Tag Shopping Centers

24-08-2021

Best of Livegreenblog, commercial and industrial architecture

Being sustainable is also a prerogative for companies, so we dedicate this Best of Livegreenblog to the business world that has opted for environmentally friendly solutions in its architectural choices. We find projects involving the recovery and reuse of existing buildings, but also new constructions.

28-05-2021

The Playhouse by Pan-Projects, renovation project in Tokyo’s Aoyama fashion district

Japanese architectural studio Pan-Projects curated the renovation of a three-floor building in the heart of Tokyo’s Aoyama fashion district for a famous British fashion brand. The whole project is based on the idea that purchases will in the future increasingly be made via virtual platforms – as the pandemic has confirmed – so that physical locations should be designed not for actual sales, but as places for discovery, research and relationships. The three-floor façade of the Playhouse impresses passers-by with a dramatic big stage curtain that can be positioned in different ways to offer glimpses of the interior, attracting people’s curiosity and performing not only an aesthetic function but flexible reorganisation of spaces.

20-05-2021

MVRDV begins construction of the Shenzhen Terraces

In Shenzhen, in southeastern China, construction has begun on the Shenzhen Terraces, the mixed-use project designed by the MVRDV architecture firm and which will form the core of the thriving university district in the city’s Longgang District. The project, which stands as one of the most sustainable carried out in the Chinese metropolis, is characterised by a strong urban component, with a series of terraced areas that aim to maximise public life and an abundance of green spaces.

13-05-2021

Farewell to Helmut Jahn

German architect Helmut Jahn was killed in a car accident on May 8 in Campton Hills, 100 km from Chicago, the city where he had studied and lived since the late sixties and which his architecture helped transform. Helmut Jahn designed projects all over the world; his better-known, most iconic constructions include the Sony Centre on Berlin’s Postdamer Platz and the Frankfurt Messeturm in Germany, One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand.

26-04-2021

Atelier DYML’s YUE City is the metamorphosis of an existing building

Atelier DYML has transformed a shopping centre built more than 15 years ago on the site of an old cement mill in Guangzhou, China into YUE City, a complex standing out with a new sense of identity that brings new value to its surroundings.

31-03-2021

Area15, an immersive experiential shopping centre in Las Vegas

Michael Beneville of Beneville Studios designed the new Area15 entertainment complex in Las Vegas: a place that has been described as an immersive experiential next-generation shopping centre, where you can surround yourself with art in one of the most artificial places in the United States.

17-02-2021

Beijing De Fang Yuan and the Shijiazhuang CBD Planning Exhibition Centre

Shijiazhuang CBD Planning Exhibition Centre is located in the city of Shijiazhuang, capital of the Chinese province of Hebei. The interiors in this elegant white building with a futuristic look were created by design studio Beijing De Fang Yuan.

03-02-2021

Werk 12 designed by MVRDV and N-V-O Nuyken Von Oefele Architekten winner of DAM Preis 2021

Werk 12, the multifunctional complex built in Munich and designed by the MVRDV and N-V-O Nuyken Von Oefele Architekten architecture firms is the DAM Preis 2021 winner. The most important recognition for architecture built in Germany is being awarded, for the fifth consecutive year, by Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in collaboration with Jung. Together with the Werk 12 complex, the other finalists were "Wohnregal" in Berlin designed by FAR Frohn&Rojas, "Administration building with integrated roof green house" in Oberhaus designed by Kuehn Malvezzi and the "University for Dramatic Arts" in Berlin designed by O&O Baukunst.

18-01-2021

Gare Maritime by Neutelings Riedijk Architects, a sustainable conversion

More than merely the largest cross-laminated timber structure in Europe, the Gare Maritime on the Tour & Taxis site in Brussels is a sustainable project by Neutelings Riedijk Architects in collaboration with Bureau Bouwtechniek to convert what was once Europe’s largest freight station into a new district of the city.