Aedas-designed Huanggang Skyscraper Redefines the Shenzhen Urban Landscape
Project: Huanggang Port Headquarters Location: Shenzhen, China Design and Project Architect: Aedas in a joint venture with Shenzhen CAPOL International & Associates Co., Ltd. Construction: Public Works Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality User: Office of Port of Entry and Exit of Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government, Shenzhen Customs, Shenzhen General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection Design and Project Architect: Aedas Gross Floor Area: 163,358 sq m Design Directors: Keith Griffiths, Founder and Chairman; Chris Chen, Executive Director
Developers Bruntwood SciTech invited SpaceInvader to consider best usage for a lower ground space within its newly re-developed ‘Glasshouse’ building at world-leading life science and innovation campus, Alderley Park. Glasshouse represents the redevelopment of a former toxicology lab, comprising 16 separate buildings, arranged around a central courtyard garden, into a single, new 150,000 sq ft commercial office building, specifically designed for digital and tech businesses.
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Studio Modijefsky creates a home from home for Amsterdam’s hottest young chef’s debut restaurant. Angelo Kremmydas is a chef whose name has been on the lips of the food in-crowd in Amsterdam for the last couple of years. After establishing his reputation across the city, he’s finally opening his first restaurant in West Amsterdam: Gitane.
Angelo wanted it to embody his culinary signature: refined food that reflects a mix of cultures and flavours, served without fuss. Studio Modijefsky translated this vision into a casual but elegant spatial design that radiates a welcoming atmosphere from inside to out. At Gitane you become a guest at Angelo’s table, where you’ll enjoy food and wine carefully selected from local producers and small companies. Studio Modijefsky applied the same ethos by working with specialists who can produce the truly extraordinary, like a terrazzo that had never been made before by the company, or anyone else in the world.
The interior of Gitane is divided into three areas: ground floor; mezzanine; bar. The restaurant is hosted on the ground floor and mezzanine, with the bar two steps down from the ground floor. After the kitchen closes, the ground floor gradually turns into a wine and cocktail bar. Each area has a unique atmosphere to suit a different mood, activity and time of day. Together they compose a drinking and dining destination where everyone from food connoisseurs to local residents will feel at home.
Ground Floor
The main entrance is through a wooden vestibule with coloured glass. It brings you into the double-height restaurant space, over which large dark orange neon letters spelling ‘BAR’ spread a warm glow from the top of the vestibule.
The warmth of the light and the wood of the vestibule set the tone for the ground floor. You’re surrounded by classic and custom wooden furniture: vintage cafe chairs, some with dark orange leather seating; custom barstools with a leather finish; tabletops with refined details; flooring made of repurposed wooden planks; and long custom benches that constitute the main spatial element on the ground floor and mezzanine. These benches have a unique character thanks to integrated terrazzo surfaces and a combination of clear lines and subtle details.
Tall custom lamps hanging from the ceiling enhance the room’s height, while curved lamps in the same style, but with playful light spheres, grow from the wall behind a long custom banquette on the left. This side hosts an abstract tiled landscape where lightly coloured rough stucco meets a pattern of white tiles. Together they form a patchwork of textures and shades that meanders from the front of the restaurant, past the bar, all the way to the kitchen. It has a timeless feel, thanks to the layered finishes and materials that give the impression of revealing how the room has previously been decorated.
On the opposite side of the ground floor small tables offer a more intimate setting next to tall arched windows. The windows are defined by faded soft red outlines and enhanced by conic ceramic wall lamps. The background has been given a weathered appearance, and clouds of different beiges mix and match across the length of the wall.
The Bar
Two steps down from the ground floor you’ll find the bar. It’s a sculptural showstopper in an eye catching zigzag shape, made with a unique terrazzo mix of greys with pink accents. The zigzag shape echoes the geometry of the exterior brick fac;:ade, and returns in the seating elements inside. A marbled tiled floor contrasts with the neutral colours of the delicate back bar, which stands on a wooden base. The back bar follows the ceiling geometry and develops symmetrically on the back wall. At one end a large fridge invites guests to peruse the carefully curated assortment of natural wines, while at the other they can get a glimpse of what’s cooking in the kitchen.
This intimate space is elevated by a dark brown, aged mirrored ceiling. It reflects the light spheres on the ceiling and the patterns of the sculptural bar beneath, capturing the play between robust, weathered materials and the fresh tiles and terrazzo.
The bar ceiling is supported by a column. By finishing it in rich textured lava tiles and giving it small lights as accents, Studio Modijefsky turned a humble structural piece into a vertical design feature. As the column rises from the souterrain all the way up to the railing of the mezzanine staircase, it visually connects all three areas of Gitane.
Mezzanine
A rattan ceiling with a spectacular geometric pattern of slats unites the ground floor and mezzanine, which you climb up to via an original wooden staircase. Large windows next to the steps define the position of the glass partitions of the mezzanine railing, subtly bringing the facade indoors while extending the visual lines from the street to the interior. A railing of metallic brown vertical elements runs along the mezzanine edge. Once upstairs you’ll find a service area, tables, benches and a banquette, all with zigzag details. The length and shape of the banquette naturally establish smaller seating areas which are complemented by simple shelves exhibiting vases and plates found in obscure French bazaars. A table next to the railing offers the chance to enjoy a view over the whole dining and drinking area.
Terrace
A terrace runs along the fac;:ade of Gitane, with custom wooden love seats in a warm red colour sitting underneath striped orange and red awnings. On the other side of the building you can take a seat at a half-round bench to enjoy an aperitivo and watch the world go by, before enjoying a special meal inside.
Studio Modijefsky
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Program: Cafe, bar, restaurant
Assignment: Interior design & Identity design & Branding Status: Realised June 2023
Size: 103m2 Interior & 35m2 Exterior Client: Angelo Kremmydas
Design: Studio Modijefsky, Esther Stam, Agnese Pellino, Mariana Amado Trancoso, Ivana Stella &
Gina Di Domenico
The industrial interconnection headquarters of the global leading technology internet company, JOYY Inc., is located in Foshan Sanlongwan, a high-end intelligent manufacturing and innovation gathering area. The project offers a vibrant commercial area as well as a quiet retreat encompassing sequestered offices and serviced apartments laden with green, open spaces.
Project: JOYY Sanlongwan Project
Location: Foshan, China
Design & Project Architect: Aedas
Client: Foshan Tuyi Network Technology Co., Ltd.
GFA: 443,956 sq m
Completion Year: Ongoing
Director: Ken Wai, Global Design Principal
Integration of tower podium
“Gleaning from the depth of our experience in the field, we seek to reconcile form, function and cost to create a new landmark for the Sanlongwan area that will become a token of technology and innovation,’’ said Aedas Global Design Principal Ken Wai.
Viaduct perspective night view
With a total planned area of circa 77,716 sq m, the site is divided into two plots. Plot A is surrounded by water and elevated highways, with superb urban display, whereas plot B is a compact area that overlooks a green riverside landscape to its north.
The towers are externally connected by a crescent-shaped volume, while the inner center is connected with a peripheral courtyard and corridor. The dense and precise arrangement maximises the landscape view and conveys an open, powerful portal image, forming a corporate display business card.
A bird’s-eye view of the iconic shape of Plot A
Functional disposition
Office horizontal layout (Partial)
Entrance of the industrial interconnection headquarters
Countering the long, uninterrupted building façade of nearly a thousand metres, the building blocks are constructed in a jagged fashion, engendering a rhythmic outline and a layered development.
Complex mass edges
The well-proportioned façade of rendering
Premised on the notion of open exchange, the design creates an indoor sharing space at the heart of the office floor for easy access, as well as an outdoor public sharing space. These seamless collaborative areas serve to foster an uninhibited interactive atmosphere, stimulating creativity and innovation.
The open indoor sharing area
Corridor open-air atrium
Outdoor public sharing area of Plot B
To create a comfortable office environment suffused with natural light, the design introduces wide and deep cornices on the façade, reducing the thermal radiation and minimising the need for indoor temperature calibration. It doubles up as a sustainability feature that contributes to energy saving and emission reduction.
Large-depth cornice façade rendering
Large-depth cornice façade diagram
Plot B extends the design concept in a compact layout. It contains an apartment tower, an office tower, and four single-family office buildings of differing height; each attached with a retail block underneath. A sky corridor threads through the individual buildings along the river, with concentrated public spaces at the core and courtyards scattered around. Coupled with the green roofs and the sky gardens introduced in the towers along the street, the design creates a multi-dimensional green urban landscape, forming a high-efficiency and vibrant office park.
Aedas is the world’s only local and global architecture and design practice driven by global sharing of research, local knowledge and international practice. Our 1,100 creative minds with design studios across the globe create world-class design solutions with deep social and cultural understanding of the communities we design for. We create world-class design solutions that are tailored to the needs of cities and communities around the world.
The proposal is part of a series of works where we test the boundaries between urban and rural landscapes through an industrial use. In this case we found an unspoilt land, undeveloped, on the outskirts of the city.
Emerging design practice WallaceLiu has completed the Chongqing Industrial Museum, which has been created amongst the remaining structures of a former steel factory. The new 7,500 sqm museum is part of a larger redevelopment of the old factory site and was designed to recognise the national significance of the steelworks cultural, social and industrial history.
This industrial warehouse is located in Águeda, Portugal, in an area without any architectural references and surrounded by forest.
With no relevant references and a layout which consists of a warehouse area for finished product storage, a cargo area and office space, the proposal is intended to reflect the simplicity of the solution, given the simplicity of the requirements.
The lot, where the project is inserted, has a non-regular shape, perpendicular to EN333 in Agueda, Portugal.
Formal and functional constraints
Taking in account the regulations and municipality rules, the building was inserted to respect this rules and take in account the maximum permitted area to build.
Sited along the northern side of a big plot, in an industrial area located on the outskirts of the city, this building takes the program as an opportunity to develop an urban liked volumetry.
The client was seeking two industrial buildings. The program of both was very similar: a series of specific open spaces, an office space and a double-height storage area.
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Strathcona Village is a mixed-use industrial and residential development that occupies an entire city block on East Hastings Street in Strathcona, one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods. The $112M mixed-use development, the first of its kind in North America, opened in July 2018 on time and on budget. The 300,000 square foot building accommodates market housing with much-needed affordable housing and job spaces for light industry.
The development stands as a model of revitalization without displacement in a neighbourhood that strives for meaningful development policies that enable economic inclusion coupled with safe and adequate housing. This model for mixed-use projects that retain light industrial businesses is scalable to other urban centres across the country.
Architect Team Members: Daniel Eisenberg (MRAIC), Stu Lyon (FRAIC), Eric Stacey (MRAIC), Theresa Wong, Rod Forbes, Barry Hyde, Emily Milford, Rodrigo Cepeda, Jonathan Toronchuck.
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