The new Warsaw headquarters of Red Bull are located in a postwar industrial building enclosed in a XIX century fort rampart. The building served as a radio and TV compartments production hall since 1960 and was revamped later on into a design workshop and office hub.
The Red Bull energy drink company best known by the extreme sport and innovative world records sponsorship expected an inspiring, authentic and sustainable office environment. The tall and naturally well-lit existing space had this potential.
As a result of the resolution of Changing The Face 2013 Rotunda Warsaw competition based on the unanimous decision we undertook the task of preparing a full-discipline, multi-stage design documentation. After five years of work the building that is PKO Bank Polski’s most modern branch has been commissioned today.
The customer sitting area is designated by a suspended structure with delicate colour highlights made of stained wood, which contains the main lighting unit with adjustable light intensity. Ceiling installations are painted in a neutral colour to create a uniform background. Finishing touches, accentuating the character of the interior, include plants hanging from the ceiling, clay flower pots and wooden chairs in various shapes and tones of wood. Thanks to modular tables, the space may be adapted to suit various needs and conditions. The barge reveals its full potential on sunny days, when windows are slid aside to open the bar room to the river and embankment, bringing customers closer to nature.
Just after the practice participation at the Biennale of Architecture Kraków (2015), and with the intention of expand the office in Eastern Europe, an opportunity presents itself. The challenge, to redesign a small flat in the suburbs of the polish capital (Warsaw), this project as the first of the practice outside México.
The flat is located in a tenement house from 1932 in the Mokotów neighbourhood. The project included a partial reconstruction of all rooms. One of the main aspects of the project was a loose reference to the historical character of the apartment. Furniture designed by Loft Kolasiński used in the project: table, bed, mirrors, library, wardrobe, desks for children kitchen and bathroom furniture. In addition, the project uses unique furniture, lighting and accessories that have undergone specialist renovation. Among them, international projects by: Arne Jacobsen, Jean-Pierre Vitrac, Miroslav Navratil, Friso Kramer.
Leading idea of Vistula Waterfront design was to refer to existing urban site by providing a composition opening towards the Vistula River and reinforcing the links with Khal’s Square. Architects wanted to create specific character of particular parts of the boulevard by alternating different kinds of temporary urban space and park areas. The boulevards were designed concerning variable water levels in the Vistula River. In result the bank changes its shape with the height of the water in the river.
Central Square – known now as Parade Square – is a Warsaw main landmark for tourists and citizens. Mostly because of its central location on the map of the city and direct relation with Palace of Culture and Science – the highest and most iconic building in Poland.
Everyday loads of people are passing through the Parade Square on their way to work, train station or just to handle their daily duties. Despite being located in a communicational and administrative heart of the City, the space is excluded from everyday metropolitan life. As meeting point or destination for spending time, its role seems to be marginal.
The reason of the lack of interest is “the great nothingness”. There is no specified development plan for the Square so people feel free to use it in random ways.
The interior of this photographic studio is situated in a former factory surrounded by buildings of a similar form and nature. For many years, the building housed a welding workshop. As time went by, its industrial interior required adjustments to make it more suited to the conditions needed for production processes. Welding machinery and metal presses filled up the interior from the floor up to the ceiling. It is clear that throughout the years, the interior of the building has undergone thorough changes in comparison to its initial condition, and the specific type of industrial processes has contributed to its degradation. The east-facing wall of the building, which had been stripped off of practically all windows, was its most damaged part. When the remaining layers of plaster were removed, clear evidence of intervention into the structure of the original wall appeared around the windows. This had doubtlessly been prompted by the technological requirements for the type of machinery used inside.
Personalized headquarters – a showcase of the company dealing with civil engineering.
Architectural design was created at the same time with interior design and this is why together they form an inseparable whole. It allowed to create a representative building perfectly fulfilling the customer’s needs. The building consists of three overlapping cuboids with different heights and different materials.
Façade materials – Cor-Ten steel, architectural concrete, steel and gabions – all refer to materials used in civil engineering. The don’t require maintenance and get nicely covered with patina. Huge glass surfaces make the building look light. Thus the interior becomes a part of the architecture and the facades become a part of the interior.
Designed by exexe Centor’s European HQ in Warsaw is a multifunctional space acting as a background for company’s dynamic activities. The main aim was to create an elegant, smart place that stimulates creativity. Space perfect for business meetings as well as continuous and subtle display of high quality terrace doors at the same time.
The spatial organisation of the place is composed around three folded-wall objects, inserted into the existing rectangular premise, out of which two – so called Display Stands – constitute a main products’ display in the Showroom. Their shape was designed in such a way as to divide the premise into series of smaller consecutive areas, each used for a different purposes: entrance area – lounge zone – the garden – reception and staircase – office and conference room – kitchen and toilet. A set of four Centor doors was installed as a part of the space-dividing elements, taking advantage of their basic architectural role as a border of the interior and the exterior. Following that feature all added walls have different finishes made of distinct surfaces, one always resembling the exterior while the other using the typical interior materials. This simple rule continued in all other design decisions reflects Centor door’s actual structure in which the aluminum frame visible on the one side is usually finished with a timber overlay on the other side. This design and use of suitably selected materials consequently carried out throughout the space introduced an order into the Showroom and created a unique character in each zone.
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