Archive for the ‘Mixed use’ Category
Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
Article source: align
Designers align have worked with Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons on Omeara, an exciting new 350-capacity live music venue, bar and performance space in Flat Iron Square in London’s Borough, which has now opened its doors to the public.
‘I’ve been playing and putting on shows in London for my entire adult life.’ Ben Lovett commented. ‘Without the grass-roots music venues in this city, the band and I simply wouldn’t have achieved what we have, so I have a lot to be grateful for. Over the last few years, London has lost so many of its brilliant music establishments and I want to do what I can to try and reverse that decline.’
 Image Courtesy © Alastair Lever (more…)
Tags: London, UK
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2017
Article source: Van Dongen – Koschuch Architects and Planners
Delft, city of innovation in the Netherlands
The entire world knows Delft from Delft Blue pottery and the painter Johannes Vermeer. But there is more to Delft. Delft is a city of innovation and pioneers. Making the impossible possible is in the DNA of Delft. It has been for centuries, from the first beer brewers who innovated with water management in the 14th century. A couple of centuries later, Hugo de Groot created modern international public law and Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope. And recently, Boyan Slat, a student at the Delft University of Technology, surprised the world with the Ocean Cleanup, a solution for ridding the oceans of the ‘plastic soup’.
 Image Courtesy © Van Dongen – Koschuch Architects and Planners
- Architects: Van Dongen – Koschuch Architects and Planners
- Project: The ‘House of Delft’ Mixed-Use Hub
- Location: Delft, The Netherlands
- Architects in charge: Frits van Dongen and Patrick Koschuch
- Area: 13.000 sqm
- Project year: 2016
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Tags: Delft, The Netherlands
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Saturday, February 25th, 2017
Article source: Aedas
Nansha Kingboard Free Trade Zone Mixed-use Project, designed by Aedas, is located in Guangzhou, the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road. The site is an elongated, irregular-shaped plot with fantastic views of the Jiaomen River and Phoenix Lake.
 Image Courtesy © Aedas
- Architects: Aedas
- Project: Nansha Kingboard Free Trade Zone
- Location: Guangzhou, China
- Client: Guangzhou Zhanying Property Co., Ltd.
- Director: Ken Wai
- Gross floor area: 80,762 sqm
- Completion year: 2020
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Tags: China, Guangzhou
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Saturday, February 25th, 2017
Article source: Ingarden & Ewý Architects
ICE Kraków Congress Centre is a modern, world-class venue dedicated to culture – music, opera, ballet, theatre – and congresses. Designed at the highest standards of acoustics and mechanics. Besides the three main halls with 1915, 600, and 300 seats, the shell holds a multifunctional conference space of 550m2. ICE Kraków stands in the most prestigious location in Poland: opposite Wawel Castle, a location that influenced main design decisions. Hiding a multi-story foyer open to a panorama of Kraków, the Vistula embankment façade is spectacularly transparent. The outer shell combines glass, ceramics, and aluminium, with colours ceramic tiles reflecting those of the interior: red of the Auditorium Hall, graphite of Theatre Hall, white of the foyer, and the silvery aluminum used for the roof.
 Image Courtesy © Krzysztof Ingarden
- Architects: Ingarden & Ewý Architects
- Project: ICE Krakow Convention Centre
- Location: Krakow, Poland
- Photography: Krzysztof Ingarden
- Software used: Autocad and Rhino
- Client: Krakow Municipal Office
- Design consultant: Arata Isozaki & Associates (AIA)
- Cooperating architects: KKM Kozień Architekci, K3 Architekci
- Structural design: Project Service
- HVAC: ARUP
- Acoustics: ARUP Acoustics – Ove Arup & Partners International Ltd, Raf Orlowski (chief consultant), Construction supervision and testing: Raf Orlowski, Ramboll Acoustics
- General contractor: Budimex SA and Ferrovial Agroman SA
- Operator: Krakow Festival Office
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Tags: Krakow, Poland
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Saturday, February 25th, 2017
Article source: IGLO Architects
Anatolia Tiles is a Canadian Company who imports ceramic tiles they got produced in Europe and Turkey and sell them in Canadian market. Recently they decided to sell their products in the U.S. market as well, especially in southern part of U.S.A. As a result of their strategic plans they decided to build a logistic center in Aliaga -Izmir/TURKEY as direct sea transport from south of Turkey to Southern U.S.A came out to be much cheaper than TIR transport.
The company has 10 similar logistic buildings in Canada, thus they are used to working with architects and they were in the expectation of a similar design approach in their new building as in their existing buildings.
 Image Courtesy © IGLO Architects
- Architects: IGLO Architects
- Project: Anatolia Tiles
- Location: Izmir, Turkey
- Client: Anatolia Tile & Stone Inc.
- Team: Zafer KAROGLU, Yildirim GIGI, Zeycan Gokce ABAY, Dilara BOZKALE, Ayse PEK, Pinar KOMURCU
- Project Area: 6250 sqm
- Project Start Date: January 2016
- Project Completion Date: October 2017
- Construction Date: Ongoing
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Tags: Izmir, Turkey
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Friday, February 24th, 2017
Article source: Architectkidd
With over 10 million inhabitants, Bangkok continues to grow into its urban form. Architectkidd’s approach for The Street Ratchada attempts to introduce urban characteristics into a newly developing neighborhood outside of the central metropolitan area. Comprising of cafes, restaurants and other retail functions, The Street Ratchada creates new exterior and semi-interior urban spaces to engage with the surrounding people and community.
 Image Courtesy © Architectkidd
- Architects: Architectkidd
- Project: The Street Ratchada
- Location: Bangkok, Thailand
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Tags: Bangkok, Thailand
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
Article source: Dominique Coulon & associés
This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media libraries. The programme calls the functions of a media library into question, lending it the content of a ‘third place’ – a place where members of the public become actors in their own condition, a place for creation as well as reception. In association with the basic programme, the building includes areas for displays, creation, music studios, and a café-restaurant. To give meaning to this new programme, it seemed necessary to question the way in which a place of this kind is produced. The various activities in the programme blend into each other, creating a dynamic arrangement. The spatial principle is based on a non-hierarchical superposition of different systems.
 Image Courtesy © Eugeni Pons
- Architects: Dominique Coulon & associés (Dominique Coulon, Steve Letho Duclos)
- Project: Media Library [Third-Place]
- Location: 1 place Malraux, 57100 Thionville, France
- Photography: Eugeni Pons and David Romero-Uzeda
- 3D Animation: Brooklyn Foundry
- Architects assistants: Gautier Duthoit
- Construction site supervision: Steve Letho Duclos
- Engineers and consultants:
- Structural Engineer: Batiserf Ingénierie
- Electrical Engineer: BET G.Jost
- Mechanical Plumbing Engineer: Solares Bauen
- Cost Estimator: E3 économie
- Acoustics: Euro sound project
- Landscape: Bruno Kubler
- Budget: 11 000 000€
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Tags: France, Thionville
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
Article source: AREA, Architecture Research Athens
This project redefines the mixed-use housing typology of the “polykatoikia”, ubiquitous in Greek cities, in one of the most dense urban neighborhoods of Athens’ center, Patissia. An L-shaped plan is dictated by site orientation and adjacent building mass, creating a small garden to the South. The vertical arrangement of different programs, typically integrated behind a uniform facade of duplicate floors, is articulated here as a “sectional” facade: individual floor levels appear to extend different lengths along the street, varying the relationship of closed to open space at each floor. Along the street, the mass of the building is lifted to provide broad visual access to the private garden, and allow room for two vehicles. At each level of the building, an exterior or transparent space \”bridges\” the street to the backyard along the East party line, whereas the most sheltered interior spaces are concentrated along the opposite party line. This results in a double strategy. On the one hand, the careful manipulation of the building code incorporates a pilotis, a pergola and covered outdoor spaces, creating a porous civic facade that subverts the requirement for the building’s mass to continue that of its neighbors. On the other hand, the near-absence of protruding balconies brings the building’s interior closer to the realm of the street.
 Building’s main facade, an exterior or transparent space “bridges” the street to the backyard along the East party line, Image Courtesy © Vassilis Makris
- Architects: AREA, Architecture Research Athens (Styliani Daouti, Giorgos Mitroulias, Michaeljohn Raftopoulos)
- Project: Hansen, Mixed Use Building in Athens
- Location: Athens, Greece
- Photography: Vassilis Makris
- Software used: Autocad
- Civil Engineer: Thanos Giannimaras
- Mechanical Engineer: Panos Kampoukos
- Landscape Architect: Katerina Gkoltsiou
- Gross Built Area (square meters or square foot): 401.40sqm
- Completion Year: 2016
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Tags: Athens, Greece
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Sunday, February 19th, 2017
Article source: Steven Holl Architects
This scheme placed first in the competition of ten Swiss-American team’s designs for the replacement of the Washington D.C. residence of the Swiss Ambassador. It is not only to be a private house but also a cultural gathering place on which standards and self-image of a country are measured.
 Image Courtesy © Andy Ryan
- Architects: Steven Holl Architects & Rüssli Architekten
- Project: The New Residence at the Swiss Embassy
- Location: Washington D.C., United States
- Photography: Andy Ryan
- Client: Swiss Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics (BBL)
- Architects:
- Steven Holl Architects: Steven Holl (design architect), Tim Bade, Stephen O’Dell (associate in charge), Olaf Schmidt (project architect), Arnault Biou, Peter Englaender, Annette Goderbauer, Li Hu, Irene Vogt (project team)
- Rüssli Architekten: Mimi Kueh (project architect), Justin Rüssli (design architect), Andreas Gervasi, Phillip Röösli, Rafael Schnyder, Urs Zuercher(project team)
- Structural engineer: A. F. & J. Steffen Consulting Engineers, Robert Silman Associates
- Mechanical engineer: B2E Consulting Engineers, B+B Energietechnik AG
- Interior designer: ZedNetwork Hannes Wettstein
- General contractor: James G. Davis Construction, Niersberger Gebäudetechnik Pforzheim GmbH
- Landscape architect: Robert GissingerL
- Building area (square): 23,000sf/7010sm
- Cost: $14,000,000
- Construction period: December 2004 – September 2006 (more…)
Tags: USA, Washington D.C
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Thursday, February 16th, 2017
Article source: Specht Architects
The original poured-in-place concrete warehouse in downtown Austin dates from the early 1900s and is a prime example of the type of building that once populated the warehouse district. Built alongside a once active railroad spur, the building was purchased from its original owner who had performed almost no alterations to the 1915 building. The original concrete frame and brick infill building had been in continuous use as an unconditioned storage space and suffered from what we call “benign neglect”—it hadn’t been upgraded, but it hadn’t been messed up, either.
 Image Courtesy © Taggart Sorenson
- Architects: Specht Architects (Specht Harpman)
- Project: San Jacinto Building
- Location: Austin, Texas, USA
- Photography: Taggart Sorenson
- Software used: Autocad
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Tags: Texas, USA
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