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Microsoft's Israel campus designed to focus on 'evolution of work' features large corporate gym
by Tom Walker | 19 Jul 2021
A large health club plays a major role in tech giant Microsoft’s recently opened R&D campus in Israel, which was designed to "re-define office working". Located in the city of Herzliya, the campus has been designed in partnership with Vered Gindi Architects and GSArch and utilises Microsoft’s concept of team-based “neighbourhoods”, which is based on the idea of being big enough to offer public interaction but small enough to give
First Apple hotel planned as part of new Austin campus
by Liz Terry | 25 May 2020
Tech giant, Apple, has received approval from City of Austin planners in Texas, for a six-storey, 192-bed, 76,000sq ft hotel, as part of a new US$1bn campus being built to the north-west of the city. The original outline plans for the development, submitted in December 2018, did not include a hotel and it's thought the facility has been added to COVID-proof Apple exec's travel exposure. The development started on site
WOHA's Dhaka uni campus will be a lush park oasis
by Stu Robarts | 24 Mar 2020
WOHA Architects are creating a new campus for BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that will be set in a park and offer a variety of spaces for culture, recreation and social interaction. The vision is for an inner-city campus that is sustainable and sensitively integrated with nature, employs tropical design strategies to accommodate the climate and provides students with an innovative environment for learning and leisure. When it's completed in
MVRDV's Tencent campus design is a smart city wrapped in nature
by Stu Robarts | 28 Jan 2020
MVRDV 's design for a new campus for Chinese technology firm Tencent is, in reality, an urban district in which for employees to live, work and play, with cutting edge smart city technology and nature deeply integrated into its design. Tencent began plans for a new headquarters shortly after completing their current headquarters in Shenzhen, China, due to the speed on its growth. Located the city's Qianhai Bay area, MVDRV's
MVRDV's Tencent campus design is a smart city wrapped in nature
by Stu Robarts | 28 Jan 2020
MVRDV 's design for a new campus for Chinese technology firm Tencent is, in reality, an urban district in which for employees to live, work and play, with cutting edge smart city technology and nature deeply integrated into its design. Tencent began plans for a new headquarters shortly after completing their current headquarters in Shenzhen, China, due to the speed on its growth. Located the city's Qianhai Bay area, MVDRV's
Studio One Eleven make adaptive reuse of industrial buildings for mixed-use campus
by Stu Robarts | 28 Nov 2019
Studio One Eleven are repurposing three former factory buildings in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles to create a new 1.8ac (0.7ha) mixed-use campus that will reanimate a derelict site and recall its heritage. The industrial typology of the local area sees the design for 2110 Bay Street making adaptive reuse of the three structures with the final result to be a mix of old and new. The frame
Weiss/Manfredi to lead storm-resistant redesign of Artis–Naples cultural campus
by Andrew Manns | 06 Nov 2018
Architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi have released the latest set of renderings for the Baker Museum Repair and Expansion Project – the first stage in the renovation of the Artis–Naples campus in Florida. The work is required to repair damage caused by Hurricane Irma, which flooded two floors of the institution in 2017. The estimated US$70m (€61.3m, £53.5m) Weiss/Manfredi redesign features storm-resistant stone and metal cladding. Other updates to the 8.5-acre cultural
Work starts on MAD Architects’ craterous sports campus
by Andrew Manns | 11 Oct 2018
Construction has commenced on the Quzhou Sports Campus, an ambitious project which is designed to resemble a craterous landscape not unlike the conical puys of France's Massif Central. Helmed by Beijing-based MAD Architects and based in China’s Zhejiang province, the sprawling, 700,000sq m (7.5 million sq ft) complex will function as a kind of mini-city and feature a 30,000-seat stadium, hotels, youth centres, retail shops, museums, a gym, and a
Work begins on Feyenoord's academy building and sports campus
by Tom Walker | 21 Sep 2018
Construction has begun on the new Feyenoord Academy and Sports Club Feyenoord in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Designed by MoederscheimMoonen Architects for Dutch top flight club Feyenoord, the complex will cater for both professional football, as well as house a leisure centre and outdoor sports facilities. It will become the new home of Feyenoord's U23 team, with the main pitch having seating for 1,100 spectators. As well as the football pitch
Steven Holl's Giant's Causeway-inspired design chosen as winner of Dublin's Future Campus competition
by Tom Walker | 13 Aug 2018
Steven Holl Architects (SHA) has been declared winner of the Future Campus – University College Dublin International Design Competition. In a statement, the international jury judging the competition said it was "hugely impressed" by SHA’s design proposal for a Centre for Creative Design and the accompanying masterplan for an Entrance Precinct – which in total will cover a 24ha area of the campus. The design competition's four other finalists were
FaulknerBrowns create twisting 'Tardis-like' sports campus in The Hague's historic Zuiderpark
by Kim Megson | 19 Mar 2018
Architecture firm FaulknerBrowns have completed a dynamic €50m (US$61m, £44.4m) sports campus in The Hague’s historic Zuiderpark. Open to amateur and elite athletes and community users, the 34,000sq m (366,000sq ft) facility includes a gymnastics hall, beach sports venue, 3,500 capacity arena and a multi-purpose sports hall, as well as a variety of sports science and education spaces, including a public library. Outside, there are a series of multi-use pitches,
Schmidt Hammer Lassen win competition to design Sports and Culture Campus in Aarhus
by Kim Megson | 20 Dec 2017
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects (SHL) have been commissioned to design a sports and culture campus in Aarhus, Denmark The multi-use community project is a core component of the revitalisation of the city’s western Gellerup district, with local leaders committed to delivering “an inspiring, welcoming and open destination” for residents and 600,000 visitors annually. The sprawling Gellerup Sports and Culture Campus will include an ‘activity house’ for football; climbing and circus
Adidas unveils design for fitness-focused World of Sports campus
by Kim Megson | 21 Dec 2016
Sportswear giant Adidas has revealed its plans to transform its German headquarters into a huge leisure campus, including four star-shaped public spaces promoting exercise and outdoor activity. Dutch studio LOLA Landscape Architects have designed the outdoor component of the World of Sports campus in the town of Herzogenaurach, which will provide a canvas for employees to test Adidas products for activities ranging from football and running to skateboarding and cycling.
FC Barcelona claims €600m Barca campus will invigorate city's tourism
by Kim Megson | 07 Sep 2016
The director in charge of overseeing FC Barcelona’s ambitious expansion plans has said that the €600m leisure campus planned by the club will reinvigorate the city and boost tourism. The Espai Barça project – described by club president Josep Maria Bartomeu as “the most important sports project in Europe and the world” – will create a pedestrianised, landscaped boulevard surrounding the club’s famous Camp Nou stadium. The district will integrate
New US$5bn Apple HQ to champion workplace wellness
by Jak Phillips | 22 Mar 2016
More details have emerged of Apple’s highly-anticipated US$5bn Campus 2 compound in California, with the space-age site set to feature a 100,000sq ft gym as part of a prominent workplace wellness offering. A newly-released video by Duncan Sinfield features drone footage of the under-construction campus in Cupertino, CA, which will be occupied by 12,000 Apple employees when it opens in 2017. Among the standout features of the Foster + Partners-designed
Plans unveiled for visitor centre at new Foster + Partners Apple Campus
by Tom Anstey | 31 Jul 2015
Apple’s new campus, designed by Foster + Partners in California, looks to be gaining a previously not included visitor centre for tourists. To include a rooftop observation deck and a shop, the visitor centre at Apple Campus 2 will comprise glass walls and a carbon-fibre roof. Proposed for a site along Tantau Avenue, Cupertino, the plans for the attraction are a late addition, having only being submitted in April 2015,
Prada's new arts campus has design by Rem Koolhaas and Wes Anderson
by Tom Anstey | 06 May 2015
OMA, the architectural practice founded by Rem Koolhaas, have converted a former industrial complex in Milan, Italy, into a new home for designer Miuccia Prada’s Fondazione Prada. Fondazione Prada was established by Miuccia Prada in 1993 as a cultural organisation dedicated to the arts, cinema and philosophy. The new venue opens to the public on 9 May. The 19,000sq m (204,500sq ft) art campus, has been seven years in the
Danish architects BIG land contract to redesign Smithsonian Campus
by Jessica Tasman-Jones | 18 Mar 2013
Danish design firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has been announced as the winning team to lead the first phase of the Smithsonian Campus Master Plan, in a US$2.4m (1.85m euro, £1.59m) contract. At 700,000sq ft (65,032sq m) the campus in Washington D.C., US is the world's largest museum and research complex and includes 19 museums, the National Zoological Park and nine research facilities. BIG has already revealed it hopes to
£40m campus to open in east Manchester
by Aoife Dowling | 23 Nov 2012
Plans are underway to build a £40m community campus in east Manchester. The 16-acre development project is led by Manchester City Council (MCC) and supported by Manchester City Football Club. The Beswick Community Hub Masterplan sets out a blueprint for four key initiatives; a new leisure centre with a swimming pool, Connell Sixth Form College (a 600-place sixth form college for 16- to 19-year-olds); the Manchester Institute of Sports Science
Technogym to unveil new Wellness Campus in Italy
by Kate Corney | 28 Sep 2012
Former US President Bill Clinton and Giorgio Napolitano, the President of Italy, will be at the opening of the Technogym Village on 29 September 2012, along with 800 other guests from more than 60 countries. The new company headquarters in Cesana represents the first Wellness Campus in the world with 60,000 m sq of covered spaces spread across the 150,000 m sq site. The Technogym Village is designed to be
The Barnes Foundation to unveil new Philadelphia 'campus'
by Pete Hayman | 18 May 2012
Image: The foundation's new Philadelphia home The Barnes Foundation is to unveil its new 93,000sq ft (8,640sq m) home in Philadelphia, US, tomorrow (19 May), which will house the organisation's extensive art collection. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects designed the two-storey "campus", which is set amid a 4.5-acre (1.8-hectare) site on the north of the city's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The building houses 12,000sq ft (1,115sq m) of exhibition space
Baylor University plans on-campus stadium
by Pete Hayman | 08 Nov 2011
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, US, has revealed its plans to bring its American Football team on-campus with the development of a new riverfront stadium designed by Populous. The institution's football team has played its games away from the campus since 1936 after moving from Carroll Field to Waco Stadium. It currently plays at the Floyd Casey Stadium. A site alongside the Brazos River, which is located adjacent to Interstate
University reveals Edgbaston campus plans
by Pete Hayman | 10 Aug 2011
The University of Birmingham's (UoB) historic Edgbaston campus is poised to undergo a major £175m transformation, including the development of a new sports centre. Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and S&P Architects have been appointed to lead the design and delivery of the proposals, with a library also proposed as part of the scheme. A 50m swimming pool; sports halls; and training facilities are earmarked as part of the new complex, which
Green light for £70m Ayr campus
by Pete Hayman | 12 Jun 2009
Work on a new £70m University of the West of Scotland (UWS) campus in Ayr is set to get underway in September after the development was given the go-ahead by the local authority. South Ayrshire Council has awarded full planning permission and approved the transfer of land to the university for the new 18,000sq m (193,750sq ft) facility, which will be situated on the Craigie Estate alongside the River Ayr.
Leicester Uni unveils £1bn campus scheme
by Pete Hayman | 20 Nov 2008
Public art and social facilities have been proposed by Leicester University as part of its £1bn campus redevelopment project. The scheme is designed to establish the university as one of the top ten in the UK, and its new Development Framework Plan outlines £786m of investment over the next two decades to complement a £300m plan unveiled in 2002. At the centre of proposals, the university plans to establish high
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