Architype Dialogue presents Richard Francis-Jones Architect behind the 2013 World Building of the Year Award-winning building, the Auckland Art Gallery. Please tell us anything you’d like us to know about the gallery or your award before we begin. Public buildings are important and they should state their significance in a city which is otherwise dominated [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Susan Jones What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Most powerful for us in working on religious buildings is the emotional context in which they are conceived, designed, funded and built. [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Paolino Di Vece Roux What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? According to Pythagoras “this world is false and illusive, a turbid medium in which the rays of heavenly light are [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Zermani Associati What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The notion of spirituality,escaping the liturgical boundaries, has climbed over the walls of the buildings in order to travel and free itself [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents NOMENA Arquitectos What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? To make a building capable of orchestrating an experience that makes man aware of the divine beyond any particular religious belief. In [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Robert Hull What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Interestingly, the most unexpected requirement from the church related to seating. The church already had a traditional chapel with a center aisle [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Diego Quadrelli What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The real challenge for us was to built a Chapel able to mix the Italian style with the Central Africa culture, but [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Eduardo Fernandez What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? La construcción de un edificio religioso plantea el reto de intentar definir con los medios habituales de la arquitectura un espacio de [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Gustavo Penna What was the most difficult issue about working on a building that focuses on religion, or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? I didn’t want to face this theme as a difficulty, I just looked at it the most natural way possible. My thoughts [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Philip Thalis What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Like many cities, Sydney is dotted with disused, dilapidated or mutilated former theatres. How to adapt such buildings while respecting their fabric and [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki & David J. Lewis What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The Arthouse project required us to consider the full trajectory of a building’s history to be more important than [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Tim Greer What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? Inherited buildings or artefacts have an associated consciousness and memory, formed by years of existence. Keeping this in play, is one of one of [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Morris Adjmi What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The most difficult issue in a building like this one, which was loaded with unique architectural details from turn-of-the-century industrial Brooklyn, was knowing [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Marcy Wong & Donn Logan What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? When a building is subject to the jurisdiction of numerous agencies – in this case local, state as well as [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Tomomi Hayashi What was the most difficult issue about working on an adaptive reuse project or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The general public often have created their personal values to the building. These are not reflected in the requirements from the authorities and [&hellip
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Dominique Perrault Dominique Perrault Architecture As architects, the first issue we had to deal with was already expressed in the competition requirements. The challenge was to propose a relevant answer to a commonly… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new [&hellip
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Ivan Juarez x-studio Since its conception, the project Inner Forest, was closely joint to the surroundings that lodged it. During the development of the project… What was the most difficult issue about working within this project type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your design? Since its conception, the [&hellip
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Kristine Matthews & Karen Cheng Studio Matthews / Karen Cheng Our greatest challenges were logistical ones. Our concept required that the elevator flooring change from its original spec of stainless steel to stone tile in order to match… What was the most difficult issue about weaving the environmental graphics into this building or the most [&hellip
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Garry Emery emerystudio How to design unique signage for a utilitarian space. Something beyond the functional, something experimental, to raise an eyebrow, amuse or entertain… What was the most difficult issue about weaving the environmental graphics into this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new design thoughts in this project? The [&hellip
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Patrick Muessig Azon USA MLP™ (mechanical lock profile) utilizes an encapsulated mechanical locking thermal barrier to give the highest structural properties available combined with the industry’s best warranty. The… What is the role of your materials and products in the development of today’s leading architectural ideas? As a supplier of thermal barrier technology for manufacturers [&hellip
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Bendheim Wall Systems provided 33,000 square feet of Lamberts channel glass for the award-winning Minneapolis Central Library. The use of the 17-feet-tall glass channels in the interior partitions… How did your product contribute to the success and innovation of the Minneapolis Central Library and Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure? Bendheim Wall Systems provided 33,000 [&hellip
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What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? There were a few major challenges with the Mumbai Airport project. One was the complex project phasing, driven by the interim necessity of maintaining the existing terminal functions, utilities, [&hellip
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Pascall+Watson architects The most difficult issue/unexpected challenge, was the degree to which the site was constrained and this became the catalyst that drove creative thinking and innovation… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The most [&hellip
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Chris M. Baribeau Modus Studio The airport terminal building type is wrought with code and agency approval…but in this particular small project these paper limits lead to thoughtful master planning and a careful insertion of an… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may [&hellip
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Matthew Bedward bblur architecture The key challenge was to turn an unglamorous functional building type, indeed one that had blighted the perception of Slough in the past, into a new landmark and gateway building. We did this by questioning the… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most [&hellip
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Pascall+Watson architects J. Mayer H. Architects J. MAYER H Architects’ studio, focuses on works at the intersection of architecture, communication and new technology. One major investment in our work is looking at expanding the material of… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may [&hellip
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Curt Fentress Fentress Architects The area around San Jose is, of course, Silicon Valley – but the history of the region is much longer than that. Once upon a time there were orchards on the site. Our challenge was to combine San Jose’s past… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building [&hellip
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Raymond Pan HMC Architects Being a building fostering that fosters the flow of movements, one primary difficulty in the design of this building type is was to create an exciting and relevant traveling… What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new [&hellip
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Stephen Minning BrandCulture Communications BrandCulture was originally engaged to create a ‘skin’ for the glass-dividing wall between the fabrication workshop and the 24 hour studio. Whilst exploring… What was the most difficult issue about weaving the environmental graphics into this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new design thoughts in this [&hellip
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Nuno Gusmão P-06 Atelier The main challenge in this project, was to find a meaningfull and comunicative texture to perforate the walls, we didn’t want to have perforations only in a decorative way, the concept we used… What was the most difficult issue about weaving the environmental graphics into this building or the most unexpected [&hellip
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Sascha Lobe L2M3 Kommunikations design Sometimes central communication ideas can develop from unfavourable and even unintended circumstances. The main problem with Munich Technology Centre… What was the most difficult issue about weaving the environmental graphics into this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new design thoughts in this project? Sometimes central [&hellip
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What was the most difficult issue about weaving the environmental graphics into this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new design thoughts in this project? The most difficult issue was dealing with the relation between our proposed signage system and the Zaha Hadid’s building. An approach characterized by the respect for [&hellip
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Soren Luckins Büro North The most challenging issue for Büro North working on ACMI was the complexity of the site itself. Starting with a strategic review of the site, and the operational… What was the most difficult issue about weaving the environmental graphics into this building or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced [&hellip
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Patrick Angelel Creo Industrial Arts CRĒO Industrial Arts is a custom fabricator who produces a variety of elements for the built environment such as signage, illuminated fixtures, exterior furniture and kiosks, and other architectural enhancements. 1. Tell us about yourself, your company, your services. CRĒO Industrial Arts is a custom fabricator who produces a variety [&hellip
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Oliver Thill & André Kempe Atelier Kempe As architects we mostly work for public or private clients and are not used to realize works in real public space. We were amazed on how many meetings we had to attend and how many people we… What was the most difficult issue about working within this project [&hellip
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Peter Eising Pacific Environments Architects Working in an environment of a living tree, where there are no building codes. The tree needed structural testing using a ‘ping-test’ where a rope and measuring system was set up to test the trunk… What was the most difficult issue about working within this project type or the most [&hellip
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Nic Goldsmith FTL Design Engineering Studio The most difficult issue from a design perspective was developing a design which could be moved after five years and then reinstalled in sectional parts at other points on the campus… What was the most difficult issue about working within this project type or the most unexpected challenge that [&hellip
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Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio Del Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez & Diego Ricalde MMX – Jorge Arvizu, et al. Pavilions tend to be temporary structures that, in most cases… What was the most difficult issue about working within this project type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your design? Pavilions tend to [&hellip
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Stephen E. Hamwey Sasaki Associates A challenge—which we anticipated—was balancing the port’s mission of a “green and environmentally conscious” space with the community’s vision for the park… With this particular landscape architecture project, what was the most difficult issue your firm faced or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought and unique [&hellip
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Ben van Berkel UNStudio One of the advantages of the pavilion typology is in fact that these structures are temporary, as they create opportunities for testing out ideas… Time is an inherent characteristic of the pavilion typology; the pavilion most often being a structure of either temporality or semi-permanence. How does this attribute affect the [&hellip
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