Several events have dramatically affected the form and function of Louisvilles built environment. Louisville was historically developed as a shipping hub on the Ohio River. Positioned on the Ohio River, Louisville was a critical port allowing for the movement of goods from east to west. The urban fabric that began around the shipping industry was enhanced in with the Olmsted Park System, consisting of three major parks, fifteen neighborhood parks, and six connecting parkways.
The opening of Filipstad, a post-industrial site connecting Oslo to the world, provides a unique opportunity of starting from scratch - open, interconnected, and intelligent. Inherent in Filipstad is a uniqueness of structure, scale, typology, morphology, program, and artificiality, existing as a raw beauty devoid of the stylistic judgments controlling the rest of the city. This is the new vision for a fully integrated Scandinavian labor market based on green mobility. In an increasingly globalized economy the demand for efficiency and mobility is increasing.
City regions have become the engines in developing the knowledge and information-based community. Bigger and stronger regions are needed to attract and retain people and companies who will create the wealth of the future. The re-envisioning of Rupp Arena college basketball venue presented us with a myriad of opportunities.
At first glance, Rupp appears lost within its surroundings. Not only would this give it a new identity, but by giving it value as an object in space it becomes a true point of reference for the new downtown precinct.
Once the Arena is liberated, a new urban opportunity is created, as it becomes a true point of reference for the new downtown precinct. Free Rupp solidifies the Lexington Brand as the home of one of the preeminent basketball programs in America.
Hammerbakken House is a mediation between the highly particular needs of a handicapped child and the domestic needs of a family. Villa O is located in a residential area north of Oslo with sweeping views of the city and fjord. The house, designed in by the architect Jens Selmer, needed a total renovation. On the ground floor, we introduced a sculptural staircase in black lacquered solid wood as a single organizing element.
The staircase acts as a divider between the dining room, the formal living room, and the fireplace. Tucked below the entry plaza of the Oslo Concert House, m2 of dormant club culture waited for a jump start. Formerly the legendary Club 7 klubb sju , Munkedamsveien 15 is a historic venue that has enriched the Oslo cultural scene with experimental theatre, poetry, gallery, film, library, cafe, kids, dance and concerts.
Upon entering, visitors descend below the Oseberg Viking ship, reframed in a large vitrine and providing a rare and spectacular view of its underside, to the new lobby. Unlike a painting gallery with objects hung on the walls, our collection will largely display artifacts in a field condition, providing degrees views.
The architecture and programs are organized to maximize flows and friction of people and space. The story of a third museum begins with cultivating this condition, the building as its own object in the collection.
Complementing the strong form of the Viking Museum, our proposed extension explores the contrasts between building and nature. Moscow and St. Petersburg, both within 1 hour of Riga, represent a population in excess of 15 million Russians who in the foreseeable future will have access to Europe via Latvia. The Oxhead project proposes a new, honest vision for architecture motivated by nature and a holistic view for better health, leading to higher productivity, greater engagement, and social awareness.
Nourishment, comfort, ergonomics, transparency, adaptiveness are important components of this design ideology. Nordic House puts a Norwegian footprint in Sweden, marking a future of continued collaboration, exchange, and mutual interest in cultural heritage. The site possesses all the critical qualities of the Norwegian landscape: woods, hills, fjord, and uninterrupted views of the horizon. These natural elements provide an ideal backdrop for an interpretation of Norwegian identity as adaptable and fearless, with an aesthetic and ethical sensitivity.
Jugendbygget og St. Ny bygningsmasse skaper rom for over nye arbeidsplasser med Nytorget som adresse. The municipality of Groningen invited Toyo Ito to design a master plan to trigger and redefine the boundaries of the city as they were extending.
Oslo Business Region aims to construct a stronger ecosystem for startups and the work fields of the future. They requested an office that provided autonomy and simultaneously belonged in the Mesh coworking community in Tordenskioldsgate, and the city beyond.
The space is designed to facilitate new structures for collaboration, communication and has the flexibility to serve needs yet to be defined. The public domain within is left to a series of residual cavities within a maze-like organization. Our strategy is a simple one: allowing Kristiansund Opera and Culture House to function as a single entity but also as a series of smaller, more manageable buildings, crystallizing the ambitions of several strong identities into one collective institution.
By combining functions in a rational way based on their common interests and advantages, we establish 3 institutions in one complex. Distribution of culture and knowledge through an extroverted and highly accessible presence in the city - maximizing friction, exploiting the in-between, strengthening identity - will inspire visitors for learning, play, search and discovery, entertainment and exchange. Located on a narrow plot and sandwiched between a historical customs building and the Oslo Central Station railroad tracks, the design of a new office and commercial building required both a sensitive and creative approach that heightened the value of new-and-old while creating a functional, efficient organization.
The relationship with the existing customs house was formulated with two ambitions - to create a harmony between the new and old, and to avoid strangling the protected customs building. This slim proportion allows fora bonus public courtyard between the buildings, and the extra area is pushed upward, and shaved into a gabled form that allows sunlight into the courtyard.
The extra height guarantees spectacular views of the city and fjord. Located on a beautiful Norwegian island in the Oslofjord, this residence is designed as two landscapes connected by a fissure, weaving itself into a densely vegetated landscape with a steep fall to the sea.
The status quo is constantly redefining itself. The information technological revolution was a quantum leap in the content and performance of the library. Much of what we know today will be outdated tomorrow.
The library needs a framework that facilitates simultaneously stability and flux, just-in-time-planning. Too specific and it will be paralyzed by its own inflexibility, too generic and it risks neutrality, losing its connection to place, diminishing its potential for stimulation. Space Group was one of four finalists in the international competition for the transformation of the Postgirobygget in Oslo. Built in at the foot of Oslo Central Station, the building is one of the tallest and most visible in Oslo.
To respond to this rapid rise, Space Group crafted a phased approach to the buildings transformation that orders and develops key regions and components at critical times. Helsingborg is one of the last cities in northern Europe to transform its waterfront. This tardiness gives us the virtue of hindsight. We have seen the dockyard developments of Europe look increasingly similar, largely due to a developer-driven market.
Competition between cities has ironically only strengthened this trend, a by-product of oppositional theory. A step-change needs to occur with Helsingborg. Formerly a place for the trading of goods, the waterfront of Helsingborg should again become a place of exchange - of culture, of information, of ideas — a new type of center, an open stage. The enormity of port infrastructure quarters the city into semi-urbanized islands, often devoid of open space, or rather filled with space left open.
We know the Harbor is not interested in compressing. We asked them. We propose a conceptual re-stitching of the waterfront deep into the existing public life and nodes of the city. Architects still want to be architects.
And despite the changes in economic structures, geopolitics, sovereignty, urbanization, technological advancement, building information systems, and the radically-liberating exponentially-increasing accessibility of knowledge for everyone on Earth, The Profession has failed to innovate. We want to discuss another role for the architect. Nor the role of the mind reader, interpreting weak intentions, vague ambitions, and generally unclear premises.
We have a responsibility to society. It is the role we are trying to redefine. View Opera House Opening Image. During its storied history, Rupp Arena has also hosted professional ice hockey and indoor football.
The Central Bank Center also includes brand new, state of the art convention facilities. Over the years, the Central Bank Center and Rupp Arena have welcomed tens of millions of visitors through its doors. The friendly staff, professional management team, excellent sight lines from all seat locations, plenty of on-site parking and convenient access come together to provide our guests with the ultimate fan experience.
Each year, hundreds of thousands visitors from around the world and local and state residents flock to the Central Bank Center and Rupp Arena to gather together with friends and family to socialize, to attend high profile concerts, shows and community and sporting events and to enjoy an entertainment experience that is unmatched.
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