11. Office Building Of Blagnac
Location – Toulouse, France
Project Year – 2010
Architect – Studio Bellecour
The aesthetics of the office is a combination of an interpretation of the urban bye-laws, the immediate aeronautical context, and from the environmental requirements of the area. The two buildings are wrapped in insulating material with orderly arranged elevation designs. The curve around the building creates good shading and day lighting without affecting the view from the inside.
12. Iluma
Location – Singapore
Project Year – 2009
Architect – WOHA
The project features an attractive crystal mesh facade, which glitters during the day and lit from the inside during nights. The installation is centrally controlled through a software. It has an energy saving bulb which is placed in to the designed mirror. The dialogue between the two elements is heightened by the architectural treatment, with vibrant warm colors animating the rectilinear block and monochrome shades of grey and white cladding the curvilinear block.
13. Ann Demeulemeester Shop
Location- Seoul, South Korea
Project Year- 2007
Architect – Mass Studies
The aim of the building was to combine the internal and external relationship with that of natural and architectural materials. Three sides of the building is covered in vegetation. Raw materials like limestone covered with evergreen plants are selected for the ‘skin’ of the building. The other walls are made up steel and translucent glass panels covering the bamboo.
14. Sugamo Shinkin Bank
Location – Tokyo, Japan
Project Year – 2012
Architect – Emmanuelle moureaux architecture + design
This building with extruding multi-colored slabs give an appearance more of a play school than a bank. The horizontal plates on the facade are placed in different sizes and colors which make it easily identifiable and a memorable experience to the visitors – which was the main motive of the company. At night, the colored layers are faintly illuminated.
15. Blaak8
Location – Rotterdam, Netherlands
Project Year- 2011
Architect – Group A
Inspired by the natural constructional logic of a tree, the robust structure has a similar facade design. The load bearing facade has a broad and strong at the bottom and tapers as it moves up as twigs, just like a tree. The tower owes its stability to the diagonal fluttering branches. This unconventional facade makes the building experience abstract from various viewpoints.
16. Lumenart- House of Light
Location- Pula, Croatia
Project Year- 2006
Architect – Rusan Arhitektura
This is a project with a unique geometry with arbitrary extensions and folded scheme, joining the interior spaces. The facade has stereo windows with elegant lamplights that fills the whole office. The deep window cut outs on the facade, emphasizes the plasticity of building volume, which enhances the building view. During the night the various illuminations make the building volume stand out.
17. Riga Plaza
Location- Riga, Lavatia
Project Year- 2009
Architect – Multiple Architects
With the idea of a national waist-belt, the two storey structure is covered with a common ribbon-like composition. The facade is made of multi-colored perforated panels which are aligned together forming a band. The entrance door area within the façade is glazed glass with sliding and revolving entrance doors.
18. Muqarnas Tower
Location- Riyadh, Saudi Arab
Project Year- 2013
Architect- Skidmore Owings & Merrill
The Tower is designed around the idea of maximizing solar performance. The linear plan of the building was oriented in the east-west axis so as to minimize the problems with the low angle sun. The composition of the metal panel creates a shimmering mosaic that changes appearance as the sun moves across the sky. Horizontal fins of varying depths on the north façade are calibrated based on the intensity of sunlight falling on its surface. As a result, the faces which require more shading have greater fin depths, reducing glare and cooling loads.
19. Office Complex Steckelhörn 11
Location- Hamburg, Germany
Project Year- 2009
Architect- J. Mayer H. Architects
The building provides a sense of waving, with the dark stripes on the facade which are freely extending in the vertical plane. The vertical design and soft setbacks creates a spatial view.
20. OCT East Headquarters
Location- Shenzhen, China
Project Year- 2013
Architect: LMK Architects
The whole building is covered with a free and smooth with its surface covered with glass and perforated aluminum panels. The glass makes a dividing line between the interior and exterior of the structure. The perforated aluminum panels introduce sunshine in to the building and give a unique light and shadow effect.
Jahnavi Patil is a young enthusiastic writer who is passionate about architecture and architectural philosophy. She is currently studying architecture at Dr. D. Y. Patil College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai.
