Commissioned by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda(EMV), the social housing scheme is located on plot 203 of a new development in Verona, in the Villaverde district of southern Madrid. Comprised of 176 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments, the scheme responds to an overall masterplan for the site which requested a single U-shaped block, 15m deep, and with a footprint of just over 2,000m2. Like other buildings within the same development, it also required that the block be eight stories high and have the appearance of a pitched roof. Within …
Pantaenius House, Hamburg, Germany
This office building forms part of a new masterplan for the HafenCity in Hamberg as part of a revitalisation program for a harbour which has lost its significance as one of Europe’s leading trade and shipping centres. The building will accommodate the head office of Pantaenius-Versicherungsgesellschaft (a yacht insurance broker) and is situated in the “Speicherstadt”, a historic area of shipping warehouses and the key architectural element of the historic harbour development of Hamburg. The design of the building attempts to find both a material and formal …
Hotel Beaumont, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Hotel Beaumont Residence is a third generation family business located near to Maastricht train station. The hotel was founded in 1912 in a 4-storey corner building constructed in 1885. From this point the hotel gradually expanded along the adjoining buildings of the same block and adapted itself to acquire the status of a modern 4-star hotel with 121 rooms.
The recent replanning was prompted by the acquisition of further adjoining buildings that were to be integrated into the existing hotel configuration. The objective was to restructure the …
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, USA/ David Chipperfield
The centre of Davenport, located on the banks of the Mississippi on Iowa’s eastern border, suffers from many of the problems endemic to a number of American cities. Over the years the area has witnessed the departure of much of its residential and business community, leaving downtown Davenport with little of the vibrancy normally associated with urban life. In an attempt to reinvigorate this area, and recreate a connection to the river, the city identified the relocation and re-building of the Davenport Museum of …
Museum of Modern Literature Marbach am Neckar, Germany
The museum is located in Marbach’s scenic park, on top of a rock plateau overlooking the valley of the Neckar River. As the birthplace of the dramatist Friedrich Schiller, the town’s park already held the National Schiller Museum, built in 1903, and the Archive for German Literature, built in the 1970s. Displaying artefacts from the extensive 20th century collection from the Archive for German Literature, notably the original manuscripts of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” and Alfred Doeblin’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, the museum also provides …