Project Specs Ofita, Madrid Madrid, Spain King & Miranda Design << Return to article the People Architect King & Miranda Design Via Savona 97 Milan 20144 Italy Phone: +39 02 48953851 Fax: +39 02 47711872 www.kingmiranda.com Caroline King, project architect Registered architect both in the United Kingdom (ARB) and in Italy (Ordine degli Architetti di Milano) Interior designer: King & Miranda Design Consultant(s) Lighting: King & Miranda Design Acoustical: King & Miranda Design General contractor: Ofita Special realizations (i.e. gold ceiling in meeting rooms) by: Iniciativas y Exposiciones, S.A Coloreros 2, 1° - 1 28013 Madrid, Spain Photographer Rafael Vargas
Located on the 29th floor of a 1960s Park Avenue office tower, the New York City home of the Cofra Group and its Good Energies venture capital company—an investor in such renewable energy enterprises as Sage Electrochromics—is proof that this Switzerland-based corporation takes its business to heart.
Project Specs Cofra Group/Good Energies New York, New York Perkins+Will << Return to article the People Architect Perkins+Will 215 Park Avenue South, 4th Floor New York, New York t. 212.251.7000 f. 212.251.7111 Joan Blumenfeld, FAIA, LEED, Design Principal Steven South, LEED, Project Designer Milot Shala, Technical Coordinator Lulua Khambaty, LEED, Strategic Planning/Sustainability Dawn Pappas, FF+E Steven Danielpour, AIA, LEED, Specifications Interior designer: Perkins+Will Engineer(s): WB Engineers (MEP) KPFF (Structural) Consultant(s) Lighting: Horton Lees Brogden Acoustical: Shen Milsom Wilke Other: TM Technology (AV/IT) Design 360 (Graphics) General contractor: Cauldwell Wingate Photographer(s) Eduard Hueber ArchPhoto 212.941.9294 CAD system, project management, or other
Project Specs Dallas Center for Architecture Dallas, Texas Peter Doncaster, AIA, Booziotis & Co. << Return to article the People Architect Competition Winners and Design Architects: Peter Doncaster, AIA, of Booziotis & Co Architects, Dallas Nicholas Marshall, AIA, LEED AP, of nodesign, New Orleans Gabriel Smith, AIA of Thomas Phifer & Partners, New York Architect of record Booziotis & Co. Architects Aaron L. Farmer, AIA, LEED AP Peter Doncaster, AIA Donald Roberts, AIA Associate architect(s) Project Management Assistance was donated by: Ted Kollaja of Gensler Interior Design Assistance was donated by: Ted Kollaja of Gensler Kelly Warfield of Gensler Vida
When asked to sharpen the corporate image of the Spanish furniture manufacturer Ofita for visiting designers, architects, and specifiers, the Milan-based design and architecture firm King & Miranda transformed the company’s Madrid offices and showroom—located on two adjacent floors—into an integrated sales tool using a spare vocabulary of textural elements, colors, and lighting strategies.
With a new structure, the architects responded to their client’s passion for barns by incorporating into the design traditional qualities of barns—generous spaces, repetitive timber frame—while creating a complex interior for modern living.
You can almost hear the “Pomp and Circumstance March” as you stroll Rice University’s bucolic, 285-acre campus nestled in the heart of Houston, shielded from the hubbub of the city’s six-lane freeways and endless strip development.