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Mixed Use


Olympic Tower
Located in one of the most prominent and visible corners of Downtown Los Angeles Olympic Tower will house a variety of uses (Retail, Offices, Hotel and Condominiums) compatible with the existing urban environment.
The project has been conceived (along Olympic Boulevard) as a metaphorical "bent salutation" to the Entertainment area (LA Live, Staples Center, Nokia Center, etc.), while creating South facing landscaped elevated open atrium at the Condominium amenities and Hotel levels.
The 58 story iconic building is designed as a monumental urban tree (vertical gardens integrated to a kaleidoscope like landmark) where real vegetation is combined with digitized landscape and graphic art images, growing along its structural grid contained within its double glass surfaces.
At the street level the project is pedestrian friendly, utilizing the side alley to provide all the vehicular access to the different functions and levels while maintaining the sidewalks and parkways along Figueroa Street and Olympic Boulevard for the exclusive uses of pedestrian traffic and potentially sidewalk seating. The Retail ground level and upper two floors are designed to encourage the flowing connection to the pedestrian traffic by waving its storefronts and accesses to the main lobbies.
The structural component is part of the architectural expression, wrapping the building around its entire perimeter, eliminating interior columns at the free standing tower and culminating at the roof top with a structural trellis tying the vertical structural grid.
The underground parking (directly accessed from the side alley) is dedicated solely to the residential units while the above ground parking garage provides 24hr/7 days a week valet service for the commercial (retail and offices) and the hotel use. Both parking areas provide as well bicycle parking.
The building design recognizes its adjacency to the Historic Figueroa Hotel by detaching the tower above the hotel roof level, and the Olympic Tower Figueroa Street’s facade is designed in more sensitive scale, addressing the first levels of the tower to be more compatible to the scale of the hotel architecture lower levels.
Given that Olympic Tower is a multi-use complex the building is dealing with several independent vertical circulations connecting the ground floor (City street level) with upper lobbies and amenity floors.
The project has been conceived (along Olympic Boulevard) as a metaphorical "bent salutation" to the Entertainment area (LA Live, Staples Center, Nokia Center, etc.), while creating South facing landscaped elevated open atrium at the Condominium amenities and Hotel levels.
The 58 story iconic building is designed as a monumental urban tree (vertical gardens integrated to a kaleidoscope like landmark) where real vegetation is combined with digitized landscape and graphic art images, growing along its structural grid contained within its double glass surfaces.
At the street level the project is pedestrian friendly, utilizing the side alley to provide all the vehicular access to the different functions and levels while maintaining the sidewalks and parkways along Figueroa Street and Olympic Boulevard for the exclusive uses of pedestrian traffic and potentially sidewalk seating. The Retail ground level and upper two floors are designed to encourage the flowing connection to the pedestrian traffic by waving its storefronts and accesses to the main lobbies.
The structural component is part of the architectural expression, wrapping the building around its entire perimeter, eliminating interior columns at the free standing tower and culminating at the roof top with a structural trellis tying the vertical structural grid.
The underground parking (directly accessed from the side alley) is dedicated solely to the residential units while the above ground parking garage provides 24hr/7 days a week valet service for the commercial (retail and offices) and the hotel use. Both parking areas provide as well bicycle parking.
The building design recognizes its adjacency to the Historic Figueroa Hotel by detaching the tower above the hotel roof level, and the Olympic Tower Figueroa Street’s facade is designed in more sensitive scale, addressing the first levels of the tower to be more compatible to the scale of the hotel architecture lower levels.
Given that Olympic Tower is a multi-use complex the building is dealing with several independent vertical circulations connecting the ground floor (City street level) with upper lobbies and amenity floors.


Dos Lagos
2006 AIA Design Excellence Award Winner
2007 APA Planning Project Award Winner
2008 Feb; Featured in Architectural Record
The concept of Dos Lagos is to design open space as a means to draw various functions of the community together such as retail, entertainment, commercial, and residential. The ability to creatively address the need for place-making has led the lakes and waterfall to become a destination for residents and visitors alike. Dos Lagos is the story of reformulating suburban life through the recovery of a blighted industrial mining area and its conversion into a dynamic, self-contained community, providing space for a variety of activities. The vision is to create a fully integrated mixed-use community with a strong sense of place and identity in stark contrast to the voracity of suburban development in the inland Southern California.
As users approach the lakes, they are welcomed by a pedestrian promenade and embraced by an 18 wide and 760 long bamboo garden armature that undulates and creates light play throughout the day. Made of renewable bamboo, structural steel, textured and colored light-weight concrete, and covered with American roses, the bamboo garden armature builds an environment that transforms natural elements into a human-made shaded community experience.
The fundamental design premises for the 93 live/work unit complex include:
1. Two accesses and exits to the complex from adjacent streets in order to provide fluid circulation throughout;
2. The entry plaza created on the northeast corner of the site and along the main artery, visually and functionally connects the site with the Clepsydra (water clock) Plaza and cul-de-sac by the lakes. The building on this corner is four-stories high and celebrates the major diagonal axis of the site;
3. The horseshoe-shaped live/work building (consisting of 21, 3-level units) frames the recreational and community space creating a central town plaza and gathering place;
4. Vehicles and pedestrian paths connected to the fire lane loop are treated with pavers and landscaping reminiscent of a medieval village.
2007 APA Planning Project Award Winner
2008 Feb; Featured in Architectural Record
The concept of Dos Lagos is to design open space as a means to draw various functions of the community together such as retail, entertainment, commercial, and residential. The ability to creatively address the need for place-making has led the lakes and waterfall to become a destination for residents and visitors alike. Dos Lagos is the story of reformulating suburban life through the recovery of a blighted industrial mining area and its conversion into a dynamic, self-contained community, providing space for a variety of activities. The vision is to create a fully integrated mixed-use community with a strong sense of place and identity in stark contrast to the voracity of suburban development in the inland Southern California.
As users approach the lakes, they are welcomed by a pedestrian promenade and embraced by an 18 wide and 760 long bamboo garden armature that undulates and creates light play throughout the day. Made of renewable bamboo, structural steel, textured and colored light-weight concrete, and covered with American roses, the bamboo garden armature builds an environment that transforms natural elements into a human-made shaded community experience.
The fundamental design premises for the 93 live/work unit complex include:
1. Two accesses and exits to the complex from adjacent streets in order to provide fluid circulation throughout;
2. The entry plaza created on the northeast corner of the site and along the main artery, visually and functionally connects the site with the Clepsydra (water clock) Plaza and cul-de-sac by the lakes. The building on this corner is four-stories high and celebrates the major diagonal axis of the site;
3. The horseshoe-shaped live/work building (consisting of 21, 3-level units) frames the recreational and community space creating a central town plaza and gathering place;
4. Vehicles and pedestrian paths connected to the fire lane loop are treated with pavers and landscaping reminiscent of a medieval village.


San Francisco International Technology Center
San Francisco, California
The Garden Grove Retail Center is a retail shopping center development consisting of two single-story buildings incorporating an orchestrated variation of front elevations that give each tenant space a sense of identity within the whole. The integration of open space and landscape throughout the project, and especially along the Garden Grove Boulevard frontage, provides a continuous pedestrian experience designed to encourage shoppers to interact with the site.
A unique gateway structure articulates a unified identity in contrast with the more traditional commercial corridor of Garden Grove Boulevard. The gateway structure is an urban gesture exploring a simple relationship of structure and skin while defining a permeable street edge
The Garden Grove Retail Center is a retail shopping center development consisting of two single-story buildings incorporating an orchestrated variation of front elevations that give each tenant space a sense of identity within the whole. The integration of open space and landscape throughout the project, and especially along the Garden Grove Boulevard frontage, provides a continuous pedestrian experience designed to encourage shoppers to interact with the site.
A unique gateway structure articulates a unified identity in contrast with the more traditional commercial corridor of Garden Grove Boulevard. The gateway structure is an urban gesture exploring a simple relationship of structure and skin while defining a permeable street edge


Atalaya
The Atalaya Multi-Use Apartment complex was recently recognized by the Argentinean Ministry of Culture as a Historic Landmark for its enduring innovative
design. Twenty-five years after completion, the Atalaya continues to define modernity for the City of Santa Fe, Argentina's second largest port. The Atalaya Multi-Center is located in downtown Santa Fe and is one of the largest mixed use developments in this city of approximately 1 million inhabitants.
This 15-story apartment complex houses a total of 72 units in a variety of floor plans and sizes (1, 2, 3, and 4 bedroom duplex apar tments). The ground floor is devoted to retail, and the 7th floor has a day care center and roof garden accessible to all residents.
Designed, developed, and built by Norberto F. Nardi, AIA and his partner Gerardo Ferradás (deceased), the Atalaya created a distinct design statement while protecting the affordability of construction costs through integrated project management and a modular construction system. The majority of building components were prefabricated and then assembled on site, supported by a reinforced concrete modular structure.
design. Twenty-five years after completion, the Atalaya continues to define modernity for the City of Santa Fe, Argentina's second largest port. The Atalaya Multi-Center is located in downtown Santa Fe and is one of the largest mixed use developments in this city of approximately 1 million inhabitants.
This 15-story apartment complex houses a total of 72 units in a variety of floor plans and sizes (1, 2, 3, and 4 bedroom duplex apar tments). The ground floor is devoted to retail, and the 7th floor has a day care center and roof garden accessible to all residents.
Designed, developed, and built by Norberto F. Nardi, AIA and his partner Gerardo Ferradás (deceased), the Atalaya created a distinct design statement while protecting the affordability of construction costs through integrated project management and a modular construction system. The majority of building components were prefabricated and then assembled on site, supported by a reinforced concrete modular structure.


Pamilia By the Bay
Burlingame, California
The SFO technology center in Burlingame is located in a parcel of 268,597 SF facing the San Francisco Bay and divided by a drainage channel connected to the bay. The Mixed-use complex stands as a manifestation of urban design strategy that enhances social activity. The location of the project provides a significant node relationship between the cityscape and the aquatic environment of the San Francisco Bay. The harmonious articulation between open public spaces and open private spaces creates a seamless integration of the bay front and reinforces its visual connection with the city’s urban fabric by maximizing the outdoor spaces in direct connection with the San Francisco Bay as well creating an opening that is exceeding 50% of the parcels linear frontage along Bayshore Hwy.
Maximize the outdoor spaces in direct connection with the San Francisco Bay, an opening exceeding 50% of the parcels linear frontage along Bay shore Hwy is created.
Following BCDC requirements there are two different kind of open spaces: The Public ones, with unrestricted access along the Bay and its connection with the Bay shore Hwy as well as the Semi-Private ones directly related to the building occupants but still part of the general landscape.
The uses located at the Ground Floor (Retail, Restaurant and an office/commercial space such as a bank or health facility) will encourage pedestrian traffic as well as exposure to the Bay shore Hwy frontage.
The main vehicular access to the site (following the Traffic Consultant analysis and recommendations) has been located directly across the street from the Hyatt Hotel main access. One additional minor access has been proposed at the North of the property also providing the fire lane required by the Fire Marshal.
The project complies with the assigned FAR (0.9) for this parcel. The landscaped central courtyard contains outdoor semi-covered gathering areas (around a fire pit) surrounded by translucent walls to avoid interruptions to the Bay view corridor.
As indicated in our contextual rendering the building does not exceed any of surrounding building heights) Given the mass configuration the building is stepping down at both ends , making it even less imposing by providing a large ground floor gateway and the light treatment of the upper floors.
BCDC claims jurisdiction over the uncovered portion of the drainage canal therefore the building design is creating two buildings (A & B) separated by the canal width and only connected by the façade screen.
Sustainable Principles: The building and landscape design are celebrating sustainability. The building façade is proposed to be covered with Sageglass providing digitally control of color and opacity—Sageglass double glazing technology contains inside a photovoltaic film that in addition solar panels being installed at the roof levels with its the solar batteries charge station located in the Mechanical room, Further providing enough energy for all public areas, water fountains as well as enclosed circulation spaces. The landscape design and plants’ selection follows the drought tolerant principles.
The SFO technology center in Burlingame is located in a parcel of 268,597 SF facing the San Francisco Bay and divided by a drainage channel connected to the bay. The Mixed-use complex stands as a manifestation of urban design strategy that enhances social activity. The location of the project provides a significant node relationship between the cityscape and the aquatic environment of the San Francisco Bay. The harmonious articulation between open public spaces and open private spaces creates a seamless integration of the bay front and reinforces its visual connection with the city’s urban fabric by maximizing the outdoor spaces in direct connection with the San Francisco Bay as well creating an opening that is exceeding 50% of the parcels linear frontage along Bayshore Hwy.
Maximize the outdoor spaces in direct connection with the San Francisco Bay, an opening exceeding 50% of the parcels linear frontage along Bay shore Hwy is created.
Following BCDC requirements there are two different kind of open spaces: The Public ones, with unrestricted access along the Bay and its connection with the Bay shore Hwy as well as the Semi-Private ones directly related to the building occupants but still part of the general landscape.
The uses located at the Ground Floor (Retail, Restaurant and an office/commercial space such as a bank or health facility) will encourage pedestrian traffic as well as exposure to the Bay shore Hwy frontage.
The main vehicular access to the site (following the Traffic Consultant analysis and recommendations) has been located directly across the street from the Hyatt Hotel main access. One additional minor access has been proposed at the North of the property also providing the fire lane required by the Fire Marshal.
The project complies with the assigned FAR (0.9) for this parcel. The landscaped central courtyard contains outdoor semi-covered gathering areas (around a fire pit) surrounded by translucent walls to avoid interruptions to the Bay view corridor.
As indicated in our contextual rendering the building does not exceed any of surrounding building heights) Given the mass configuration the building is stepping down at both ends , making it even less imposing by providing a large ground floor gateway and the light treatment of the upper floors.
BCDC claims jurisdiction over the uncovered portion of the drainage canal therefore the building design is creating two buildings (A & B) separated by the canal width and only connected by the façade screen.
Sustainable Principles: The building and landscape design are celebrating sustainability. The building façade is proposed to be covered with Sageglass providing digitally control of color and opacity—Sageglass double glazing technology contains inside a photovoltaic film that in addition solar panels being installed at the roof levels with its the solar batteries charge station located in the Mechanical room, Further providing enough energy for all public areas, water fountains as well as enclosed circulation spaces. The landscape design and plants’ selection follows the drought tolerant principles.


Beijing Fertility Clinic


Miller
Mill Valley,CA
The Tamandari project is a mixed-use development located at the Mill Valley major throruougfare. It consist of condominiums, commercial spaces and on-site parking.The site layout accommodates two different structures articulated by a central small plaza.Building A ( the larger building) houses the covered parking and in the upper 2 levels, all the residential units. Building B is a 2 story high building where small retail is located at the ground floor ( directly connected to the street level and side plaza) and offices at the upper level.The complex’s architecture celebrates the adjacent wooded environment by incorporating green walls all along the street front , that while masking the parking garage behind the vertical trellises celebrates as well a commitment to sustainability.Similar design strategies are applied to the upper levels where horizontal trellises are semi-covering the ample balconies and terraces.
The Tamandari project is a mixed-use development located at the Mill Valley major throruougfare. It consist of condominiums, commercial spaces and on-site parking.The site layout accommodates two different structures articulated by a central small plaza.Building A ( the larger building) houses the covered parking and in the upper 2 levels, all the residential units. Building B is a 2 story high building where small retail is located at the ground floor ( directly connected to the street level and side plaza) and offices at the upper level.The complex’s architecture celebrates the adjacent wooded environment by incorporating green walls all along the street front , that while masking the parking garage behind the vertical trellises celebrates as well a commitment to sustainability.Similar design strategies are applied to the upper levels where horizontal trellises are semi-covering the ample balconies and terraces.


Lincoln Beach Development
The Lincoln Beach Development was designed and developed under the concept of celebrating the location and history of Lincoln Beach and surrounding areas. The proposed development will encompass 25 acres of land bisected by Hayne Boulevard. To the northeast of Hayne and bordering Lake Pontchartrain is a 15 bordered by other properties on three sides and Hayne Boulevard to the fourth side.
The two parcels bifurcated by Hayne will be developed in fundamentally different manners reflective of the responding to the relationships of the parcels to the adjacent neighborhood, the physical relationship to Lake Pontchartrain, and the provisions of private and public spaces and building components. Hayne Boulevard, along with the adjacent levee and rail line, presents a natural division between a more private realm of lower scale residential related development to the southwest and a complex, urbanized, eclectic mix of public, entertainment, commercial, hotel and high-rise residential uses.
Norberto Nardi, AIA, development partner and conceptual designer of Lincoln Beach, traveled to the Netherlands to seek the services of the DHV Group in Holland. DHV is a leading international consultancy and engineering group which provides services and sustainable solutions for waterfront development.
The two parcels bifurcated by Hayne will be developed in fundamentally different manners reflective of the responding to the relationships of the parcels to the adjacent neighborhood, the physical relationship to Lake Pontchartrain, and the provisions of private and public spaces and building components. Hayne Boulevard, along with the adjacent levee and rail line, presents a natural division between a more private realm of lower scale residential related development to the southwest and a complex, urbanized, eclectic mix of public, entertainment, commercial, hotel and high-rise residential uses.
Norberto Nardi, AIA, development partner and conceptual designer of Lincoln Beach, traveled to the Netherlands to seek the services of the DHV Group in Holland. DHV is a leading international consultancy and engineering group which provides services and sustainable solutions for waterfront development.


Rosemead Properties


Bosanova


Meihua Plaza
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