Handelszentrum 16 / smartvoll
Opportunity space instead of building waste: How empty industrial warehouses are turned into a resource-saving pioneering project.
Articles by Anna Dumitru
SAMA Square Market / Tan Kwon Chong Architect
SAMA Square, situated in the bustling heart of Setapak, Kuala Lumpur, represents a paradigm shift in market and retail development, embodying the essence of unity and communal engagement. The name “SAMA SQUARE,” meaning “togetherness,” reflects its ethos of bringing people together to celebrate life through shopping, dining, leisure, and activities.
Terminal for Tirana / Apparat Studio + Karolina Halatek
The permanent installation Terminal in Tirana is an immersive light sculpture by contemporary artist Karolina Halatek in the public space of Tirana. Karolina Halatek’s project Terminal for Tirana curated by Adela Demetja and implemented by Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art has been selected as one of the eight winning artworks by the international jury for the competition “Art in Public Spaces 2022” launched and financed by the Ministry of Economy, Culture and Innovation of Albania. This site-specific installation draws inspiration from the profound recollections of patients experiencing near-death experiences (NDEs), creating thus a space where art, spirituality, and science intersect. Terminal for Tirana offers a contemplative space where visitors can experience a sense of euphoria, peace, and the feeling of transcending physical boundaries.
Terminal for Tirana / Apparat Studio + Karolina Halatek
The permanent installation Terminal in Tirana is an immersive light sculpture by contemporary artist Karolina Halatek in the public space of Tirana. Karolina Halatek’s project Terminal for Tirana curated by Adela Demetja and implemented by Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art has been selected as one of the eight winning artworks by the international jury for the competition “Art in Public Spaces 2022” launched and financed by the Ministry of Economy, Culture and Innovation of Albania. This site-specific installation draws inspiration from the profound recollections of patients experiencing near-death experiences (NDEs), creating thus a space where art, spirituality, and science intersect. Terminal for Tirana offers a contemplative space where visitors can experience a sense of euphoria, peace, and the feeling of transcending physical boundaries.
Bütschwil Primary School / Illiz Architektur
The Municipality of Bütschwil-Ganterschwil lies in the heart of Switzerland’s Toggenburg region. Once known for its textile industry, today its rural villages, close to Wil and St. Gallen, attract a constant stream of new residents, the youngest of whom require an increasing amount of school space. To meet this demand, an extension to Bütschwil Primary School was completed in 2021.
Nhà Tú Garden Restaurant / Long Nguyen Design
“Nhà Tú Garden” boasts a unique geographical location, serving as a convergence point between residential and industrial areas. The concept of integration was established as the main design direction for the project. With the idea of creating a “green” focal point for the area, the architect proposed the concept of a “small garden” within a “large garden.”
GOH Conversion Gösserhalle / AllesWirdGut Architektur
Of brewing and building, from yesterday into tomorrow – the history of the so-called Gösserhalle in Favoriten, Vienna’s 10th district, is a checkered one. Ever since its construction the industrial building, originally built as a workshop premises by the ÖBB before 1900, then converted into a beer warehouse for the famous Gösser company in the middle of the last century and most recently repurposed as an event venue, has, with its distinctive façade with clinker-clad wide arches defined the character of its urban quarter. This identity-forming brickwork structure was now taken into the future.
Bangalay Residences / A Vela Unvelum Architecture & Interiors
Bangalay Residences, nestled in the coastal suburb of Queenscliff, NSW, finds its place within a challenging environment—a narrow infill site bordered by towering four-story brick apartments, with additional units tucked at the rear. The site’s constraints, alongside the commanding presence of a mature bangalay tree and the scale of neighboring buildings, demanded a design that not only maximized space but also seamlessly blended with its urban surroundings. Balancing internal planning needs with external urban conditions necessitated a careful interplay between volumetric spaces and the surrounding envelope.
Shamalat Cultural Center / SYN Architects
Shamalat is a cultural space in the periphery of Diriyah in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
When the Earth Began to Look at Itself – Desert X Installation / SYN Architects
We are interested in the possibility and impossibility of establishing physical ties with the geological fabric of AlUla. In our conviction, everything can always be re-examined and reinterpreted since the apparatus of the perceived environment cannot be measured, anticipated, controlled, or known entirely. We might start to perceive this connection through a material offering that traces and constructs human and non-human interactions between elements in the surrounding nature.