CAÑADA SAN FRANCISCO is a housing complex composed of 14 houses. It is located in Avenida San Francisco # 368, at the Barrio San Francisco neighborhood, in Mexico City.
The main challenge of the project was to accommodate the program in a lot with very complicated characteristics; with only one street facing of 7 meters and through a descent of more than 100 meters in length and 11 meters of unevenness, the area of the houses is reached. These are arranged in 2 different platforms with a slope of approximately 3 meters of height.
Town Square Metepec stands as a new urban complex located in the heart of one of the cities with the greatest economic and demographic growth in the State of Mexico. The project presents a complete of offer of goods and services that integrates the community satisfying its daily and lifestyle needs.
The project is a supporting property of Beidaihe SEATOPIA Coastal Holiday Complex. It accommodates an owner’s canteen, two characteristic restaurants and an interesting roof platform in about 2000 square meters.
The project extracts the unique geometric shape of starfish，and take “the Ocean Star” as the design concept, which allows the building to grow naturally on the seaside, helps the building integrate into the environment of SEATOPIA as well. The “starfish” structure can not only give consideration to the relationship between structure and aesthetics, but also have the unique texture of gravel which set the scenes of vacation life in detail.
Together with Ironstate Development and Pegasus Group, Concrete has completed the first phase of the Harrison Urby project. Offering 409 apartments in phase one and 270 more in phase two, Harrison Urby is the third building developed under the Urby brand that caters to the ever-changing demands of the modern urban citizen. Offering smart apartments at more affordable rates and unique communal facilities and programming, Urby represents unprecedented value for money and a truly connected living experience.
Developed by Concrete and Ironstate to more adequately meet the needs of the modern-day New Yorker, Urby is the first real estate concept that is tailored to fit the neighbourhood and responds to changes in modern urban life. After the first Urby location opened its doors in Staten Island in 2016 and the second complex in Jersey City in 2017, Urby Harrison is now the third location to shake up the New York Area rental market.
The starting point of sale and storage compound on the periphery of České Budějovice was the effort to “do it a bit differently”.
The untraditional building tries to address questions of how it’s possible to open a technology complex to the public, and how it’s possible to deal with the need to place three separate buildings on a fairly small site while maintaining functional traffic and operational relations.
Clamping the storage halls together, with one of them slightly turned, enabled a funnel shaped courtyard that serves as an open space with water, trees, benches, and an artwork.
Located in Bernal in the state of Querétaro in Mexico Donato is a vineyard that stands outs for offering its visitors an experience that goes beyond the local market. Its privileged location —an hour and a half from Mexico City— gives it a very attractive advantage that is triggering an interest in everything happening in developing area.
The project made for Donato is a complex that, in addition to the vineyard, includes an event hall for 850 people, a gourmet shop, two restaurants, and a cellar for visitors and a special one for the family. Throughout the project you can enjoy magnificent views of Peña de Bernal, this iconic rock landmark surrounded by vines and its kaleidoscope of colors and textures throughout the year.
This recently completed luxury-housing complex, consisting of 45 residential units in two volumes–one street side, and the other canal-facing–are connected by an underground, communal parking garage, and are separated above by an internal, and lushishly landscaped, intimate courtyard for its residents. Four penthouses are situated on the top two floors of the rear, canal-facing volume; two on the front. The building itself is sited on the eastern edge of Amsterdam’s city center, which was built in the sixteenth century, about a half a kilometer from the ‘Zuiderkerk’ (Southern Church), which dates from 1608. Due to the delicate nature of the site within the center of historic Amsterdam, groundwork during preparation of the building’s foundation, uncovered evidence of archaeological remains from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which the city excavated and studied. After months of the site’s excavation by the city, construction proceed on–The Double.
The basis for the design of the new building is flexibility. Isomorphic plants: well communicated, diaphanous, with lighting in the perimeter in order to host any type of program, both in time and space, with great ease for the incorporation of new technologies.
The building solves the circulations in the central points of the complex in order to achieve good circulation and leave as much open space as possible. For this, two vertical circulation nucleus are configured, attached to the respective dividing walls of the existing residential building.
The Covered Athletics Complex, designed by INK Architects for the BI Group, locates on a 10 ha land lot between streets of Turan and Bukhar-Zhyrau in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. The arena is expected to be completed by early 2020. It is going to be the second stadium suitable for the Olympic games in the country after ‘Olga Rypakova’s Athletics Center’ in Ust-Kamenogorsk. The core project objective is to create a sports centre that would integrate into the existing context, contribute to training athletes in an environment close to the Olympics Games, attracting talents to the sport, and promote a healthy lifestyle among the citizens.
The project is sited within the cluster of sports centres such as hockey arena “Barys”, football stadium “Astana Arena”, ice stadium “Alau”, cycle track “Saryarka”, and a wrestling centre completing soon. Being next to existing sports centres helps to reduce the environmental impact by sharing infrastructure and facilities. The venues could also be used as concert halls, events centre, and convention centres in the future, ensuring a long-lasting and sustainable neighbourhood development.
“Sede CAF Región Sur” is the result of a national architecture competition promoted by the Development Bank of Latin‐American and sponsored by the local government of Montevideo in 2012.
By terms and conditions of the contest, a mix‐used program building was required, in the historic city center of Montevideo ‐ the “Old City”‐ a sector full of history and strong urban symbols, next to the limit with the “New Expanded City”.
The Bank headquarters, a cinema complex for “Cinemateca Uruguaya”, the relocation of the historic “FunFun” bar, 150 public parking lots and public changing rooms, are the main project areas. The conditioning and recovery of the immediate urban environment are key requirements of the entire proposal. The biggest challenge then was to achieve coexistence within a single building and urban space, such diverse functional requirements.
In the location behind the Solís Theater, there was an existing building, the Former Central Market, which was almost abandoned and deteriorated, as well as its nearby public spaces.
Architects: LAPS Arquitectos (Arq. Carlos Luis Labat Nadal, Arq. Ricardo Pierino Porta Turban, Arq. Nicolás Scioscia Salvatore + Arq. Luis, Fernando Romero Fregenal)
Project: Sede CAF Región Sur – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina
Location: Ciudadela 1229, Montevideo, Uruguay
Photography: Javier Agustín Rojas
Client: CAF – BANCO DE DESARROLLO DE AMERICA LATINA
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