Galleria Centercity by UNStudio

Galleria Centercity in Cheonan is just completed by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio.

"The Galleria Cheonan responds to the current retail climate in Asia, where department stores also operate as social and semi-cultural meeting places. Because of this, the quality of the public spaces within the building was treated as an integral aspect of the design."

Ben van Berkel

Ben van Berkel, UNStudio
Galleria Centercity
Cheonan, Korea

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Five Franklin Place, UNStudio

"...the strong horizontal cornices and decorative details of TriBeCa’s cast-iron architecture, re-formed them, and transported them onto our building in a very contemporary way that makes them truly functional but that still has a lot to do with pure surface decoration. The reflective metal bands of our building are almost sewn on, like a dress. They grow thinner and thicker, wrapping themselves around the building and generating different visual effects as they change. But they are not just graphic elements, they are three-dimensional. Sometimes these bands become balconies; other times they become sunscreens that protect the apartment interiors from excess sunlight and reflect excess heat. So they have a true function and a sustainable quality, too. These metal ribbons not only pick up the external qualities of TriBeCa through their geometries and their character as added metal elements on the surface of the structure, but they also frame the views from inside the apartments and create intimacy. We couldn’t have achieved the privacy and intimacy of the homes at Five Franklin Place if we’d made ours a fully transparent glass facade building..."

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Five Franklin Place

New York, USA

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VilLA NM – Upstate New York, Unstudio

"at time the house can almost disappear into the landscape, and then re-emerge from a different view point."

Ben Van Berkel

UNStudio

VilLA NM

Upstate New York

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Light*house, 3XN and UNStudio

Light*house
Aarhus Harbor Front
Aarhus, Denmark

"The Light*house project signals how today's individualization in society can be enriched by new forms of collectivity. From design of the district as a whole to fitting up of the individual house, the project is about bringing people
together-those who live there as well as those who like to go there. Like in a traditional city centre, but here with an extra multi-storey block dimension."

Ben van Berkel, UNStudio

"The construction appears homogenous as well as individual. As a resident, you will always know your own house from a distance with individual details such as balconies. The characteristic patterns of the facades reflect the reflections of light in water."

Kim Herforth Nielsen, 3XN

Photo: © UNStudio, 3xn

Architectural Icon, UNStudio

" Icons, and not just architectural ones, are not designed at all. The construction of an icon takes many years, occupies many media, and yet reverberates with a continuous message or theme."

UNStudio

Theatre Agora

Lelystad, Netherlands
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the architecture, UNStudio

"It is the function of time to render obsolete all forms of utility, including the function of iconography. Eventually, all that remains are the mute after images of buildings that have lost everthing else; over the abondoned constructs of the past only the eye continues to rove, loosened form the bonds of use and sign. The building that is unfinished, like the ruin that is in decay, has no functional purpose or use, it is experienced only on the basic of its material prepsence within its surroundings."

Ben van Berkel

UNStudio

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