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The Ford Foundation Building, New York City, New York, USA, 1968 designed by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo
The building occupies the width of a block, and has facades of about 200 feet on either side, creating a near-perfect square, out of which a large volume has been removed to create a garden courtyard. The resulting L-shaped block of office space opens onto either the atrium or the street, depriving only a small number of workers of exterior views. The placement of the atrium in that location is surprisingly clever. In addition to maximizing sunlight for the plants, the cut reflects the location of the adjacent park in Tudor City, which slopes down through the envelope of the building, rolling down into a fountain at the center of the space. -- Wikipedia.Read an article from ArchDaily
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590 Madison Avenue(formerly IBM Building), New York City, New York, USA, 1983 designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes
Its plan included square footage exceeded the legal limitation of allowable floor area but it was accepted because of the bonus for providing benefits of public open space. The building was completed in 1983. It’s a successful example of an office building providing public open space.
The building occupies only 40 percent of the property and the rest of the square footage are assigned to public open space. The space is filled with series of amenities such as food and drink kiosks, tables and chairs, receptacles, and so on. Green bamboo trees installed in the space celebrates the serenity of an indoor garden. -- Wikipedia
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Meditech World Headquarters, Canton, Massachusetts, USA, 1986 designed by Koetter Kim & Associates
The building is organized around a central covered garden space, offering a park-like setting for the year-round enjoyment of the Codex community( as well as providing a semi-climatized buffer between the building and the outside environment). -- architect's web site.
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DZ Bank Headquarters(Westendstraße 1), Frankfurt, Germany, 1993 designed by KPF
The project includes office and residential tower and low-rise office podium with retail, a central winter garden and underground parking. -- architect's web site
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Cartier Foundation, Paris, France, 1994 designed by Jean Nouvel
The phantom in the park. With its transparency. With its enclosure. Trees are visible behind the high glazed barrier, which has taken the place of a long opaque wall, brushing against their eight-meter high enclosure. The lone Chateaubriand Cedar rises up, framed by two screens which assert the entrance. The visitor passes beneath the cedar and sees the spectacle of the trees surrounding the glazed exhibition hall, also eight meters high, in a reading through the depth of the site.
In summer the huge sliding bays disappear and the hall transforms into the extension of the park, given rhythm by high posts. The architecture is about lightness, with a refined framework of steel and glass. Architecture where the game consists in blurring the tangible boundaries of the building and rendering superfluous the reading of a solid volume amid poetics of fuzziness and effervescence. When virtuality is attacked by reality, architecture must more than ever have the courage to take on the image of contradiction. -- architect's web site.Read a post from ArchDaily.
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The World Financial Center, New York City, New York, USA, 1998 designed by Cesar Pelli
The World Financial Center and its grand centerpiece, the 10-story glass pavilion Winter Garden, features extensive public spaces, dozens of shops and restaurants, and a stunning outdoor waterfront esplanade. The Winter Garden and its adjacent outdoor plaza are celebrated venues for both private functions as well as Brookfield’s Arts & Events program, which features everything from unique art installations and exhibits to musical and cultural performances, offered to the public year-round and free-of-charge. -- official web siteNew Look for the Winter Garden -- ArchDaily
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United States Courthouse, Pheonix, Arizona, USA, 2000 designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects
The 350-foot by 150-foot, glazed atrium is treated as an internal civic space, that houses the cylindrical glazed form of the special proceedings court -- architect's web site
the focus is a massive atrium lobby which offers occupants and visitors a naturally acclimatized public space of outdoor proportions.
Read an article about style of government buildings by Robert Campbell.Passively cooled by natural convection currents and a water-misting system, the atrium provides energy efficient space that is comfortable for public gatherings. The phenomenon of adiabatic cooling – through evaporation rather than heat exchange – is used to attain a drop in air temperature without a significant expenditure of energy. Even on the hottest summer days, the temperature in the hall can be lowered from between 15 degrees to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and the movement of air at occupied levels enhances the sensation of comfort. -- ArchDaily
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Pyjama Garden Medical Center Extention, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, 2003 designed by MVRDV
The building for the public program, such as the restaurant, the conference center and the library for the MMC in Veldhoven, has been designed as a covered garden with natural sunlight, a glass house acclimatized by flora that compensates for the introverted orientation of the rest of the hospital. It gives the patient some freedom from the endless corridors and sterile medical environments. It's a pyjamas garden amid the Lysol disinfectant of the hospital ward. -- architect's web site
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Genzyme Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2003 designed by Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner
Read an article about it concrete frame superstructure from PCAThe building's central atrium acts as a huge return air duct and light shaft. Fresh air moves into the atrium and up and out exhaust fans near the skylight. Natural light from the fully glazed facade and from the atrium (brought in by solar-tracking mirrors above the skylight) is reflected deep into the building. -- AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
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Atlas Building, Wageningen, the Netherlands, 2007 designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects
A vast skylit atrium encourages the creation of an interactive environment, invigorated through a series of pedestrian bridges that join the floor levels and functions. -- architect's web site
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Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 2010 designed by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten
The two interlocking u-shaped buildings also create a space that is covered with a light glass roof. This 17-meter high access area, which narrows at its two main entrances, links the two stone halves of the building and guides visitors into the Museum. -- ArchDaily
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Adidas Laces, Herzogenaurach, Germany, 2011 designed by kadawittfeldarchitektur
In contrast to conventional office typologies, the ring structure developed by kadawittfeldarchitektur lends to the building a double relationship to the landscape – both to the outer surroundings and to the communicative landscape of the atrium. The connecting walkways, “Laces”, efficiently open up access to all office areas without the need to cross through other departments. At the same time they transform the atrium into a creative center of the building that provides an identity. -- ArchDaily
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Cultural – Sport Complex For Disabled, Tehran, Iran, 2011 designed by Experimental Branch of Architecture
....a tall building was inevitable and finally the program turns into functional boxes. These functional boxes locate and slip over each other to make voids between spaces. The spaces which behave in relation to inside and outside of the building. -- ArchDaily
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The Lunder Building, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2011 designed by NBBJ
In the five-story bed tower, two wedge-shaped openings cut out of the overall volume accommodate an 80-foot-high skylit atrium, as well as an open-air garden court, where bamboo trees shoot upward past the patient levels. -- Architectural Record
AIA Selects Four Projects for National Healthcare Design Awards -- ArchDaily
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The Atrium, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2011 designed by D’Ambrosio Architecture & Urbanism
A seven-storey atrium introduces daylight into the heart of the complex while enlivening the street at night with warm glowing light through the large expanses of glass. The use of wood as an interior finish is maximized in what is otherwise non-combustible construction. Seen from the street through a seven-storey glass curtain, views of the space with its wood wall grilles and roof trusses, distinguish the atrium from the surrounding more insular buildings. -- ArchDaily
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Federal Center South Building 1202, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2012 designed by ZGF Architects
The indoor campus environment enhances the concept of creating a collective community and identity by centralizing all common services and conferencing within the “commons” or social heart of the building. -- ArchDaily
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Marshal’s HQ, aleja Niepodległości, Poznań, Poland, 2015 designed by / WAPA Warsztat Architektury
The interiors are articulated by two atriums which play crucial role in the air circulation and are thermal buffers (collect heat in winter and provide ventilation and fresh air supplies in summer). -- ArchDaily
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