Architecture and design practice Brooks + Scarpa have designed a sweeping new arts & culture center for Hollywood, Florida. Located next to the Kagey Home facility at 1650 Harrison Street in downtown, the project is funded in part through a General Obligation Bond. As a civic place for social interaction, the center is made to bring people closer to art and each other, providing opportunities for new, immersive art experiences.
Brooks + Scarpa Design Sweeping New Arts & Culture Center for Hollywood, Florida
Brazilian Projects Celebrating Democratic Spaces
In recent years, several movements in Brazil and around the world have contributed significantly to society by emphasizing the need to occupy public spaces in the cities to claim quality and freedom of use for the community. The Ocupe Estelita movement in Recife, Brazil, for example, confronted the growing real estate speculation in the region and challenged the aggressive commercial urban planning on the banks of the Capibaribe River. Based on cases like this one, professor, critic, and curator Guilherme Wisnik, in an interview with Fora, addressed the issue of public space as a place of conflict.
Development Opportunity: Toronto’s New Quayside to Revitalize the City’s Waterfront
There’s a bright world just beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, and Waterfront Toronto, the organization tasked with revitalizing the city’s waterfront, is working to deliver on that future with its vision for the Quayside Project—a 12-acre mixed-use development poised to transform the industrial lands at the foot of Parliament Street.
Healing Architecture in China: Through a Sensorial and Spatial Experience
What elements and qualities does space need for a well-balanced physical and spiritual recovery? How to design spaces that are healthy for both our minds and our bodies? What makes an environment livable and sustainable in the long term?
These are the questions we need to address in the era of the rapidly developing real estate market. Why do we tend to inhabit more and more high-density residential towers? Are we necessarily more mentally secure? If not, what are the spatial solutions or cures for the current urbanites’ anxiety? In this article, we will explore ways of unwinding and finding cures in space.
Renovation and Extension of a Heritage-protected Residence Building / AMJGS Architektur
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Architects: AMJGS Architektur
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Jansen, GOLEM
Zeus+Dione Store / en-route-architecture
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Architects: en-route-architecture
- Area: 44 m²
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Stepsis ATE
Brunner Innovation Factory / HENN
Tongde Hall / ZSZY Studio
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Architects: ZSZY Studio
- Area: 953 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Anhui Nanrui Glass Co., Ltd., Shanghai Huanyi Industrial Co., Ltd.
House of Wind and Light / Office Shogo Onodera
Haymarket Boutique Office / Make Architects
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Architects: Make Architects
- Area: 413 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Cemintel, Covet, Plank Floors
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Professionals: Hunter Mason Eugene Murnane, Lindos Group Emmanuel Morris
Ottiqa House / Fabian Tan Architect
NatureHumaine Offices / NatureHumaine
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Architects: NatureHumaine
- Year: 2020
Design Disruption Episode 9: Future Cities with NBBJ’s Jonathan Ward
EPISODE 9 will focus on Future Cities. Our guest will be Jonathan Ward, a Design Partner at NBBJ, who is developing Chinese technology company TenCent’s Net City, in Shenzen China. At roughly the size and shape of Midtown Manhattan, Net City features a new Tencent office, a residential neighborhood, schools, retail and other amenities. The project focuses on sustainability, including photovoltaic panels on rooftops, sensors that track environmental performance and flooding, and a comprehensive transportation network that prioritizes public transit, bicycles and pedestrian access. Ward’s other notable projects for NBBJ include headquarters for Samsung in San Jose and South Korea, Ant Financial in Hangzhou, the Wellcome Trust in Cambridge, Telenor in Oslo and Reebok in Massachusetts.
Matta Sur Community Health Center / luis vidal + arquitectos
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Architects: Luis Vidal + Arquitectos
- Area: 5499 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Enscape, Lamitech, Sherwin-Williams, Hunter Douglas, +5
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Professionals: SCHAAD INGENIEROS, BOETSCH
Badinter School / YOONSEUX Architectes
BBL Apartment House / Raketa
Who Are Lacaton & Vassal? 15 Things to Know About the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Laureates
With a formal and material approach that differs from the scenarios we usually find in Architecture, Lacaton & Vassal —a French practice that marks its influence in contemporary times by being awarded the Pritzker Prize 2021— brings an open and generous vision to the field.