On the train station level a new 4th platform has been added and all the platform roofs have been replaced. The design concept for the new platform roofs provides a sense of light and space. Large roof lights, which together with the structural spans, add to a positive experience of the transfer platforms and surroundings. [...]
UNStudio and EE&K a Perkins Eastman company, and Jacobs Engineering have submitted a proposal for a scope of work to develop a Master Plan of Los Angeles Union Station. Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, along with Jonathan Cohn of EE&K, presented their ‘Vision Board’ – a conceptual rendering in the year 2050, showing Los Angeles [...]
Ben van Berkel / UNStudio’s design for The Scotts Tower unveiled today in Singapore UNStudio’s design for The Scotts Tower in Singapore will be the first development to be unveiled today under the Far East Organisation’s new SOHO brand. Designed to conserve space whilst maximizing live/work/play areas, The Scotts Tower presents a new dimension of [...]
Shared by a New York-based architect Delaine Isaac, he has recently completed the first episode for “Great Spaces“: UNStudio Amsterdam Pavilion. The Amsterdam Pavilion was commissioned by the Battery Conservancy, is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour of 400 years of friendship. It was unveiled to public in September 2009, if [...]
UNStudio‘s design for the new Transfer Terminal and Air Traffic Control Tower for Kutaisi Airport was officially presented yesterday by the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who personally demolished one of the walls of the old airport yesterday announced, We will build an international airport here, which will take aircraft from [...]
In Groningen, The Netherlands, UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel, with consortium DUO², realizes one of the most sustainable large office buildings in Europe for two governmental offices – The Education Executive Agency and Tax Offices. The design contains numerous new innovations related to the reduction of materials, lower energy costs and more sustainable working environments. It [...]
Salone Internazionale del Mobile 12th April – 17th April 2011 Fiera Milano exhibition centre, Milan Hall 7, Stand A27/ A31 Sit down, sit up, lounge, hang, repose, move, work, read, consult or relax, alone or together This year, Ben van Berkel / UNStudio will present 3 new seating designs at the Salone Internazionale Del Mobile [...]
Ben van Berkel / UNStudio’s Galleria Centercity in Cheonan – “If museums are turning into supermarkets, why then should department stores not turn into museums?” The Galleria Cheonan responds to the current retail climate in Asia, where department stores also operate as social and semi-cultural meeting places. Because of this, the quality of the public [...]
The world-renowned architect UNStudio / Ben van Berkel’s design has been selected from a shortlist of five practices to design Plot A of the SUTD (Singapore University of Technology and Design) campus. The main aim of the design for the Singapore University of Technology and Design was to create a campus that celebrates both teaching [...]
SitTable, is a recent realized furniture design for PROOFF designed by Dutch firm UNStudio. The SitTable is designed for the various ways in which people communicate. Through a cross combination of usage possibilities, it extends the traditional role of the table as a social meeting place. Ben van Berkel Sit down, sit up, lounge, hang, [...]
Dutch architectural practice UNStudio‘s UNStudio Office Tower in South Axis business area Amsterdam, has been recently realised. The façade of the UNStudio Tower plays with the juxtaposition of a horizontal and vertical articulation, conceptually relating to the principles upon which the moiré effect is based. In the design for the tower it was important for [...]
The loft really is a hybrid space; as much a private museum as a living space. Because of that, flexibility is all; few rooms are actually fixed and most are interchangeable, so that in the end the areas devoted to living and to art are completely merged. Ben van Berkel Living with Books and Art: [...]
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Arnhem Central Platforms \ UNStudio
On the train station level a new 4th platform has been added and all the platform roofs have been replaced. The design concept for the new platform roofs provides a sense of light and space. Large roof lights, which together with the structural spans, add to a positive experience of the transfer platforms and surroundings. [...]
La Peña House \ R-ZERO Arquitectos
Sited in Valle de Bravo on a property of 1117 square meters, this house is a project at the bottom of the cliff that highlights and frames the beautiful great lake views from within. Due to the irregular ground where it is located, it has been solved in three levels to also blend into the [...]
PH3 House \ T38 studio + Pablo Casals-Aguirre
On an infill site, PH3 isolates itself from the context, a gated community in Tijuana mostly made up of California style mcmansions. It is a 3 layer structure that is set on the street side of the sloping site, shifting towards the back in both scale and openness. Closing itself to the street for privacy, [...]
