 visitors per day will pass through, the team created new connecting spaces and a new shopping mall (45 shops over 9,000 m2). © Jad Sylla For this restructuring, the team has developed : - A high-quality range of shops and services, with exclusive brands (Toca Soci... More

Round Sky and Angular Ground The phrase, “The sky is round and the ground is angular.” is an old-saying found in the Chinese astronomic book, Zhou bi suan jing. Ancient Fareast Asians acknowledged the boundary between the sky and buildings as curves. For that reason, traditional Korean buildings have distinctively curved roof lines. We took a philosophical approach in terms of designing building rather than the curved form itself. KSPNC KSPNC Jinbo Choi Jinbo Choi Filling the Triangular Site The shape of the site is unusually triangular which dissects a road that meets its one sharp corner. Sitting right in front of the Mungyeong City Hall and the Mojeon Park, the site open to outdoor spaces in the neighbo... More

Conceived as a creative community, Main + Hollister Live/Work aims to mix uses to enliven the neighborhood and encourage cross-feritization between tenants. The complex comprises several unique units: creative office space with flexibility to add or convert to retail space, private office, private residential, and live/work space. The various uses are bound together by shared parking at grade on an L-shaped lot on Santa Monica’s busy Main Street. Although they share an architectural language which includes generous daylighting and floor-to-ceiling clearance, similar finishes and proportions, roof and outdoor terraces or private space, the units are arranged to maintain privacy from one another and from the street. Art Gray Art... More

Pacific Landing is a mixed-use, Net Zero, LEED Platinum-certified affordable housing project designed for people with disabilities and low-income residents. Located on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica, near downtown and the beach, it replaces a former gas station on a 14,160-square-foot corner lot with a 42,000-square-foot, four-story building developed by Community Corp of Santa Monica. The project provides 37 residences along with social services, a café, and community amenities to support its residents holistically. Patrick TIGHE Architecture Patrick TIGHE Architecture Architecture rooted in sustainability and communityThe design reinterprets traditional home imagery through broken-down massing, creating smaller volume... More

Belvedere Gardens is a mixed-use development located in Waterloo that provides 98 apartments within two towers. Developed by Braeburn Estates, a joint venture between Canary Wharf Group plc and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company, Belvedere Gardens is the third building to be launched within the Southbank Place masterplan. Ground floor retail units and a considered landscaping strategy help to increase variety and activity within the immediate urban area, with vibrant, public-facing active frontages.    The two towers step up from 11 storeys to 21 storeys in height, addressing the existing urban forms and strengthening overall visual coherence across the wider masterplan which extends to 5.25ha. During the early stages of... More

Repton Gardens is a sustainability-focused Build-to-Rent development, designed by GRID Architects with Main Contractor McLaren on behalf of Quintain, for their BtR management brand, Quintain Living. The mixed-use scheme feeds into the Wembley Park masterplan and delivers 396 bright and spacious BtR homes, a new 1200sqm Health Centre, and 1000sqm of retail space. Eight retail units front onto the extended Wellers Way and to Humphrey Repton Lane, alongside the GP surgery – all of which are managed by Quintain’s Wembley Park estate retail and management team.  © Jack Hobhouse Carefully articulated in 3 buildings around a large podium garden, the form is two stepped buildings either side of a shared courtyard with a... More

Brunel Street Works is a vibrant new urban quarter for Canning Town, containing 975 homes, of which 35% are affordable and 30% are designed for families. Completed in Autumn 2022, the mixed-use scheme was delivered in joint venture by Opal (Countryside Partnerships and Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing), with L&Q, Fizzy Living and Linden Homes (part of Vistry Group) as partners - Linden Homes sold the open market properties. The GLA held a mini competition tender process which was won by the Opal Joint Venture Board, a joint venture between Galliford Try and Thames Valley Housing. The GLA’s brief was for a residential led scheme through new forms of funding and the provision of circa 96,000 sq ft of mixed uses. JTP were appoint... More

Working on behalf of Anthology, part of the Lifestory Group, GRID Architects have secured planning consent for the residential redevelopment of the former Woodlands Care Home and the Grade II listed Masters House site, located in Kennington. The proposals will deliver 126 new homes in a mix of sizes and tenure types, including large family homes. In addition, to help tackle London’s housing crisis, 24% of the new homes will be affordable (base on hab rooms), with a focus on low cost rented housing which are in high demand locally.  Since February 2021, GRID, Lifestory, and Lambeth Council have been working in close partnership after a previous proposal was rejected at appeal. GRID was then appointed to develop a smaller and more... More