Archive for May, 2008
Black Box, Beirut, Lebanon
The black box is located next to a major department store on the northbound highway of Greater Beirut. The neighboring fashion retailer is a self-advertising 40×25 meters Corten steel box. In a context, saturated with billboards and signs wrapping the surrounding buildings’ exteriors, we intend to highlight the black box’s which was initially invisible from […]
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Conversion Theatre 11, Zurich, Switzerland
Nowadays musical theatres are inherent parts of our urban cultural landscape. There is a correlation between the establishment of this popular performing art and the choice of unconventional venues. Former industrial halls often give the musicals a special atmosphere. Both the rich industrial history of the location Oerlikon and the prominent neighbourhood to the Hallenstadion […]
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Keep Off the Grass! Planar Landscape Phenomena, Los Angeles, CA
The project was a temporary exhibit at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc) installed in the schools gallery for an eight week period between December 12, 2003 and February 6, 2004.
The ubiquitous lawn was the subject of this heuristic exercise about our cultural relationship to that thin plane of suburban carpet. The installation included […]
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Plaka Comex Pavilion, Mexico City, Mexico
Once again, Plaka Comex was presented in Expo - Cihac 2007, the most important exhibition of construction and architecture in Mexico. The Versatility, Flexibility and Facility to apply the product were the guidelines of design for this Showroom the intention was to show the product, the new launchings and the facility in its application.
The Showroom […]
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Une piece Moiree, rosio, Switzerland
A working, living and thinking space. A green field. A spring wave. The Wood. The Mountains. Copper as primary matter. Plastic, ductile, malleable. Architecture as a reassuring presence. A rhythmic code is wrapping the shell, container of emotions. Solid and Pure matter from the outside, surprisingly permeable to the landscape from the inside. Stability and […]
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Stumptown Cafe - Ace Hotel, Portland, OR, USA
Located in the lobby of the new Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon, the Stumptown Cafe boasts artisan coffees brewed a cup at a time. The intent of this cafe is to give people a unique experience with coffee-encouraging customers to stand along the bar and enjoy a shot of espresso, or meander through the offerings […]
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Cremorne Riverside Centre, World’s End, Chelsea, USA
The new Cremorne Riverside Centre is designed to replace and existing facility that is currently operating out of two shipping containers. The aim of the new buildings is to improve the standard of facilities as well as improve access to them, permitting both able bodied and disabled pupils from the local area (including school groups) […]
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Educational Institute, Dhavalgiri, Dharwad, India
The site’s basic configuration was that of a half bowl with some comparatively flat land at the ridge and in the valley. A railway line ran along the highest contour. While visualizing a building that responds to the site character, it become more & more obvious that the main building should hug the bowl slopes […]
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BLC Bank, Chtaura, Lebanon
The BLC Bank mission consists of a complete architectural identity package including design and decoration work. Our first assignment (2002) includes the design of the pilot branch in Beirut, which incorporates all the architectural features that will be adopted in the 37 remaining local branches. The majority of the works will be executed in existing […]
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Extension Public Records Office Canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
The public records office is the collective memory of the political, economic and cultural life of a canton. This makes the questions of an adequate urban location and appropriate architectural expression of central importance.
The location of the existing public records office amidst smaller and larger residential buildings, cut off from the town centre by the […]
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