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Shift by Design

Rene Submissions — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 01:30:00 +0000

We open a space to explore the purpose of design as a tool for disruption and reinvention in never-normality, where change is the new constant.

We will provide you with a curated selection of insights for four days from the hand of experts so that you can take action to move forward: from idea to reality.

Design, Technology and Innovation. Four days to share with creators and experts, empowering a vision of constant transformation.

La Moderna / SKETCH

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000

La Moderna is a mixed-use building built in 1962 on one of the main avenues of the Old Town of Panama City. The building has a modernist influence that is marked in the design of its original façade, in the way it is implanted in the ground, as well as in the logic of the existing structure. In 2014, at the beginning of the design process, the interiors and the structure of the building were seriously deteriorated and with moisture problems in their upper levels due to faults in their waterproofing.

STEPS Dance Academy / SKETCH

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000

STEPS is a dance academy based in Panama City since 1986. It is located in an industrial warehouse that has been transformed to house several classrooms suitable for multi-discipline dance activities and related workouts such as pilates and yoga. SKETCH has been tasked with the renovation of the building’s top floor, formerly used as a gym, to be transformed into two full-size performing halls, two pilates workout studios, toilets, and changing rooms.

DiabloRosso / SKETCH

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Diablo Rosso is a creative think tank and art gallery established in 2006 and based in Panama City. Since its birth, SKETCH and Diablo Rosso have worked together in the design of spaces that foster critical thinking towards arts, politics, and culture. The gallery has recently relocated to the ground floor of a landmark commercial building dating from the 1930s; recognized for formerly being one of the largest department stores in the city and due to its prime location across Santa Ana square, a meeting point for the community and heart of the Santa Ana neighborhood. Today this busy commercial street is a bustling pedestrian avenue crowded with street vendors and loud music; a one of a kind scenario that boosts the gallery’s main driver: encourage the public’s appreciation for contemporary art through the generation of impact in the surrounding community.

InterLumi Panama 2017

Rene Submissions — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:05:00 +0000

InterLumi Panama, the global lighting trade show organized by America Expo Group, will be held at ATLAPA Convention Center in Panama from 29 June to 1 July, 2017. Serving the Latin American & the Caribbean countries, InterLumi Panama is positioned to be an effective tool to stimulate the development of the region’s lighting industry as well as provide a gateway for exhibitors to tap into this emerging market.

Covering around 5,000 square meters of space, the trade show will gather over 200 brands to present a one-stop purchasing platform with a full range of lighting products, which inclulde commercial lights, emergency

Maracaná Stadium Panamá / Grupo Suma

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:00:00 +0000

The “Maracaná” is a football stadium built during the years 2013-2014 in the popular El Chorrillo neighborhood in Panama City, Panama. The structure replaced an old sports field, baptized by the locals with the name of the legendary Rio de Janeiro stadium. The new building has capacity for five thousand spectators, and is the end point of a recent phase of the linear park that winds along the city’s coastline. El Chorrillo has a longstanding football tradition, and currently has two professional teams in the first division league. The construction of the stadium was part of an effort to provide this dense, low-income neighborhood with more public space and with attractions of metropolitan appeal, in order to better integrate it to the rest of the city. The building is used by a variety of professional and amateur leagues.

Argos Tower / Arango+

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 18:00:00 +0000

With unprecedented specifications in the Panamanian market, the Argos Tower was designed in order to obtain investment return of the user. The merger of five businessmen who could not find offices with their standards of quality and efficiency for their business, resulted in this impressive building.

Panama Diamond Exchange / Mallol

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:00:00 +0000

Rising above the exclusive Santa Maria Business District, midway between Panama City and Tocumen International Airport, is the Panama DIAMOND EXCHANGE, a complex that is set to become the primary trading hub for the diamond, gemstone and jewelry trades in all of South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Venue for the Episcopal Conference of Panama / Mallol

Karen Valenzuela — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:00:00 +0000

The venue for the episcopal conference is inserted in an area of lush green vegetation in an area of detached houses in Clayton, former Panama Canal strip. The project was to design the facilities to provide the Catholic Church and its bishops an appropriate and functional venue that allowed them to fully develop their administrative activities.

Biomuseo / Gehry Partners

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The project comprises three main elements: the museum building, the exhibition design and the surrounding park.

Casa del Horno / Fémur Arquitectura

Javier Gaete — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The project consists of intervening the remains of a house from 1850 in order to create an 8-unit boutique hotel. The property is located in the old core of Panama City and formerly was the town’s bakery. Hence its name: Casa del Horno.

Panamá Bank Tower / Herreros Arquitectos

Karina Duque — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The initial conditions are difficult: to design an office building with parking space elevated from the ground, in a context where public space is scarcely valued, with no capacity to anticipate its occupants or the subdivision of each floor, but with the requirement that all services be separated. The design of the typical plan becomes an exercise in flexibility and indeterminacy. The necessity to give the building an attractive way of touching the ground is an exercise of urban responsibility. The volume and the façade are the only territories of design freedom, along with some decisions with respect to finishes in the lobbies and the parking areas.