0

David Chipperfield

NIO House at Huaxi LIVE Wukesong . Beijing

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

0

David Chipperfield

Germanisches Nationalmuseum . Nuremberg

David Chipperfield Architects . renders: © Onirism Studio

The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg is Germany’s largest museum of cultural history. The diverse collection of artefacts from the Palaeolithic Age to the present-day bears witness to the cultural wealth of the German-speaking world. The museum complex itself, with its architecture from four eras, further provides an impressive testimony to European cultural heritage. A mediaeval Carthusian monastery is situated at the heart of the museum, founded in 1852, and is extended by revivalist buildings. Following severe war damage, the museum complex was further defined by the buildings of Sep Ruf from the 1950s to 1970s and the postmodern entrance hall from 1993. Continue reading David Chipperfield

0

David Chipperfield

Trinkaus Karree . Düsseldorf

David Chipperfield Architects Berlin

The City of Düsseldorf has granted planning permission for the conversion of the former HSBC Bank headquarters into a contemporary office and commercial building. The project will sensitively integrate the refurbished building into its urban context while at the same time creating a new distinctive identity. Following a circular construction strategy, the core design principle prioritises the retention of as much of the original structure as feasible, reusing building components as valuable resources. Continue reading David Chipperfield