SpaceInvader has completed a boutique, 2,000 sq ft workspace for Manchester-based Tosca Debt Capital on the 5th floor of the Helical-owned Trinity Building on the city’s John Dalton Street. Not only was this a fast turnaround scheme, commissioned in July 2020, but it was designed and delivered by the SpaceInvader and wider installation team during lockdown and semi-lockdown, proving what could still be achieved under such exacting pandemic conditions.
Tosca Debt Capital is a financial services company that brings additional, complementary debt funding options to regional markets, giving SMEs – particularly those across the Northern Powerhouse – access to institutional capital to help drive entrepreneurial ambitions. The strong relationships the company builds with management teams set it apart and, with all decision-making, underwriting and portfolio management taking place from the company’s Manchester base, the office’s location, look and feel were crucial for its relationships with clients.
In recent years much has been said about smart cities and smart buildings but people rarely understand what the label can actually mean in real terms. Together with the client FC Ingenieure in Karlsruhe and the technology company Merck, the architects at 3deluxe have succeeded in coming up with an attractive building ensemble with an interesting, innovative glass façade which adds a fascinating new facet to intelligent architecture.
A building is intelligent if it does not just stand there but can respond not only to the requirements of its users but also to external factors. At best, it can make people more comfortable while simultaneously optimizing energy efficiency. The FC Campus building’s intelligent architectural element is a sheet of foil, something normally used in smartphones, integrated into its glass structure.
CIFI is one of China’s leading real estate developers. The project in Hefei is already the third sales centre that Ippolito Fleitz Group has designed for CIFI. It allows prospective buyers to experience the residential complex that is currently under construction. The brand slogan ‘Building for a better life’ addresses a target group that values sustainability, health and life in harmony with nature. All the CIFI sales centres designed by the identity architects have a strong relationship to their natural environment. The sales centre in Hefei is close to the fifth-largest freshwater lake in the country. So this time, the leitmotif is: water.
The project is the sales center of Chenguangli, a residential property developed by DoThink in Chengdong New Town, Hangzhou, China. Hangzhou is a southern Chinese city that boasts both rich cultural heritage and modern vitality, and Chengdong New Town is emerging as a core zone of the city and plays the roles of its east gateway. As a part of DoThink Center an iconic upscale urban complex that features innovative planning and adopts transit-oriented development (TOD) mode, Chenguangli has become a popular new residential development in the city. Its overall planning draws inspiration from classical Jiangnan (Southern China) gardens while at the same time adopting modern design languages, to interpret contemporary garden touring experiences in the bustling city.
Henry David Thoreau once praised Walden Lake as a teardrop of the God, and hence evoked numerous people’s yearning for lakeside living.
Everyone has a lake in their mind, which brings them serenity, poetry and purity in the bustling city.
Lakeside living, ideal life
Living beside lake is amazing, which enables people to get close to nature and enjoy a peaceful life. As embracing the first light of the sun in the morning and overlooking the rippling waterscape, the mood is refreshed.
Article source: gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
After a construction period of four years, the new headquarters of the vip.com online corporation in the Guangzhou metropolis in southern China was handed over. The office complex, developed by gmp von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects (gmp), consists of an office landscape in horizontal layers for the different functions stacked on a plinth. Two slender towers rising up from the plinth structure add a strong vertical accent.
Competition Team: Jan Peter Deml, Thomas Muncke, Dimitri Philippe, Burkhard Pick, Anastasiya Vitusevych, Thilo Zehme, Yin Zhang, Katarzyna Zaczek
Project Lead Detailed Design: Clemens Kampermann
Deputy Project Lead Detailed Design: Tobias Keyl
Detailed Design Team: Andreas Götze, He Duoshu, Astrid Jahncke, Karolina Korona, Xuda Liu, Giuseppe Malfona, Simone Matthey de L’Endroit, Andreas Maue, Pan Xin, Dimitri Philippe, Andrea Pisanu, Kristin Schoyerer, Tang Zihong, Alberto Vallejo, Zeng Yahan, Zhang Qiyi, Yin Zhang, Wei Zhilin
Project Management in China: Xu Ji, Qin Wei
Partner Practice in China: Guangzhou Design Institute
The project is a residential property sales center located in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Before entering the building, visitors need to pass through a front courtyard. The yard depicts an elegant Chinese ink wash painting where cranes rest or flap wings on water surface, and acts as a prelude to the interior of the sales center.
The Chintels Corporate Park is conceived as a boutique office complex where efficiency meets clean and contemporary aesthetics to create a landmark office building in the suburban commercial hub of Gurgaon. The project is visible along a flight descent and is designed to be iconic and distinctive through its form. As one moves down from Dwarka express line of the Delhi airport, the crown is witnessed along with the rhythmic stepping of the green terraces.
Cour Bareuzai is situated in the heart of Dijon. Itt is an ensemble of carefully renovated courtyards and mansions from the 17th and 18th centuries, in which Chapman Taylor created 2,300 square metres of spaces for retail, catering ans offices.
This 10,000-square-foot, two-story interior remodel of a 1910 retail building in downtown Seattle emphasized subtraction rather than addition to radically alter the spatial and light conditions of the space. Two existing load-bearing walls run the length of the area, establishing three linear yet distinct rooms. Symmetrical openings were cut into these walls at even intervals, increasing permeability by allowing for greater flow of traffic between the rooms, as well as creating an open layout with flexible space arrangement. Although the space is currently used as an office, a key goal was to establish a flexible, open design that could be utilized for a variety of public and private functions.
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