Expert: Bollinger + Grohmann | ArchDaily

House in the Vineyards / Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten + Alexander Janowsky

Andreas Luco — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The unique site of the house on a steep slope on the outskirts of Vienna captivates with a fantastic panoramic view over vineyards and local mountains to the Danube. With this in mind, we and the client pursued the goal of bringing this scenery into the house and making it a tangible experience. A 36-meter-long glazed beam with an external graphite-grey steel structure floats 12 meters above the massive base, cantilevering freely. On the street side, the garage with storage and technical rooms is pushed into the slope.

Taiyuan Botanical Garden / Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

Paula Pintos — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The project was launched with the ambitious objective of transforming a former coal-mining area into a landscape park, which is not only a model for the landscape design that is so essential in China, but also contains a building infrastructure that can be used for researching into and offering people access to and information about natural ecosystems. The politically stated need to create high-quality leisure areas in or close to cities and to find ways of controlling the resulting large numbers of visitors formed the basis for the definition of a spatial programme. This envisaged not only the creation of the landscape park itself but also the construction of a central entrance building with a nature museum and administration facility, three greenhouses, a restaurant, a bonsai museum and a related research centre with a library and staff accommodation.

UP! Berlin / JASPER ARCHITECTS

Paula Pintos — Wed, 12 May 2021 07:00:00 +0000

In 2016 JASPER ARCHITECTS won the competition organized by SIGNA, Austria’s largest privately-owned real estate company, for an overall redesign of the former "Centrum Warenhaus" shopping mall of the GDR, built in 1979. The competition task was to present a concept to turn this massive squared building block of 80m x 80m into usable office space for the digital era.

Campus de Belval / Inessa Hansch Architecte

Paula Pintos — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Built on a former industrial site of Esch-sur-Alzette, the campus of the University of Luxemburg Faculty of Sciences is laid out over the remains of the old steelworks, dominated by its blast furnaces. Existing facilities are characterized by the minerality of their public spaces which are not very inviting for outdoor activities.

Design Pylon Bog Fox Landmark / PART Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Design pylon Bog Fox
The high voltage design pylon Bog Fox is a unique piece of infrastructural architecture. Combining local folklore, architectural design and infrastructural engineering, the Bog Fox has become a landmark for a holistic view on our living environment in Estonia.

Frans Masereel Centre / LIST + Hideyuki Nakayama

Andreas Luco — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:00:00 +0000

Geometric operation. The task of adding a new pavilion requires to be both attentive to its architectural qualities, and prospective about its potential. The new building is neither an ode nor a critic towards the existing center. It tries, above all, to find rich complementary interrelations with the existing environment and to charge the space in and around it with new possibilities. The designed pavilion acts as a Machikado. This Japanese word refers to a city-corner and is similar to a French Passage. Like a crossroads it concentrates and diffuses at the same time, encouraging equally interaction and isolation. The different dispersed spaces – such as the printmaking studio, where artists can concentrate on their work or the exhibition hall where visitors can wander around the displayed work – cross paths at the center of the new building.

Léonard de Vinci Technical College / TANK Architectes + COSA Colboc Sachet architectures

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Carried by two agencies, four heads, and even more hands, « the universe of the Léonard de Vinci high school project resonates with our research, our respective ways of writing a project. »

Library and Seminar Centre BOKU Vienna / SWAP Architekten + DELTA

Andreas Luco — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:00:00 +0000

The campus of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna was extended by a timber construction with 3,000 m² of usable floor area. The new building offers space for a seminar centre, a library, offices for several departments and shared areas. The open entry-level and the public terrace create a communicative interface for students and faculty members from surrounding buildings. In addition to the atmospheric qualities of the wood surfaces, the high proportion of daylight contributes to a pleasant learning and working environment.

House V / NOVO architectures

Andreas Luco — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

This Family house is built on a hill planted with pine, oak, and birch trees, at the heart of a wide natural protected area. Densely wooded, on a slope, the field is mainly non-buildable because of its listed vegetal heritage. No tree can be cut down here: the house will be built in the higher part of the glade, facing the panorama. Favoring the relationship with natural elements, the shape of the house will be invented in an inverted panoptic geometry, multiplying the views to the outside. The construction template imposed by the town planning regulations, combined with the location of the project on a steep site, guides the choice of a partially buried ground floor which limits the visual impact of the project on its environment. Having all the rooms lit on the first day defines a longhouse, openings facing the slope.

Headquarters of the Province of Antwerp / XDGA

Andreas Luco — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The new building replaces a complex of modernist building volumes that used to occupy the entire site and could not be adapted to today's sustainability standards. As the Antwerp city centre has few public green surfaces, the transformation of the site from a merely private, mineral, and infrastructural area into a public garden is a crucial requirement of the competition brief. Surrounded by fragments of public green, the parcel is key to the formation of a larger, coherent park. Another – contradictory - demand was to maintain a more recent representational pavilion, which was positioned as an obstacle in between the fragments.

Dwellings, Nursery and Emergency Shelter / MUOTO

Andreas Luco — Wed, 27 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The project responds to the challenge of combining three different programs into one composite building that stretches along Rue Stendhal in the North-East part of Paris. The building stands in dialogue with a large patch of grass covering two water tanks. To orient the courtyard, balconies, and dwelling spaces relative to the sun; the project opens fully to the inside of the green space nearby.

Apartments on Ave. Maréchal Fayolle / SANAA

Hana Abdel — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 06:00:00 +0000

The project is situated in the 16th district of Paris, surrounded by classic Haussmann urbanism on one side and the Bois de Boulogne on the other. The four housing volumes weave past each other creating a sequence of courtyards that connect city and landscape, bringing a series of interstitial gardens to the heart of the site.

Wooden Nursery / Djuric Tardio Architectes

Paula Pintos — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Program. The project concept grew out of a phase of research and development by the office. The request for proposals issued by the municipal government of Paris was an opportunity to implement this system to build a 48-cradle nursery. Modular and nomadic, the building fulfills the requirements for rehousing Parisian children deprived of their usual child care establishments undergoing works. Thus, the building is designed to be disassembled, moved and reassembled. Inaugurated in the 6th arrondissement where it will remain for 2 years, thereafter the nursery will be relocated to the 13th arrondissement, in keeping with the specifications brief.

Leeza SOHO / Zaha Hadid Architects

韩双羽 - HAN Shuangyu — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Located on Lize Road in southwest Beijing, Leeza SOHO tower anchors the new Fengtai business district - a growing financial and transport hub between the city centre and the recently opened Beijing Daxing International Airport to the south. The new business district is integral to Beijing’s multi-modal urban plan to accommodate growth without impacting existing infrastructure networks in the centre of the city.

Luxembourg Learning Center / Valentiny Hvp Architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:00:00 +0000

One of the major objectives of the university library project was to create, in a rigid volume predefined by the industrial framework elements, an open and welcoming space in the spirit of a Learning Centre. Large open space volumes, accessible to the public, more than 100 meters long, are thus presented on five levels, giving the impression of flying plateaus around the ore silo, at the foot of blast furnace B. This silo, kept in good condition, is a reminder of Belval's industrial past, but also of the country's know-how and innovation capacities, which were originally based on the "Möllerei". The old structures have been cleaned, reinforced and repainted, thus preserving all traces of the building's past activity.

Urban Jungle Vertical Park / PART Architecture

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:00:00 +0000

PART architects collaborated with KINO landscape architects to design a spatial installation in the form of a vertical park in the new gigantic shopping centre T1 Mall of Tallinn in Ülemiste district. The aim of the structure is to create a common identity for the various levels of the 30-metre atrium and to provide an enjoyable environment for spending time.

Архитекторы PART совместно с ландшафтными архитекторами KINO создали пространственную инсталляцию в виде вертикального парка в новом гигантском торгово-развлекательном центре T1 Mall of Tallinn в районе Юлемисте. Архитекторы стремились связать воедино характеры разных уровней 30-метрового атриума и сделать пространство привлекательным.

Landscape Fence / heri&salli

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 03:00:00 +0000

The architecture office heri&salli from Vienna conceived a steel structure similar to a cocoon round a swimming pool in the garden of a private builder-owner in Austria. With mounted panels and interior constructions which are more or less depending on their function the parametric organized spatial element describes possibilities of a usable and experienceable surface.

ALLURE - XXL origami / FRESH Architectures & ITAR architectures

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 09:00:00 +0000

In the vanguard of contemporary architecture, the new Clichy-Batignolles neighborhood (PARIS) bears the hallmark of preliminary workshops of which it resulted between the converter, the contracting authorities and the two architectural firms Itar and Fresh (agent): diversity and cohabitation are its trademarks.