LILLE Office Building | LAN Architecture

LAN won the competition organized by SAEM EURALILLE to design an office building for Sogeprom/Projectim in Lille, France. The project is located in the Block 4.1-A, the last area to build of Euralille urban developement design by OMA in 1994.

Is it possible to reaffirm the city in an architectural project?
This question, shared by our entire team, was the departure point for our search for a sensitive but daring response.

LAN Architecture

+ Project description courtesy LAN Architecture

The plot’s strategic position, at a major crossroads in an urban district, directed us towards a “multiform” architecture whose geometry could provide a specific response to problems linked to the project’s scale, geography and demands.

We realised that the building’s location enables it to articulate different urban scales, both near and far. Its verticality can act as a visual axis and marker, whilst finding a just and respectful relationship with its immediate context.

The purpose of this architecture is to construct a new urban space combining the private and public, the vertical and horizontal. The building’s envelope is conceived as an apparatus for the city’s constant visual reinvention.

The windows break with the modularity of office buildings, creating a more domestic image and ensuring the transition between a residential and a business district. The result is a kinetic architecture constantly changing with different viewpoints.

To increase this visual richness, the design of each façade was generated by its orientation, use and thermal considerations. This creates successions and superimpositions of glazed areas, windows on the city, and different, fixed or mobile systems of wooden cladding, enabling constant change in function of the building’s daily life.

Materiality of the facades: networks and wood

The design of the facades and the building’s interior spaces is structured by a 1.35 metre grid composed of a U-shaped metallic element running the entire height of the building, to which the envelope’s various components are fixed.

This vertical grid is interrupted three times by horizontal wooden bands, running around the building and ending at the acroter.

Secondary horizontal and vertical grids regulate the design of the fixed or mobile wooden elements.

We chose red wood for the cladding of the facades, using it in different configurations depending on their purpose, and alternating this with larges windows looking out over the city. Wood is used as a fixed cladding in the opaque or semi-glazed parts of the façade, but also, depending on the orientation, in the form of pivoting openwork shutters, enabling precise control of light penetration. But is also used as a fixed sunscreen.

The project’s conception provides residents and office users with a public space based on horizontality, circulation and social interaction on a human scale. Unable to build right to the plot’s limits, we opted for a form of portico, a walkway providing shelter from the weather, a lively exterior space in which passers-by and shop customers can intermingle.

+ Project credits / data

Project: LILLE Office Building

Program: Construction of an office building and retails

Location: Euralille, Block 4.1-A, Lille, France

Date: 2010

Client: Sogeprom / Projectim

Size: 3,475 m²

Cost: € 6M excl. VAT

Timetable: 2010–13

3D Rendering: IDA+

Team: LAN Architecture

HEQ Consultant: Act Environnement

All-Trades Engineers: IOSIS

+ All images, drawings courtesy LAN Architecture

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Ruin Academy in Taipei | Marco Casagrande

Finnish architect Marco Casagrande has successfully converted an abandoned apartment block into the Ruin Academy in Taipei, Taiwan. The Ruin Academy is operated in co-operation between Casagrande Laboratory / Finland and JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture / Taiwan. It moves in-between architecture, sociology, environmental sciences (including urban design) and environmental art. The house used to be a student dormitory for the near-by university.

The architectural control is in a process of giving up in order to let nature to step in. So far it is not giving up – it is too lazy. Architectural control will be given up. Modernism is lost and the industrial machine will become organic. This happens in Taipei and this is what we study. Ruin Academy is an organic machine.

Marco Casagrande

+ Project description courtesy Marco Casagrande

Ruin Academy is an independent cross-over architectural research centre in the Urban Core -area of Taipei, Taiwan. The Academy is run in co-operation between the Finland based Casagrande Laboratory and Taiwanese JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture.

Ruin academy is set to re-think the industrial city and the moden man in a box. It organizes workshops and courses for various Taiwanese and international universities including the National Taiwan University Department of Sociology, Tamkang University Department of Architecture, Aalto University Sustainable Global Technologies Centre and Helsinki University of Arts and Design Department of Environmental Art. The research and design tasks move freely in-between architecture, urban design, environmental art and other disciplines of art and science within the general framework of built human environment.

The Ruin Academy occupies an abandoned 5-story apartment building in central Taipei. All the interior walls of the building and all the windows are removed in order to grow bamboo and vegetables inside the house. The professors and students are sleeping and working in mahogany made ad-hoc dormitories and have a public sauna in the 5th floor. All the building is penetrated with 6 inch holes in order to let “rain inside”. The Academy is viewed as an example or fragment of the Third Generation City, the organic ruin of the industrial city.

Without his ruins man is just a common ape.

The Ruin Academy locates in Taipei in an abandoned apartment block turned into a compost of the modern city. Compost as the future top-soil.

The Ruin Academy does not rely or design, but hooks on to the Local Knowledge of the Taipei basin and reacts on this. Design should not replace rality. Local knowledge is pushing through the industrial surface of the modern Taipei like a positive sickness of the industrial city or like a humane sweat of the machine. Ruin Academy is looking forward to sweat. The Ruin Academy is looking at the ruining processes of Taipei that keep the city alive. Taipei is growing the Third Generation City – a real reality way beyond the industrial nonsence.

The Ruin Academy operates with Taipei as the urban case study and with various smaller projects in Taiwan in order to determine the elements of the Third Generation City. Our students/operators are not volunteers, they are called constructor-gardeners. We want to farm a city and treat it with urban acupuncture tuning the city towards the organic. Taipei is a no-man’s land being dominated by the official industrialism and the anarchy of the jungle. Ruin Academy joins the urban farmers. In Grandmothers we trust.

The Ruin Academy occupies an abandoned 5-story apartment building in the Central Taipei. The Academy is a constantly changing mixture of a ruin and a construction site.

ZERO CITY

The Ruin Academy is focused in the research of the Third Generation City – the ruin of the industrial city. The research is done in collaboration with some Taiwanese and Finnish universities, groups and individuals with the Academy acting as a base camp for a series of workshops and individual works. We are a voluntary refugee camp within the architecture community. Architecture moving freely in-between environmental art, urban design, sociology and other disciplines of art and science. Maybe better call built human environment instead of architecture or urban design. Or just human environment.

The 3G city is an organic matrix of nature mixed with human construction. The balance of dominating the no-man’s land is ever changing. Local Knowledge knows this. It is light on the surface but with solid roots. A city sweating humanity and constantly wiping the sweat away. The architectural control is in a process of giving up in order to let nature to step in. So far it is not giving up – it is too lazy. Architectural control will be given up. Modernism is lost and the industrial machine will become organic. This happens in Taipei and this is what we study. Ruin Academy is an organic machine.

We work 1:1 scale. Ruin Academy takes its commands from the jungle. Without his ruins man is just a common ape.

Sub topics:

* Anarchist Gardener

* Ultra-Ruin

* Urban Acupuncture

* Compost

* River Urbanism

… Zero City

All the reseach and desing is based on Local Knowledge rather than on official data.

The Ruin Academy is set up to re-organize the industrial city and the man in a box.

SET-UP

During the first workshop the building was taken back to its basic construction with all the additional walls and even windows removed. 6 inch holes were penetrated through the whole building from the roof to the basement and through the walls. It now rains inside the building watering the frequent plantations of trees, bamboos and vegetables in front of the window holes and in the opened up basement.

Raw mahogany planks and columns are used in the ever transforming rough interior that provides shelter for the Academy professors and students referred as constructor-gardeners. There is a public sauna in the 5th floor.

+ Anatomics

Size: 500 m2 / 5 floors, 20 m deep, 5 m wide.

Material: Concrete, mahogany, white gravel, top-soil, 6 inch holes.

Bamboo, taro, chinese cabbage, passion fruit, Aspenium nidus, wild trees, ferns and undergrowth.

Basement

- Blown open and filled with top soil.

- Construction waste for a drainage layer.

- 5 olive trees.

1st Floor, “Archive”

- 6 inch segments of the house on white stones.

- 6 inch holes in the long facade.

- Mahogany bridge over the basement-hole.

- Pile of dirt in the far corner with taro.

- Fire-place.

2nd Floor, “Student Dormitory”

- Mahogany sleeping unit for 4 students.

- Working tables growing bamboo, mahogany.

- Vegetable garden with passion fruit, Aspenium nidus and chinese cabbage.

- 6 inch holes through the floor and ceiling.

- Kitchen and toilet.

3rd Floor, “Professor’s Deck”

- Mahogany bed on wheels.

- Bamboo growing through windows.

- 6 inch holes through the floor and ceiling.

- Kitchen and toilet.

4th Floor, “Lounge”

- Stage.

- Bamboo growing through windows.

- 6 inch holes through the floor and ceiling.

- Toilet.

- Fire-place.

5th Floor, “Sauna”

- Public sauna, all mahogany – best sauna in the Pacific.

- Chill-out room, white stones.

- Showers with bamboo and taro.

- 6 inch hole.

+ Project credits

Project: Ruin Academy

Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Architect: Marco Casagrande

Project Manager: Nikita Wu

JUT Foundation Coordinators: Lea Yi-Chen Lin, Yi-Ling Hung

Year: 2010

Program: Education – Research center

Photography: Photo by AdDa (Tsai Ming-Hui)

+ All images and drawings courtesy Marco Casagrande

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Medlac Pharma Office | Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners

Rome-based architecture practice Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners designed the Hanoi / Vietnam: Medlac Pharma office, Italian pharmaceutical company specialized in dermatological products and trans-dermic plasters, has started its construction works for its new offices and plants, designed by Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners and situated in the Hoa Lac Hi-TechPark near the Vietnamese capital Hanoi

Roman architecture firm Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners designed the new branch of Medlac Pharma – Italian pharmaceutical company specialized in dermatological products and trans-dermal plasters – set in the recently developed industrial area Hoa Lac Hi-TechPark, 50 kilometres from Hanoi, Vietnam, and now under construction.

The industrial complex is characterised by horizontal volumes and strong visual lightness. Built on a 15,000 square metre land surface it includes an office building and a production plant for a total amount of approximately 3,400 square metres of built surface.

Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners have even prepared the new Medlac building, whose construction will be completed by the end of 2010, for a possible future extension by addition of a second complex with a mirror-inverted layout.

The new Medlac branch in Vietnam designed by the architects Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners consists in two blocks. The smaller one develops on two levels and houses the administrative offices. The larger one holds the production plants.

The office building with rectangular plan is characterised by an entirely transparent outside skin made of structural U-profile glass walls.

Numerous portions of the glass walls, of different width and positioned in a random pattern, can be opened. Adjustable sunshades made with white lacquered wood panels, lending the building a light mood and visual movement, screen these windows.

An imposing whole-height niche that frames and defines the entrance to the office building dominates the longer side of the facade. The front of the niche is clad in large glass panes, while the side walls are plastered in orange, a bright colour that is used all over the complex confer a fresh look to the new Medlac facilities.

The whole-height entrance hall features reception, courtesy lounge and main staircase with metal frame and glass parapets.

The ground floor is divided into two areas. The management area includes a dedicated secretariat and two large executive offices with connected bathrooms. The second area features a large corridor leading to the conference hall, a second secretariat, administrative offices and other service and bathrooms. The remaining area on the floor plan of the building includes even part of the staff canteen.

The upper floor is characterised by the same division between management and administrative area. It also offers the possibility to temporarily create two large conference halls by uniting one small meeting room and one office for each.

The Medlac production area is set on the back of the office building and is connected to it by means of a low, orange volume hosting the larger part of the staff canteen.

The production plant is made of lacquered sandwich panels. The opaque structure features openings towards the square covered by two large cantilevered roofs with a bright orange ceiling. Even the façade round the entrance to the technical area, not aligned with the facade of the buildings but slightly dislocated in order to create a sort of yard, is orange.

The complex is set in a green area conceived by Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners the architecture firm. This green, natural frame with lawns and trees, including the accesses and the car park, creates a friendly atmosphere and welcomes at best employees, clients and guests.

+ Project credits / data

Project: Medlac Pharma Office

Location: Hanoi, Vietnam

Program: Office

Architect: Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners

+ About Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners

Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners architecture practice was founded in 2002 by Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto after important experiences achieved through the collaboration with international studios like the ones of Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas and Oscar Niemeyer.

In 2008, the practice has been transformed into a studio for architectural engineering joined by Alessandra Spiezia and Arabella Rocca.

With a staff of twelve professionals, Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners offers architectural project development and engineering, feasibility study and project management for their own works and for renowned architects like Rem Koolhas and Renzo Piano.

Numerous are Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners’ projects concerning the construction and restoration of concert halls, theatres, industrial complexes and office buildings. The studio has also developed important projects of shop and restaurant design, residential interiors and architecture and concepts for museum and exhibition installations.

Competitions and awards:

winner of the “Meno è più di 4” competition: kindergarten, civic centre and public library in Rome

winner of the international competition for the restoration of the municipal theatre of Corato (Bari, Italy), under construction

awarded for the international competition “Piccole Stazioni Ferroviarie” (small railway stations)

awarded for the project of the rowing canal, developed for the candidacy of Madrid as Olympic Games site 2016

awarded for the competition upon invitation of Giustiniano Imperatore area in Roma

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Center of Technical Services of LA Grande Motte City | N+B architects

Center of Technical Services of LA Grande Motte City is one of the latest completed project designed by French architectural practice N+B architects. The project is part of a deep respect of the present natural elements while offering a determinedly contemporary image allowing a revival this site.

The landscaped and architectural project presents a strong unity stemming from qualities of the place to compose spaces where the environmental quality will be a vector of the development. So a particular attention is brought to its insertion in the site. It is conceived as a topographic line drawn by the same materials (wood) offering it a spatial but also visual unity. It is under this line of landscape established by a flat roof that the entities of the program come to take place.

The project is completely built wooden. It is an environmental choice which we made by working with local pines essences of, but also to insure a technical, constructive and functional simplicity. The intervention which we propose allows restoring coherence and featuring to the group by means of a new spatial scenography and a development of the existing holdings.

Elodie Nourrigat & Jacques Brion, N+B Architectes

+ Project description courtesy N+B Architectes

La Grande Motte city, situated at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, benefits from a soft and moderate climate. The project of construction of new offices for the technical services of the city of La Grande Motte takes place in a very widely afforested ground. It is a remarkable environment, thanks to the natural elements that surrounds it. So the project testifies of a profound respect for present natural elements while offering a new determinedly contemporary image. The landscape and architectural project presents a strong unity, stemming from the qualities of the place, in order to compose spaces where the environmental quality will be a vector of development.

The architectural concept is deeply connected to the necessary feature for such a program, as well as to the existing landscape. It was essential to answer this problem vigorously.

Our will is double: think of a functional project, and, set up a place of life in agreement with the Mediterranean climatic conditions. This has to take place as simply as possible, with humility and efficiency. We thus propose simple volumes for the whole building, with sober and pure lines to assert its insertion in the site.

A particular attention is so brought to the insertion of the building in the site. It is conceived as a topographic line, drawn by a unique material (wood), offering it a spatial but also a visual unity. It is under this landscape line established by a flat roof that the entities of the program take place. It was thought to emphasize the surrounding landscape while identifying and protecting exploitable outer spaces. Conceived in the continuity of the surrounding vegetable masses, these limits ease the incidence of the new building in the landscape and create a visual and hearing filter protecting the workspaces of the outside nuisances. So, the building consists of a fold, developing two side walls constituted in a homogeneous way.

The project proposes a stake in retreat of the glazed facades and the implementation of wooden canopies connecting the high and low entities of the fold. This device creates a thick façade, protecting from the sun, while allowing taking advantage of a direct connection between the inside and the outside thanks to wide openings. The device also allows a spatial and visual continuity while answering the Mediterranean climatic constraints. The project is completely wooden built. It is an environmental choice which we made by working with local essences of pines, but also in order to assure a technical, constructive and functional simplicity.

We are aware that in this place, in the heart of a wooded space but also in an urban zone, the notion old perpetuity is a real stake of construction. The reflection we wish to set up is of order qualitative. We answer it by the implementation of long-lasting materials, by the adapted conception of the building and its arrangements, allowing a cost cutting of maintenance for the project owner and the users, as well as by the potentiality offered to the new building to adapt itself to the requirements of environmental quality.

Thinking of a sustainable development requires naturally taking into account the quality of materials, to make a technical work on the energies uses, but also to set up a logic space. It is in the sense that we undertook this project. The intervention we propose restores coherence and feature to the site entities thanks to a new spatial scenography and to the development of the existing heritage.

+ Project credits / data

Project: Center of technical services of la grande Motte city

Location: La Grand Motte, France

Program: Office

Calendar: June 2008 – June 2010

Floor area: 1515m²

Start of construction: June 2008

Completion: June 2010

Cost: 835 000 € HT

Project manager:

Representative Architect | Elodie Nourrigat & Jacques Brion, N+B Architectes

Associated Architect | Julien WAFFLART

Photograph: Paul Kozlowski

Client: La Grande Motte City

Images: Elodie Nourrigat & Jacques Brion, N+B architectes

+ About

Elodie Nourrigat (born in 1971) and Jacques Brion (born in 1963) architects, had created in 2000 in Montpelier, the agency N+B architects. They both graduate of the School of Architecture of Montpellier (ENSAM) and obtained in 2002 a Master’s degree in Philosophy of the University of Lyon III. Elodie Nourrigat is finalizing a Doctorate in Architecture supervised by Chris Younès philosopher. They are also professor of architecture at the ENSAM.

The projects of the agency join different scales, architectural or urban. They have just finish to construct a new school to Morières Avignon and the restructuring of the High school Paul Valéry in Menton. The agency works at present on a development of Urban Zone to the city of Gignac, the construction of a parking and a public place to Carros and the restructuring of the Office of General Finance of Montpelier. Their work was recognized through various distinctions.

In September, 2008, they were invited in the 11th Biennial event of architecture of Venice and presented in the French Pavilion. The same year the agency was a prize-winner of the prize “Europe 40 under 40?, organized by European Centre for Structure Art Design and Urban Studies, prize distinguishing every year 40 betters agencies of less than 40 years in Europe. Elodie Nourrigat has received in June, 2008 in London the prize “Atkins Insprire Awards” in the category International, prize recognizing the investment of the women in the construction. Thought their research works their allowed to live in 2001 in Kyoto in Japan, in the “Villa Kujoyama”, a program of research in residence, organized by Cultures France and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Experience renewed in 2002 by the obtaining of the grant Electra from the EDF foundation, awarded to young architects for a research work abroad. Their experiences abroad are also completed by invitations as professor in the schools of architecture, such as Laval in Quebec (Canada), RMIT in Melbourne (Australia), Tohku University to Sendai (Japan), College of Design – University of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky USA).

Finally, this year the project of Park of Activity of Camalcé to Gignac distinguished by “International Award on 2009″ awarded by Chicago Athenaeum Museum As architect too, they are investing in the communication of the architectural culture and the want to offer a visibility to young architects. For that, in 2006, they create and since organize each year in June, the Festival of the Lively Architectures in Montpellier which invites young architects to construct a project in the courtyards of mansions of the city of Montpellier.

+ All images and drawings courtesy of N+B architects

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Lusail Iconic Stadium for Qatar 2022 | Foster + Partners

Lusail Iconic Stadium for Qatar 2022 is revealed at ‘Leaders in Football’ conference in London.

As the venue for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid, the Lusail Iconic Stadium will provide a world-class football facility for 86,250 spectators during the opening ceremony, group games and final. Reflecting Doha’s culture and heritage, the stadium is designed to be highly energy efficient and capable of performing in extreme summer climatic conditions.

The stadium has a near-circular footprint and sits on the masterplan’s primary axis, which divides the stadium precinct into two halves. Encircled by a reflective pool of water, spectators cross the ‘moat’ to enter the building via six bridges. An outer pedestrian concourse extends from the water towards an array of smaller amenity buildings and a hotel at the stadium’s perimeter.

The saddle-form roof appears to float above the concrete seating bowl, discreetly supported by a ring of arching columns. Its central section can be retracted to allow the pitch to be either open to the sky or fully covered. The concave profile of the stadium’s outer enclosure evokes the sails of a traditional dhow boat and incorporates a system of operable louvres. Inside, the seating bowl is designed to enhance the experience and atmosphere for spectators: VIP and hospitality accommodation is concentrated along the sides of the pitch to create a continuous sea of fans behind each goal.

Located in the centre of a new development to the north of Doha, with direct connections by road and a new metro line, Lusail Iconic Stadium is intended to be a catalyst for further growth and has a highly progressive environmental strategy. Parking and service areas are shaded by canopies of solar collectors, which will produce energy for the stadium when it is in use, as well as generating power for neighbouring buildings.

HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairman of the Qatar 2022 Bid, said:

The Lusail Iconic Stadium will serve as the perfect venue for the opening and final matches of the World Cup. The stadium will inspire a new generation of regional and international sports venues, incorporating environmentally friendly cooling technologies to ensure the ideal conditions for players and spectators alike. The design of the stadium provides fans with optimum views of the action in a cool and comfortable setting. Its beauty and ambition represent the pride and enthusiasm that we have displayed in our bid thus far and will continue to display until the day FIFA awards the 2022 World Cup and beyond.

+ Project credits / data

Project: Lusail Iconic Stadium Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid 2010

Program: Sport – Stadium

Architect: Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners team: Mouzhan Majidi, David Nelson, Nigel Dancey, Angus Campbell, Huw Thomas, Ricardo Mateu, Joost Heremans, Martha Tsigkari, Marcus Ehrler

Client: Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid Committee

Cost Consultant: Davis Langdon

Specialist Sports Architects: Manica Architecture

Construction Management:Mace

Civil and Structural Engineers: URS

Mechanical, Sustainability and Environmental Engineers: PHA Consult

Transport and Infrastructure: Hyder Consulting

Planning and Landscape: Place Dynamix

Specialist Building Dynamics: RWDI

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Sun Cap House | Wallflower Architecture + Design

Singaporean architectural practice Wallflower Architecture + Design recently has completed the Sun Cap House located in Sentosa Cove, Singapore. Although the site was devoid of any development during the inception of the project, it was foreseen that the future built environment would be dense with neighbouring residences barely metres away on either side.

The tropical sunlight falling on this resort island could also be harsh and intense but the proximity to the sea also blesses it with breezes that tend to channel through the waterways that are unique to the cove. Most properties along the waterway which also affords them best view, and the narrow rectangular project site was no different.

In response to the projected urban density and the site’s local environment, the home is designed with a thick, nine metre high wall that forms the entrance façade which wraps around to continue along the sides. Like the pulling back of a curtain to reveal the view, the walls terminate as it approaches the waterway where thereafter an inner enclosing structure of paneled glass continues, projecting toward a pool and garden.

The massive, enveloping entrance and side walls are essentially a thermal and privacy filter. The wall occludes views from inquisitive neighbours but encourage the passage of breezes that find their way through the house rather than around it by deliberate vertical slotting dividing the enclosing wall into free-standing segments.

The slotting also helps to filter natural light into the house and soften the impact of the harsh sunlight. The secondary glass paneled enclosure within but set away from the enveloping walls is designed to slide away so that the impression of width does not terminate at the glass line but are extended to the tall side walls.

The impression of space however goes even further, for the slots in the walls reveal landscaping that extends beyond. The walls are parallel to but do not meet the eaves of the roof; a metre wide gap invites sunlight to wash down onto planting and greenery that thrive on either side of the wall blurring the distinction of an ‘inside’ ‘outside’ demarcation.

Though a vertical surface, the rough plastered texturing of the wall catches light streaming in from the gap above and diffuses it into the living spaces. Perhaps the spatial experience is best described as akin to being held in the loving cradle of two cupped, open hands.

+ Project credits / data

Project: Sun Cap House

Location: Sentosa Cove, Singapore

Project Completion: 2010

Program: House

Architect: Wallflower Architecture + Design

Design Team: Robin Tan, Cecil Chee & Sean Zheng

Photographer: Albert Lim

+ About Wallflower

Wallflower was founded by Tan Chai Chong Robin and Cecil Chee, bringing together a combined experience of commercial projects and residential developments. Established in 1999, Wallflower Pte Ltd & Wallflower Architecture + Design have undertaken a wide spectrum of work, ranging from commercial and residential projects and have received numerous awards for excellence in design, having been also widely featured in local and international publications. Wallflower was quickly recognised by Singapore’s Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts, as one of Singapore’s key industry players in design.

+ Project description, images and drawings courtesy Wallflower Architecture + Design

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