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News • News • 9 Jun 2022
Puffing Billy Railway Visitor Centre by Terroir in Emerald Victoria, Australia
In the scenic emerald Lake Park region 40 kilometers east of Melbourne the new Discovery Centre by Terroir celebrates the much-loved Puffing Billy Railway at one of the important stops on the railway route.
Peter Bennetts
The complex and angular building accommodates a café, commercial kitchen, visitor information services, interpretation displays, function rooms, staff offices, retail, educational facilities and amenities.
Peter Bennetts
According to the architects the complex brief resulted in a building larger than would have been historically found on the railway line. However, a decision was made to create a different and new spatial experience that is different from older, more conventional train station... More
Trade Fides
Reconstruction of history
They do not always build offices in new modern administrative buildings with doubled floor and modular layout system. Sometimes, the company decides to stay in their long-term headquarters and renovate it. Even if it has some bad predisposition and restrictions, but also it’s own Genium loci and history. This was the case of the Trade Fides technological company, which is a specialist on safety systems and IT technology. It has been based in the wider center of Brno, which transforms into a modern administrative city center. They decided to insert modern offices into the existing building.
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Modern environment in historic object
New spaces located on the ground floor of a two-storey building fro... More
Project • By JM Architecture • Housing
Dolomites House
The idea of remodelling this house in the Dolomite mountains at the border between Italy and Austria started because of an uncomfortable living situation. The existing building presented a very large and high entry hall with the rooms arranged around it, and it was always necessary to walk through it to move around the house. On the ground floor, the kitchen, dining room, living room and the stube were not proportioned to the size of the house and they couldn’t get enough light.
For this reason the entire ground floor has been demolished, and a new interior clear glass envelope with a gyp wall inserted is now the only separation among the different spaces. Few new volumes have been added around the house to extend the entry hall and the... More