Archive for 2012
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Article source: PLANT – Atelier Peter Kis
The Great Rock was created during the major reconstruction of the Zoo between 1909 and 1912, based on the specialist instructions of the Zoo Construction Committee in the capital. The zoological tasks were supervised by the director of the zoo at the time, Dr Adolf Lendl, and the construction technology aspects by Dr Kornél Neuschloss. The primary purpose of the artificial rock was to help the Zoo, that already operated on a overly tight area, appear larger and provide greater space. Thus instead of the completely flat area, with the vertical elevation, a divided and at the same time larger surface would be created with the latest and most spectacular animal runs of the time.
 Model
- Architects: PLANT – Atelier Peter Kis
- Project: The Metamorphosis Of The Great Rock
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
- Architects Team: Bea Molnár, Péter Nyitrai, Tamás Ükös
- Staff: Péter Romvári, Orsolya Hőna, Péter Hámori, Róbert Erdélyi, Piroska Varga, Ádám Potzner
- Renders, plans: PLANT – Atelier Peter Kis Kft.
- Photography: Zsolt Batár
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Article source: Smlwrld
The Paris-Roubaix is a one-day, 260km cycling event in the north of France ridden mostly over bluestone cobbles, it is known as The Hell of the North for obvious reasons. With Parisian bistro references and plenty of historic Melbourne bluestone, the new Hell of the North has been crafted into and around an original 19th century hotel on the threshold of Fitzroy and Collingwood.
 Image Courtesy Peter Bennetts
- Architects: Smlwrld
- Project: Hell of The North
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Owner’s Name: Adam Ferrante
- Project Team: Lucas Chirnside, Bianca Looney, Albert Chandra, Kieron Meagher
- Builder: Qube Construction
- Engineer: Coulthard Shim Pty Ltd
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Article source: OFIS Arhitekti
GREEN ATRIUMS AS DIVIDERS OF THE SPACE
The new volume is positioned behind the existing villa with individual cut outs – “green bays” in function of the extended external park coming into the pavilion.
Inside they form divisions between internal spaces and create dynamic, light and calming atmosphere.
 Crossroad offices
- Architects: OFIS Arhitekti
- Project: Crossroad offices
- Location: Leechgase , Graz, Austria
- Type: office, lecture halls
- Client: private
- Site Area: 2160 m2
- Bldg. Area: 971 m2
- Gross Floor Area: 2528 m2
- Gross Floor Ratio: 2,6
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Article source: UNStudio
As with many cities in China, Hangzhou is undergoing rapid urban change. Whilst the city centre has been beautifully developed around the West Lake area, opportunities for industry and commerce have shifted the city’s expansion towards the riverfront area in the South and towards the East, where the Hangzhou New District is located.
 Day aerial view
- Architects: UNStudio
- Project: Master plan Hangzhou New District
- Location: Hanghzou East, Hanghzou, China
- Client: Hangzhou Railway Investment Co., Ltd.
- Building surface: 1,741,000 m2
- Building site: 367600 m2
- Programme: Masterplan
- Status: Competition
- UNStudio Team: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Gerard Lozekootand Filippo Lodi, Marcin Koltunskiand Jae Young Lee, Colette Perras, Valerie Tam, Zhuang Zahng, Lingxiao Zhang, Ramon van der Heijden, Ren Yee, Bartek Winniki, Tomas Mork
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Article source: 3XN Architects
A team of 3XN architects, Aarhus Architects, Nickl & Partner Architechten, Grontmij and Kirstine Jensen Studio has won the prestigious competition for the expansion of Copenhagen’s main hospital, Rigshospitalet, which is expected to be completed in early 2017
The winning proposal for the 76,000 m2 extension of Copenhagen’s most centrally located hospital ensures efficient and timesaving logistics, while daylight, green spaces and views of the neighboring park contribute to the wellbeing of patients, staff and visitors.
 Future Main Hospital
- Architects: 3XN Architects
- Project: Future Main Hospital
- Location: Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Client: Rigshospitalet
- Functions: Operating rooms, wards, administration, research & education, outpatient departments, radiology.
- Size: 76,000 (Moreover: Patient hotel: 7,400 m2, multi-storey car park 17,000 m2)
- Facade: Glass and Jura Gelb natural stone
- Floors: 9 (scales down to 4)
- Expected sustainability certification: BREEAM Excellent
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Article source: Kohlmayr Lutter Knapp
The design principle at the restaurant located in a downtown shopping mall in Vienna was to avoid establishing a spectacle located in a place of excessive percipience. First and foremost the people, the excellent food, the taste should be percepted not the design. The new skin, the visible layer, consists of modificated, recombined and low priced materials which are quite unusual for the use in an gastronomic environment. They receive new haptic and optic characteristics through it’s large scale adjustment.
 Image Courtesy Markus Schieder
- Architects: Kohlmayr Lutter Knapp
- Project: Di Piu
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Designer: Christian Knapp & Jonathan Lutter
- Total Storeys: 1
- Floor Area: 250 sqm
- Photographer: Markus Schieder
- Design / Completion Date: 01 May 2010
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Article source: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos
Universidad EAN – El Nogal Campus – Classroom building is the result of a competition by invitation, where we propose to set up a university campus where the buildings are as important as the common open spaces. A place where students can meet, study, rest, … a second home for education and fun. The strategy was to generate a large colective space, a central upward spiral, surrounded by a classroom building (Phase 1) and the offices and welfare building.
 Image Courtesy Rodrigo Dávila
- Architects: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos
- Project: Universidad EAN – El Nogal Campus – Classroom building
- Location: Bogotá, Colombia
- Client: Universidad EAN
- Built area: 14016.8 m2
- Construction date: 2009 -2011
- Architectural design: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos – Taller de Arquitectura de Bogotá /TAB
- Design team: María Alejandra Echeverry, María Paula González, Elizabeth Añaños, Sebastián Chica, Alexander Roa, Guillermo Barahona, Alex Larin
- Photographer: Rodrigo Dávila – Daniel Bonilla
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Article source: Hemonides Applied Arts
The conceptual design for Nanolab was led by the client’s wish for a strong location branding. The final design to be executed however was limited by a relatively modest budget.
The client was very aware of the importance of the interior design and maintained that the workspaces and workflow were to be executed precisely in a specific design as it was highly influential determining the business success.
 Nanolab hair & body care
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Article source: Edwards Moore
A flagship store for the Brazilian shoe brand, the fitout needed to reflect the internationally renowned brand as well as support the unique product.
A dream commission that required an equally unique response. Housed in a corner site in Melbourne’s QV centre, a highly visible high traffic area it was essential that the fitout provided a visual feast for the passing pedestrian, a dynamic and constantly evolving space. Internally the need was to create another world, a sensory delight.
 Melissa Shoes
- Architects: Edwards Moore
- Project: Melissa Shoes (M Dreams)
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
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