Category: Projects

Dancing Pyramid Stumps The town of Lund in the southernmost province of Sweden, the beautiful Schonen, is known as the “students’ city” owing to the fact that over one third of its inhabitants are students. Four new highrise buildings dominate the town’s silhouette. The Swiss architect Mario Campi and his Swedish colleague Arne Jönsson and…

Dividing Fence The Track 13 Community Garden renovation transforms a defunct loading dock into a luxurious outdoor amenity. The site is situated in a sliver of space between Cummins Station, a historically registered industrial warehouseturned corporate office building, and the Gulch, one of downtown Nashville’s thriving neighbourhoods.   The building once accommodated freight trains, but…

Aesthetic wind protection On the beach of Apelviken in the Swedish health resort of Varberg, a settlement of lookalike holiday houses was developed. They are exceptional not only through their extraordinary location right on the sea, but also through their minimal styling and uniform use of materials. The roof and façades are protected from the…

Shifting Panels Appear to Vibrate Across the Façades The junction of this L-shaped business center is emphasized by a vertical volume clad in overlapping, vertical Swisspearl panels in jet black with clipped eaves and small punctured windows.   The total area of the three- to four-story business center in Kaunas, Lithuania, is approximately 5,300 square…

Connecting Urban and Rural Neptune Office Building is articulated in long, extended parallel lines of layered materials: stone, glazing, Swisspearl panels, and steel flashing in tightly packed, overlapping panels. Interlocking forms protrude from the façade envelope covered by the timber-clad eaves overhang that protects the upper floor outdoor balcony. This 42,000-square-foot office building in Rogers,…

Pavilion with colored stripes The architects from the well-known Norwegian architectural company Jarmund/Vigsnæs were in the process to renovate and extend a school from the 1960s. They finished the three-phaseschedule in the form of an elegant Swisspearl-clad pavilion. Mirko Beetschen Oslo International School (OIS) is a prestigious English school in Bekkestua, a suburb of Oslo,…

Climate House Patrick Zamariàn A multi-layered envelope, high-performance glazing and a photovoltaic installation on the roof significantly reduce energy expenditure in this luxury residence. The two apartments occupy an entire floor each and have access to spacious outdoor areas as well as a shared underground car park. Embedded in a magnificent alpine setting, but Mediterranean…

Floating urban structure This building in Velenje is a spacious bus station at ground level and offices and a parking garage on the upper floors. The superstructure is notable for its extensive white Swisspearl panelling that serves to unify the different sections. The irregular pattern of perforations creates a distinctive day and night contrast.  …

Report the design of underground spaces Patrick Zamariàn Originally a Beaux Arts amenity for patricians, subway systems have become a mass phenomenon. Underground stations constitute a pivotal extension of urban space, often undervalued not only by the general public but also by the architects themselves. Tadao Ando once identified working on underground space as the…