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Architects: BOLLES+WILSON
Location: Raaks Kwartier, Zijlvest 39, NL-2011 VB Haarlem, The Netherlands
Client: MAB Development Nederland B.V
Deisgn Team: Prof. Julia B. Bolles-Wilson, Peter L. Wilson
Size: 18,500 sqm
Costs: 18.3 Mio Euro
Completion: October 2011
Photographs: Christian Richters
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Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location: 1196-1 Yusuhara, Yusihar-Cho, Takaoka-gun, Koch, Japan
Client: Tomio Yano, Town Mayor of Yusuhara
Site: 779.08
Built area: 552.28
Total area: 1,132.00
Photographs: Takumi Ota Photography
© Daniel Ducci
Architects: Aflalo and Gasperini Arquitects
Location: São Paulo
Principal Architects: Roberto Aflalo, Felipe Aflalo e Giancarlo Gasperini; co-author/coordinator: Grazzieli Gomes, Carlos Alberto, Eduardo Crafig; collaborators: Eduardo Mizuka, Reginaldo Okusako, André Navarro, Daniela Mungai, Mario de Bem, Marcio Henrique Guarnieri, Anelise Bertolini Guarnieri
Built Area: 30,303.25 sqm
Site Size: 119,000 sqm
Scope: Schematic Design / Construction Documents
Project Construction: 2011
Photographs: Daniel Ducci
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Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location: No. SL1-01, F1, South tower, Hongkong Plaza, 283 Huaihai Middle Road, Shanghai, PRC
Project name: SHANG XIA
Client: Shang xia
Design Period: 2009.08-2009.12
Construction Period: 2010.03-2010.06
Principal use: Retail
Total floor area: 126 sqm
Stories: 1 story
Photographs: Courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates
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Architects: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Janez Martincic, Janja Del Linz, Laura Carroll, Erin Durno, Leonor Coutinho, Maria Trnovska, Jolien Maes, Sergio Silva Santos, Grzegorz Ostrowski, Javier Carrera, Magdalena Lacka, Estefania Lopez Tornay, Nika Zufic
Structural Engineering: Elea IC d.o.o.
Mechanical Engineering: ISP d.o.o.
Electrical Engineering: Eurolux d.o.o.
Client: DZS d.d
Site Area: 692 sqm
Gross Floor Area: 2,420 sqm
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric, Jan Celeda
Scott McDonald © Hedrich Blessing
Architects: Elliott + Associates Architects
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Project Team: Rand Elliott, FAIA, David Poerio, Assoc. AIA
Client: Gary and Carolyn Goldman
Civil Engineer: Johnson & Associates, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Engineering Solutions, Inc.
Consultants: Smith Lighting (lighting); Logo designed by: Rachel Shingleton; Smith & Pickel Construction, Inc.(General Contractor)
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 2,573 sqf
Photographs: Scott McDonald © Hedrich Blessing
Courtesy of MuFF
Architect: MuFF – Kosuke Kajikawa
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Client: Yellow Peach
Project Area: 30.400 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of MuFF
© Daici Ano
Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location: 1508-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Title of the Project: Tamagawa Takashimaya S･C Marronier Court
Client: Toshin Development. Co., Ltd
Site Area: 2,424.40 sqm
Completion: 2009
Photographs: Daici Ano
Interface Studio Architects shared with us their proposal for the Hong Kong Car Parc competition, which aims at romanticizing the car as an active urban object while simultaneously implementing sustainable strategies. In addition to including parking spaces in the rotational design, shopping, food and landscaping aspects are also included in the program. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
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Architects: Plural, Martin Jančok, Totalstudio, AlešŠedivec
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Graphicdesign: Marcel Benčík
Client: Ladon, s.r.o.
Structural engineering: Geostat
Carpenter: Treeman
Project Area: 170 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Plural , Totalstudio
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The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) has announced their victory in an international competition to design the Greenland Group Suzhou Center in Wujiang, China. The 358-meter tower’s efficient split-core configuration demands a double-take, as the “curved, tapered form unifies the office, hotel and residential uses within a single volume.”
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Architects: DOEPEL STRIJKERS
Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Program: retail
Assignment: rebuilding and interior
Status: completed September 2011
Size: 188 sqm
Client: Veldhovengroup BV, Stills
Design: Duzan Doepel, Eline Strijkers with Chantal Vos
Photograph: Wouter vandenBrink
© Daici Ano
Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location: Osaka, Japan
Client: Coronet Corporation
Total floor area: 133 sqm
Each floor area: B１F/21sqm, 1F/39 sqm, 2F/39 sqm, 3F/34 sqm
Completion: 2009
Photographs: Daici Ano
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The south of Warsaw is a chaotic neighborhood with different architecture styles, varying building heights and a big amount of green areas that spread between them without any clearly defined shape and order. At some point, it stopped being a dormitory and more people started to settle there for good. Therefore, a necessity for a new city center with office spaces and retail areas appeared. The proposed form of the design by MJZ | Maciej Jakub Zawadzki organizes all these factors to bring some order into this chaos. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
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Architects: CREUSeCARRASCO Arquitectos, Juan Creus, Covadonga Carrasco
Location: Fisterra (Finisterre) Seaport, La Coruña, Spain
Work Directors: Juan Creus, Covadonga Carrasco, Juan Antonio Rodríguez Pardo
Collaborators: Francisco Rosell, Estefanía Vázquez, Felipe Riola, Roi Feijoo, Cecilia Castro, Belén Salgado
Structural Engineer: Lanik, Félix Suárez
Promoter: Portos de Galicia – Xunta de Galicia
Construction Company: Indeza
Completion: 2004- 2006
Total Cost: 1.348.433,35 euros
Photographs: Courtesy of CREUSeCARRASCO Arquitectos
© Hufton+Crow
Architect: Sheppard Robson
Location: Manchester, UK
Project Manager: Gardiner & Theobald
Structural Engineer: Capita Symonds
M&E Engineer: Grontmij
Quantity Surveyor: Mooney Kelly
Main Contractor: Lend Lease
Client: Allied London Properties
Project Area: 5,000 sqm
Project Year: 2011
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Architects: JVA
Location: Karl Johans gate, Oslo, Norway
Client: Tanum AS
Size: Bookstore ca. 750 sqm, Offices ca. 225 sqm
Completion: 2011
Consultants: RISS AS, Linda Knoph Vigsnæs/LYSSTOFF
Primary architects: Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs, Alessandra Kosberg, Siv Hofsøy, Ane Sønderaal Tolfsen, Paul Henri-Hann, Jens Herman Næss
Photographs: Courtesy of JVA
© John Gollings
Architect: NH Architecture
Location: 314 – 336 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia
Completed: December 2010
Project Value: AUS$225 million
Gross Floor Area: 47,000 sqm
Client: Colonial First State Global Asset Management
Photographs: John Gollings, Dianna Snape
© Stefano Pedretti
Architects: Luigi Valente
Location: Venafro, Italy
Year: 2011
Design Team: Cristian Farinella, Lorena Greco
Lighting Plan: Luigi Valente, Cristian Farinella, Lorena Greco
Client: Salvatore Gaglione
Photographs: Stefano Pedretti
We recently had the pleasure of having Steven Ehrlich visit our office and give a talk about his work. He is as personable as his work is fascinating. He left us with a recently published book of his work…
Passive Solar Architecture / David A. Bainbridge and Ken Haggard
David Bainbridge, founder of the Passive Solar Institute, recently sent us his book Passive Solar Architecture. The book is a great introduction for anyone interested in passive solar architecture. The content is kept simple and straightforward. It allows any…
“The representation of creative ideas is of primary importance within any design-based discipline, and is particularly relevant in architecture where we often do not get to see the finished results, i.e. the building, until the very end of the…
