Located between Wellington’s creative Cuba quarter and the central business district, 129 Willis Street was earthquake prone and ready for a refurbishment. Previously home to three small commercial tenants, the refurbished office transformed the dark, inefficiently laid-out space into a lofty, open plan work space, suited to the modern working envi...
Project name
Willis Street Strengthening / Renovation
Architecture firm
First Light Studio
Location
Wellington, New Zealand
Principal architect
Ben Jagersma
Design team
Ben Jagersma, Olly Syme, Luke Bryant
Built area
520 m² (including 30 m² deck)
Site area
215 m² + 45 m² road reserve
Structural engineer
Silvester Clark Consulting Engineers
Material
Historic brick & timber building with new concrete sheer walls and exposed structural steel
Typology
Commercial › Office Building › Structural Strengthening & Commercial fit out
Aedas Global Design Principal Dr. Andy Wen and Executive Director Yijun Qian led the team to create a waterfall-like office tower in a prime location near Taipei Arena. With rich Taiwanese office characteristics, it is designed to be a contemporary building with a focus of urban texture, architecture and people.
Project name
Taipei Zhongshan District Changan Duan 345 Office Tower
Principal architect
Dr. Andy Wen, Global Design Principal; Yijun Qian, Executive Director
Client
Highwealth Construction Co., Ltd.
Typology
Commercial › Mixed-use Development
The Asylum, an oasis in the middle of the city of Mérida, Yucatán. A collaborative project surrounded by natural sounds and scenes, with visual elements that move with the swaying of the wind, blocking contemporary distractions of the city life.
Architecture firm
Arkham Projects
Location
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Photography
Cesar Béjar, Zaickz Moz
Principal architect
Benjamín Peniche Calafell / Jorge Duarte Torre
Collaborators
Branding: Vegrande
Construction
HIVE / Constro
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel
Typology
Office - Building
TIGO HQ is the corporate headquarters for the telecommunication company of Millicom, in Managua, Nicaragua, and being a telecommunication and technology project, these features marked the drivers of design in the conceptual phase along with the purpose of bringing into the design itself, the corporate’s branding colors and transforming them into te...
Architecture firm
HRTD Hurtado Arquitectos
Location
Managua, Nicaragua
Photography
Carlos Berrios Photography
Principal architect
Daniel Hurtado
Design team
Daniel Hurtado, Gabriela Lopez, Rodrigo Watson
Collaborators
Michelle Gutierrez, Ronald Espinoza
Interior design
Gabriela Lopez
Civil engineer
Raul Gutierrez
Environmental & MEP
Mech: M&M Mantica; Elec: Guillermo Reyes
Lighting
Sylvania; Tecnolite
Supervision
HRTD Hurtado Arquitectos
Tools used
Revit Architecture, Lumion, SketchUp
Material
Glass, Gwb; Steel; Wood; Carpet Tiles
Typology
Commercial › Office Building › Workplace - Technology
The Center of Developing Entrepreneurs (CODE) is a new sustainable, mixed-use project in downtown Charlottesville, comprised of a new public plaza and 215,000 square feet of multi-use space, including a strategic combination of co-working, office space, shared amenities, and retail.
Project name
Center for Developing Entrepreneurs
Architecture firm
EskewDumezRipple, WOLF ACKERMAN
Location
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Photography
Alan Karchmer
Design team
EskewDumezRipple — José Alvarez, Noah Marble, Steve Dumez, Z Smith, Tyler Guidroz, Jill Traylor, Max Katz, Shannon Griffin, Tom Gibbons, Alex Swiggum, Kelsey Wotila, project team. WOLF ACKERMAN — Fred Wolf, Dave Ackerman, Mark Merolla, Joey Laughlin, project team
Collaborators
WOLF ACKERMAN (architect of record). STRUCTR Advisors (sustainability). Thorton Tomasetti (energy modeling). MSTB (commissioning)
Interior design
EskewDumezRipple
Landscape
Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect
Civil engineer
Timmons Group
Structural engineer
Fox & Associates
Typology
Office - Building
CIIE.CO, a center of excellence located adjacent to Louis Kahn's old IIMA campus, has undergone a transformation to represent its current values and position as an epicenter of innovation. Over the course of 18 years, CIIE.CO has evolved from an entrepreneurship center to a center of excellence, and with this evolution, it required a refurbishment...
Project name
CIIE.CO Refurbishment
Architecture firm
UNSEEN Architects
Location
Ahmedabad, India
Photography
Vinay Panjwani
Principal architect
Dilip Revar, Vimal Patel
Design team
Kashyap Trivedi, Nikita Panchal, Nikhitha Pasupuleti, Pranav Soni, Pritesh Patel, Shrey Shah, Smriti Bhanti, Stuti Jain, Yash Patel
Interior design
UNSEEN Architects
Landscape
UNSEEN Architects
Structural engineer
Vertex Consultants and Engineers
Environmental & MEP
Electrical: Antech Consultants & Engineers; Acoustics: Acoustic Arena; HVAC: Mihir Patel
Lighting
UNSEEN Architects
Construction
Metal Fabricator: Steel Concept; Carpenter: Shiv Shakti Furniture
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp
Material
Concrete, Bricks, Metal, Wood
Client
CIIE.CO, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Typology
Institution › Refurbishment
Form4 Architecture received local entitlement approval for Verdant Sanctuary, a new sustainable office building located in Stanford Research Park. Renderings courtesy of Form4 Architecture.
Project name
Verdant Sanctuary
Architecture firm
Form4 Architecture
Location
Palo Alto, California, USA
Collaborators
Guzzardo Partnership (landscape architect), Luminae Souter (lighting design), DCI Engineers (structural engineer), and ME Engineers (MEP engineer)
Visualization
Form4 Architecture
Client
Sand Hill Property Company
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
Welcome to Kipseli Architects in Athens, Greece! Based on the concept of the beehive ("kipseli" in greek), our creative architecture studio aims to transform the urban space through a unique structure of cooperation, concentrating on the environment and the human existence within it. Our new office space has been designed with great attention to de...
Architecture firm
Kipseli Architects
Location
Neo Psichiko, Attica, Greece
Photography
Dimitris Kleanthis
Principal architect
Kirki Mariolopoulou
Design team
Maria Tzavla, Aggeliki Venetaki, Konstantinos Antoniou
Interior design
Maria Tzavla, Aggeliki Venetaki, Konstantinos Antoniou
Typology
Office - Building
