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Applecross is known for quiet leafy streets and neighbourhood charm. Inspired by its surroundings, this project does not eat up the leafy, green suburbs. The design keeps everything that is charming about Applecross - the Jacarandas dripping with purple flowers, the beautiful gardens, the backyards and barbecue pits – and envisages the building as an environment, creating gardens that extend into the sky and a seamless connection between exterior and interior.
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@forbesresidences is designed as a three-dimensional “vertical suburb” that contains liveable, generous homes, shared facilities, common spaces within gardens, natural light and fresh air that weave throughout every level.
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“Hanging gardens” drape the podium form and extend up the roof. They preserve the garden suburb quality, create greater privacy, frame views, and enhance sociability. They also perform meaningful environmental services that benefit not just the development site, but the district – reducing the heat island effect, reducing noise and dust, preventing glare, and providing a habitat for biodiversity.
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When the Jacarandas are in bloom, the building will be covered in a canopy of vibrant purple flowers. The leafy greenery that characterises Applecross will flow seamlessly through the building, capturing the essence of the neighbourhood.
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Design Inception: 2018
This project is a collaboration with @mjastudio
Landscape by @capa_studio
Development website link in bio at @forbesresidences
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#verticalsuburb #perth #applecross #suburbliving #greendesign #verticalgreenery #woha #mjastudio #musteraproperty #forbesresidences
Reposting @architects_tas
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Have you checked out the March / April Architecture Australia edition? It’s theme is ‘new into old: valuing context and memory in contemporary built works,’ and features The Hedburg by @liminalstudio with @woha_architects.
Review by @hnorrie and photography by @natashamulhallphotography
Members have access to the digital copy through Zinio.
#architectureaustraliamagazine #tasmanianarchitects #tasmanianarchitecture
Applecross is known for quiet leafy streets and neighbourhood charm. Inspired by its surroundings, this project does not eat up the leafy, green suburbs. The design keeps everything that is charming about Applecross - the Jacarandas dripping with purple flowers, the beautiful gardens, the backyards and barbecue pits – and envisages the building as an environment, creating gardens that extend into the sky and a seamless connection between exterior and interior.
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@forbesresidences is designed as a three-dimensional “vertical suburb” that contains liveable, generous homes, shared facilities, common spaces within gardens, natural light and fresh air that weave throughout every level.
.
“Hanging gardens” drape the podium form and extend up the roof. They preserve the garden suburb quality, create greater privacy, frame views, and enhance sociability. They also perform meaningful environmental services that benefit not just the development site, but the district – reducing the heat island effect, reducing noise and dust, preventing glare, and providing a habitat for biodiversity.
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When the Jacarandas are in bloom, the building will be covered in a canopy of vibrant purple flowers. The leafy greenery that characterises Applecross will flow seamlessly through the building, capturing the essence of the neighbourhood.
.
Design Inception: 2018
This project is a collaboration with @mjastudio
Landscape by @capa_studio
Development website link in bio at @forbesresidences
.
#verticalsuburb #perth #applecross #suburbliving #greendesign #verticalgreenery #woha #mjastudio #musteraproperty #forbesresidences
Applecross is known for quiet leafy streets and neighbourhood charm. Inspired by its surroundings, this project does not eat up the leafy, green suburbs. The design keeps everything that is charming about Applecross - the Jacarandas dripping with purple flowers, the beautiful gardens, the backyards and barbecue pits – and envisages the building as an environment, creating gardens that extend into the sky and a seamless connection between exterior and interior.
.
@forbesresidences is designed as a three-dimensional “vertical suburb” that contains liveable, generous homes, shared facilities, common spaces within gardens, natural light and fresh air that weave throughout every level.
.
“Hanging gardens” drape the podium form and extend up the roof. They preserve the garden suburb quality, create greater privacy, frame views, and enhance sociability. They also perform meaningful environmental services that benefit not just the development site, but the district – reducing the heat island effect, reducing noise and dust, preventing glare, and providing a habitat for biodiversity.
.
When the Jacarandas are in bloom, the building will be covered in a canopy of vibrant purple flowers. The leafy greenery that characterises Applecross will flow seamlessly through the building, capturing the essence of the neighbourhood.
.
Design Inception: 2018
This project is a collaboration with @mjastudio
Landscape by @capa_studio
Development website link in bio at @forbesresidences
.
#verticalsuburb #perth #applecross #suburbliving #greendesign #verticalgreenery #woha #mjastudio #musteraproperty #forbesresidences
Applecross is known for quiet leafy streets and neighbourhood charm. Inspired by its surroundings, this project does not eat up the leafy, green suburbs. The design keeps everything that is charming about Applecross - the Jacarandas dripping with purple flowers, the beautiful gardens, the backyards and barbecue pits – and envisages the building as an environment, creating gardens that extend into the sky and a seamless connection between exterior and interior.
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Forbes Residences is designed, not as a stand-alone urban object, but as a three-dimensional “vertical suburb” that contains liveable, generous homes, shared facilities, common spaces within gardens, natural light and fresh air that weave throughout every level.
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The building reads as four organically shaped towers, connected via a series of sky gardens. It is expressed as a landscape, with residences akin to villas within that landscape and a façade inspired by the limestone formations around the Swan River.
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“Hanging gardens” drape the podium form and extend up the roof. They preserve the garden suburb quality, create greater privacy, frame views, and enhance sociability. They also perform meaningful environmental services that benefit not just the development site, but the district – reducing the heat island effect, reducing noise and dust, preventing glare, and providing a habitat for biodiversity.
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When the Jacarandas are in bloom, the building will be covered in a canopy of vibrant purple flowers. The leafy greenery that characterises Applecross will flow seamlessly through the building, capturing the essence of the neighbourhood.
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Forbes Residences is a next-generation residential project, a development that generates greater amenity along with its higher density. It is a building that enhances its environment, enriching the quality of life for all.
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Design Inception: 2018
This project is a collaboration with @mjastudio
Landscape by @capa_studio
Development website link in bio at @forbesresidences
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#verticalsuburb #perth #applecross #suburbliving #greendesign #verticalgreenery #woha #mjastudio #musteraproperty #forbesresidences
Our Co-Founding Director Richard Hassell will be holding the University of Virginia’s Weedon Lecture in Asian Architecture.
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Title: Form Follows Systems
Date: Monday, March 8, 2021
Time: 7pm-8:30pm ET | 8am-9:30am SGT (March 9)
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Please register at the link in our bio for this Zoom lecture.
#imaginingchina #greenoculus #flythrough
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This schematic design for a large mixed-use development in a prominent new site at the center of Shenzhen's Qian Hai Bay CBD envisions what future city centers could be.
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Housing cultural spaces, expo and conference centers as well as residential units, hotels, retail and offices, the design takes a holistic approach by integrating the different programmes 3-dimensionally.
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A lush, subtropical urban oasis rises up on the seafront, bringing nature back into the city that is dominated by concrete, glass and steel.
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The biophilic design offers a healthy and relaxing environment that encourages people to be more aware of our climate crisis and inspires them to form a closer relationship with nature.
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Design inception: 2018
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#mixeduse #skyrise #skygarden #skyrisegreenery
#subtropical #skyscraper #office #hotel #retail #expo #culturalcentre #sustainable #architecture #design
#imaginingchina #urbanoasis #greenoculus 10/10
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The green oculus of the Shenzhen Qian Hai scheme represents a new typology that was designed for the
project’s geographical, climatic and cultural context.
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To capitalize on the subtropical climate, the oculus is green and porous, offering users a biophilic, naturally ventilated, yet sheltered, environment.
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It brings nature back into the lives of city-dwellers by offering landscaped, comfortable, breezy, naturally lit common spaces.
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These spaces significantly reduce the need for artificial lighting and air-conditioning, which reduces the scheme’s energy consumption considerably.
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The biophilic design offers a healthy and relaxing environment that encourages people to be more aware of our climate crisis and inspires them to form a closer relationship with nature.
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Design Inception: 2018
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#mixeduse #skyrise #skygarden #skyrisegreenery
#subtropical #skyscraper #office #hotel #retail #expo #culturalcentre #sustainable #architecture #design
#imaginingchina #urbanoasis #greenoculus 9/10
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The green oculus of the Shenzhen Qian Hai scheme represents a new typology that was designed for the
project’s geographical, climatic and cultural context.
.
To capitalize on the subtropical climate, the oculus is green and porous, offering users a biophilic, naturally ventilated, yet sheltered, environment.
.
It brings nature back into the lives of city-dwellers by offering landscaped, comfortable, breezy, naturally lit common spaces.
.
These spaces significantly reduce the need for artificial lighting and air-conditioning, which reduces the scheme’s energy consumption considerably.
.
The biophilic design offers a healthy and relaxing environment that encourages people to be more aware of our climate crisis and inspires them to form a closer relationship with nature.
.
Design Inception: 2018
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#mixeduse #skyrise #skygarden #skyrisegreenery
#subtropical #skyscraper #office #hotel #retail #expo #culturalcentre #sustainable #architecture #design
#imaginingchina #urbanoasis #greenoculus 8/10
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The green oculus of the Shenzhen Qian Hai scheme represents a new typology that was designed for the
project’s geographical, climatic and cultural context.
.
To capitalize on the subtropical climate, the oculus is green and porous, offering users a biophilic, naturally ventilated, yet sheltered, environment.
.
It brings nature back into the lives of city-dwellers by offering landscaped, comfortable, breezy, naturally lit common spaces.
.
These spaces significantly reduce the need for artificial lighting and air-conditioning, which reduces the scheme’s energy consumption considerably.
.
The biophilic design offers a healthy and relaxing environment that encourages people to be more aware of our climate crisis and inspires them to form a closer relationship with nature.
.
Design inception: 2018
.
#mixeduse #skyrise #skygarden #skyrisegreenery
#subtropical #skyscraper #office #hotel #retail #expo #culturalcentre #sustainable #architecture #design
#imaginingchina #urbanoasis #greenoculus 7/10
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The green oculus of the Shenzhen Qian Hai scheme represents a new typology that was designed for the
project’s geographical, climatic and cultural context.
.
To capitalize on the subtropical climate, the oculus is green and porous, offering users a biophilic, naturally ventilated, yet sheltered, environment.
.
It brings nature back into the lives of city-dwellers by offering landscaped, comfortable, breezy, naturally lit common spaces.
.
These spaces significantly reduce the need for artificial lighting and air-conditioning, which reduces the scheme’s energy consumption considerably.
.
The biophilic design offers a healthy and relaxing environment that encourages people to be more aware of our climate crisis and inspires them to form a closer relationship with nature.
.
Design inception: 2018
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#mixeduse #skyrise #skygarden #skyrisegreenery
#subtropical #skyscraper #office #hotel #retail #expo #culturalcentre #sustainable #architecture #design
Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Lunar New Year from all of us at WOHA!
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To mark the beginning of the Year of the Ox, our co-founding director Richard Hassell created this tessellation of beautiful Balinese cattle in an abstract rice field in this year’s lucky colours white, yellow and green.
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The design is playing games with depth, patterns, space, figure and ground.
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This year’s lucky numbers are 1 and 4 and any number containing 1 and 4 - this herd consists of 141 oxen. One For One also sounds auspicious in English - doubling up!
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If you zoom in, you will see the oxen are surrounded by fellow creatures from the rice paddies: cattle egret, Javan finch, frogs and fish.
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Can you spot them all?
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#gongxifacai #happycny2021 #tessellation #hassellation #woha #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear