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  • Practice
    Forbes Vietnam
    Những Mảng Xanh Triệu Đô
    Tien Dang
    2024
    Trong Khi hầu hết các kiến trúc sư mơ chạm tay vào các dự án thiết kế lớn như nhà hát, bảo tàng..., Manuel Der Hagopian – đồng sáng lập G8A Architecture & Urban Planning lại có niềm đam mê mãnh liệt với nhà ở xã hội. Sau chiến thắng cuộc thi do Cục nhà ở và Phát triển tại Singapore, nhóm của Manuel mở rộng tại châu Á với nhiều hợp đồng triệu đô. Việt Nam trở thành điểm đến thành công cho họ. Công ty có bốn văn phòng tại Hà Nội, TP.HCM, Singapore và Geneva, với đội ngũ hơn 50 người từ chín quốc tịch cùng thực hiện các dự án lớn trên toàn thế giới.
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  • The Gate House
    The Gate House
    2024
    The Gate House has been designed as tribute to a magnificent "dipterocarpus alatus" tree (cây dầu rái), a cherished heritage species deeply intertwined with the memories of Saigonese. Many central streets of Ho Chi Minh City are adorned with these towering dipterocarpus trees, which are highly recognizable due to their mottled beige bark, the extremely vertical trunks and especially, their distinctive winged seeds, which spin in the air during certain seasons.
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  • GreenVines
    Tampines GreenVines
    2024
    Tampines GreenVines is a creative assortment of three centered clusters, each independent and cohesive. The project is located in Singapore’s Tampines area and is part of an overall strategy to develop the location with sustainable residential schemes that place high value on unifying green and dense housing typology.
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  • Strassenbahn Netzwerk
    Strassenbahn Netzwerk
    2024
    Strassenbahn Netzwerk is a truly unique project located at the edge of the masterplan of Zurich-Oerlikon, Switzerland, in a former historical industrial area in complete mutation and is part of the development of a “piece urbaine". The project is located on the central plaza aims to connect the all three buildings that from the piece urbaine; Neu Oerlikon, the office building that was completed in 2016, Emil North, the affordable housing block that was completed in 2023, both by G8A Architects, and the ETH school building that is a renovated heritage building.
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  • The Big Blue
    The Big Blue
    2024
    The second project undertaken by G8A for the Odyssey Group in Southeast Asia, La Petite Ecole in Singapore stands as a testament to innovative architectural design tailored for educational spaces. Catering to both kindergarten and primary education with its ten classrooms, the school embraces a vibrant chromatic palette, strategically employed to foster an environment conducive to creativity.
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Fifty architecture studios leading the social housing revival
    Nat Barker
    2024
    G8A Architects was founded in Geneva in 2000 by Manuel Der Hagopian and Grégoire Du Pasquier, but has become an influential force in public housing in south-east Asia since opening an office in Hanoi in 2007.
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  • Family Fold
    Familly Fold
    2023
    The city of Geneva is looking towards designing for the future by consideration of increasing population density & the rising concern for environmental impact. “Family Fold” villa complex in Veyrier further develops the design solutions of population densification conceptualized in previous G8A projects.
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  • Practice
    25 Best Architecture and Design Firms in Singapore
    2023
    G8A is an architecture, urban planning and interior design company with offices in Geneva, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore. From design principles originally established in Switzerland, and with projects being developed in Asia for over a decade, G8A holds a unique position in contemporary architectural practice. Educated in the West, then learning from the contrasting context of the East, the company has been able to strengthen their designs by not only broadening their scope of knowledge but honing a precise and systematic application of innovative strategies and proposing a new architectural cohesion.
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  • Jakob Factory
    Winning a Dezeen Award "made me feel like anything is possible" say past winners
    Elisa Barkan
    2023
    "Winning a Dezeen Award can be described as a thrilling, rewarding and inspiring experience," said G8A Architecture. "It helped us gain international recognition, reaching new clients and new talent for our team."
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  • Jakob Factory
    Detail: Planted Facade of Jakob Factory Ho Chi Minh
    Collin Anderson
    2023
    Rollimarchini Architects and G8A Architects have designed a factory in Vietnam with three linear kilometers of stacked, green planters about its perimeter to naturally cool the building. The custom trellis system integrates products manufactured by the factory’s well-known parent company, Jakob, which include architectural tension cables and metal mesh.
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  • Jakob Factory
    Jakob factory
    2023
    El proyecto Jakob Factory ofreció a la asociación de diseño de rollimarchini architekten de Berna y G8A Architects, de origen suizo, la oportunidad única de proponer un espacio de fabricación muy innovador y muy específico, destinado a convertirse en una referencia de diseño para la arquitectura sostenible tropical.
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  • Tropical Chalet
    Futurarc
    Tropical Chalet
    2022
  • Jungle Station
    Jungle Station by G8A Architecture & Urban Planning
    2023
    G8A Architecture & Urban Planning:In the context of a dense urban landscape, it is logical that the rising start-up community would turn towards the highly efficient concept of co-working for their professional solutions. These spaces must effectively combine the positives of both public and private arenas offering the professional users an efficient resource platform whilst also encouraging social interactions and accommodating for the temporary visitor.
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  • Jakob Factory
    G8A ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING, ROLLIMARCHINI ARCHITEKTEN JAKOB FACTORY
    2023
    The Jakob Factory project offered the design partnership of rollimarchini architekten from Bern and Swiss-born G8A Architects the unique opportunity to propose a highly innovative and highly specific manufacturing space, set to become a design reference for tropical sustainable architecture. The factory houses the specialist steel rope producers Jakob Rope Systems, a high-quality manufacturing organization, specializing in custom made steel meshing used for scales of private to industrial usage. The partnership of organizations applied their pillar value of sustainability, both environmental and social, to all phases of the design process, from conception execution and projected project developments.
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  • Jakob Factory
    Jakob Saigon factory in Thuận An
    2023
    With façades covered with vegetation, this factory of the Swiss company Jakob Rope Systems, specialized in the production of stainless steel cables, is located in an industrial area of ​​the Vietnamese city of Thuận An, 50 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City.
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  • Jakob Factory
    FULLY OPEN. JAKOB FACTORY BY ROLLIMARCHINI ARCHITEKTEN + G8A ARCHITECTS
    Adela Bonas
    2022
    The architects of the Swiss firm rollimarchini architekten worked together with Vietnam-based G8A Architects to develop the design for the new construction of a factory in Saigon. The task was to develop an innovative building design that is designed for a humid tropical climate.
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  • La Table Hanoia
    La Table Hanoia, A Design Scape That Goes Back to The Future For Inspiration
    Chris Thompson
    2022
    La Table Hanoia showcases lacquer, from Vietnam’s heritage of fine craftsmanship, as the focal point of its fresh new look and feel.
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  • Jakob Factory
    Jakob Factory Saigon
    Elisa Barkan
    2022
    Winner: Business building of the year 2022. A joint project from two architecture practices is a tropical sustainable workplace in Vietnam. The project houses the specialist steel rope producers Jakob Rope Systems, a high-quality manufacturing organisation specializing in custom-made steel meshing used for scales of private to industrial usage.
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  • Junon
    Kiến trúc G8A giành Giải Nhất Cuộc thi Thiết kế quốc tế “Trụ sở Văn phòng IOM”
    Ngọc Anh
    2022
    Văn phòng Kiến trúc G8A trụ sở tại Việt Nam cùng LocalArchitecture, Thuỵ Sĩ mới đây đã vượt qua 15 nhóm kiến trúc sư nổi tiếng từ 5 châu lục giành Giải Nhất Cuộc thi thiết kế quốc tế “Trụ sở Văn phòng IOM”, Liên hợp quốc tại Geneva, Thuỵ Sĩ.
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  • Junon
    Kiến trúc G8A giành giải Nhất Cuộc thi Thiết kế quốc tế Trụ sở Văn phòng IOM
    Ánh Dương
    2022
    Mới đây, Văn phòng Kiến trúc G8A có trụ sở tại Việt Nam cùng LocalArchitecture, Thuỵ Sĩ đã vượt qua 15 nhóm kiến trúc sư nổi tiếng từ 5 châu lục giành giải Nhất Cuộc thi thiết kế quốc tế Trụ sở Văn phòng IOM, Liên Hợp Quốc tại Geneva, Thuỵ Sĩ.
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  • Junon
    Nouveau siège de l’OIM – vers une architecture du climat ?
    Camille Claessens-Vallet
    2022
    Si l’on peut regretter que l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) ait privilégié un nouvel édifice pour accueillir son siège à Genève, plutôt que de transformer celui existant, il faut toutefois reconnaître les très grandes qualités que le projet lauréat promet d’apporter au Jardin des Nations. Décryptage d’une tectonique climatique élégante – et délicate.
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  • Jakob Factory
    Rollimarchini Architects wraps Vietnamese factory in plant-covered facades
    Alyn Griffiths
    2022
    Facades at this factory in an industrial park near Ho Chi Minh City are filled with layers of greenery that provide shelter from the rain and sun, as well as helping to purify the air. The factory was designed by Switzerland-based Rollimarchini Architects and global firm G8A Architects for a Swiss company called Jakob Rope Systems, which specialises in manufacturing stainless steel wire.
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  • Jakob Factory
    G8A Architecture & Urban Planning
    2021
    Southeast Asia is famous for its rainforest and scenic natural landscapes, which have become a tourist attraction. The region’s landscape architecture is also something to boast about, and this is how the Southeast Asia Landscape book was conceived. What better way to showcase the diverse landscape architecture across the region than through a collection of works. It is also a great platform to promote Southeast Asian talents.
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  • Equatorial Utopia
    Equatorial Utopia: 50 Years of Visionary Architecture in Singapore
    2020
    "Equatorial Utopia: 50 Years of Visionary Architecture in Singapore" presents a design survey from 1970 to the present. Presenting a systematic effort to raise awareness and demonstrate the utopian dimension of architecture in Singapore, the exhibition showcases a selection of projects that have had significant impact on the discourse on architecture and urban design in Southeast Asia and beyond.
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  • Equatorial Utopia
    Equatorial Utopia: 50 Years of Visionary Architecture in Singapore
    2021
    Singapore’s urban development has been fast paced over the past half century. After becoming an independent republic in 1965, the small island state with limited land and natural resources and a current population of approximately 5.6 million embarked rapidly on industrialization and urbanization programs to provide jobs and housing for its people. Ever since, the built and the natural environment have been high on Singapore’s agenda and its urban vision has evolved from a ‘Garden City’ to a ‘City in a Garden’ and now a ‘City in Nature’. In this context, Singapore has been the place of a number visionary projects that can be interpreted as ‘modernist utopian constructs’ for the building of the Nation.
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  • Equatorial Utopia
    Birkhäuser at the Venice Biennale 2021
    2022
    Birkhäuser authors are featured in various exhibitions at the Venice Biennale 2021! Equatorial Utopia exhibition 22 May – 21 Nov – The Equatorial Utopia
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  • Equatorial Utopia
    24h
    l'Utopie au pouvoir
    Laurent Buschini 
    2022
    Une exposition a Geneve presente un demi-siecle d'architecture moderne a Singapour. Que peut-on en retenir? Explications avec deux architects.
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  • Equatorial Utopia
    Tribune de Geneve
    l'Utopie au pouvoir
    Laurent Buschini 
    2022
    Une exposition a Geneve presente un demi-siecle d'architecture moderne a Singapour. Que peut-on en retenir? Explications avec deux architects.
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  • Practice
    25 best architecture firms in Singapore
    Collin Anderson
    2022
    Only 40 years ago, the majority of the buildings on Singapore’s skyline had not yet been constructed. In a single generation following the nation’s independence in 1965, Singapore has become one of the world’s densest and architecturally significant urban centers. From recent high rises to commercial shopping malls and cultural facilities, Singapore’s built projects are continually among the most pioneering and ambitious of their kind. The 25 firms presented here have been recognized for their part in placing Singapore at the center of current architectural discourse.
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  • Practice
    Swiss Embassy Newsletter
    Grégoire Du Pasquier of G8A Architects, pushing forward Vietnamese sustainable design
    2021
    In February 2010, Grégoire Du Pasquier took the leap, bringing his wife and two children from the calm of Geneva to the havoc of Hanoi. “Hanoi back then was much quieter, not as polluted as now, and only just starting to develop projects on a larger scale.” An exciting risk as he followed in the footsteps of his friend and fellow group8 architect Manuel Der Hagopian, expanding the agency with the cre-ation of the group8asia office.
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  • Concrete Waves
    Concrete Waves: Exploring the “Yard Typology”
    2021
    Set within a tropical climate, the pre-cast façade manipulates the orientation of sun shading to craft the beautiful illusion that is Concrate Waves. Part of new industrial zone it is the latest project for FPT in Ho Chi Minh City that will be completed in three phases. Developed from the learnings of earlier projects such as High Tech Landscape and Concrete Lace, this progressive edition explores the “yard typology” from a new perspective.
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  • Practice
    Manuel Der Hagopian
    2021
    Manuel Der Hagopian is a visionary in architecture and urban planning. He believes that architecture is not a rigid structure; but rather an organism that absorbs the locale and culture, and uses these idiosyncrasies to create new typologies and experiences. The Swiss architect who runs the G8A operations at the Singapore office uses context as his main source of inspiration. This is exemplified through the Punggol Waterway Terraces and Green Ridges, both public housing projects in Singapore that demonstrated a commitment to environmental sustainability and social cohesion. The same environmental and social philosophies underpin G8A’s designs throughout Asia and beyond, namely the Oerlikon Gem housing complex in Zurich, Switzerland (under construction) and two high-tech offices in Hoa Lac, Vietnam: Concrete Lace and Infinity Village (under construction).
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  • Jakob Factory
    Swiss companies combine in Vietnamese project
    Georgina Johnston
    2021

    The Ho Chi Minh City project was started as a result of Jakob Rope Systems’ decision to install a major part of its production line in South Vietnam

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  • The Twin-Lah
    The Twin-Lah: design duo’s cosmopolitan construction in Switzerland
    Georgina Johnston
    2021

    Designed by G8A Architecture & Urban Planning and Collinfontaine Architects, the name refers to the Singaporean dialect, a mix of six languages that represent the location where the client lived before leaving for Geneva

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  • Practice
    FOUNDER'S PICK: MANUEL DER HAGOPIAN OF G8A ARCHITECTS
    Seraina Peter
    2021
    Thanks to architectural titans like Le Corbusier and Herzog & de Meuron, Swiss nationals have long made it to the forefront of the global design scene. Collectively, they have brought a sleek modernity into iconic structures such as Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, the brand new M+ in Hong Kong or the swooping curves of the church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, and these structures have served to challenge and aspire generations of architects and interior designers.
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  • Concrete Waves
    Concrete Waves / G8A Architecture & Urban Planning
    Hana Abdel
    2021
    Set within a tropical climate, the pre-cast façade manipulates the orientation of sun shading to craft the beautiful illusion that is Concrete Waves. Part of the new industrial zone is the latest project for FPT in Ho Chi Minh City that will be completed in three phases. Developed from the learnings of earlier projects exploring the “yard typology” from a new perspective.
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  • Concrete Waves
    Vietcetera Visits: G8A’s Concrete Waves And Its Bioclimatic Solutions
    Hiezle Bual
    2021
    As G8A continues to make waves in society with its sustainability-focused architectural designs, they have actually worked on some “real” waves... with concrete.
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    SMART CITY. Moderne Stadtentwicklung Made in Singapore
    Johanna Wanka
    2021
    Singapur ist das Land der Technologie. Digitalisierung ist hier kein Fremdwort, wir aile haben meist schnelles Internet, Schuler haben ein Tablet oder Laptop und die Lehrer eine, Arbeits E-Mail-Adresse. Behordengange sind iberwiegend online durchfi ihrbar. Wir bestellen seit Jahren unsere Einkaufe und Mahlzeiten mit dem Handy. Wir wissen, wann welcher Bus wohin am schnellsten fahrt, in Echtzeit. Selbst Senioren haben Messenger Dienste auf ihren Smartphones. Wo, wenn nicht hier, wird die Smart City entwickelt, wo Stadtplanung fast keine Grenzen kennt und ganze, Hochhausstadte aufs freie Feld geplant werden.
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  • Concrete Waves
    Ho Chi Minh City’s bioclimatic architecture
    Joshua Zukas
    2021
    On a sizzling April afternoon, a rainstorm pummels Ho Chi Minh City. Despite the deafening downpour, temperatures stay miserably high in the megacity’s concrete and glass-laden central districts. Urbanites remain sheltered in offices and cafés, which are sealed and air-conditioned. After the outburst, which lasts for an hour or so, the clouds crack and the sun resumes its offensive, turning the city’s soggy centre into a steam bath. About 15km north-west of the vaporous centre, one building experienced the same storm differently. From above, Concrete Waves appears as a singular stack of giant white rings that encircle a lush jungle courtyard. While the breeze that accompanied the cloudburst was blocked from entering the airtight buildings in the city centre, here it swept through and cooled the space. Water lashed the building, but much of it was funneled to – and absorbed by – the green oasis within. After the rain subsided, air-conditioning units worked hard to keep the naked glass buildings in the city centre cool. But at Concrete Waves, sensibly positioned exterior sunshades protect the glass from the sun’s direct rays, while still inviting plenty of natural light, minimising the need for mechanical cooling.
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Reinventing Public Housing in Singapore and Vietnam
    Fabien Clavier
    2021
    In this episode, we’ll discuss about innovations in public housing design in Southeast Asia, looking at the examples of Singapore and Vietnam.  
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  • Jakob Factory
    Verdant Vietnam
    Joshua Zukas
    2021
    Across the world, biophilic architecture is in full bloom as firms theatrically intertwine buildings with nature. But in Vietnam, architects are harnessing biophilia more quietly.  
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  • Jakob Factory
    Living, Breathing Architecture
    Rachel Lee-Leong
    2021
    How can architecture positively impact less-than-ideal manufacturing practices in developing countries? rollimarchini architekten and G8A Architects propose a new factory typology with emphasis on the wellbeing of the people and the land.  
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  • TB80 Space - Events
    TB80 Space: A Celebration of Architecture and Community
    Abram Yum
    2021
    Set in Singapore’s oldest housing estate, TB80 Space was created by the team at G8A Architecture and serves as a point of convergence for those who love design and creation.
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  • Equatorial Utopia
    Sin­ga­pour, la­bo­ra­toire cli­ma­tique à ciel ou­vert
    Camille Claessens-Vallet
    2021
    Au cours des cinquante dernières années, Singapour la «ville ­jardin» est devenue «une ville dans un jardin». Une évolution nécessaire pour résister au changement climatique, auquel l’archi­pel est particulièrement exposé. L’exposition Equatorial Utopia –développée par le centre Singapore-ETH Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), le bureau G8A Architecture & Urban Planning et la Maison de l’Architecture de Genève– est une immersion à travers ces stratégies et dispositifs climatiques macroscopiques.
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  • GreenRidges
    GreenRidges: A Slice of Nature
    2020
    Located in the northeast of Singapore, “GreenRidges” is conceived as a slice of nature nestled within the urban fabric of Singapore. Part of the “Leaf within Our City in a Garden” of Tampines Town, the project covers an approximate site area of 70,000 m2. The design concept for this 2,000-unit public housing development was inspired by the Asia stone forest, giving the project a unique identity.
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  • Jungle Station
    G8A’s Jungle Station in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City
    Georgina Johnston
    2021
    In the core of Ho Chi Minh City and enclosed in the centre of a large factory complex, “Jungle Station” sets a benchmark for conceptual design
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  • The Twin-Lah
    Baunetz
    Doppelhaus in Genf
    2020
    Gemauerte Einfamilienhäuser mit Satteldach und Fensterläden sowie von Thujenhecken gesäumte Straßen prägen den Stadtteil Thônex im Osten von Genf. In diesem Umfeld sticht ein Gebäude deutlich heraus: Das Doppelhaus Twin-Lah, das das in Singapur ansässige Architekturbüro G8A in Zusammenarbeit mit Collin Fontaine Architekten aus Genf verwirklicht hat.
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  • Practice
    Ça boom au Vietnam !
    2020
    TTC et la classe gagnante de son concours boursier s’envolent pour Saigon et Hanoï début mars. Objectif pour le magazine économique : comprendre le développement spectaculaire du Vietnam. A plus de 7%, le pays connaît le taux de croissance le plus élevé au monde. Plus fort que la Chine ! Le Vietnam attire chaque année davantage de touristes et d’investisseurs.
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  • Jakob Factory
    GIẢI PHÁP XANH CHO CÔNG TRÌNH NHÀ MÁY
    2020
    Ý tưởng chủ đạo của công trình này là tạo ra các không gian công cộng khác biệt, có không khí sống động và xanh mát cho các công nhân khi làm việc, một không gian cộng đồng như trong cấu trúc làng xã rất đặc trưng của Việt Nam." - Đó là quan điểm của KTS Gregoire Du Pasquiter khi chia sẻ về công trình sẽ xuất hiện trong chương trình tuần này.
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  • Jakob Factory
    All in place
    2020
    Thinking of relocating? Then head to an area offering fresh opportunities. That might mean anything from a building boom that enables architects to get creative to a well-connected rural community where entrepreneurs support each other. So where will your next move take you?
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  • Jakob Factory
    G8A architecture & rollimarchini architekten add green façade to vietnam's jakob factory
    Juliana Neira
    2020
    G8A architecture has partnered with rollimarchini architekten for jakob factory, a structure housing the specialist steel rope producers jakob rope systems.
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  • Wink Hotels HQ
    G8A’s Grégoire Du Pasquier Explores Wink Hotels’ HQ Design
    David Kaye
    2020
    A curved red reception desk. Large photographic prints by local fashion photographer Ho Kim. A 12-seat extendable “dinner table”. A projector and screen to create a space for town hall meetings and training sessions. Visibility and light. Grégoire Du Pasquier, co-founder of G8A who designed the Wink HQ office, is exploring the space for the first time since its construction.
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  • Contrast and Cohesion: Video Series
    Contrast and Cohesion - Concrete Lace
    2020
    Part of a series of short videos embracing architecture through contemporary dance, videography, original score, and costume, “Concrete Lace” was first shown in a 3 channel installation, representing key projects by G8A architects. Along with Concrete Lace, shot in Hanoi, Vietnam, the installation included Punggol Waterway Terraces in Singapore) and The Birds in Geneva, Switzerland.
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Evolution of HDB designs
    Neo Xiaobin
    2020
    Singapore's public housing authority, the Housing Board (HDB), celebrates its 60th birthday this year. Today, more than one million flats have been completed in 24 towns and three estates across the island, and HDB flats are home to over 80 per cent of the Republic's resident population. Established on Feb 1, 1960, during the nation's housing crisis, HDB was tasked with providing sanitary living conditions to replace the then prevalent unhygienic slums and crowded squatter settlements.
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  • The Bridge
    Open and flexible
    Michele Koh Morollo
    2020
    On Le Van Huu Street, in a part of Hanoi's Old Quarter that has many warehouses and logistic halls, G8A Architecture & Urban Planning collaborated with execution architects VUUV to build The Bridge - an office building with a series of bridge-like platforms supported by two concrete cores.
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Thomas Schröpfer
    2020
    The emergent understanding of the building and the city as ecological systems immediately raises the question of their interaction. In which ways does a "green building" contribute to the ecology of its surroundings? And how can ecologically designed urban districts, with their green and blue networks, link up with the elements and technologies of building design? These are questions of concept, of planning, of design and not least of experience. All these dimensions of "green building" are investigated in this book with substantial essays and benchmark case studies, in a collaboration of a research team with internationally renowned architects, urbanists and landscape designers – in an effort to understand and evaluate some of the most recent and innovative Dense+Green Cities in Asia, the Americas and Europe.
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  • Hanoia Concept
    Hanoia Concept Stores
    2020
    Since 2014 a continued collaboration has existed between G8A Architecture & Urban Planning and Vietnamese luxury brand Hanoia. With now three completed projects in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and with others currently in development, the central design proposition pays witness to G8A's keen and long standing interest in Vietnamese cultural and urban typology.
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  • GreenRidges
    Familiarity/Differentiation
    Ar.Raymond Ang
    2019
    Public housing is a key ingredient in Singapore's formula for a stable society. On the one hand, a high percentage of home ownership is enabled by an intricate system of enforced savings and subsidies. On the other, the housing for this majority, in terms of design and quality, sets a common benchmark of living and is seen as a great leveller.
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  • HCMC East Innovation District
    City Party Chief awards first prize to U.S. firm in innovation district contest
    Kieu Phong
    2019
    Politburo Member and Secretary of HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on November 23 awarded the first prize to U.S. Sasaki Associates, Inc., in the international competition on planning initiatives to develop highly interactive innovation district of the city’s eastern area.
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  • The Bridge
    Two Concrete Cores in Hanoi: The Bridge by G8A Architects
    Duy Mac
    2019
    Surrounded by warehouses and logistics halls, The Bridge consists of a sequence of horizontal platforms borne by two concrete cores. On each level, this creates a support-free interstitial space with generous panoramic windows on both sides.
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  • GreenRidges
    Designer living
    Meredith Woo
    2019
    HDB's housing projects are becoming more sophisticated with design features that not only please the eyes, but also provide physical comfort, promote sustainability and encourage community activity. Here's a look at some winning projects of this year's HDB Design Award.
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  • The Bridge
    G8A architects uses concrete cores and mesh façades to build office in Vietnam
    2019
    Situated in the middle of old Hanoi, Vietnam, G8A architects has constructed ‘the bridge’ to house several luxury brands that make up openasia group. positioned between warehouse and logistic service buildings, the new officeis designed to respond to the surroundings and the spatial and socio-economic landscape of the urban context.
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  • Practice
    Building across East and West
    Narendra Aggarwal
    2019
    Not known to many people in Singapore, a boutique agency founded by two Swiss architects has been successfully working on public housing projects here, combining the best of Western and Eastern knowledge in the field.
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  • Jungle Station
    G8A Architecture & Urban Planning
    Hafizh Faishal Wahyu
    2019
    Fully aware of the climate context of Ho Chi Minh City, the architect of Jungle Station made a decision to bring the tropical atmosphere to the interior of this building as a means to create collaborative space. This action is in agreement with the statement of Lohr and Pearson-Mims (2000) which said that rooms with indoor vegetation would make its users friendlier compared to rooms without decorative elements or indoor vegetation.
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  • High Density Seafront Housing
    High Density Seafront Housing
    Singapore University of Technology and Design
    2019
    As cities around the world struggle with solutions to the housing shortage that affect many communities, Singapore has invested in successful creative development for a number of years. Building on this momentum the studio has explored the challenges and opportunities that arise between high density seafront housing and the urban fabric of Singapore.  
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Punggol Waterway Terraces, Singapore
    T. Schröpfer and S. Menz
    2018
    The utopic vision of Glen Small's Biomorphic Biosphere Megastructure can be seen as one of the key inspirations behind our project Punggol Waterway Terraces. This megastructure overcomes the boundary between landscape and architecture, between inside and outside. Similarly, the vision behind Punggol Waterway Terraces was the imagination of the concept close to utopia. The challenge was to build high density without creating a tower block solution.
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  • Jungle Station
    Sense of the City
    N. Yabuka
    2018
    Development is significantly affecting familiar urban patterns in Vietnamese cities. But it also offers opportunities to reflect on how what's being lost can be reinvented. G8A applies an astute reading of urban change to create a coworking space with deep sensitivity.  
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  • Jungle Station
    New Saigon Coworking Community Brings Jungle Greenness Into Office Space
    2018
    Working in an enclosed space can be stifling at times, which is why the architecture group G8A recognizes the need to reconnect with nature.
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Singapore's green buildings on show
    Tay Suan Chiang
    2018
    When the design for Punggol Waterway Terraces 1 was unveiled in 2010, it drew a flood of oohs and aahs. Rather than rectangular blocks, these Punggol flats have cascading roof gardens inspired by terraced rice fields, where residents and the public can relax and enjoy the scenery of the adjacent Punggol Waterway Park. Architecture firms G8A and Aedas designed the blocks to have a hexagonal layout, so that all residents have a direct physical connection with the landscape and their neighbourhood. The flats are shielded from the heat and the rain by undulating ribbons of ‘balconettes’, an architectural term to describe a false balcony, which are also sunshading devices. The project promotes the use of tropical ndesign, such as the cross ventilation of units, and shading from the sun. The lush planting of greenery in the estate supports biodiversity, improves air quality
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  • Hanoia House
    Beyond the Facade
    Louisa Clare Lim
    2018
    The contemporary use of materials, and vivid displays of exquisite lacquer creations, breathe new life into the traditional tube-house setting of Hanoia’s flagship store
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Dense and green building typologies
    Thomas Schröpfer
    2017
    Contemporary architecture and urban design practice in Singapore and beyond in increasingly exploring the integration of green spaces in buildings, producing new typologies for high-density centexts that include public spaces, extensive sky terraces, sky bridges, vertical parks, roof gardens, and other 'green' components.
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  • Striped Living
    group8, 16 logements, halte garderie, Crans-près-Céligny, Suisse
    M. Lamouroux
    2013
    L’agence genevoise group8 montre comment une architecture dense adroitement intégrée à son territoire peut lutter contre l’étalement urbain. Ses volumes compacts en pierre, aux formes simples, offrent une nouvelle lecture des paysages ruraux de cette petite commune.
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  • Gordon-Bennett
    Un ensemble homogène dans une zone morcelée
    P. Rappaz
    2013
    Le quartier d'habitation et d'activite Gordon-Bennett a ete inaugure il y a queulque mois a Vernier, non loin de la Cite du Lignon.
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Singapore, Capital City for Vertical Green
    2012
  • Striped Living
    Immoluxe
    Bilan decerne ses prix d'immobilier Vaudois
    S. Guertchakoff
    2013
    Pour la deuxiême fois, Bilan va remettre ses prix à un certain nombre d'acteurs de l'immobilier.
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  • Practice
    World Architecture Review
    Special issue on group8
    2011
    "Founded in 2000, and consisting of 9 partners and a team comprising some 90 employees, group8 is an architectural firm whose R&D priorities are to redefine a number of boundaries in design. For each project, the aim is to come up with a specific configuration that best fits the context, the programme, and the social and environmental framework."
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    Big and beautiful Punggol
    H.P.Shan
    2010
    "Transformed estate may have 35,000 flats, about as many as Toa Payoh. The first waterfront public housing development in the country will be launched for sale next week. Giving an update on the makeover yesterday at a Housing Board exhibition, Senior Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu said that by 2015, there could be 35,000 flats in the estate."
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  • The Birds
    Viso
    Volieren im Bois-de-la-Bâtie
    Léo Biétry
    2010
    Die Architekten von «group8» und der Künstler Philippe Decrauzat soweit sie jedoch ihre jeweiligen Arbeiten bereits kannten, bestanden beiderseits Af!nitäten, die einen spannenden Austausch erwarten liessen.
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  • Punggol Waterway Terraces
    First public housing project along Punggol Waterway gets eco-friendly features
    2009
  • Practice
    Architects directory 2009
    J.Belland
    2009
    Giving a fresh slant to our annual pick of the best young architects, we asked them to create model homes for us, displayed in the superbly rebuilt Neues Museum in Berlin.
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  • The Birds
    Zum Schutze der Vogel
    Katherina Tielsch
    2009
  • Practice
    Senkrechtstarter am lac leman
    W.Huber
    2009
    Ein junges Genfer Buro baut viel Grosses und manch Kleines in der internationalen Stadt. Wer steckt dahinter? Ein Ortstermin bei Group8.
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  • Palexpo 1
    Renovation, Centre de Congres Geneva Palexpo, World Vision
    Massimo Simone
    2009
    Les visiteurs du 79e Salon international de l'auto et accessoires serront les premiers a decouvrir le nouveau visage de Centre de congres de Geneva Palexpo.
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  • Red Houses
    Rote Monolithen
    2009
    Drei zweifamilienwohnhauser, Crans-pres-celigny. Auf einer grunen Wiese, umgeber von einem Konglomerat aus ziemlich traditioneller Architektur, markienren rie “Roten Hauser” einen mutagen Auftritt.
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  • Practice
    group8, Ginevra - As found, the context
    P.Scaglione
    2009
    "Among the world’s vast array of natural elements, mountainous landscapes have persistently inhabited the imagination of humanity and thus influenced our endeavors. Among the world's vast array of natural elements, mountainous landscapes have persistently inhabited the imagination of humanity and thus heavily influenced our endeavors. As architecture on the skin of the earth, mountains exert their force by both creating rungs on the ladder of the land and by forming labyrinthine clefts, both of which have become imbedded in our projects - they serve us by carving the matter of the earth so that it can be in greater contact with the environment, and thus more easily used as a substrate. This constant dialogue incorporated in our constructions aim to associate it within it's respective landscapes, the notion of contour and of integrating the architectural object into its location is essential to us. The location entrenches, dissolves and camouflages the contructions in a local context, as well as literally linking them into the globe."
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  • Red Houses
    Material
    The Red Houses, Crans-Près-Céligny
    E. Zijlstra
    2009
    The houses are constructed from red, poured concrete. These stones are earthy red. The colored concrete gives that irregular impression of a material that had been poured and will evolve and change over the years.
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