Month: May 2017

Claro Chile Headquarters is located in Santiago, Huechuraba, composed by its general offices, technical areas, casino, parking lots and services areas. It is a complex conformed by two bodies of different characteristics, towards to the access road, an 11-level tower destined for corporate offices and to the back of the site, a horizontal 3-level Building for technical areas. Both bodies are connected at ground level by a volume that emerges from the underground parking lots, separating pedestrian traffic from car circulation, protected from solar radiation by steel shaders that allow vegetal growing, which decrease the unwanted reflections of cars towards the offices, and at the same time, allowing more flexibility of uses in this area. 

to capture passing breezes, the structure comprises two planes: a kite canopy overhead, and a curved island platform below.

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to capture passing breezes, the structure comprises two planes: a kite canopy overhead, and a curved island platform below.

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We’ve all reached that point in a stressful project where you need to take a step back and take a breather before refocusing on the task at hand – for many, this process can be aided by the liquid motivation of a nice, cold beer.

We’ve all reached that point in a stressful project where you need to take a step back and take a breather before refocusing on the task at hand – for many, this process can be aided by the liquid motivation of a nice, cold beer.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry

I don’t think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Zaha Hadid

A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same.
Rem Koolhaas

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Norman Foster

I don’t believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
Tadao Ando

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.
Richard Meier

VM Architecture and Design (VMAD) has been working with west elm since the brand was launched in 2002.  During that time, they have designed and fit-up four office spaces, a photo studio, a maker’s studio, and several new retail outlets for the growing brand. With each expansion, west elm returned to VMAD for assistance in creating ever more sophisticated and unique environments.  

5 lectures, 4 cities, 3 days
5 lectures by the 5 authors of the 5 finalist works competing for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award will take place between April 29th and May 1st in different cities around Europe.

The authors of each work will present their project to the Jury members Stephen Bates, Gonçalo Byrne, Peter Cachola Schmal, Pelin Dervis, Dominique Jakob, Juulia Kauste and Malgorzata Omilanowska in five lectures open to the public.

Afterwards, the Jury will visit the 5 Finalist works and will collect first-hand information from their users, clients and architects.

Program:

April 29, 11:30