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Aedas revealed its design for a mixed-use development in Shanghai, a mid-rise high-density scheme comprising several blocks of offices, retail spaces and a hotel linked by an extensive network of public spaces. A central circulation spine running across the site connects the various programs and, together with a series of green spaces, recreates the atmosphere of the organic urban fabric.

Located near Shanghai's West transportation hub, the BU Center reinterprets the office typology through a series of open courtyards and interstitial spaces that encourage social interaction and exchanges among programs. With a building mass designed to form a brand new skyline without obscuring the context of the Qingpu District, the project aims to create a new development model for Shanghai, characterized by green spaces and civic focus.

The concept is reified by the creation of the Garden City, a marriage between a Garden Office and a Retail Parkland. Through adopting classical garden praxis of shifting scenery, the design installs flourishing public green spaces to encourage interactions amongst workers, while fusing with roof gardens and planted walkways to create a place where shoppers can relax and socialize. - Christine Lam, Aedas Global Design Principal.

The development reinterprets elements of classical garden design, while " the low-rise folding facade is derived from ancient Chinese folding screens". A sunken staircase mimics the topography of natural terrain, and a sky bridge connects the development with the neighbouring subway station.

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Aedas revealed its design for a mixed-use development in Shanghai, a mid-rise high-density scheme comprising several blocks of offices, retail spaces and a hotel linked by an extensive network of public spaces. A central circulation spine running across the site connects the various programs and, together with a series of green spaces, recreates the atmosphere of the organic urban fabric.

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SHoP Breaks Ground on Mixed - Use Development in Tijuana

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SHoP Breaks Ground on Mixed - Use Development in Tijuana

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SHoP Architects has just broken ground on their first project in Mexico, a mixed-use development in Tijuana. The complex, which will be know as BAJALTA, explores new ideas about open-space and mixed-use developments, yielding a better quality of life for residents and visitors.

According to SHoP, "[Bajalta] aims to provide a new architectural expression," meaning that opposing functions will integrate in synthetic arrangements, such as a hotel and office hybrid, or a mixture of commercial and public functions. The most prominent feature of the development will be the Manzanita, or little block, located at the intersection of two prominent streets in Tijuana. Considered the gateway to Bajalta, it is intended to be a cultural and educational nexus of the city.

Tijuana is dramatically close to the US border and the state of California, and the design is meant to establish a dialogue between these two places, reflecting their geographic similarity and cultural diversity. SHoP describes the project as taking on "the characteristic push-and-pull of the border culture." In turn, Bajalta will not only connect with the urban fabric of the surrounding area, uniting the city as one, but it will also become a destination for outside visitors.

The overall goal of this project is to show that Tijuana is establishing a stance on high-density living that reflects a positive balance "between image and lifestyle." The development broke ground today, and does not yet have a scheduled completion date.

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SHoP Architects has just broken ground on their first project in Mexico, a mixed-use development in Tijuana. The complex, which will be know as BAJALTA, explores new ideas about open-space and mixed-use developments, yielding a better quality of life for residents and visitors.

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Stenhöga Office Building - Tham & Videgård

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Stenhöga Office Building - Tham & Videgård

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Architect In Charge: Bolle Tham, Martin Videgård

Design Team: Ibb Berglund, Axel Theman, Cecilie Holmboe, Eva Johansson, Gustaf Fellenius, Gustav Bergström, Hanna Michelson, Hannes Karlsson, Joacim Wahlström, Jonas Tjäder, Linda Högberg Andersson, Lovisa Roegind, Mia Nygren, Mikael Stenqvist, Mårten Nettelbladt, Per Holmqvist, Rebecca Edwards Mannheimer, Samuel Vilson, Simon Nilsson, Stina Johansson

Text description provided by the architects. The new office buildings in Solna Strand were developed around the idea that the most sustainable buildings are those which remain in use the longest. Robustness is crucial to longevity, so solid and reliable construction methods are fundamental for a sustainable architecture.

The scale, orientation and materiality of the new buildings were designed as a response to the diverse character of the neighbourhood, a semi-urban context of large scale developments at the edge of the city, where brick buildings from different periods, and of varying sizes, dominate. Dividing each building into three smaller volumes provides flexibility of use for the interior and allows proximity to daylight. Subdivision of the plan creates multiple corner rooms with open views oriented to the sun. Exterior spaces at street level are sheltered from the wind. Stepping the building heights creates green roof terraces, a valuable amenity directly accessible from the offices in the upper parts of the building.

The aim is to provide inviting, dynamic rooms through spatial complexity and rational, state of the art construction. Regular, load-bearing frame and facades minimize the need for internal structure, ensuring maximum flexibility of the office layout. The deep floorplans and compact volumes produce high overall energy efficiency. Generous windows ensure plenty of daylight into each floor level, while the in-situ brick facade lend the new buildings a timeless character that relate to the carefully made brick architecture of the nearby train depots. At street level, there are additional locations for entrances where shops, showrooms, restaurants and other public functions may be established in over time.

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Stenhöga Office Building / Tham & Videgård

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Architect In Charge: Bolle Tham, Martin Videgård Design Team: Ibb Berglund, Axel Theman, Cecilie Holmboe, Eva Johansson, Gustaf Fellenius, Gustav Bergström, Hanna Michelson, Hannes Karlsson, Joacim Wahlström, Jonas Tjäder, Linda Högberg Andersson, Lovisa Roegind, Mia Nygren, Mikael Stenqvist, Mårten Nettelbladt, Per Holmqvist, Rebecca Edwards Mannheimer, Samuel Vilson, Simon Nilsson, Stina Johansson Text description provided by the architects.

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Kö-Bogen II Office Building - ingenhoven architects

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Kö-Bogen II Office Building - ingenhoven architects

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Kö-Bogen II Office Building / ingenhoven architects

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Completed in 2020 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Images by ingenhoven architects / HGEsch. Sustainability is a mission: Eight kilometers of hornbeam hedges for a supergreen®-project. Over 30,000 plants – Europe’s largest green facade. The...

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To realise this vision the project employs a nudge approach that seeks to create 'vicinity units'. Scaled in proportion to the building and assembled in a manner that stimulates interaction, the units articulate an animated neighbourhood within the building envelope. Interstitial 'left-over' spaces, neither strictly urban nor domestic, host an array of functions and programs that are slowly disappearing from our cities.

A 'vertical village' tucked underneath a generous greenhouse, MVRDV conceptualized the different units as Jenga blocks stacked in a manner that generates large terraces for planting and leisure. This method also allowed for the placement of gardens and protective canopies on the roof. La Serre d'Issy heralds the renewal and recovery of nature in the city on the Avenue de Verdun.

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In the age of the 'instant city' and fast-paced communication, a buffer space for contemplation and return to nature becomes an essential feature of our urban environment. Situated in Issy-les-Moulineaux, one of the main poles of Métropole du Grand Paris, La Serre is a greenhouse apartment building...

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Jaarbeurs came to MVRDV with a challenging question: how do you design a green, sustainable, and innovative venue while giving the surrounding neighbourhood an important boost? After a two-year process, the two companies are now launching their plan for a 120,000 m2 venue on the existing Jaarbeurs site to the west of Utrecht's central station, forming the beating heart of a larger 600,000 m2 masterplan to transform the under-utilised area at the station's rear.
The new Jaarbeurs will be a sustainable building that opens in all directions, with an accessible green roof that will descend to ground level via cascading terraces. On this green roof, a rooftop park is proposed, where it is hoped that a carpet of programmable 'squares' and gardens will offer space for urban nature, events, recreation, water storage, and energy generation. The rooftop of the new Jaarbeurs thus becomes an oasis in the city.

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Jaarbeurs came to MVRDV with a challenging question: how do you design a green, sustainable, and innovative venue while giving the surrounding neighbourhood an important boost?

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Holland Village is a popular shopping and dining destination. On any given day, Lorong Mambong teems with locals and expatriates vying for a table at some of Singapore's most renowned pubs and restaurants. It is the seemingly unfinished and ad-hoc nature of the neighbourhood that gives it its unique atmosphere. MVRDV sought to preserve and amplify this character through a proposal that is open, expandable and flexible in nature. The resulting masterplan, a double circulation loop that orbits the Hawker Centre, ties into surrounding pedestrian networks while maintaining the 'backyard' character and scale of the neighbourhood.

MVRDV's commitment to an accessible and inclusive Holland Village is evident in the design of public and landscaped areas. Here convention is eschewed in a proposal that centres on the pedestrian with streets and structures constructed around paths of circulation. Landscape interacts with art, buildings, playgrounds and pathways to create a sequence of shared spaces that come together in a narrative of relaxation, connection and enjoyment.

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The ambition for the expansion of the Holland Village neighbourhood in central Singapore was to create an endearing and enduring design grounded in humanism, purpose, practicality and longevity. MVRDV's dynamic mixed-use proposal, developed in consultation with West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Archi...

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Text description provided by the architects. A naturalistic manifest: this is the definition of Villa M, a mixed-use complex to be inaugurated on September 15th,2021, in Boulevard Pasteur, in the Parisian borough of Montparnasse. Designed by French-Brazilian architecture agency Triptyque Architecture, the project aims to create a new pact between city, nature, and health.

The building, a dynamic healthcare-focused center, stands out with its living facade whose geometry is formed by metallic structure beams, conceived to house medicinal herbal plants, fruit trees and medium to large sized perennial species. Designed as an exoskeleton, the façade has a minimalist, light look, composed by prefabricated pieces as in a building game. "The edifice itself is the support for this vertical garden, which will grow and occupy the entire façade, turning the building into a vertical, medicinal forest and becoming the main architecture", explains Triptyque partner, Guillaume Sibaud.

In addition to the reintegration of nature to the city through architecture, the living façade contributes with sustainability, since it collaborates with the thermal comfort and, therefore, with the building's energetic efficiency. "We have explored all of the available surfaces to potentialize the greenery and avoid energy and carbon waste", explains Sibaud. The environmental responsibility is also present in the basic and organic material choices, proposing a low-tech architecture.

Villa M's design wants the architecture to bring back the nature to the city and has the main goal of providing citizens with a new urbane experience with the advent of a "nature-city". "Breathing, sunbathing and connecting to nature are vital needs that the urban lifestyle is no longer able to guarantee", states partner Olivier Rafaëlli. "To resist the urban expansion - unsustainable by nature - the city must provide this experience in addition to stimulate the correlation between external and internal spaces in built areas".

The building's 8.000 m2 occupation program also bring an innovative proposal: being a dedicated space for those who chose to help save lives - but open to everyone. The mixed-use complex holds a hotel, restaurant, bar, conference area, a check-up area, a co-working space, and a showroom for start-ups in the world of health to promote mixing, exchanges and mutual aid between the different specialties and the different generations of health professionals.

The health crisis intensified, and accelerated healthcare challenges already known and geographic and urbanistic issues started to figure as health issues as well. On the other hand, healthcare has exceeded the hospital walls, spreading around the city, and creating a more open relationship between citizens and health professionals. Designed before the Covid-19 pandemic, Villa M's groundbreaking program catalyzes the idea of opening healthcare to the city and the city to healthcare. "Villa M is a model to imagine the city of the future. It is the new parisian edifice", completes Raffaëlli.

Villa M restates Triptyque's commitment with creating nature integrative projects in the urban space, 10 years after designing Harmonia 57, in Brazil. Located in São Paulo, the project was constructed in 2008 and propelled the architecture agency national and globally with its focus in the environmental issues, even more deepened in the Parisian project. The new enterprise is the result of an encounter of architects Guillaume Sibaud and Olivier Raffaëlli with the landscaping designer Pablo Georgieff, from Coloco. In 2010, the trio promised to invert the roles: architecture serving landscape, and not the opposite. The opportunity arrived years later, when Groupe Pasteur Mutualité invited them to colaborate in this groundbreaking, inspiring project that is Villa M. A naturalistic manifest rises.

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Text description provided by the architects. A naturalistic manifest: this is the definition of Villa M, a mixed-use complex to be inaugurated on September 15th,2021, in Boulevard Pasteur, in the Parisian borough of Montparnasse. Designed by French-Brazilian architecture agency Triptyque Architecture, the project aims to create a new pact between city, nature, and health.

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Fenix I Warehouse Renovation - Mei architects and planners

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Fenix I Warehouse Renovation - Mei architects and planners

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mevcut yapıları da tasarıma dahil ederek yeniden işlevlendirme düşünülebilir

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Text description provided by the architects. With almost 45000m2 of mixed-use space and a unique steel structure built through the existing monumental warehouse, Rotterdam gained a bold and iconic building: Fenix I.

History. The former so-called San Francisco warehouse, built in 1922 for the Holland America Line, was heavily damaged between 1940 and 1950 and restored into two buildings: Fenix I and Fenix II. In the 1980s port activities moved westward and the warehouses fell into disuse. In 2007, the city of Rotterdam committed to the restructuring of the Katendrecht district. Over time Katendrecht transformed from a disadvantaged area into a trendy and most popular district, with numerous culinary, creative, and cultural enterprises, where Fenix I forms a great example.

Design. The design of Fenix I consists of three main parts. First, it comprises the existing warehouse - 140m long and 40m deep, with 2 floors with 6 meters free height - that has largely been redeveloped and renovated for mixed-use.

The residential volume on top, an enclosed building block executed as flexible concrete construction, supports an immense steel table structure, that is built right through the warehouse. It comprises 214 lofts, rental and privately owned, with a high degree of flexibility in size and layout and 2.5 meters deep outdoor spaces all around. An interlayer consisting of a gigantic spaceframe structure separates the existing warehouse and new volume above. This layer has a clear height of 4m to 6m and accommodates loft apartments adjacent to a large courtyard garden, which is characterized by light, greenery, and transparency, and forms a strong contrast with the industrial dockyard structures. It was a conscious decision to use a gallery to encourage social interaction and stimulate an inclusive community.

Fenix passage. The gallery on the inside of the building block connects to a public passageway on street level, that runs through the heart of the original warehouse, connecting the city side with the quay. The different time-layers and dynamics of Fenix become visible and tangible through the many sightlines that bring the various functions together. Unique construction The technical challenge of Fenix I is most evident in its construction. By placing an immense one-kiloton steel table construction through the existing warehouse and giving it a separate foundation, the monumental warehouse could be largely preserved. The new building on top is technically kept separate from the warehouse.

Sustainability. Sustainability is an integral part of Fenix I, starting with maximum reuse of the existing building. Fenix I has been optimized in terms of circularity and biodiversity by means of a future-proof adaptable building structure, roof gardens, vertical green courtyard facades, rainwater harvesting, high-performance solar control glazing, and high-efficient heat recovery and heat and cold storage.

Community. The distinctive architecture, as well as the exceptional residential product offered by Fenix I, attracts residents and users with a similar mindset. Shortly after completion, Fenix I shows to contribute to social interaction and solidarity of the neighbourhood and to be the home to an inclusive and caring community.

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Fenix I Warehouse Renovation / Mei architects and planners

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Text description provided by the architects. With almost 45000m2 of mixed-use space and a unique steel structure built through the existing monumental warehouse, Rotterdam gained a bold and iconic building: Fenix I. History. The former so-called San Francisco warehouse, built in 1922 for the Holland America Line, was heavily damaged between 1940 and 1950 and restored into two buildings: Fenix I and Fenix II.

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metro çıkışı veya meydan için yapılara geçişte kullanılabilecek bir tip

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MVRDV's design will see this brutalist monument in the heart of Albania's capital city, once the showpiece of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, dramatically renovated. The concrete structure will be reused, the atrium and its surroundings greened and opened, and a small village of cafes, studios, wor...

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köşede ufak sade bir meydan çözümü ve yapıların arasında yaratılan sirkülasyon çok olumlu

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'Aeschbachquartier' Aarau, a mixed-used urban working and living area, will arise next to the station of Aarau, a city half an hour from Zurich. The new city quarter will form a link between the large grain and more dense new urban developments and former industrial areas around the station, and the small grain residential areas imbedded in green and park-like surroundings. The former industrial site next to the rail tracks and the new planned stadium will be transformed into an dense colourful city quarter providing three different character areas: urban, industrial and garden village. With a great diversity of different working and living typologies and a wide range of different commercial programmes on ground level it will satisfy the demands of both urban and suburban lifestyles in a garden-setting.

The different character areas are organized around the central park. An urban inner boulevard will connect the eastern entrancewith the green heart, led along a variety of gastronomic and commercial programmes and the pulsing heart of the Aeschbachhalle. From all directions the central Aeschbachhalle is visible and accessible. Several different types of residential developments can be envisioned.

Client Mobimo AG, Küsnacht
Program 5 ha master plan for a former industrial area with a mixed-use program of living, office and commerce; ca. 50.000 m2
Time 2011 - 2020
Role Urban design, supervisior, architect
Participating parties Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitekten (landscape), Raumanzug (sustainability), Bosshardt&Partner (cost advisors), Schneider & Schneider Architeken, Gmür & Geschwentner (architecture), uno partner, Fanzun AG, b+p baurealisation
Awards Competition 1st prize, DGNB Gold

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'Aeschbachquartier' Aarau, a mixed-used urban working and living area, will arise next to the station of Aarau, a city half an hour from Zurich. The new city quarter will form a link between the large grain and more dense new urban developments and former industrial areas around the station, and the small grain residential areas imbedded in green and park-like surroundings.

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Visuals - MWKZ Rotor S - Projects - KCAP

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Green and healthy living environment in the Merwedekanaalzone

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konut + ticari fonksiyon için bir örnek yanlız kıyı şeridinde yapıların yükselmesinin tartışılabileceğini düşünüyorum.

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Visuals - Keqiao Urban Ballet - Projects - KCAP

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New City district for residences, community and commercial functions

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KCAP + Orange Architects are working in a consortium with A.Len Architectural Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia, to transform a former railway yard on Ligovsky Prospekt into a new residential district with communal facilities, retail and extensive greenery. Linear parks and landscaped boulevards that follow the historical railway tracks are at the origin of the new urban framework and will offer the backdrop for a high quality living environment, where the buildings are characterized by industrial aesthetics. The goal is to create a new attractive residential district of St. Petersburg, designed for 8.600 people, with its own commercial and social infrastructure. The plans include restaurants, cafes, leisure facilities, street retail, service companies, sports facilities, four kindergartens, one primary and one secondary school, underground and surface parking lots.

The proposal for the territory planning of the former Tovarno-Vitebskaya railway yard in the south-eastern part of the grey belt of St. Petersburg is a continuation of the Glorax Development's Ligovsky City neighborhood development project. The area under consideration, 30 hectares, is well connected to city. In the North, in close proximity to the site, is planned to build a metro station 'Borovaya'.

The carefully planned intervention is an adaptive re-use that promotes new urban life, based on a mix of historical and modern structures and on the contrast between large and small scale solutions. The industrial morphology of the area, with the rails and loading platforms, creates a beautiful and well organized pattern that becomes the basis of the design idea. The spatial organisation of the site is being re-used and buildings varying between 6 and 15 floors height are placed on the pre-existing platforms. For the typical Ligovsky building, bigger and smaller volumes are stacked with contrasting industrial facades recalling the heritage of the site. The base volumes located along the main boulevards provide a special plinth with a height of one or two floors, which will create an interface between buildings and streets or parks.

The rail tracks are interpreted as linear parks, enriched by witnesses of the past. A precise inventory informs what could be reused and integrated in the public space: small buildings, blue cranes, tracks, poles, to give historical depth and atmosphere to the new neighbourhood. The long green corridors in the building fabric of Ligovsky City, running along the North-South direction, offer many opportunities for spending quality time outdoors, for everyone, from walkways to quiet corners, from running tracks to yoga fields. For the various zones of the project there will be specific places. While the public parks are developed along the main railway tracks there are also more intimate walkways and the courtyards between the buildings. This creates a network of smaller and more private open spaces for the residents and the users of the communal facilities.

In the North of the site, the buildings are combined into an urban ensemble, the 'Crown', which creates a strong and recognizable entrance, opposite the new to build metro station 'Borovaya'. With various commercial and leisure facilities, the area will be the new urban center for Ligovsky and the point of attraction for St. Petersburg. To the South, the section narrows and the buildings grow upwards, where three towers create a strong building edge, called 'Trio'.

Ligovsky City is a project where the proposed industrial character of the urban solution and the architecture preserves the memory of a place and emphasizes its unique character and at the same time creates a modern, dynamic, and high quality green residential area.

Client Glorax Development, St. Petersburg
Program 30 ha new residential quarter for 8.600 people and a mixed urban program retail, gastronomy, services, school, kindergardens and parking (above and underground)
Time 2019 - present
Role KCAP + Orange Architects urban planner in cooperation with A.Len Architectural Bureau St. Petersburg
Awards Architecton Award of the Union of Architects St. Petersburg (Gold Diploma in the category Housing and Residential Complexes)

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KCAP + Orange Architects are working in a consortium with A.Len Architectural Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia, to transform a former railway yard on Ligovsky Prospekt into a new residential district with communal facilities, retail and extensive greenery.

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As part of the competition winning proposal for the Barcode neighborhood on Oslo's waterfront, MVRDV was asked to design the headquarters of Norwegian bank DNB at the center of the masterplan. The building unites workers formerly housed in 20 different offices, with the trading floor, a natural...

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The Pushed Slab building is a response to stringent sustainability and spatial flexibility criteria, as well as the desire for a high quality working environment, and the requirement to maintain protected views of Paris. It will be the first building to be constructed in Paris' first eco-quarter, a...

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kütleler yer yer açılmış fakat bitişik olarak çözülmüş. yapı adasının ortasına meydan yapılmış ve sosyal alan sağlanmış. bitişik nizamda ikinci bir giydirme cephe yapılarak cam kütle oluşturulmuş. bu kütlede avlu yaratılmış.

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'Hoornwerk' is a district with formerly factory workers dwellings which did not fulfill contemporary standards anymore. Housing cooperation Ieder1 took the rigorous step of pulling down the complete quarter and start a new development. Hoornwerk is located on a triangular area which is close to Deventer city center. This part of the city has been subject to significant change and new developments like the IJsselland College and the Social Insurance Bank.

Between this context and the program a paradox arises: on the one hand the demand for a small, intimate urban environment, on the other a structure is needed for large ensembles of buildings placed in a green environment providing spacious views. The urban plan reacts to this paradox and combines the advantages of a small-scale city-structure with that of larger object-like units through programming different building types, dwellings, apartments, care and grouping them around a semi-public courtyard or system of alleys. The concept comprises of three larger ensembles comparable to islands in a sea of green. The relatively dense islands are separated by broad and generous green wedges. These green spaces are car-free and consist of a high user quality. The layout has a park-like character. The adjacent housing is orientated towards, and in some cases is accessed from, the green. The threshold between public and private green is subtly differentiated by discrete height differences.

Client Housing cooperation IEDER1, Deventer
Program Urban plan and design of residential complex with care facilities, 19.200 m2 gfa, 12 one-family houses, 90 apartments, 26 care units, covered parkinggarage with 155 parking spots
Time 2002 - 2008
Role Urban planner and architect

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'Hoornwerk' is a district with formerly factory workers dwellings which did not fulfill contemporary standards anymore. Housing cooperation Ieder1 took the rigorous step of pulling down the complete quarter and start a new development. Hoornwerk is located on a triangular area which is close to Deventer city center.

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This apartment building is located in PAU de Sanchinarro, a new neighbourhood situated on the northeast edge of Madrid, next to MVRDV’s Mirador. Blocks of eight houses are seen as separate prefabricated units. They are positioned in a checkerboard pattern next to and on top of each other&nbsp.…

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Each apartment's balcony varies in depth and stretches as a band along the entire façade, offering occupants outdoor spaces and views over the western docklands of Amsterdam.

With the majority of other buildings in the VOC Cour port redevelopment in brick, the floor-to-ceiling glass façade, which can be fully opened, offers a wonderful contrast.

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Each apartment's balcony varies in depth and stretches as a band along the entire façade, offering occupants outdoor spaces and views over the western docklands of Amsterdam. With the majority of other buildings in the VOC Cour port redevelopment in brick, the floor-to-ceiling glass façade, which can be fully opened, offers a wonderful contrast.

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OMA redesigned the FORUM Rotterdam project in collaboration with Wessel de Jonge Architecten, based on a revised brief from the client Multi drafted in 2014. Originally intended as an ambitious new building in the center of Rotterdam, positioned in between the ABN AMRO bank and the Lijnbaan, the FOR…

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cephe tasarımı açısından ilgi çekici geldi

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Fukuoka is the seventh biggest city in Japan, known for its distinct cultural identity. Its central location among major cities of East Asia positions the city as a gateway into Japan, contributing to its standing as the economic center of Kyushu Island. The city has been thriving over the last decade, ranking highly in livability, ratio of younger population, and percentage of start-ups.

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Fukuoka is the seventh biggest city in Japan, known for its distinct cultural identity. Its central location among major cities of East Asia positions the city as a gateway into Japan, contributing to its standing as the economic center of Kyushu Island.

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The project PXP: The Shared City proposes to create an urban space dedicated to sharing and innovation. The building, which is positioned on the axis that links the historical tourist areas of Paris and the business district of La Défense, functions as a mixed-use structure with a key position in the development of Greater Paris.

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The project PXP: The Shared City proposes to create an urban space dedicated to sharing and innovation. The building, which is positioned on the axis that links the historical tourist areas of Paris and the business district of La Défense, functions as a mixed-use structure with a key position in the development of Greater Paris.

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Concrete Waves - G8A Architecture & Urban Planning

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Concrete Waves - G8A Architecture & Urban Planning

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Text description provided by the architects. Set within a tropical climate, the pre-cast façade manipulates the orientation of sun shading to craft the beautiful illusion that is Concrete Waves. Part of the new industrial zone is the latest project for FPT in Ho Chi Minh City that will be completed in three phases. Developed from the learnings of earlier projects exploring the "yard typology" from a new perspective.

The building benefits from a rational floor plan and an exterior load-bearing structure. This smartly maximizes the floor layout and provides flexible interior space solutions. Circulation paths exist on the margins of the floor plans and relaxation areas can be found well shaded with double-height sky gardens at each level, giving breathing space for a building that is highly compact. At base level natural light and cross ventilation allow the parking area to be pleasant.

Landscape elements such as; fencing, signage, and parapet walls around the yard are made from red Corten Steel. The building's use of color and material sets it apart from other developments within the vast master plan. Marked by the high contrast between the monochromatic skin of the building that is in light, medium, and dark grey, and the stunning lush vegetation the building is iconic.

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Text description provided by the architects. Set within a tropical climate, the pre-cast façade manipulates the orientation of sun shading to craft the beautiful illusion that is Concrete Waves. Part of the new industrial zone is the latest project for FPT in Ho Chi Minh City that will be completed in three phases.

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Infinity Residential Building - Koichi Takada Architects

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Infinity Residential Building - Koichi Takada Architects

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Text description provided by the architects. Infinity is a mixed-use residential building, located at the corner of Bourke Street and Botany Road in Green Square, Sydney. The 20-story building includes 325 apartments, 75 boutique hotel rooms, a 450-seat conference centre, and more than 30 retail, food & beverage spaces. It has a direct connection to the Green Square train station and is adjacent to a Public Plaza and Green Square Library.

Designed to Breathe. The aerodynamic form and large opening in the middle of the building serve as an entryway for daylight and natural ventilation as well as enhances the experience of end-users and influence how the building integrates with its surroundings. Infinity's large outdoor swimming pool is situated at the base of the opening, and when the wind passes over this large body of water, it cools the air and drives it into the heart of the architecture - a central public courtyard. Infinity is designed to breathe.

By facilitating natural ventilation throughout the building, the opening becomes a key component in providing better indoor air quality and thermal comfort for the residents and reduces energy consumption by minimising the reliance on air-conditioning. The complexity of the design required exhaustive simulations, wind-tunnel testing, and computer modelling to ensure the performance goals were realised. The building prioritises performance and while the opening creates a unique architectural appeal, it becomes an important design strategy that improves not just the living conditions, but a sustainable contribution to the built environment.

Shaped by light for public benefit. Infinity is carved in a particular way so that the fluid form increases year-round sunlight to the surrounding public spaces. Compared to the originally designated massing allowance for the site, the carved and sloping form gives back much more sunlight to the Public Plaza and Green Square Library, built below ground, that would otherwise be shaded. A terraced apartment structure on the south side is designed with cascading apartments that have external terrace gardens. It is designed to allow better solar access, the terraced apartments facilitate cross-ventilation, rainwater collection, equitable apartment mix appealing to a wider socio-economic group, as well as communal gardens for social interaction.

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Infinity Residential Building / Koichi Takada Architects

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Text description provided by the architects. Infinity is a mixed-use residential building, located at the corner of Bourke Street and Botany Road in Green Square, Sydney. The 20-story building includes 325 apartments, 75 boutique hotel rooms, a 450-seat conference centre, and more than 30 retail, food & beverage spaces.

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Text description provided by the architects. Daramu House is an evolution of its sister building, International House Sydney. Together they complete the first stage of the Barangaroo South precinct, establishing the unique and desirable character of mass timber construction in the competitive CBD office market. Daramu House has been designed to present a cohesive and inviting public threshold to Barangaroo South, providing a transition in scale between the three towers and Sussex Street, establishing a 7 storey street wall and continuous colonnade edge to the precinct.

What distinguishes Daramu House, is its position at the intersection of the commercial and residential Barangaroo precincts. The architecture responds to this condition at the northern boundary by taking on a sculptural, folding form. This form signals the end of the street wall on Sussex Street and the turning point toward the harbour. The fluid northern form provides generous amenity on the ground plane, enhancing the connection between Sussex Street and the harbour. The distinctive architecture of this part of Daramu House differentiates the commercial precinct of Barangaroo from the residential precinct to the north, whilst reinforcing precinct and harbour vistas. The rounded corners of Daramu House encourage seamless pedestrian movement into the precinct contributing to the connectivity and legibility of the public domain.

On Sussex Street, the commercial entry is announced through a dramatic two storey space. An impressive 18m span in glulam members allows a column-free entry by utilising the bracing elements on the upper 5 storeys as a truss. On the vibrant laneway of Scotch Row, the façade intersects with the exposed CLT lift core providing views to its timber anatomy for the full height of the building, both from the public domain and from within. At the heart of the design is the warm, golden glow of the timber structure that is wrapped in a minimal glazed envelope allowing the timber to be celebrated as the hero. The expanded structural grid of 9m x 9m is currently the largest in the world for mid-rise commercial projects, allowing for generous and flexible fit-out opportunities.

Daramu House celebrates the rich industrial history of Barangaroo by reinterpreting the timber building typology that dominated the site post-European settlement. The pragmatic and expressed use of solid timber as the structural component of the building connects the history of this precinct to the present. External timber elements are made from Australian recycled hardwood selected for robustness, durability and weathering. Internally, the timber is left unadorned and uncovered providing warmth and a tactile beauty to the commercial floors, as well as contributing to a healthier, biophilic workplace for all users.

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Text description provided by the architects. Daramu House is an evolution of its sister building, International House Sydney. Together they complete the first stage of the Barangaroo South precinct, establishing the unique and desirable character of mass timber construction in the competitive CBD office market.

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Park and Polk - Jonathan Segal Architect

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Park and Polk - Jonathan Segal Architect

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Park and Polk / Jonathan Segal Architect

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Completed in 2018 in San Diego, United States. Images by Matthew Segal, Jeff Durkin. Once the site of a large church, this empty site sat unoccupied as a blighted fenced dirt lot for nearly 10 years. Jonathan Segal FAIA acquired the...

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The Continental Apartments -Jonathan Segal Architect

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The Continental Apartments -Jonathan Segal Architect

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Text description provided by the architects. In Little Italy, San Diego there is a shortage of apartments at a price point working class people can afford. This is driving people farther away from the city and creating a further reliance on the automobile. One of the main impetus for this increase in costs is parking. Parking takes up a tremendous amount of space, drives up construction costs, and delays construction.

To help mitigate this crisis, The Continental was designed as a case study in reducing apartment size into a 400 sq. ft. "efficiency unit" and initially planned to completely eliminate all onsite parking.

This mixed use project is situated on a postage stamp sized lot at 5,000 square feet and has 42 apartments, 5 of which are very low income, commercial spaces on the ground floor and a 3 bedroom single family home at the corner. At nearly 390 dwelling units per acre this project could quickly be multiplied and replicated throughout urban transit areas.

Although it was the intention of the developer and designer to eliminate all parking on site instead relying on the walkability of the neighborhood and public transit the community pushed back and underground parking for 11 automobiles was integrated.

The building features concrete and steel construction with floor to ceiling glazing and large balconies serving as a reprieve from the more intimate interior space and a common roof deck which also houses the laundry services for the building. All core services are fully offset by rooftop solar and the building exceeds Title24 requirements by 16.9%.

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The Continental Apartments / Jonathan Segal Architect

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Text description provided by the architects. In Little Italy, San Diego there is a shortage of apartments at a price point working class people can afford. This is driving people farther away from the city and creating a further reliance on the automobile. One of the main impetus for this increase in costs is parking.