Article source: Studio Boscardin.Corsi Arquitetura
To transform small urban fragments, sensitize, bring a new concept and also change the routine of the people.
The modern cities, so consolidated in their centers, almost leave no room for expansion. However, it is a mistake to think so, because there are small urban slots that can be adapted, if you have a vision of urban and commercial architecture.A small service door, formerly unusable by the restaurant next door and seemed to have no grace at all, has been seen as a potential spot and turned into business.
After four years of planning and construction, the LEGO Group opened the first phase of its new, state-of-the-art Campus at its headquarters in Billund, Denmark today. Designed by C.F. Møller Architects, the campus will span 54,000 square metres and house more than 2,000 employees when it is finished in 2021.
Hoping to express the core values of the LEGO Group: imagination, creativity, fun, learning, caring and quality, the inspiration for the new building came from a painting in the LEGO Group owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen’s office. In it, a boy proudly holds up his creation of a building made with LEGO® bricks. This gave the architects license to adopt a more playful approach to their design, something that is apparent in the details of the structure. These include the use of LEGO bricks in the exterior walls, the placement of two, gigantic yellow bricks on the roof, and an entryway made of bricks.
Camellia Hill is a large natural park on Jeju Island.
People can think that Camellia is just a fairly common plant in Jeju. However, it is a warm creature that protects us from stiff sea breeze of Jeju with its signature thick, bountiful leaves.
Camellia is common in Jeju Island, but its warm properties are unique. As unique as it is, it is a place where everyone who visits Camelia Hill can receive a handful of warm hearts. It is also the starting point for conveying such feelings.
The project we designed is a teahouse that specially provides non-pesticide tea, it located in Hangzhou, China. Hangzhou is one of the famous production areas of Long Jing tea. Those steep tea hills can be seen on the edge of the West Lake. In those tea hills, many pieces of terraces farming are scattered around the hills. Inspired by terrace fields, we though we can bring these great landscapes into this design program tea house.
Meet the new fashionable place: “If you love me, let me know” – This is the status of compilation of design, cuisine and service in the latest design release from ALLARTSDESIGN. A rethought image of a bird that does not take your eyes off you, feathers and cages, author’s decisions on the implementation of coatings complete the image of the institution’s concept.
Early Birdies is a new release from the Russian design studio ALLARTSDESIGN, led by designer Artemy Saranin.
The West Terminal 2 passenger ferry terminal is situated in Helsinki’s West Harbour on a narrow plot of reclaimed land at the southern tip of the new Jätkäsaari neighbourhood, a former freight port area just outside the city centre.
The new terminal was built to meet the needs of the growing ferry traffic on the Helsinki-Tallinn route. The goal was to enable faster embarkation and disembarkation of passengers and reduce the turnaround times of ferries in port to just one hour. The terminal will serve the majority of the 6-7 million passengers travelling between Helsinki and Tallinn via West Harbour each year.
Located in the Space Museum of the Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Center, the design behind Anom Cafe was largely driven by the functionality and circulation within the space: we knew the space had to be flexible enough to accommodate large groups of people all at once (ie. field trips, busy weekend nights) and spacious enough for them to move around. The greatest challenges can often be a great opportunity for simpler materials to shine. Working with a controlled budget, we drew much of our inspiration for horizontal lines from the material we chose: galvanized metal pipes. Usually used for conduits, this cost-efficient and malleable material was ideal for creating the simple geometrics we were aiming for, and made incorporating the communal wooden bench and seating area easy. We integrated the galvanized pipes almost everywhere in the design for their functionality and purpose — from being suspended above the counter to act as a hanging menu, to behind the main seating shielding the storage area from view.
As a “living memorial” for President John F. Kennedy, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts takes an active position among the great presidential monuments in Washington, D.C. Through public events and stimulating art, the Kennedy Center offers a place where the community can engage and interact with artists across the full spectrum of the creative process. The REACH expansion, designed by Steven Holl Architects, adds much-needed rehearsal, education, and a range of flexible indoor and outdoor spaces to allow the Kennedy Center to continue to play a leadership role in providing artistic, cultural, and enrichment opportunities.
The design for The REACH merges architecture with the landscape to expand the dimensions of a living memorial. The landscape design includes a narrative reflection on the life of President Kennedy: a grove of 35 gingko trees, which will drop their golden autumn leaves in late November, acknowledges John F. Kennedy’s position as the 35th President of the United States; and a reflecting pool and mahogany landscape deck are built in the same dimensions and mahogany boards of Kennedy’s WWII boat, the PT109.
Article source: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
When enlightened developer Aranya asked Neri&Hu to design an art center inside their seaside resort community, Neri&Hu seized the opportunity to question the notions of space for art versus communal space. Despite the straightforward brief of an art center, Aranya, as a community has a strong emphasis on the spiritual nature of their lifestyle ideology, an oneness with the environment. So the design scheme is as much about the internal courtyard, a communal space for the residents, as it is about the exhibition being displayed in the center.
These days we hear a lot about workplaces of the future – but where does the architecture fit into that? This question was our point of departure for Market Lane, a new office project that kicked off a new chapter of experimentation at Elenberg Fraser.
With a massive generational shift underway in the workforce – did you know millenials will make up the majority of Australia’s workforce by 2020? – we wanted to understand exactly what makes people want to work at, and stay working at, a workplace. As you know, our studio is all about art and science, so it makes sense that we conducted an intensive three month research platform into office architecture after embarking on this project, collaborating with a workplace planner and other experts. The end result is a concept that we like to call ‘the non-office office’. What we discovered is that work/life balance is a dead concept: today it’s all about work/life integration. This requires a major paradigm shift, viewing staff members as co-workers rather than employees, knowing what they value in a workplace and translating this to design outcomes that respond to the needs of everyone, from the boss to the newest recruit. Part of this is about understanding what elements of office architecture can meaningfully promote wellbeing at the workplace.
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