aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

After a year of competitive dialogue, the team led by Lafayette, in collaboration with KCAP, Etablissement, Elioth, Suez, Ville en Œuvre, Mint and E.Co, has won the 700-hectare masterplan for the area around Tours Val de Loire Airport in France, competing against two other international teams. Image © Filippo Bolognese.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 11, 2024

Image © Stefano Boeri Architetti The competition, which Stefano Boeri Architetti won with the “Urban Oasis” masterplan, was announced at the end of last year by Penta Real Estate. The other buildings all have different heights and have been specifically designed to maximize the entry of direct light into the park.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 25, 2024

Photo © Rene Dürr KCAP’s masterplan for the entrepôts area in Renens marks the transformation of an industrial rail-side terrain into a contemporary urban pedestrian zone. Source by KCAP.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 22, 2022

The project spans two adjacent blocks on the edge of the Jiangbei Financial District masterplan. The contemporary architecture of Nanjing takes its inspiration from nature in form and appearance”, says MVRDV founding partner Winy Maas. MVRDV is now working with the client in the design development phase. Image © Atchain.

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ArchiDiaries

AUGUST 17, 2022

The project spans two adjacent blocks on the edge of the Jiangbei Financial District masterplan. The contemporary architecture of Nanjing takes its inspiration from nature in form and appearance”, says MVRDV founding partner Winy Maas. MVRDV is now working with the client in the design development phase. Sources & Credits.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 2, 2022

The firm is delivering the masterplanning and architectural design for the development which consists of a retail podium, retail precinct, and office towers. The design promotes sustainable living and aims to create a liveable and ecological environment. Image © CAN.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 30, 2024

Oman’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning (MoHUP) has announced the masterplan for a reimagined waterfront development in downtown Muscat, the nation’s capital. The sustainability-led design prioritises the well-being of residents and visitors, redefining urban living in Oman as Muscat’s population is anticipated to almost double from 1.5

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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2024

Photograph by Yanlong Tong Popular Choice Winner, 11th Annual A+Awards, Landscape & Planning, Urban & Masterplan The process begins with generating a diverse population of potential designs, each encoded as if it were a ‘chromosome’. Mirroring nature’s own strategy of evolving organisms to adapt and flourish.

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Image © 10 Design The 36-hectare greenfield land has been reimagined into an innovative community promoting sustainable living and wellness, with enhanced connections to the natural environment. Resilience has been built into the masterplan, to help mitigate the impact caused by extreme weather and climate events.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Building on a site that is at high risk of and requires extensive ground improvements, how might we create a substructure that is naturally isolated from earthquake loads, floods, and rising sea levels? SOUR’s proposal for Izmir Sustainability Center, SAL, is designed as Turkiye’s first floating public building.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The launch of Phase I celebrates the biophilic architecture of Sydney-based architect Koichi Takada and introduces conversations around the importance of agile and adaptable architecture in achieving a sustainable future. It stands as a visual reminder of Koichi Takada Architects’ commitment to reintroduce nature to the built environment.

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aasarchitecture

JULY 18, 2023

Møller Architects presents the masterplan and the first visualizations for Mjøsfronten in Hamar, with the aim of strengthening the city center as a meeting place and connecting the city closer to Norway’s largest lake, Mjøsa.Today, the railway track is perceived as a barrier as it separates the city from Lake Mjøsa. Image © C.F.

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aasarchitecture

JULY 31, 2023

The school masterplan includes 48 teaching units, alongside specialised education facilities for science, art, PE, IT and performance art. The masterplan also includes an 800-seat performance theatre in the northwest corner which will be shared with the local community.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Team VenhoevenCS-HOPE-HUADONG has designed the winning masterplan for a new living landscape along the central Pailao River in the Bao’an district in Shenzhen, China. The riverbanks will be enriched with urban nature, incorporating space for water retention, deep into the neighborhood. Image © HOPE Landscape Design.

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e-architect

JULY 20, 2023

The school masterplan includes 48 teaching units, alongside specialised education facilities for science, art, PE, IT and performance art. The masterplan also includes an 800-seat performance theatre in the northwest corner which will be shared with the local community.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 24, 2022

This luxury project is designed to meet the needs of the client and we aimed to achieve it all by being sustainable and ecological. Our main goal was to be energy efficient, sustainable and ecological to create an eco green artificial island. This project will be situated on artificial land created offshore.

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Hotel Designs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Working with Elliott Wood, Applied Energy, Phil Allen Design, DP9 and Gardner Theobold, the design which retains part of the existing structure on site, is sustainability and biodiversity led.

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e-architect

JULY 6, 2023

Acknowledging how working patterns and office cultures have been impacted by the pandemic, JRA’s design focused on producing both a sustainable and futureproofed central office with hybrid working / hotdesking models integrated throughout, including multiple collaboration and agile working spaces.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School with its bold primary colours won architecture project of the year Other winners include architecture practice RSHP for its masterplan featuring buildings connected by sky gardens and Vari Design for its black box-building in a bustling commercial area in Yuzhong.

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e-architect

APRIL 5, 2023

The masterplan design was developed for a consortium led by the municipality of Heilbronn and the Dieter Schwarz Foundation. Inside the platonic shape, the masterplan is simple, flexible, and sustainable. Circumscribing the campus buildings is a 1.2-kilometre-long Circumscribing the campus buildings is a 1.2-kilometre-long

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 20, 2023

Promoting wellbeing through connections to nature A simple plan, arranged around a pair of courtyards, brings natural daylight deep into the heart of the building and offers almost all occupied rooms an outside view. The proposed site is located just 1.8

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 5, 2024

It stands out as a recognizable landmark that both rises above and integrates itself with the surroundings—a radical approach towards sustainability with intelligent geometry. Photo © Gustav Willeit The starting point of the design was to incorporate the courtyard typology of the existing masterplan buildings into the massing.

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Architizer

APRIL 23, 2022

In Casa Cook Samos, consecutive vertical filtering surfaces -all made of soft natural materials that allow light and shadow flickering- unfold constantly the horizontal ground and bridge the “islands” with their surroundings. How have your clients responded to the finished project? What inspired the initial concept for your design?

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The new building, a part of a reimagination of Baltimore’s storied Inner Harbor for client MCB Real Estate, is designed to connect the local community to its waterfront. Image © 3XN As such, it becomes a natural extension of the waterfront and nestles in with the existing architecture along the Pratt Street side of the water.

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e-architect

JUNE 28, 2023

Lillie Road property in Fulham: The homes will be highly sustainable and constructed using high quality robust materials. The project also meets ambitious energy performance targets, particularly for a swimming pool, and makes optimum use of natural light.

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Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2022

Dutch studio Overtreders W has used hempcrete and reclaimed timber to create a demountable pavilion in Almere, the Netherlands, named The Voice of Urban Nature. Overtreders W designed The Voice of Urban Nature to represent the cities Almere and Amsterdam at the show. The Voice of Urban Nature encloses a series of gardens.

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e-architect

JUNE 23, 2023

The masterplan is carefully arranged with the towers positioned to ensure that every residential unit enjoys unblocked views towards the swimming pool on one side and the lush hill on the other. As much as 83% of all units are corner units, providing residents with wide views and cross-natural ventilation.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 26, 2024

Image © BIG Bjarke Ingels Group As part of Toulouse’s Grand Matabiau Quais d’Oc masterplan, the Marengo Multimodal Transport Hub will revitalize the urban area, facilitate seamless travel, and triple the number of daily passengers travelling to and from the city.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 10, 2023

The scheme is designed in line with nature inclusivity, sustainability, and circularity targets. The working environments feature “Green retreats”, like patios and planted roofs that create a direct connection to nature. Green roofs provide water retention and water buffering while enhancing biodiversity. Source by Mecanoo.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 19, 2024

This applies to a range of typologies, from medium-density apartments and seniors living to communal and co-living. The fundamental approach is predicated on reprioritising ‘connection’ as opposed to personal freedom – connecting us first to nature, and then to each other. Craig Kerslake. Lynne Hancock.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Exemplified in the Komera Leadership Center, which swept at the 11th Annual A+Awards, this firm is one to keep a close eye on. This multifaceted approach is evident in projects such as Kia Lab, which take a holistic view of the programmatic brief, embedding the building’s function with the broader urban and cultural environment.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Showcasing the future potential of diversified regional development, the Qingdao Vanke Coastal City combines work and living spaces in an accumulative contextual setting that builds on the natural environment and panoramic views of the site. Source by CLOU architects.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The resulting design celebrates the communal and dynamic nature of attending a cultural event, offering a multi-dimensional visitor experience. ‘What was at first a provocative proposal to the client: to create a hybrid and to optimize the building for adaptability, ultimately became the driving logic of the design.

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e-architect

JULY 4, 2023

images courtesy of architects practice Bristol Zoo Gardens Clifton homes in southwest England Developed through extensive public consultation, the mixed-use masterplan restores and re-purposes the iconic site as a residential-led development with significant public realm, offering free public access to the gardens for the first time.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The new city will host, on a land area 557 ha, 130.000 inhabitants, giving back to nature a large area where it would have been built a shopping district. Stefano Boeri Architetti designed for Grupo Karim’s a new Forest City in Mexico. trees per inhabitant, and the rest composed of shrubs and bushes.

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2023

The studio has also designed restaurants and retail projects for clients including celebrity chefs Marcus Samuelsson , Andrew Carmellini and Dario Cecchini and fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. He works at the junction of design and biotech – technology based on natural sciences.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The configuration allows for extensive views and natural daylight, controlled through the building orientation and fritted glass. Over the years Shanta has completed 46 projects, comprising luxury residential and iconic commercial buildings, offering clients a touch of global standards in terms of design, quality and service.

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