After 5 years of design and construction, ODA New York has completed Denizen Bushwick, 1.2 Million SF residential wonderland featuring 911 apartments, 20% affordable housing units, 15 mega-murals, 100,000 SF of outdoor space and a full suite of curated amenities. ODA designed the entire development, architecture, interiors and landscape design.
To date, Denizen is one of ODA’s largest projects, and one of the largest residential projects in NYC. With it, ODA envisions a more connected future for this area. Denizen is welcoming and inclusive of the community around it, while providing a sense of ownership and personalization for the people living there. In areas of rising urban density, ODA is working to create transparency and belonging through art, public space and community involvement.
Taking over a non-descript high-rise building in central Hanoi, G8A propose to stack four horizontal agoras in order to create a fresh interconnected co-working typology. Each platform linked by a vertical chasm of light creating a visual connection and common sensitivity between the different floors.
Montreal’s first “smart vertical community,” this thoroughly modern, mixed-use megaproject features a luxury hotel, condo and rental units, offices, restaurants, boutiques and large public spaces linked to a major park. In harmony with its pluralistic context, it offers varying degrees of permeability with its surroundings, creating spatial moments based on elevation and building depth.
On a pedestrian scale, Humaniti will frame a new public plaza and Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, whose iconic art centers a new urban room. On a district scale, there is powerful dialogue with the complex’s four distinct neighborhoods: Old Montreal, Downtown, the International Quarter and Quartier des spectacles. On a metropolitan scale, upper levels define a wider urban room framed by Humaniti, Mount Royal and the St. Lawrence River.
Retail spaces are evolving into lifestyle complexes that are inspiring, diversified and immersive to surround visitors with a curated experience to fulfil various lifestyle and social needs. Chengdu’s Xichen Paradise Walk in China, designed by LWK + PARTNERS, encourages social interaction and community life with high transparency and accessibility to bring together people, their neighbourhoods and nature. It is pilot project of the third-generation Paradise Walk brand, setting a new benchmark for future projects.
Xichen Paradise Walk is the retail component of an integrated complex in the heart of west Chengdu, bookended by an office tower and a serviced apartment tower also designed by LWK + PARTNERS and adjacent to the residential component. The architectural form features an interplay of geometric shapes, creating an iconic beacon-like façade. Addressing an important traffic intersection to the south west, the corresponding elevation features an urban-scale shop window designed for the ever-changing, large-scale installations and seasonal contents.
The municipality of Machelen needs new workshop and office spaces, replacing different buildings spread over the outskirts of the city. The building should include dressing rooms, a cafetaria and an outpost for the Red Cross. The construction of the building finalizes the administrative reorganization of the municipality, merging and professionalizing all municipal departments. The compact building sets itself at the center of the site. This allows for a circulation loop that connects both the building and the surrounding car park in the most efficient way. The plinth is topped with a sloping roof, thereby optimizing the view on the site from the offices on the first floor. Two terraces on the first floor create a double height in the warehouses below, optimizing the handling of bigger goods. As the building gets a predominantly industrial function, it is conceived as a steel skeleton structure with load-bearing panels lining both facade and sloping roof, resulting in a sculptural ensemble of steel panels, creating a different coloring and shading according to the time of day.
A tower in the upper area to locate the expansion of the Wunderman Thompson creative agency team. A space of enormous potential, which must be lightened in weight, where the continent predominates rather than the content.
The concepts with which one works in the office areas: Empty, an empty space is proposed, Pure, treating it in its entirety and Light, giving prominence to the light of the Viabizzuno lenses that characterize the linearly organized space, and broken only by a volume of mirroring bronze that organizes the circulation towards an outer piece.
US-based consulting firm AT Kearney’s office in Turkey Levent Nida Tower was designed and built by Iglo Architects. AT Kearney provides consultancy services to corporate companies with its offices in various countries. They wanted to host their clients in a stylish and well designed interior; while offering a modern, flexible and creativity booming environment for its young employees.The Dynamic working style due to the short-term rotations of the staff and managers in different offices of the company, required an easily adaptable and variable working environment.
Petrol Ofisi, leading fuel distribution company in Turkey, relied on Lagranja Design for the design of their new headquarters in Istanbul, placed in a mixed-use complex in the Asian side of the Bosphorus. Lagranja Design had many factors to consider; namely timelessness, well-being for the company’s employees, and optimal organization of over 10,000 square meters of office space.
Italian architecture firm MoDusArchitects www.modusarchitects.com presents its recently completed TreeHugger, the new Tourist Information Office building of the city of Bressanone (Bolzano, Italy), and winning entry of an international competition held in 2016.
Located just outside the historical centre of the South Tyrolean city, adjacent to the Bishop’s Palace of Bressanone, the eye-catching concrete building is the last episode in a series of “architectural homicides” dating from the 1800s up until the 1970s. TreeHugger takes on the qualities of airiness and levity in alignment with the site’s antecedent structures, which were dedicated to the welcoming of visitors, with their respective features of slender columns, deep loggias, and delicate overhangs.
Conceived as interlocking cuboids, separated by a city block; the facade narratives and building ratios of the CITIC Properties Headquarters read as two parts of one whole. Each block comprises a smaller, jewel-like, glass and metal volume set within a larger granite clad base. Located on two land parcels within the former 2010 Shanghai World Expo site, the development is composed of two separate mid-rise Class A office towers. To the north of the development is the Huangpu River, facing east is the World Expo Boulevard; cultural and event spaces surround the site, such as the Shanghai Conference Center, Shanghai Exhibition Hall, and the World Expo China Pavilion. The southern building tops out at fifteen floors and the northern at nine. In total, the buildings GFA measures 57,666 sqm, built across two sites totaling 12,549 sqm.
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