Building Investment (May - Jun 2016)
Global demand remains lacklustre in 2016 as most of the world’s key players and many emerging-market economies are performing below their potential. As we enter into the second half of the year, growth estimates remain unchanged for most Asian countries. However, business must go on and we are seeing property launches picking up again. Investors are still out there hunting for bargains and some of the reasonably-priced property units are still being snapped up....
Global demand remains lacklustre in 2016 as most of the world’s key players and many emerging-market economies are performing below their potential. As we enter into the second half of the year, growth estimates remain unchanged for most Asian countries. However, business must go on and we are seeing property launches picking up again. Investors are still out there hunting for bargains and some of the reasonably-priced property units are still being snapped up....
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Design Feature<br />
View of informal conference/pinup area.<br />
Creative company near San Francisco<br />
gets ‘hybrid’ design makeover<br />
Terry.Terry Architecture turns an old brick building in a red-light district<br />
into a fun workplace. Photo credit: Bruce Damonte<br />
Conference area and detail of steel bay window.<br />
THE PROJECT houses a growing graphiccum-product<br />
design office within an existing<br />
brick building located in the Jackson square<br />
historic district (outside San Francisco). The<br />
design requires the removal of the existing<br />
interior structure while leaving the existing<br />
perimeter brick structure and the original<br />
part of the front facade intact. The new<br />
design incorporates the addition of a second<br />
story structure above the original floor that<br />
opens out to a roof deck injecting elements<br />
of the outdoors into the core of the office and<br />
inserting a steel ribbon surround at the front<br />
facade to create a large bay window and entry<br />
shroud, forming a looking glass with the work<br />
place and the eventful street life.<br />
The original building was destroyed in<br />
the 1906 earthquake and fire. Set in the heart<br />
of the city’s red-light district, a new brick<br />
structure was quickly erected to house a new<br />
bar and saloon. More recently, the building<br />
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