Väven
Designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with White Arkitekter AB, this new building weaves (hence the name Väven, meaning ‘weave’ in Swedish) multiple cultural programs and activities together, providing one common stage.
Author Archives: İlknur Sudaş
Quality Hotel Friends
The house with thousand eyes creates an illusion; like waves from a point in middle of the northern facade. The image appears from a distance. It makes the stiff block soft, even wet. The impression is formed by windows in three different sizes: 1.4, 1.7 and 2 meters in diameter. The variations furnish the standardized […]
Farine
Aromatic coffee beans, sumptuous bread scent—Farine on Wukang Lu is not just restauranteur Franck Pecol’s new bakery in Shanghai, but also architects Neri&Hu’s spatial interpretation of bakery as the progeny of coffee and bread.
Shanghai Camper Showroom / Office
Drawing inspiration from the surrounding urban condition, the Camper Showroom / Office in Shanghai recalls both the spatial qualities and the vibrant activities characteristic of life in a typical Shanghai alleyway, called a “nong-tang.”
Library of Birmingham (Mecanoo)
Library of Birmingham, designed by Mecanoo Architecten.
Book Mountain + Library Quarter
The library is designed as an advert for reading, its visible presence and invitation holding great significance for a community with 10 percent illiteracy. From underneath the glass dome the library is visible from all sides, especially from the adjacent market square where the library appears as one big book mountain. Underneath its monumental glass envelope damage to the books by sunlight is off-set by their normal 4 year life-span due to wear and tear from borrowing.