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Dominique Coulon et associés

Pritzker Prize, Balkrishna Doshi
Elbtower, David Chipperfield Architects
Cheongju Craft Factory, Space Group
Ayang Library, H&H Design Group
Raffles City, UNStudio
Railway Square, Place Laboratory
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Pritzker Prize 006 Eugeni Pons

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News 170

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Pritzker Prize 006 Balkrishna Doshi

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2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Balkrishna Doshi
Balkrishna Doshi_
photo courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

Professor Balkrishna Doshi, of India, has

been selected as the 2018 Pritzker
Architecture Prize Laureate. Architect, urban
planner, and educator for the past 70 years, Doshi
has been instrumental in shaping the discourse of
architecture throughout India and internationally. Influenced
by masters of 20th-century architecture, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret,
known as Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn, Doshi has been able to interpret architecture and
transform it into built works that respect eastern culture while enhancing the quality of living
in India. His ethical and personal approach to architecture has touched lives of every socio-
economic class across a broad spectrum of genres since the 1950s.
Doshi's architecture explores the relationships between fundamental needs of human life,
connectivity to self and culture, and understanding of social traditions, within the context of a
place and its environment, and through a response to Modernism. Childhood recollections,
from the rhythms of the weather to the ringing of temple bells, inform his designs. He
describes architecture as an extension of the body, and his ability to attentively address
function while regarding climate, landscape, and urbanization is demonstrated through his
choice of materials, overlapping spaces, and utilization of natural and harmonizing elements.
Doshi's architecture is both poetic and functional. The Indian Institute of Management
(Bangalore, 1977-1992), inspired by traditional maze-like Indian cities and temples, is
organized as interlocking buildings, courts and galleries. It also provides a variety of spaces
protected from the hot climate. The scale of masonry and vast corridors infused with a
campus of greenery allow visitors to be simultaneously indoors and outdoors. As people pass
through the buildings and spaces, Doshi invites them to experience their surroundings and
also suggests the possibility of transformation.
His studio, Sangath (Ahmedabad, 1980), translates to "moving together." The placement of
communal spaces, including a garden and outdoor amphitheater, highlights Doshi's regard
for collaboration and social responsibility. Vaulted roofs, porcelain mosaic tile coverings,
grassy areas, and sunken spaces mitigate extreme heat. The mosaic tile detail is echoed in
the tortoise-shell inspired roof of Amdavad Ni Gufa (Ahmedabad, 1994), an undulating, cave-
like, ferro-cement art gallery, positioned underground, featuring works of Maqbool Fida
Husain.
Doshi is the 45th Pritzker Prize Laureate, and the first to hail from India. The 2018 Pritzker
Architecture Prize ceremony commemorates the 40th anniversary of the accolade, and will
take place at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada, this May. The Laureate will present
a public lecture, in partnership with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape,
and Design at the University of Toronto on May 16, 2018.

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Aranya Low Cost Housing
photo, drawing, sketch courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

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 Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
photo courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

Vidhyadhar Nagar Masterplan

photo, drawing courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

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Kamala House
photo courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

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 Life Insurance Corporation Housing
photo, sketch courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

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Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology
photo courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

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 Sangath Architect's Studio
photo, sketch, drawing, plan courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

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Institute of Indology
photo, sketch, rendering courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

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 Premabhai Hall
photo, sketch courtesy of VSF (courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Prize)

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ARCHI Object

Obe pavilion

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Architects Powerhouse Company_Stefan Prins Location Leeuwarden, the Netherlands Use Pavilion Area 500m2 Bldg.
Scale 1F Project Team Nanne de Ru, Stefan Prins, Max Tala Nossin, Peter Lee, Melanie Lo, Helena Tse, Joppe Kusters,
Michael Schuurman, Erwin van Strien, Gert Ververs Structural Advisor BreedID, Gilbert van der Lee Installation Advisor
ProJoule, Jan de Boer Client Provinsje Fryslân Photo Ossip van Duivenbode

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 An undulating wood and glass pavilion by Powerhouse Company will
function as one of the eyecatchers for the program of Leeuwarden -
Lân fan taal Fryslân European Capital of Culture.
The Obe pavilion was designed for the Lân fan taal ("Land of Languages")
manifestation, which sets out to celebrate the diversity of language. The
new building had to host an ambitious program on a very compact
footprint. It had to house both a visitor centre and an exhibition space, as
well as provide a venue for performances. Because of its central and
strategic location in the historic heart of Leeuwarden, the new building
had to be accessible and attractive from all sides.
Powerhouse Company addressed this by creating a rectangular,
transparent volume with an undulating wooden roof which can be used as
a public grandstand. This permanently accessible grandstand opens onto
the Oldehoofsterkerkhof, a historic square which is primarily used for
large public events in the city center of Leeuwarden. The pavilion
strengthens the squares' function as a space for performances, events
and encounters.
Sustainability and innovation were key in the design. The result is a
compact, energy neutral building with an open layout, in natural materials,
crafted in an innovative way so that it can easily be adapted. With the Obe
pavilion, Powerhouse Company wants to create a lasting legacy for
Leeuwarden. Written by Powerhouse Company

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Elbtower Open Schools for Tirana Dawn Bridge

David Chipperfield Architects Stefano Boeri Architetti MVRDV

The Elbtower complements and contrasts with the form of the
Elbphilharmonie, rising as a tapered tower above a public atrium.
Set to be the highest building in Hamburg, the Elbtower is a key
part of the Hafencity masterplan.
Schools designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti will rise in Tirana:
three innovative architecture dedicated to pre-university
education, that conceive the cultural path as an open social
venture. The three structures will host five schools which are
open every day of the year, 24 hours a day, and welcome
students of any age.
The site of Dawn Bridge lies between the old town of Zhujiajiao
and new residential developments, between the existing
crossings of the Fangsheng Bridge and the Qingpu Bridge. The
Dawn Bridge will be will a living room and an active part of the
community, allowing people to gather, celebrate and
contemplate the river landscape.
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COMPETITION
Domestic
Space Group
Cheongju Craft Factory
Today at the fourth Industrial Age, the 'tobacco factory'
containing the trace of modern industry becomes the 'culture
plaza' by adding new value of craft art and culture. It is called the
culture manufacturing factory that the placeness is transferred as
the daily rest area from the workplace of industry according to
the change of time. The identity of time and space accumulated
for decades will remain as new memory to the citizens of
Cheongju by combining with the fourth Industrial revolution.
Architecture Design Group Espace
Wonju Taejang 1-dong Administration
& Culture Center
The Taejang 1-dong administration and culture center is a
sharing space providing cultural activities, administrative
services, and daily exercise for residents. In the process of
preserving the existing terrain and creating new space, an
extended space was developed for interpreting the site as a
laminated layer and placing new space, respecting the meaning
of memories and times of the region and the earth.
H&H Design Group Architecture
Ayang Library
Ayang Library has an urban view surrounded by apartment and
an open view as neighborhood park which needs the active link
with the park. Most of public library have the specialized space
focusing on the individual room but for Ayang Library, we
planned the family-centered specialized space for the family-
centered culture complex space requested by our client.
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Elbtower Hamburg, Germany

David Chipperfield Architects

Architects David Chipperfield Architects_David Chipperfield, Christoph Felger, Harald Muller Location Hamburg, Germany Use Office,
Public Space (Bar, Hotel, Restaurant, Retail, Exhibition Areas) Gross Floor Area 104,000m2 (aboveground) Project Team Barbara Koller,
Thomas Pyschny, Konrad Basan, Kerstin Bigalke, Andrew Davis, Ivan Dimitrov, Emmi Frank, Fadi Kilani, Dalia Liksaite, Pascal Maas,
Carthage Murphy, Andre Silva Oliveira, Ken Polster, Franziska Rusch, Diana Schaffrannek, Matthijs Sioen, Simon Wiesmaier, Julienne
Zuern Engineering Arup Ltd. Fire Consultant brand + Brandschutz Planbar Landscape Architect Wirtz International nv Light Art
Installation Studio Other Spaces, Olafur Eliasson, Sebastian Behmann Client SIGNA Prime Selection AG Photo David Chipperfield
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Situated on an exposed riverside site near the well-known Elbbrucken,
this new mixed-use building acts as an entrance marker on the eastern
edge of the Hafencity quarter and forms a counterpoint to the
Elbphilharmonie to the west. Occupying a triangular plot at the point
where the River Elbe and Oberhafen canal converge, the site offers the
opportunity to create a freestanding, sculpted building. The building
complements and contrasts with the form of the Elbphilharmonie, rising
as a tapered tower above a public atrium. Set to be the highest building in
Hamburg, the Elbtower is a key part of the Hafencity masterplan.

In contrast to the tower's light appearance when viewed from a distance,

the ground floor forms a more solid podium, embedded in the topography
of the site. This podium opens to the city, linking to the train and
underground station to the east and a bicycle-bridge over the canal to the
north. These entrances converge to create an inner courtyard which
provides access to the tower and extends the surrounding public realm.
The podium and floors immediately above house a broad spectrum of
public functions including bar, hotel, restaurant, retail and exhibition areas
and the tower largely comprises office space.

The facade is clad in a delicate screen of cambered, light-coloured

aluminium profiles, which serve as solar protection and give a moire
effect. While the curtain wall plays with the reflections of the sun during
the day, a lighting concept by Studio Other Spaces transforms the Elbtower
into a kinetic light sculpture at night. Written by David Chipperfield Architects

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5th Floor Plan 6th Floor Plan 12th Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan 1st Floor Plan 2nd Floor Plan

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Open Schools for Tirana Tirana, Albania

Stefano Boeri Architetti

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Architects Stefano Boeri Architetti_Stefano Boeri Location Tirana, Albania Use Educational Facilities (Nursery, Pre-school
Education, Middle School, High School) Gross Floor Area 29,609m2 (Don Bosco School Complex_9,812m2, Koder-Kamez School
Complex_11,898m2, Shqiponja School Complex_7,898m2) Project Team Francesca Cesa Bianchi, Carlotta Capobianco, Jacopo
Colatarci, Julia Gocalek, Jona Arkaxhiu, Orjana Balla, Daniele Barillari, Moataz Faisal Farid, Yulia Filatova, Paolo Russo, Mario
Shilong Tan, Elisa Versari Client PPP Agikons Construction Company - Municipality of Tirana Photo Stefano Boeri Architetti

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 Schools will rise in Tirana: three innovative architecture dedicated to pre-
university education, that conceive the cultural path as an open social
venture. The three structures will host five schools which are open every
day of the year, 24 hours a day, and welcome students of any age. The
three schools will be constructed, as envisaged by the Tirana Master Plan,
in the north-west quarter of the Albanian capital, in the areas of Don
Bosco, Koder-Kamez and Shqiponja Square.

The three new schools of Tirana will have facades in red brick and white
bases in cement (a combination of materials that harkens back to the
tradition of Italian architecture in Tirana) and will function as a local
epicenter, as a new reference point of the public life of the area. Our
schools will be the true urban squares of the neighborhoods, used by
students during school hours, and by the community on weekends and
holidays.

The project of the Schools for Tirana extends over a total surface of
29,609m2. It is composed of the Don Bosco School Complex, with nursery,
pre-school education, middle school and high school, the Koder-Kamez
School Complex, with nursery, pre-school education, middle school and
high school, and the Shqiponja School Complex, with nursery, pre-school
education and middle school. Written by Stefano Boeri Architetti

Elevation 1

Elevation 2

Elevation 3

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Dawn Bridge Shanghai, China

MVRDV

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Architects MVRDV_Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries Location Shanghai, China Use
Pedestrian Bridge Length 80m Project Team Wenchian Shi, Marta Pozo, Lorenzo Mattozzi,
Wenzhao Jia, Cosimo Scotucci, Jose Sanmartin, Enrico Pintabona, Chi Zhang, Artemis Maneka,
Cai Zheli, Ray Zhu, Jammy Zhu, Alice Huang Visualization Antonio Luca Coco, Davide Calabro,
Giovanni Coni, Pavlos Ventouris Client Zhujiajiao Municipality Photo MVRDV

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 A new day for Zhujiajiao
The site of Dawn Bridge lies between the old town of Zhujiajiao and new
residential developments, between the existing crossings of the
Fangsheng Bridge (a landmark since 1571) and the Qingpu Bridge (a low-
key modern road bridge).
Given that the bridge should establish a relation with the historical and
calm surrounding, the height of construction is kept intentionally low. The
vertical alignment defines the sense of lightness and elegance of a bridge
and we aimed at providing a graceful low curve above the water to blend
with the landscape. Beyond blending, the aim is to provide a bridge for
everybody. By keeping the vertical alignment to a max and a slope of 8%,
the bridge becomes accessible to all people whether on foot or on wheels
(bicycles and wheelchairs).
The bridge further establishes a relation with the delicate surrounding by
absorbing its palette of colours and materials. The grey roofs are recalled
by the grey asphalt, while the white walls are expressed by the white
bridge structure. The reddish wood of houses and boats becomes the
cover of the pedestrian deck and landings. Finally, the green of water and
nature appears in form of trees on top of the deck as in the Fangsheng
Bridge.
The bridge elevation is a new horizon and the tribune a new light rising
from it: they will reflect the first light of every morning in Zhujiajiao. The
Dawn Bridge will be will a living room and an active part of the community,
allowing people to gather, celebrate and contemplate the river landscape.
Written by MVRDV

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Cheongju Craft Factory

Space Group
Architects Space Group_Lee Sangleem Location Cheongju Old Tobacco Manufactory, 314,
Sangdang-ro, Cheongwon-gu, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea District Quasi-
residential Area, Aesthetic Area, Maximum Height Limited District Use Mixed Use (Culture, Retail)
Site Area Total site_119,738.00m2, Project site_12,850.00m2 Bldg. Area Total site_53,219.10m2,
Craft factory_10,311.51m2 Gross Floor Area Total site_147,286.76m2, Craft factory_51,836.15m2
Bldg. Coverage Ratio Total site_44.45%, Project site_8.42% Gross Floor Ratio Total site_121.04%,
Project site_40.93% Bldg. Scale B1, 5F Structure R.C. Rhamen Construction (existing), Steel
Rhamen Construction (extend) Max. Height 35.85m Landscape Area Total site_29,491.17m2, Craft
factory_2,841.65m2 Parking Lot 1,303 Cars Exterior Finish Cement Masonry Wall (existing) +
Curtain Wall, Brick, Concrete Panel, Metal Panel Project Team Jang Mijin, Jang Hongman, Suh
Doowon, Paik Changhyun, Kim Hyuntae Kim, Wea Sungmoon, Han Myeongtaek, Ko Eunbi Client
Cheongju City, Korean Land & Housing Corporation

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 The dead 'tobacco factory', reborn as 'Culture Plaza'
Cheongju tobacco factory was the biggest factory in Korea, producing 10
billion cigarettes in a year since the construction in 1973. However, since the
announcement of factory closure, the size has been reduced and finally closed
in 2004. Today at the 4th Industrial Age, the 'tobacco factory' containing the
trace of modern industry becomes the 'culture plaza' by adding new value of
craft art and culture. It is called the culture manufacturing factory that the
placeness is transferred as the daily rest area from the workplace of industry
according to the change of time. The identity of time and space will remain as
new memory to the citizens of Cheongju by combining with the fourth
Industrial revolution.

From the center of industrial economy to the center of urban regeneration

The functional pivot of 'Culture manufacturing factory' and the physical pivot of
'the Garden of Time' are important factors that influence the movement line in
the complex. The organic connection between two factors and the active
program link arrangement became the main point of facility plan. The 'craft
art culture' of Cheongju and the 'commercial facilities' were suggested as
core program and the independence of each program is secured by horizontal
division. The commercial facilities on the lower part, the experience sales
facilities and the start-up assistance education facilities and the crafts cluster
on the middle level for crafts biennale are connected organically each other
through artrium on the center and various vertical movement line.

Amenity of Modern Cultural Heritage

The 'memory' of tobacco factory appears by the preservation of 50 pipe
rainleader and the skylight with horizontal stripes. The facade of culture
manufacturing factory facing central plaza reminds of the 'factory' which is the
relics of modernism age. The 'new memory' of commercial space of the 1F
and 2F focusing on the transparency through curtain wall and the 'memory of
workplace' of the fourth and fifth floor preserved with square concrete side are
transferred through the 'medium floor' of the third floor that is transformed as
the space of various culture manufacturing including craft biennale. The
medium floor becomes the face of culture plaza, composed of porous semi-
transparent wall through brickwork which plays the role of medium
connecting the inside and outside, culture and commerce and the past and
the present. Written by Space Group

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1st Floor Plan 2nd Floor Plan 3rd Floor Plan

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 Domestic Competition WINNER

Wonju Taejang 1-dong Administration & Culture Center

Architecture Design Group Espace

Architects Architecture Design Group Espace_Park Seunghwan + Yesong Architects_Park Hochang Location Taejang-dong, Wonju-si,
Gangwon-do, Korea District Natural Green Area Use Office, Culture, Theater, Library Site Area 33,553.95m2 Bldg. Area 6,431.21m2 Gross
Floor Area 5,090.41m2 Bldg. Coverage Ratio 19.17% Gross Floor Ratio 13.68% Bldg. Scale B1, 2F Structure R.C. Max. Height 13.7m
Landscape Area 1,595.25m2 Parking Lot 200 Cars Exterior Finish Exposed Concrete, Metal Panel Project Team Lee Wooseuk, Gong
Gyung-ok, Yang Hwanjik, Lee Seungjun, Jeong Yeonseo, Kim Mijung, Kim Haebom, Nam Gungyuk, Kim Seungsu, Ji Sehee Client Wonju
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Located on the border of Mt. Chiak and the city, the Taejang 1-dong
administration and culture center is a sharing space providing cultural
activities, administrative services, and daily exercise for residents. The
mountain has the characteristics of a limited available site and separation
from the city. Major facilities were placed close to the urban to offset the
characteristics of the site, and by creating a shared space that interacts
with nature by wrapping up the mountain, new characteristics of the site
opened up in the city were formed.

In the process of preserving the existing terrain and creating new space,
an extended space was developed for interpreting the site as a laminated
layer and placing new space, respecting the meaning of memories and
times of the region and the earth. The space between the grounds
provides a space for various administrative, cultural, knowledge, and
performance activities to communicate and share cultures. The spaces of
communication with nature have a constant flow to interact with the city's
context and naturally draw attention and movement.

Level planning, which considers slopes, is designed to form a different

level of yards between facilities and to serve as a cultural marketplace and
a festal arena. As people walk up the slope, they will be connected to
facilities by small yards. At the end of the courtyard, concert hall will be a
representative object of Wonju's culture by using the translucence and
image of traditional Korean paper.

External spaces that resemble natural curves were planned as living

sports spaces with different levels, served as a cultural, athletic, and
gathering space, and is planned to have a trail that draws five different
cultural landscapes. Written by Architecture Design Group Espace

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Welfare Center 1F, Library 1F

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Welfare Center 2F, Library 1F, Culture Center 1F, Concert Hall B1 Library 2F, Culture Center 2F, Concert Hall 1F Concert Hall 2F

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Concert Hall - Front Elevation Right Elevation

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Ayang Library

H&H Design Group Architecture

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Architects H&H Design Group Architecture_Kim Hyun-a , Park Moonhak Location Ayang-dong, Anseong-si, Gyoenggi-do, Korea District
Urban Area, Natural Green Area, District Units Plan Use Library Site Area 31,771m2 Bldg. Area 1,378m2 Gross Floor Area 2,643m2 Bldg.
Coverage Ratio 4.34% Gross Floor Ratio 7.02% Bldg. Scale B1, 2F Structure Reinforced Concrete Max. Height 11.5m Landscape Area
585m2 Parking Lot 9Cars Exterior Finish Limestone, Galvanized Steel Sheet, Low-E Pair Glass Project Team Park Seonghye, Byun
Hyunjin, Kim Seung-oh, Jo Seong-yong Client Gyoenggi-do Anseong-si City Library

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 Ayang Library, located in the neighborhood park in the center of Ayang
housing site development district, Ansung city has an urban view
surrounded by apartment and an open view as neighborhood park which
needs the active link with the park. Most of public library have the
specialized space focusing on the individual room but for Ayang Library,
we planned the family-centered specialized space for the family-centered
culture complex space requested by our client.

For the library linked with the park, we planned a culture network by
construction of various outside spaces so that users can use the library
naturally while taking a walk in the park. The floor plan for the family-
centered library includes the one-stop system and open plan to provide
comfortable reading environment, various communication space plan
such as family box for family users, green box, talk box, and the open
space of the first and second floor where parents and children can enjoy
the reading in the stable and comfortable atmosphere. On the first floor,
the Children's reference room and infant reference room are placed and
in the center, the wide stairs up to the second floor are placed which can
be used as event space. On the second floor, we planned an “Open
Library” by placing total reference room connected to the park, family
room, global data room which communicate with the first floor and are
open to the nature. The elevation of library is harmonized with horizontal
pattern using the image of bookshelf and the vertical pattern that
symbolizes the nature. For the inside, we analyzed the original effect of
each color and applied the suitable to each space for the vital space.
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Dominique Coulon & Associés

Located in the heart of Strasbourg, Dominique Coulon & Associés is a firm of architects of national and international renown.
For more than 25 years, the agency has earned a reputation for the quality of the public facilities it designs. It has worked on a
wide and varied range of programmes, including a media library, music school, auditorium, school complex, swimming pool, sports
facilities, a residential home for the dependent elderly, and housing.
Dominique Coulon and his three associates Steve Lethos Duclos, Olivier Nicollas and Benjamin Rocchi allow their intuition to lead
the way as they seek to develop contextual projects that combine contrast and complexity, where the outer envelope hints at inner
richness. Spatial quality and natural light are fundamental elements in every project: space is always controlled by precise
geometry.

The agency has received many awards and distinctions: firstly in 1996 with the Prix de la Première Oeuvre for the ‘Pasteur’ lower
secondary school in Strasbourg, followed by a number of nominations for the Équerre d’Argent award in 1999, 2002 and 2003. In
2006 it was a prize-winner in the PEB1 Compendium of Exemplary Educational Establishments organised by the OECD, for the
’Martin Peller’ school complex in Reims. In 2008 it was nominated for the BSI Swiss Architectural Award and for the European
Union prize awarded by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, for the National Drama Centre in Montreuil. It has received a Chicago
Athenaeum International Architecture Award on three occasions. In 2014, it won the Pool Vision Contest prize in the ‘public pools’
category, for the swimming pool in Bagneux. In 2017 it received the first prize in the Eiffel Trophies rewarding steel architecture, for
the Media Library (Third Place) in Thionville, and was nominated for the European Union prize awarded by the Mies van der Rohe
Foundation, for the residential home for the dependent elderly and the residential centre for handicapped people in Orbec.

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'Theodore Gouvy' Theatre Freyming-Merlebach, France

Dominique Coulon et associés

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Architects Dominique Coulon et associés_Dominique Coulon, Olivier Nicollas Location 1 Place
des Alliés, Freyming-Merlebach, France Use Performing Arts Center Area 2,850m2 Bldg. Scale 3F
Project Team Jean Scherer, David Romero-Uzeda, Ali Ozku, Fanny Liénart, Grégoire Stouck
Structural Engineering Batiserf Mechanical Plumbing Engineer Solares Bauen Electrical
Engineer BET G. Jost Cost E3 Economie HQE Consultant Solares Bauen Acoustic Euro Sound
Project Scenographer Changement à vue Roads and Networks Lollier Ingeniérie Construction
COLAS, CARI-FAYAT, ERTCM, COUVREST, SOCOMET, DEOBAT, MULLER, JUNG, NESPOLA +
WEREY STENGER, SGR, MULTI SERVICES, DEBRA, ASCELEC, KAPP, ETA, SCHAEFFER, LORRY,
CAIRE, AZUR SCENIC, DELAGRAVE, SYSTEME SON Client Communauté de communes
Freyming-Merlebach Photo Eugeni Pons, David Romero-Uzeda, Thibaut Muller

Shopping mall

Town hall

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 Freyming-Merlebach is a town with a substantial industrial past, in a part
of Lorraine that developed in the 19th century, driven by the coalmining
industry. Since the closure of the mines in the 1990s, this part of north-
eastern France has seen a sharp increase in unemployment, and culture
is seen as one possibility for resolving the accompanying social and
economic difficulties in the town.
The theatre sets up an energetic dialogue with the heterogeneous urban
landscape, shaping itself to fit the context and logic of the existing flows. It
stands on a base, alongside the new municipal offices; its unusual shape
and dimensions give it an steamlined silhouette, the lines of which ensure
visual transition between the various parts of the programme while
keeping on the same scale as the town. The visitor's interest is caught by
the animation of the volumes: in the upper part, the foyer is offset to
indicate the entrance, while in the lower part, transparent elements allow
glimpses of the wealth of interior routes and invite the visitor to enter.
The foyer occupies a vertical space with a route through an apparent
intertwining of staircases leading to the auditorium. Oblique lines
reiterating the complex geometry of the site cause spaces to expand,
creating a feeling of space. Natural light enhances the various faces and
reveals the building's shape and dimensions. The route to reach the
auditorium is therefore deliberately spectacular and theatrical.
The auditorium is in strong contrast with the nuanced surfaces of the outer
envelope. The building presents the town with an immaculate white facade,
while the foyer is in shades of beige. Red, pink and orange lend density to
the space, affirming it as the main feature of the project, with colour
sanctuarising the idea of performance. Written by Dominique Coulon et associés

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2. Ticket Office
3. Public Cloakroom
4. Stage
5. Backstage Area
6. Storage Area - Bar
7. Management
8. Offices
9. Patio
10. Performers' Foyer
11. Double Boxes
12. Group Boxes
13. Individual Boxes
14. Technicians' Box
15. Technicians' Cloakroom
16. Laundry
17. Technical Workshop
18. Logistics, Front-of-house staff
19. Delivery Plenum
20. Intermediate Foyer
21. Main Control Booth
22. Terrace
23. Technical Areas
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Architects Dominique Coulon et associés_Dominique Coulon, Steve Letho Duclos Location 1 place Malraux, Thionville, France Use Media
Library, Creative Studios, Broadcasting Media Room, Auditorium Area 4,590m2 Bldg. Scale B1 Project Team Gautier Duthoit Structural
Engineer Batiserf Ingénierie Electrical Engineer BET G.Jost Mechanical Plumbing Engineer Solares Bauen Cost Estimator E3 économie
Acoustics Euro sound project Landscape Bruno Kubler Construction COSTANTINI, SOLS ETANCHE BACHY, CARI, ERTCM, SOPREMA,
MGE / SOCOMET, SMF, ISOLA, KAPP, KUPELI, HUNSINGER, BATI PROCARRELAGE, BATI PROCARRELAGE, DEBRA, GUINAMIC,
APPEL, FELLER, ISS, COSTANTINI, LORRY, LORRY, INEO, INEO, EUROPODIUM, MICHELSONNE Client Ville de Thionville Photo Eugeni
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 This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media
libraries. The programme calls the functions of a media library into
question, lending it the content of a ‘third place’ - a place where members
of the public become actors in their own condition, a place for creation as
well as reception. In association with the basic programme, the building
includes areas for displays, creation, music studios, and a cafe-
restaurant. The various activities in the programme blend into each other,
creating a dynamic arrangement. The building comes up close to the
crown of plane trees - this is the first thickness to act as a filter from the
street, apparently playing with this first colonnade of plant-life.

The facade serves as an unfurling ribbon that serves as a backdrop to the

different universes contained in the programme. At its closest to the
street, the ribbon dips, the better to contain it, rising again where it stands
further back. In the hollows, the border between the interior space and the
urban space is less clear and makes it possible to come closer, to
embrace the building visually. The hollow and solid sections produce an
ambiguity between inside and outside, questioning the borders of the
public space. Space becomes uncertain: it ceases to have clear outlines,
and calls itself into question in practical terms.

Light spreads out along the ribbon, and the ribbon distributes the light to
the area right in the heart of the building. A garden ramp offers another
escape route to the outside, leading upwards to a summer bar, the
culminating point of the architectural promenade. The garden extends the
indoor walkway, getting closer to the line of the horizon; the town
disappears, leaving just the crown of plane trees to dialogue with the sky.
New uses become possible: people can take a nap, picnic, read outside, or
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1. Universe-Forum
2. Universe-Multimedia
3. Universe-Literature
4. Universe-Teenagers
5. Universe-Small Children
6. Universe-Documentation Area
7. Group Studio-Multifunction
8. Group Studio-Video Games
9. Group Studio-Storytelling Area
10. Permanent Display
11. Temporary Display
12. Cellar
13. Large Exhibition Hall
14. Multipurpose Hall
15. Creation & Broadcasting Studio
16. Plastic Arts Workshop
17. Administrative Area
18. Patio-Sloping Garden
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Architects Dominique Coulon et associés_Dominique Coulon, Olivier Nicollas Location 3 rue
Marguerite Yourcenar, Colombes, France Use Educational Facilities (Elementary School, Nursery
school, Dinning Room, Sports Hall) Area 7,600m2 Bldg. Scale 4F Project Team Guillaume
Wittmann, Emilie Brichard, Jean Scherer Structural Engineer Batiserf Ingénierie Electrical
Engineer BET G.Jost Mechanical Plumbing Engineer Solares Bauen Cost Estimator E3 économie
Acoustics Euro Sound Project Ergonomist Defacto Kitchen Expert Ecotral Landscape Bruno
Kubler Construction SNRB, SEE SIMEONI, HUNSINGER, MILLET, PRODESIGN, BRUNIER,
REZZA, SOLSTYCE Client Ville de Colombes Photo Eugeni Pons, Guillaume Wittmann, David
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 The 'Simone Veil' group of schools forms a structural element in the
urban composition of the new eco-neighbourhood. It is tightly embedded
in the dense urban fabric, opposite a park and straddling the maintenance
workshops for the new tram line.

The building is on three levels. The plot of land is small, and the roof areas
are used to house the elementary school’s classrooms and educational
gardens. The group also includes a sports hall, a canteen, a library, and
out-of-school childcare facilities. The building is very thick; the hollows
scooped out of the facades serve as facets, attracting the light and
reflecting it back. Many of the traffic routes are lateralised, making them
varied and bright. A number of patios irrigate the heart of the building,
bringing natural light into its thickness. Internal transparencies add extra
richness to traffic routes.

On the town side, the building offers a rustic texture. Strips of untreated
wood (with the bark left on) emphasise the corresponding roughness. The
ground floor has the advantage of transparency through the covered
courtyard, offering a glimpse of the multi-coloured playground, which is
intended to be a very autonomous and artificial universe. The bright
colours transform the space, expanding it to create a place for educational
stimulation.

This project avoids all form of repetition. The light, the materials used, and
the traffic routes create micro-events. These fragments come together in
a joyful chaos. Written by Dominique Coulon et associés

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2. Meeting + Teachers' room
3. Bleachers
4. Void over Sports Hall
5. Workshop
6. Library
7. Multipurpose Room
8. Elementary Direction Room
9. Leisure Direction Room
10. Support Classroom
11. Teachers' Room 1. Elementary Classroom
12. Ventilation Room 2. Patio
13. Elementary Courtyard 3. Accessible Outdoor Terrace
14. Void over Nursery Courtyard 4. Roof Learning Garden

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1. Nursery Hall
2. Leisure Center Hall
3. Workshop
4. Leisure Direction Room
5. Sleeping Room 1. 3 years Nursery Classroom
6. Teachers' Room 2. 4 years Nursery Classroom
7. Nursery Dinning Room 3. 5 years Nursery Classroom
8. Nursery Courtyard 4. Sleeping Room
9. Bicycle Room 5. Physical Education Room
10. Motricity Room 6. Sports Hall
11. Nursery Library 7. Nursery Direction Room
12. Elementary Hall 8. Meeting + Teachers' Room
13. Caretaker's Lodge 9. Recreation Room
14. Reception, Common 10. Storage Room
15. Elementary Dinning Room 11. Electricity Room
16. Kitchen 12. Heating & Ventilation
17. Waste Room 13. Void over Nursery Courtyard

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Architects Dominique Coulon et associés_Dominique Coulon, Steve Letho Duclos Location 1 Rue
Paul Koepfler, Belfort, France Use Educational Facilities (Classroom, Studio, Auditorium, Dance
Hall, Media Library) Area 3,895m2 Bldg. Scale B1, 2F Project Team Guillaume Wittmann, Lukas
Unbekandt Structural Engineer Batiserf Ingénierie Electrical Engineer BEE.FL Mechanical
Plumbing Engineer Solares Bauen Cost Estimator E3 économie Acoustics Euro Sound Project
Construction Eurovia, ALBIZZATI Père & Fils, Soprema, Antonietti, Hunsinger, Curti, Negro Pere
et Fils, STTS Tennis et sols, Mirolo Pere et Fils, Floorcolor, Petracca, De Stefano, Curti, EIMI,
Beyler, Zanelec, Pole bâtiment, Schindler Client Communauté d’Agglomération Belfortaine Photo
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The building is located in the upper part of the town. It backs onto the
woods, forming the final outlying limit of the built-up area. Echoing the
open landscape, it faces to Belfort Lion on the hilltop opposite. In this
strong context, the building offers its solidity, an almost opaque mass of
grey concrete. The surface of the mass has an unusual texture, hinting at
plants or the veins in marble. It has been achieved by drip painting in two
shades of blue. The drips of paint lend depth and thickness to the skin of
the building. The surfaces vibrate in the light, apparently in motion -
matter ceases to be static.

The concrete monolith exudes an enigmatic presence. Only the volume of

the dance room seems to be looking at the Lion, constructed in 1879 as a
symbol of resistance to the enemy. The building condenses a programme
with very varied volumes. The building contains two auditoriums, a
theatre, a large dance room, a library, classrooms, administrative offices,
and a host of studios with very varied volumes and areas. The acoustic of
each studio is designed to suit one specific instrument. The areas appear
to fit into each other. Empty areas are hollowed out of this compact mass,
creating relationships between the different levels. The entrance hall is on
an unexpected scale. The library seems to be suspended, marking out the
cross-section and serving as a giant deflector. The central patio is the
darkest area. Its colour and its negative drip design reverse the codes of
the outer envelope. It is the ultimate expression of density.
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1. Amphitheatre
2. Storage Room 6. Library
3. Atrium 7. Classroom
4. Auditorium 8. Courtyard
5. Dance Studio 9. Terrace

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2. Void over Bleachers
3. Void over Reception Desk
4. Dance Studio
5. Changing Room
6. Storage
7. Drama Classroom
8. Classroom
1. Courtyard 9. Collective Practice Room
2. Void over Atrium 10. Studio
3. Auditorium 11. Void over Terrace
4. Collective Practices Room 12. Courtyard
5. Classroom 13. Void over Classroom
6. Terrace 14. Teacher's Room
7. Void over Classroom 15. Library
1st Floor Plan 8. Maintenance Room 2nd Floor Plan 16. Maintenance Room

1. Amphitheatre
2. Atrium
3. Auditorium
4. Air Handling Unit
5. Reception Desk
6. Classroom
7. Study Room
8. Storage Room
9. Resting Room
10. Technical Room
1. Ventilation Room 11. Office Room
2. Heating Room 12. Meeting Room
3. Amphitheatre 13. Drums Classroom
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Architects Dominique Coulon et associés_Dominique Coulon Location Anzin, France Use Library
(Lecture Room, Auditorium, Administration) Area 1,750m2 Bldg. Scale 3F Project Director Olivier
Nicollas Project Team Steve Letho Duclos, Sarah Brebbia Architect on the construction site
Agence Olivier Werner Architecte Structural Engineer Philippe Clément, BATISERF Mechanical
Engineer G. Jost Cost Calculation E3 Economie Acoustic ESP Client City of ANZIN Photo Eugeni
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The building reveals its preciousness at first sight. Its pure, sophisticated
geometry situates it as a public building. The deliberate areas of
transparency reveal its content. The reading rooms present the building to
the town in the manner of an invitation. The multimedia library is covered
with large white veils that reflect the light. The building asserts it lightness,
like an origami. The successive folds and flaps repeat this image. It is
white, almost immaterial, like the mere projection of a concept, yet it is
brimming with the life that constitutes it beyond its physical limits.

On the inside, there is abundant, uniform light. The space is open and
fluid, offering optimal flexibility. The lighting effect produced by the tall
gaps that appear to float in space is truly beautiful. The volumes are
independent and geometrically free, giving the whole a wonderfully poetic
feel. Written by Dominique Coulon et associés
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2. Administration 2. News Space
3. Auditorium 3. Working Room
4. Heure Du Conte
5. Youth Space
6. Information Space
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UNStudio
Designed by UNStudio, CapitaLand's new Raffles City is a sustainable urban hub for living, working
and leisure located in Hangzhou, one of China's most picturesque cities. It forms the eighth Raffles
City development in China. Situated in Qianjiang New Town near Qiantang River, this mixed-use
development becomes a major landmark along the green axis of the city's new CBD.
The Exchange
Harry Gugger Studio
The design rationale for the new 'Exchange' tower is entirely derived from its surrounding context
and environment; in particular the existing Old Stock Exchange building, which is to be preserved and
rehabilitated on the site. The new tower does not attempt to dominate or compete with this
prominent original building but rather to successfully work together with it in order to create an
overall composition that looks at once to Vancouver's future without obscuring its past.
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Chaoyang Park Plaza Cockrell School of EERC

MAD Architects Ennead Architects

MAD Architects has completed "Chaoyang Park Plaza", which includes the Armani apartment Integrating undergraduate education, interdisciplinary graduate research and two distinct
complex. Inspired by traditional Chinese landscape paintings, the design remodels the relationship of engineering departments, the new building activates the edge of campus and creates a true hub and
large-scale architecture within our urban centers. It introduces natural forms and spaces - "mountain, identity for the Engineering precinct that meets the strategic and programmatic needs of the Cockrell
brook, creek, rocks, valley and forest" - into the city. School of Engineering.
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Architects UNStudio Location Hangzhou, China Use Mixed Use (Retail, Office, Apartment, Hotel, Parking) Site Area 40,355m2 Gross
Floor Area 392,867m2 Total Floor Area 395,313m2 (Retail_119,536m2, Office tower 1_33,296m2, Office tower 2_41,515m2, Service
apartment_21,067m2, Sky apartments_34,074m2, Hotel_46,211m2, Strata apartment_10,956m2, Parking_88,658m2) Bldg. Coverage
Ratio 47.4% Bldg. Scale B3, 60F Structure Steel + Concrete Max. Height Tower_250m, Podium_56m Parking Lot 1,952 Cars + 1,892
Bike Exterior Finish Glass, Aluminium Associate Architect China United Engineering Corporation Structural Engineer Arup MEP
Engineer Arup, SAIYO Vertical Transportation Consultant Arup Facade Engineer MFT(Meinhardt FacadeTechnology) Project
Management Consultant Capitaland Cost Consultant Davis Langdon & Seah Consultancy Landscape Architect TOPO Design Group.
LLC Lighting Consultant ag Licht, Bonn., LEOX Design Partnership LEED Arup, Arup LEED Traffic Consultant MVA Transport
Consultants Main Contractor Shanghai Construction No.4 Group Co. Ltd. Facade Contractors Gartner + Yuanda Client CapitaLand
China Photo Hufton+Crow, Jin Xing, Seth Powers Drawing UNStudio

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 New Raffles City is a sustainable urban hub for living, working and leisure
located in Hangzhou, one of China's most picturesque cities. It forms the eighth
Raffles City development in China. Situated in Qianjiang New Town, this mixed-
use development becomes a major landmark along the green axis of the city's
new CBD. A rich mix of 24/7 functions occupies almost 400,000m2 within two
streamlined towers set atop a striking podium and landscaped plaza. Featuring
stunning views of the river and West Lake areas, the sixty-storey, 250 metre-tall
highrises contain residential units, Grade A offices, the Conrad Hotel and a
rooftop helipad; the 116,000m2 six-storey podium accommodates retail,
restaurants, leisure facilities and parking and has a direct underground
connection to the metro. Conceived as a lively vertical neighbourhood and transit
hub, Raffles City responds to the integrated needs of new urban living.

Facade Articulation and structural innovations

The design of the tower and podium facades interplay contrasting textures. Clad
in a shimmering scale-like skin of aluminium tiles, the podium facades reflect
the building's activity and landscape to offer pixelated perspectives. The towers
feature an outer layer of rotated, vertical solar shading fins, placed atop the
curtain wall system. Accentuating the tower's characteristic twist, they also
frame internal views. The programme and orientation of the facades determine
the depth, width and rotation of panels, which become deeper and narrower
towards the top. This maximises the openings with an optimal window-to-wall
ratio. Catching the light throughout the day, the lines of panels add a luminous
texture to the facade. By night the curvilinear silhouette lights up: this reinforces
the building's prominence and minimises the building's light pollution as only the
outline is illuminated. Written by UNStudio

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The Exchange Vancouver, Canada

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 Architects Harry Gugger Studio Location Vancouver, Canada Use Office Tower Gross Floor Area 40,200m2 Bldg. Scale B7, 31F Local
Architect Iredale Architecture Client Credit Suisse - Real Estate Fund International Photo Courtesy of Credit Swiss; Harry Gugger
Studio; Michael Sherman

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The design rationale for the new 'Exchange' tower is entirely derived from its
surrounding context and environment; in particular the existing Old Stock
Exchange building, which is to be preserved and rehabilitated on the site. This
refined, handsome and elegant building has facades of carefully composed
vertical pilasters that are designed both to best accentuate its height and at the
same time ground the building within the streetscape of the city.
The new tower does not attempt to dominate or compete with this prominent
original building but rather to successfully work together with it in order to create
an overall composition that looks at once to Vancouver's future without
obscuring its past.
As the form of the tower retreats lower down to better define the original form
and independence of the Old Stock Exchange, it consequently grows higher
above to maximize its potential on the site. Here at the upper, more valuable
floor levels, the tower steps out in two directions to provide larger, more efficient
floor plates. These steps consequently create terraces on the tower's sides that
are optimally positioned to exploit the best views of the surrounding city and the
dramatic panorama of the mountains beyond.
Restricted from creating a strong intervention on this skyline, 'The Exchange'
instead looks to create a distinctive icon within the space of the city itself. Viewed
from the street, its cantilevered form creates a unique identity for the tower at
the centre of Vancouver's business district. Seen in-the-round 'The Exchange's'
form is different from all angles yet remains identifiably the same coherent
structure, clearly distinct from its neighbour's and further pronouncing its
individuality and historical pedigree. Written by Harry Gugger Studio

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Chaoyang Park Plaza Beijing, China

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Architects MAD Architects_Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano Location Beijing, China Use Office, Commercial, Residential Site
Area 30,763m2 Gross Floor Area Aboveground 128,177m2 + Belowground 94,832m2 Max. Height 142m Project Team Kin Li, Liu
Huiying, Fu Changrui, Zhao Wei, Li Guangchong, Lin Guomin, Bennet Hu Po-Kang, Nathan Kiatkulpiboone, Yang Jie, Julian Sattler,
Younjin Park, Zhu Jinglu, Xue Yan, Zheng Fang, Matteo Vergano, Wing Lung Peng, Gustavo Maya, Li Yunlong, Tiffany Dahlen, Gustaaf
Alfred Van Staveren Executive Architects CCDI Group Facade Consultant RFR Asia Interior Design MADA s.p.a.m. Graphic Design
Kenya Hara + NDC China Landscape Design Greentown Akin Landscape Architecture Co., Ltd. Interior Lighting Consultant M&W
Lighting Limited Landscape Lighting Consultant Beijing Junhao Lighting Design Co., Ltd LEED Certification Consultant Shenzhen
Institute of Building Research Co., Ltd. Client Smart-hero (HK) Investment Development Limited Photo Hufton + Crow

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 MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, has completed "Chaoyang Park Plaza",
which includes the Armani apartment complex. Positioned on the southern edge
of Beijing's Chaoyang Park - the largest remaining park in Beijing's central
business district area - the 220,000m2 complex includes 10 buildings which
unfold as a classic Shanshui painting on an urban scale. Having a similar
position and function as Central Park in Manhattan, but unlike the modern box-
like buildings that only create a separation between the park and the city,
"Chaoyang Park Plaza" instead is an expansion of nature. It is an extension of the
park into the city, naturalizing the CBD's strong artificial skyline, borrowing
scenery from a distant landscape - a classical approach to Chinese garden
architecture, where nature and architecture blend into one another.

Inspired by traditional Chinese landscape paintings, the design remodels the

relationship of large-scale architecture within our urban centers. It introduces
natural forms and spaces - "mountain, brook, creek, rocks, valley and forest" -
into the city. The asymmetrical twin tower office buildings on the north side of the
site, sit at the base of the park's lake and are like two mountain peaks growing
out of the water. The transparent and bright atrium acts like a "drawstring" that
pulls the two towers together by a connecting glass rooftop structure.
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Ennead Architects

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Architects Ennead Architects_Todd Schliemann Location Austin, Texas, U.S.A Use
Interdisciplinary Research Laboratories, Teaching Laboratories, Auditorium, Classrooms, Meeting
Facilities, Central Atrium, Centralized Student Services Gross Floor Area 40,227m2 Bldg. Scale 8F
Project Team Ennead Architects_Kevin McClurkan, Alex O°ØBriant, Emily Kirkland, Megan Miller,
Charmian Place, Zach Olczak, Jena Rimkus, Gary Anderson, James Rhee, Shawn Whitehead,
Darla Elsbernd Executive Architect Jacobs_Bryan Floth Executive Architect Team Jacobs_Nathan
Carruth, Ron Seder, David Gustaf, Rob Dilling, Chris Davis, Ken Houghton, Amanda Walker,
Robert Mooney, Sina Ajayi, Jake McKinney, Chuck Nixon Structural Datum + Gojer Engineers
Electrical / Mechanical Affiliated Engineers Civil/Utilities Jacobs Landscape Coleman &
Associates Graphics Jankedesign Security Kroll Schiff Security Services Group Cost Estimating
Jacobs Food Service Worrell Design Group Laboratory Jacobs Consultancy Technology/AV
Datacom Design Group, LLC Accessibility K+K Associates, LLP Client Cockrell School of
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Photo Aislinn Weidele, Cockrell School of
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 Integrating undergraduate education, interdisciplinary graduate research and
two distinct engineering departments, the new building activates the edge of
campus and creates a true hub and identity for the Engineering precinct that
meets the strategic and programmatic needs of the Cockrell School of
Engineering.

The program is organized efficiently into two limestone and glass towers,
acknowledging the substantially different requirements for labs, offices and
work spaces of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and
interdisciplinary research. Within the EERC, a Center for Innovation - the center
for a new ecosystem of faculty and student entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs-in-
residence, venture capitalists and industry leaders - facilitates moving
revolutionary ideas and technology to market at a faster rate.

Inwardly-oriented glass curtain wall facades of the research towers define the
soaring atrium, providing a vital visual link between the major user groups of the
building and binding the project together as a singular statement about
engineering education and research.

The dynamic, transparent central atrium provides a gathering space for all
users, a campus crossroads that facilitates "productive collisions" between
faculty, staff, students, and campus visitors. Written by Ennead Architects

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Architects Place Laboratory Location Midland, Western Australia Use Public Plaza Site Area 5,500m2 Landscape Architect
PLACE Laboratory Civil TABEC Structural Terpkos Engineering Electrical ETC Quantity Surveyors RBB Irrigation CADsult
Water Feature CADsult Sculpture Artist Stuart Green Ground Graphic Artist Malcom McGregor with Concreto Signage
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Railway Square is a new public square constructed in the former Midland
Railway Workshops. The Workshops are a cluster of late 19th century
industrial buildings undergoing thoughtful restoration to create an urban
village for a new era. Retaining its authentic, industrial feel, the new urban
village will be home to a range of residential, commercial, health, education,
entertainment and creative industry uses.

Key to the character and history of the site was the Shunting Yards, the
site of the Railway Square, which was the main area for manoeuvring
locomotives, worker gatherings, ceremonies and political gatherings. The
Shunting Yards have been identified as a place of exceptional significance
and are to be preserved as an open public space that will interpret and
celebrate the history of the site and provide a major civic gathering and
festival space for Midland and the eastern region. The space has been
designed as a new contemporary public space by PLACE Laboratory,
interpreting the sites former use by transforming heavy rail infrastructure
into new social infrastructure.

The rail lines have been designed to tell the stories of the site: The Live
Line is an existing live railway line that is integrated into the design of the
square to allow trains to access the site and workshops during special
events. The Social Line brings to life the rich social history of the former
workers and their families and includes a line of rail furniture for sitting,
lounging, playing and meeting. The Water Line is a linear misting and
lighting feature that references the history of steam engines and
movement of trains through the site. The History Line consists of an
interpretive artwork set between the rail tracks that tells the history of
state wide rail connections from the site and the shunting of the rail carts
on the site. The Lost Line is a rail line that disappears into the ground
interpreting the decline of the workshops in the 1990s and the
repurposing of the site for a new community. Written by Place Laboratory

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Dominique Coulon & Associés /
Located in the heart of Strasbourg, Dominique Coulon & Associés is a firm of architects of national and international renown. Dominique Coulon and
his three associates Steve Lethos Duclos, Olivier Nicollas and Benjamin Rocchi allow their intuition to lead the way as they seek to develop contextual
projects that combine contrast and complexity, where the outer envelope hints at inner richness. Spatial quality and natural light are fundamental
elements in every project: space is always controlled by precise geometry.

Cheongju Craft Factory, Space Group_Lee Sangleem /

LEE Sang-Leem is currently Chairman of the Space Group, an honorary president of Korean Institute of Architect and American Institute of Architect
honored LEE, Sang Leem with an honorary fellowship. He was a UNESCO chair professor (Social Sustainability of Historic Districts). He has
participated in numerous exhibitions which includes Megacity Network (Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany) in 2007 and Buenos
Aires International Biennial of Architecture in 2009 and Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion in 2012. He has received numerous awards and accolades.

Cockrell School of Engineering Education and Research Center, Ennead Architects_Todd Schliemann /

Todd Schliemann is a Design Partner in Ennead Architects. Mr. Schliemann, together with his Design Partners, sets the design standards for the firm
as well as charts its future direction. In Mr. Schliemann's work, the relationship between architecture and civic society is central: the highest ideal is to
give expression to an institution's mission through the integration of design, program and public spaces. His designs transcend pure utility and style to
explore the techniques and art of architecture and their potential for edifying and for enriching the experience of our common culture.

Ayang Library, H&H Design Group Architecture_Kim Hyun-a, Park Moonhak /

H&H Design Group Architecture, located in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, is an architectural design office opened in 2014. It is continuously growing based
on deep exploration, sincerity, and expertise of the architecture that designs a life based on space. In 2015, H&H Design Group Architecture was
selected as a winner in the Design Competition for the ‘Chilgok Welfare Center for the Disabled’. H&H Design Group Architecture has won numerous
design competitions including the Nonsan Welfare Center for the Disabled, Cheonan Welfare Center for the Disabled, Pungmu Library, Yeokgok
Library, and Ayang Library. ‘H&H’, an abbreviation of ‘Human and His Kingdom’, means Neighbor Love and God Love Practice.

Railway Square, Place Laboratory /

PLACE Laboratory is a youthful and energetic practice with studios in Perth and Canberra, Australia. At PLACE Laboratory we believe that the public
realm is the stage for ‘life’. When the public realm is designed well, the possibilities of life’s acts are infinite. We see our role, as landscape architects
and urban designers, is to understand and work with the dynamics and the interplay between human experience and built form (buildings and open
space). This sets the stage for life to perform.

Wonju Taejang 1-dong Administration & Culture Center, Architecture Design Group Espace_Park Seunghwan /

Espas was founded in 1999. the multi-disciplinary practice has tackled projects in diverse areas and scale. We are realizing a creative design to create
a better architecture with the motto, "Design to make a happy life and space worthwhile”. It strives to create a sustainable and meaningful
architectural environment and has carried out projects of various sizes in various regions. Various regions have conducted projects of various sizes.
Some of the most notable works include Busan Jeil Hospital, Gangreung University Academic Information Center, Hwaseong City Welfare Center for
the Disabled and Gwanggyo Dentium Building.

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Architects Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects_Ilmari Lahdelma, Rainer Mahlamäki Location St. Petersburg, Russia Use
Museum, Memorials, Learning Centre, Research Centre, Public Park Area 25,000m2 Structure Concrete Project Team
Jukka Savolainen, Taavi Henttonen, Shaun Leung, Klaudia Golaszewska, Kateryna Rybenchuk, Yehan Zhang Exhibition
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