Month: December 2018

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Publik Office in SAIGON / Sanuki Daisuke architects

December 5, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

The site is located in the district 3 of Ho Chi Minh and is a co-working space project to be built in the center of Ho Chi Minh. It is assumed that young creators living in Ho Chi Minh City, venture companies and local corporate starters of overseas companies are used, and each floor of 5 stories has different space. This is a renovation project, and the original building was an old building built in the 1990s, and it was repeatedly increased and remodeled so as not to keep the original shape. Furthermore, since the site does not face the main street and the visibility is bad, how to design the facade was a big point of

BLDG Workshop Refreshed The Design Of This Canadian Lake House

December 5, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Jill Penner Photography (left), and Jon Adrian (right)   BLDG Workshop have recently completed the renovation of a house located in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, that overlooks the Kalamalka Lake. The renovation of the existing 1970’s house included adding and changing the location of many of the windows and skylights, so that the […]

Herzog & de Meuron turns Hong Kong’s colonial buildings into Tai Kwun art centre

December 5, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has transformed a collection of historic buildings in Hong Kong into a vast arts complex, for the city’s largest heritage conservation project to date. The Tai Kwun art and heritage centre spans 27,000 square metres across a sloping site, reflective of Hong Kong Island’s mountainous terrain. Herzog & de Meuron combined

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Foster’s 425 Park Avenue skyscraper tops out in New York

December 5, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Norman Foster has declared that the stepped 41-storey office tower his firm has designed for New York’s Park Avenue will “set new standards for workplace design”, as the building tops out in the city. The British architect celebrated the construction milestone in New York City yesterday, as a beam was hoisted atop the skyscraper – the

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House of Light & Wind / Ray Architecture Viet Nam

December 5, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Located in a new urban area on the Hoa Phong extended road, Viet tri City, Phu Tho province, the building with front side to the Southeast, adjacent to the 45 meters width road and the back side is North West, closed with internal road 12.5meters. Therefore, three sides of the house would be subjected to thermal effects from early morning to late afternoon and solutions for heat insulation, natural ventilation, energy savings need to be answered perfectly in concept design.

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UnitedDATA Wuhan Office / PMT Partners

December 5, 2018 Collin Chen 0

The concept of time travel is the behavior of people using space, a linear relationship between space and time from the beginning to the end, and an action leading to the future. Standing in the long and narrow space in the face of the original status, an idea of designing an office with new identity instead of traditional offices arises spontaneously. This space should have a strong directivity with simple lines pointing to a vanishing point, through which, giving the users the feeling of crossing the veil of time instead of just an office position.