The Poppy Factory is located in Richmond alongside the River Thames in South West London. It is a charity founded between the World Wars focused on identifying employment for veterans and raising funds for families affected by war. Its premises in Richmond have evolved over the years and occupy a group of buildings including a 1930s Art Deco 3-stor...
Architecture firm
Henley Halebrown
Location
Richmond, London, UK
Principal architect
Elina Dueker
Design team
Gavin Hale-Brown, Simon Henley, Harry Insall-Reid, Michael Mee, Jennifer Pirie, Ami Skimming
Collaborators
Access consultant: David Bonnett Associate; Project management: RealPM Building control: Socotec Planning consultant: Gerald Eve Cost consultant: Alinea Exhibition design: Samantha Heywood with Amanda Shephard Exhibition design management: Alex Dunkley, Gardiner & Theobald Contract administration: Henley Halebrown
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Client
The Poppy Factory with Stanhope as Client strategic advisor
Typology
Industrial Architecture, Factory
The placement of the building within the entire site, the orientation of the admin block, the allocation of functions at different floor plate within the admin block, the proper usage of sunlight which minimize the use of electric power, the wind circulation within the building.
Project name
Vinit Machines Pvt Ltd
Architecture firm
Bridge Studio
Photography
Inclined Studio
Principal architect
Brij Patel
Design team
Brij Patel, Hardik Pithadiya
Collaborators
Emp: Anil Parmar; Pmc And Developer: Mansukh Vekariya
Structural engineer
Varun Suchak, Rajkot
Material
Brick, Metal, Glass, Stone, Aluminum
Typology
Commercial, Office Building, Factory
The Hangzhou-based pratice DA XIANG Design Studio has recently completed Courtyard Xiaoya, located in the Xucun Industrial Zone, Haining, Jiaxing, in which the architect built an elegant courtyard on the roof of a factory and named it Xiaoya.
The transition of the city is a complicated process. Along with the old memories gradually gone, new emoti...
Project name
Courtyard Xiaoya
Architecture firm
DA XIANG Design Studio
Location
Haining, Jiaxing, China
Principal architect
Jianyu Jiang, Huaming Yu, Rui Chen
Design team
Jianyu Jiang, Huaming Yu, Rui Chen
Interior design
DA XIANG Design Studio
Landscape
DA XIANG Design Studio
Construction
Hangzhou Jutie Decoration
Tools used
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Typology
Commercial › Office
In their design for the new head office and production site for Kirsch Pharma HealthCare GmbH in Wedemark, Germany, SAOTA rethinks the often underwhelming and generic industrial prototype.
Project name
Kirsch Pharma HealthCare
Location
Wedemark, Germany
Design team
Stefan Antoni, Greg Truen, Roxanne Kaye, Philippe Raffner and Irshaad Allie
Interior design
Krüger Consult GmbH +
Collaborators
Architect of Record: Krüger Consult GmbH +. Project team: Thomas Großgebauer, Ute Krull, Andreas Salomon, Sebastian Herbst. Execution Planning Canopy: skai GmbH. Execution Planning Glass Façade: MBS Projekt GmbH. Quantity Surveyor: Krüger Consult GmbH +
Structural engineer
H&P Ingenieure GbR + hpl structural
Environmental & MEP
Albrecht GmbH (Electrical Engineer)
Landscape
adam + adam GbR
Construction
Industriebau Wernigerode GmbH. Hunsrücker Glasveredelung Wagener GmbH & Co. KG (Contractor Glass Façade)
Typology
Industrial Architecture › Factory