The St. Petersburg architectural bureau ARCHIDO and the project of the vip-space of the YOTA office that he developed won the Best Architect nomination of the prestigious British competition Society of British Interior Design International Design Awards 2011. The award was presented to the head of the bureau, architect Vadim Kondrashev on September 11 in Paris as part of the Maison & Objet 2011.
The award-winning project is a new format office space, the so-called gallery-office, in which modern technologies are ideally combined with art objects. The dynamism of the space is emphasized both with the use of finishing materials and at the level of the office layout. In particular, the VIP office is oriented orthogonally to the premises of the company's working area, and its central meeting room is located on the axis of the diameter of the existing bay window. The negotiation hall itself stretched along the form-building axis and acquired the shape of a gallery-rotunda - the authors of the project claim that the Great Gallery of the Catherine Hall of the Tauride Palace inspired them to such a decision. “In the project, we reflected the focus of YOTA on innovation, openness and friendliness of the team working here,” says architect Vadim Kondrashov.
The ARCHIDO project was selected by a jury of 20 other shortlisted works for "a meticulously thought-out plan that creates a series of beautiful spaces and trajectories within a small space." The experts also highly appreciated the work with details and various light sources. By the way, ARCHIDO became the only representatives of Russia among more than 300 participants in the competition.
And in London, an international competition was held for the best information pavilion of the 2012 Olympic Games, which is supposed to be located on Trafalgar Square. One of the participants in this competition was the architect Rem Khasiev, the founder of the architectural studio MAS. The temporary structure he developed was named Olympic Zeppelin. And the designed pavilion is really something like an airship, or rather, a whole group of airships, since the platform containing the information center, cafe and souvenir shop is located not on the square itself, but above it and is kept in the air with the help of lungs filled gas spherical structures. The Olympic Zeppelin can be reached by lift or by several spiral ramps connecting the pavilion with different ends of Trafalgar Square.
However, you can watch the main events of the Olympic Games from the ground: along the perimeter, the platform is literally "studded" with giant screens oriented in different directions, thanks to which Olympic Zeppelin acquires a spectacular media "scales" that promise to shine with all the colors of the Olympics.
