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12-05-2021

Neri&Hu: Schindler City, Schindler offices in Jiading, Shanghai

Schindler City, the Schindler Group’s headquarters and research centre in Shanghai, is designed to be a stronghold of production. In Jiading, a growing industrial district north of Shanghai, Neri & Hu designed gardens and plazas in an enclosure of recycled brick walls.

07-05-2021

Pezo Von Ellrichshausen: INES Innovation Center, Concepción

The INES Innovation Center is the latest instalment in an exploration of the "systematic way of creating exceptionality" so particular to Pezo Von Ellrichshausen. An office building dedicated to research and innovation at the UBB - Universidad del Bio-Bio in Concepción, Chile.

26-04-2021

Transforming existing constructions: two projects by MEGATABS in Vienna

MEGATABS, the studio founded by architect Daniel Hora, recently completed two projects involving transformation of existing buildings in Vienna: a ground floor and basement converted into an elegant gallery in an industrial mood, and a loft office which led to the chance discovery of a historic glass ceiling hidden behind a false ceiling, which the architects restored to add character and value to what was otherwise an extremely simple space.

20-04-2021

nEmoGruppo redesigns Flash Entertainment’s Abu Dhabi premises

nEmoGruppo and M+N Architecture designed the interior of the new home of FLASH Entertainment, a company that organises events, concerts and performances, in twofour54, the free zone in Abu Dhabi reserved for international and local media companies. The architects designed an unconventional workspace featuring linear, dynamic open space offices, fluid spaces where people enjoy the utmost freedom of movement and complete absence of barriers, translating the client’s needs into elements of architecture and design.

14-04-2021

Cro&Co Architecture Tour Trinity Paris La Défense

Tour Trinity is a major civil engineering project on an urban scale in the La Défense district in western Paris. For the first time in France, a 32-storey tower has been built over a void. But the tower is only apparently built over nothing; it actually rests on a concrete slab over a seven-lane highway. In addition to an undeniable urban landmark, the project takes on an important urban dimension due to the presence of this big slab adding 3500 square metres of public space, establishing links between neighbourhoods that had been divided. The project by Cro&Co Architecture offers a solution that truly improves users’ quality of life.

05-04-2021

Metaform’s warehouse to office transformation

Architectural practice Metaform has renovated an old warehouse in Steinsel, Luxembourg, in a balanced renovation project converting the industrial building to contain the offices of an IT company.

31-03-2021

Powerhouse Company brings nature into the city with HOLT

HOLT, a project by architectural practices Powerhouse Company, Houben/Van Mierlo, and Vector-i with landscape design studio DELVA, has won the competition to build a new green, healthy neighbourhood in Groningen. The project involves construction of new residential buildings, offices and other public spaces, including a new park. The 320 residences will be built with an urban density permitting an inclusive relationship with nature.

24-03-2021

Lipsky+Rollet’s mixed-use EKLA complex: an inhabited island in Euralille

Lipsky+Rollet architectes designed EKLA, a large mixed-use complex in Lille. Architects Florence Lipsky and Pascal Rollet conceived of EKLA as an inhabited island consisting of three residential buildings, including a 17-floor tower, offices, commercial spaces, a carpark and other services for residents.

12-03-2021

KPF’s 18 Robinson skyscraper: green terraces over the city of Singapore

18 Robinson, designed by KPF, or Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, in Singapore’s Central Business District, has an unusual shape determined by the particular geometry of the lot it stands on and the need to comply with government restrictions. The green land sacrificed to construction is restored in the form of indoor and outdoor spaces accessible to the public, such as big open-air terraces establishing a visual dialogue with the city.