Architect: Marcio Kogan
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Design Year: 2006
Construction Year: 2007
Co-author: Bruno Gomes, Bruno Guedes
Collaborators: Diana Radomysler, Oswaldo Pessano, Renata Furlanetto, Samanta Cafardo, Suzana Glogowski, Lair Reis, Carolina Castroviejo, Eduardo Glycerio, Maria Cristina Motta, Gabriel Kogan, Mariana Simas
Client: Vitra
Site Area: 504 sqm
Constructed Area: 250 sqm
Contractor: Pentágono Engenharia
Photographs: Fran Parente, Nelson Kon

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Architects: FOA Foreign Office Architects, Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Location: Istambul, Turkey
Collaborators: Friedrich Ludewig, Kenichi Matzusawa, Chris Yoo; Schemes, Detail Design: Friedrich Ludewig, Christian Wittmeir, Samina Azhar, Andrei Gheorghe, Emory Smith, Ebru Simsek, Eduarda Lima
Client: Metro Group AG
Constrution year: 2007
Constructed Area: 55.000 sqm
Budget: 34 M EURO ( US $53,37 M)
Photographs: Cristóbal Palma, Friedrick Ludewig

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Architect: Doriana e Massimiliano Fuksas
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Programme: Multibrand - GIORGIO ARMANI, EMPORIO ARMANI, ARMANI/RISTORANTE, ARMANI/PRIVE’
Construction year: December 2005 - November 2007
Site: Ginza, CHUO-KU TOKIO
Client: Gruppo Giorgio Armani
Interior and Furniture Design Team: Filippo Bich, Ana Gugic & Maria Lucrezia Rendace
Lighting design: Speirs & Major Associates
Area: 7,370 sqm

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The new D&G headquarters in Milan contains the showrooms for the collections, offices, a restaurant and a series of image spaces, ina total area of 5.000 square meters. Two buildings dating back to the 1920s and the 1960s, facing three streets, are combined in a complex with five floors above ground and two basement levels. The project is based on an architectural principle of great rigor, with the use of natural materials like white Namibia stone, glass and unfinished steel sheet.

Architects: Studio Piuarch, Fresa, Fuenmayor, Garbellini, Tricario
Location: Milán, Italy
Constructed Area: 5000 sqm
Client: Dolce&Gabbana

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There’s nothing more exciting for an architect than to shape the form of his own city with a new building. And that’s what Rem Koolhaas is about to do in Rotterdam with a large scale mixed use building. Also, a project developed for The Hague, also in the Netherlands, will start construction as of next year. Site visits will be closer to the central OMA headquarters this time.

First, we’ve got a 120.000m2 (30.000m2 for retail, 70.000m2 for office, residential, culture and leisure) mixed use building in the Rotterdam’s shopping district, the Coolsingel. This district is actually the true centre of Rotterdam, where the most important streets in Rotterdam merge (Coolsingel, Lijbaan, Binnenweg and Beurstraverse).

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Name: Contrapunto Bookstore
Location: Shopping La Dehesa, Lo Barnechea, Santiago, Chile
Completion date: April 2007
Clients: Editorial Contrapunto
Architects: Lipthay + Cohn + Contenla
Furniture Design: Lipthay + Cohn + Contenla
Collaborators: Diego Salinas, Carolina Agliati
Floor area: 120 mts2
Constructor: KIT CORP S.A
Budget: USD$92.300 (CLP$41.5M)
Photography: Lipthay + Cohn + Contenla

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