Marc Younan architecture office converted an industrial building into 85 different social housing units, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. The project provided an opportunity to reinterpret a formerly industrial structure and to create a coherent ensemble endowing the building with a singular identity.
In open dialogue with history, the architectural project by Flores & Prats has restored the old building of the Pau i Justicia cooperative, adapting it for new theatrical uses. This cultural space designed by Flores & Prats opened in Barcelona and characterized by extraordinary vivacity and a surprising relationship with history which tends to redefine the theme of architectural restoration.
The new operations headquarters of Reale Group in Turin was built on ground of the southwestern border of the city’s Roman castrum to replace a pre-existing building from the Seventies. The historical and contemporary merge in a dialectic relationship with the context that catalyzes new regenerative processes of the urban and social fabric of the city. The project developed in synergy by the engineer Roberto Tosetti from Artecna (Head of the general project) and Iotti + Pavarani Architetti (winner of the competition by invitation to design the architectural envelope announced by Reale Immobili in 2013), gives form to a building that redefines and modernizes the entire block.
Stéphane Malka Architecture has designed a clever way of optimizing the energy efficiency of older urban structures while working within the restrictions of Parisian building codes. Malka’s Plug-in City 75 design envisions attaching parasitic wooden cubes to the facade of a 1970s-era building, extending the living space and significantly reducing the building’s annual energy consumption by approximately 75 percent.
Villa Kali in Lebanon, designed by BLANKPAGE ARCHITECTS and KARIM NADER STUDIO, makes the most of its stunning beachfront location by maximizing sightlines to the sea. Villa Kali is situated in front of the Mediterranean Sea, on the coast of Lebanon in the town of Mounsef, north of Beirut. The site is close to the ancient seaport city of Byblos, one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns in the world and one of the most ancient Phoenician cities.
With Maurice Nio’s project the Pecci Center in Prato, Italy doubles and reopens with more space for contemporary arts. It is conceived as an extension and connection for the original building, designed by Italo Gamberini with a profile that was strongly influenced by the surrounding industrial landscape and completed in 1988.
In September 2016, in Antwerp, Belgium was held the grand opening of a new office building, which houses the headquarters of local Seaport Authority. The new Port House in Antwerp repurposes, renovates and extends a derelict fire station into a new headquarters for the port – bringing together the port’s 500 staff that previously worked in separate buildings around the city. The Port House designed by Zaha Hadid symbolizes the dynamic and innovative nature of the Port of Antwerp. The building is the workplace of 500 employees and a meeting place for the many international contacts of the Antwerp port community. The office building is at the Zaha Hadid plein 1, which has been named after architect Dame Zaha Hadid, who died unexpectedly a couple of months before completion of the building.
The building of the insurance company’s headquarters of American Enterprise Group (AEG) in Des Moines, Iowa, has undergone major reconstruction. Now fans of the cult American TV series “Mad Men” may draw parallels between the style of this serial film and interiors of the renovated building. Actually, this is not surprising - it was built in 1965, just at the time when the movie action takes place. The project of old eight stories building was originally designed and constructed in 1965 by the New York office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) under architect Gordon Bunshaft, winner of the Pritzker Prize (1988) and legendary principal of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), FAIA, which received a 1967 AIA Honor Award for Architecture.
In 2016, Epic Deep Space Auditorium project was awarded among five nominees for AIA Technology in Architectural Practice, TAP AWARDS. Epic Systems Corporation is a fast growing medical records management company occupying over 800 000 square feet of corporate and conference space on an 811-acre site in Verona, Wisconsin.
On the new Tekniska Nämndhuset planned and developed future Stockholm, with new housing, workplaces and infrastructure for a growing population. It is a new city that is created and grown out of the old, open and welcoming city, self-sufficient in energy without the release of carbon dioxide, with a vital business sector that creates jobs and subsistence to its population, and with a construction that meets the growing city’s needs.