Archive for the ‘City Center’ Category
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Article source: Sasaki Associates
TechTown—an emerging knowledge district in Midtown Detroit—is currently characterized by surface parking, vacant properties, and inward-facing, siloed hubs of activity. The TechTown District Plan-articulates an inspiring vision for the revitalization of the district. Developed by Sasaki Associates in collaboration with Midtown Detroit Inc. and U3 Ventures,the plan accelerates innovation, promotes entrepreneurship, and builds community around the generation of ideas in a vibrant, mixed-use setting.
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- Architects: Sasaki Associates
- Project: TechTown District Plan
- Location: Detroit, MI, USA
- Client: Midtown Detroit Inc.
- Completion date: 02/2013
- Size: 149 acres
- Awards:
2013 SCUP Excellence in Planning Merit Award
2013 BSLA Merit Award
- Consultants:
Blaine Merker, Rebar Group Inc.
Mike Lydon, The Street Plans Collaborative
Anthony Townsend, Institute for the Future
Scott Page, Interface Studio
- Owner’s advisor: U3 Ventures
Tags: Detroit, MI, USA
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Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Article source: MVRDV
Sincere Property, MVRDV and Aedas have started construction on a Central Business District at Shanghai’s mostly domestic airport Hongqiao. The 4.5ha site is located near Hongqiao Airport train station at the corner of Shenhai Express Way and Shenbin Road. The plan comprises ten office towers, an underground shopping centre, cultural program, parking and a sunken plaza which will bring a more intimate form of urban life into an area currently dominated by large boulevards and urban expressway’s. The project’s completion is planned for 2015.
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- Architects: MVRDV
- Project: Hongqiao Business District Winning Proposal
- Location: Shanghai, China
Tags: China, Shanghai
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Article source: Atelier Filippini
The project consists in the renovation of the current city hall in the city of Illkirch, France, taking into account a contemporary re-interpretation of the existing facades, as well as the creation of a new entrance volume which enhances the image of the city, and communicates a modern image of this administration.
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- Architects: Atelier Filippini
- Project: City Hall of Illkirch-Graffenstaden
- Location: Illkirch, France
Tags: France, Illkirch
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Article source: Za Bor Architects
The main idea of the offered solution is transformation of Pushkinsky cinema while preserving its original historical volume. Modern expressive elements «sprout» through the semicentennial structure, symbolically connecting the old and the new by means of the shape and materials.
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- Architects: Za Bor Architects
- Project: Pushkinsky Cinema
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Date of project: 2010
- Status: competition proposal
- Architect: Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev
- Software used: ArchiCAD, 3Ds Max, Adobe Photoshop
Tags: Moscow, Russia
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Article source: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
The site is a vital liaison point between the centre of Saint-Etienne and the new Chateaucreux neighbourhood, to which it forms a major entranceway. It also constitutes a pole grouping several government bodies that will set up there : Regional Development Authority, Tax Services, Epora, Saint-Etienne Métropole, and so on. Service and leisure facilities will also be part of the mix: shared corporate restaurant, café, tourism bureau for the metropolitan area.
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- Architects: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
- Project: Cite Des Affaires in Saint-Etienne
- Location: Saint-Etienne, France
- Photography: Philippe Ruault & Vincent Fillon
- Work Project Manager: Thomas Daragon
- Studies Project Manager: Yves Tougard
- Client: Altarea-Cogedim
- Firms Involved:
Structure: Khephren
Façade: Arcora
Maîtrise d’œuvre d’exécution : Debray Ingénierie
- Main Firms:
Roofing / Finishings: Pitance-Lamy
Metallic framework : Baudin-Châteauneuf
Façade : Allouis
- Figures:
Surface : 25.000sqm
Length : 108 m, width : 43 m, max height. : 34 m
Cantilever 25 m X 20 m without any grounding support
Dates : 2005: design constest, 2006-2007 : studies, 2008-2010 : works, delivery : september 2010
Tags: France, Saint-Étienne
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Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
Article source: 3DReid
Flexibility: 1 Angel Square contains 328,000 sq ft of high quality office space, specifically designed for maximum flexibility. The building structure and its mechanical & electrical systems allow occupiers to easily reorganize accommodation and subdivide space, so as needs change, the building stays relevant – without excessive refit costs.
 Image Courtesy © Daniel Hopkinson
- Architects: 3DReid
- Project: One Angel Square
- Location: Manchester, England, UK
- Photography: Daniel Hopkinson
- Main Contractor: BAM Construction
- Project Manager: Gardiner & Theobald
- Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald
- Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
- M&E Services Engineer: Buro Happold
- Completion date: The building was completed in December 2012 with occupation commencing in January 2013.
- Awards :
Sustainability Award at the 2012North WestBusiness Insider Property Awards
2012 Property Week Award for sustainability
2012 Regeneration and Renewal Award for sustainability
2012 Sustainability Leaders, Sustainable Building Carbon Award
2012 BCSC Sustainability Gold Award
Tags: England, Manchester
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Article source: Payette
Successful innovation districts are not comprehensively designed from the outset; they mature over time, taking advantage of emerging local talent pools and evolving business clusters of excellence. Nexus, a plan to create an innovation district in Midtown Detroit focuses on proximity, talent growth, culture, and urban density – qualities intensely destabilized in the wake of the city’s economic decline.
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- Architects: Payette
- Project: Creating the Nexus for Detroit’s Techtown
- Location: Detroit, Michigan , USA
- Software used: Revit, 3ds Max, Sketchup and Adobe Illustrator
Tags: Michigan, USA
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Article source: Zaha Hadid Architects
The design is based on a dynamic field strategy which organizes the new city centre’s program along a gradient of circular and elliptical patterns. A fluid field emerges from the underlying matrix in a series of larger tower extrusions towards the site’s perimeter and intermediate scale pavilion-like structures surrounding the cultural plaza adjacent to an existing decommissioned power station.
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- Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
- Project: Bratislava Culenova New City Centre
- Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
- Design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
- Project Architect: Thomas Vietzke, Jens Borstelmann
- Design Team: Tom Wuenschmann, Torsten Broeder, Martin Krcha, Suryansh Chandra, Phillip Ostermeier, Goswin Rothental, Stefan Rinnebach, Michal Treder
- Gross Floor Area: 150,000 sqmm2
- Offices: 66,550 sqm
- Housing: 69,805 sqm
- Cultural: 5,000 sqm
- Phase 1: (Office Tower, Restaurant Pavilion, Underground parking)
- Height of Tower: 115m
- GFA (above ground): 43,560m2 (29 floors)
- GFA (underground): 15,945m2 (2 floors)
- Office space: 34,568m2
- Restaurant: 1,327m2
- Retail: 1,084m2
Tags: Bratislava, Slovakia
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Friday, March 8th, 2013
Article source: OKRA Landscape Architects
We are very proud of winning the important international design competition ‘Re-Think Athens’, towards a new city centre, organized in a very professional way by the Onassis foundation. The team of urbanists, architects and landscape architects of OKRA are very enthusiastic to work on implementing our ideas in Athens. The competition proposal is made by OKRA in collaboration with Mixst Urbanisme and Wageningen University, and supported by Studio 75 and Werner Sobek Green technologies. Within the next months the OKRA team will further develop their ideas into an approved design for the central area in the city centre.
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- Architects: OKRA Landscape Architects
- Project: Regeneration of Athens City Centre
- Location: Athens, Greece
- Client: Onassis Foundation
- Period: 2013-2015
- Collaboration with: Mixst stedenbouw, Wageningen Universiteit, Studio 75 en Werner Sobek Green Technologies
Tags: Athens, Greece
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Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Article source: Richard Meier & Partners
City Green Court is the third of a cluster of buildings designed by Richard Meier & Partners and it completes the corner of the Radio Plaza superblock located in the Pankrac area of Prague. The building is conceived of as a geometric volume in dialogue with the near context while offering respected contrast to the surrounding buildings. Smaller in scale than its predecessor and sibling, City Tower, it is equally inspired by the language of Czech Cubism, with a façade that while addressing issues of conservation and sustainability incorporates forms reminiscent of this avant-garde movement. The quote below, in essence, sums up the philosophy and concepts behind City Green Court.
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- Architects: Richard Meier & Partners
- Project: City Green Court in Prague
- Location: Pankrac, Prague, Czech Republic
- Design Principals: Richard Meier, Dukho Yeon
- Project Architect: Guillermo Murcia
- Collaborators: Robert Kim, Marianna Mello, Yoshiki Waterhouse, Joseph Watson
Tags: Czech Republic, Prague
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