The site is located in the northern part of Hiroshima City, surrounded by low mountains.
The area has currently both of traditional single-family housing and mid-to-high-rise multi-family housing around a bus terminal along stations while farms used to be scattered throughout the residential district.
A house for collective living, built at the intersection of old and new Vienna. The eight units for supervised housing for adolescents and young men are integrated in to a structure that bridges between the street and the courtyard of a new-built housing estate. The scale, massing and materiality allows the building to harmonize with its village-like neighbors in the Fuchsröhrenstraße, yet FUX is able to hold its own against the large housing estates sprouting up on all sides.
The Selcuklu Vadi project in Istanbul, designed by TAGO Architectsoffers unusual perspectives onto its location with its sculptural form, dynamic mass and façade organisation.
Designed by Tago Architects, Selcuklu Vadi consists of eight blocks with a total construction area of 110.000 sqm. With its sculptural form, dynamic mass and façade organisation, it offers unusual perspectives onto its location. Selcuklu Vadi is a pioneer in the newly developing property investment areas in the vicinity. Located in Sancaktepe, very close to the bypass and Trans-European Motorway access roads, and to the underground railway line which will soon pass in front of it, the estate will offer users the advantages of easy access.
Siamese Ratchakru is a mixed development project comprising of two towers; an office and a condominium. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the real estate market crashed. More than 10 years later, there were still evidence of abandoned construction sites around Bangkok, Siamese Ratchakru was one of them. In 2011, the government released an act to waive impeding regulations to allow these projects to be completed without compromising people safety.
Project La Vela is a new development with 181 guest rooms,2 restaurants, a spa, a beach club and a large swimming pool. What is unique about the project is its unusual land site which appears to be two large separated areas joined by a 10-meter wide walkway. The project is located on an 8th century trading route, a fact which inspired the development’s creative layout.
The project architect chose a triangular-shaped configuration where the lines connecting the three vertices represent strength and connectivity and suggest the sightings of stars which travelers used as reference when traveling at night. Such sight delineations are useful to sense the ‘space’ and ‘place’ of vast areas. Moreover, when multiple triangular shapes are layered over one another, they accentuate a sense of greater connectivity between different areas and expose spaces that were once hidden from view.
Article source: Serie Architects and Multiply Architects LLP
Serie Architects working in collaboration with Multiply Architects has completed Oasis Terraces, the new Punggol Neighbourhood Centre and Polyclinic in Singapore.
Oasis Terrace is a new generation of community centres developed by Singapore’s Housing and Development Board to serve its public housing neighbourhoods. It comprises communal facilities, shopping, amenities and a government polyclinic.
Situated in the dense theater district of Midtown West, ARO demonstrates a keen awareness to its surrounding context, utilizing approaches in massing and exterior expression to create a contemporary urban living environment. At 62 stories tall, ARO responds to site and zoning constraints, revealing solutions that maximize floor area, outdoor access and amplified views. Shaping of the form reflects changes in unit mixes, with larger units occupying the top of the building and smaller units occupying the bottom.
What was once a grey, isolated office location in Amsterdam-West will soon become a green, lively neighbourhood of around 750 homes, thanks to MVRDV’s strategic master plan for a former ING office complex. Located in the Amsterdam Brettenzone, directly to the west of the city’s popular Westerpark, the plan includes 12 buildings, 5 of which are also designed by MVRDV. Placing an emphasis on green space and architectural diversity, the proposal for Westerpark West is a sustainable response to the ever-growing housing demand in Amsterdam.
This modern apartment building resides in an old part of Batumi. Unobtrusive design and brick exterior is comfortably integrated into the environment and a context of the surrounding historic buildings. A simplistic structure of the first six floors is designed with acknowledgment of an overall visual character of this part of the town. However, old material is used in a modern way and in accordance with the latest technics, creating patterns and variations.
The uppermost three floors, which contain the penthouses, have a contrasting and bolder structure and are encrusted with the rusted metal plates. The large green terraces, which are assigned to the penthouses, are located on a rooftop.
Following an eleven-year construction period interrupted by the global financial crisis, Henning Larsen’s The Wave apartment building in Vejle, Denmark has finally reached completion.
Construction on the 14,000 m2 complex, consisting of 100 apartments, began in 2006, following an architectural vision of five consecutive wave-shaped towers lining the water along Vejle Fjord. However, the global recession of 2008 interrupted construction after the completion of only two towers. They stood unaccompanied along the waterfront, the first chapters in an unfinished story.
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