*️⃣ 1000 Trees

Architect #Heatherwick #ThomasHeatherwick
City #Shanghai
Country #China #AP

🔤Following the trend in China towards increasingly enormous property developments, the team became convinced that a new large-scale development of retail would not sit well next to the neighbouring art district, river and park. Instead they decided to see if this project could be an extension of these elements.

Rather than focusing on the façade, the studio became interested in the rational grid of one thousand structural columns that a construction project of this scale would need for support. This in turn led to the idea of transforming the top of every column into a large planter so that the project could have a balancing softness and variety to the inevitable hardness of modern construction.

On the mountain's southern facade, the photos reveal a contrasting art wall that is lined with billboards and street art. "Along that road there used to be a long graffiti wall where people would travel from all over to paint there so we wanted to retain this aspect somehow," said Finlay.

Arranged in varying heights across the site, the #rawconcrete columns allow one thousand trees to be planted and create an undulating topography of balconies which reach upwards from the lowest point at the art district, park and river.

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Function #retail #mall
Feature #greenery
Address: 6CXW+PVX, Moganshan Rd, Putuo, Shanghai, China, 200071
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*️⃣BIG Headquarters

Architect #Ingels #BjarkeIngels #BIG
City #Copenhagen
Country #Denmark #EU

🔤The building embodies the first application of Uni-Green #rawconcrete, developed in collaboration with Unicon, where a portion of the cement clinker is replaced with calcined clay and lime filler, resulting a CO2 reduction of approximately 25% compared to a traditional concrete mix.

Because of the way it's engineered, it only holds one column in the whole building. A series of Scandinavian granite and marble are stacked between the beams and everything else is these concrete walls resting on each other.

The facade staircase doubles as the additional fire escape freeing up the interior from the obstruction of the traditional core. An elevator, vertical risers, and a smaller, secondary egress staircase are moved to the north edge of the building, leaving the work areas as open as possible.

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Function #office
Feature #interior
Address: Sundkaj 165, 2150 København, Denmark
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*️⃣Tokyo International Forum

Architect #RafaelVinoly #Vinoly #RVA
City #Tokyo
Country #Japan #AP

🔤The intent of the design was to create a precinct fully accessible to the public and protected from the impacts of the surroundings. A granite perimeter wall encloses a landscaped urban plaza that extends under four major performing arts spaces suspended above and aligning in diminishing volume.

At night, light reflecting off the surface of the #steel roof truss ribs transforms the structure into a monolithic floating light source illuminating the Glass Hall and profiling it in the Tokyo skyline.

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Colour #white
Function #entertainment #venue
Feature #adminvisited
Address: 3 Chome-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
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*️⃣Chungha Building

Architect #MVRDV
City #Seoul
Country #SouthKorea #AP

🔤MVRDV was commissioned to redefine a building on Gangnams Road. Even though the Chungha building was completed in the 1980’s it was already outdated in a street dominated by flagship stores. The transformation, which added an extra level, was completed in just 9 months.

The new façade concept is convincingly simple: Chungha is a multiple identity building which was transformed into a collection of shop windows so each commercial venture imposed onto the façade would have a fitting canvas for its display.

The exterior façade tiles, which resemble white foam from close-up and smooth white stone from further away, are also used on the sidewalk and in the lobby.

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Colour #white #mixed
Material #concrete
Function #retail #shop
Feature #nightlight #renovation
Address: 449 Apgujeong-ro, Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea

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*️⃣Cidade Matarazzo – Torre Rosewood

Architect #JeanNouvel #Nouvel #AJN
City #SaoPaulo
Country #Brazil #SA

🔤The construction of Cidade Matarazzo counted with a retrofitting process, in which preserving the monumental Maternity Building was a top priority. Thus, a special formulation high resistance concrete was used to minimize on the original building structure. #heritage

‘Matarazzo park is a remnant,’ says jean nouvel. ‘more than a remnant, I would say it’s an oasis. it’s a space of calm urbanization. A space of incredible trees: figs and magnolias. the hospital in the middle of the grounds is a sort of mini-town, very well organized around patios. surrounding this little gem is a chaotic metropolis.

What is most interesting for me is being able to work with the memory of the place.’

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413 small and large trees — ipês, mastic trees, cedars, pitangueiras and jabuticabeiras, among other species — were planted here on the facades and in the hanging gardens. #greenery

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Colour #brown
Material #steel
Function #residential #hospitality #hotel
Address: R. Itapeva - Bela Vista, São Paulo - SP, 01332-000, Brazil
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