Façade pattern
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about façade pattern
Project • By Söhne and Partner Architects • Cities
United Bank Building
In Cooperation with BET architects.
United bank represented in units coming together in to a single entity in a seamless fashion. These units are the shares that make up the bank. Shares are the people that came together to make this bank a reality. These units cluster into capsules which then recollect to a single entity expressing unity of units. The unit is also the smallest financial unit which comes together in to hundreds, millions and billions…to create the financial strength and power in which the bank is well represented in its business. Hence, the building form is conceived as a composition of a tower and podium articulated with diamond shaped unit interwoven together forming unity of units to symbolize the ‘Hibret’/ Unity Ban... More
Project • By OZ • Individual Buildings
Endemol
The area around the Arenaboulevard in Amsterdam Zuidoost is quickly developing into a high quality entertainment centre, which is soon to be complemented by the Endemol Nederland studio complex. Following a competition between combinations of developers and architects, OeverZaaijer architecture and urbanism, together with G which changes might even include a different function.
A waterside entrance square
In the urban development plan of the Municipality of Amsterdam, the 'Trading House Location' was devised as two parallel strips, offering a wide variety of individual office buildings and hotels, interspersed with large-scale business premises. The rectangular building plot is situated between De Loper, De Passage, De Holterbergweg a... More
Project • By LAVA Architects • Sports Centres
ADDIS ABABA NATIONAL STADIUM AND SPORTS VILLAGE
Football and athletics-loving Ethiopians will have a new FIFA and Olympic-standard 60,000 seat stadium in Addis Ababa thanks to a competition winning design combining local identity with new technology.
LAVA, the LABORATORY FOR VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE, and DESIGNSPORT collaborated with local Ethiopian firm JDAW to win the international architecture competition for a national stadium and sports village, held by the Federal Sport Commission, Ethiopia.
LAVA, the LABORATORY FOR VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE, and DESIGNSPORT collaborated with local Ethiopian firm JDAW to win the international architecture competition for a national stadium and sports village, held by the Federal Sport Commission, Ethiopia.
LAVA went back to the very origin... More
Project • By Make Architects • Housing
10 weymouth street
A relatively undistinguished 1960s block in Fitzrovia has been transformed by this highly distinctive refurbishment scheme, which increases the office and residential accommodation and gives the building a striking new identity.Make was approached by developer Ridgeford Properties Ltd to maximise the existing six-floor property; using imaginative and sensitive design, the resultant scheme has created 12 new luxury apartments by extending the rear elevation, creating three new penthouse apartments on the existing penthouse level and adding an extra floor which contains a fourth penthouse.The existing building presented two very different aspects to the surrounding area, with a formal facade confronting Weymouth Street and a far more eclectic... More
Boulevard Plaza
The Boulevard Plaza Towers stand at the gateway into the Burj Dubai development. The importance of the site is accentuated even more by being located immediately across the street from the tallest tower in the world – Burj Dubai Tower. The design strives to fit appropriately into this development as a respectful icon for the community.
The relationship of the forms and their articulation derive from both a contextual response and the building’s symbol representing a modern Islamic architecture set appropriately within the most modern Islamic city in the world –Dubai.
Despite the changing curvatious form of the building section, the units are modularized to standard layouts for construction simplicity, rational space and cost efficienc... More
Project • By Synthitecture • Offices
Gator Boots
“Gator Boots” was designed in Paul Preissner’s studio “High Contrast” at the University of Illinois-Chicago spring semester 2010. The studio focused its efforts on blending shape and form in order to create a newly identifiable visual type and also looked to rearrange visual expectations resulting in the growth and creation of new audiences.
Project: Transitions and uniformities are explored in this characterized architecture. ‘Gator Boots’ strives to achieve the perfect blend of typical building-shape and atypical geometric-form. These gestures respond to sequenced interior programming, which follow a Ground/Public/Extend versus Vertical/Private/Contract format. A uniform façade pattern was used to envelop its morphing and contrastive... More
Project • By BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group • Libraries
ANL - Astana National Library
The National Library is conceived as the integration of 4 organizational strategies into one new national institution
The perfect circle of the national archives
The orbiting spiral of the public spaces
The complex geometry of the Möbius envelope and the radially distributed section of the Kazakh landscape.
The pure diagram of the circle combined with the meandering trajectory of the public path creates an institution that is rigorous and playful, crystal clear and serendipitous. The eager student, the focused researcher, the citizen pilgrim and the curious tourist will all find an institution that meets their needs.
The Architecture of the National Library fuses 4 universal archetypes into one new national monument
The ci... More
Project • By Lucio Morini • Offices
ATELIERS CIUDAD DE LAS ARTES
These studios belong to the Córdoba Province City of the Arts, a campus housing painting,
sculpture, photography, and music schools.
They are to be lent to invited artists for short periods of time, so that they can live and work in them
and develop their work within a private realm, while sharing their life and work experience with the
students.
A continuous strip defining the edge of an interior plaza, it holds 10 studios -8 for painters and 2 for
sculptors- with a nearly identical design.
Each studio is a 2 story unit with a double height, glass-enclosed space facing either south (painters´
units) or north (sculptors´ units)
A large lifting glass door allows the interior of the studio to merge with the plaza.
The bedroom and to... More
Project • By Dierendonckblancke Architecten • Exhibition Centres
Office of tourism and appartments
The project is located on the Astrid square facing the dike of the coastal town of Oostduinkerke.
The assignment combines an office of tourism with exhibition space and meeting room for the local associations and six storeys of apartments that were later sold on to a developer. The office of tourism is organised on the ground level of the small and deep parcel. At the back is the half sunken exhibition / multifunctional space, which double height gives a visual contact with the meeting room on the first floor.
We brought natural light to this half sunken space through a patio at the end of the parcel and a void. The storeys above each contain one apartment per floor, with exception of a duplex on the top floor. The terraces of the apa... More
Project • By Saucier + Perrotte architectes • Private Houses
Private Residence and Guest House in the Laurentian Mountains
This single-family residence and guest house is located near the ski hills of Mont-Tremblant in the Laurentian Mountain range about an hour’s drive north of Montréal. Overlooking a verdant mountain landscape and located on the edge of a traditional log house development, the house is uncompromising in its contemporary architectural expression, both reflecting modernity and local building traditions. The house’s three main volumes, dedicated to the three lives of its occupants — eating, sleeping and living — slide on one another along an east-west axis. Pierced obliquely by an interior stair, the superimposed volumes are aligned with the entrance-level pool. A translucent screened outdoor living-room, typical of the region, projects into the... More
Project • By UNStudio • Shopping Centres
Star Place
A vibrant new landmark has appeared in the fast and modern city of Kaohsiung: the luxury shopping center Star Place. Both outside and inside, the building radiates dynamism and the kind of bright perfection that the architect refers to as the ‘Made in Heaven Effect’. Everything about the building moves the eye.
Kaohsiung
The city of Kaohsiung is the second largest city on the island of Taiwan and has a population of some 1, 5 million. Its geographical position along the Taiwan Strait has allowed it, over time, to become a maritime hub. After the Second World War, the city grew rapidly, transforming from an undeveloped fishing village into a booming, heavily industrialized port city. Besides its large international container port, the ci... More