Determined by the masterplan that demands that the buildings footprint occupy the minimum ground floor to respect as much as possible the Business Park landscape, this building is conceived of as a volume that raises its side façades as a heavy mass over the ground.
Conceived during a sensitive period in the former colony’s history, the brief for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters was a statement of confidence: to create ‘the best bank building in the world’. Through a process of questioning and challenging − including the involvement of a feng shui geomancer − the project addressed the nature of banking in Hong Kong and how it should be expressed in built form. In doing so it virtually reinvented the office tower.
Symbiosis Designs LTD wins design competition to build Techno Group Headquarters in Amman
The building massing concept created a negative space that would be a certain interruption to the continuous street frontal façades; hence a specific and differentiated visual field is announced where the void becomes a captive. The negative field is the primary focal point staging majestic trees. Through the building’s homogenous material expression, the steel structural skin is also a grounding continuum and an assurance of rigor, visual noise reduction and simplicity.
BLC Bank Beirut began a new departure in 2007 with a different administration, an impetus that gave rise to rapid growth and imposed the need for a new headquarters. The competition design brief required a building that would be a landmark in the urban texture of Beirut.
BLC Headquarter
Architects: Hapsitus Architects
Project: BLC Headqurter
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Software used: AutoCad, Rhino and 3dsMax
Consultants:
ARUP London for structural studies.
ZEF London for sustainability and low energy studies
The building appears as an isolated block, morphologically linked to the ones around it, with a distinctively contemporary architectural language. Using a volumetrical speech similar to the adjoining volumes, the new building is carved in order to soften and project its image to the outside. The form is enhanced as a project-asset, contributing for the intrinsic dynamics that is intended for the global proposal.
Side View (Images Courtesy FG+SG - Fotografia de Arquitectura)
Agency for Inland Waterways’ new headquarters building in Vukovar acquires central status within a new redefined city center after the 1990’s war. Public routes direct visitors to sightseeing area with magnificent views of river Dunav and Vukovar City centre. Ground floor level encompasses restaurant with an info deck oriented towards island plateau and river Dunav, as well as areas for different sport associations (anglers sport club, nautical and diving club) oriented towards winter harbour and area for maintenance of river cruisers and boats.
Sustainable, Survivable Public Safety Architecture
As an important urban infill project in Southwest Florida and a catalyst for future development in the government center, the design responds to the need to be a sustainable, survivable, yet open and inviting public building that maintains all critical functions 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, during any event. The project is sited on approximately 69,184 square feet of property and consists of 6 stories that house approximately 102,000 square feet of program, with the first 3 levels parking 200 vehicles.
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