From the street, the Bike House appears like a pristine grey-sculpted box. However, when you take a look inside, the interior is rich with color and texture, emphasizing the active life of the occupants.
This office building has been listed on the Danish Association of Architectural Firms as an exemplary architecture part, Architecture Creates Values. The new design success to create a strong company working culture, increasing work efficiency, and also strengthened the branding and identity of the company.
The architect takes a full advantage that the house gets from the beautiful views on the site. By using the reverse floor plan for the kitchen, dining room, living room, and two bedrooms, the perfect view of the private garden can be seen very well.
The use of grey and white color, some beautiful details, warm and rich materials on the leather and wood, become the best things to define the stately building monumental character. This office becomes different from other regular offices that you often see.
Reclaimed timber clad the skylight for the walls of the existing home which were eliminated during the project.
Nieuw Leyden is not only an urban plan of dwellings but also creating a good program together with the building. Some of the programs that include in this plan are education, retail, and of course housing with the best living place design.
The City Hall of Almere was opened for the first time in 1986. The building was first conceived by Cees Dam with two wings. Each wing has 5 stories with a cylindrical Council Chamber hovered over the entrance foyer. The Council Chamber is situated at the pivoting point of the perpendicular wings. Today, despite the renovation conducted by Fokkema & Partners years before, the Chamber still celebrates its many qualities from the original architecture. The renovation has added the warm and fluent signature of the public areas located on the ground floor.
CSU East Bay Student Services and Administration will support the student services and also the state-of-the-art enrollment which is located on the lower floors. It also offers offices for more than 300 administrative staff on the upper floors of the building.
All spaces in DNB House are designed with glass pixels on the wall. It allows the view around the building can be seen easily. This glass is a high-performance glass that fits well for the winter in Norwegia.