Eike Batista’s EBX has invited a handful of architects to rethink the future of the historically loaded Marina da Gloria on the shore of downtown Rio. Here’s a peek at JDS proposal for this ambitious and controversial project to host a new convention center and the sailing competition for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Our scheme aims at questioning the future development to avoid a strictly exclusive and fenced off structure and proposes instead to create a series of urban and landscape connections to the surrounding Flamengo Park (designed by Burle Marx), to the city, the modern art museum and to Santos Dumont airport in one clear knot, in the emblematic shape of an X.
The project will remain an accessible park for 100% of its footprint surface and allow the neighborhood to unfold and prosper as a public destination for leisure and commerce.
The Two Seasons Hotel project in Stavanger, Norway is now complete and had a grand opening the 12th of August, 2010. The hotel run by Choice Hotels Scandinavia AS has been named Comfort Hotel Square and is located in Stavanger City at what has been classified as the most valuable site in Norway. The 6 floor hotel was built on top of a 5 floor existing parking garage giving an extra challenge to the structure. Here 194 hotel rooms float in a ribbon configuration around an inner courtyard. The hotel rooms have been lifted from the street to secure privacy and a quiet environment for the guests, and to activate the ground floor with a bar, lounge, restaurant and lobby. On top there is a green roof including a roof terrace with a beautiful view over Stavanger city and the harbour.
in order to rehabilitate the longest building of Paris. This new development consist of the addition of a new layer on the existing building:a lower layer of an existing warehouse and parking space rehabilitated in office and an upper platform intended to contain new apartment buildings of various architects.
Holmenkollen Ski Jump will start the final phase in the autumn of 2010 to be scheduled for completion on March 2011. After a final vote form the city council this summer, the last piece of facade in front of the Judge tower and the Royal tribune has been finalized. JDS Architects will work together with Lecor/Varla/Flygfältsbyrån to finish the inner windscreen and facade before the World Championship 2011.The finished ski jump will have a bar at 418 meters above sea level so visitors can get the experience of looking down the in-run. At the top of the 69 meter inclined-cantilever tower, a 110 m2 plateau will reveal an amazing view over Oslo and its fjords.