© Feinknopf Photography

This renovation project addressed the issues of sustainability through recycling, the reinvention of two historic, but not historically significant, structures to align with the brand of the owner’s business, and the investigation of and references to the work of two artists through this project.

Architect: Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Brad Feinknopf, Feinknopf Photography

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© Ricardo Machado

Architects: OGO Arquitectos
Location: Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
Client: Berma, centro de impressão digital lda.
Collaborator: Rui Loureiro
Project area: 1,965 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Ricardo Machado

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© Feinknopf Photography

The Mound Street Office Building is a 10,000 sqf structure on a vacant lot in a transitional neighborhood of downtown Columbus. This project inserts a commercial use in a formerly residential block and responds to the established urban context with appropriate scale and building location.

Architect: Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design
Location: 439 East Mound Street, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Project Area: 10,000 sqf
Photographs: Brad Feinknopf, Feinknopf Photography

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© Smart Design Studio

Architects: Smart Design Studio
Location: Ultimo, Australia
Project Team: William Smart, Anita Panov, Victoria Judge, Stefanie Loeb, Marie Burgess, Uta Wolf, Richard Storey, Troy Melville, Edmund Spencer & Sara Gardhouse
Project year: 2006 – 2009
Photographs: Smart Design Studio

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© Regino Cruz Architects

Architects: Regino Cruz Architects
Location: Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Project Team: Regino Cruz, Conceição Costa, Augusto Lopes, Jorge Serrano, Sónia Nunes, Susana Meireles, Pedro Campos, Duarte Amâncio
Structures: PECS – Projecto de Engenharia, Lda
Specials Technical Facilities: Energia Técnica Lda
Project area: 20,635 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Regino Cruz Architects

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Courtesy of Arhimetrics + Enota

Herman’s Square, the new business residential building by Arhimetrics + Enota, is located at an important location in the old city centre in Celje. The land intended for construction is a part of a larger degraded non-built up area, which was somewhat forgotten for decades and exempt from the development of the city. Through the years a very heterogeneous structure evolved around this “wound” in the urban tissue, which was untouched for a long time.  It is now surrounded by a range of modern construction in an area that has extensive open space intended for a future park along the Savinja River.

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© José Manuel

Architects: NLA – Nuno Leónidas Arquitectos – Nuno Leónidas, Vasco Leónidas, Duarte Tenera; Sara & Associados – Miguel Saraiva, Miguel Rocha
Location: Parque Das Nações, Lisbon, Portugal
Project year: 2005 – 2008
Photographs: José Manuel

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Courtesy of studiobv36

The IPOST Headquarters Building by Daniele Durante_studiobv36 begins with a strong relation with the urbanization of the area, and its adjacency to a highly density block including Telecom building in Rome, Italy.  These relations have pushed the project idea towards a dialogue with the urban scale, making the building like a “perspective block”, with a strong plastic impact.

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© Stéphane Groleau

Architects: bisson | associés + Carl Charron Architecte
Location: Québec, Canada
Engineer: Roche Sopax et Techniconfort
Collaborators: Éco op
Contractors: Kamco Construction inc.
Project area: 2,225 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Stéphane Groleau

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© John Gollings

Architects: Williams Boag architects Pty Ltd
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project team: Mason Arkell, Matt Chau, Richard Cox, Holger Frese, Nick Gamble, Catherine Ramsay, Kerry Smith, Rob Spielman, Peter Wolf, Peter Williams
Project area: 8,800 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: John Gollings

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© Photoplusgraphic

Architects: herbertarchitekten
Location: Schlitz, Germany
Client: Lampenwelt GmbH & Co. KG
Structural Engineering: IPB Statik
Project area: 4,600 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Photoplusgraphic

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© Günter Kresser

Architects: Solid Architecture
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project area: Christine Horner, Christoph Hinterreitner, Anna Rosinke, Kristina Zaunschirm, Tibor Tarcsay, Daniel Glaser
Client: Bene AG
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Günter Kresser, Werner Huthmacher

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© University of Missouri

Among the first skyscrapers built in the world, the Wainwright Building by Louis Sullivan and partner Dankmar Adler is regarded as an influential prototype of a modern office architecture.

The building aesthetically exemplifies the theories of Sullivan’s tall building, with the tripartite composition of base, shaft and attic, which is based on the structure of the classical column.

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SOM | Erich Locker

Known for their innovation and economy in design, SOMs Chase Manhattan Plaza in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan displays SOMs architectural language on efficiency and its relationship with the public realm.  Completed in 1961, the 60 story skyscraper by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM is a coming of age story for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill presence as an [inter]national leader of corporate architectural design that evokes efficiency and functionality.

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© Andreas Buchberger

Architects: Atelier Thomas Pucher & Bramberger
Location: Graz, Austria
Project Team: Thomas Pucher, Alfred Bramberger, Martin Mathy, Maria Richter-Trummer, Hans Waldhör, Ingmar Zwirn David Klemmer, Christof Schermann, Boris Murnig, Sahar Arjomand Bigdely, Thomas Zach
Project area: 1,400 sqm
Photographs: Andreas Buchberger

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© David Sievers

This simple and understated project, designed by Tridente Architects, sits comfortably within this transitional streetscape and provides a glimpse of what is possible in the changing Australian cities. North Adelaide, as for most inner precincts of Australian cities, continues to transform from established older residential building stock to larger and more contemporary commercial buildings. In the case of Melbourne Street the predominant character of single storey buildings has long been under pressure due to the limited commercial accommodation available in close proximity to the adjacent Central Business Precinct. As a direct result the established patterns of narrow sites with stand alone residential buildings providing a mix of both residential and commercial activity is now less desirable; especially given an increasing awareness that consolidation within such existing frameworks offers a more appropriate approach to sustainability and environments more suited to present day usage.

Architect: Tridente Architects
Location: 195 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide, Australia
Photographs: David Sievers

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© Leonardo Finotti

Architectural photographer Leonardo Finotti shared with us his photographs of the Burgo Tower designed by 2011 Pritzker laureate Eduardo Souto de Moura.

The building, located in Porto, was described by the Pirtzker jury as “…two buildings side by side, one vertical and one horizontal with different scales, in dialogue with each other and the urban landscape.” Souto de Moura commented that “a twenty story office tower is an unusual project for me. I began my career building single family houses.”

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© Brian Rose

This new neighborhood, situated on seven-and-a-half acres in the southern end of Oakland, has a range of affordable housing, green pathways, pocket parks, and open spaces. The development has achieved one of the first LEED ND Certified Gold Plans.

Architect: David Baker + Partners
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Landscape Architect: PGA Design
Structural Engineer: OLMM Consulting Engineers
Electrical Engineer: FW Associates
Lighting Designer: Horton Lees Brogden
Mechanical/Plumbing Engineer: Guttmann + Blaevoet and SJ Engineers
Contractor: Cahill Contractors
Civil Engineer: Sandis
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Brian Rose, Courtesy of David Baker + Partners

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© Nelson Kon

Architects: Gruposp - Alvaro Puntoni, Luciano Margotto, João Sodré, Jonathan Davies
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
Client: SEBRAE Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service
Project area: 25,000 sqm
Project year: 2008 – 2010
Photographs: Nelson Kon

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Courtesy of Quadrangle Architects Limited

130 Bloor Street West / 155 Cumberland Street is an integrated mixed-use project that includes below-grade parking, high street grade retail, featuring Gucci, Hermes, LuluLemon, 10 floors of premium office space and 10 floors of 15 premium condominium residences. The office building is accessed from Bloor through a newly renovated lobby.

Architect: Quadrangle Architects Limited
Location: 130 Bloor Street West / 155 Cumberland Street, Toronto, Canada
Developer: KingSett Capital Inc.
Project Management: PHA Project Management Inc.
Residential Interior Design: J.F. Brennan Design/Build Inc. and Taylor Hannah Architect Inc.
Landscape Architect: Holbrook + Associates
General Contractor: PCL Constructors Canada
Photographs: Courtesy of Quadrangle Architects Limited

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