Call for Entries: Architecture MasterPrize 2024 to Celebrate Architectural Design Excellence at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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Best of Best in Cultural Architecture 2023Joybo Farm by WE LIVE ARCHITECTS
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Call for Entries: Architecture MasterPrize 2024 to Celebrate Architectural Design Excellence at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Architecture MasterPrize
Best of Best in Cultural Architecture 2023National Pavilion of Biodiversity by Fernanda Ahumada + FR-EE
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César Belio
Call for Entries: Architecture MasterPrize 2024 to Celebrate Architectural Design Excellence at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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Winner in Healthcare / Wellness 2023
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N1 Health Center ESCARCEGA by Kiltro Polaris Arquitectura & JC Arquitectura (photo by Cesar Bejar)
Call for Entries: Architecture MasterPrize 2024 to Celebrate Architectural Design Excellence at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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Winner in Cultural Architecture 2023Garden of Communities by Hello Wood Zrt.
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György Palkó
DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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The “Steps -of -Life” is both an escape stairway and a vertical exercise amenity that connects to the jogging circuit on the 4th storey of the clubhouse. Arising out from amongst a grove of trees, it sits at the edge between the park and Clubhouse.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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The solid concrete main facade expresses a robust frontage, detailed with panels of synchronized stepped strips, and their bold grooves and facets leverage the play of natural light and shadows to add a sense of dynamism to the clubhouse.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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View of SAFRA Clubhouse from Choa Chu Kang Park. Nestled in the heart of a public park, SAFRA Choa Chu Kang’s architecture expresses itself with exuberant, distinctive forms that recall and inspire fitness, harmonizing people with the surrounding nature.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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The porosity of this high-volume space gives the impression of being in a natural wooded environment. The pool is elevated into the tree canopies, blending into foliage. Its roof is supported by sleek twin columns, creating stunning panoramic views and amplifying the intimate connection between the courtyard and Choa Chu Kang Park.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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The series of bold ‘V’ trusses convey vitality and strength, becoming the main organizing element throughout the building as they cradle the various programs and spaces. The spatial and loading requirements of each program are manifested in the varying sizes and arrangements of trusses, expressing a dynamic yet robust silhouette.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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The open Courtyard is delightful with its forest-like ambience, created through planters that employ biomorphic shapes and introduction of canopy trees and shade-tolerant shrub species. The planters are formed with seats, creating a conducive resting or rendezvous point.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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A concrete bulwark main façade gives the clubhouse a sense of solidity, boldness and stability. Serving as a distinctive beacon for the clubhouse, the façade also shields the clubhouse and park from disturbances from the adjacent roadway.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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Dynamic yellow hues feature prominently across the clubhouse.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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Unlike other SAFRA clubhouses, the swimming pool is elevated to the 2nd storey due to the tight site constraints. This frees up valuable ground space while providing stunning aerial views of the park and extending the pool to seemingly blend into the foliage through an infinity edge.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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The interior design of the clubhouse encourages the cultivation of organic connections between and within the user communities that mingle within its spaces, as activity groups are visually or spatially contiguous with each other and the nature that surrounds them, encapsulating users in vigor, vitality and verdant botany.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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Located on the 4th level of the clubhouse, the semi-outdoor running track is accessible from the park at ground-level via an external staircase. The ceiling’s role in this choreography is pivotal; it serves as a dynamic visual catalyst, guiding the eye and spirit forward.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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The design of the drop-off point's ceiling functions as a wayfinding tool, guiding visitors into the clubhouse.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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The Steps-of-Life staircase feature binds the array of fitness facilities stacked within the building, and serves as a vertical path seamlessly linking the park's running route to the sheltered sky running track on the fourth storey of the clubhouse.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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Elevated to the second floor, the swimming pool affords a spectacular view of the surrounding park.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
DP Architects
Besides seamlessly integrating with the park and connecting with the existing circulation route, the Steps-of-Life combines both the functional and recreational aspects of the building, adding variety to the fitness regimes of club members and the public.
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DP Architects’ SAFRA CCK Clubhouse Wins Sustainable Sports & Recreation Building at Architizer A+Awards 2024
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SAFRA Choa Chu Kang Clubhouse harnesses active, passive and sustainable design strategies to deliver meaningful architecture that achieves sustainable outcomes, while promoting community togetherness and wellbeing.
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