David Chipperfield Architects . Julian Harrap Architects
The Royal Academy Schools has undergone historic renovation. Designed by David Chipperfield Architects, together with Julian Harrap Architects, the restoration and renewal project has preserved the heritage of the buildings and provides accessible, state-of-the-art facilities for the next generation of artists. Continue reading Chipperfield . Harrap
David Chipperfield Architects . Feix&Merlin Architects . + LSE
Updated scheme of LSE Firoz Lalji Global Hub released as planning permission is received. Continue reading Chipperfield . Feix&Merlin
David Chipperfield Architects . renders: © Filippo Bolognese Images
In the Cape Winelands region, around 60 kilometres east of Cape Town, a new wine estate for 4G Wines is being developed in the mountainous landscape of Franschhoek. Once founded by French immigrants and winegrowers, Franschhoek is one of the most important wine-growing areas in South Africa. The grounds of the new estate are shaped by their unique hillside location, offering sweeping views over the landscape. At an elevated point of the site, the new winery with its clear architectural language blends sensitively into its natural surroundings, while being visible from afar as a new landmark of the wine region. Continue reading David Chipperfield
This library in an important new civic building within the Zikawei district of Shanghai and is located on Caoxi Road facing a public square. It sits adjacent to the well-preserved St Ignatius Cathedral and close to the Observatory Building and historic Zikawei Bibliotheca, perhaps the best examples of architecture built by the Jesuit missionaries in Shanghai in the early twentieth century. From the beginning the project focused on the idea of urban repair, addressing the intensive development of recent years that had left the historic buildings isolated. The new building seeks to create a context in which these buildings can be best appreciated. The massing and the location of the library re-defines the public square while strengthening the presence of the cathedral on it. Continue reading David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield Architects Shanghai . photos: © Wen Studio
NIO is an electric vehicle company established in 2014, and NIO House is a community centre shared by NIO owners and their family and friends. This NIO House, located in the center of Huaxi LIVE, Wukesong, Beijing, occupies a corner of an existing building, facing the main public square of the shopping village. As a template and guideline for upgrading the current NIO Houses, it proposes more connections with the building typology of “house”, consisting of a series of interlinked rooms with different spatial qualities. Continue reading David Chipperfield
