Le Terrazze provided an opportunity to demonstrate that an existing structure can be retrieved, giving it a totally new concept. The aim was to create a multi-functional building to combine living spaces with common areas: an hotel, an auditorium for cultural events, a wellness center, a restaurant, a business and a commercial area, a residence with different houses typology. A suitable solution for aggregate the residents of the complex, to strengthen social relations but also for facilitate the relations between the building, the city, and the surrounding territory, respecting the housing and cultural traditions of the place. From the recovery of the past has been created a new innovative project, a pleasant place to live or simply to enjoy. An opportunity to increase services to residents, business people, tourists. A highly stimulating environment to live, work, socialize, shop or relax. A new scenographic implant in the Treviso area.
The International Garden Festival Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada, 2014-07-14 – Imagined by sixty-five designers from Seoul, Santiago de Compostela, New York, Philadelphia, Basel, Amsterdam, Paris and Montreal, the 22 contemporary gardens of the 2014 edition offer an original way to discover the strong and fragile beauties of our environment. These installations invite visitors to enter and contemplate new ways of seeing the landscape and the world.
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The Courthouse building designis integrated with the new master plan for the entrance to Jerusalem complex. The building houses all the judiciary levels except the Supreme Court, and contains 135 courtrooms and 156 judges’ chambers. The Courthouse structure integrates into the urban fabric of the site while incorporating a modest, human scale design and emanating judicial authority.
The ‘Raw Australian Shed’ by Kennedy Associates Architects has been shortlisted in the 2014 World Architecture Festival Awards for the AGL Lakeside Pavilion at the Australian Botanic Garden in Sydney. Drawing together two highly symbolic concepts: the semi permanent theatrical marquee and the more permanent vernacular shed, it’s a generous building that inspires and lifts you.
Location: Mt Annan Drive, Mt Annan, NSW, Australia
Photography: Peter Bennetts
Software used:Vectorworks
Site Area: 416 Ha
Footprint: 350m2
GFA: 350m2
Height: 6m
Cost: $650 000 AUD
Cost/m2: $1857 AUD
Design Team and Collaborators: Kennedy Associates Architects, The Australian Botanic Gardens (Client, Landscape Architect), Bay and Coast Metal, BRH Steel Constructions, Zadro Constructions, Cardno.
This was the challenge Atelier TT was given with regards a project brief by a client who owns several businesses. As such, Atelier TT focused on the creation of a social platform which encourages interactions between the occupants and helps to turn neighbours into friends.
The crypt is the most obvious plot between east and west of the Mediterraneus, and enhances the union of the peoples of this sea. Intent in its construction were involved arabian, apulian-lombard stonemasons. The restoration project involved the interior of the crypt as a whole, from the columns to the capitals, to the creation of a new paving stone of Trani above crawl space, the recovery of the existing window frames and doorways, the system micro LED lighting.
The subject is simple: To do a project of 15 housings at the entrance of the little town of Riaillé, Loire-Atlantique, France.
The subject is complex: How to surpass the global and particular production context of the project to propose generous housings, vectors of using value, at 1 250 €/m² of living area?
The extension is the Alzheimer wing of the establishment. Located on the south of the plot, it supports bedrooms and the common area in continuity of the ground floor of the residence and covers a parking lot on the plot-ground. It is also a retaining wall which has permitted to extend, flattened and thus to, make the garden accessible by the elderly.
It is a lot in a Country Club founded in 1950, to which the years have added the incalculable value of a splendid forestation. A combination of different species of trees and bushes provide scenic value to the place throughout the year.
The new residential house has been built on the basement of the old one and is now accessible through a generous staircase.
The basic idea for this single-story residence follows the analogy of an old Roman atrium, however, in this case the courtyard opens up towards the terrace and expands to the garden.
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