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Police station in Barcelona, Spain by MIZIEN

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Article source: MIZIEN

Like many towns in El Vallès, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Palau-solità has tripled its population since the 1980s and extended by means of single-family houses and low-rise apartment blocks. In this context, a public building may be designed to give the main streets in the fabric an urban, civic character or to fit in with the series of warehouses, shopping centres and franchises that form the periphery of this sprawling urbanization.

Police Station in Barcelona

Architects: MIZIEN
Project: Police station
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Client: Palau-solità i Plegamans municipality
Design date: 2010
Completion date: 2011
Area : 450m2
Cost: 1.062.847,25 €
Software used: Presto, TCQ, CYPE, ArchiCAD

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Commissariat of Police France by X-TU architects

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

Article source: X-TU architects

Given the reduced program size and the location of the land parcel, the idea was to insert most of the program elements in a high vertical volume. Which set on a street angle will stand as an emblematic tower. The “special” elements of the program will have volumes of their own. They strain the composition from one end of the parcel to the other with glass walls. These spaces contain the ground floor and the first level and create a pedestal from where the rest of the masses stand on.

Exterior View (Images Courtesy JM Monthiers)

Architects: X-TU architects – Anouk LEGENDRE + Nicolas DESMAZIERES
Name of Project: Commissariat of Police France
Location: Saint-Denis, Paris, France
Team: Roel Dehoorne, Gaelle Leborgne, Melanie Bury and Ingrid Manger
Client: Ministery of interior
Situation: Saint-Denis, urban context

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Mestia Police Station in Mestia, Georgia by J. MAYER H. Architects (designed using ArchiCAD and Maya)

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Article source: J. MAYER H. Architects

The project is situated in the heart of the old town of Mestia, next to the newly built city-hall. Its towerlike shape pays homage to the medieval stone towers which are traditional to Mestia’s mountainside region. The facade is comprised of prefabricated textured concrete and large openings which offer a maximum of transparency.

Exterior View

Architect: J. MAYER H. Architects
Name of Project: Mestia Police Station
Location: Mestia, Georgia
Team: Jürgen Mayer H., Christoph Emenlauer, Hugo Reis, Danny Te Kloese
Preliminary Design: 2011
Completion: 2012
Function: Police Station
Clients: Ministry of Internal Affairs, Georgia
Software used: ArchiCAD and Maya

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Police Substation at Miramar College in San Diego, California by McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Article source: McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.

McCarthy-Built Miramar College Police Substation Receives USGBC LEED Platinum Certification

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has awarded LEED® Platinum Certification of the new 5,108-square-foot police substation at San Diego Miramar College, located at 10440 Black Mountain Road in the Mira Mesa/Scripps Ranch area of San Diego.

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. (www.mccarthy.com), one of the nation’s leading education and parking builders, constructedthe new police substation, together with the adjacent 270,000-square-foot, 828-space parking structure.Construction of the combined $17.9 million project was completed in late November on behalf of the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD). It is the first higher education facility in San Diego County to achieve LEED Platinum Certification, the highest rating possible.

Working collaboratively with the District and the Campus Police Department was paramount to achieving this goal, stated McCarthy Project Director Bob Betz.