The land that is now City Hall Park has a long and rich history as a green space and public commons. Portions of the commons have been used as grounds for a 1691 almshouse, a cemetery, and the British military. During the Revolutionary War it also became a place of protest, with five “Liberty Poles” erected between 1770 and 1776. When the war was won it was chosen as the site for the new City Hall. For a brief period at the end of the 19th Century the southern portion was home to New York’s Central Post Office, but was returned to open, public space in 1910. As a result of the park’s enduring history as civic gathering space, the city has organized itself around it, creating a green urban room walled with a historical tapestry of architecture.
25 Park Row sits at the southeastern border of City Hall Park, across from the iconic 1913 Woolworth Building. COOKFOX’s vision for its design was to complete the urban room, taking inspiration from, and complementing the historical architecture around it, while crafting a building that stands on its own as an example of beautiful biophilic design.
The turquoise pool and the flora fluttering in the urban spirit turn this penthouse in Tel Aviv into a lovely corner overlooking a gray urban landscape, which sings out to the bustling city.
The apartment was designed for a couple with 3 girls and a dog who wanted a house with a pool along with a large outdoor kitchen, a living area, and a jacuzzi for perfect accommodation. Within the home, the privacy of each room alongside discreet and personal bathrooms were a priority.
Architect Raz Melamed took on the task and entered the project when the building was under construction. In collaboration with the building architect, structural changes were made to the columns and walls, including the unique aluminum design and the preparation of the infrastructure for it.
Featuring a huge expanse of greenery surrounded by high-end residential developments, museums and concert halls, the Ersha Island is actually the central park of Guangzhou. However, according to its original planning in 1980’s, all the developments on this island were targeted at foreign buyers and ordinary local citizens were even denied access to it, which demonstrates its superior location. In the beginning of 1990’s, the government started to build a “Cultural Golden Coast” along its southern bank and a series of first-class art venues including the Guangdong Museum of Art and Xinghai Concert Hall emerged one after another on the scene. Now the Island has become synonym of “high-brow” in the eyes of Guangzhou people.
The development of a skyline is a design theme as old as Architecture itself. When reaching urban heights, orientation and a sense of identity for the community are the most visible outcome of that architectural ambition. Such understanding feeds the environmental vision of this proposed scheme. The Lake Merritt BART compounds intentionally amps up its presence at street level and on the Bay Area horizon to sculpt a memorable massing on a physically low‐shaped territory.
Valley’s three peaks of varied heights reach up to a maximum of 100 meters at which the publicly accessible Sky-bar sits, spread out over the top two stories, offering panoramic views over Amsterdam. The building consists of 196 apartments, 7 stories of offices, a three-story underground parking with 375 parking spots and various retail and cultural facilities. From street level, a pedestrianised path, running along retails functions, terraces and roof gardens, leads up to the central valley-area spread across the 4th and 5th level and surrounds the central tower. Internationally renowned landscape architect Piet Oudolf designed all of Valley’s vegetation, focusing on a year-round green appearance. The project derives its name from the publicly accessible valley.
Located in the hill city of Sri Lanka, amidst the vast greenery lies #28, tucked lightly within nature itself. Prioritizing a low impact to the existing terrain, the building is elevated above ground with the added benefit of capturing the sight of the city and mountains through the tree canopy around it.
#28 is a self-catering boutique hotel that makes the use of the smart hotel system which allows the guests to get advantage of using the building without the assistance of a hotel staff. Guests will check in and check out through smart technology while payments will be managed through an online system, making #28 an ideal getaway even during a pandemic.
Article source: Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners
The slope of the plot, also the fact that the location of the plot is half-forest, half-street, while the commercial space requires parking places did not allow to design a standard building. Due to the location, size and relief of the plot, unusual solution of the architectural composition was chosen.
The building of modern minimalism is raised from the ground by one floor and looks as placed on thin columns. This allowed to install parking spaces on the ground floor level under the building along with storage facilities and a lobby. The architects managed to make purposeful use of the space without moving the building away from the street.
The 2020 pandemic generated a change in the way of appreciating open spaces of residential buildings, whether they are balconies or common spaces.
In this case, it is about the remodeling and enhancement of the ground floor of a building, in front of the Argentine Polo fields, in the City of Buenos Aires: The cul de sac for vehicular and pedestrian access was converted into a coexistence street, between pedestrians and vehicles, with a subtle change of pavement to indicate these two sectors that are separated from the fields only by a centennial fence.
Located in the Futian CBD area of Shenzhen sitting on the central axis of the district, The Link CentralWalk is surrounded by a network of financial institutions, civic and retail centres and convenient transportation. Futian is on the cusp of a new and exciting era after decades of rapid development, and as a prominent destination in the area, The Link CentralWalk was renovated to meet the new standard.
Aedas has taken up the task to enhance Link REIT’s first large-scale asset in Mainland China and one of the largest shopping malls in the region.
The reconstructed building is located in a part of the city that until recently served as an industrial district. In its immediate vicinity, there is the main water treatment plant for the agglomeration, as well as smaller and larger production and commercial facilities. Over the past two decades, this landscape started to change considerably. It has slowly transformed into a mixed-use development. Many residential buildings and other facilities have appeared. Our main assumption, however, was to emphasize the original history of the place and create a building-monument to the industrial past of the district. This plan perfectly matched the ideas of the investor who implements robotic car assembly lines in Europe.
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