As the studio enters its teenage years of existence, it demanded a fun yet “architecturally charged” environment to conduct business. Moving out of a busy commercial surrounding to a quiet piece of land amidst blooming mustard fields hidden within the commotion, that is Delhi. It can be challenging to locate the studio; placed within the quaint boulevards lined with ficus foliage often hindering views to the randomly placed non-descriptive black gates. However, the gate has a “white” google pin for the curious eyes.
This ground-up modern house will serve as the family home for an “empty nest” couple, and will be adapted to their new lifestyle. It will take the place of a suburban “box” the Owners had lived in for decades. In addition to living spaces, shared office, and in-house gym, the home will be spacious enough for overnight guests to have their own suite. In the future, it will offer temporary residence for grown children, and eventually grandchildren.
The 96,000m2 office development for the state-owned Shenzhen Energy Company is designed to look and feel at home in the cultural, political and business center of Shenzhen, while standing out as a new social and sustainable landmark at the main axis of the city.
The volume and height of the new headquarters for Shenzhen Energy Company was predetermined by the urban masterplan for the central area. The development consists of two towers rising 220m to the north and 120m to the south, linked together at the feet by a 34m podium housing the main lobbies, a conference center, cafeteria and exhibition space. Together with the neighboring towers, the development forms a continuous curved skyline marking the center of Shenzhen.
Team: Alessio Zenaro, Alina Tamosiunaite, Alysen Hiller, Ana Merino, Andreas Geisler Johansen, Annette Jensen, Armor Rivas, Balaj IIulian, Brian Yang, Baptiste Blot, Buster Christiansen, Cecilia Ho, Christian Alvarez, Christin Svensson, Claudia Hertrich, Claudio Moretti, Cory Mattheis, Dave Brown, Dennis Rasmussen, Doug Stechschulte, Eskild Nordbud, Felicia Guldberg, Fred Zhou, Gaetan Brunet, Gül Ertekin, Henrik Kania, Iris Van der Heide, James Schrader, Jan Magasanik, Jan Borgstrøm, Jeppe Ecklon, Jelena Vucic, João Albuquerque, Jonas Mønster, Karsten Hansen, Malte Kloe, Mikkel Marcker Stubgaard, Michael Andersen, Michal Kristof, Min Ter Lim, Oana Simionescu, Nicklas A. Rasch, Philip Sima, Rasmus Pedersen, Rune Hansen, Rui Huang, Sofia Gaspar, Stanley Lung, Sun Ming Lee, Takuya Hosokai, Todd Bennett, Xi Chen, Xing Xiong, Xiao Lu, Xu Li, Yijie Dan, Zoltan Kalaszi
Collaborators: ARUP, Transsolar, Front
Partners-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Klok Pedersen
Project Manager: Martin Voelkle
Project Leaders: Song He, Andre Schmidt
Project Leader, Concept: Cat Huang
Team, Concept: Alex Cozma, Kuba Snopek, Fan Zhang, Flavien Menu
Chapman Taylor’s concept design was selected following a competitive process to select a scheme for the building, occupying a prominent waterside location and adjacent to the award-winning MediaCityUK, the building is the largest single occupancy building in Manchester.
Health and wellbeing was at the core of the design brief and we have designed light open spaces, fully glazed façades and a large central atrium which creates a vibrant working environment within. Circulation stairs are finished to a high standard with natural daylight to encourage staff to get active and stay healthy.
A striking brise soleil wraps the southern faces of the building to create shade and avoid excessive solar gain, while maintaining views out across the water. The ground floor opens out onto landscaped areas linking to the waterfront.
LendingHome’s new four-floor, 46,319-square-foot San Francisco headquarters, designed by Blitz, centers around the themes of team collaboration and culture to embody the company’s core principles of “simple, human, and delightful” lending. The workspace reflects the company’s seamless, transparent online mortgage process through a clear, sidewalk-like circulation floor plan and simple spatial organization. Spaces are influenced by a spectrum of urban sites, ranging from public monuments and parks, to domestic neighborhoods and backyards. The office subtly creates distinct zones for each department without needing enclosed structures. The all-hands space serves as a presentation area and work café, creating a cultural hub and destination point for casual meetings or impromptu gatherings. An existing staircase, connecting the two upper-office floors, has been branded with LendingHome’s signature yellow to energize the interiors with a dynamic display of color and texture.
A series of new photographs of Shenzhen´s SBF Tower has been unveiled by O.H.A, showing Pritzker Prize winner Hans Hollein and Christoph Monschein’s design nearing completion in the Futian district of Shenzhen.
Commissioned by the duo of Southern and Bosera Funds back in 2010, the project was envisioned to contrast any high-rise in the vicinity because it is different. With its memorable design, based on an early sketch drawn by Hans Hollein in his time in Chicago, how skyscrapers should look in the future, it becomes a dominant statement within the high-rises, in an exposed corner position of the cluster. The office tower has a strategic position within the texture of the city. Adjacent to the Town Hall and its main North-South axis, and located on East-West oriented Shen Nan Avenue, it has the pole position in the central quarter in Shenzhen, where in midst the stock exchange building dominates.
With the contribution “Forum am Seebogen” the architectural studio heri&salli was able to win the concept competiton for the “Townhouse open to different usages” in Aspern-Seestadt. The building complex will emerge on the 800 m2 building site H7A in the quarter “Am Seebogen” in the new Vienna district “Seestadt”.
In collaboration with a company that builds family homes, art:phalanx-agency for culture and urbanity, landscape architecture Paisagista Liz Zimmermann, Werkraum Ingenieure und Marles , a heterogenic project, where living, working and imparting of culture form a fruitful symbiotic relationship, was developed.
With a special focus on the potential of modular system design, a contemporary prototype was created. The objective is to build in a short construction time and with relatively low cost a high quality living space.
The new Red Bull office in Stockholm is designed with an elegant palette of blue, black, gold and natural materials such as marble, leather and wood. It has taken its inspiration from the slim Red Bull can and the company´s enthusiasm for adventure and art. The need of flexibility for an office that likes to invite artists and guests to their workplace has made the design at parts movable, foldable and playful. Red Bull with its sun, rhomb, bulls and font has given inspiration to the design. Leather furniture (bull), round furniture (sun), rhomb pattern in carpet and furniture and thin black lines (font) recurs in the office such as frames and furniture legs. The reception and lounge is designed with an emphasis on flexibility. The custom designed reception counter is foldable and movable. You can place it and fold it to fit different purposes. Most of the furniture here is easy to move around. You can spin around and rock from side to side in the round sculptured seats or swing in the circle swings.
Article source: Zoom Urbanismo, Arquitetura e Design
In order to redistribute the spaces in this 60’s apartment, the renovation brought down much of the inner walls, to attend the needs of its new inhabitants. The demolition highlighted the glass frames that run trough the whole facade of the apartment, where is located the social area. The luminosity, coming from the floor-to-ceiling windows, crosses all the social areas of the place, making the space – now wide and integrated – filled with natural light.
In Japan, large-scale urban redevelopment and reorganization is progressing, and companies are concentrating on the skyscrapers in the downtown area, so a lot of small old office buildings are left over. As the population of Japan decreases, vacant buildings are increasing more and more. The number of young people who find value in old buildings is increasing, but they do not gather in the decayed ruins. We were consulted from the owner of a small office building completed in 1971 in Osaka city. Although the interior finish was deteriorated and really bad condition, concrete framework and retro materials were beautifully aged. We suggested refreshing the building drastically and changing it into an office complex targeting creative people such as designers, architects, and artists. We carefully picked up good parts such as tiles, sashes and handrails, removed unnecessary signs and equipment, and returned to simple condition. We removed all of the interior, returned it to the framework of the concrete, and changed the layout to suit the contemporary needs. We planned rental office of various sizes , shared kitchen and lounge from 1st floor to 3rd floor. And we designed 2 SOHO rooms which have a cube containing sanitary on 4th floor. We also reinforced the structure by concrete wall and steel brace because this building is located directly above an active fault. The Mansard-shape steel brace facing the street became the icon of this building.
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