This architectural design projects is located in west London’s Westfield shopping centre. Its a facade of the fashion chain Zara's flagship store which is made out from panels of HI-MACS material.
Designer Zara Estudio and fabricators Gruppo Candido Hermida chose HI-MACS in a Toffee Brown hue, and combined it with a metal trim between the pieces. Using 81 panels of HI-MACS and 3 sheets of steel, the angles and 3-D shapes allowed them to create an intriguing effect.
The the Otto Bock building in Berlin, Germany is an interesting modern organic dynamic design of the six-storey building have been completed by Gnädinger Architects
The building was designed for the Otto Bock HealthCare company, a world leader in prosthetics and orthotics. The organic-dynamic design of the six-storey building is based on the principles of nature – as a model of harmony between technology and people.
The facade bands have modeled the structure of muscle fibers that encircle the building structure in soft form. The “soft” appearance, combined with a unique facade media production, is an open, friendly and accessible institution, and thus contributes to the image building of the company.
This new completed renovation projectof the Ex Sellerie is designed by Italian architect Giorgio Comoglio. The project is located in the area of the ex military arsenal in Turin, Italy. The task of the project is to increase the original building’s floor area and height. The minimal form of perforated steel envelope has been introduced to integrate the existing building into one, and also not to interfere with the surrounding buildings.
from the architects Giorgio Comoglio :
"We opted to install a curtain of perforated sheet metal in copper-zinc-titanium alloy attached independently on the facade. This skin was meant to wrap the building like an ambiguous veil that conceals the complexity and architectural disorder determined by the previous structure, transforming the pitched roof into a series of homogeneous volumes superimposed. The building is wrapped in a new shell that filters the view of the city with different transparencies."
This Pedro Almodóvar Monument is a new completed architectural design in recognition of Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar located in his hometown of Calzada de Calatrava, in the heart of the community of Castilla, La Mancha, Spain.
The project was the winner of a competition launched by the community government to pay tribute to Almodóvar’s film work and to make references to the culture and landscape of La Mancha. The main idea of the project was to frame the land of La Mancha, as if it were a fragment of one of his films.
Monovolume architecture + design have designed an architecural commercial building project of Blaas General Partnership new head office building located in Bolzano, Italy. The company Blaas in Bolzano is specialized in electro-mechanics and presents its new product range and offers repair service.
On the ground floor of the building there is the sales division, on the first floor the exposition area and the repair shop. All administration offices are located on the second floor. The overall impression of the structure is a homogenous and closed building. Nevertheless, there exists a separation between the public and the private sector. The client can perceive this clear and formal internal division already from the outside.
NRGi’s new corporate headquarters is situated in an area marked by a number of freestanding buildings in Dusager, Aarhus N, Denmark. NRGi Headquarters was designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects with 5,067 sqm constructed area this project was completed in 2007. NRGi stands out from its neighbours in the surrounding area in virtue of its visually light, metallically gleaming built volume.
Distinguished by an angular and distinctive façade, the building forms a crisp contrast to the mellow, scenic context. Moreover, the building is situated and oriented so as to accommodate the path of the sun, and set at an angle so that it provides sun shading – hence, energy efficiency is built into construction design.
The interior echoes the dynamic tone of the façade. Three open horizontal plates are mutually displaced diagonally. With long lines of sight across the building and vertically up through the floors, the architecture creates visual transparency and facilitates contact between employees.
Small meeting pods and coffee points act as breakout areas and as spaces for informal exchanges. These innovative channels of communication are further enhanced by the vertical atrium – an energy conductor for communication in-house. With its characterful form and façade articulation the building provides its own landmark – a landmark for energy.
