The building earned the name, "Tessalace" owing to its tessellated façade design. Oxford dictionary defines, tessellate – as a pattern of repeated shapes, especially polygons that fit together closely without gaps or overlapping. Visibly, the structure of the building is enveloped in a membrane of tessellated polygons, an array of solid and voids i...
Architecture firm
Studio Ardete Pvt Ltd.
Location
Plot no 1563 , sector 82 JLPL industiral Estate, Mohali (Punjab) India
Photography
Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Principal architect
Badrinath Kaleru, Prerna Aggarwal
Collaborators
R S Builders
Structural engineer
Continental Foundations
Construction
Ravijeet Singh
Material
Reinforcement bars, Cement, Paints, Glass
Typology
Commercial › Office Space
Infinitus Plaza is the new global headquarters of Infinitus China. Incorporating work environments designed to nurture connectivity, creativity and entrepreneurship, the new headquarters also includes the group’s herbal medicine research facilities and safety assessment labs as well as a learning centre for conferences and exhibitions.
Project name
Infinitus Plaza
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Location
Guangzhou, China
Photography
Liang Xue, ZHA
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Congyue Wang, Feifei Fan, Lida Zhang, Eugene Leung, Lily Liu, Qi Cao, Shu Hashimoto, Xiaoyu Zhang, Ying Xia, Zhe Xing, Anat Stern, Chaoxiong Huang, Damiano Rizzini, Harry Spraiter, Marius Cernica, Tommaso Casucci, Xuexin Duan, Lida Zhang, Shu Hashimoto
Built area
185,643 m² (Gross Floor Area), 118,200 m² (Above Ground), 67,443 m² (Below Ground), 59,368 m² (Interior Design Area), 18,000 m² (Retail), 42,800 m² (Bicycle Parking), 2100 m² (Electrical Bike Parking)
Collaborators
GDAD, BuroHappold Engineering, Basalt, ARCADIS, Guangzhou Pearl River Engineering Construction Supervision
Interior design
Zaha Hadid Architects, GoldMantis, Sundart
Landscape
Zaha Hadid Architects, Pubang
Environmental & MEP
BIAD, GDAD
Lighting
LIGHTDESIGN, LUMIA, Holy Power
Construction
Guangdong No.1 Construction Engineering
Material
25,088.33 tonnes of recycled materials have been used in the construction of Infinitus Plaza, primarily: steel, copper, glass, aluminium alloy profiles, gypsum products and wood
Typology
Commercial › Headquarter
The most northern building with a green facade in the world. The Zemelny business center is located close to the Moscow subway station named Ulitsa 1905 Goda. The building is surrounded by XX-century industrial architecture, three kilometers away from the Moscow City business district. Zemelny has become a ‘green’ alternative to it.
Project name
Zemelny Office Building
Photography
Dmitry Chebanenko
Principal architect
Yuliy Borisov (team leader)
Design team
Danilo Vukosavlevich, Mikhail Ivanchenko
Collaborators
Olga Reunova, Oleg Kokin, Vladimir Rogozhin
Client
Action Development
Typology
Commercial › Office
The design and development of a ‘home and a workspace’ to be in the same physical space is the brief that UNI-Living needs to decipher and translate. This real estate developer is co-founded by architects contributing as the key figure in the investment and real-estate aspect of the company.
Architecture firm
IF (Integrated Field Co., Ltd.)
Location
Udomsuk District, Bangkok, Thailand
Collaborators
24percent.home (FF&E Design), UNI-Living (Developer)
Interior design
FINTERIOR
Structural engineer
Boonchu Sedchaicharn
Lighting
Kullakaln Gururatana
Construction
NAWA ATSAVA ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN CO., LTD., 2B1 CONSULTING CO., LTD
Typology
Commercial › Home Office
Sustainability is a commitment. Ingenhoven Architects celebrate important milestone in their Düsseldorf project.
Project name
Kö-Bogen II (KII)
Architecture firm
Ingenhoven Architects
Location
Düsseldorf, Germany
Photography
Ingenhoven Architects / HGEsch
Principal architect
Christoph Ingenhoven
Landscape
Ingenhoven Architects and Prof. Dr. Strauch, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
Lighting
Zumtobel Lighting Gmbh
Construction
CENTRUM Gruppe
Material
Concrete and Hornbeam
Typology
Mixed-use building
AREA – a multipurpose and versatile space with an industrial aesthetic. Area is a design-led space for coworking and events in Madrid’s Delicias neighborhood. Totaling 400 square meters, it has been designed to be able to offer both a relaxed working environment but also a space for film shoots, events and private parties.
Project name
AREA Coworking & Events
Architecture firm
Aleatoria (aleatoria.es)
Photography
Javier de Paz Garcia
Principal architect
Pablo Garcia de Madariaga
Interior design
Aleatoria
Material
Concrete, Steel, Glass
Client
Area Coworking & Events
Typology
Commercial › Office
VPA Architects: A site office is a first impression for any residential scheme. We decided to have a bold façade to have a unique identity.
Project name
The Bow Office
Architecture firm
VPA Architects
Location
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Photography
Inclined Studio www.inclinedstudio.com
Principal architect
Ronak Patel, Jinal Patel, Naiya Patel
Interior design
Maitree Patel, Naiya Patel
Landscape
Aishwarya Bhanushali, Jinal Patel
Material
Metal, Glass, Wood
Typology
Commercial › Office
MVRDV has begun construction on Shenzhen Terraces, a mixed-use project that forms the core of the thriving university neighbourhood in Shenzhen’s Longgang District. The project comprises a stack of accessible plates containing the buildings’ programme, where all communication takes place on the shaded terraces to maximise public life.
Project name
Shenzhen Terraces
Photography
© Atchain, Copyright: MVRDV 2018 – (Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries)
Principal architect
Winy Maas (Founding Partner in charge)
Design team
Sanne van Manen, Irgen Salianji, Shengjie Zhan, Luca Beltrame, Katarzyna Maria Ephraim, Cas Esbach, Hengwei Ji, DongMin Lee, Yannick Macken, Giuseppe Mazzaglia, Siyi Pan, Sen Yang, Jiani You, Daan Zandbergen
Built area
95,000 m² mixed-use
Collaborators
Gideon Maasland (Director)
Construction
hanghai Xinyuan Construction Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd (Cost Calculation)
Visualization
Atchain, Light Studio, Antonio Luca Coco, Kirill Emelianov
Client
Shenzhen Shimao Xin Li Cheng Industry Co.,Ltd.
Typology
Mixed-use building, Educational, Offices, Retail, Cultural
