Wednesday, February 23, 2022

New stories by Architonic

New stories by Architonic

Hard work: new office designs that incorporate brick | News | Architonic

Posted: 22 Feb 2022 03:00 PM PST

Brick is one of the oldest building materials around, and with the current interest in craft, its popularity with architects, designers, developers and clients is at an all-time high. Often associated with residential architecture, brick is fast becoming the material of choice for statement commercial buildings and offices, too. Made using natural materials, durable, and even potentially reusable, bricks are infinitely versatile, and can be stacked into robust forms, expressive surfaces or even delicate screens. In Beijing, architecture practice <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/urbanus/5209728">URBANUS</a> have refurbished an existing building at <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/project/urbanus-no-150-chengfu-road/20245854">No.150 Chengfu Road</a> using a new brick facade to articulate an external stairway to the shared rooftop garden. By reinforcing the existing structure, the architects were able to clad the building in orange brick, creating a robust exterior,

Building blocks: new office architecture | News | Architonic

Posted: 22 Feb 2022 03:00 PM PST

It's not entirely uncommon to hear architects citing the building-block sets of their childhood as having played some role in their later career choices. And the influence of hours spent constructing miniature worlds with rudimentary, square-shaped forms often seems to be reflected in the full-scale counterparts that they go on to design in their later professional lives. In our selection below, we look at some office projects which seem to celebrate the building block: from modular, stacked volumes to more deconstructed, negative-space-leveraging creations, to others that present a more digitalised, pixelated, tetris-like form. <b>01</b> UP! Berlin Berlin, Germany Project by Jasper Architects Developed on the site of a former GDR shopping mall in Berlin, the old facade of the original structure was removed and then voids cut into each side, allowing for the provision of light into the interior. A new facade composed of two types of modules entirely redefines the building's urban…

Effe brings the forest home | News | Architonic

Posted: 22 Feb 2022 03:00 PM PST

From shiatsu to shirodhara, traditional eastern therapies have been percolating through sedentary Western lives for some time now, each promising to be the one that will banish the blues and control stress-induced mental and physical decline. The latest therapy to arrest our attention and sensory receptors is forest-bathing, which is also eastern but not so ancient. Originating in Japan in the 1980s it issued from government-led research and was intended to counteract burnout and reconnect its people with its national forests. Two hours of mindful immersion in woodland was said to reduce blood pressure and stress hormones, improve concentration and memory and boost the immune system. The principles of the therapy resonate strongly with today's global urban population, who are learning fast that the best medicine for modern ills is to experience the great outdoors and nature. Back in 2017, when confinement was still voluntary but becoming an unhappy outcome of home-working, pioneering p…
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