The residential building was built in Frano Supilo Street in Dubrovnik; it is located in the middle of the Ploče area of Dubrovnik, between the Old Town and Sveti Jakov neighbourhood, above the attractive Seherezade villa, famous for its beautiful gardens.
This part of Ploče is quite specific as it offers more multi-storey building possibilities than the rest of the neighbourhood. There is also a tall and continuous street stone wall.
The tower is part of the ambitious new master plan for the city, which converges around ten towers. The main program of the tower consists of office and housing program. Shopping and restaurant facilities are located in the base and at the top of the building.
Our first investigation was to resolve the dilemma of elegance – a clear ambition stated in the master plan – and square meters. We propose a volume based on a super ellipse: starting as an ellipse and ending as a rectangle. The subtle transition between these two basic shapes makes a tower which fully captures the Mediterranean light of Tirana, and creates ever changing shadows.
There are two main guidelines for the architectural concept of Paloma Offices: the connection between the interior space that flows into the surrounding exterior and site constraints that generate the need to create a symbol for the area. The challenging requirements of the context led us to design the structure and escape paths towards the outer sides of the building, taking full advantage of the plot’s dimensions. We aimed to emphasize the building’s height, concealing its proportions by dividing the façade into modules. The rhythm of the cell grid pattern creates a dynamic continuous mesh, without indicating the height of each floor. As a result, the cells become sun protected private niches.
Oromolu Office is a dialogue between old and new, between heritage and new technologies, a reflection on glass of the history who yearns to be contemporary.
Oromolu Villa on Aviatorilor 8th Street in Bucharest was built for the former Governor of the National Bank Mihai Oromolu in the interwar period by the architect Petre Antonescu. The three story building in the L planimetric conformation embrace the old renown villa and outlines a public space –an urban porch reserved for Victory Square (the most important plaza in Bucharest associated with the Romanian government building). The action was carried out on two levels: in the first instance, the rehabilitation of the villa which was in an advanced stage of degradation and then a glass object to stay with reflective modesty behind, being unite in the basement.
De-Tox is a distinguished Greek coffee chain store with several spots along Greece. Lab4 architects undertook the design of this 98 sq.m store in Trikala, following the basic brand forms, bringing an evolution to the whole design identity though. Focusing on the main brand motto (the angle café), the architects got inspiration from the primitive shape of the “angle”, creating a series of constructions, patterns and formations. A laser cut metal hanging construction prevails in the seating area through its dynamic form, giving a sense of motion in the space. Triangle metal flower pots intensify this dynamic sense. On the opposite side, oak veneered mdf panels in combination with stone and cement plaster textures create a sense of calmness and coziness while a vertical garden wall completes the overall hospitable space result.
Due to increased amount of work and the lack of adequate office design studio Alterno INC decided to build its own headquarters – an architectural office dedicated to the development of projects and products. Office is located in central zone of the city of Niš, Serbia.
Goddard Littlefair has completed the restoration of Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik, re-injecting golden age glamour into one of Europe’s most beautiful hotels to appeal to today’s cosmopolitan, sophisticated traveller. Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik, situated just above Dubrovnik old town, was originally built in the 1890s and went on to serve the great Mediterranean cruise liners docking in the city in the early 20th century. Then called ‘The Grand Hotel Imperial’, with a French Riviera feel and the glamorous cachet of an international clientele, the hotel was a roaring success for many decades, but, during the Yugoslav war, it was shelled and then used to house refugees. The hotel was subsequently brought back to active life in 2005.
‘When we were first commissioned’, commented Martin Goddard, Director and Co-founder of Goddard Littlefair, ‘the hotel was already very well established and incredibly popular, with a wonderful location overlooking the old fort and the Adriatic, right on the edges of Dubrovnik’s historic old centre. Whilst it had been majorly refurbished in 2005, costly building works meant that the interiors weren’t the main priority at that time and were primed therefore for a completely new treatment.’
“Stone everywhere. Stone in the cobbled streets, the tower houses and the churches. An enormous stone is the entire Mani, which you need three lives to see. One for the mountains, one for the sea and one for the people”. Anonymous traveler in Mani.
Istanbul based architectural practice GMW MIMARLIK (GMWM) is delighted to be appointed to design manage the “Portonovi Luxury Resort” project in Herceg Novi for Azmont Investments, which includes a luxury residential complex alongside a Yacht Marina and Europe’s first “One & Only” project.
With extensive project experience in some 20 countries worldwide, where they often led large multi-national teams, GMW MIMARLIK (GMWM) is excited about returning to the Balkans ten years after they completed the international terminal project for Scopje Airport in Macedonia.
The Issa Megaron project is dealing with questions regarding the context of the site boundary, envisioned on the plot that is read as a ‘’void ‘’, blank space- deception is that context is non -existent. The assignment was to design a house for a temporary family retreat on a site without infrastructure, at the same time completely satisfying the needs of the user .
Given that the “genius loci” is not only the plot an island of Vis but actually Mediterranean, we conceive the house by the system of the Socrates Megaron, reinterpreting the ancient stone drywalls and creating a new rural man-made topography using simple construction technologies.
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