NEWS REFURBISHMENT
ZHA’s Port House, Antwerp picks up MIPIM award
Port House in Antwerp, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, was named ‘Best Refurbished Building’ at the MIPIM Awards 2018. The project, for client the Port of Antwerp, repurposes, renovates and extends a derelict fire station into a new headquarters, “connecting the city with the vital activities of its port,” commented the architects. Handling 26 per cent of Europe’s container shipping, Antwerp is the continent’s second largest port, and has ambitious expansion plans. Working with heritage consultants
Origin, ZHA’s historic analysis of the fire station “revealed its unrealised tower”. Port House, said the architects, is “a composition of a new volume that ‘floats’ above the old building, respecting each of the existing facades and completing the verticality of the original design’s unbuilt central tower”. The new extension points towards the city, connecting Antwerp with the port on which it was founded.
REDEVELOPMENT
gpad beats tough competition to reach Old Street Roundabout redesign final
Architects gpad London have been confirmed as one of four practices to have their design chosen as a winning concept for the Old Street roundabout redevelopment in London. Islington Council and judges selected
the final four, whittled down from an initial 120 entries, for being “iconic and achievable” while creating “flexible and inclusive spaces”. The proposed design from the gpad
team is for a ‘Digital Garden’ providing respite from the adjacent traffic by way of a “forest of lights” arranged around a leisure and event space. The existing digital display has been reformed into an interactive “totem” cycle store as the
central feature to the landmark site. Charles Bettes, director, gpad London,
commented, “We’re ecstatic that our concept has been selected from such a high calibre longlist of entries. We’ve beaten tough competition, and some big household names, to reach the final, which is a real achievement for our team and testament to everyone’s hard work. Old Street is also our stomping ground. We can almost see the roundabout from our office, so our design really comes from the heart.” The four shortlisted designs – by gpad
London, Dar Group, Nicholas Hare Architects and EPR Architects – were chosen following a public display of the
39 longlisted entries which also included concepts by Hawkins\Brown, Zaha Hadid Architects, AHMM + Derwent London and Coffey Architects. gpad has also been shortlisted in this
year’s AJ Small Projects Awards for Charles Bettes’ tiny six by seven metre former garage site which he turned into a compact two-bedroom home in 10 months. The small site enabled Bettes to break into the fiercely competitive and expensive inner-city London housing market while still allowing him to live comfortably. The winner of the AJ Small Projects
Award will be announced on Wednesday 18 April.
The project renovates a derelict fire station and connects the city with the vital activities of its port
Surrounded by water, the new extension's facade is a glazed surface that ripples like waves and reflects the changing tones and colours of the city’s sky. “This perception of a transparent volume, cut to give the new building its sparkling appearance, reinterprets Antwerp’s moniker as the city of diamonds.” The project has “constant references to the River Scheldt, the city of Antwerp and the dynamics of its port, married with the successful renovation and reuse of a redundant fire station – wholly integrating the old firehouse as part of the new
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headquarters”. It has been designed to support the port through its planned expansion over coming decades. Established in 1991, the MIPIM Awards recognise the most outstanding and accomplished projects across the globe.
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