Public park

Bixiga is part of the history of JBMC Architecture and Urbanism and of its founding partner, João Batista Martinez Corrêa. Brother of José Celso Martinez Corrêa, founder of Teatro Oficina, João Batista has developed a close relationship with the neighborhood, its cultural life, and residents’ long-standing demand for an open space dedicated to community life. It was within this context that the firm developed its proposal for the Bixiga Municipal Park Competition, held for the creation of the new park. Although JBMC’s proposal was not selected as the winning entry, the study is based on the environmental restoration of the site and the creation of new connections with its surroundings to establi... More

Flowering plants are followed by perennials – forgotten location in Arnhem has gradually developed into an exuberant urban garden.Arnhem city council presented an ambitious vision for a radical greening of the city. Commissioned by the municipality, LOLA Landscape Architects studied the area of the South-East Canal of Arnhem, at the height of Eusebuisk Church and Stadskantoor, and made several proposals for greening this area and steps to achieve an overarching green structure. Arjan Boekel for LOLA Landscape Architects One of the most striking proposals within this initiative is Super Blossom (Superbloei), a project that removes large sections of pavement and replaces them with lush green spaces to promote biodiversity. The are... More

The construction of the new Sport Hall becomes an opportunity to create a gathering place, a landmark along the Melezza River floodplain park that is in fact the main public space of the three villages recently aggregated into one municipality. It is not just a gymnasium but a covered space, a theater, a hall in the middle of the woods, a rooftop in the clearing. The forest becomes the main façade and theatrical backdrop of the building, filtering the passage of light by regulating the radiation in both winter and summer months, and actually defining the depth of the interior space. The main southern entrance faces the direction of the Melezza River, and leads directly to the upper balcony, the basement changing rooms, and the kitche... More

“ Freedom is the soil, air and fertilizer that will grow the flora of thought and when bringing thought to ideal, the ideal can only happen when people in society are able to think freely.”Puey Ungphakorn , 1974 Pat Phuchamni Pat Phuchamni "Dedicate life for the nation and the people" PUEY UNGPHAHORN CENTENARY HALL FOR ALL Thammasat is a long-established university in Thailand, formerly named “The University of Moral and Political Sciences”. This project was initiated in 2016 in the occasion of 100thanniversary birthday of Prof. Dr. Puey Ungphakorn, the 10th chancellor of Thammasat university. He was named by UNESCO as one of the world's most important people for his "impeccable ethics". He dedicated... More

"Dense-city: An Urban Re-typology" presents an urban strategy that repurposes the role of traffic intersections, which are ubiquitous physical infrastructures in every city. On a global scale, the ratio between traffic intersections and the rest of the urban spaces is a stark reminder of how much our cities value the convenience of motor vehicles over the utility of pedestrians. To solve this problem, our urban planners have continued to add multilayers of pedestrian walkways as means to move the mass from one place to another. Undeniably, we have left the priority given to the cars unchallenged. We have wasted almost every corner in the city for nothing else, but traffic and its congestion. Caption But we see more potential for these... More

Skylab Architecture alongside 2.ink Studio, worked in close collaboration with Portland Parks to create a 16-acre park in a neighborhood of NE Portland. The design team developed the park around an integrated strategy that creates both passive native meadow areas that require limited maintenance as well as intensively used spaces that provide active program elements for park users. The neighborhood is home to many longstanding residences as well as an increasingly diverse range of new incoming ethnic groups. The park’s program elements were developed in coordination with area residents through a series of public open houses and ongoing meetings with the project’s Design Advisory Group.   The park’s development in... More

Battery Park is a new 12 000 sqm (1.2 hectre) urban park situated at a key entranceway to one of Africa’s most visited tourist destinations, the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa. Developed as the nucleus of a larger urban vision for the district, the site includes a park and piazza that effectively conceal a 1 206-bay parking facility as well as new pedestrian routes to invigorate the precinct with activity. The site is of archaeological importance as it contains the remnants of one of the city’s oldest structures, coastal fortification the Amsterdam Battery. This provided a unique opportunity for architecture and urban design firm dhk – to pay homage to the historic landmark whilst incorporating a parking facility and providin... More

Project : SCP Wuhan Qingshan InCity Master Plan Location: Wuhan, China Type: Mixed-Use Size: 370,000 sqm Client: Szitic Commercial Property Co. Ltd Design: Girimun Ltd 2012 Opening: 2016 We create SPC Wuhan Qingshan InCity as a truly integrated mixed-use development: a large 7-levels shopping centre connects all building and functions on site amidst a vibrant indoor/outdoor urban experience through a sequence of interconnected public spaces, plazas and event areas. The retail routes are conceived as pedestrian short cut circulation from the underground metro connections towards the iconic hotel/office tower to the West and the residential towers and commercial outdoor street to the East. Girimun Architects: http://girimun.co... More

Project: Regal Emporia Location: Great Noida, India Type: Mixed-Use Size: 50,000 m2 Client: Investor Clinic Design: Girimun Ltd 2011 Opening: 2015 This mixed-use development in Greater Noida Extension will act as a commercial hub for the developing region. Five levels of retail and a green terraced roof form a shopping and entertainment platform directly connected to 45,000 sqm of office space distributed in two towers. The towers are strategically positioned to enclose, shade and shelter a beautiful semi-sunken out-door event space that opens up towards the residential vicinity. Girimun Architects: http://girimun.com/ More

Project: Central Festival Chiang Mai Location : Chiang Mai, Thailand Type: Retail centre Size: 210,000 m2 Client: Central Pattana Design : Girimun Ltd 2012 Opening: 2015 Sitting on a prominent corner on Chiang Mai ring road, this lifestyle retail centre combines indoor shopping and outdoor enjoyment. The main building features 5 levels of shopping, eating, entertainment, multiplex cinema and ice-skating rink and extends outwards through a system of canopy links that connect to event plazas and pavilion buildings amongst landscaped gardens. The curves of our contemporary design find inspiration on the surrounding rice paddy fields of the valley where the early “Lanna” - meaning “million terraces” – culture has prospered. Gir... More

Project: Castelo Branco Office Park Location: São Paulo, Brazil Type: Offices Size: 240,000 m2 Client: Tishman Speyer Design: Girimun Ltd 2012 Opening: n/a Taking the 2 existing buildings as a starting point, we have created a phased commercial development with additional 6 office and hotel towers in a total of 240,000 sqm stretching along 500m. The towers are laid out in a soft rotation angle from each other so to allow more space between them, guarantee open views, and create a dynamic outdoor inner space rich in landscape, water features, canopied walkways and supportive retail. The later twin towers sit on a retail podium that gradually steps up amidst recreational open courtyards to overcome the existing 12m level gap on site... More

Project：Porto Olimpico Location：Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Type：Mixed-use master plan Size：1,000,000 m2 Client：Competition Design：Girimun Ltd 2011 with DG Architect: Mauro Resnitzky Opening：n/a Collaborating firm: Burold Happold Engineering + DG Arquitetura e Planejamento As part of a package of investments for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the regeneration of 85 hectares of land near the old docks will create more than 1 million sqm of apartments, hotels, office buildings and a convention centre. The project addresses two moments: the completion of support facilities for the 2016 Olympic Games (10,600-room accommodation for media and referees, a media-centre and 3 to 5-star hotels) and its transformation post-Games into... More

Project：Porto Olimpico Location：Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Type：Mixed-use master plan Size：1,000,000 m2 Client：Competition Design：Girimun Ltd 2011 with DG Opening：n/a As part of a package of investments for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the regeneration of 85 hectares of land near the old docks will create more than 1 million sqm of apartments, hotels, office buildings and a convention centre. The project addresses two moments: the completion of support facilities for the 2016 Olympic Games (10,600-room accommodation for media and referees, a media-centre and 3 to 5-star hotels) and its transformation post-Games into a vibrant mixed-use extension of the city centre. A green loop circuit of public spaces embraces the whole m... More

Project: Longfor Baoshan Mixed-use Complex Location: Shanghai, PRC Type: Mixed-use Size: 175,000 m2 Client: Longfor Real Estate Co. Ltd. Design: Girimun Ltd 2014 Architect: Mauro Resnitzky Opening: 2016 This mixed-use development consists of a 5-storeys retail podium and retail basement of 74,800 sqm and two SoHo 86m-tall towers housing 1040 individual units. It will bring a fresh air of contemporary urban lifestyle to this outskirt area of Shanghai. The shopping environment with its fluid sequence of spaces, atriums and corridors is integrated seamlessly with the surroundings and the vicinity as a whole through multi-level links, bridges and passages that brings together the local metro station to the local residential neighborho... More