Posts Categorized: showroom

Link to image Link to Set In 1920, Royal Dutch Lloyd opened Lloyd Hotel on IJ-Quay for their passengers. The building became a prison for members of the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War, and was subsequently converted into a prison and then a juvenile detention centre. In 1996, the City authorities launched a… Read more »

Link to image Link to Set Set across the Paddington Basin, just south of the Merchant Square development, this jewel of a bridge is a ‘polite’ and understated pedestrian crossing as much as spectacular sculptural piece of public art. Due to its skewed alignment, the bridge generates a dramatic fanning motion when opening similar to… Read more »

Link to image Link to Set The new building, a glassy, corporate curve meshed into the heavy masonry of George Val Myer’s purpose-built art deco barge, expresses the BBC’s future identity as a more coherent, fluid and ultimately more transparent organisation. Image Details: Image File: ACNH-0072-0033 Caption: BBC Broadcasting House, London, United Kingdom. Architect: HOK… Read more »

Link to image Link to Set This project, in the De Beauvoir Conservation Area in East London, provides a new two storey extension in addition to the complete strip out and refurbishment of an existing town house. The Material strategy treats the external surfaces of the house as a sequence of timber panels framed by… Read more »

Link to image Link to Set Msheireb Downtown Doha is the world's first sustainable downtown regeneration project, that will revive the old commercial district with a new architectural language that is modern, yet inspired by traditional Qatari heritage and architecture – its proportion, simplicity, space, light, layering, ornament and response to climate. Msheireb Downtown Doha… Read more »