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Lütjens Padmanabhan

BOGOTA

Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekt*innen . photos: © Max Creasy

Required earthquake reinforcement was the starting point for an overall renovation of the embassy residence. In addition to new kitchens and bathrooms, the existing service kitchen is to be converted into a family kitchen and broadly opened up toward the garden. The garden at the rear will be opened up and made usable for receptions and events, with a surrounding glass roof. A family room is to be created on the private upper floor, which can be opened up toward the staircase, with generous glazing, as a private living room. Continue reading Lütjens Padmanabhan

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KANZLEISTRASSE renovation . Zurich

Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten . photos: © Max Creasy

The complete renovation of a building in the Zurich district of Aussersihl with nine small apartments and two commercial spaces, dating from the early twentieth century, was to be carried out with minor interventions in the ground-plan structure in order to meet the client’s goal of continuing to offer small apartments at favourable rents. Continue reading Lütjens Padmanabhan

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Herdernstrasse . ZURICH

Lütjens Padmanabhan . photos: © Walter Mair

Set at the end of a uniform row of humble apartment buildings from the 1930’s the ten unit apartment building works as a sort of book-end to an incomplete urban block. Its setting is rather dramatic, as it demarcates the end of Zurich’s nineteenth century block structure giving way to the sprawl of the Limmat valley. Serious and lonely, it acknowledges the proximity of two heroic elements of the modern city, the soccer stadium and the slaughter house. Continue reading Lütjens Padmanabhan