Urban transformation

A building-sculpture placed within a circular park, extending its bold red identity into the landscape through terraces and outdoor seating.

With its inflated geometry and striking red envelope, the AI9 façade embodies the reimagining of a formerly fragmented structure into a cohesive contemporary hub for creativity.

The images on the left showcase the reinterpretation of the Triumph building with a cohesive architectural identity. The aerial perspective on the right clearly reveals how the building blends into the surrounding park.

Inflated forms and bold color reflecting the building’s role as a hub for innovation and creativity.

Framed by the surrounding trees, the building’s soft, sculptural red form extends into the park, blurring the boundary between the architecture and the outdoor café space below.

Project • By THINK Architectural Bureau • Offices

AI9 Startup Campus

The AI9 Startup Campus is located in the Circular Park area, in the very heart of Yerevan. AI9 Startup Campus is a unique project whose mission is to empower Armenian and international entrepreneurs, accelerate startup growth, and strengthen the technological ecosystem by offering facilities, advanced programs, and a supportive community network, while simultaneously building bridges with global centers and investors. Spanning a total area of 2,900 m², this multifunctional hub features two underground and three above-ground floors with café-workshop areas, offices, IT meet-up halls, art galleries, and a spacious terrace surrounded by greenery. The 3rd and underground floors are not yet operational, but their completed design al... More

Project • By Ikon Proje • Apartments

Şeker District Urban Transformation

Şeker Urban Tranformation is located in Melikgazi, Kayseri in Turkey. The project, which completed in 2016, is an urban transformation project. Caption Caption Caption Caption More

Thomas Illemann

Project • By LINK Arkitektur • Residential Landscape

Bispehaverne

According to the 2016 Police Safety Index, Bispehaven in Hasle was the most unsafe residential area in the country. A study carried out by Østjysk Bolig, the owner of the buildings, showed that insecurity and crime were closely connected to the existing area plan and design. But an ambitious renovation project led by LINK has changed all that. Thomas Illemann Disconnected basement rooms, deep and covered staircases and deserted footpaths were all factors that made residents feel unsafe. So the goal of the extensive transformation was clear and simple: to create more safety, better living opportunities and more freedom for residents. Thomas Illemann Original residential complexBispehaven is a residential complex not far fr... More

The project renovatd two adjoining buildings overlooking Plaza de la Magdalena

Joan Guillomat

Formerly a department store, now a high end hotel, Radisson Collection Hotel Magdalena Plaza

A direlict public space tranformed into a vibrant pedestrian space

Dignified and atemporal, contemporary facade with precision-cut aluminiom balustrades, developed with a local firm manufacturing plane parts.

Human scale plays an important role in integrating these formerly direlict buildings into a new, renovated pedestrian space.

Project • By Borgos Pieper • Hotels

Hotel Radisson Collection Magdalena Plaza 5*

Bringing back the palm trees: an elegant new hotel and public square in the heart of Seville Borgos Pieper has completed a new five-star Radisson Collection hotel and transformed Plaza de la Magdalena in the historic centre of Seville. The LEED Gold project has entirely reinvented two buildings, which together define the western edge of the square: ‘Magdalena’, a former 1960s glass-fronted department store, and ‘Rioja’, a smaller office building bordering Calle Rioja. Magdalena had once been the site of the Hotel Paris, an ornate hotel fronted by palm trees – the fashionable place to be seen at the end of the nineteenth century. The design seeks to restore a some of this lost glamour, creating a stylish new de... More

HHF transforms a neglected urban courtyard into a lush apartment complex in Basel

Maris Mezulis

News • News • 27 Jan 2023

HHF transforms a neglected urban courtyard into a lush apartment complex in Basel

In the heart of one of the urban blocks of Basel, lined with residential buildings around its perimeter, this 9-year project by HHF Architects seeks to revitalize unusable, forgotten spaces by inserting a single apartment building. The design comprises 15 units with lush landscaping, revamping a desolate courtyard with parking areas and firewalls. Laurian Ghinitoiu The complexities and challenges of the project, the geometry of the plot, distance from the surrounding walls, getting the respective owners and neighbours onboard, etc., evolved into the particulars of the design. A cross-shaped framework and building volumes with expansions and setbacks provide abundant sunlight, privacy, and outdoor spaces. Maris Mezulis Th... More

Wezo Hotel by Wedo Design interweaves art, culture, lifestyle and business

XIANG AO

News • News • 16 Sep 2022

Wezo Hotel by Wedo Design interweaves art, culture, lifestyle and business

Located in Qingyang, the Wezo Hotel designed by Wedo Design is a social platform for art, culture, lifestyle and business. The design idea revolves around the circle of art life and creating a social space for urban youth to interact. XIANG AO The exhibition hall portrays a romantic synthesis while the collection shop, with a mysterious aura around it, replicates the atmosphere of a castle. A grape-trellis-shaped stone pillar highlights the open-ended cafe and bar, creating a vintage look. Corridors are paired with wooden panes, giving a classical charm. XIANG AO The transition from the entrance creates a liminal space enhanced by a water bridge side and tones of subtle luxury. The design integrates characteristics... More

Coenen Sättele

Project • By Coenen Sättele Architecten • Social Housing

Kerkveld, Vaals

Close to the German border in Vaals a social housing project of the early sixties wasn’t up to date anymore. Most residents left the houses before the housing cooperation decided to tear down the 47 small houses. The demolition is done in a way to keep as much material as possible reusable. Coenen Sättele Coenen Sättele The question was to give the area a new, modern architecture look and to realize an ecological and social friendly project. The development of the Vaals Kerkveld project offers four types of social houses for different target groups and a collective garden in the middle, which is connected with the public space by semipublic paths. On the street side of the houses trees and hedges guarantee the int... More