240 St Georges Terrace is a premium grade office building at the entrance to the core of Perth’s CBD – the corner of the Terrace and Milligan Street. A prime asset, 240 St Georges Terrace has the potential to strengthen its position as one of the most desirable leasing destinations, both nationally and internationally. Hames Sharley was commissioned to provide interior design and architecture services to 240 St Georges Terrace.
Article source: TCA | Thier + Curran Architects Inc.
This new 43,000 square foot, 3 storey building serves as the central administration building for Haldimand County, functioning as the ‘Town Hall’ for this county in rapid transition from its rural agricultural past due to its proximity to the GTA. The building has been sensitively scaled and massed to ensure the contextual fit in a small town with adjacent single family dwellings. The building is simple and economical, reflecting the small town ethos of cost restraint. However, attention to detail and design quality elevate the building: careful planning to break down the scale inside and out, selective use of rich, natural materials at high-profile locations and strategic use of a broad colour palette to add warmth all work to avoid the usual banal character of government offices.
The Columbia Building supports the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services. Housing workspace, a visitor reception area, and public meeting spaces, the 11,640-square-foot building not only supports the engineering department of the wastewater treatment facility but also functions as an immersive educational experience, all integrated within a sustainable landscape.
The office complex is built on the area of the former Prague Joint-Stock Engineering Works, formerly Ruston Company, known under the popular name Rustonka. The triangular plot is close to the Invalidovna residential area, metro station and the Olympik Hotel, near the center of Prague, close to the right bank of the Vltava River.
Ontario’s first mass timber commercial building in over a hundr ed years, 80 Atlantic pioneers a new urban office typology for potentially many mor e timber frame projects across the province. Designed by BDP Quadrangle for Hullmark, with partner BentallGr eenOak on behalf of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, the new, 90,000-square-foot, five-storey building completes a courtyard with 60 Atlantic (also realised by BDP Quadrangle and Hullmark) to cr eate a paired commercial development. Hullmark requested that the building harmonize with the Liberty V illage neighbourhood, noted for its wealth of converted factories and warehouses, and that it would attract high calibr e, creative class tenants.
Three different buildings surround a large inner space. In this courtyard we find the car park. Partially closed and covered with vegetation, it offers the backdrop to the scene.
The buildings contain dwellings. They vary in volume and floor plan, and set out to configure an urban form that adapts to the place and the use.
The dwellings aim to offer high levels of interior quality and all have large outdoor terraces.
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) was announced as the winner of the design competition to build Tower C at Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base.
Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base will be an important business and financial centre in Shenzhen serving the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau; integrating clusters of corporate headquarters within a global technology hub accommodating 300,000 employees each day. Including venues for international conferences, exhibitions, cultural and art programmes, the headquarters base will incorporate residential developments, a transportation centre, botanical grasslands, and coastal zone with wetlands.
Leading urban design and architecture practice Farrells has unveiled its recently completed One Excellence development, in the heart of Shenzhen’s new Qianhai district and China’s Greater Bay Area. The project totals 757,000m2 and sets a global precedent for future mixed use, high-density urbanism – with social and green space at its heart.
Central to the scheme are the multi-level streetscapes which create lively interplays between different functions to generate vibrant retail spaces. Farrells’s design, which interlocks the towers and streetscapes is conceived as an evolution from the imposing shopping malls and isolated towers that have dominated Shenzhen’s urbanism throughout its initial decades of growth. Green spaces, metro links and multi-level circulation routes weave seamlessly into the pedestrian networks that connect the wider Qianhai district.
On the east side of Amstelveen’s centre, the Up Mountain residential building recently rose from the ground to tower above the shopping area like a mountain village. The building, which has a rising staggered formation, resembles ice floes stacked on top of each other, or a mountain village built against a slope. Indeed, Up Mountain is an appropriate name for this eye-catching structure that’s invigorating the city centre.
Programme: 45 dwellings total 8,500 m² GLA, 20,000 m² shopping, and 15,000 m² parking
Client: a.s.r. real estate and AM
Team Rijnboutt: Maarten Castelijns, Frederik Vermeesch, Ana Aguiar, André Meulenbelt, David Philipsen, Herdem Aytaç, Joost Verheus, Jordy van der Veen, Klaudia Lachcik, Lara Tjepkema, Margret van den Broek, Mateusz Rejniak, Max Both, Michael James Lucas, Niek Koning, Pieter Kramer, Raïsa de Haas, Raul Cioaba, Timo Gras, Winfried Verheul
Article source: BAU (Brearley Architects + Urbanists)
Hybrid typology
In China, the perimeter block typology doesn’t usually return the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) necessary to satisfy inner urban densities. This leads to an over reliance on detached towers to meet FAR requirements. The perimeter block with a tower extrusion however, presents a useful hybrid.
The advantages of the perimeter block (positive reinforcement of active urban street edges; well ventilated and naturally lit building interiors; and an internal courtyard that has the options of being private, semi-private-semi-public, or public space) are combined with the capacity of the tower to maximize floor area.
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