Sometimes the best way to update an old home is to choose an area of the house that needs refreshing, leaving the rest of it to stand in all its historical splendor. Many professional designers and architects choose to do this on older streets that have strong consistency of style all throughout the neighbourhood, like countless historical lanes and roads throughout England do. This gives the family a fresh start..
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Uber Hong Kong / Bean Buro
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- Architects: Bean Buro
- Location: Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
- Architect In Charge: Bean Buro
- Design Directors: Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui, Lorène Faure
- Area: 9000.0 ft2
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Bean Buro
- Senior Architectural Designers: Elspeth Lee, Isabel Entrambasaguas
- Architectural Designers & Assistants: Michelle Ho, Tommy Hui, Abby Liu, Gigi Kwong
- Contractor: Winsmart Contracting Co. Ltd
- Project Management: Colliers International
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From the architect. Bean Buro’s design for UBER’s new Hong Kong office takes inspiration from Gottfried Semper’s writings on vessels, where he described the notion of form and function acting as a structured whole, with individual parts fulfilling their own function while cooperating with others to achieve an overall aim and effect.
Plan
UBER’s new workplace, totaling 9,000sqft (830sqm) on the top floor of an existing office building, was inspired by such notion of volumes and functions. Interpretations of the city’s waterfront topography and curvy mountains generated an undulating, voluptuous dark blue inhabitable vessel that contained meeting rooms, service areas and private work booths.
© Bean Buro
Each individual part of the vessel was a variety of work spaces equipped with their own privacy control such as misty gradient glass partitions or curtains. Work clusters occupy the open neighborhoods, each with access to shared supports and collaborative work zones. The work clusters can be re-arranged to match the constantly changing needs of the company.
© Bean Buro
Referencing the local urban life, the reception introduces vibrantly coloured tiled walls and floors, contrasted with handcrafted neon signage, while a padded felt wrapped reception desk is reminiscent of luxurious car seating. An intricate wall art by local artist Bao Ho envisions a floating city vessel, packed with Hong Kong landmarks, futuristic transports and lucky Feng Shui symbols for the company. Staff is in turn encouraged to express themselves creatively through writable walls and columns.
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The space was designed humanly to connect people, reflecting the company’s ethos. Thus the heart of the workplace is a café pantry, designed to support large social events, independent working and informal meetings. It includes a collaborative bar island, stage seating, and a 20m long signature ‘Bean’ table with integrated cushioned seats facing the city’s racecourse and sports grounds.
Product Description: – Referencing the local urban life, the reception introduces vibrantly coloured tiled walls and floors, contrasted with handcrafted neon signage.
Conceptual Drawing
Palo Alto Networks Offices Israel / Setter Architects
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- Architects: Setter Architects
- Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Architect In Charge: Setter Architects
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Itay Sikolski
- Project Designer: Shirli Zamir
- Project Manager: Chen Yaron, Yaron-Levy
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From the architect. Palo Alto Networks is a company involved in developing cyber defense solutions.
It is located in downtown Tel Aviv, on the 24th floor of a complex of multi-story office towers alongside an eclectic variety of buildings built during the city’s historical eras. This is a multi-layered colorful part of Tel Aviv, where alongside banks and high tech companies, one finds low-tech businesses and assorted shops such as painting workshops, artists’ studios and restaurants.
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The design inspiration evolved from the aim of introducing that colorful eclectic low-tech outside environment into the 24th floor where Palo Alto, one of the world’s most innovative companies, is located.
As the design team, we imported characteristic elements from the outside environment, filtered them into a design vocabulary and gave them different uses. For example:
Sections
•Steel window profiles and garage doors evolved in their role and expression into open-space partitions.
•Exposed brick blocks found a new role as an interior wall in a conference room.
•Old textured window glass were integrated in the partitions dividing private and public spaces.
•Paint buckets from painting workshops become distinctive wall decorations.
•Old industrial fan blades became ultramodern light fixtures.
© Itay Sikolski
All employees, including managers, work in open spaces located at the perimeter of the floor, alongside the windows. Transparent high partitions enable intimacy and improve acoustics, yet allow the urban feel of the outside environment to flow in.
Throughout the floor are formal/informal conference rooms, classrooms and working spaces that benefit from the transparent materials and visualization of the whole floor. These transparent walls conceptualize the company’s major product – its firewall.
© Itay Sikolski
Prépinson, Rehabilitation Of Four Traditional Houses / WAW Achitectes
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- Architects: WAW Achitectes
- Location: 37340 Ambillou, France
- Architect In Charge: Stanislas Cheuvreux, Arnaud Coutine, Bérenger Marinot
- Area: 712.0 m2
- Project Year: 2013
- Photographs: Sophie Carles
© Sophie Carles
Site Plan
From the architect. In a singular landscape, in the middle of a plain surrounded by forest massifs, four former farm buildings take place around a yard near a pond. The site lends itself so majestically to the pondering over the landscape and over the wildlife. Our intervention aims to highlight the local patrimony and respect it by the architectural creation.
© Sophie Carles
The main building, the only living building before de reconversion, is entirely cured to adapt itself to the modern constructive exigencies but also to find a volumetry that allows the development of the existent attic. The extension, in a wood frame, joins the continuity of the volumetry of the former building. The extension is covered with a cladding in a slatted reclaimed poplar. This material creates the same architectural language common in each building. The poplar is used for his resistance to the weather but also to his natural tendency to take golden and silver reflects getting older. It’s a living material that is taking a real part in the environment.
© Sophie Carles
Inside, the former part hosts he more private parts of the house while the extension welcomes the reception rooms. The “cathedral” living room is fully opened to the landscape and the pond, allowing us to enjoy the spectacular landscape offer by the nature in every season. The contemporary architecture try here to disappear to reveal the quality of the landscape and also the quality of the traditional building.
Product Description: The reclaimed poplar creates the same architectural language common in each building of the project.
© Sophie Carles
Elevation
11 Artists Visualize Tchoban Voss Projects in “Images from Berlin” Exhibition
Courtesy of Tchoban Voss Architekten
Towering like an infinite mountain of stone, a building devoid of windows and doors is hand-drawn in the tradition of the old masters. Elsewhere, colored strips of tape address the same project, visualized as a sequence of stacked layers. In yet another image, this time presented in a more realistic style, the cityscape is framed by two men gazing out at the viewer with a grin.
MICHELE ALASSIO / The Web Nightmare, from the series "Dreams & Nightmares." Digital print on baryta paper, 67 x 120 cm (2012)
It’s a daring experiment that Tchoban Voss Architekten undertake in their exhibition “Images from Berlin.” Instead of presenting their projects with the usual means, they have delegated this task to 11 visual artists. The aforementioned works stem from a confrontation by Gottfried Müller and Valery Koshlyakov with the Museum for Architectural Drawing. Meanwhile, the Living Levels are approached by the duo Vrubel & Timofeeva as an everyday urban environment.
Gary Schuberth and Scott Tulay contemplate the spectacular cantilever of Hotel nhow, while Thomas W Schaller has the Stern Center in Potsdam rise dramatically into the sky. Nikolai Makarov and Michele Alassio take on the interior of the synagogue in Münsterche Strasse, as well as the Russian Pavilion at the 2012 Architecture Biennale in Venice. Interpretations by Alexander Brodsky and Vladimir Dubossarsky complete this kaleidoscope.
At first glance, the images have seemingly nothing in common – except for their representation of architecture. While some emphasize it in the foreground, others use it as a backdrop. Some focus on the overall composition, while others hone in on fine details of the façade. Nevertheless, there is a thread that holds them together: they are representations, which are simultaneously true to the original. Another common basis is the architectural language itself, arising from Sergei Tchoban’s significant contributions to the city of Berlin over the course of 20 years.
ALEXANDER BRODSKY / Aquarium. Graphite pencil, fibre pen on transparent paper, 70 x 50 cm (2016)
VLADIMIR DUBOSSARSKY / Tchobangrad. Print and oil on canvas, 320 x 375 cm (2016)
VALERY KOSHLYAKOV / Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin. Colour tape on perspex, 90 x 80 cm (2016)
NIKOLAI MAKAROV / Synagogue Münstersche Strasse, Berlin. Acrylic on canvas, 145 x 195 cm (2016)
GOTTFRIED MÜLLER / Tchoban Foundation Berlin, 2117. Indian Ink, watercolour on old paper, 95 x 45 cm (2016)
THOMAS W SCHALLER / Stern-Centre, Potsdam. Graphite pencil and watercolour on paper, 76 x 56 cm (2016)
GARY SCHUBERTH / I Dream About Buildings. Graphite pencil on paper, 104 x 168 cm / 84 x 137 cm (2016)
GARY SCHUBERTH / At Night, All Cats Are Grey. Graphite pencil on paper, 104 x 168 cm / 84 x 137 cm (2016)
SCOTT TULAY / Float. Charcoal, graphite pencil on cardboard, 152 x 101 cm, in two parts (2016)
VRUBEL & TIMOFEEVA / Russians in Berlin (Tolstoewski Project) . Wax, pastel colours, coloured pencils on paper, 270 x 480 cm (2016)
Tchoban Voss Architekten opened their office in Berlin in 1996. Since then, Sergei Tchoban has gone on to design, plan and implement numerous new buildings, including the Cubix movie theater at Alexanderplatz, Quartier DomAquarée, Hotel nhow Berlin at Osthafen, the synagogue in Münstersche Strasse, and the Living Levels residential high-rise on the Spree River.
- Title: Tchoban Voss Architekten – Images from Berlin
- Type: Exhibition Opening
- Organizers: Ulrich Müller
- From: January 19, 2017 07:00 PM
- Until: March 04, 2017 08:00 PM
- Venue: Architektur Galerie Berlin
- Address: Karl-Marx-Allee 96, 10243 Berlin
Boos Beach Club Restaurant / Metaform architects
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- Architects: Metaform architects
- Location: 8140 Bridel, Luxembourg
- Architect In Charge: Agaajani, Ristic
- Structural Engineer: Ney & Partners / WOW
- Area: 600.0 m2
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Steve Troes
© Steve Troes
Site Plan
In place of the old bar/restaurant BOOS Beach Club, modern and contemporary architecture, tightly linked to its context, reflects the new image of this iconic venue in Luxembourg.
The new part, interwoven around the existing house, is inspired by the Japanese art of origami. It resembles a folded sheet of paper that answers to the program requirements, while creating a relation with the old and opening up to the natural surroundings. Our idea was to integrate harmoniously the new structure into the existing natural context, while at the same time paying respect to the existing architecture by placing a light wooden structure with glass openings towards the landscape. The dynamic design enables orienting the bar and eating areas towards the outside, guiding the views to the tall tree stalks. By leaning on the existing house, and due to its triangular form, the self-supporting rigid roof requires very few peripheral structural points. The motivation to choose this lightweight and easily removable roof system leaves space and possibility to the idea of possible future change, if needed.
© Steve Troes
The main access is situated in the front of the existing house reestablishing in that way the original function distribution. The outdoor areas have been rethought and refurbished. The lateral outdoor terrace was partly removed and replaced by a white sand beach. The back terrace, however, has been optimized and modified to achieve a stronger connection with the whole.
© Steve Troes
Section
The project also includes the refurbished kitchen and eating area, both located on the ground floor of the existing house. Under the new triangulated structure, smoking area together with the fireplace and a small dining area, introduce spatially the main zone of more than 200 m2, dedicated to the dance floor around the monumental bar.
To preserve ”Beach club” identity of the place, the new structure consists of raw materials: burned wood, polished concrete floor, raw steel, terrace in wood and white sand. All these together create the desired character both inside and outside.
© Steve Troes
West Elevation
UNStudio Erects Pearlescent Structure at World’s Leading Architectural Trade Fair
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
Employing the latest in aluminum and metals innovation, Ben van Berkel and UNStudio have erected the ALPOLIC fair stand at BAU 2017, the world’s leading trade fair for architecture, materials and systems. Emphasizing the inherent strength of the ultra-light material, the parametric design utilizes geometric principles to create a self-supporting semi-private stand for gathering and the display of products.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
Built from a single structural element, the geometry of the structure draws from natural examples of stability and strength, including the venation of leaves and the catenary lines of spider webs.
The resulting spaces within take the shape of cones, clad on the front side with durable fluoropolymer coated panels and left untreated on the back, revealing the structural construction to the thin sandwich panels. The coated side has been finished in a prismatic Lumiflon resin, which gives the stand a pearlescent appearance capable of withstanding wear from the elements.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
As visitors move around the structure, the stand will take on different appearances: some highlighting the structure’s 3-dimensionality, and other perspectives that feature the technical principles of the material.
“Throughout the stand moments for discussion and reflection are created, together creating a journey of inspiration for innovative facade design,” explain the architects.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
The stand will remain on display through the conclusion of BAU 2017 on January 21st.
News via UNStudio.
Learn more about this material here:
Aluminum Composites – Prismatic Finishes / Alpolic
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Lar Casa de Magalhães / Carvalho Araújo, Arquitectura e Design
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- Architects: Carvalho Araújo, Arquitectura e Design
- Localization: Ponte de Lima, Portugal
- Year Project: 2010
- Photography : Hugo Carvalho Araújo
- Equipe: José Manuel Carvalho Araújo, Joel Moniz, Alexandre Branco, Sandra Ferreira, Mónica Peixoto, Liliana Costa, Ana Vilar, Lília Costa, Nuno Vieira, Filipe Russel
- Arquitetura Paisagista : João Bicho e Joana Carneiro, Arquitectos Paisagistas
- Structures : Divisão de Estudos e Planeamento do Município de Ponte de Lima
- Mechanical Hvac: Marco Lopes, Eng. (climatização – projeto inicial)
- Hidraulic: Divisão de Estudos e Planeamento do Município de Ponte de Lima
- Instalações Elétricas : Divisão de Estudos e Planeamento do Município de Ponte de Lima
- Communications: Divisão de Estudos e Planeamento do Município de Ponte de Lima
- Security Against Fire: Divisão de Estudos e Planeamento do Município de Ponte de Lima
- Furniture: J. M. Carvalho Araújo, Arquitectura e Design, S.A.
- Construtor: Predilethes – Construções, Unipessoal Lda
- Phorography: Hugo Carvalho Araújo
© Hugo Carvalho Araújo
Numa casa branca vive uma senhora benemérita. Doa o terreno, casa e anexos para se construir aí um lar de idosos. Exige apenas que a construção seja feita ainda antes da sua morte. Tudo parte assim da casa, ela é o centro e o símbolo.
© Hugo Carvalho Araújo
O edifício do lar resulta da ampliação da plataforma da eira dessa casa. No centro são construídos dois pátios, um social e outro de serviço, que desmaterializam a massa construída, como tivesse sido retirado parte do edifício, expondo o seu interior. Percebe-se aí a vida e o movimento.
© Hugo Carvalho Araújo
Dispostos à volta do pátio as áreas sociais e os 27 quartos convidam à comunhão de uma vida partilhada, a uma sensação de ligação e de segurança. O edifício reduz-se à escala de uma casa. Está tudo num piso ligado à cota do terreno. Sente-se uma certa familiaridade e uma escala possível de controlar.
© Hugo Carvalho Araújo
Planta 00
© Hugo Carvalho Araújo
As circulações simples, directas, amplas e luminosas. Do átrio que intersecta o edifício e cria duas entradas opostas, a principal e a de serviço. E da circulação em anel que abraça os dois pátios.
© Hugo Carvalho Araújo
No exterior o ritmo da fachada remete para os troncos das árvores, numa opção de mesclagem, pondo em evidência o casario existente, de branco caiado.
© Hugo Carvalho Araújo
Elizabeth Diller to Produce Opera for the High Line
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Continuing in her firm’s tradition of blurring the lines between architecture, art and environment, Elizabeth Diller, founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is producing an opera for the High Line. Dubbed the “Mile Long Opera,” the production will be set along New York’s new favorite attraction, which was designed by DS+R with James Corner and Piet Oudolf and opened to the public in 2009.
Working with composer David Lang and sound designer Bruce Odland, Diller was reportedly partially inspired to produce the opera after learning about a Chelsea resident who used to put on one-woman cabarets on her fire escape. Called the Renegade Cabaret, the shows were held as a reaction to park patrons who were increasingly interrupting the privacy of her West 20th Street apartment.
Diller’s previous collaborations with Lang include DS+R’s “Musings on a Glass Box,” which was displayed within Jean Nouvel’s Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris in 2014.
The opera would not be Diller’s first foray into theatrical production – the architect has also collaborated with filmmaker Spike Jonze to help create the settings for his 2013 film “Her.”
“In college I’d had a fantasy of being a filmmaker. I’d taken film courses at Cooper Union and then somehow detoured into architecture,” Diller told Architect Magazine in 2014. “But the film bug never really left.”
News via The Real Deal. H/T Architect’s Newspaper.
Surface Mag Interviews Liz Diller on Architecture, Art, and Early “Aha” Moments
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New BIO Winery / MADE Associati Architetti
© Francesco Galifi
- Architects: MADE Associati Architetti
- Location: 31020 Villorba, Province of Treviso, Italy
- Architect In Charge: Adriano Marangon e Michela De Poli
- Area: 7200.0 m2
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Francesco Galifi , Adriano Marangon
- Collaborator: arch. Francesco Faggian
- Chartered Surveyor : ing. Andrea Rigato
- Mechanical Project : p.i. Alessandro Sartori
- Electrical Project: p.i. Luciano Michielin
- Plumbing Project: iDeVa Ingegneria
© Adriano Marangon
Project
The new winery offers an opportunity to reorganise and reconnect the system of open spaces with the built-up structures through the restoration of signing, associated modality and materiality that come form the world of agriculture.
The requalification project involves new spaces and new buildings dedicated to the winery but are developed integrating also the existing parts for the formation of a functionality and homogeneous image.
Plans
Section
The new building is located alongside the existing buildings to create a compact nucleus of the different work activities.
The office space is structured to be an representative image of the company, its sensibility and of the always organic production (this year it will celebrate 35 years of activity, certified organic and vegan for all types of wines produced).
© Adriano Marangon
Exterior spaces
In addition to the visible connections, grass surfaces have been designed to absorb the shared diversity forming a transitional environment between the parking area and the building, and daisies have been planted as a “selection” of flower traces between the vines.
A small wooden square gives continuity to the internal space of the outlet store, almost building a natural enlargement and characterized by a “pisoèra” tree typical the Treviso countryside. (Celtis australis, bagolaro).
© Adriano Marangon
Materials
The principal material composed of Beechwood used both for the exterior spaces and the interiors.
The finish of the vertical wooden planks qualifies the simplicity of the warehouse construction material;
© Adriano Marangon
Use of a natural material like wood blends best with the agricultural landscape, due to its coloration, regarding its “matricity”, for its capacity to age without deteriorating (the oxidation of wood in time contributes to the integration of the material into the context in which it is inserted.)
The filter / woven effect refers back to the finishing of barn facades composed and interweaved with bricks and/or vertical, holed wooden planks allowing for ventilation: a recurring characteristic in the traditional rustic structure of the Treviso countryside.
© Adriano Marangon
The work of restructuring will rely on this skin in order to wrap around the preexisting structure to the new intervention: along the north front the hight deformity and the material of the different warehouses in successive time will become absorbed by the resurfacing in the vertical wooden planks presenting a new facade both recomposed, reordered and harmonious.
In the space between the buildings and the new facade there is a visitor route located that from the outside allows you to follow the different stages of production: coming up from the vineyard arriving inside in the tasting rooms/meeting rooms in a constant relationship with portions of the historical (the villa) and productivelandscape (the vineyard).
© Adriano Marangon
Product Description:
Beechwood from the Cansiglio area has been utilized. The wood comes from the controlled forest of Cansiglio, a forest in which the beech tree is an endemic species destined to become a finished certified product connected to the territory, through which a selection process is carried out according to Veneto Agricultura (an official body with the task of forest management in the Veneto region), in a synergy between the Cansiglio Forest and Itlas Spa. It is a forest certified according to the PEFC scheme (Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification), that is, the principle of sustainable forest management, that guarantees the maintenance and the appropriate development of forest resources, protecting the biodiversity and ecosystem of the forest, preserving the different functions of the woods, other than the productive ones.
The choice is to promote the territory sensitizing it to its visitors towards a natural ecosystem, a forest heritage managed according to a naturalistic forest mandate, and following the criteria of the forest certification. This process encompasses within itself the precise environmental philosophy of the Cantina and of its natural products that shows also in the character of the material utilized. In particular, the wood utilized was cut in October 2015 and in part was cookfor external use and a part was laid with its natural finish (floors and furnishings).
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