Bustler

The winner in the category “Built environment” is the Harmonia // 57 Office Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is designed by Triptyque Architects, Paris, France/Sao Paulo, Brazil and completed in 2008.
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“The award in the “Built Environment” category will go to an outstanding architectural, engineering or urban design project realised within the last two years that meets current demands for sustainable living and envisages the needs of the future. The award-winner will receive a purse of EUR 80,000.

French-Brazilian architects Triptyque were asked to create an innovative hybrid space to house a small company. It had to be versatile and allow spontaneous changes in layout and use.

The building is located in a neighbourhood on the west side of Sao Paulo, where artistic life and creativity increasingly shape the streetscape. The site is distinguished by the climate of a tropical country with massive rain showers and very high temperatures, as well as rich soil with natural underground systems.”
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“Harmonia // 57 is an office building, with a planted façade irrigated by a mist system. The walls are thick and covered externally by a layer of vegetation that works like the skin of the structure. This dense wall is made of an organic concrete that has pores, where several plant species grow.
Concerning the energy concept, the project’s hydro system combines low-tech materials and elements with a simple irrigation system and innovative water treatment. Furthermore, to store the large volume of water without generating a high-cost infrastructure, a broader rain-water re-use programme provides good thermal conditions within the building. A green roof directs a portion of the runoff into the groundwater, generates fresh air and reduces the need for air conditioning and withholding a fair share of the rain water. The surplus of water from the roofs is stored and supplies toilets and provides irrigation.”
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“Moreover, the construction was halted for about ten days, and the site was used as an event space during construction period. It became an open gallery, where the site workers and artists collaborated to create an exhibition with accompanying public lectures and debates.”
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architectenweb.nl

“MVRDV has released images of a project where it already operates in three years, the new headquarters for Schweizer Fernsehen in Zurich. Het gebouw is ontworpen volgens een bijenkorf-concept, waarbij de kantoren in ‘ringen’ rond een atrium zijn geplaatst. The building was designed by a beehive-concept, with offices in “rings” are placed around an atrium. De televisiestudio’s bevinden zich in de onderbouw. The television studios are located in the basement.”
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“The huge atrium located on the roof of the studios and acts as a lobby and place for events. Ook speelt het een rol in de klimaathuishouding van het 30.000 vierkante meter omvattend gebouw. Also plays a role in the climate of the economy encompassing 30,000 square meters building. Het atrium is van buitenaf bereikbaar via roltrappen in een hoek van het gebouw. The atrium is externally accessible via escalators in one corner of the building.

De vorm van de kantoorringen fluctueert, zodat het interieur overal van daglicht wordt voorzien en er op sommige plekken extra ruimte ontstaat voor circulatie, ontmoeting en ontspanning. The shape of the rings fluctuates office, so of daylight throughout the interior and is provided at certain places additional space for circulation, relaxation and meeting. Verder vergemakkelijkt dit ontwerp volgens MVRDV de oriëntatie in het gebouw en zorgt het voor fraaie uitzichten in en vanuit het gebouw. Further facilitated by MVRDV Design Guidance in the building making for beautiful views in and out of the building.

De kantoren zijn via trappen en liften in de hoeken van het complex bereikbaar. The offices via stairs and lifts in the corners of the complex. Alle verkeerscirculatie in het bovenste deel van het complex vindt plaats vanuit het atrium. All traffic circulation in the upper part of the complex takes place from the atrium. De ingangen van de studio’s bevinden zich op de onderste etage. The inputs of the studios are located on the lower floor.

Het is nog niet bekend wanneer het project van start gaat. It is not known when the project starts.” architectenweb.nl
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Archipod

(Text Courtesy of Archipod)

“The Aim of the Archipod was to create garden office buildings specifically designed to complement a garden landscape, be efficient, ergonomic, and unusual: the initial design is ‘The Pod’ – an insulated sphere of approx. 3m diameter.

The ‘Pod’ is constructed predominantly from timber, the world’s most replenishable construction material, and is insulated to a standard exceeding that of current Building Regulations. The structure is prefabricated in sections that are sized to allow all the parts to be carried through a house, so it doesn’t matter where you live, you will be able to get the ‘Pod’ into your back garden.”

“The ‘Pod’ is primarily suited to use as a garden office, but could easily be adapted to anything you choose, such as:

* Playroom.
* Hobby Room.
* Studio.
* Meditation/ Quiet Room
* Outside entertaining/Dining Room.
* Tree House!

Because of its unique shape and the generous natural light from the roof dome, the ‘Pod’ actually looks bigger on the inside than the outside.”
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‘The Pod’ Floor Plan & Specification:
Size: 2.9m diameter internally at the widest point x 2.5m to top of dome.
Walls:
* Curved plywood structural box with encapsulated fibreglass insulation, plasterboard finish internally on high performance foil insulation and vapour barrier to a standard that exceeds current building regulations.
* Fully plastered and decorated after installation, so no visible internal jointing strips.
External cladding:
* Western Red Cedar shingles, blue label grade, on breathable waterproof membrane on battens.
* Cedar shingles are available treated or untreated.
Glazing:
* fatpod section1.0m diameter hinged double skin polycarbonate roof dome to maximise natural light and ventilation.
* Double glazed stainless steel porthole window.
Electrics:
* 8nr Dimmable spotlights
* Concealed background mood lighting, seperately switched from spotlights.
* 3nr 13amp Power outlets (these can be extended below the desk using the cable management to provide more outlets.)
* Electric panel heater
* Consumer Unit with MCB’s for power and lighting. (Connection to the house or mains supply is not included – we recommend that an RCD is fiited to the supply end of the incoming SWA cable)
* Data outlet for connection of phone lines
* Smoke alarm
* Fused spur or socket for connection of a security alarm)
Desk:
* An ergonomic semicircular desk, 700mm deep and an effective curved length of 3.1m, finished in a range of ‘Marmoleum® Real’ colours to the customers choice, with 2 cable grommets in the top and cable management below.
* Bespoke drawer units and hardwood wood veneered desktops are available by special request.
Floor:
* Suspended timber floor with 70mm fibreglass insulation and high performance quilt.
* Floor covering is generally not included, as this enables customers to choose to suit their own requirements. However, we can provide fitted carpet if required. We recommend that carpet is fitted with underlay to improve comfort and acoustics.
Foundations:
* Concrete pads or steel posts, dependant on ground conditions.
Door:
* Top hinged gullwing door, with gas strut assistance
* Push handles and deadlock.”

For more technical information please check Archipod Website
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“The new building for Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt/BSU (Office for Urban Development and Environment) consists of one high rise and two wing buildings. Public BSU facilities, like areas for exhibitions and restaurants, are located in the street level floors. The foot of the high rise structure will house a central lobby. Like an amphitheater, it is envisioned to host the exhibition of Hamburg’s urban model which will be highly visible through the large glass facade. From here, the library and conference center can be accessed as well.
Besides the high rise, the concept is structured in seven separate ‘houses’ which are connected via an access ‘road’ that is lit with natural light. Each house has its own open staircase atrium which enhances easy orientation, efficient vertical access, good distribution of natural light into interior spaces, and natural cross-ventilation. Reducing the building’s energy consumption by combining passive and active measures was one of the key ideas behind the concept. Besides enhanced thermal insulation, reasonable transparency, and protection from intense sunlight in the facades, the compact building volume uses renewable resources like natural lighting, natural cross-ventilation, and sun-powered heating. Energy harvested from geothermal and solar equipment is being combined with a gas-powered combined heat and power unit.
The design of the building’s spaces and surfaces supports the quantitatively measurable comfort with an architectural and environmental quality that is appropriate for the agenda of sustainability.”
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KCAP Architects & Planners

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Project Details:
Client: Heijmans IBC Property Development, Almere-Stad
Architect: KCAP Architects&Planners, Rotterdam
Description: Housing complex with 52 apartments, including renovation of Africa warehouse (by Villa Nova) and new design of Building D
Location: Oostelijke Handelskade, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Time frame: 1998-2009
Contractor: Heijmans IBC Construction
Consultants: structural engineering: D3BN, building services: Deerns, building physics: Peutz & Associés, Zoetermeer, fire safety: DGMR engineering consultants, Arnhem
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” Along the banks of the river IJ in Amsterdam, a former dock-land is being transformed into a high-density residential and working area. The increased density is achieved by placing new volumes in front of, behind, alongside and/or above the existing warehouses. This results in a spatial ensemble with a capacity to include the various programmes intended. The volumes are divided into horizontal programmatic zones.

The new building has been designed as a periscope that overlooks the old Africa warehouse in the direction of the river, with respect to the cruise-ship terminal. The entrance to the new Africa warehouse has been formed by maximising the integration of living and working, as well as the creating of a mix between old and new.
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The building is to be accessed by a central corridor. The second lift and staircase connects the building to a subterranean parking garage. The facade is made of rust-coloured prefabricated concrete elements that form a ‘fabric’ in order to emphasise the sculptural properties of the volume. This choice of colour works well with the atmosphere created by the warehouses and the quays.

The northern façade, which faces the river, has been tilted up and is in its entirety constructed of glass. This double façade forms a barrier to the noisy ships. Due to the disturbing noise levels from the adjacent railway line, the other façades are to be made of extra thick glazed elements. The newly placed columns interact with the existing ones in a manner by which the building’s proportions are retained, thus doing justice to this monument.”

Text & Photos: Architecture News Plus
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Bustler

“A collaborative effort of Danish architects 3XN, engineers Lemming & Eriksson, and landscape architects Schønherr Landskab has won the competition for the expansion of the Courthouse in Frederiksberg, Denmark.”
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“According to 3XN, the new building will be a sculptural and classic structure, which at once expresses a welcoming transparency while maintaining the justice system’s sobriety and seriousness.

3XN has designed such that the new courthouse will be a natural extension of the existing neo-classical building, while still maintaining its own identity through a modern and contemporary expression.”
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“At the same time, it was crucial that the Courthouse has a functional interior complying with the law reform’s requirements on security and internal segregations,” says 3XN. “Therefore, the building provides its employees, the defendants, witnesses and guests an open and friendly environment in which it is easy for the different user groups to navigate.”

The Courthouse is expected for completion during the first half of 2012.”
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The buildings designed to host the G8 summit 2009 in La Maddalena by Stefano Boeri – La Maddalena, Italy

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LIN

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Project Details:
Project status: International competition, 1st prize, realisation
Location: Saint-Etienne, Loire, France
Client: Saint-Etienne Metropole
Team: Architects: LIN Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi
Surface net: 17 250 m²
Dates: competition 2004, realisation 2006 to 2009
Costs: 41,5 m €
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“The “Centre International du Design” is a new institution for communication, research and education in design. The project is situated on the historic site of the National Arms Manufacture in St. Etienne.
It involves the renovation of several historic buildings, as well as the integration of a new building the ‘platine’ (200 x32 m), an observation tower (31m high), two gardens and the Place d’Armes, a public esplanade.
The ‘platine’ is an inter climatic laboratory whose adaptive skin is enveloping several programs as an exhibition spaces, an auditorium, the ‘agora’, a greenhouse and a media- and material library. It is reacting on their different needs in terms of light and climate. It is also an expression of the different activities in the Cité du Design.”
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minimalismi

“Fresh news from Zaha Hadid, whose works are currently on display in Palazzo della Ragione in Padova: the studio has designed a retail and business center in the town of Jesolo, Italy, to be situated in two areas half way between Jesolo urban center and Jesolo sea.”

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Project Details:
Client: Home Group
Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Director: Gianluca Racana
Project Architect: Paolo Matteuzzi
Design team: Marco Amoroso, David Campos, Ayat Fadaifard, Massimiliano Piccinini, Ivan Valdez, Francesca Venturoni
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“Both areas are facing Roma Destra street. That peculiar position connotes the centre as the new urban city door. In the west area will be built the two floors retail centre including a Disco Bar and a gymnasium. Outdoor spaces are dedicated to public green areas and parking use.
The east area will give hospitality to the new 5 stars hotel including a congress, wellness center, offices and a panoramic restaurant. Volumes that describes the center are spaced like rose petals, creating a centric space, a covered square, that will represent the main distribution core.
The Hotel, as the last petal close the perspective perception opposite the street and, thanks to its shape offers the panoramic view trough the Venice Lagoon.
The retail and congress centre, Jesolo Magica, dialogs with the precious territorial environment, thanks to its sinuosity and long entrances allows natural light and natural environment go dip through the petals-buildings, which became observation point towards the Lagoon.”

Source: minimalismi
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Bustler

“Kristin Jarmund Architects in collaboration with C. F. Møller Architects, has recently won a major competition to design a spectacular new landmark project in the city of Oslo, for the client KLP Eiendom AS, one of Norway’s largest property investors. The project, which has been dubbed “Crystal Clear”, consists of three towers, which grow organically from the ground to form a sculptural cluster, and are composed of stacked, prismatic volumes.”
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The development totals approx. 90,000 m² of offices, commercial space and possibly housing, located at one of Oslo’s most valuable sites, the former postal sorting office adjacent to the central station. ‘Crystal Clear’ ties in with the city’s skyline, and the string of developing landmark projects that will help turn Oslo into one of Europe’s most modern capitals.

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Lan Architecture

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Project Details:
PROGRAM Housing – Offices – Retail Area – Parking
PROJECT SIZE 125 000 msq
BUDGET 120 ME
CLIENT HAR Etudes – BANK MED
DATE 2009
LOCATION BEIRUT – Lebanon
STEP Drawings
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The city that wouldn’t disappear

“As we well know, every city is singular. Yet clearly some are more so than others. Beirut is a unique urban phenomenon, literally inhabited by its history, and with each successive war or occupation finding the strength to combat its disappearance.
The 486 MINA EL HOSN, the ‘mirror-tower’ designed by LAN, is to be built in the port area, opposite the Murr Tower, the shell-riddled building that has come to symbolise the civil war. The tower is absolutely novel in concept: the building’s skin will reflect the city surrounding it. One will be able to see it from everywhere, and everywhere one’s view will bounce off its mobile surface into the surrounding city, showing Beirut in all its myriad facets.
And of course behind this innovative technology lies a guiding idea: the impressive outline of 486 MINA EL HOSN, soaring above the skyline, will enable a kind of moving and poetic visual reconstitution of the city – a way of making Beirut itself, its light, diversity, districts and cultures, the tower’s very substance.
The risk lay in constructing a new monument, a new prisoner of the city’s oppressive memory. True, the tower recreates the diverse histories and cultures that have made and are still making the city, but the building is a living, animated, changing entity. Its envelope will be an integral part of the city’s physical reality, giving it back a body, reflecting its myriad facts. In doing so, it will open up an invisible inner space, strike chords within us, almost effacing itself to become an active agent in Beirut’s reconciliation with itself.”
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Analysis
Identification of a city
What is a city? Talking about Beirut, one has to consider not a single context but a multiplicity of contexts.
At the outset, there are evidently the multiplicity, plurality and divisions that are part of the city’s very substance. With the passing years, Beirut has metabolised the communities that have forged Lebanon’s exceptional and tumultuous life into its urban structure, providing a geography and territory for all, each with their own lifestyle, culture and architecture. One only has to cross the city from north to south or east-west to savour the many perfumes of this unique assemblage. At a distance of hardly a kilometre, one sometimes has the impression of being at the other end of the world.

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The concept
From private to public, from vertical to horizontal

The 486 MINA EL HOSN is set in an area near the port close to the Marina and the Solidere district, on a plot flanked by Fakhreddine Street and Omar Daouk Street.
In a district already occupied by high-rise buildings, there was never question of merely building another tower, but rather of fashioning a new urban space, combining private habitat and public circulation, verticality and horizontality.

The 486 MINA EL HOSN project is composed of three elements:

- The Tower proper is the project’s central and most visible element. The novel design of its mirror-envelope reflects views of the city back towards the city, enabling a visual reconstruction of its manifold identity.

- The Base of the tower provides its residents with a public space playing with horizontality to create circulation and meeting places on a human scale, including a shopping mall, a public roof garden and pedestrian alleys.

- The five Blocks are intermediary residential spaces, imagined on the model of the oriental house. Acting as an interface between the project’s two other elements, they play on the dichotomy between exterior and interior.
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The TOWER

The other side of the mirror / Visually reinventing the city
The project’s central element, the tower, enables a visual reinvention of the city.

The tower is the central element of 486 MINA EL HOSN. Its insertion in a district already populated with towers and steeped in history and symbols, prompted an in-depth reflexion on the project’s meaning. It was particularly necessary to create a dialogue with the Murr Tower, a monumental vestige of the civil war and one of the city’s iconic symbols.
But one had to go further than this, to remove the tower from its immediate physical surroundings and integrate it into a broader environment encompassing the entire city, yet do this without resorting to gigantism. Hence the fundamental idea of ‘meta-territory’ which led to the concept of the tower’s envelope as a means of visually reinventing the city, visually reconnecting urban elements beyond the tower’s immediate physical and material surroundings.
The result is an immaterial, constantly changing object, an architecture of lightness, glass and finely hatched steel whose game consists in effacing the building’s tangible limits by rendering the perception of a solid object superfluous within the poetics of the blurred and evanescent.
The city of Beirut, historically marked by division, can also see the tower as an animated mirror reflecting its living and tormented history and geography.

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Interior, exterior: effacing limits

The building, 142 metres high, its structured around a cruciform volume sheathed by a solar protection based on a 25×25m square unit. The facades of the volume at the heart of the tower are in black concrete, and the design of the openings follows the functional logic of the living units. The exterior skin consists of sliding perforated sheet metal panels with a mirror finish, acting as reflectors and protection against heat but also allowing light to enter.
Our vision of the tower is reflected away to other parts of the city but can also penetrate within. The tower’s cross-shaped ground plan frees its corners and imbues it with lightness and evanescence. Its limits are effaced and only the building’s core has substance. Depending on the play of natural light and viewpoints, the tower can physically reinvent itself in the changing light and points of view.

The Bankmed Foundation will occupy the tower’s first six levels, with an access from the street. The entrance hall to the apartments, imbricated at double height, enables access from the base’s inner street. There is a service level between the foundation and apartment levels.
The surface areas of the 20 apartments (duplex and triplex) range from 750 to 1200 m². A lift provides direct access to each apartment, which are entered via a ‘lobby’ acting as a filter between public and private spaces.
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The apartment layout consists of a main living room of around 85 m² occupying one quadrant of the cross, with a smaller living room functioning as a reading room, contiguous to a more intimate ‘family room’. The dining room is located on the opposite side to the living room, next to the servants’ spaces.
Each apartment has two terraces, extensions of the dining room and living room. To make this possible, the corners of the tower were emptied to give the ensemble more lightness. These triple-height terraces provide optimum views of the city, sea and sky.
Each level is characterised by maximum flexibility and circulation around the core. A system of movable partitions and sliding doors enables the opening up of all the interior spaces and increased views of the apartment as a whole.

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The Tower’s technology

The tower has four façades, 140 metres high and 25 metres wide. The aim was to precisely orientate over 30,000 facets of identical size so that the tower can reflect some of Beirut’s monuments and remarkable districts, and that these reflections should be visible from precise areas of the city. The remaining facets are orientated to produce smooth transitions between these panoramic viewpoints.

When light encounters a reflective surface, it is reflected according to its angle of incidence on that surface. The principle of the reflective facade consisted in globally defining the orientation of each facet of the cylinder’s surface to create the desired reflection.
Working with specialists in this field, we produced an automated 3D tool enabling us to visualise different instances of the facade by changing viewpoints at will, both the reflective area and the position of the reflected images on the tower.”

Sources:
TEXT Lan Architecture
HQE CONSULTING FRANCK BOUTTE
STRUCTURE Batiserf
3D IMAGES Rsi-studio.com
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The Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in collaboration with Werner Sobek and engineers ABT, has won the competition for Rotterdam’s Stadskantoor, a new building for the city hall that will accommodate municipal services, offices, and residential units. The winner was announced this morning by city alderman Hamit Karakus.
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“The design, led by OMA partners Reinier de Graaf and Rem Koolhaas, was chosen from five submissions by Dutch architecture companies following a public consultation period and the deliberation of an expert jury, which commented: “OMA’s design was the perfect combination of innovation and suitability for the surrounding context.”

OMA conceived a modular building with repeated units gradually set back from the street as they rise into two irregular peaks. The building’s composition of smaller cells creates an impressive, complex form when viewed from Coolsingel, one of Rotterdam’s main arteries, and allows for subtlety and adaptability as the Stadskantoor abuts the adjacent municipal building from the 1950s, the Stadstimmerhuis.

The Stadskantoor’s innovative structural system generates maximum efficiency and versatility both in construction and in program: units can be added or even dismounted from the structure as demands on the building change over time, and can adapt to either office space or residential parameters as desired. Green terraces on higher levels provide the possibility of an apartment with a garden in the heart of urban Rotterdam.

The building’s concept of flexibility – together with a climate regulated by warm air stored in summer and released in winter, and vice versa, and the use of hi-tech translucent insulation in the building’s glass façade – allowed OMA to meet the design brief’s requirement of making the Stadskantoor the most sustainable building in the Netherlands.

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Reinier de Graaf commented: “Rather than posing as the city’s next superlative, the design for the Stadskantoor is partly a building, partly an urban condition – a skyline in its own right. The design attempts to mediate between the adjacent town hall, post office and Stadstimmerhuis. Through an intentional ambiguity, the mass immerses itself in the city’s diverse architectural periods, absorbing the scales and styles of its immediate context.”
OMA
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Project Details:

Client:  Lysholt Erhverv A/S
Construction: Byggeselskabet Paulsen
Engineering: Leif Hansen Engineering A/S
Architect:  Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller
Landscape: Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller
Collaborators, other
Supplier: Alumeco A/S (Futtes byggeservice)
Address: Lysholt Allé, Vejle – Denmark
Size: 5000 m2 domicile
Year: 2008-2009
Competition year: 2007
Prizes: 2007 1. prize in architectural competition
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Project Description:

” Advice House is the first completed building in the Lysholt Park, a new business-park north of Vejle, and is with its proximity to the motorway designated to act as landmark and eye-catcher for the entire development. C. F. Møller Architects have developed two office-projects, Advice House and Lysholt Tower, for the client Lysholt Erhverv A/S. Both projects employ a simple, yet visually strong cladding with an unusual, colour-changing appearance.

The Advice House interior is an open and flexible office layout, where various tenants share the same large space, which offers dramatic perspectives and angles. The building’s unusual geometry makes for a dramatic and changing appearance when driving by on the motorway, and this mutability in form and shadows is further heightened by the colouring and texturing of the facades, designed to catch the light.

The cladding-strips are composed of a ‘random’ sequence of a total of 13 differently proportioned cladding panels, some of which are folded diagonally to create a triangulated pattern.

The cladding panels are made from aluminium with a special colour pigmentation that offers changing colour effects with highlights and interesting colour gradients, depending on the viewing angle and the angle of the sun. Thus, the building never appears in quite the same way, and the effect is especially striking when passing by on the motorway.” by C.F.Møller Architects
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from Bustler

Copenhagen-based BIG, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar, was awarded the first prize in the international competition to design Shenzhen International Energy Mansion, the regional headquarters for the Shenzhen Energy Company.

Located in the center of Shenzhen, China the 96,000 square meter project will be integrated with the surrounding environment and designed to withstand the tropical climate of the city. BIG’s winning proposal was selected by the jury experts from Shenzhen Municipal Planning Bureau chaired by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and client representatives.
The headquarters rises 200 meters creating a new landmark visible from the highway in the cultural, political and business center of Shenzhen. BIG envisions combining a practical and efficient floor plan layout with a sustainable façade that both, passively and actively reduce the energy consumption of the building. The façade is conceived as a folded skin that shades the office complex from direct sunlight and integrates solar thermal panels, reducing the overall energy consumption of the building.

Check the detailed description at Bustler
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