Workshop-style space
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Project • By McIntosh Poris Architects • Offices
Carhartt Workshop
Located on the second and third floors of the Carhartt Detroit flagship store at 5800 Cass Avenue, the Carhartt Workshop is a collaborative community space conceived as part of the 132-year-old apparel company’s ongoing efforts to support and serve the hardworking and skilled tradespeople of its Detroit hometown. Detroit-based McIntosh Poris Associates developed the design of the Workshop, which was directly informed by Carhartt’s core principles of integrity, perseverance, and hard work. Authenticity is central to the design, which bolsters Carhartt’s present story, history, and future.
Carhartt
The second-floor program includes flexible meeting and gathering Community Rooms for workshops and local commu... More
News • News • 10 May 2022
Eulalia by BURR Studio forms part of a developing strategy to protect Madrid’s industrial heritage
Over the last 30 years, industrial activity in the centre of Madrid has gradually increased as a result of rising property values, noise/environmental protection measures, and various planning regulations that encouraged the property owners to change their land use from industrial to residential. As a result, industrial buildings within the urban fabric are now at risk of extinction, leaving the city reduced to a single use and the disappearance of this typology.
Luis Díaz Díaz
Part of a project series called “Elements for industrial recovery,” Eulalia by BURR Studio is part of a developing strategy to protect the city’s industrial heritage by providing use and occupation alternatives that extend... More
News • News • 11 Oct 2021
New Aarhus School of Architecture fosters workshop-style learning and spatial concepts
Bringing together ten former locations into one building, the new Aarhus School of architecture by ADEPT Architects was conceived as a living laboratory of architecture, fostering workshop-style learning and spatial concepts inside a raw, industrial building that refers to its location on a former railyard. Refined detailing, strong spatial organization and a selective material palette result in an architecture that serves as background, allowing a flexible system for activity.
Rasmus Hjortshøj
Responding to the school’s need for robust and functional spaces, the intentionally simple design allows tutors to explore new and contemporary ways of delivering architectural education. The spatial organization and in... More