Tag Commercial Buildings

21-12-2020

From shoe factory to sustainable, mixed-use building

Batawa is a small town in Ontario, Canada that gravitated around the large Bata shoe factory. It’s now going through a sustainable and social conversion, once again at the request of the entrepreneurs. The renovated factory has been born again as a mixed-use residential, commercial and community building designed by Quadrangle and Dubbeldam Architecture + Design.

03-12-2020

Klotski by Graham Baba Architects, sustainable mixed-use architecture in Seattle

With Klotski, Graham Baba Architects has completed a three-floor, mixed-use building in Seattle’s Ballard district. The project is named after the sliding block puzzle and combines an eye-catching look that plays on geometries, with plenty of attention to sustainability.

24-11-2020

Technical innovation and ceramic quality: benefits and prevention with Granitech raised floors

On the contemporary surfaces scene, the acknowledged and increasingly appreciated qualities of high-tech ceramic make all the difference, with their strength, flexibility, and easy cleaning and maintenance. Granitech raised floors, coupled with slabs made by the brands in the Iris Ceramica Group, represent a preventive solution for optimising and speeding up maintenance work in public places and workspaces

10-11-2020

P+F Parisotto + Formenton Architetti re-design Galleria Bolchini Milano

Parisotto + Formenton Architetti resigned Galleria Bolchini, located in Piazza Meda, Milan, in the building of the same name designed by Pier Giulio Magistretti between 1928 and 1930. The project focused on re-designing the lower part of the building with its public arcade.

28-08-2020

A prefabricated concrete garden centre by Studio Bressan

A prism of prefabricated concrete provides the minimalist container for a garden centre in Cittadella, near Padua.

14-08-2020

C.F. Møller Architects’s steel and glass Värtaterminalen

The ferry terminal in Stockholm, Sweden, combines port constructions with naval architecture and urban parks

26-06-2020

A minimalist reconstruction in concrete and steel by LAPS arquitectos

A minimalist reconstruction in concrete and steel has made Montevideo’s mid-twentieth-century marketplace into a multipurpose building.

15-05-2020

Christophe Rousselle Architecte Courbes residential buildings in Colombes, France

Courbes is a residential project by Christophe Rousselle’s studio in Colombes, in France’s Hauts-de-Seine department, named after the sinuous curves of the overhangs that characterise and diversify the levels of the two buildings. The residential project is part of the plan for urban renewal of the ZAC Charles de Gaulle district.

06-05-2020

L22 Urban & Building by Lombardini22, New urban image for the Sarca 222 building

Lombardini22 completed an urban renewal project on an industrial building at Viale Sarca 222 in Milan, constructed in the sixties and renovated in the early 2000s. The building now has a new urban image designed by Lombardini22’s L22 Urban & Building division, consistent with the evolution of the district. The architects designed a grid of frames and glass elements giving Sarca 222 a dynamic rhythm of solids and hollows.