The basic concept of this space is based on the wishes of an artist: “I need Colors, Colors and Colors”. She believes that the colors can improve her life. The Colors in this little room affect both body and soul. They produce the body’s natural relaxation, but also encourage the imagination through the geometric color forms.
This duo-block is the first of 4 housing complexes to be realised in this park-like area and is part of an urban development plan from the Lubbers’ bureau. The complex consists of 40 apartments (for rent or for sale) and 3 penthouses with underground parking and storerooms. In the context of the village, the considerable size is minimised by use of a terraced layout and a gradation of outer spaces.
The Mako Group (named after the Mako shark) is a forward-thinking and highly-independent global financial group, made up of five individual businesses, each of which specialises in a different aspect of sales, trading and investment management activities. EDGE was commissioned to create a new working environment for the Group that would express the company’s particular ethos, approach, values and aspirations; future-proof it in terms of additional growth; instil employee pride and provide a sense of unity for its ‘family of personalities’.
A newly-created industrial zone in a peripheral area with no identity, references or language; major road links which cross, divide and model the contemporary landscape; a narrow, long plot between partition walls. Only the distant views on this landscape offer any interesting prospect of a relationship with the outside.
The architects’ office heri&salli from Vienna created in a residential building of a private building owner in Austria a so-called pleated dress”, a façade design that is positioned in front of the building including a grid system lying behind. The bent perforated plates can be shifted individually on a perimeter frame as required.
Two large autonomous blocks were proposed by the council in consecutive urban development plans for an undeveloped area on the edge of Lakerlopen. Their position and shape would distinguish them from the adjacent garden village. Both volumes lie at a right-angle to the rectangular layout of the garden village. One block more or less faces the Tongelrestraat with its long facade, the other looks towards the Paulus Potterstraat.
With more than 50 years of continuous growth, present in 30 countries and 12000 employees, Elecnor is one of the most prominent Spanish groups and benchmark in the infrastructure renewable energy and new technologies sectors. The result of this constant evolution brought about the project, the new headquarters of Elecnor in Madrid, and which has been furnished by Actiu.
Integrating a single-family house on an urban housing estate, while fulfilling today’s functional needs calls for a considerable effort involving the lay-out, the structure and the facilities. Bearing that in mind, the project takes an analysis of the current situation as its starting point, assessing its value as an asset which gives the building its character. The aim is to integrate the project into the surrounding site, rather than dominating or imposing on it.
Architecture being a nocturnal art is brought alive by a glass facade giving a moments respite to the eye.
The entire mass adheres to white, making allowances for more room for time and life to leave their marks and traces, an apparent way to stress the “CONCEPT OF RESPITE AND RESPONSE”.
The special sensation is clean and abstract almost surreal, subtle play of levels gives the structure a sense of ease. The finishes and overall appearances of the house tend to be extremely sober and sustained but the principles of its composition, are based on consideration that are closely associated with minimal art, the relationship between elements, the scale, materials and use of light.
“Poczekalnia” is the eleventh project of the collection “XII”, designed entirely by Karina Wiciak.
“Poczekalnia” (which in Polish means “Waiting Room”) is a restaurant inspired by the prison.
Not only the interior but also the name of the restaurant itself is a kind of metaphor, because the prison itself can be euphemistically described as a kind of waiting room.
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