Fairfax Avenue Apartment, Bellevue Hills, Sydney

Fairfax Avenue Apartment 5

Rolf Ockert Design were approached by a bachelor who had just bought a penthouse apartment in an upmarket suburb of Sydney’s East. The apartment occupied the entire top floor of a 1940’s building and had great views over Sydney harbour.

River Champagne Bar Competition

River Champagne Bar Competition 2

The aim of this International Competition is to design a Champagne Bar along the Paris river “Seine” and by the romantic “Pont des Arts”. Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It is situated on the River Seine, in the north of the country. Within its administrative limits (the 20 arrondissements), the city had 2,234,105 inhabitants in 2009.

YArch Workshop – Cyprus Architecture Event

YAarch Workshop 2014

Supported by: Cyprus Architects Association

We are contacting you regarding our architectural workshop called YArch-Workshop in order to give you further information on the competition we proclaimed and on YArch Workshop in general. YArch Wroskhop offers two main services. First service is divided in our architectural competition followed by our workshop and the second service is our architectural blog.

Familistère in Guise, France Building

Familistere in Guise 6

Design: h2o architectes. The Familistère is a vast housing complex founded by Jean-Baptiste André Godin in 1859 in relation with the stove manufacturing business. Until 1968, this Social Palace was the theatre of a unique social experimentation in the industrial world

Rubinsztein House, South Coogee residence

NSW Waterfront Property 5

Design: Rolf Ockert Design: The client had just purchased the site, a small but stunningly located oceanfront property with panoramic views of the Pacific, when they were introduced to me.

Melbourne Park Western Precinct Arena

Melbourne Park

Procurement begins for second stage of Melbourne Park redevelopment. Work to begin on the $338m second stage of the Melbourne Park redevelopment. Expressions of Interest called to design the new Administration and Media building.

Eyebeam Brooklyn, Lafayette Avenue Building

Eyebeam Brooklyn

Design: WORK Architecture Company. Cultural facility as part of mixed-use development designed by Dattner Architects / Bernheimer Architecture. Eyebeam is pleased to announce the selection of WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) as the architectural firm to design Eyebeam’s future facility in Brooklyn, located at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place.

Punta Ixtapa Resort Development, Mexico

Punta Ixtapa 8

Design: JSª. The complex has 102 apartments, of about 2,700-2,960 sq ft (duplex and simplex), in four towers, with different distribution layouts with a total area of 305,360 sq ft. Inside the complex there are two swim clubs with three pools each, one pool for free swim, one for training, and one for kids.

Barclays Center Brooklyn, Atlantic Yards New York

Barclays Center, Brooklyn

Design: SHoP Architects. Award nomination for DMD Weathering Steel patina on the exterior of the Barclays Center, New York, New York, NY. The Barclay’s Center Arena was constructed with a latticework composed of 12,000 pre-weathered steel panels. Taking a cue from the Japanese Wabi-Sabi aesthetic, the tactility of the metal is designed to gracefully age without comprising the integrity of the cladding.

Louis Vuitton Santiago – Chile Retail Space

Louis Vuitton Santiago 1

Design: Jose-Carlos Valdivia de Los Ríos + Gustavo Carmona

Louis Vuitton designers have selected Accoya®, the world-leading modified wood, manufactured by Accsys Technologies, for the brand’s second store in Latin America.

The prestigious clothing and accessories store, located in Santiago, Chile, was designed by Louis Vuitton architect, Jose-Carlos Valdivia de Los Ríos and Gustavo Carmona, a Mexican architect who lead the Materia-Arquitectónica study.

Carlos Monsivais Personal Library, Mexico City

Carlos Mosnivais Personal Library 1

Design: JSª. Located in the west wing of the “Jose Vasconcelos” Library in Mexico, the personal library of Carlos Monsivais is a space where the personal collection created by the writer’s mind is safeguarded for public use. The architectural project´s starting point is a selection of specific characteristics of Carlos Monsivais.

UK Pavilion Expo 2015 Milan building design

UK Pavilion Expo 2015 Milan

Location: Milan, Italy. The focal point of the UK Pavilion, designed by Wolfgang Buttress, will be a delicate and ethereal golden orb structure made of fine steel lattice based on an abstracted analogue of honeycomb

New House in Montferrier sur Lez, France

New House Montferrier-sur-lez 1

Design: NBJ architects. Situated in a pine forest on a plot with a steep, the first job was the creation of an enabling environment for the establishment of a home. The slope is both the first constraint and the major asset of the place to embrace an open landscape on the horizon.

Bronte House, Sydney, New South Wales coast home

Bronte House 5

The client approached Rolf Ockert Design architects to create house of their dreams on a site perched high over the Pacific Ocean, a home that was to make them feel like being on holiday every day.