LogMeIn : By Architecture3s

Woburn, MA, USA
Architecture3s
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Photo © Courtesy of Greg Premru Photography

As offices expand many clients look to use the opportunity to capture the momentum of their business and establish a new aesthetic for the company. In many instances the existing office is a reflection of a starting business, more focused on getting into a space and starting up rather then focusing on employee needs and a design that captures their business culture. LogMeIn sought to capture their expansion needs as a way to exemplify the company’s technologically rich and inventive spirit.

Hunsett Mill : By acme

Norfolk Broads National Park, United Kingdom 
acme
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Photo © Courtesy of Cristobal Palma--facade of extension

The hunsett mills renovation project, by london-based architecture firm acme, was guided by a focus on environmentally friendly practices and the desire to create a building that would fit naturally into the landscape, in terms of both aesthetics and function.

Villa Roling : By Paul de Ruiter

Kudelstaart, Netherlands
Paul de Ruiter
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Photo © Courtesy of Pieter Kers

The clients of villa Röling are passionate art collectors. They love to be surrounded by works of art. Therefore their main wish regarding their new dwelling was that it would do greatest justice to their collection of paintings and sculptures. However, the location of their

Port Townsend Residence : By Lawrence Architecture

Port Townsend, Washington, United States
Lawrence Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Benjamin Benschneider and Tollefson Builders

Lawrence Architecture designed this two bedroom home on a 10 acre site near Port Townsend, Washington, for a retired couple who were moving ashore after 30 years of living on a sailboat.

Froschkönig Treehouse : By Baumraum

Münster, Germany
Baumraum
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Photo © Courtesy of Baumraum

The German treehouse designers at Baumraum have completed the Froschkönig treehouse.

Madrona Residence : By Vandeventer + Carlander Architects

Seattle, Washington, United States
Vandeventer + Carlander Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Vandeventer + Carlander Architects

Sited on a narrow thirty-five foot urban lot, the house design maximizes access to natural light and views yet maintains privacy.

Luna2 Private Hotel : By David Wahl and Melanie Hall

Bali, Indonesia
David Wahl and Melanie Hall
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Photo © Courtesy of David Wahl and Melanie Hall

Luna2 is a private beachfront hotel in Bali, Indonesia that has been designed by American architect David Wahl, with interiors by owner and interior designer Melanie Hall.
The hotel is called “private” because they only accept one guest booking at a time for the five bedroom Richard Neutra-inspired beachfront house.

Museum of Earth : By Weiss/Manfredi

New York, United States
Weiss/Manfredi
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Photo © Courtesy of Paul Warchol

Manhattan-based Weiss Manfredi have shared their museum design for Ithaca, New York’s Paleontological Research Institution, which houses one of the United States’ largest paleontological collections.  Situated in the Finger Lakes region, the natural landforms of the site inspired the architects to take advantage of the existing gradual 40 ft slope – a feature which resulted from a receding ice sheet more than 20,000 years ago.  Rather than considering the site as distinct and separate from the museum, this project creates a new topography: a continuous, terraced landscape that fuses architecture and ecology into a cohesive expression of the geologic processes involved in the region’s formation.

Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center : By REX

Istanbul, Turkey
REX
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Photo © Courtesy of Iwan Baan, REX

The internationally-renowned architecture and design firm REX recently has completed the Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center in Istanbul, Turkey. The project will serve as corporate headquarters of Vakko (Turkey’s preeminent fashion house) and Power Media (Turkey’s best-known music and television network). It was built based on the existing abandoned hotel’s structure, REX divided the project into two structurally independent components – The outer ring concrete skeleton and the center ring for a set of steel boxes named the Showcase, it also acts to serve the circulation path that winds from bottom to top of the Showcase.

Studio of Bark Design Architects

Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia
Bark Design Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Bark Design Architects

Bark Design Architects, a small Australian practice located in Noosa Heads, Queensland, have designed a studio for themselves to work in.

Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House : By Foster + Partners

Dallas, Texas, United States
Foster + Partners
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Photo © Courtesy of Timothy Hursley

Opera Reaches Out: Using a Modern vocabulary, Foster + Partners reinterprets the traditional music hall to create the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House.
With a steel-frame canopy stretching well beyond its performance hall, the Winspear Opera House reaches out to other constituents of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. As designed by Foster + Partners, the building reflects the values of Bill Winspear, the Canadian-born entrepreneur who donated $43 million to the approximately $150 million project to share his passion for music with as many people as possible and make sure the hall’s acoustics would be excellent. Certainly, the second goal has been realized, and the opera house’s design encourages the first.

Club NOX : By Metro Arquitectura

Recife, Brazil
Metro Arquitectura
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Photo © Courtesy of Metro Arquitectura

The commission from three young entrepreneurs, two of them DJ’s with a growing reputation, was to create a dance club never seen in Recife, that could become a reference in Brazil and even in the world. It should be divided in two main spaces, the dance floor and a lounge area with an open terrace to the sky. The building site, a lot located in a corner at one of the most important avenues of Recife.

Bridge Building : By Atelier PHILEAS

Fontenay, France
Atelier PHILEAS
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Photo © Courtesy of Stephan Lucas

Bridging the railway canyon

To conform with regulations on building standards and disabled access, the RATP [Paris urban transport authority] has decided to make its RER [suburban network] stations, in particular those on the ‘A’ line, accessible to people with specific needs. Philéas and the Arcadis surveying firm were consulted and selected to redevelop several stations, including the one at Fontenay-sous-Bois, an inner suburb of Paris.

ALV Showroom : By Fabio Novembre

Milan, Italy
Fabio Novembre
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Photo © Courtesy of Fabio Novembre

The sinuous lines of the surfaces of the display units flow inside the display space, which revolves around a central fulcrum, the ‘atom’, consisting of an open, permeable, circular element defined solely by its ‘skeleton’, solid but ethereal as the material it is made from, HI-MACS.

Loft Clauwaert : By adn Architectures

Brussels, Belgium
adn Architectures
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Photo © Courtesy of adn Architectures

The challenge was to furnish a 100 sqm space “casco” in a spirit “loft” , within a tiny budget. In order to preserve crossing spaces and to bring depth into the views, the idea was simple: to insert all the technical and functional elements in a piece of furniture, placed itself all along the side wall. Then, we put a central volume (bathroom) in the middle of the loft. To this one are grafted a designed furniture (as a Hi-Fi corner in the living room, a desk and a library) which induces separation between two distinct spaces (bedroom on one side, office/guest room on the other).

Flat #1 : By Ecole

Paris, France
Ecole
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Photo © Courtesy of Xavier Lucas

Facing the Eglise Saint-Gervais on one side and the Hôtel de Ville de Paris on the other, this 95 sqm apartment occupies the whole of the the two top floors of an 18th century building. The project comprised a full restructuration of the existing space and the conception of some

Harkavy Residence : By Robert M. Gurney

Potomac, Maryland, United States
Robert M. Gurney
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Photo © Courtesy of Anice Hoachlander | HD Photo

This house of 2,900 sqf is located on a one acre, wooded lot, adjacent to park land outside of Washington, DC. The house is sited away from the road and oriented toward views deep into the woods. The sequence of entry is defined by a series of walls, intended to privatize and delineate the approach and entry into the house. The walls, garage volume and house become a threshold between the road and the wooded parkland.

Rantilla Residence : By Michael Rantilla

Raleigh, Carolina, United States
Michael Rantilla--Freelon Group
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Photo © Courtesy of Mark Herboth

Architect Michael Rantilla, a Senior Associate with the Freelon Group, designed this house for himself in a woodsy area south-west of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Sriash Residence : By Poetics

HSR layout, Bengaluru, India
Poetics
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Photo © Courtesy of K. Senthil Nathan

‘Sriash’ residence is pure urban house. The design spring from staircase as a tree that bears fruitful spaces. The modest entry welcomes us to the one and half height volume of guest living space. It leads to five steps level of family living, kitchen and dining space. Steps/ staircase is embryo of the house. From family living level you climb ten steps, it opens to home theatre. From that mid level, you climb again it opens to study space and links to two children bedrooms. From the study space you could look down to the family living.

Mulligan Residence : By Scott Edwards Architecture

Manzanita, Oregon, United States
Scott Edwards Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Scott Edwards Architecture

This 2200 sf home, designed by Rick Berry, of Scott Edwards Architecture, is in the heart of the coastal community of Manzanita, Oregon. The structure exemplifies the northwest vernacular, including large overhangs and expanses of glass walls, natural indigenous materials such as concrete, and cedar, and multiple opportunities to enjoy the open floor plan both inside and out.

Palabritas Beach House : By Jose Orrego

Lima, Peru
Jose Orrego
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Photo © Courtesy of Jose Orrego

The house is located on the first row of lots and was designed so that the architecture acted like a frame to the view of the beach and the islands that are found in front of the house.

Rahimoana Villa : By Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects

Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects

Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects designed the Rahimoana Villa, which is part of the
Eagle’s Nest Resort located in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.

The Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland : By Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat

Gdańsk, Poland
Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat
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Image © Courtesy of Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat

The jury for the Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland have recently announced the winner. Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat received 1st Prize and will design the new museum in Gdańsk, the city where the war broke out. 2nd Prize was awarded to Polish architects Piotr Płaskowicki & partnerzy Architekci and 3rd Prize to Greece-based BETAPLAN S.A.

Centro Abierto de Actividades Ciudadanas : By Paredespino Studio

Cordoba, Spain
Paredespino Studio
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Photo © Courtesy of jorge lópez conde and paredes pino

Located close to cordoba railway station the project offers a covered area, protected from the weather, which will house a temporary market two days a week and other activities.

Leeb Fruit Orchard : By Architects Collective

Wiener Strasse 40, A-7161 St. Andrä am Zicksee, Austria
Architects Collective
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Photo © Courtesy of Architects Collective

Austrian architect Architects Collective recently has completed the fruit production facility for the Leeb Fruit Orchard. It was built in “passive house” standard by the prefabricated structure, wall and roof elements which were primarily constructed using renewable and recycled materials.

Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya : By Gilberto Borja

Cancun, Mexico
Gilberto Borja
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Photo © Courtesy of Gilberto Borja & Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya

Mexican architect Gilberto Borja has designed the Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya Resort.
The Riviera Maya is located on a 36-acre site, about 26 miles south of Cancun, Mexico.

Nautical Portonovo : By Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos

Portonovo, Galicia, Spain
Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos
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Photo © Courtesy of Mark Ritchie

The site for the Nautical Sports Services Building of Portonovo is located at the end of the marina breakwater. (Sanxenxo, Pontevedra) The project aims at expanding and improving facilities for the Nautical Sports Services of the port. This will take the demolition of part of the existing building and relocation of the different uses inside. The idea cosists in wrapping the original building with a new facade of black-colored phenolic panels, giving a modern view of the Club and guaranteeing waterproofing and insulation in this exposed area.

Tel Aviv Port Public Space Regeneration Project : By Mayslits Kassif Architects

Tel Aviv, Israel
Mayslits Kassif Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Daniela Orvin

Situated on one of Israel’s most breathtaking waterfronts, the Tel Aviv Port was plagued with neglect since 1965, when its primary use as an operational docking port was abandoned. The recently completed public space development project managed to restore this unique part of the city, and turn it into a prominent, vivacious urban landmark.

Topline Office Interior : By HEAD Architecture and Design

Dongguan, China
HEAD Architecture and Design
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Photo © Courtesy of  HEAD Architecture and Design

Topline’s existing factory and office in Dongguan – a rather drab Chinese industrial building with attached dormitory – were given an overhaul to give them a more modern branded feel. This was intended to last for the 18 month period while their new premises were under design and construction. A totally remodeled entrance and waiting area were created.

Haiku Sushi : By Imagine Native

International Finance Center, Shanghai, China
Imagine Native
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Photo © Courtesy of  Kingkay Architectural Photography

The new Haiku Sushi is located at the open courtyard of the recently completed Shanghai International Finance Center. We utilize the concept of origami as the major driven force throughout the design. The restaurant space is sub divided in different zones, sushi bar, drinking bar, two main dining areas, booth seating and tatami rooms.

Tiger Restaurant : By ICrave Design

Beverly Hills, California, United States
ICrave Design
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Photo © Courtesy of ICrave Design

Tiger is pared down to raw essentials. The menu uses minimal, fresh ingredients to create a unique flavor, bringing Japanese cuisine back to basics. The design reflects this approach by using a minimal palette of materials to achieve a natural, casual and luminous dining experience.

Candela House : By zigzag arquitectura

Soto de Dego, Parres, Principado de Asturias, Spain
zigzag arquitectura
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Photo © Courtesy of B. Angelini and D. Casino

A family meeting place
The starting point was the need for a house large enough for the variable and regular meeting of a family composed of 6 subfamilies, with a total of 10 adults and 8 children. The idea was to create a family shelter, a place to meet and escape from urban life, with a low budget and the scarce construction resources available in a relatively isolated location.

Family House in Zellerndorf : By Franz Architekten

Zellerndorf, Austria
Franz Architekten
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Photo © Courtesy of Franz Architekten

Vienna-based firm franz architekten reinterprets the traditional extended farmhouse
with their design of 'family house in zellerndorf' located in lower austria. taking the region's
typology of dividing the architecture into its individual programs (residence, barn, stables),
the single-family dwelling utilizes three separate volumes of 6.6m x 16.6m and provides
a straight course of circulation with a long, glazed passageway.

Minimalist House : By Shinichi Ogawa & Associates

Okinawa, Japan
Shinichi Ogawa & Associates / Urbanist Architect
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Photo © Courtesy of Shinichi Ogawa & Associates

This building is a court house for a couple in Itoman-shi, Okinawa, Japan.
The house is built on a 3M grid module in all XYZ directions, while it is composed of 4 vertical plates as exterior walls and 1 horizontal plate as a roof slab. A functional layout is created by inserting a void of 3M x 18M which is the court for the house and wall-like furniture into the concrete structure space which dimensions are 3.0M (3×1) high by 9.0M (3×3) wide and by 18.0M (3×6) long.

Weigel Residence : By Substance Architecture

Copper Mountain, Colorado, United States
Substance Architecture
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Photo © Courtesy of Farshid Assassi/Assassi Productions

This 4,000 square foot residence is a vacation home for a couple and their four young children.  Located on a quarter-acre site in a residential development in Copper Mountain, Colorado, the home is comprised of a single-story, post-and-beam pavilion containing the primary living and entertainment spaces, and a four-story, conventionally framed tower containing the service spaces and bedrooms.

Garren Residence : By PIQUE

Bend, Oregon, United States
PIQUE
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Photo © Courtesy of PIQUE

The Garren Residence rests on a high desert prairie site and is a very low-slung building, with strong horizontal elements to visually tie the building to the landscape.

Balaton-Felvidék Estate Centre : By László Vincze dla

Balaton-felvidék, Hungary
László Vincze dla
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Photo © Courtesy of László Vincze

A picturesque village of 500 people located in the centre of the Káli basin. The estate was founded in 1949 for the purpose of animal husbandry. Along the years the facility had declined, the buildings had become dilapidated. The estate has changed hands which meant that the animal husbandry ended.

Langley Academy : By Foster + Partners

Slough, England
Foster + Partners
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Photo © Courtesy of Nigel Young

With an enclosed full-height atrium at the heart of the three-storey building, the social life of the school revolves around this assembly space for 1,100 students. A recurrent element in several other of Foster + Partners’ academy buildings, the atrium is defined by a sense of transparency and openness – like a gallery of learning – which in this case also resonates with the museum theme. Inside the atrium there are three yellow drums raised above the floor on circular columns.

V&A at Dundee Shortlisted Design : By Steven Holl Architects

Dundee, Scotland
Steven Holl Architects
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Image © Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects

Steven holl architects is one of the six shortlisted teams for the international design competition of a new cultural and design center in scotland, 'V&A at dundee'. organized by london's victoria and albert museum, abertay and dudee universities, dundee city council and
scottish enterprise, the winning design is planned to open in 2014.

Bayside Marina Hotel : By Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

Seaside of Yokohama, Japan
Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

The bayside marian hotel by japanese firm yasutaka yoshimura architects is based on the form of the shipping container. located on the seaside of yokohama, the prefabricated
modular cottages are randomly placed on the site, allowing for each residence to have
different views.the long narrow containers have been fabricated in thailand and assembled in japan.each unit is made up of two containers which are stacked upon one another.

Helix Hotel : By Leeser Architecture

Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Leeser Architecture
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Image © Courtesy of Leeser Architecture

New York based Leeser Architecture has won a competition for the design of the Helix Hotel that is to be built in Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Called the Helix Hotel for its staggered floor plates, it rests in the bay, partially floating in the water and adjacent to the serpentine Sheik Zayed Bridge currently under construction by designer Zaha Hadid. With the Helix, Leeser Architecture has devised a new way to consider hotel culture in the Emirates, highlighting elements that are usually unseen, and playfully enlivening those parts that traditionally remain static and mundane.

Housing Bjørnveien : By Dahle Dahle Breitenstein

Oslo, Norway
Dahle Dahle Breitenstein
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Photo © Courtesy of Nils-Petter Dale

A small-housing development, eight houses in total, make up this complex situated at the edge of Oslo’s suburbs and city center.  The architects blended  detached house, row house, and apartment concepts to create inventive row houses that could meet a range of different needs.  Versatility, multiple exterior spaces, communal courtyard, submersed parking, and balconies are just some of the features. 

Retirement Home : By Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Riedisheim, France
Atelier Zündel & Cristea
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Photo © Courtesy of Atelier Zündel & Cristea

This retirement home is located on the heights of Riedisheim (a suburb of Mulhouse), in a residential neighborhood. The conjunction of geophysical and regulatory constraints rendered this plot of land difficult to build upon : its elongated form, its gradient exceeding 10%, and the very restrictive POS regulations applicable to it were a priori incompatible with the size and demands of the project.

The Sail @ Marina : By nbbj

Marina Bay, Singapore
nbbj
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Photo © Courtesy of Tim Griffith

The Sail @ Marina Bay by NBBJ is the mixed-use building comprising apartment units, several restaurants, health clubs, recreation decks with pools and tennis courts, and parking. As the 10th largest residential high-rise in the world, and the largest high-rise in Singapore, the Sail @ Marina Bay has become Singapore’s newest city icon. It carves out the leading edge of Singapore’s emerging new skyline.

Matsuki Residence : By HEAD Architecture and Design

Discovery Bay, Hong Kong
HEAD Architecture and Design
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Photo © Courtesy of HEAD Architecture and Design

Description from HEAD Architecture and Design: 
On a tight budget and with limited time, two unexceptional apartments have been combined to form what is essentially a single, dramatically conceived space.

ROLLS : By Chikara Ohno of Sinato

Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Chikara Ohno of Sinato
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Photo © Courtesy of Toshiyuki Yano

Description from the designer:

The characteristic of the material used for this installation, which is aluminum, is that it is very thin and easily bent by hands, yet harder than cloth or paper. Therefore it possesses both soft and hard qualities. By winding and sometimes extending this single, long strip of aluminum from the entrance to the back-end of the store, it creates a beautiful waving form, changing its function and features as the material strength changes. This flexible quality of the material represents a gentle connection between the softness of clothes and hardness of architecture.

One Shelley Street Office Interior : By Clive Wilkinson Architects

One Shelley Street, Sydney, Australia
Clive Wilkinson Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Shannon McGrath

One Shelley Street in Sydney, Australia is an effort to reframe the requirements and performance of the 21st Century office. On behalf of the Macquarie Group, Clive Wilkinson Architects implemented a radical, large-scale workplace design that leverages mobility, transparency, multiple tailor-made work settings, destination work plazas, follow-me technology, and carbon neutral systems. The result is part space station, part cathedral, and part vertical Greek village.