Magazzin is the operational headquarters of the Cooperativa Arcobaleno and the Orti Goriziani, located in the heart of Gorizia in a former stable.
The structure has been restored with an industrial character to make the building contemporary and suitable for the hosted functions.
The structural freedom in the plan has given the possibility to transform the existing building into a large open space designed to accommodate three operational functions:
• Coworking
• Exhibition space
• Vegetable sales area
The hierarchy of functions determined the character of the project and its physiognomy, turning needs into opportunities.
The apartment is a unit of a building of the late 50s in the center of Turin, a few steps from the Mole Antonelliana.
From 2011, the year of birth of blaarchitettura, at the end of the different projects that involve us, one of our recurring activities is to evaluate how we can make our process more efficient. Over the years we have optimized issues related to the project and its phases, issues related to the relational aspects with the workers, but not less important, we continue to ask ourself how to optimize the construction methods and related techniques. We think, in fact, that some traditional methods of construction must be questioned and must be object of reflection.
For example, the brick and plaster partitions system has developed and sedimented for its flexibility and plasticity, but not for its efficiency. It is consequent to a practice in which there is no clear definition of roles, mostly informal activities, in which most of the choices take place during construction, leaving the freedom to postpone decisions and remedy situations.
The Curtain, by Tony Owen Partners has just been completed in Wolli Creek near Sydney Airport. The 15 storey building contains 200 units, retail and commercial space.
This site fronts onto a large park with the waterfront beyond. The unique design consist mostly of ‘through-units’ with an open rear corridor. As such almost all of the units face north and enjoy the panoramic views. The benefit of through-apartments is that they are naturally ventilated. This allows for natural cooling with reduced energy costs.
In this project, we have developed an original approach to architecture, at the crossroads of artisanal practice and the exercise of classical mastery.
This house is designed for a couple and their little son. The site is a gentle hillside in the south of Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The external shape is a simple square of 8.1 m × 8.1 m, but it has a complicated internal structure. We designed four small houses that extended from each vertex of a large house. The breakdown of four small houses is garage and bathroom, two bedrooms, Japanese style room and closet, and balcony. Because they all have different volumes, the gap between houses becomes a distorted crossroad like an alley. Residents can move in and out small houses and crossroads. It is a scenery like in a village. We designed the exterior as a simple residential icon, but it is wearing traditional cedar boards. We designed the interior as a complex village, but it is expressed as minimal white cubes. In the suburbs of Japan developed by urban planning in the 1970s including Sakai City, residential areas installed next to traditional villages. The boundary between the two communities has becoming ambiguous for 50 years. We thought that it was the most suitable architecture for this site to coexist some contradictory conditions.
The apartment is located in the centre of Chisinau and it has been designed for a bachelor. The setting of spaces was made according to the principle of hotel room with a hidden area of the bedroom. Stylistically here was the task of minimalism aesthetics, the absence of needless, with a bias to neoclassicism. The basic materials of the project were – porcelain tiles, wood, metal, glass. There is a large part of the wooden wall panels in the living room which can be opening ones and there is a grey porcelain tile therefore the synthesis of both these materials gives the interior a relaxing effect. In the kitchen area has been used the copper but the lamp in the form of net softly maintenances the accent of this zone. In the bedroom behind the hidden door and separately standing shelving wardrobe there is a ginger wall of leather panels, and there is a thick gray-blue color of walls that makes the calming effect which is very important for this zon.
A new £15m GW Annenberg Performing Arts Centre has opened at Wellington College in Berkshire.
The main 1,400 capacity auditorium’s circular shape is inspired by historic Greek amphitheatres, creating a building with no angles: a form that sits within its forest setting. Designed with high quality acoustics and efficient circulation in mind, the Performance Arts Centre is the venue for students to showcase their creative talents in a formal setting.
The Nett Winery, located in the Pfalz wine region of Germany, can be described as a light, modern, generous and representative building. Comprised of two long-stretched halls as well as a covered passage, it looks like a geometric ray ready to unfold across the landscape. Inside the building, the wine ripens on a vast space of nearly 4,500 m². Claiming the highest quality of wine production, the challenge was to design a completely new building that ambitiously combines the entire production as well as a shop, tasting room, storage, office and living spaces – and which meets the family’s expectations, too. In Architects Collective Christian Nett found a partner from Vienna that could implement his vision of an efficient, ecological and ambitious plan to create a winery of the future.
BioCruces is the Medical Research Institute of the Cruces Teaching Hospital, a healthcare reference within the Basque Country, with a solid history of teaching and research. Its goals include the promotion, cohesion and support of research groups that make up the Institute in order to develop quality translational research and promote effective innovation and collaboration with other entities.
Up until the construction of the new facility, the institute carried out its activity within the general services building of the Cruces hospital, also designed by IDOM. Part of its activity will continue to run there, aside from the new building, its purpose complementary to the main operation.
At the beginning of 2019, Nelissen Steenfabrieken literally put its need to innovate in the spotlight with new state-of-the-art headquarters, including an impressive, eye-catching showroom, on the Kiezelweg in Kesselt, Lanaken. The building represents the triple foundation of the company: innovation, co-creation, and sustainability.
The fourth generation of the Nelissen Steenfabrieken family company means business. By opening this state-of-the-art office building and experimental showroom designed by the Architectengroep PSK and UAU collectiv, Nelissen Steenfabrieken will resolutely take the lead as the forerunner in the brick industry in 2019.
The new building houses digital experimentation rooms for designers, an Experience room with a large curved, 180°-screen, and meeting rooms that can be reserved for project consultations or other meetings. “The renewed site will act as a facilitator for creative people who want to work with us to move the construction sector forward sustainably,” said the directors.
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