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Supreme Court of the Netherlands / KAAN Architecten

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Architects: KAAN Architecten
Location: Korte Voorhout 8, 2511 EK Den Haag, Netherlands
Architect In Charge: Kees Kaan, Vincent Panhuysen, Dikkie Scipio
Design Team: Allard Assies, Luca Baialardo, Christophe Banderier, Bas Barendse, Dennis Bruijn, Timo Cardol, Sebastian van Damme, Marten Dashorst, Luuk Dietz, Willemijn van Donselaar, Paolo Faleschini, Raluca Firicel, Michael Geensen, Cristina Gonzalo Cuairán, Joost Harteveld, Walter Hoogerwerf, Michiel van der Horst, Marlon Jonkers, Jan Teunis ten Kate, Marco Lanna, Giuseppe Mazzaglia, Ana Rivero Esteban, Joeri Spijkers, Koen van Tienen, Noëmi Vos
Area: 18000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG , Dominique Panhuysen , Sebastian van Damme

Client: Rijksvastgoedbedrijf
Contractor: Consortium Poort van Den Haag: BAM PPP B.V., PGGM, BAM Bouw en Techniek B.V., ISS Nederland B.V. and KAAN Architecten
Structural Engineering: Arup Nederland
Electrical Engineering: BAM Bouw en Techniek
Mechanical Engineering: Arup Nederland
Site Supervision: KAAN Architecten, BAM Bouw en Techniek
Constructor Mechanical + Electrical Installations: BAM Bouw en Techniek
Fire, Comfort, Acoustics, Security: DGMR
Spatial Acoustics: Level Acoustics
Building Control: CBB
Parking Advisor: Wim van Vlierden
Cost: 59.000.000 € (realization)

From the architect. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has been designed by KAAN Architecten as the entry of an international Public Private Competition (Publiek Private Samenwerking – PPS) won in 2012 by Poort van Den Haag, the consortium made up of BAM PPP B.V., PGGM, BAM Bouw en Techniek B.V., ISS Nederland B.V. and KAAN Architecten.

The building, which measures 18.000 m2 and houses a staff of 350, is located in the elegantly historic city center of The Hague. It is situated along the Korte Voorhout, a royal route connecting several institutional buildings to the Parliament building, and adjacent to Malieveld park; in this location the new design, with the measured vibrancy of its facades, interacts with the trees across the street announcing the city gateway.

The main entrance is flagged by six bronze statues of legal scholars seated on pedestals, with a single pane of glass subtly marking the transition from the street to the interior. The transparency of the building signifies both accessibility to the public as well as the soundness and clarity of judgment.

The entrance hall (where the courtrooms and the press room are located) forms the public area; it has double height ceilings that span the full length of the building. The floors and walls are of a light grey limestone that exudes a velvety texture. The large and small courtrooms, which hold 400 and 80 visitors respectively, are distinguished by brown-veined translucent alabaster walls. In the middle of the entrance hall, in between the two courtrooms, hangs the artwork “Hoge Raad” by Dutch painter Helen Verhoeven. It was commissioned specially for the Supreme Court.

The upper floors accommodate offices, a library with study places, a restaurant, and council and meeting chambers. Daylight permeates the building through several skylights, forming the core of the distinct domains of the Council (Raad) and Procurator General Office (Parket). The two departments are identified by the use of different materials: a vertically striped Marmara Equator marble in the Council, and an organic Skyline marble in the Procurator General Office area. At the circumference of the openings each floor has pantries with coffee machines, seating, and bookcases.

The light, the sightlines throughout the space, and the open perspective inspire social interaction, encourage the exchange of ideas and opinions, and allows for informal gatherings.

Three sides of the building are exposed to sun over the course of a day. These facades are climate controlled through the use of a spacious cavity in the glass casings: glass boxes that not only keep out the heat and cold, but also the sound of traffic outside. Nonetheless, the windows can be opened if desired, while the sun blinds and light filters can also be individually regulated. This controlled double protection produces a layered facade, flat and yet canted, a subtle nuance that adds even more elegance to the whole.

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The Pont de Sèrves Towers – Citylights Renovation / Dominique Perrault Architecture

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© André Morin / Dominique Perrault Architecture /Adagp

Architects: Dominique Perrault Architecture
Location: Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Architect Of Execution: Artelia
Area: 919230.0 sqm
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: André Morin , Vincent Fillon, Dominique Perrault Architecture

Consultants: EGIS (structure and MEP), EPPAG (facade), AVLS (acoustic), AADT (safety), Socotec (control), Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost (design of the main central hall), Didier Gomez (decoration of services areas)

From the architect. The Pont de Sèvres Towers, renamed Citylights following a complete restructuring, were built in 1975 by architects Badani and Roux-Dorlut. Bearing witness to the era’s architectural modernity, they stood high and dense in the midst of a barren urban territory. The restructuring turned this sense of “isolation” into an asset, on a socio-economic as well as an urban level. The project we conducted is a renovation, re-structuring and an unveiling of the towers’ self-evident resources.

© Vincent Fillon / Dominique Perrault Architecture /Adagp

The site is now very well connected to the public transport system, with a métro stop right outside the building, and the Grand Paris network, whose stations are now all connected to the Pont de Sèvres Towers, placing them at the heart of the city. The towers are therefore an integral part of Paris’s recent expansion towards Grand Paris. In addition to their strong territorial impact, these elements have transformed the buildings’ morphology and mutation.

Model - © Dominique Perrault Architecture /Adagp

An Open, Sheltered Campus

While the towers were originally cut off from their environment, they are now entirely and organically linked to it, through a grid of pedestrian routes connecting them to the new Trapèze district. There, the wasteland of the former Renault factories has now been replaced by office and residential buildings, both new and refurbished.

© Dominique Perrault Architecture /Adagp. ImageBefore

We conceived a range of spaces in order to open the project to the outside: a large plaza in front of the towers, passageways on the sides, and gardens. The project is now physically anchored in the city. The 53,000 square feet space that was created on the ground level connects the towers to their environment and roots them into the urban space of the city. With the reception areas, walkways and communal spaces, we are offering a new type of work environment, fit for today’s world.

Floor Plan Renovation - © Dominique Perrault Architecture /Adagp

An Unveiling Process

The decision to rehabilitate large architectural projects such as this one is based on a contemporary logic steeped in efficiency and reality. These projects possess undeniable design and geometrical qualities. The hexagonal floor plan, for instance, with its central core serving floors of offices, offers 360° views of Paris and its Western suburbs. All of the work spaces receive direct daylight, and the open offices are narrow so that no more than twelve people are ever visible from any given point. The architecture of the buildings is denser than it would be, had they been conceived nowadays. Our goal with this project therefore consisted in unveiling these assets.

With their prism-like shapes, the buildings are very efficient when it comes to capturing light. Just like with optical instruments, the traditional opposition between the north and south faces of the buildings no longer applies. Sunlight shines throughout the buildings and reflects on the crystallized facades so that all offices can benefit from it, whichever face of the building they are on. This urban complex forms a prow at the entrance of the city of Boulogne, which can be seen from the highway down the hill of Meudon.

Axonometric - © Dominique Perrault Architecture /Adagp

The rehabilitation process of the Pont de Sèvres Towers, while respecting their historic value, allowed for a thoroughly new structure, in line with current norms and new sustainable development performances.

© Dominique Perrault Architecture /Adagp

The name Citylights, chosen by the project management, is a perfect description of the gleaming “bracelets” of the buildings, whose lighting will be specially conceived to make them shine bright in the night sky. Light gleams on every level of the towers, in the work spaces, dining areas, auditorium and on the campus which opens out to the city below. Citylights is a luminous tower, a beacon into the city in which it is now anchored.

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Harnav River Edge / UA Lab + Keyur Shah & Associates

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Architects: UA Lab + Keyur Shah & Associates
Location: Khedbrahma, Gujarat, India
Design Team: Vishal Sorathiya, Vipuja Parmar, Krushnakant Parmar, Dhaval Chauhan
Area: 3392.0 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Anand Shukla & Dhrupad Shukla

Consultant: Keyur Shah & Associates, Himatnagar
Structural Engineer: ‘Samarthya Abhiyanta’ , Ahmedabad
Contractor: Hiral Construction, Khedbrahma
Client: Khedbrahma Municipality, Khedbrahma.
Project Cost: 120 lacs INR

From the architect. This project is designed and executed under the collaboration of two architectural firms

UA Lab (Urban Architectural Collaborative), Ahmedabad + Keyur Shah & Associates, Himatnagar.

The project is successfully completed within given time frame under the sanctioned budget.

Khedbrahma is a small town in Sabarkantha, Gujarat. There is a confluence of three small rivers here. This confluence of river is known as Harnav. The Khedbrahma Municipality decided to develop a public park for the town on one of the edge of river Harnav. This public park site on the river edge was initially used as a dump yard. The park was envisioned as a recreational open space for the people to enjoy, seat and relax.

River Harnav is a non-perennial river and water can only be enjoyed during the rainy season. The design focused on creating recreational leisure spaces that would offer variety, continuity and establish multiple connections with the water (seasonal) and the surroundings. Pedestrian, linear pathways parallel to the river edge are designed to enjoy the walk along the edge. These pathways gently move up and down taking inspiration from the water movement.

The experiences and engagement with the surroundings keeps on changing as one moves through these linear continuous pathways. This pathways moving up and down establishes new programmatic connections. At some places it’s a walk along the edge, while it gets converted to a low height seating when it moves down. As the pathway moves up again, it becomes a bridge along the lily pond while the same pathway flattens to form a pause for the cafeteria. The linear continuous movement is enjoyed by creating variety of experiences for the visitors. This varied experience provides an opportunity for the children and people under all age group to enjoy the river edge. There are seats and plantation to provide greenery and shade along the edge. The place gives the feeling of constant movement with a leisurely walk similar to the water movement in the river.

The slope for each of these pathways is meticulously designed to channelize the water movement from one pathway to another and then into the river. Each of the pathways meets at the landing that allows the visitor to change the movement course and also provides a run off of the water movement.

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Workshop Gallery Koti / Naoko Horibe

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Architects: Naoko Horibe
Location: Tatsuno, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Area: 91.0 sqm
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Kaori Ichikawa

From the architect. The location is Tatsuno-shi, Hyogo prefecture. Built in a corner of a residential area, the gallery can be used to hold workshops or as a rental space.

The clients request was a modest building but a space that can offer various ways to spend time.

There are houses and an old apartment around the site, not exactly ideal scenery for the project. So we first set a parking zone in the front for several cars and designed so the back of the gallery would face the apartment.

Inside, the gallery is partitioned into three areas so more than one party can use it at the same time.

Further, each area is rotated 45 degrees to keep more distance away from the houses across the street, and green was planted in the alcove, or hollow space, between the partitioned areas.

Dividing the room makes the building look compact, and you can visualise its continuity at a glance. The explicit layout, which is reflected in the building shape, allows anyone to easily find where and what is taking place.

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Light of Allah Mosque / Ibrahim Ma

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Architects: Ibrahim Ma
Location: Xingping，Shaanxi，China
Area: 420.0 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Courtesy of Ibrahim Ma

Structural Engineer: Liu Yonghong
Project Director: Ma Shengli
Client: Islamic Association of Shaanxi Xingping

From the architect. In The Quran, there was a sentence describing Allah“He created the skies with the light, without pillars you see it”. The architect also tried to integrate this thought-provoking Islamic philosophy into this unique mosque, hoping the sacred light to be the soul of the mosque.

Light of Allah Mosque lies in Xingping City of Shanxing Province, attached to Xingping Mosque, which was planned to be a Female Mosque for Muslim females to pray and worship. At the same time this was a project with great capital restrictions, RMB350thousand meaning an extraordinary challenge to the designing. The designer kept considering how to give full play to the designing with the poor investment. The entrusting party demanded that the hall of praying and worshiping shouldn’t be over 50sqm, which couldn’t allow the church to release the size vertically because generally religious building needs to be towery to create the atmosphere.

At last the designer decided to use the round structure which can create bigger space experience with the most tensioned structure. Such a structure means a belt of sky lighted windows attaching to the round structure at the top, allowing the daylight to stream in and form a round halo, enriching the details and the space. In the dim hall, the Muslims lifted up their heads and attracted by the sacred halo weakening the solid concrete in people’s eyes, feeling talking to Allah. Such a building experience shows the lingering charm that people are praying with looking into the light and the light is poured on people’s face. Also the light is moved languidly with the time, so the Muslims can feel the different space experience for 5 special hours during one-day worship. Just like I want to tell people the power and the existence of Allah with light, the people’s spirits and souls are baptized by the pure light I used too. Besides the sky light, the walls are drilled with the square holes of different sizes to ensure the light to stream in during the morning, noon and afternoon. The square holes are installed with the glass of different colors, so the interior space will be decorated with the different color spots.

There should be one wall toward Kaaba of Mecca, for the Muslims to worship in every Mosque. The designer still chose the concrete to pour one concrete wall of 7meter high without any decorations, which meant facing the wall equaled to facing the direction of Mecca. The windows are drilled behind the wall to let the light in, the natural warm light could be felt shedding from the behind of the wall because no light source could be seen when facing the walls, which created the sacred feeling that the wall should have with the simple sky light. I also made the fresh concrete square surface-hollowed stars & moon pattern fixed on the concrete wall, making the natural light to permeate out. At last, the Akhoond of the Mosque was entrusted to copy down the Quran scripture on the gray concrete with the golden paint. Against the sky light, the plain scripture with the looming light, makes the Muslims fall into pondering, ponder the time, ponder the transition, ponder the life and ponder the words from Allah.

The whole Mosque is still white because the white represents pure and distinguishes the building from the local environment well, which is as pure as ceramics with the perfect surface. This is a religious architecture with the designing of hoping people to break away from the disordered life and environment and come to completely a pure world, which is the meaning for its existence, purifying everything. At the same time, the white could let people talk to the past and imagine the future without limit. The surrounding environment makes the white more pure and the white makes the environment more clear and bright.

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The Trinity Hill Youth Accommodation and Training Facility / HBV Architects + Carroll & Cockburn Architects

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Architects: HBV Architects , Carroll & Cockburn Architects
Location: 32/36 Church St, North Hobart TAS 7000, Australia
Area: 3500.0 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Jonathan Wherrett

Architectural Team: John Button, Paul Cockburn, Robert Carroll, Steven Spizick, David Hefford, Khai Kulahan, Helen Daly and Ilya Brucksch-Domanski
Consultants: Aldanmark Pty Ltd, TBS Engineering Consultants Pty Ltd, Tasarc and Susan Small Landscape Architects.
Builder: Fairbrother Pty Ltd.
Total Site Area: 6715m2.
Client: Department of Health and Human Services (Tasmanian State Government)
Software: AutoCAD LT & SketchUp
Cost: $9,900,000.00 USD

From the architect. The Trinity Hill Youth Accommodation and Training Facility has been developed by Housing Tasmania to provide safe and secure long term housing, on-site support, and training and education opportunities for youth who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, on low income, or living with a significant and permanent disability.

The project provides 46 independent 1 bedroom units including 8 suitable for young people living with a significant and permanent disability, a caretakers house, support staff offices, communal spaces, training rooms and kitchen.

The development centres around the heritage listed Trinity Hill State School (c1885) which has been re-purposed to create a community hub with recreational and training facilities. Limited but sensitive conservation works have been undertaken within the school building where the original main classroom configuration has been restored.

The project site fronts onto Elizabeth Street and rises over 10m through to Church Street. Strategically placed elevated walkway links provide universal access right through the site.

The old school building divides the site into two parts which differ in character and level of sensitivity. The Church Street side has a quieter, residential character. Elizabeth Street is harder edged, more dynamic and noisier with main street activity, commerce and traffic.

The design resolution concentrates all but 8 of the residential units to the Elizabeth Street side where a higher density can sit more comfortably. All units face north to maximise sun and outlook.

Consideration has been given to place and context. The new building envelopes are subservient to the old State School, enhancing its pre-eminence, and the Elizabeth Street frontage has, in homage to the heritage townhouse adjacent, been articulated to reference its form and scale.

Precast concrete has been used extensively, for both economy and robustness. However, other elements such as coloured sun shades and wall tiles, angled wall planes and timber screening have been introduced to enliven the building and counter any ‘institutional’ feel by engendering a quirky sense of play and fun. This extends to the unit interiors where use of colour and shelving crates help create a less formal environment attuned to the younger occupants.

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David Tajchman Envisions Cylindrical Skyscraper for Tel Aviv

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French architect David Tajchman has envisioned a new skyscraper for Tel Aviv, Israel. The conceptual project, “Gran Mediterraneo” offers a mix of programs including apartments, a hotel, an automated car park, public charging station, farming and public gardens, co-working spaces, spas and more – all “wrapped in mirrored glass” and white concrete.

“Innovative also with its topological geometry giving a spiral effect to the high-rise, the Gran Mediterraneo breaks with the global and usual stacking of horizontal slabs wrapped with mirrored glass, aiming to renew Tel Aviv skyline with a ‘Unesco proclaimed white city’ specific vertical architecture. To be built with white concrete, using the latest construction and digital technologies, the curvy high-rise is filled with mediterranean and dead sea natures,” describes Tajchman.

Architects: Architectures David Tajchman
Location: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Creative Authorship: David Tajchman
Design Team: Luc Izri, David Tajchman
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: David Tajchman 2016

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Dental Clinic Adriana García / NAN arquitectos

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Architects: NAN arquitectos
Location: Rúa Frei Xoán de Navarrete, 3, 36001 Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain
Area: 62.0 ft2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Iván Casal Nieto

The main problem in this project was fit the extensive program to the reduced area, only 62 square meters.

Three areas have been differentiated by its uses; a first area with the reception and toilets , the second with the facilities, warehousing, diagnostic and office and a third one with two cabinets. The proposal was to divide the three areas in a very simple way, two trapezoids, that can separate or put together, contain the area of facilities and prioritize the rest of the space. Create an open space with few divisions and an easy understanding of all of the functions was the objective.

The main part of the project is where the cabinets are, and for this reason they are located in the area of the windows outside, into the street.

The materials used play a very important role for the composition , depending on areas and function, one or another were used , these are mostly aluminium and pine wood.

The center piece was made in aluminium in order to transmit cleanliness and asepsis sense that a dental clinic must have, a large metallic volume that forms the different rooms of the clinic.

The main room was completed with a continuous turquoise green pavement associated with corporate image.

On the other hand the pine wood helps to complete the other rooms, mainly the reception and waiting room , making a cozy and pleasant areas.

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Chacala House / CoA arquitectura + Estudio Macías Peredo

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Architects: CoA arquitectura , Estudio Macías Peredo
Location: Chacala, Jal., Mexico
Architect In Charge: Arq. Francisco Gutiérrez Peregrina [CoA arquitectura], Arq. Magui Peredo Arenas, Arq. Salvador Macías Corona [ESTUDIO MACIAS PEREDO]
Area: 375.0 sqm
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Francisco Gutiérrez Peregrina , Onnis Luque, Jaime Sicilia

Construction: CoA arquitectura
Collaborators: [CoA arquitectura], Arq. Saraí Chávez , Arq. Raúl Miranda, [ESTUDIO MACIAS PEREDO] Arq. Carlos Mendiola

From the architect. The project was a rest house which includes the social areas and master bedroom on the ground floor overlooking the sea, four bedrooms to accommodate a family in each, and service areas.

A huge fig tree, a palm tree and visual openings to the sea were the conditioning for the house.

The palm serves to confine a courtyard entrance where vegetation dialogues with the apparent structure, they welcome and announce what will be the theme of the whole house: a grid of columns and beams like an skeleton that modulate, order, delimit and qualify the different spaces.

The main enclosure conforms a palapa that houses open living and dining room, adjoining a pool that serves the auction house, which dilutes its border with the ocean horizon is located.

The palapa is complemented on one side by a patio deck on the axis marked by the fig tree, which is followed by another backyard that introduces light and vegetation to the family room area. The bedroom is located at the beginning of the same axis, and through the sequence of courtyards, you also enjoy the scenery without losing your privacy.

A semi-open staircase leads to the four bedrooms upstairs modulated under the same order and thatched by two palapas, which generate a double height housing the bath with a timber closure on which a loft is enabled.

The house can live as closed or open as you want, allowing you to enjoy the sea breeze and vegetation that seeks to introduce the jungle immediate context by a rich variety of species.

The apparent materials, palapas and wood, aimed at producing a “natural and relaxed” atmosphere.

This is a house to live, to see, to relax or simply be.

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PRODUCTORA’s Pavilion on the Zocalo Wins MCHAP.emerge 2014/2015

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Yesterday during the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) ceremony, Mexico‘s most prominent public square, the Pavilion at the Zocalo by Mexico City‘s PRODUCTORA won the MCHAP.emerge 2014/2015 award, deeming it the best new architecture in the Americas by an emerging practice.

The MCHAP.emerge prize is awarded biennially by the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). As winner, PRODUCTORA will be given the opportunity to lead a research studio in 2017 related to ‘rethinking metropolis’ along with $25,000 of funding.

PRODUCTORA was a finalist among practices from Canada, the United States, Chile and Paraguay. The decision was made by Jury President Stan Allen, architect and former Dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture (New York); Florencia Rodriguez, editorial director of Piedra, Papel y Tijera publishers (Buenos Aires); Ila Berman, Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo (Waterloo); Jean Pierre Crousse of Barclay & Crousse (Lima), and Dean Wiel Arets (Chicago).

Winner! MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 is awarded to Pavilion on the Zacalo by Productora!! #MCHAP #iit #americasprize

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