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News • News • 23 Sep 2020
Foster + Partners designs open spacious glass cube for Hankook Tire’s new headquarters
After a successful previous collaboration on Hankook’s R&D centre in Daejeon, they teamed up again with Foster + Partners to design their new headquarters in Pangyo, on the outskirts of Seoul.
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The result is a glass cube defined by a large atrium that opens up the building. The headquarters houses Hankook's offices and a state-of-the-art business centre that includes a 175-seat auditorium.
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The ten-storey office is wrapped with glass louvres at varying levels of density to moderate light coming in depending on the activities taking place inside. Social areas allow for more light to come in. Workplaces have stricter control complemented by an intelligent artificial lighting system.
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News • Innovations • 8 Jul 2020
Long and low Wyoming house draws from worldly inspirations
High above the town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this long and low house by McLean Quinlan and Berlin Architects has an organic quality that takes inspiration from the client’s love of wide-open beach houses of New Zealand and the chalets of Switzerland. Further inspiration comes from the J.P. Cunningham Cabin, an 1880’s ranch house in Grand Teton National Park.
Credit: David Agnello
The design features a central living space bordered by expansive sliding glass doors that open to a large wooden terrace.
Credit: Peter Cook
The open-plan seating and dining areas flow into a kitchen, which turns leads to an intimate breakfast nook with framed vistas. Also included on this floor is a family room, bunk room for kids and frie... More
Project • By OB Architecture Ltd • Private Houses
Brownlow Road
Nestled within a sloping garden plot in South London, this discrete pavilion style house sits quietly amongst the trees.The house wraps around the boundaries of the site to create a parking courtyard to the front and private contained garden to the rear.A low lying timber clad element with a cantilevering roof contains the bedrooms and bathrooms at the front of the house. This gives way to a long brick wrapping form to the rear, containing an open plan kitchen and dining area with glazed doors leading out to the garden.Photography by Martin Gardner More
Project • By Roselind Wilson Design • Apartments
Fitzrovia, London
Some of the best things in life come in small packages and the recent refurbishment of a compact apartment in Fitzrovia by Roselind Wilson Design is no exception. Charismatic and well-travelled, the client wanted his London pied-à-terre to reflect his vibrant personality with bold colours, textures and some serious wow factor. From a functional point of view, the apartment needed to be able to accommodate visiting friends and family, as well as act as a welcoming bolthole for when he returned from his travels. Hence the need for the second bedroom to also function as a study for times when guests were not in residence.Roselind Wilson Design transformed the 650 sq ft apartment in the heart of London’s West End into a luxury, light-filled pie... More
Project • By OB Architecture Ltd • Private Houses
Shearwaters
Shearwaters is a replacement dwelling in the Pembrokeshire Town of Tenby. It is located on the southern side of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. The site is located at a cliff top boasting panoramic views from Tenby to the west and the Bristol channel to the south.The brief was to create a contemporary 5-bedroom dwelling that was unique but complementing of the typical pitched roof vernacular of the area. The design developed out of a series of detailed studies into the local roof forms, pitches and relationships between geometries.The plan spreads east and west to the boundaries of the long and narrow site to maximise the size of the front and rear gardens. A ground floor form containing the dining and living spaces reaches out to th... More