With the characteristic robust facade of the office building ‘The Modular’ Bureau Fraai refers to the ‘rich’ industrial past of the island and the billowing sails of the many VOC ships that were built at this location in the 17th century. Bureau Fraai was appointed by Stadgenoot Development to design a compact office building on a very narrow corne...
Architecture firm
Bureau Fraai
Location
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Photography
Studio de Nooyer
Principal architect
Bureau Fraai
Design team
Daniel Aw, Rikjan Scholten
Collaborators
Acoustic Engineer: Peutz. Technical Engineer: Inbo
Structural engineer
Goudstikker de Vries
Construction
Heijmans Woningbouw
Material
Prefabricated Concrete
Client
Stadgenoot Ontwikkeling II B.V.
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
The department store for the furniture tradesman Franz Klein was built on the original narrow and deep Gothic plot in 1911, after the demolition of a residential building with a commercial ground floor space. The author of the design was architect Christoph Glaser, who was inspired by the Gerngross/Herzmansky department store in Vienna.
Project name
Conversion of Furniture House into Czech Radio Olomouc
Architecture firm
Atelier 38
Location
Pavelčákova 2/19, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Tomáš Bindr, Martin Struhala, Hana Staňková, Pavel Malček
Collaborators
Statics: Marpo [Radan Sležka, Martin Sležka]. Building / room acoustics: AVT Group [Martin Vondrášek / Karel Motl]. Electrical engineering: Elektro projekce [Ondřej Křemen, Hana Matušková]. HVC: Atelier 38 [Lukáš Onderka]. Ventilation and cooling system: Mario Design [Marek Nos]. HVAC: CM Projekt [Marek Cabal]. Fire-resistance: JaK-Fire [Jaroslav Kutač]. Metering and regulation: Petr Pawlas.
Built area
642 m², Usable Floor Area 2270 m²
Material
Reinforced concrete, steel, glass, plasterboard, ceramic, stone, textile, vinyl
Budget
Construction 2 760 000 €, interiors 240 000 €
Client
Český Rozhlas (Czech Radio)
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
The design responds to the predominately small and medium-sized companies and young creative retailers in the office park. Opening what would traditionally be a closed building, we created exciting paths of exploration and vibrant social spaces. CLOU has carved the 10,000 sqm massing into a sculptural form with stepped terraces for a proposal that...
Project name
Vanke Qingdao Business Park
Architecture firm
CLOU architects
Principal architect
Jan Clostermann
Design team
Jan Clostermann, Wenhui Lu, Tait Kaplan, Tiago Tavares, Xiaomeng Su, Dongfang Xie, Yaxi Wang
Collaborators
LDI(Local Design Institute): Beijing Architectural Design Institute of China Construction Corporation. Façade Consultant: Huaming Design Group
Visualization
Weiqing Wang
Tools used
Micro Station, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Rinoceros 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Typology
Commercial › Office Building, Mixed Use & Transport, Retail & Leisure, Urban Renewal, Workplace
In the face of rapid changes, all kinds of similar content quickly filled our lives through social media channels. In this phenomenon, hug, as a person who had a vanguard view and gradually stabilized the core attitude, hoped more that with the help of the clothing space, she could communicate with the outside world about the brand attitude, and cr...
Architecture firm
ATMOSPHERE Architects
Photography
Chuan He from Here Space
Principal architect
Tommy Yu
Design team
Cooperative Design: April Lo, Chloe Chen, MaoMao
Collaborators
Animation Design: ViVi Lee. Installation Art: Louis Shengtao Chen, Zenus Arts Studio. Wall Craft Solution: souls
How can a dark basement of a commercial mixed-use development be transformed into a warm and pleasant conference center that appeals to a young, trendsetting customer target group? Creating this interior design project ‘The Arcade’ in Hangzhou presented Superimpose Architecture with that as its main design challenge.
Architecture firm
Superimpose Architecture
Principal architect
Carolyn Leung, Ben de Lange, Ruben Bergambagt, Ben de Lange, Ruben Bergambagt
Design team
Carolyn Leung, Ben de Lange, Ruben Bergambagt, Ana Raluca Timisescu, Yunqiao Du, Junwei Loh, Valeryia Mazurkevich, Shuyang Li, Michal Marcinkowski, Rafaela Agapito, Jay Peng Shijie, Xiaoyu Xu
Built area
Phase 1 - 2,600 m²
Interior design
Superimpose Architecture
Lighting
Superimpose Architecture
Supervision
Superimpose Architecture
Material
Terrazzo, Wood Lattices, Carpet, Diatum Mud, Tiles
Client
Hangzhou Haiyue Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Typology
Conference Center
Biophilic Architecture & Interior inspired RETAIL Store. The semi - public space is designed to reduce carbon footprints and to design an energy-efficient Barrier Free building. This assignment, a space retailing exotic wood and wood elements such as beautiful veneers, stands at the crossroads of retail design and the desire to rekindle and strengt...
Project name
THE WOOD ELEMENT (Retail Store)
Architecture firm
tHE gRID Architects
Location
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Photography
Photographix India | Sebastian
Principal architect
Snehal Suthar, Bhadri Suthar
Design team
Snehal Suthar, Bhadri Suthar
Interior design
tHE gRID Architects
Structural engineer
inhouse
Environmental & MEP
inhouse
Landscape
tHE gRID Architects
Lighting
tHE gRID Architects
Visualization
Snehal Suthar, Bhadri Suthar
Material
Wood, Stone, Steel, Glass
Client
Mr. Mitesh Samdani, Mr. Ravi Suthar
Typology
Commercial › Store
The black wall was the boundary. They were divided into different groups. Cut and combined. Rows upon rows, breaking the single restriction. The whole arc-shaped hot curved glass was at the bottom, and the dark green to black color changed. A strange device created with the core inspiration symbols, like a spider's tentacle, stood between the windo...
Project name
KVK City Concept Store
Architecture firm
ATMOSPHERE Architects
Photography
Chuan He from Here Space. Video Production: YIMEDUO Design
Principal architect
Tommy Yu
Design team
April Lo, Chloe Chen, Mao Mao
Collaborators
Installation Art: Studio Potpourri. Wall Craft Solution: Souls. Animation Design: Vivi Lee. Article: SIJIA
Interior design
ATMOSPHERE Architects
Typology
Commercial › Store
The project is an Corporate office for a developer in Ahmedabad. It is surrounded by dense urban fabric. The site is located in an upcoming Residential area of Ahmedabad. It has on-going construction sites all around. Presently, the site area experiences lots of unwanted noise with the movement of heavy vehicels all around the day.
Project name
The Brick Wrap
Architecture firm
UA Lab (Urban Architectural Collaborative)
Location
Ahmedabad, India
Photography
Maulik Patel, Inclined Studio
Principal architect
Krishnakant Parmar, Vipuja Parmar
Design team
Krishnakant Parmar, Vipuja Parmar, Parth Mistry, Bageshri Thakar
Civil engineer
Prashant Prajapati
Structural engineer
Hrushikesh Patel
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Commercial - Office Building
