100 Cheapside London Office Building

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Design: Skanska. A new commercial building in the City of London moved a step closer to completion today with the topping out of 100 Cheapside. The 134,548sqft (12,500sqm) building is the latest addition to Skanska’s portfolio of commercial projects in the City. Due to complete in September, it will offer office accommodation over nine floors, plus retail facilities on the ground floor and basement storage.

Hongcheng Office Building Interior

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Design: Peter Ruge Architekten

Commissioned by the buildings owner, the brief called for a unified interior de-sign throughout the common areas that included an upgrading of the main lobby, foyers, corridors and amenities. The 3 story high entrance hall spans approxi-mately 450 square meters to form the central reception, waiting and information area of the overall complex.

National Research Center for Endangered Species

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Samoo Architects & Engineers recently unveiled the design for the new National Research Center for Endangered Species which is to be located in Yeongyang-gun, one of the cleanest environmental areas in Korea. The complex is aimed to provide a hub for the study, education, and research on rare plants and animals of the Korean peninsula.

Market Headquarters Budapest Office Building

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Architect: Schön Architects, Lead Architect: Sandor Duzs/ArkTOON. With a mixed use neighbourhood needing modern and design-led office space, a dynamic and forward thinking construction company as a client and an eye catching landmark hoped for; a simple, honest and abstract way to achieve the aim was to cut off a slice from the space around

One New Street Square, London Offices

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Skanska wins commercial contract in the City of London. Skanska has secured a £97 million contract to build One New Street Square on behalf of its client Land Securities. The team will use its expertise in construction, mechanical and electrical engineering and the installation of bespoke ceilings to deliver a modern office building over 20 floors

Luis Pons Design Lab Projects, Florida, USA

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Design: Luis Pons Design Lab. This Miami Beach family residence residence was designed to reclaim the relationship between inside and outside as well as the traditional tropical language used in Miami Beach in the first five decades of the 20 century. The project emphasis on the transition between the inside and outside space.

Landesgartenschau: German Zaha Hadid Building

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Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

The project was designed to serve as an event and exhibition space for the garden festival in Weil am Rhein 1999. The suggested structure does not sit in the landscape as an isolated object, but emerges from the fluid geometry of the surrounding network of paths.

Ardeko Office Building, France

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Design: be baumschlager eberle

Ardeko won pre-certification “LEED-Platinum”

The internationally active architectural firm be baumschlager eberle, the client Hines and the investor Ivanhoé Cambridge are pleased to receive the pre-certification “LEED Platinum” for the recently opened office building “Ardeko” in Boulogne-Billancourt (F). Tested according to the standards of the U.S. Green Building Council, Ardeko gained the highest rating level. Location, concept, water consumption, energy consumption, protection of the atmosphere, use of building materials and interior design were all evaluated.

BNP Paribas Fortis HQ: Brussels Headquarters

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BNP Paribas Fortis outlines plans for its new headquarters designed by be baumschlager eberle. Following an architectural design competition run in 2013, BNP Paribas Fortis has chosen this architecture office to build its new HQ. After demolishing the current building, construction of the new premises is expected to be completed towards the end of 2021.

Korea Appraisal Board Headquarters in Daegu: HQ

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Design: SAMOO Architects & Engineers. The horizontal mass of the podium represents a solid foundation with double-height open lobby and public-service facilities that will welcome visitors. With transparent curtain-wall facades, activities at the podium will be projected to the street level which will be invigorated with landscape & lighting features.

Allied London Spinningfields Office

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Design: Cartwright Pickard. The application, for the last empty plot at the prestigious Spinningfields development in Manchester, was passed unanimously. Work is due to start on the construction of the building in late spring 2014. The 22,600 sqm ‘Cotton Building’ is specifically aimed at the fast expanding TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) sector.