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Starting from 10 splines, we have developed a system to construct structurally strong walls with the least possible amount of material.

Building Design and Presence – This super-tall building is located at the southwest corner of Shanghai West Bund Media Port, an area that is home to a concentration of cutting-edge media and cultural industries, on the west bank of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. It is designed to support the new working styles of future-oriented creators as a hub for advanced ICT (information and communications technology) companies and the gaming industry, while also revitalizing the city.

The Chicago Park District Headquarters is an 80,000 sf building comprised of headquarters office space for the Chicago Park District staff and an 18,000 sf field house with gymnasium, fitness and club rooms located in a new 17-acre park reclaimed from a former brownfield site in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago. Like more historical Chicago fieldhouses, the headquarters building/field house is set into the park to give the building a dignified presence and to organize the park space around it. The building is designed to make CPD staff feel like they are working in a park and put them in close contact with the public they serve.

The design inspiration for this project stems from the image of a flower. The most beautiful parts of a flower—its bud and its petals—evoke softness, splendor, and refined aesthetics. Yet behind that beauty lies the slender stem, quietly bearing the entire weight of the structure.

“As Stephen Hawking stated, humanity’s greatest achievements have been obtained in encounters, and its greatest failures in non-encounters or, worse, in clashes. Today, this is more true than ever, and it is necessary and urgent to foster the birth of collaborations because we have enormous potential in terms of expertise and technology to be used, especially for the sake of Life. Architecture, through the creation of pleasant, reassuring, and stimulating environments and a conscious distribution of functions, is a tool to make human contact and the consequent transfer of knowledge more accessible and immediate.” Michele De Lucchi

The designers were tasked with creating a space for people whose work revolves around generating ideas. Known for its bold campaigns and progressive culture, Banda wanted an office that would serve not simply as a workplace but as a manifesto, a physical expression of its values. The project by ater.architects reflects openness, sincerity, craftsmanship, respect for history, and a balance of refined taste with intentional imperfections and self-irony. “The clients wanted a cozy space that felt more like a bright, spacious apartment than an office,” says Yulia Tkachenko, architect and co-founder of ater.architects.

The new business district in downtown Casablanca consists of a compressed urban density, where public space is reduced to its most elementary dimension. Facing the street, this office building is elevated in order to extend the public space of the street all the way into the heart of the property.

This tenant office building stands just steps from a subway station in the Ichibancho district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward—an area near the Imperial Palace (the former Edo Castle), steeped in history and culture. Conventional tenant office buildings generally house multiple companies within a single structure, yet their facades fail to reflect the diversity within. On top of this, they lack a sense of connection with the surrounding community and contribute little to the streetscape or the character of the local neighborhood. This project addresses these problems by creating a building that connects people to the surrounding urban environment while accommodating increasingly diverse work styles and values. To achieve this, two key architectural elements were incorporated: interior spaces defined by projecting bay windows and an open exterior space.