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1 vienna Projects 95 Created 13-Jul-12 By Xing huan Hao, Berlin, Germany Microsoft HQ Vienna Vienna, Austria INNOCAD office Schullin Jewelry Shop Red Room Branch Bank Building T-Center St Marx Spittelau Viaducts Pallet House Spittelau District Heating Plant Haus mit Veranden 10 BIZ ZWEI WirtschaftsBlatt 17 Neu Busgarage Wiener Linien 19 Looshaus 20 Vienna, Austria Adolf Loos commercial space, housing 11 Schlachthausgasse 21 Vienna, Austria Coop Himmelb(l)au housing, youth house 12 DO & CO hotel 22 Vienna, Austria Hans Hollein hotel 13 ma Vienna, Austria caramel architekten garage, office 14 Vienna, Austria Rüdiger Lainer + Partner housing Vienna, Austria fasch & fuchs garage, office Vienna, Austria Friedensreich Hundertwasser factory 9 Vienna, Austria Gregor Pils private house 16 Vienna, Austria SUPERBLOCK apartment, office Vienna, Austria Zaha Hadid s housing 8 Vienna, Austria Günther Domenig congress centre, office Pasettistraße 74 Vienna, Austria IDFL design office Vienna, Austria Günther Domenig housing, office 7 Vienna, Austria Soehne & Partner Architekten bar, club Vienna, Austria Martin Kohlbauer Architekt office Vienna, Austria Hans Hollein shop 6 Majolikahaus 24 Vienna, Austria Otto Wagner housing 15 Vienna, Austria Martin Kohlbauer Architekt office Uniqa Tower 25 Vienna, Austria Neumann + Partner art, installation, office 1

2 Czerwenka Apartment Vienna, Austria Susanne Zottl apartment Gasometer City Vertically Landscaped Housing Housing at Kaiserstrasse Secession Building Wiener Postsparkasse Hundertwasserhaus 30 LEE Residential Housing Hotel Caldor 37 Administrative Building Videnska 38 Media Linien of Munich's Olympic Village 39 Loisium Hotel 40 Langenlois, Austria Steven Holl hotel, spa, winery 31 Bouça Housing Complex 41 Porto, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira commercial space, housing 32 Serralves Museum 42 Porto, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira auditorium, library, museum 33 ure Faculty 43 Porto, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira university 34 Vienna, Austria Friedensreich Hundertwasser apartment, landmark, office Munich, Germany Hans Hollein art, fountain, square, urban plan Vienna, Austria Otto Wagner government, office 29 Vienna, Austria Joseph Maria Olbrich exposition space 36 Brno, Czech Republic Pelcak A Partner Architekti office Vienna, Austria Delugan Meissl Associated s housing 28 Vienna, Austria gernerºgerner plus housing Paltramplatz Residential Building Concert Hall Extension Münchendorf, Austria Soehne & Partner Architekten hotel Vienna, Austria baumschlager & eberle student housing 27 Vienna, Austria Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten housing Students Guest House at the Viennese University Aarhus, Denmark C F Møller s culture, music theatre, opera Vienna, Austria Coop Himmelb(l)au apartment, office, renovation, shopping centre 26 Café do Cais 44 Porto, Portugal Cristina Guedes + Francisco Vieira de Campos bar, cafe, pavilion, restaurant 35 Vienna, Austria Querkraft s housing Casa da Musica 45 Porto, Portugal OMA - Rem Koolhaas music theatre 2

3 Porto Cenário Bar Porto, Portugal José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira cafe, bar Atelier Siza, Souto de Moura, Fernando Távora Casa das Artes Cinema Batalha House Mártires da Liberdade Artists Workshop Children Library 50 Trindade Subway Station 57 Housing Complex 58 Burgo Tower 59 Transparent Building 60 Porto, Portugal Manuel de Solà-Morales leisure, park, shopping centre 51 Casa de Serralves 61 Porto, Portugal José Marques da Silva gallery, museum, pavilion 52 Bom Sucesso Market 62 Porto, Portugal ARS-Arquitectos market 53 Faculty of Engineering INEGI 63 Porto, Portugal Pedro Ramalho + Luís Ramalho education, university 54 Porto, Portugal Paula Santos library Housing Block Porto, Portugal Eduardo Souto de Moura commercial space, office Porto, Portugal José Manuel Soares archive, culture, exposition space, library 49 Porto, Portugal Virgínio Moutinho atelier Almeida Garrett Library 56 Porto, Portugal Adalberto Dias commercial space, housing Porto, Portugal Paulo Freitas & Franciso Soares Dias apartment, commercial space, housing, renovation 48 Porto, Portugal Artur Andrade cinema, music theatre, restaurant, theatre Guindais Funicular Porto, Portugal Eduardo Souto de Moura subway station Porto, Portugal Eduardo Souto de Moura culture, exposition space 47 Porto, Portugal Eduardo Souto de Moura auditorium, cinema, exposition space Manoel de Oliveira Cinema House Porto, Portugal Adalberto Dias funicular, tram station Porto, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira atelier 46 Water Pavilion 64 Porto, Portugal Alexandre Burmester exposition space, laboratorium, pavilion 55 Porto, Portugal Eduardo Souto de Moura housing Oporto Blood Bank 65 Porto, Portugal ARX Portugal Arquitectos health care, laboratorium 3

4 Commercial Building in Boavista Porto, Portugal Eduardo Souto de Moura commercial space, shopping centre Gosho Restaurant Casa Ponte da Arrábida Casa Armanda Passos She Changes São João National Theatre Archive Estádio do Dragão Garden Intervention Porto Football Club Pavilion 70 Urban Renewal Aliados Avenue 77 CASA AA64 78 Oslo School of ure 79 Norwegian Water Resources and Energy 80 Directorate building Oslo, Norway DARK Arkitekter office 71 NHO headquarters 81 Oslo, Norway DARK Arkitekter office 72 Visma 82 Oslo, Norway DARK Arkitekter commercial space, meeting room, office 73 Sørenga 1 83 Oslo, Norway MAD commercial space, housing, mixed-use development 74 Porto, Portugal Risco s football stadium, sport Vodafone Office Oslo, Norway Jarmund Vigsnæs s university Porto, Portugal Rui Grazina shed 69 Porto, Portugal Manuel Salgado football stadium 76 Porto, Portugal Paulo Costa private house Porto, Portugal Paulo Providência archive 68 Porto, Portugal Janet Echelman art, landmark, sculpture Nuno Gama Fashion Store & Atelier Porto, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira square, urban plan Porto, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira private house 67 Porto, Portugal Edgar Cardoso renovation, restaurant, watch-tower Porto, Portugal Rodrigo Patrício Arquitectos atelier, shop Porto, Portugal anc arquitectos restaurant 66 DnB NOR 84 Oslo, Norway DARK Arkitekter office 75 Porto, Portugal barbosa & guimaraes arquitectos office Waldermar Garden 85 Oslo, Norway DARK Arkitekter housing 4

5 Parkveien 5 Oslo, Norway KIMA apartment, gallery Bølgen & Moi restaurant Snekkerbygget Schous American Embassy Norwegian Ministry of Defence 89 Vigeland Sculpture Park 95 Holmenkollen Ski Jump 96 Bislett Stadium 97 Oslo, Norway C F Møller s football stadium, sport Oslo, Norway 0047 gallery 91 Tjuvholmen Allé 4 99 Oslo, Norway MAD apartment, housing, mixed-use development, retail 92 Oslo, Norway Jarmund Vigsnæs s government, office Opera House 94 Oslo, Norway JDS architects information centre, landmark, sport Oslo, Norway Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter subway station 88 Oslo, Norway Eero Saarinen embassy Nydalen Metro Station Fyrstikkterrassen Oslo, Norway Gustav Vigeland park, sculpture Oslo, Norway MAD commercial space, housing, mixed-use development 87 Oslo, Norway DARK Arkitekter office Oslo, Norway Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter commercial space, office Oslo, Norway DARK Arkitekter office, restaurant 86 DFDS Ferry Terminal 100 Copenhagen, Denmark 3XN ferry terminal 93 Oslo, Norway Snøhetta opera 5

6 photo: Paul Ott photo: Paul Ott Microsoft HQ Vienna Europaplatz 3A 1120 Vienna Austria KOOP/INNOCAD emerged as winners in the architecture competition for Microsoft's new headquarters in Vienna, held on the basis of the WPA concept Working in close collaboration with the Microsoft project team during the subsequent project realisation phase, the team of architects assumed responsibility for the overall design of the new Microsoft working environment as construction supervisors and project managers The architects commented: "Our aim is to intertwine and harmonise physical, virtual and social working environments" photo: Paul Ott Project is not public! Floor area/size m², Interior architect General consultant INNOCAD architecture-export KOOP Microsoft 6

7 photo: Michiel van Loon Schullin Jewelry Shop Kohlmarkt Vienna Austria In this jewelry shop in Vienna, ornament is both message and medium Hans Hollein has taken the basic shell of a 19th-century building, corrected it slightly, and painted it white He then superimposed a clearly differentiated layer of elements not only functional but fantastic and luxurious Paradoxically for a jewelry shop (and quite intentionally), he has used materials in flagrant disregard of their real value: some are precious and some are common, but all, glowing or glittering, tease the visitor with an impression of wealth and mystery Real marble is used in the patterned floor, but in the black-curtained backworld of the safe, under a mock skylight, plastic laminate pretends to be marble Real bronze is used as an arch/guillotine over the entrance, but a headless 'bronzed' African bust is in fact plastic (text from 'Ornament is no crime', Progressive ure/ny) Public access unknown! 1974 Hans Hollein Herbert Schullin Michiel_van_Loon photo: Michiel van Loon 7

8 photo: Alexander Koller photo: Alexander Koller Red Room Stubenring Vienna Austria Continuing its previous work for the Comida Restaurant in Vienna, Söhne & Partners transformed the basement of the eatery into a modestly decorated space-age club: the Red Room Cloaked entirely in one shade of red velvet, Red Room's walls, ceiling and furniture merge into one another, connecting the different areas and providing a stark contrast to the club's polished white flooring and several other white features, including the bar and DJ deck Influenced by the 1968 science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, a classic co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, the interior radiates an air of calmness enhanced by a sense of sheer lightness Söhne & Partner clad nearly all surfaces of the club in velvet to add character to the interior design Adding a dimension of flexibility to the seating arrangement, red poufs scattered liberally throughout the club float like globules of blood on the translucent grid of white glass photo: Alexander Koller Floor area/size m² Interior architect Soehne & Partner Architekten Sunshine Enterprises soehne_partner Tram: 1 or U3 8

9 photo: Michiel van Loon photo: Michiel van Loon Branch Bank Building Favoritenstraße Vienna Austria The functional interior space of the Branch Bank Building of the Z-Bank in Vienna can be read from outside The interacting, half-storey displaced floors are summarized in one single room, which connects the out-and-inside with its overhanging 'mouth' Veins of movement and rest areas are determing the general use The municipal use in the upper floors is elevated - 'the house with the kink' The shape of the roof is adding up to the whole of the building and links the sky to the ground Concrete, steel and metal are the dominating materials Each material appears in the way it was manufactured Construction and technical installations are displayed open All of these architectural elements are part of the design, linked to the whole appearance of the building and also to the neighbourhood The interaction of these parts is resulting in the complex unity of this kind of architecture (text from website architect) Floor area/size m² Günther Domenig Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank Wien photo: Kornspeicher Michiel_van_Loon 9

10 photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak T-Center St Marx Rennweg Vienna Austria r/indexhtml The striking T-Center St Marx was designed and built by architect Günther Domenig Completed in 2004, the project has m2 of usable floor space and contains offices for 3000 employees Unusually proportioned, the building can be described as a reclining structure 60m high and 255m long with a 40m wing cantilevering out From a town-planning perspective this building represents the first step in the development of a new district on the site of the former St Marx abattoir and cattle sheds The T-Center St Marx is not only an office building for its owner, T-Mobile, it's also a large sculpture Domenig wanted to create a 280 meter long horizontal skyscraper and ended up with what is quite possibly the most unique office building in Vienna (text from Princeton ural Press and Michael Hierner) photo: Wojtek Gurak Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² Associate architect Associate architect Günther Domenig Herfried Peyker Hermann Eisenköck T-Mobile Michiel_van_Loon 10

11 photo: Bjorn Utpott photo: Bjorn Utpott Spittelau Viaducts Spittelauer Lände 1090 Vienna Austria The project is part of a revitalization initiative undertaken by the city of Vienna for the Wiener Guertel, an over-dimensioned, ring-formed slice through the urban fabric The site is formed via the culmination of densely overlapping infrastructural elements: the Spittelauer Leande is one of Vienna s most highly traveled roadways; the Danube Canal connecting Germany to Hungary The housing is built along the Donaukanal, over Otto Wagner s elevated metro viaduct photo: Bjorn Utpott Project is not public! 2006 Zaha Hadid s City of Vienna Bjorn_Utpott U-Bahn (underground) lines U4 and U6, exit at Spittelau station 11

12 photo: Gregor Pils photo: Gregor Pils Pallet House Karlsplatz Vienna Austria Pallets are available worldwide and used in different ways, eg for transport with railway cars, ship containers and trucks At the end of their life cycle -after transportation- they are usually burned Hence, it is of global concern to find a follow-up use for them For building a 60m2 pallet house, 900 reconditioned pallets are needed The pallet is used as detachable façade element, ceiling element, wall element, as blind and as sunscreen The space between the pallets contains beams, insulation, cables and lighting Due to the use of 900 recycled pallets for the basic structure and of cellulose or sand as insulation, the building is highly ecological and sustainable The need for other materials is reduced to a minimum Pallet houses could replace low-cost shelters in slums and in refugee camps, which could be built easily by locals with local materials Today popular for transport only, in the future pallets could additionally become a construction element for poor and for rich photo: Gregor Pils Floor area/size m² Main designer, Associate architect Associate architect Gregor Pils Andreas Claus Schnetzer Karin Stieldorf Pekka Janhunen ana_struna_bregar 12

13 photo: Michiel van Loon photo: Michiel van Loon Spittelau District Heating Plant Spittelauer Lände 1090 Vienna Austria Vienna has the persistence of its former mayor Helmut Zilk to thank for Hundertwasser having taken on the task of redesigning the exterior of the Spittelau District Heating Plant Originally Hundertwasser had opposed the idea upon consulting his friend, environmentalist Bernd Lötsch, as he had fundamental objections to a garbage-incinerating plant as long as all possibilities for avoiding garbage were not exhausted When it was promised that the plant would be equipped with the most modern emission-purification technology, and that apartments would be heated whose emissions would otherwise be a further source of pollution, Hundertwasser agreed to do the design The plain factory building was turned into a spectacular and unique work of art, and is an example of harmonic symbiosis between technology, ecology and art (text from Kunst Haus Wien) Project is not public! 1992, Artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser Michiel_van_Loon photo: Michiel van Loon 13

14 photo: Frankss photo: Frankss Haus mit Veranden Buchengasse Vienna Austria This "Haus mit Veranden" (house with verandas) consists of 250 apartments organized in a remarkable setting From a 1 and 2 story plinth carved with open spaces and private patio courtyards, the upper building is formed, drawing back from the lower, differentiated block edge The detached buildings are grouped by their terracing, cuts and projecting individual porches This approach offers the residents and neighbours open space, views and day light, despite the high density The principle of the floor plan is based on a simple module system that allows a collage of versatile floor plans A wide range of shared open spaces of different qualities and organization enrich the residential oasis, such as gardens, hot tub and sauna on the roof, playgrounds and introverted loggias Floor area/size m² Building physics consultant Technical engineer Contractor Structural engineer Rüdiger Lainer + Partner Hans Dworak Schmidt Reuter Strabag Vasko+Partner Ingenieure Heimbau/Eisenhof Franks photo: Frankss Take tram 6 (direction: Zentralfriedhof) and get off at tram stop Quellenstraße/Knöllgasse Walk in southern direction and you will cross Buchengasse The project is one block to your left 14

15 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd BIZ ZWEI Vorgartenstraße 206 B-C 1020 Vienna Austria The office building BIZ ZWEI designed by architect Martin Kohlbauer continues the significant spatial figure of the office building PLUS ZWEI The dialogue of the soft shores of the lake with the hard, but full-scale building edges, is extended to the new building site where the height differentiation of the building is supported accordingly For the visual relationship between the main open space and the sea, the ground floor area of BIZ ZWEI has been accordingly designed in transparent materials Due to the intelligently planned its spatial structure, BIZ ZWEI sets new standards in terms of work quality Its clean lines create a lot of space for efficient usable office space photo: Agron Deralla Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Martin Kohlbauer Architekt IC Projektentwicklung agroni U2 Station Krieau Bus A23, A22, A4 15

16 photo: Agron Deralla photo: Agron Deralla Pasettistraße 74 Traisengasse Vienna Austria The building in the Pasettistraße/Traisengasse is a refurbishment and a modernization of an existing office building, built in the 80ties The urban articulation of the new entrance to the building is plausible The design of the façade, using ceramic tiles, is a reinterpretation of the old façade by conventional means The design concept for interior spaces and the courtyard is marked by generosity and elegance The total energy consumption concept as a whole is conclusive It minimizes the total energy demand (external shading, mechanical air supply and air exhaust with highly efficient heat recovery from exhaust air, decentralized water heating, high insulation standard) The concept enables the highest possible efficiency of the summer night air ventilation - in combination with the existing large thermal masses which will be operated without active cooling photo: Agron Deralla Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Associate architect Martin Kohlbauer Architekt Atelier 23 architekten Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft mbh agroni S-Bahn Station Traisengasse Bus 5A 16

17 photo: Iztok Lemajic photo: Iztok Lemajic WirtschaftsBlatt Hainburger Strasse Vienna Austria A fast free-flow of information of today's world dictates open and fluid workspaces which provide fast communication and quick transfer of information This concept is integrated in the WB office design as a combination of a large open office space and individual introverted units Within the open space meeting islands are placed to provide points of interaction between people during the work process Islands ensure visual and acoustic privacy for meetings, discussions, interviews etc The space is divided by subtle graphics that visually separates and unites it at the same time The graphic elements represent the iconised content of WirtschaftsBlatt, including the typical elements of Vienna and Austria The new office concept has brought the needed openness, freshness and a new spirit to the workspace and consequently to the work process photo: Iztok Lemajic Project is not public! Floor area/size m² General consultant IDFL design MOOCON GmbH WirtschaftsBlatt Verlag AG idfl 17

18 photo: Hertha Hurnaus photo: Hertha Hurnaus Neu 31 Neuwaldegger Strasse Vienna Austria The concept of the overlapping spatial structure, open to the outside as well as inside, with symbiotically conjoined residential and office accommodation units is not merely a lip service here, it runs throughout all parts of the building - the spatial solution appeared that beneficial to the architects to occupy it by themselves The concept was to create a four-level diaphanous structure, which integrates all functions of living and working and yet offers enough privacy All rooms and apartments are interlaced into each other and open not only to the outside but to the inside as well This radically breaks with the classical scheme of a cube, which is bordered by four walls photo: Hertha Hurnaus Project is not public! Floor area/size m² SUPERBLOCK Neu 31 Raumgesellschaft mbh superblock Tram No 43 / station "Neuwaldegg", 5 minutes walk along the Neuwaldegger street 18

19 photo: Paul Ott photo: fasch&fuchs Busgarage Wiener Linien Katharina-Scheiter-Gasse Vienna Austria The bus garage consists of several halls for repair and maintenance work as well as for parking the buses that run on liquid gas The halls are completed by an administrative building Order and organisation of all parts of the structure are determined by the natural order of vehicles entering the garage, being checked, refuelled, maintained and parked before again leaving The administrative structure to the north serves as linking element and spine for the two main halls (maintenance and parking) In order to guarantee optimal natural illumination without any overheating in summer, offices and staff rooms in the administrative area face north The wardrobes are placed alongside the wall separating the building from the maintenance and parking hall The building is naturally illuminated and ventilated by incised court yards on the first floor, generously providing the corridors inside with light and air photo: Paul Ott Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Structural engineer fasch & fuchs Werkraum Wien Wiener Linien gmbh & co kg fasch_fuchs 19

20 photo: Sebastian van Damme photo: Sebastian van Damme Looshaus Michaelerplatz Vienna Austria The Looshaus in Vienna (also known as the Goldman & Salatsch Building) is regarded as one of the most important structures built in the Wiener Moderne The building marks the rejection of historicism, as well as the ornaments used by the Wiener Secession Adolf Loos received the assignment in 1909, and the building was finished in 1910 Upon opening, its appearance shocked Vienna's citizens, since their overall taste was still very much historically oriented Because of the lack of ornaments on the façade, people called it the 'house without eyebrows' photo: Sebastian van Damme 1910 Adolf Loos Goldman & Salatsch Michiel_van_Loon Mo, Tue, Wed, Fri: 09hr- 15hr Thu: 09hr - 17:30hr 20

21 photo: Michiel van Loon photo: Wojtek Gurak Schlachthausgasse Schlachthausgasse Vienna Austria At the end of 1998, the Mautner-Markhof Children's Hospital in the 3rd district of Vienna was closed In 1999 the municipality explored alternative development possibilities for the vacant area A limited design competition was held, from which Coop Himmelb(l)au emerged as the winner The architects suggested to conserve to a large extent the valuable trees existing along the Kleingasse and set two slim building volumes in line with the street Slachthausgasse in order to return the urban block into it's previously defined form The complex now contains 82 apartments and approximately m2 of office space The 6+1-storey building is individually differentiated by sculpturally protruding building components In the so-called 'Head Building' oriented toward the south, a youth centre with own meeting spaces is the basement is integrated (text from website architects) Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Coop Himmelb(l)au GPA - WBV / Kleingasse ProjektierungsGesmbH photo: Wojtek Gurak Michiel_van_Loon 21

22 photo: DO & CO photo: DO & CO DO & CO hotel Stephansplatz Vienna Austria DO & CO started as Attila Dogudan s Viennese empire of restaurants and luxury catering, but now includes an architecturally adventurous and sybaritic hotel experience in downtown Vienna Located across from St Stephen s Cathedral, the Haas Haus building was designed by Pritzker-prize winner Hans Hollein; later, in an unusual move, it was retrofitted to its present incarnation by Hollein himself Four floors of the steel-and-glass building have been transformed into 43 unique cone-shaped guest rooms offering majestic views of Stephansplatz, Graben and the Kärtnerstrasse Extravagant accommodations feature teak woodwork and stone integrated into a futuristic vision of modern design Bathrooms offer two-square-meter showers, flat-screen televisions and one suite has private fitness equipment (Design hotels) Hans Hollein DO & CO Hotel Vienna Naomi photo: DO & CO 22

23 photo: Hertha Hurnaus photo: Hertha Hurnaus ma 48 Lidlgasse Vienna Austria There are not just "service buildings", but structures that create a sense of identity The strong lines of the compact cubic structures are enhanced by flush windows and anthracite-coloured cladding made of copper-titanium-zinc alloy The very dark colour of the velvety metal sheets gives solid presence to the building, and slight surface irregularities add an element of liveliness An important contrasting design feature is the large floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor The clear run of glass up to the top line of the building creates a cut-out effect The inset roll-up doors on the ground floor provide visual tension, as they are the only planes that are not flush with the exterior building wall photo: Hertha Hurnaus Floor area/size m² caramel architekten caramel_architekten 23

24 photo: Michiel van Loon Majolikahaus Linke Wienzeile Vienna Austria This apartment building in Vienna, known as the Majolikahaus, was designed by Austrian architect Otto Wagner at the turn of the 20th century The building's façade is covered in ceramic tiles, known as majolica, in the form a floral pattern The building is an excellent example of the Secession style, the Viennese version of Art Nouveau (text from Encarta) Project is not public! 1898 Otto Wagner Michiel_van_Loon photo: Michiel van Loon 24

25 photo: Werner Huthmacher photo: Werner Huthmacher Uniqa Tower Untere Donaustrasse Vienna Austria Whereas in the past a head office might have been 'lit up' by means of illuminated logos, ads or spotlights, the advent of 'media façades' has greatly expanded the possibilities - not to everyone's delight, however, because when not careful the city can easily turn into a fairground where buildings vie for attention So when Licht Kunst Licht were commissioned to make a lighting plan for the Uniqa Tower, they were determined to use light 'in an artistic and sophisticated manner that would be techically 'state-of-the-art' They put individually controllable RGB LED video pixels in the cavity of the building's double façade, enough pixels to turn the 75-metre high sculptural tower into one big, continuous screen The artists group Mader Stublic Wiermann developed the artistic video "twists and turns" running on the video system that processes the video system processes 25 images per second, so the light play flows smoothly and makes the screen a 'second skin' Public access unknown! 2006 Main designer, Artist Supplier Lighting designer Neumann + Partner Mader, Stublic, Wiermann Barco Licht Kunst Licht Uniqa Tower Kirsten_Hannema photo: Nazar Leskiw 25

26 photo: Lachlan Blair photo: Lachlan Blair Czerwenka Apartment Elisabethstraße Vienna Austria The former apartment of the Austrian singer Professor Oskar Czerwenka ( ) in the Opernringhof, that is situated in the centre of the City of Vienna, was reconstructed and adapted for rental by Vienna-based architect Susanne Zottl together with Kristof Jarder The sculptural object, that also serves as storage space, was designed to welcome residents and visitors and to connect living space, dining area and kitchen In its orientation and guiding gesture it opens up the space from the inner courtyard to the Operngasse and so communicates the spacious dimensions of the apartment While connecting on the one hand, the object also serves as a divider that provides privacy for the bedroom and the bathrooms photo: Lachlan Blair Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Main designer, Susanne Zottl Kristof Jarder Czerwenka Foundation Susanne_Zottl_ 26

27 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Gasometer City Guglgasse Vienna Austria These 4 gas holders, known as gasometer were built in 1896 as part of the gasworks at Simmering After they were closed down, the 4 historic towers were renovated, converted into apartments, shopping malls and offices and reopened in 2001 When they were built, the gasometers were the largest in Europe They are listed by the country s heritage ministry as outstanding examples of industrial architecture The renovation goal was to reuse the external façades of the existing buildings, avoiding total demolition of the building and minimizing the generation of demolition waste The gigantic size of this construction project is illustrated by the fact that Vienna's Giant Ferris Wheel would easily fit into each of the four 75-metre high gasometers Floor area/size m² Main designer, Coop Himmelb(l)au Jean Nouvel Manfred Wedhorn Wilhelm Holzbauer City of Vienna Bjorn_Utpott photo: Dirk Verwoerd There are very different opening hours for different functions, like the cinema, shopping malls, offices to see it all, visit From Westbahnhof take U-bahn U3 directly to the Gasometer, with direction Simmering (about 20 min) 27

28 photo: Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten Vertically Landscaped Housing Hardtmuthgasse 68 A-1100 Vienna Austria On a corner plot in Vienna, Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten built a compact block of 17 apartments Balancing the high density of the project are the spacious communal amenities on the ground floor (workshop, hobby room, children?s room), the public roof garden and the private?gardens? in front of every living room In order to bring coherence to the large façade areas, including the curved soffits of the loggias, the architects opted for a corrugated aluminium sheeting that could be applied without seams The result is powerful and homogeneous But it?s an unconventional choice of material for a residential project where brick, wood or concrete tend to be the preferred option That surprise effect is precisely what the architects were aiming for In choosing corrugated aluminium they were also setting themselves the challenge of showing that a material they claim usually evokes negative associations can deliver an elegant building with a congenial atmosphere Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten Genossenschaft Neues Leben Kirsten_Hannema photo: Geiswinkler & Geiswinkler Architekten 28

29 Students Guest House at the Viennese University Molkereistrasse 1 A-1020 Vienna Austria This hall of residence is added to an existing block The insertion of student residences in consolidated fabrics of cities, where housing costs hinder this group of the population from easily finding housing, promotes the rejuvenation of these kinds of neighbourhoods while bringing up the residential density This students guest house will be used to host 278 Erasmus students It is the first Viennese 'Passiv house' The façade design is based on a single window type bringing natural daylight into the students apartments The technical infrastructure of the building consists of a mechanical ventilation system, which is based on geothermics and heat recovery photo: Eduard Hueber Project is not public! Floor area/size m² baumschlager & eberle MIGRA GesmbH, OeAD aplust 29

30 Housing at Kaiserstrasse Kaiserstrasse Vienna Austria This intervention involves an interesting compacting of the dense city since it takes over the traditional inner patio of the 19th urban development and considerably increases residential and population density in an already dense area The authors of the work explain the goodness of the building, whose most debatable aspect is its outer façade Project is not public! Floor area/size m² gernerºgerner plus CPB Beta Anlagen Leasing aplust photo: gernerºgerner plus 30

31 photo: Piotr Krajewski Paltramplatz Residential Building Paltramplatz Vienna Austria The appearance of the Paltramplatz Residential Building is that of a crisp-edged cube into the matte black surface of which an irregular relief pattern of ribbon windows and loggias have been embedded These windows and loggias make the compact monolith seem like a cabinet with drawers that can be pulled out at will The apartment building with its 22 units fills the gap in the heterogeneous fabric of its surroundings in an utterly natural and unspectacular way Forming an exciting contrast to the static tranquillity of the basic shape of the building is the trapezoidal cantilevered, rotated-off-axis, dynamic roof construction Here, holes have been made for illumination purposes This perforated, polygonal shed roof seems to hover over the building, creating an original and distinctive closure Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Lighting designer Delugan Meissl Associated s Christine Hax pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski Located in Favoriten, Vienna s 10th district 31

32 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Michiel van Loon Secession Building Friedrichstraße Vienna Austria The large, white, cubic Secession Building was designed by architect Joseph Maria Olbrich in 1897 as the manifesto of the Secessionist movement The exhibition hall opened in October 1898 Most of the original interior was looted during World War II and the building was left in a desolate state until the passion for Viennese Art Nouveau was rediscovered in the 1970s and the pavilion rescued from decay The building is quite sober and only uses two colours, white and gold Due to its massive, unbroken walls, the construction has the appearance of being constructed from a series of solid cubes The most prominent feature of the otherwise clean design is the dome, made of 3,000 gilt laurel leaves The laurel symbolizes victory, dignity and purity Today the structure is one of the most treasured examples of a particularly Viennese artistic period (text from website Traveldk) photo: Nazar Leskiw Joseph Maria Olbrich Vereinigung Bildener Künstler Oesterreichs Michiel_van_Loon Tuesday - Sunday: ; Thursday: / Guided tours Saturdays at 1500 and Sundays at

33 photo: Michiel van Loon Wiener Postsparkasse Georg-Coch-Platz Vienna Austria Representing Otto Wagner's first move away from Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism, the Wiener Postsparkasse (Austrian Postal Savings Bank) is regarded as an important early work of modern architecture The building occupies an entire city block, next to the Ringstrasse boulevard The bank's façade obviously alludes to classicism Wagner's key idea was to celebrate modern materials by developing new forms The entire façade is covered with square marble plates These are attached to the main structure by aluminum rivets or bolts, forming a pattern Inside, the main hall is designed like an atrium, with a large glass skylight allowing natural light to enter the heart of the building at all times photo: Michiel van Loon Otto Wagner Michiel_van_Loon Monday - Friday: / Thursday:

34 photo: Lucian Ilica Hundertwasserhaus Kegelgasse Vienna Austria The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment complex in Vienna, Austria, designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser It was built between 1983 and 1986 by architects Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan Hundertwasser was not paid, stating that it was worth it, to prevent something ugly from being erected The house features a very organic design, with its uneven floors and plentiful flora Its roof is covered in grass and trees are grown from within, their limbs extending from the windows There are 52 apartments, four offices, 16 private terraces and three communal terraces, and a total of 250 trees and bushes There are also artificial trees; the columns that can be seen reminded Hundertwasser of trees The windows and mosaic tiles are laid out not in a grid, but in a more playful organic way, with crooked angles Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Main designer, Artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser Joseph Krawina Peter Pelikan Robin photo: Evgenia Kononova The Hundertwasserhaus is walking distance from the Wien Mitte train station and Landstraße subway station which is served by lines U3 and U4 34

35 photo: Piotr Krajewski LEE Residential Housing Leebgasse 46 A-1100 Vienna Austria This is a housing block with an open plan and essentially organised shell: the living division of which can be freely chosen by the client The orientation of the house can be decided by whoever uses it Morning sun, afternoon sun and a new orientation are all possible The service spaces are all compactly organised in the core, which makes room for an enormous bathroom An elementary, comfortable window bench invites you to take a seat This bench lies on the same level as the balcony Sunlight streams in through the elevated timber balcony deep into the house photo: Piotr Krajewski Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Querkraft s GPA - WBV pkrajewski_pl 35

36 photo: Adam Mørk photo: Adam Mørk Concert Hall Extension Thomas Jensens Alle Aarhus Denmark The Concert Hall, Aarhus was originally designed by Kjær & Richter, and was inaugurated in 1982 With its new extension the Concert Hall has doubled in size, and now encompasses a wide range of functions that turn the total complex into a unique concert and educational institution of international standard The extension includes a Symphonic Hall with sublime acoustics and room for an audience of 1,200, a Rhythmic Music Hall, a Chamber Music Hall, and premises for the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Filuren children's theatre ensemble and the Danish National Opera The Symphonic Hall is specially built for symphonic music, and functions in itself like a giant instrument, the sound of which can be adjusted by moving walls, carpeting and acoustic panels The Hall's internal dimensions are carefully designed to produce the best acoustics; the model for its proportions is the Golden Hall in the Musikverein, Vienna, which is optimum for orchestral music photo: Adam Mørk Floor area/size m², Interior architect Contractor Acoustics consultant Acoustics consultant Artist Structural engineer C F Møller s C_F_Moller_s A Enggaard a/s Artec Consultants Inc COWI Ingwar Cronhammar Søren Jensen Municipality of Aarhus (ticket office) 36

37 photo: Serverin Wurnig photo: Serverin Wurnig Hotel Caldor Achauer Straße 3a 2482 Münchendorf Austria "This how you sleep today Self Check In around the clock No long waiting" This is how the Hotel Caldor, close to the City border of Vienna, promotes the Hotel A fallow land, just 8 minutes from the City border of Vienna City and very close to the biggest Shopping Centre of Austria, gave the landlord the idea to create a Self Check In Hotel The site is next to a main road B16 The structure of the Hotel emerges along the road From the centre cross point the Hotel is buckling The buckling gives the Hotel a high profile from the main road - both directions At the cross point you find the lobby, the main access, the check in machine, etc The curtain wall is on hand the protection against weathering for the cross point On the other hand it also gives shade and shelter The perforation of the façade panels plays with the logo of the Hotel, abstract its Interesting spaces inside / outside are created which emphasizes the communication between them photo: Serverin Wurnig Soehne & Partner Architekten soehne_partner +43 (0) office@hotel-caldorat 8 minutes from Vienna's city limits and just minutes from the shopping center SCS Of Vienna and Graz: A2 - Wiener Neudorf exit (Exit 9) - B11 direction Achau - B16 direction Munich village from S1: Departure Leopoldsdorf, Himberg, Achau - B16 direction Munich village from Eisenstadt: A3 (Exit 1) - Shuttle to highway B16 then towards Achau 37

38 photo: Adrian Ewig photo: Adrian Ewig Administrative Building Videnska Videnska Brno Czech Republic The location of the building is on the main radial direction Vienna Its surroundings are of very heterogeneous types and qualities of buildings The designed object respects the street line of the neighbouring administrative building from the 60's By its set-back from the street it creates a comfortable public space The trees stress the entrance to the building and strengthen the character of the street Also in height, the building respects its neighbour Its simple cubic shape and the materiality emphasize the urbanity of the house Project is not public! 2009 Main designer, Pelcak A Partner Architekti Architekti Hrusa AdrianEwig photo: Adrian Ewig 38

39 photo: Rudolf Noronha photo: Rudolf Noronha Media Linien of Munich's Olympic Village Olympiadorf Munich Germany In the spring of 1971, the ODMG organized an international competition for the project of revitalization of the forum of Munich's Olympic Village The result of the contest was announced in December 1971: the winner was the architect Hans Hollein of Vienna His project proposed a system that could be expanded to the entire Olympic Village, in addition to the forum There was forecast to implement the project throughout the Olympic Village, but the project of Hans Hollein was so well received by the organizers that was eventually expanded to the entire area The client accepted this recommendation and ordered the execution of the extended Hollein project, especially because the proposed system also solved the problems of lighting, orientation and information The fountain in Carrara marble at the Forum 1 was also designed by Hans Hollein photo: Rudolf Noronha 1972, Urban planner Hans Hollein ODMG, München Latvian31 Open area 39

40 photo: Bjorn Utpott photo: Michiel van Loon Loisium Hotel Loisium-Allee Langenlois Austria On the edge of the town of Langenlois, 60 minutes west of Vienna, on a gently south-sloping vineyard, a new wine center and visitors' facility is built celebrating the rich local heritage of a magnificent wine vault system This historic subterranean network, which includes stone passages that are 900 years old, underlies the urban plan of the town Earthlike materials and palette combined with the views of the surrounding landscape create a strong connection and relationship of the hotel to its context Public functions including the lobby, a wine themed restaurant, bar, cigar lounge, conference and meeting facilities, and wellness and spa area are located on the ground floor with views open to the surrounding vineyard An inviting courtyard and terrace provides outdoor seating 82 guest rooms are located in two upper floors While the ground floor is transparent and open, the upper floors are more private (text from website architect) photo: Bjorn Utpott 2005 Steven Holl Loisium Hotelbetriebs GmbH & Co KG Michiel_van_Loon 40

41 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Bouça Housing Complex Rua Melo II Porto Portugal This project, from 1973, was integrated in the program SAAL in Porto to create social housing for poor people And even though it was made through highly controlled costs, Siza Vieira managed to create a housing complex that is worth studying and visiting In 1977 there where only two blocks completed Nowadays, in 2004, all the blocks were concluded and a new life was given to this complex Instead of having only poor people living here, the low prices and high quality living attracted artists, architects and young couples to settle in With four levels, each block present an articulation in terms of passages that connect the whole complex Together with the housing units there is also commercial spaces and green open spaces photo: João Sousa 2004, Urban planner Alvaro Siza Vieira SAAL Joao_Sousa Only the public spaces are public, it's a housing complex Take the subway in Porto till the station "Lapa" it's right there! 41

42 photo: João Morgado photo: João Morgado Serralves Museum Rua DJoão de Castro Porto Portugal A roughly north-south longitudinal axis serves as the framework for the project Two asymmetrical wings branch off to the south from the main body of the museum, creating a courtyard between them, while another courtyard is formed at the northern end between the L-shaped volume of the auditorium and the public entrance atrium The volume of the main building is divided between exhibition spaces, offices and storage, an art library and a restaurant with adjoining terrace The auditorium and bookstore have independent entrances and may be used when the museum itself is closed The exhibition area is composed of several rooms, connected by a large U-shaped gallery - it occupies most of the entrance level, extending to the lower floor in one of the wings The large doors that separate the different exhibition spaces and partition walls can be used to create different routes or organize separate exhibitions simultaneously Floor area/size m² Alvaro Siza Vieira Fundação Serralves JMMM photo: João Morgado Winter: MUSEUM VILLA PARK Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am to 7 pm Summer: MUSEUM Tuesday to Friday: 10 am to 7 pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 10 am to 8 pm VILLA Tuesday to Sunday (and Public Holidays): 10 am to 7 pm PARK Tuesday to Friday: 10 am to 7 pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 10 am to 8 pmserralves Foundation is closed on Mondays, except for the Auditorium bar and Restaurant/Cafetaria Service and on December 25 and January 1 Near Avenida Marechal Gomes da Costa/Avenida da Boavista BUSES: 201, 203, 207, 502, 504 and Tourism Circuit METRO: Exit at the Casa da Música Station, with connection via the buses 201, 203, 502 and 504 at the Boavista Rotunda Entrance is via the Largo D João III (next to the French School) You can get a architectural tour through the museum on Sundays on 15h00-16h00 Tours are free upon purchase of an entrance ticket to the Museum 42

43 photo: Carlos Gonzalez photo: Mirko Garufi ure Faculty Rua do Gólgota Porto Portugal The School of ure of Porto articulates along the limits of an ancient farm right next to the Douro river, creating a wide central space, like an interior square, surrounded by the built volumes This intervention reveals a lot of sensibility with the surroundings, in communication with the river and the sea Stairs and ramps distribute the various accesses to the different levels and functional zones The apparent fragmentation of the build volumes, visible on the project drawings, recovers its continuity in the circulation at the inferior level photo: Victor Popovici Alvaro Siza Vieira Universidade do Porto Joao_Sousa Taking a bus from the city centre or by the subway till "Casa da Música" and a 10 minute walk Close to Campo Alegre/Rotunda da Boavista At wwwcm-portopt/ you can find a map of Porto Click on 'Mapa da Cidade do Porto' 43

44 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Café do Cais Cais Estiva Porto Portugal This café is situated along the river Douro in the old city centre It is a simple glazed pavilion, integrated into the lively quayside surroundings When all the glass doors on the south side are opened, the café is transformed into a large, covered open-air terrace The only solid boxes are the two service-zones inside, one for the bar, and the other for sanitary services The pavilion seems to hover above the ground on a small raised platform The terrace has an amazing canopy, resembling the sails of the ships passing by 2000 Cristina Guedes + Francisco Vieira de Campos Animafoz Naomi photo: Naomi Schiphorst If you re in Praca da Ribeira, walk to the river, then turn right it is the glass building on your left, right on the river edge 44

45 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Casa da Musica Avenida da Boavista Porto Portugal After Porto was selected one of the 2 cultural capitals of Europe in 2001, an international competition started, for a new concert hall to be positioned in the historical centre The shape directly derived from programmatic-piling-up Two shoe-box concert halls were piled first, the other public programs were added onto the shoe-boxes and the remaining spaces between the public functions were filled up with secondary serving spaces, such as foyers, restaurant, terraces, technical spaces and vertical transport A continuous route connects all functions and remaining spaces by stairs, platforms and escalators: the building becomes an architectural adventure The loop creates the possibility to use it for festivals with simultaneous performances Wave-like corrugated glass is used in both the 1300 seat grand auditorium and its smaller 350 seat counterpart Through material transparency each space reveals its contents to the city; showing an array of performances and cultural events photo: Casa da Música Floor area/size m² Main designer, Interior architect Structural engineer Supplier OMA - Rem Koolhaas Inside Outside Arup Lensvelt Porto 2001 / Casa da Música boeboe The building is open every day, Mo-Sat: from 10:00-19:00 h; Sunday : from 10:00-18:00 h, The Casa organizes daily guided tours through the buidling: 11:00 and 16:00h For groups of 15 to 35 people To reserve and more info: visitasguiadas@casadamusicacom Metro: Linha Azul, stop at Matosinhos - Estádio do Dragão Or Linha Vermelha, stop at Estádio do Dragão - Srª da Hora 45

46 photo: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira photo: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira Porto Cenário Bar R do Monchique Porto Portugal This project concerns the conversion of a small 50m2 restaurant into a Lounge Bar, at the riverside front in Porto, Massarelos Plastered stucco boards were placed around the walls, hanging over a contrasting dark wooden floor The customer s area was separated from the services and supporting spaces such as the sanitary, the kitchen and the DJ cabin, installed in half of the former restaurant kitchen After all, the DJ is the new coking master over here These fleshy spaces got moulded in orange juicy colours, contrasting with the white/beige painted main room The relation with the beautiful outside landscape was improved by emphasising the presence of the 4 existing windows as absences in the walls, inviting for contemplation The lighting as well the furniture was carefully chosen, out of vintage stores, in order to fulfil the client s will of spending few and creating an atmosphere that could be cosy, slightly minimalistic and sophisticated at the same time photo: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira Floor area/size m² Main designer, Graphic designer Structural engineer José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira Paulo Costa Ricardo Sapage Manuel Sousa Vieira, Luz e Som Agostinho Veloso de Brito Jose_Carlos_Nunes_de_Oliveira_Arc hitect 46

47 photo: Sahil Latheef photo: Manuel Montenegro Atelier Siza, Souto de Moura, Fernando Távora Calçada do Ouro Porto Portugal The work place of the masters Project is not public! Alvaro Siza Vieira Álvaro Siza Vieira, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Fernando Távora and others manecas photo: Sahil Latheef By the river, West from Ponte da Arrábida 47

48 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Casa das Artes Rua de Ruben A 4050 Porto Portugal The building is located in the gardens of a neo-classical mansion in Porto, dating from the beginning of the 20th century The program for the competition proposed a cinema, an auditorium and an exhibition gallery, as well as the conservation of the gardens as they were This is one of the first built projects of Eduardo Souto Moura It's mainly composed of two parallel granite stone walls, with all the programin the middle With a very minimalistic approach, this building is composed of great building details, reminding some of Mies Van der Rohe's characteristics photo: João Sousa 1981, Interior architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Joao_Sousa Secretaria de Estado da Cultura Take a bus from the city center that passes on the street "Rua do Campo Alegre", or at the "Avenida da Boavista" From there it's easy to reach it by foot 48

49 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Manoel de Oliveira Cinema House Rua de Viana de Lima 4150 Porto Portugal The Cinema House represents a significant change in the formal expression of Eduardo Souto de Moura A change of style that approaches this work to the formal expression of the architecture of Siza Vieira This building pretends to be similar to the surrounding houses, having some distortions to fit better on the plot The overall image resembles to the lens of the camera, with dynamic eyes like the insects, searching for the views to the see in between the buildings photo: João Sousa 1998, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Eduardo Souto de Moura Joao_Sousa Câmara Municipal do Porto Right now [November 2007] it's on restoration because it was left abandoned since it was finished By bus (number 78) on the "Avenida Marechal Gomes da Costa" till "Praça do Império" and after that by foot following the street "Rua de Bartolomeu Velho" 49

50 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Cinema Batalha Praça da Batalha Porto Portugal Situated in the heart of the city of Porto, the proposal of Artur Andrade continues his development of the expressionist line with a curve façade that creates movement and great dynamics in tension with the glass façade that defines the corner of the square in a futuristic style It was a very polemic building when constructed (1946) because of the fascist regime Today it works as a lounge bar, a restaurant and a cinema/theatre photo: João Sousa 1946 Artur Andrade Câmara Municipal do Porto Joao_Sousa Right in the centre of the city of Porto Metro stations "Bolhão" or "São Bento" and several buses pass by there Easy to get there 50

51 photo: Joaquim Pinheiro photo: Joaquim Pinheiro House Mártires da Liberdade Rua Mártires da Liberdade Porto Portugal Located in the centre of Porto, this building has two separate apartments with a garden and a commercial area A new construction has been cleverly settled next to an existing 19th century house, creating an interesting architectural tension, and a rich dialogue in what comes to architectural language and expression The total area of construction is approximately 500 sqmt, integrated in a 800 sqmt garden Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Contractor Infrastructure consultant Paulo Freitas & Franciso Soares Dias EA - Engenheiros Associados ÉPOCA - Gestão de Estudos e Projectos Maria do Céu Mata mjoao-arq photo: Paulo Freitas 51

52 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Artists Workshop rua da lada 4050 Porto Portugal The building has 4 ateliers for young artists Its location, right next to the river "Douro" has a wonderful view of the "D Luiz I" Bridge, the river and the south coast of the city of "Gaia" This project integrates a system of platforms and granite walls in stories and stairs that connects the building to the street at the ground level The great sensibility and beautifulness of the urban tissue and it's great presence in the site conducted to the option of creating a building that is discreet The object consists in an association of two planes in "sandwich", with glass walls over a platform photo: João Sousa Project is not public! 1996 Virgínio Moutinho Young Artists Joao_Sousa Right next to the main Bridge in Porto "D Luiz I" and it stands on the top of the tunnel that gives access to the old city Several Buses to get there and with the "Funicular dos Guindais", the elevator 52

53 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Almeida Garrett Library Rua de Entre Quintas Porto Portugal This building has two great functions: Public Library and a new exposition hall There is also an auditorium for 200 people determined to conferences, films projection and other shows Its location, between the street "Entrequintas" and the gardens of the crystal palace has an intense presence with the nature giving it a peaceful environment to build a library With a great attention to details, the main façade is covered with pine wood to create a shield from the sun to the exposition rooms The library has to floors with a big opening that connects visually the two levels photo: João Sousa 2001 José Manuel Soares Câmara Municipal do Porto Joao_Sousa Monday: Tuesday-Saturday: bus: 601, 302, 200, 207, 201, 501, 601, ZM 53

54 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Children Library Rua de Entre Quintas 4050 Porto Portugal This small pavilion located between the trees in the gardens of the Crystal Palace has two levels with a double height vestibule The library appears as an "objet trouvé" in the nature, participating in this spontaneous environment The volume resembles an old train wagon, lifted slightly off the ground turning it into a light and welcoming space The used materials were chosen according to the environment, following the textures and colours of the nature The structure and wall panels are made out of wood and the windows are sheets of transparent polycarbonate located at the height of the children with awesome views to the gardens It's a building that fits perfectly in this natural environment photo: João Sousa 1997 Paula Santos Câmar Municipal do Porto Joao_Sousa Monday: Tuesday-Saturday: It's located in the gardens of the Crystal Palace You need to search and follow the signs "Biblioteca Infantil" to reach it 54

55 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Housing Block Rua do Teatro Porto Portugal This housing block situated on the western part of Porto, in front of the Atlantic ocean is a conceptual reinvention of the traditional urban houses of the XVIII century Instead of a stone structure, here the structure is in steel but is completely visible and separated from the other elements But at the same time there are traditional materials that were used on the façades, transposing the modern architecture into a more site related project photo: João Sousa Project is not public! 1995, Interior architect, Urban planner Eduardo Souto de Moura Joao_Sousa On the western part of Porto called "Foz" it's easy to reach From the avenue "Avenida do Brasil" that follows the coast line 55

56 photo: João Sousa photo: Luís Ferreira Alves Guindais Funicular Av de Gustavo Eiffel 4000 Porto Portugal The Funicular connects the Douro river bank to the high town at the Batalha quarter, through the Guindais slope It is the new way that grasps itself to firm stone and ends in a tower facing the river, such as the old wall which leans on a big rock At both edges of this trajectory there are two stations, each one looking for the adequate relation to each part of the town and its immediate environment areas Both stations are entirely built of white concrete, the most brilliant colourgrade in the North: in the subterraneous station at the mountain in order to better reflect the light entering through the vertical accesses and skylights; in the station at the valley, to make reference to the clear plans of the slope The water which runs along the slope and the line of the valley formed by the rails, controlled by little dams that decrease and sustain its speed, falls freely as a cascade in the interior of the station, being then conducted to the river photo: João Sousa 2003, Urban planner Adalberto Dias Porto Metro do Porto Joao_Sousa June - September: Sunday to Wednesday - 08h00-22h00 Thursday to Saturday - 08h00-24h00 October - May: Sunday to Thursday - 08h00-20h00 Friday to Saturday - 08h00-24h00 Right next to the famous bridge Luíz I in the heart of the medieval city 56

57 photo: Carlos Dias photo: João Sousa Trindade Subway Station Rua de Camões 4000 Porto Portugal Built to be the central subway station, "Trindade" has an interface that connects 2 subway lines resulting in a big subway station with commercial spaces The materialization of the architecture is almost the space as all the other subway stations in the center of Porto and it reflects a lot of the northern portuguese way of building White walls, granite floors, ceramic tiles, rough granite stone walls, all of these elements appear in the tradicional constructions and were recreated to fit the contemporary design resulting in some very interesting spaces photo: João Sousa 2002 Eduardo Souto de Moura Metro do Porto Joao_Sousa from 600h - 100h but it depends of the months By the subway just get to "Trindade" subway station In the heart of the old city right beside the Trindade Church and the city hall 57

58 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Housing Complex Rua Orfeão do Porto 4150 Porto Portugal Built in white reinforced concrete this housing complex is formed by two separate blocks connected by the mainly vertical access with the lift and the staircase All the floors are composed by an external gallery that connects all the appartments allowing them to face the great views of the sea and to receive good sunlight With a very simple and contemporary language this complex establishes new ways of drawing the housing complex in a simple and elegant manner photo: João Sousa Project is not public! 2007 Adalberto Dias Joao_Sousa Located on the western part of the city, right beside the "ring", it's easy to reach if you have the "Ipanema Park Hotel" as a reference point 58

59 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Burgo Tower Avenida da Boavista Porto Portugal This office complex is located in the Avenida da Boavista, the biggest straight line avenue in Portugal that extends from "Casa da Música" till the Sea in West This complex opens a large square between the two buildings, one horizontal and the other vertical The square is occupied by a big sculpture by the Porto architect/sculptor Nadir de Afonso The buildings were drawn with very simple shapes, following the influences of Mies and the Chicago buildings The main interest about the building is its façade Its skin is composed out of a single module that wraps all the volumes That module was studied so it could fit on 2 different ways creating a glass façade and an opaque façade Public access unknown! Floor area/size m², Interior architect, Urban planner Infrastructure consultant Eduardo Souto de Moura Joao_Sousa AFA Associados Douro Atlântico photo: Filipe Brandão In "Avenida da Boavista", from "Casa da Música" it's a 10 minute walk 59

60 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Transparent Building Esplanada do Rio de Janeiro Porto Portugal Being part of an urban plan to redesign the westend seafront of the city park, this building serves a shopping centre and leisure centre in combination with seaside activities The entire building is constructed in white concrete and the façade is made out of pre-fabricated white concrete slabs The interior offers some interesting spaces that overview the atlantic ocean, creating a lot of shades and light effects on the afternoon photo: João Sousa 2002, Urban planner Manuel de Solà-Morales Polis-Porto Joao_Sousa Right at the end of "Avenida da Boavista" on the seafront at the westend of the city park By bus it's the stop "Castelo do Queijo" 60

61 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Casa de Serralves Rua de Serralves 4050 Porto Portugal Old property of Count of Vizela, the gardens of Serralves are an amazing example of the French style gardens together with the romantic influenced gardens and more recently with the Museum of Contemporary Art beautifully designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira The House of Serralves was the main house of this whole property and began its construction in 1925 to be finished only in 1944 Designed by the Porto based architect José Marques da Silva, author of numerous beautiful beaux-arts buildings in Porto (Central Station, Aliados Avenue, ) This House is a great example of the Art-Déco style of the early 20th century in Europe Designed with a great simplicity and minimalism, the interiors have an enormous attention to the details and the natural light 1944, Artist José Marques da Silva Conde de Vizela Joao_Sousa photo: João Sousa It depends of the schedule of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves Mondays is closed The way to get access to the house is by entering the Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves (by Siza Vieira) and to buy the ticket to the museum exhibition and the gardens The house is located at the gardens 61

62 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Bom Sucesso Market Rua de Caldas Xavier 4150 Porto Portugal This building was one of the first buildings to be built in this zone In 1951 the works begin to give shape to this project Its structure of reinforced concrete is made out of pre-casted beams disposed in a radial shape The way the entry of light is designed and works in the interior is absolutely incredible and shows a great sensibility in this subject Even after more than 50 years of use, this building remains almost as good as new All the spatial richness is still present and as a market it has a rich social life photo: Carlos Dias 1952 ARS-Arquitectos Câmara Municipal do Porto Joao_Sousa From around 700h till 1700h Right next to the square where there is "Casa da Música" It's less than five minute walk from the metro station 62

63 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Faculty of Engineering INEGI Via Estruturante do Pólo II 4200 Porto Portugal INEGI is an interface Institution between University and Industry, oriented to the activities of Research and Development, Innovation and Technology Transfer It was founded in 1986, as an organization to strengthen the liaison between the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management (DEMEGI) of the University of Porto and industry The INEGI building houses laboratories for experimental work, workshops for components and pre-series development, next to offices and workspaces Floor area/size m² Pedro Ramalho + Luís Ramalho Naomi photo: Carlos Dias 63

64 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Water Pavilion Estrada da Circunvalação Porto Portugal This pavilion was built to be part of the Expo 1998 in Lisbon It was rebuilt in Porto at the city park The shape of the building stands like if it were levitating from the ground, coming out of a surface of water It's structure is entirely made out of wood photo: João Sousa 1998, Urban planner Infrastructure consultant Alexandre Burmester José Carlos Gonçalves Águas do Porto Joao_Sousa By the city park is easy to reach by foot By car/bus there's an entrance at the "Estrada da Circunvalação" 64

65 photo: FG+SG photo: FG+SG Oporto Blood Bank Rua do Bolama Porto Portugal The O Porto Blood Bank is built on a detached plot with an irregular polygon in the heart of a city block The building-as-line runs through the polygon s different directions searching its geometry The Blood bank supports all activities of regional blood collection and analysis as well as its partition in 3 components (erythrocytes, plasma and platelets) These components are later to be distributed to hospitals and pharmaceutical industries This typology is new and hardly tested It has a great complexity due to permanent risk of blood contamination Continuous scientific and technological developments force permanent alterations It is therefore a building with an unstable interior, which will undergo frequent metamorphosis throughout its life The building program is a linear sequential process (of blood disassembly) It suggests to be more adequate a low and fluid construction rather than a high building, as pointed out by the neighbouring housing buildings (5 and 6 levels) photo: FG+SG Floor area/size m² ARX Portugal Arquitectos Instituto Português do Sangue ARX_Portugal During the week: 830 to 1900h Saturday: 830 to 1300h 65

66 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Commercial Building in Boavista Avenida da Boavista 4050 Porto Portugal The building is designed like a succession of boxes disposed randomly over a platform From the traditional platform-like style building that Souto Moura uses to make, now he rethinks the concept of the box-like architecture, transforming it into a composition of boxes that generate an urban façade over the avenue 2008, Interior architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Joao_Sousa photo: João Sousa Depending of the stores The building is located in the Avenida da Boavista right in front of the east entry to the city park There are several Buses going down that avenue 66

67 photo: Fernando Guerra photo: Fernando Guerra Gosho Restaurant Avenida da Boavista Porto Portugal Gosho Restaurant ('Imperial Palace') is located in the food court of a 5-star hotel The project contains several specific areas for the several types of Japanese food that the restaurant serves, with a total capacity of 101 seats The atmosphere of the restaurant cherishes 'being' in public, through different themes Besides evoking traditional Japanese architecture through a crude and strong presence of the materials, the design creates theatricality with two entrance tunnels and a raised arrival, underlines with white paint the amusing and seemingly irrational posture of the existing structure and nourishes a certain mystery by dissolving the space limits with a permeable curtain, a translucent screen and dark periphery walls (text from architect's website) photo: Fernando Guerra 2007 anc arquitectos Pedro_Loureiro 67

68 photo: Miguel Coelho photo: Miguel Coelho Casa Ponte da Arrábida Rua do Ouro Porto Portugal Arrábida Bridge (Ponte da Arrábida) was designed by Portuguese civil engineer Edgar Cardoso in 1963 The project mentioned here was included in the design as an observation post to watch the construction works on the bridge The structure has been renovated by architect Miguel Tomé and transformed into a restaurant and bar The building is undoubtedly one of the architectural gems of Porto, but still undervalued Perhaps this is due to the fact that the initial project was designed by a civil engineer, although one of the most notable in Portugal photo: Miguel Coelho 1963 Associate architect Edgar Cardoso Miguel Tomé Miguel_Coelho 68

69 photo: Carlos Dias Casa Armanda Passos Av do Mal Gomes da Costa 4150 Porto Portugal Amidst horizontal and vertical planes conditioned by the contours of the terrain, memories of Zen gardens and fire signs, the Armanda Passos house has gently risen Designed to be lived in at all hours of the day, when light seeks out shade, and shade opens itself to the light, the house-atelier, commissioned by painter Armanda Passos from the most international name in Portuguese architecture, allows the complicity naturally created by the architect with his work to transpire at each step This is the second dwelling designed by Siza in Porto The first was built in the 1960 s on the Avenida dos Combatentes photo: Carlos Dias Project is not public! 2005 Alvaro Siza Vieira Armanda Passos MI_MOA 69

70 photo: Sahil Latheef photo: Carlos Dias She Changes Praça de Cidade do Salvador 4100 Porto Portugal Portugal is home to artist Janet Echelman's 'She Changes', a 160-foot-tall waterfront netted wind sculpture suspended above a 3-lane highway roundabout, which received the IFAI International Achievement Award and the Public Art Network's Year in Review Award It is a monumental, red and white, membrane-like sculpture at the Praca Cidade San Salvador in the town of Matosinhos along the shoreline outside of Porto Through her art, Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental public sculptures that respond to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight "I am a sculptor who shapes urban space I prefer the immediacy and challenge of transforming sites that are either unnoticed infrastructure that have faded from public memory, or iconic landmarks that are so overexposed they become habitual background" photo: Carlos Dias 2005 Artist Janet Echelman MI_MOA 24/7 70

71 photo: Scott Doig photo: Scott Doig São João National Theatre Archive Rua da Porta da Sol Porto Portugal The São João National Theatre Archive is located in a small lane behind the neoclassical building of the Teatro Nacional São João on Praça da Batalha It sits in a narrow site between old town houses that form part of the UNESCO world heritage site The façade is composed of singular slabs of polished white concrete, which sit at angles to define the storeys and articulate the openings The building acts as an archive of all the theatre's props, costumes and sets Project is not public! 2005 Paulo Providência Teatro Nacional São João Scozia photo: Scott Doig Take the metro São Bento station, walk to Praça da Batalha 71

72 photo: Scott Doig photo: Scott Doig Estádio do Dragão Avenida Fernão de Magalhães Porto Portugal The stadium was built as a new venue for football club FC Porto, and also to stage matches of the 2004 European Championship which were held in Portugal It has a seated capacity of and modern facilities such as VIP seating, restaurants and conference facilities It also hosts concerts in the summer months The stadium is located in the East of the city and is easily accessed by the city's tram/metro network that has a station of the same name adjacent to the stadium The name come from the Portuguese for dragon - which appears in the crest of FC Porto photo: Nazar Leskiw 2003 Contractor Manuel Salgado Grupo Amorim FC Porto Scozia Matches are usually every 2nd weekend between September and May Tours are available daily, except for match days - see website for details Metro lines A,B,C and E all terminate at Estádio do Dragão station 72

73 photo: Nelson Garrido photo: Nelson Garrido Garden Intervention Rua da Igreja de Cedofeita Porto Portugal This project entails the intervention in the garden of a 1870 house in Porto It is based on the premises of a pre-existing wood deck which covers about one third of the garden area, and the need to create a shelter for various mobile garden components The architect created a wall that fits this deck, giving it the character of a resting area, while allowing the visual relationship between building and garden to be enhanced This structural wall is the visible side of the new shelter, that extends to the plot's limit wall Its design intends to visually play with the actual deck, by doubling the stereotomy of the flooring The structure is built with treated pine, also used on the wall cladding The roof is in zinc panel Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Rui Grazina ruigrazina photo: Nelson Garrido 73

74 photo: Fernando Guerra photo: Fernando Guerra Porto Football Club Pavilion Via Futebol Clube do Porto 4350 Porto Portugal The site, which is irregular in shape, is actually the left-over of a network of road infrastructures The construction of the pavilion is particularly important in urban terms, because it closes the eastern edge of the Antas Detailed Development Plan Its location next to the Dragon Stadium, the Metro Station, and the superb views from the square around the stadium are all essential elements of the design With seating for 2,000 people, the pavilion is intended to house the rest of the Club's sports photo: Fernando Guerra , Urban planner Risco s Porto Football Club thecommunicationoffice 74

75 photo: Telmo Miller photo: Nazar Leskiw Vodafone Office Avenida da Boavista Porto Portugal This headquarters building in Porto was designed with Vodafone s slogan Vodafone Life, Life in Motion, resulting a dynamic building with irregular body, out of balance, with many faces in motion The formalization of this concept is based on the concrete, which through its plasticity, allows to create irregular and free-form shapes, working both as a structural solution and exterior appearance The technical complexity of the building leads to a periphery structural solution, a shell of concrete, like an egg, reducing internal support to the two stairwells and three central pillars, allowing great versatility in its interior space use Project is not public! 2009 barbosa & guimaraes arquitectos Vodafone bjornjansen photo: Nazar Leskiw 75

76 photo: Joh Paulsen photo: Joh Paulsen Nuno Gama Fashion Store & Atelier Rua Adolfo Casais Monteiro Porto Portugal The new Nuno Gama Shop looks like a work-in-progress installation, offering a unique architectural interpretation of the designer's language The project appropriated a typical Portuguese icon, the game of noughts and crosses- to create a layout composed of a structure of rails suited to the swift metamorphosis of the space Observing the façade, plastic, fabric and sponge curtains clearly define the different levels of transparency towards the outside partitioning the shop, showroom, meeting area, studio and the area of customer tailoring with a Portuguese patio But it is the shop itself that reveals the public face of the concept Stark walls and criss-crossed by cables, circuit breakers, chrome-plated busts and an inflatable changing room inspired by Archigram's "Cushicle" photo: Joh Paulsen Floor area/size m², Interior architect Associate architect Rodrigo Patrício Arquitectos Wallpaper-City Magda Seifert Nuno Gama 10:00 am - 19:00 pm Porto downtown, next to Miguel Bombarda Street (Rua) and Maternidade Júlio Dinis Square (Largo), right in the heart of Porto Art District 76

77 photo: Traço Alternativo photo: Traço Alternativo Urban Renewal Aliados Avenue Avenida dos Aliados Porto Portugal The Project for the Avenida dos Aliados surges from the need to build, in that place, three metro stations that are practically contiguous: São Bento, Aliados and Trindade The intervention opted for the reformulation of the existing vegetation, it privileged the thick arboreal but freed the ground from flower beds and other obstacles which restricted the use of the Avenue located in the heart of the city as a large public space, as it happens in countless cities, responding to a use that was, in fact, already in practice, although in precarious conditions The project redesigned the urban furniture but re-used the old existing street lamps On the upper side of the Avenue, near the City Hall, a water mirror was built, surrounded by benches, chairs and trees 2005 Main designer, Alvaro Siza Vieira Eduardo Souto de Moura uralguides photo: Traço Alternativo 77

78 photo: Arménio Teixeira photo: Arménio Teixeira CASA AA64 Rua de Candemil Porto Portugal The house that is the subject of this remodeling project is located in the west part of Porto, near the City Park New requirements of living in a contemporary urban house were decisive to transform the existing typology, both in the inside and outside spaces An all-use basement was included to complement the program We wanted the interior to be as open as possible towards the backyard, working it as a clear extension of the first while keeping good privacy conditions The continuity between the interior oak floor and the outdoor deck of wood is accompanied along the sidewalls by the long oak cabinets and shelves, onto the outer wooden trellis The glass sliding panels are totally retractable, allowing a full connection of these contiguous spaces Inside, the finishings are simple but not simplistic, pleasant to the touch and to the look; neither too clinical nor too saturated Externally, the final result existing/new will be unified by using the same light grey mortar photo: Arménio Teixeira Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Main designer,, Urban planner Building physics consultant Lighting designer Structural engineer Paulo Costa Marta Oliveira GET Nuno André Vaz Silva SE2P Alexandre Oliveira and Carla Teixeira PA-CO Descend Boavista Av towards the sea (west) Turn right by the traffic lights at Rua Antonio Aroso (just before City Park south entrance) Search nearby, by adress 78

79 photo: Nils Petter Dale photo: Nils Petter Dale Oslo School of ure Maridalsveien Oslo Norway The new Oslo School of ure is based in an existing building from 1938 It's part of a larger effort to revitalise this former industrial area for education-related use The long-term aim is a campus for arts education along the riverbank The project won an open architectural competition in 1998 The exterior of the existing building has a conservation status The architects have kept the block open towards the river, and combined the new programme with the logic of the existing building together with the surroundings in one spatial sequence An access court has been cut out of the existing 1st floor slab, marking the entrance and bringing daylight in to the ground floor foyer A strip has been cut out of the existing slab along the inside of the existing building, bringing daylight to the surrounding functions A simple U-shaped circulation zone is established along the strip A new string of teaching rooms completes the U and forms a bridge across the entrance area photo: Nils Petter Dale 2001 Structural engineer Landscape designer Jarmund Vigsnæs s AS Frederiksen Grindaker as Jarmund_Vigsnaes_s located by the Akerselva River in the eastern part of Oslo 79

80 photo: DARK Arkitekter photo: DARK Arkitekter Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate building Middelthunsgate Oslo Norway NVE - Middelthunsgate 29 was built as the Administration Building for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, designed by the brothers Fr Lykke-Enger and Knut Enger, with artistic decoration by Odd Tandberg and Nic Schiøll Parts of the building are currently under conservation The facade, both exterior and interior, is also preserved A close collaboration with Norwegian building preservation authorities has strengthened the rehabilitation process The renovated facilities has become a pioneer project in terms of environmental design and energy-use, and there has been a unique emphasis on environmental- and resource-friendly solutions The added energy of the building will not exceed 120 kwh/m2year (ie Class B) Project is not public! Floor area/size m² DARK Arkitekter Entra Eiendom DARKarkitekter photo: DARK Arkitekter Metro line 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 or tram 19 and 12 to Majorstua metro station Walk south towards the Vigeland Park and take a right at Middelthunsgate Continue 300 meters, the building is opposite of the park 80

81 photo: DARK Arkitekter photo: DARK Arkitekter NHO headquarters Middelthunsgate Oslo Norway The new headquarter for NHO has been designed with a desire to find the best architectural and functional solutions for preserving the historical values of existing buildings, and for adding qualities to raise the overall appereance of the complex Two folded copper walls enable for the surrounding volumes to open up and address the preservable building The square and the main entrance facing Frognerparken have been emphasized as space for representational exposure for NHO The front square and the park towards the south will be given a new expression by an articulation of the coating and the green fields The expression is inspired by the decoration of the main walls in M27, done by the artist Odd Tandberg photo: DARK Arkitekter Project is not public! Floor area/size m², Interior architect DARK Arkitekter DARKarkitekter NHO - The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise Metro 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 or tram line 19 and 12 to Majorstua, walk south towards the Vigelands Park Take a right at Middelthunsgate and continue 250 meters The building is opposite of the park 81

82 Visma Dronning Eufemias gate Oslo Norway Visma, a Norwegian founded consulting business, has acquired this second building in the Barcode development for relocation of their Oslo headquarters The building is structured as three 'towers', connected internally by large, three-story atriums The towers vary in heights and provide for a semi-sheltered roof terrace on top of the middle tower The building is located in the center of this new development, along a new major street and adjacent to a pedestrian route connecting the areas behind the train lines, by a bridge, with the waterfront and former harbor area This unique location, in a new dense development, anchors the building at ground level with large public spaces and creates a landmark with its 17 stories It will attract both future employees and clients, encouraging a dynamic working environment and culture, enabling Visma to deliver top services to their clients Floor area/size m² Main designer,, Interior architect Interior architect DARK Arkitekter DARKarkitekter Zinc Oslo S Utvikling AS photo: Jiri Havran/DARK Arkitekter 82

83 Sørenga 1 Sørengautstikkeren Oslo Norway Residential development on the Oslo fjord waterfront The project consists of four buildings surrounding a central courtyard Each building has a slanted facade for improved light conditions and sight lines photo: 2012 MAD MAD 83

84 photo: DARK arkitekter photo: DARK arkitekter DnB NOR Kongensgate Oslo Norway The idea was to study the buildings' original qualities, both architectural and constructive, and then to recreate these qualities based on the contemporary and the future workplace All non-supportive elements have been removed on every floor, the ceiling has been raised and daylight is let into the building Flexible workspace is created, to meet the requirements of DnBNOR, and the common areas have been upgraded Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Main designer, Interior architect DARK Arkitekter Zinc DnBNOR ASA / Vital Eiendom AS DARKarkitekter photo: DARK arkitekter Tramway to stortorget or metro to stortinget, walk south from stortorget on Kongensgate untill you reach the number, or walk south from stortinget in øvre slottsgate untill you reach prinsensgate, take a left, and continue untill you meet kongensgate 84

85 photo: DARK Arkitekter photo: DARK Arkitekter Waldermar Garden Waldemars Hage Oslo Norway Waldemar Garden is an innovative housing project situated along Akerselva riverside in Oslo Development of this new housing area started in 1999 One of the primary design intentions was to produce housing that encapsulated the qualities of light and air, an intention that inspired the naming of the project Waldemar Garden Connections and easy access to landscape and city life are at the forefront of the design philosophy The apartments are formed with focus on simple forms and clear design Phase one, Sydkvartalet, comprises 237 apartments of variable sizes, matching the various needs and requirements of its future inhabitants Occupation started Winter 2005 Project is not public! Floor area/size m² DARK Arkitekter Armada Eiendom AS DARKarkitekter photo: DARK Arkitekter Bus to Alexander Kiellands Plass, or to Waldemar Thranes gate Cross the park over to Maridalsveien, and continue down to the next parallel street 85

86 photo: KIMA photo: KIMA Parkveien 5 Parkveien 5 C-B 0350 Oslo Norway The developer's business idea is based on urban and small, awkward sites, so called 'space left over after planning' in central Oslo This site consists of a narrow strip between two party walls The block comprises nine flats, from 18 to 137 sq m The plans are compact but well lit, from the front and rear facades and a central light well that penetrates the structure Two flats have private roof gardens The roof is also equipped with a communal garden As the site is completely built over, the roof gardens become central to the development strategy in order to provide communal outdoor space A tiny gallery offers changing art exhibitions to the public on street level The material strategy has been to use a limited number of high quality materials The facades consist of copper, heat treated pine, exposed concrete and painted steel Interiors are featured with exposed concrete, white surfaces and oak parquet The main structure is concrete post-and-beam Project is not public! Floor area/size m² KIMA Infill BjornarJohnsen photo: KIMA Tram 11, 17, 18 stop at Frydenlund 86

87 photo: DARK Arkitekter photo: DARK Arkitekter Bølgen & Moi restaurant Løvenskioldsgate Oslo Norway An old transformer station remodelled into the new headquarter for an advertising agency, in addition to one of Oslo?s most popular restaurants DARK s developed the concept for both The restaurant contains three adjoining spaces: the Brasserie, a gourmet restaurant and the bar Bølgen & Moi is known for its industrial feel, with a large stone oven and concrete furniture and tables in the front restaurant room The concept was developed through a very close, creative dialogue between client and architect The restaurant was later (2002) expanded with an out-door area photo: DARK Arkitekter Floor area/size m², Interior architect DARK Arkitekter DARKarkitekter Virtual Garden AS, Viken Energu AS Monday - Wednesday: h Thursday - Friday: h Saturday: h Sunday: h Take bus or tram to Briskeby, walk up briskebyveien 300 meters 87

88 photo: DARK Arkitekter photo: DARK Arkitekter Snekkerbygget Støperigata Oslo Norway The project is a rehabilitation of existing 3 story, pluss a glass extention on the outdoor facade A transparent expression on the extention was achieved through thorough detailing and accurate use of materials The woodworker building was originally the workshop for making interiors for the ships built at Akers Mek Reestablishing some of the original qualities in the workshop was one of the main goals Single offices and meeting rooms are gone, and the organization withwork space along the facades and service in the middle is re-introduced A fixed piece of carefully constructed wooden "furniture" contains toilets, printshop, reception and wardrobe Technical sollutions are placed below the floor, so the original vaulted ceiling is visible Project is not public! Floor area/size m², Interior architect DARK Arkitekter DARKarkitekter Norwegian Property ASA Bus or tram to Aker brygge From the main entrance to aker brygge, take the first right, grundingen, follow it to the end and take a left Snekkerbygget is on your right side 88

89 photo: MAD Schous Trondheimsveien Oslo Norway Urban transformation in Grünerløkka, Oslo, developing the former site of Schous brewery into housing 2008 MAD MAD photo: MAD 89

90 photo: Bjørn Erik Pedersen American Embassy Hen rik Ib sens gate Oslo Norway The Em bassy Chan cery on Hen rik Ib sens gate was de si gned by Finnish-American ar chi tect Eero Saarinen, who also de si gned the American Em bassy in London and the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Mis souri It was com ple ted in 1959, and the base of the buil ding, forms a ho ri zon tal tri angle Phy si cal se cu rity mea su res, in clu ding a fence sur roun ding the chan cery, were added after the September 11 attacks in the US Eero Saarinen Rossana photo: C Hill 90

91 photo: Per Maning Nydalen Metro Station Nydalsveien Oslo Norway Nydalen Metro Station consists of a detached entrance pavilion on street level, while the 110-metre long platform area lies 12 metres underground The pavilion's architecture is expressed through a composition of horizontal and vertical levels and planes, which are dynamically cast off in relation to each other The closely-built wall planes are made of black basalt, contrasting and complementing a cast-off glass box in red, symbolizing the red metro wagons This stands as a signal for the station and allows a glimpse of the escalators ascending from the tunnel Installed around the escalators are 1800 neon lights and 44 loudspeakers This 'Tunnel of Light' is a work of art where light, music, technology and architecture become an integral and unified whole photo: Per Maning Floor area/size m² Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter Oslo Public Transport Systems KristinJarmundArkitekter 91

92 photo: Nils Petter Dale photo: Nils Petter Dale Norwegian Ministry of Defence Akershus Fortress Oslo Norway The task was to establish the new Ministry in a series of old and protected buildings at Akershus Fortress in central Oslo New solid blocks fills in the historical pattern, while a more fluent and transparent building links us new and old building blocks in close relation to the historical traces in the landscape photo: Nils Petter Dale Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Landscape designer Jarmund Vigsnæs s Grindaker as Jarmund_Vigsnaes_s 92

93 photo: Snøhetta photo: Statsbygg Opera House Kirsten Flagstads plass 1 N-0150 Oslo Norway The New Opera House has 3 main parts First the 'Front of House': the public areas located in the building s western section These include the main foyer, and 2 auditoriums The foyer is a grand, open room with a variety of lighting conditions and views to the surroundings This space is characterised by simple use of materials and minimal details Secondly the Back of House : these are the production areas of the building with workshops, storage areas, rehearsal rooms etc The architecture is functionally appropriate, the exterior façade is composed of metal panels Last part is the Roofscape: describes the building s monumental character The horizontal and sloping plane of the roof provides the opera with an unusually dramatic expression, quite different from the surrounding buildings Clad in white stone, and it s details will provide a holistic and symbolic character to the building while also allowing for a variety of experiences as one moves past it photo: Snøhetta Floor area/size m² Snøhetta Statsbygg Snohetta 93

94 photo: Kim Muller photo: Kim Muller Fyrstikkterrassen Svovelstikka Oslo Norway Fyrstikkterrassen is an office and multipurpose commercial building located east of the center of Oslo, in an area dominated by building expansion and a post war conflict of architectural styles The client wanted an efficient, leaseable building with a "sellable" visual image The programme included commercial areas for functions not then known, which is reflected in the juxtaposition of the volumes of the building The base contains multipurpose areas with the possibility of double height spaces whereas the blocks contains office functions The project is on an overall town plan level contextual, with clear references to the surroundings buildings, despite its independent architectural expression The defined base of the building strengthens the urban qualities through its direct reference to the surrounding street pattern, and the stepped section of the volumes reflect and link the varying heights of the surrounding buildings photo: Kim Muller Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter Nielsen-Nielsen KristinJarmundArkitekter Located in the Helsfyr area of Oslo 94

95 photo: Richard van Riel photo: Richard van Riel Vigeland Sculpture Park Kirkeveien / Frogner Park Oslo Norway Vigeland Sculpture Park is a part of Frogner Park, located in Oslo, Norway, 3 km northwest of the city centre The park covers 80 acres ( m2) and features 212 bronze and granite sculptures created by Gustav Vigeland Vigeland personally sculpted every figure out of clay and individual craftsmen were contracted to fabricate the pieces into what they are today These works of art reside along an 850 metre-long axis divided into six sections: The Main Gate, The Bridge, The Children's Playground, The Fountain, The Monolith Plateau and the Wheel of Life Vigeland was also in charge of the design and architectural layout of the park (text from Wikipedia) photo: Richard van Riel 1949 Artist, Landscape architect Gustav Vigeland richardvanriel 95

96 photo: JDS s photo: Marco Boella Holmenkollen Ski Jump Kongeveien Oslo Norway The Holmenkollen Ski Jump was the main arena for the 1952 winter Olympic Games, and plays an important part in the Norwegian skiing tradition A new slope emphasizes the existing landmark's values The shape of the silhouette is emphasized with a sharp and simply cut The given wind protection profile is utilized and offset in a parallel manner downward, creating a smooth bended rectangle hosting the slope, the main elevators and the top in-run program The top is then sliced horizontally to accommodate a viewing platform The Knoll building is moved further up the hill to serve as an anchor point for the structure, letting it cantilever and avoid visually disruptive structural supports From a distance the structure will appear as a milky-white sharp profile extending further into the sky with a diffused beam of light; a beacon for Oslo photo: Marco Boella 2011 JDS architects Oslo Municipality JDS Tel: , Fax: , skif@skiforeningenno The Ski Museum in Holmenkollen is the world's oldest museum specialising in skis and the history of skiing The museum is situated inside the actual Holmenkollen ski jump, where visitors can experience a magnificent view of Oslo 96

97 photo: Torben Eskerod photo: Torben Eskerod Bislett Stadium Bislettgata Oslo Norway Bislett in Oslo is the most famous sports complex in the Nordic countries, located in Oslo city centre in one of the city's very characteristic and distinctive neighbourhoods It has been a sports centre since 1907, and the first stadium opened in 1922 In 1995 C F Møller s won the competition for a new Bislett Stadium The most important challenge of the commission was to adapt the new Bislett Stadium to the city and its surroundings The interaction between the Bislett perimeter wall and the surrounding buildings, which are built in a variety of architectural styles, produces diverse and interesting public places From within the stadium, you have a clear sense of the city around you Bislett Stadium was inaugurated for the international Bislett Games in July 2005 Floor area/size m², Landscape architect Contractor C F Møller s C_F_Moller_s NCC Construction A/S Municipality of Oslo photo: Scanpix 97

98 photo: 0047 photo: Schweigaards gate 34 D 0191 Oslo Norway is a platform for projects, exhibitions, publications and events in and in between the fields of art and architecture Founded in Berlin in 2004, 0047 was originally an exhibition space for Norwegian art and architecture but it soon became an internationally based project involving artist, architects and curators from all over the world Since the opening over 130 artists, architects and curators have been involved in over 40 exhibitions and projects, both in our own space or in collaboration with other institutions Over 60 people from all over the world has attended our studio program 0047 is currently located in an old factory in the district of Grønland in Oslo The space includes an exhibition space for contemporary art and architecture, an event space for workshops, screenings and happenings, and studios and offices Combined this program forms an interdisciplinary and international arena that generates new constellations and projects Floor area/size m², Artist 0047 Espen_R photo: 0047 Wed - Fri: 12h-17h Sat - Sun: 12h-16h Enter Schweigaardsgate 34 D from Platousgate Entrance D is directly on your right hand when entering the courtyard 0047 is located on the 1st floor To enter the gallery by elevator, please contact us 98

99 Tjuvholmen Allé 4 Tjuvholmen Allé Oslo Norway Tjuvholmen is part of the seafront-development in Oslo, and will at estimated completion in 2014 contain aprox 1000 apartments, 1500 workplaces and major cultural institutions MAD's project is situated between two other buildings in a narrow street and is defined by its sculptural façade The building consists of shops on the ground floor as a base for eight stories containing 49 rental units, distinguished by a highly exclusive standard photo: William Fairminer 2006 MAD MAD 99

100 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst DFDS Ferry Terminal Dampfærgevej 30 DK-2100 Copenhagen Denmark l This is a ferry passenger terminal for routes to Oslo, Norway, Gdansk and Poland It can handle 3 ferries, 2000 passengers and 400 cars, or 130 trucks The building is a long glass-clad tube, with 2 stories, raised from the ground on heavy pillars in black concrete The glass elements have a varied transparency and give the indoor a significant lightweight character The new facility is designed to integrate all passenger-related activities in one long building At many ferry terminals, passengers have to buy their ticket at a ticket center and then walk down ramps and long corridors to get to the ship Visiting this facility is kind of a strange happening, when large groups of travelers walk from one way to the other, either leaving or arriving The waiting areas are simply a broadened part of the corridor The movement, lining up and waiting happens in the same stretched space At the exterior they are clearly visible as protruding boxes and have a distinct alu-clad façade photo: Naomi Schiphorst Floor area/size m² 3XN Port of Copenhagen boeboe Every day 09:00-17:00 h The Port of Copenhagen is conveniently located close to the S train stations Østerport and Nordhavn Or take bus 26 from the city centre 100