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David Chipperfield

Agar Grove studios . London

David Chipperfield Architects

Twentieth Century Society (C20 Society) has submitted a listing application for the former office and studio of David Chipperfield Architects in Camden, North London. Agar Grove studios, also known as 1 Cobham Mews, was the practice’s first building in the UK and, should the application be successful, would be David Chipperfield Architects’ first nationally listed building. The C20 Society bid states that the project, which completed in 1989, “combines influences from Le Corbusian-style modernism and traditional Japanese architecture, inducing an atmosphere of calm and abstraction from context.” Continue reading David Chipperfield

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David Chipperfield

Confluence . Lyon

David Chipperfield Architects . photos: © Simon Menges

Central Lyon is located on a peninsula created by the Rhône and Saône rivers as they converge. The southern tip – La Confluence – has largely been used for industry although, in recent years, it has begun to be redeveloped. The project involved coordinating three urban blocks with eleven buildings within a masterplan by Herzog & de Meuron for the second phase of Lyon’s extension into La Confluence on a part of the site that was previously a market. The wider masterplan had to be adapted to the specific area and programme, and strategies were developed for the landscape, massing, organisation and façade design of the buildings. This process required mediating between and coordinating with the city, clients, sustainability consultants, landscape architects and the other architects through regular collaborative workshops. As well as coordinating this quarter, the practice was appointed to design three individual buildings, one within each of the blocks. Continue reading David Chipperfield