This year has been an exciting year for WZMH Architects. The firm has secured a number of new projects and won awards for its latest work. However, 2011 is also special because it marks the fiftieth anniversary of WZMH and as such the firm has taken the opportunity to publish a book and launch a new website to mark the occasion.
WZMH Architects 50 The First Fifty Years book
Awards
Bay Adelaide Centre:
2012 OAA Design Excellence Award
Durham Consolidated Courthouse:
Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships – Silver Award, 2012
CUI Brownie Awards – Category 3 – Financing, Risk Management and Partnerships, 2012
RAIC CaGBC Green Building Award of Excellence, 2011
World Architecture Festival Shortlist Finalist, 2011
The initial approach was to single out and magnify the experience of walking from the roadside down to the seaside at this very special place. Therefore a main concern was to slow down this movement and make the path itself a means of refocusing the experiential mode: a measured, restrained approach that creates awareness.
Roof substitution from brick walls every 60 cm to wooden beams supported just at the lower ends so taking advantage of the free space for using it as part of the house and for maintaining the new solar panel system implemented to reduce hitting consumes.
Conceived for Paris Habitat – OPH, the 45-apartment housing project on rue Riquet in the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a follow-up to an award obtained in 2007. The 8-story street-side building is located on a parcel in the midst of a densely populated neighborhood, very close to avenue de Flandre.
Construction that consists of a self-supporting galvanized steel structure, parallel to the existing dividing wall, with ground floor plus eight levels above, accessed via a staircase, dedicated to include flower plants lining the facade, like a vertical garden.
The Green Side-Wall consists of a free-standing structure containing plants that form a protective mass of vegetation against a facade in Barcelona, thus creating a vertical garden.
It is a nine-apartment building, in four stories on one of the best streets of the Roma Norte neighborhood. The project has a variety of typologies: seven duplex apartments with double heights and two simplex apartments, from 880 sq ft to 1,860 sq ft each, with a patio, terrace or roof garden. The units are distributed into two bodies divided by an elongated central patio. Both bodies communicate in all the levels through bridges and stairs.
The main façade express the concept of the interior, through an interplay of terraces that responds to each type of apartment.
The Platform for Arts and Creativity is a project based on an infrastructure that has transformed the Old Open Market Area of Guimarães into a multifunctional space dedicated to artistic, cultural and social-economic activity.
This multipurpose space is dedicated to arts and various creative endeavours and it kicks off with an exhibition by Portuguese painter José de Guimarães, with pieces from his private collection of pre-Colombian, African and Chinese art.
De Kameleon is a supersized housing block including a new shopping center and plenty of parking in the area formerly known as Bijlmermeer.
The Bijlmer is the one area in the Netherlands that sometimes is considered a ghetto. At the moment the area is going through a radical renovation process: an attempt is being made to turn it into a regular Dutch suburb. Standard low-rise housing is introduced that replaces the 10 storey apartment buildings but also the green spaces in-between them. In spite of the new format, the Bijlmer remains exotic: it is the place to be for a sensational Roti or sundried Bats.
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