This project consists of an extensive renovation and addition to the internationally renowned environmental institute’s headquarters. The project re-envisions and updates the forward-thinking aspirations of the visionary 1978 design by Malcolm Wells, a founder of the green building movement. Over the 42 years since this innovative project was lauded widely in the architectural and general press as a trailblazing exemplar of sustainable design, its solar thermal roof and geothermal systems failed and were lost to renovations that subverted the original intention for the building to embody the Cary’s environmental values.
Central to Judith Neilson’s vision for the JNIJI is the concept of understanding history and influencing the future of society through independent, investigative journalism and the discussion of ideas.
These JNIJI objectives align to the conservation, restoration or adaptation of two heritage listed buildings and the addition of a new element.
Article source: Levitt Bernstein and TKMT architectes
Levitt Bernstein and TKMT architectes designed a new visitor centre as part of the Institut Laue-Langevin campus in Grenoble, a pan-European initiative providing neutrons to visiting researchers for experiments and analysis at the molecular level. The new building will give access to the institute’s array of state-of-the-art equipment and provide scientists with a base for their work. Also included are new conference facilities, bookable lab space and healthcare support. Inspired by the nearby neutron accelerator, the design of the building takes its cues from specific scientific methods, while also creating highly functional, multipurpose spaces.
CIVILIVN transformed a former embassy in Palazzo Capizucchi—a 16th-century ecclesiastical residence in the heart of Rome—into a new academic center for the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). The renovated space now serves as the CIEE Global Institute in Rome, helping advance the nonprofit’s mission of providing meaningful study-abroad experiences that prepare students to live in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world. CIVILIVN was involved in all stages of the renovation, supporting project management firm DBI with the initial property search and leading the project from the space planning phase through concept development and execution.
Article source: Studio Paulien Bremmer & Hootsmans architectuurbureau
‘It’s a landscaping solution,’ says architect of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut’s new building Paulien Bremmer as she walks through the completed facility. Its luminous, high and always unexpectedly connected spaces call for exploration and use and, of course, new work by art academy students.
Bremmer herself studied at not only Delft University of Technology, but also both the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Instituut. She received this design commission after an internal competition to which teams of students, lecturers and alumni could submit proposals. The Rietveld community and a professional jury both selected Fedlev, the design team that Bremmer formed with fellow Rietveld alumni Maze de Boer, Luca Carboni and Sandra Stanionyte; during the design process, more designers joined Fedlev.
Aiming to work in a multidisciplinary way, Fedlev created so-called ‘white spaces’ inside the design and called upon artists and designers from the art academy to fill them in. These subsequently designed components of the new building and of the redevelopment of the existing buildings. ‘We’re very proud of this,’ says chair of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s executive board Annelies van Eenennaam. ‘It also sends a clear message about our principles, giving art academy alumni some elbow room. It may be a little more risky, but this approach always produces unexpected results. We would like to see it applied more widely.’
Project: Extension Rietveld Academy + Sandberg institute
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Photography: Jeroen Verrecht, Johannes Schwartz
Client: Stichting Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Project Architect: Paulien Bremmer
Team Competition to Structural Design: Paulien Bremmer with Maze de Boer, Sandra Stanionyte, Luca Carboni and Marjan van Herpen, Joost Huyzer, Akira Negishi, Jan Willem Petersen, Luuc Sonke, Victor Verhage, Stephanie Willocx
Team Preliminary Design to Inauguration: Fedlev: Paulien Bremmer, Marjan van Herpen, Joost Huyzer, Anne Dessing, Alexander Lefebvre, Anastasia Pandilovska, Milan Rikhof, Luuc Sonke, Vincka Struben, Claudia Temperilli. Hootsmans architects: Rob Hootsmans, Daan Petri, Carlota Alvarado, Remco Bruggink, René Bos, Elke Demyttenaere, Pier Helder, Viktor van Hooff, Jeroen Kreijne, Eric van Noord
Interior Design: Fedlev led by Paulien Bremmer, in collaboration with Hootsmans architects
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