The “Courbes” project is part of the urban renewal program of the ZAC Charles de Gaulle in Colombes. The area is easily identified thanks to the eclectic architecture of the urban fabric, blending bungalows and apartment houses dating from the 1980s-90s. The tramway has finally reached this neighborhood, which has enabled the beginning of its genuine transformation owing to its highly prized proximity to the business district of La Défense.
Cankaya Municipality Sports and Culture Complex, which continues its tender preparations in Karapınar District of Ankara, was designed by AURA Design Studio. The complex, which includes many functions for the social needs of the region such as indoor swimming pool, gymnasiums, library, family health center, plays an important public role between the valley and the dense residential area.
AURA Design Studio, which has many award-winning projects in different typologies in the fields of architecture, city planning, and landscape architecture, has designed Cankaya Municipality Sports and Culture Center. Cankaya Municipality Sports and Culture Center is located close to the Karapınar Valley which is recreation works in progress, dominating the valley and detectable from the Konya Road. The Project is still in the province of Karapınar District in Ankara, has an indoor pool, sports center, library, workshops, multi-purpose hall and family health center. It aims to assume the role of an important public complex between the valley and dense residential area, accommodating many public functions.
CAMP, the Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning, is an urban planning hotspot in the heart of Prague aiming to improve public discussion about the development of the Czech’s capital city. Striving to become an essential source of clear and accessible information about the present and the future of Prague, it functions as an open platform, a “basecamp” for anyone interested in the collective planning and development of the Capital.
The sparkling soul of Wuhan is inside the Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore
Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore, designed by Wutopia Lab, is a symbolism architectural renovation for Hubei Changjiang Publishing & Media Group. After two and a half years of design and construction, it opened at the end of 2019.
The Vera, a new, urban boutique hotel is now open in the heart of Tel Aviv, adjacent to the renowned Bauhaus Rothschild Boulevard. The Vera accommodates 39 rooms in 4 categories: classic, deluxe, superior and garden room, as well as a bar, spa treatment room, and two spacious, communal rooftop terraces.
The Vera is the first property of Israeli hotelier Danny Tamari, who has conceived a concept of a distinctive ‘local anthology’, which focuses on deep collaborations with local designers, brands and talents to create a local narrative that permeates throughout the hotel’s high-quality amenities, services and furnishings.
Shortly after the successful collaboration for the German Pavilion at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, the two practices playze and Schmidhuber joined forces again to win the invited competition for the Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center. Eight years later the construction has been completed and the center opened to the public. It is located at the heart of the newly built “Ningbo Eastern New Town” adjacent to the city hall and the civic square.
The building is located in a Byzantine settlement on the eastern slopes of Mount Taygetus, at the edge of the Anakolon canyon, looking over the plain of Laconia. In order to climb the canyon, you pass between giant rock formations and near running water to come face to face with the majesty of Mount Taygetus in the distance. The surrounding area is one of outstanding natural beauty and forms part of the Natura 2000 Network.
I knew the area very well, even before undertaking the project. The inhabitants, who love music, had hosted our percussion group on many occasions, to take part in musical activities, seminars and traditional carnival disguises.
The new headquarters of the global hotel search trivago is located in the Dusseldorf MedienHafen. To create an appropriate company headquarters for the international team from more than 50 countries, slapa oberholz pszczulny | sop architekten designed an urban campus that offers the highest quality to up to 2,000 employees.
The site is exposed at the foot of the harbour basin A on Kesselstraße and consists of two buildings and generous open spaces. The organically shaped structures open invitingly to the water and offer a playful balance at the intersection of the numerous building lines and edges of the MedienHafen.
Sop Team: Zbigniew Pszczulny, Wolfgang Marcour, Jascha Klusen, Eva Stach,Jana Beermann, Michael Knutti, Christian Litz, Frank Ostrowski,Marek Struski, Ismail Tanriverdi and others
Interior Design: raum.atelier, Goldemann-Sabbak and Hasiewicz Interior Design
Our client expresses a requirement but we change it into a strength. Facing a Budget issue we propose to find the constructive origins of the Building and find a primal language, industrial, expressed by the material nudity: exposed concrete, corrugated bars, clean surfaces in ceilings and walls.
It is located in the ground floor of a 1981 dwelling building, along Gran Via, at the hart of Murcia, near to Plaza de las Flores, the city’s gastronomic area.
Rumene manor is marked in Livonia maps since the 14thcentury. The present Neo-Gothic manor house was built at the end of the 19th century by architect T. Seyler. At the stage of initiating the renovation project, the building was not recognized as a monument of architecture and therefore that allowed a more flexible way of treating architectural heritage from the point of view of needs of contemporary way of living.