September 30, 2015
2015年年底，武汉1818中心凯德广场在中国武汉正式开业，这座新一代零售和生活中心的启动为城市核心区激发了无限活力。
凯德商用开发的这座7万平米7层购物商场满足了本区域240万居民和工作人员之需求。商场提供了多种多样的高品质生活方式、餐饮、娱乐，顶层的电影院，以及地下超市和停车场。
本项目恰逢武汉进行前所未有的改革之时开业。武汉正快速发展成为一座未来之城，拜肯设计的凯德中心正符合项目所在区域现代的改造风格。
设计灵感来自当地独特的文化并捕捉其过去的本质，同时应对未来商业发展的趋势。在拜肯的设计中能充分感受到对武汉历史和文化的尊重，又能看到武汉的未来，我们认为需要去接受一种新的现代城市社区的需求和愿望。
本项目商场的室内设计概念应用了大自然元素，配合鲜艳的色彩及光线。突出的裙楼外立面在街道界面额外醒目，衬托了办公楼及住宅楼的综合体区域。这一项目是拜肯集团和凯德商用的又一高品质力作。
September 24, 2015
澳大利亚最大、最著名的建筑设计公司之一的拜肯集团，与日本最大的建筑设计和城市设计公司日建设计集团，于近期达成了商业联盟。
拜肯集团首席执行官David Martin今日在墨尔本正式宣布两大公司的联盟，他说，这种合作模式将进一步扩大双方的全球业务，尤其是在大洋洲、欧洲和中东地区。
“我们一直在寻找一个可以加强全球发展的合作伙伴，并且在经验、专业技能、价值观和文化等方面能我们取长补短的合作伙伴。日建公司，和拜肯集团一样，是一家具有百年历史的公司，不仅能给我们带来其丰富的经验、雄厚的实力，还有非常享有声望的合作业绩。”
日建公司在全球40多个国家拥有1700多名员工，在“绿色建筑”设计方案和城市设计、“超高层”建筑，综合体，教育，商务办公，酒店餐饮，文化、体育和健康领域具有强大的设计实力。
日建公司总裁兼首席执行官Tadao Kamei说，日建最初是被拜肯集团在商业建筑设计领域的突出业绩所吸引。
Kamei还说：“在与拜肯集团的合作下，我们看到在城市综合体发展方面增强自我实力的机遇，包括在零售、酒店和住宅领域，且不仅仅在日本，也在一些机会更多的发展中国家。”
Martin先生说，两公司联盟后的综合的实力、能力以及拜肯集团和日建公司在全球的影响力，将使我们的客户接触到更专业的设计师，获得更广泛的服务以及无与伦比的价值。
Martin先生还说：“重要的是，我们的合作将加强两家公司的市场地位，并维持客户所期望的高质量、专业标准的设计服务。”
“日建公司和拜肯集团在竞争日益激烈的全球市场下工作。我们的合作伙伴关系将使双方能够利用彼此优势，使新商机最大化。我们能够在澳大利亚本土和日本本土扩大我们的服务，利用我们的项目经验，合力发展国际业务，为客户提供创新、可行的设计方案。”
September 16, 2015
The Buchan Group's Brisbane Studio is proud to have served as Creative Director for this year's AIA Qld Awards.
The event design and set production entailed the creation of an entry space, a grand gallery to showcase the year's exceptional work, and awards banquet area.
Our mix of design disciplines collaborated across achitecture, interiors, experiential, print and motion graphic design to deliver a dramatic, memorably branded solution.
Sincere thanks to GreyLight for their help with the event lighting, and to the Instutute for affording us such a wonderful opportunity.
September 16, 2015
The Buchan-designed Everton Park Retail and Home Improvament Centre has been awarded winner of the Excellence in Design Award, Sub-regional Centres at this year's Queensland Retail Property of the Years Awards. Congratulations to our client, Fabcot, and all of the evening's finalists and winners for the excellent standard of entries.
September 16, 2015
The redevelopment of Dandenong Plaza has breathed new life into the Centre, simultaneously enhancing its retail offer whilst repositioning the Centre’s Interior Design to reflect the diversity of the Dandenong Community. The result is an authentic, inviting and relevant place for locals to shop, socialise and be entertained.
GPT’s redevelopment of the Centre has seen the former 15000m2 anchor tenancy broken down into a mix of smaller tenancies chosen to revitalise the mall space and generate more visitations to the Centre. Mini majors ALDI, Trade Secrets, Daiso and JB Hi Fi, together with a number of smaller speciality tenancies such as African supermarket and Degani’s café, now occupy the space that was for many years home to a Myer department store.
With over 100 nationalities identified on the Plaza’s doorstep, the former typically 1980’s mall presentation has been recast to reflect the iconography, colour, texture, materiality and craftsmanship of the multicultural heritage of the area.
The Buchan Group Principal, Craig McLeod, said the driving concept behind the design was to encapsulate, interpret and reflect the diversity of the Dandenong Community.
“The interior design response celebrates the cosmopolitan heritage of Dandenong through a modern ethnic interpretative aesthetic that was achieved through the use of economical but carefully considered materiality and fenestration.”
Features include slatted timbers and geometric tessellated tiling that evoke form and motif, and mesh curtaining which is an interpretation of veil and drape.
The existing waffle slabs were deliberately exposed and painted out to invoke a rawness / authenticity reminiscent of ‘re-claimed’ urban spaces, and locally designed and manufactured furniture and light fittings were carefully selected to reflect ethnic craftsmanship.
The Buchan Group also extended the concept to bespoke items such as the public space floor rugs, which were designed ‘in-house’ especially for the project.
The completed fit-out has been extremely well received by the community and a staged roll out of the scheme across the entire Centre is currently under consideration by the Client.
September 16, 2015
The Mitsui Shopping Park LaLaport Fujimi is The Buchan Group’s fourth project for Mitsui Fudosan.
The Centre is the first to express the new LaLaport target concept of “a place where people interact.”
Principal, Harvey Male, described the project as “integrated with its local community beyond its building and onsite services.”
In addition to three levels of retail with 293 stores in a circuit plan, the project is set in 8700m² of parkland to enable people and culture to intersect. The open air square comprises a running course, dog run and bbq facilities, and the sense of wellness and unity with nature is merged into the Centre with interior spaces that offer park-like resting areas.
The landscaping extends to part of the roof and façade and a three-tiered cutaway food court is designed as a rich green space reflective of the surrounding parklands.
A full complement of entertainment services are included in the development, which responds to the diverse lifestyles of the catchment.
September 14, 2015
拜肯集团一直致力于对公司未来人才的培养并增加公司领导的多样性，近期宣布将高级设计师徐航，David Fantini和Abhijit Parasnis晋升为本集团设计主任。
拜肯集团首席执行官David Martin向接受任命的三位成员表示祝贺。
“我很高兴对新晋升的主任成员们及其一直以来的专业承诺表示认可。他们是我们新一代领导人，并已展现出对我们重要客户、同事及公司的杰出信誉性。”
Hang Xu 徐航
徐航，一直在广泛的项目上参与建筑设计、设计扩初、施工图、合同管理及文档控制， 包括住宅项目，综合体，商业办公、文化和工业项目。她在澳大利亚，新西兰，中国和东南亚等地区有着20多年的工作经验。
自2006年加入拜肯以来，徐航参与过一些著名项目，如伦敦西田购物中心；墨尔本The Mews Brighton, 是豪华公寓的缩影；墨尔本市小柯林斯街27号的喜来登酒店及奢华公寓综合体塔楼。
徐航很喜欢这种文化的融合对其工作的影响，并通过她自己的国际视角来提升所参与的每一个项目的价值。
David Fantini
David在各种澳大利亚和国际项目上有着丰富的设计经验，尤其在高层住宅领域。在与广发的专业人士共事期间，David获得了丰富的工作经验，包括建筑师同事、政府审批机构，设计师和咨询顾问。
David一直以来都致力于众多住宅和综合体项目的设计，如Vogue South Yarra， The Mews Brighton和许多其他正在设计中的项目。
在时间和空间的约束挑战下，David喜欢借由汇集各种元素来创造终于设计意图的实用设计。
Abhijit Parasnis
Abhijit在拜肯集团已工作11年，在设计和交付世界一流的商业项目、酒店餐饮项目和综合体项目上有超过17年的丰富经验。
Abhijit专门从事大型零售项目的设计，目前，他在澳大利亚最大的购物中心Chadstone的扩建项目上担任主要领导。Abhijit擅长商场的总体规划，尤其在可持续性方面，并通过复杂的设计，规划及遗产流程，带领团队参与了许多重建和翻新项目。Abhijit与客户密切合作，他非常喜欢对各方利益者及受益团队的管理过程，以创造创新的、可持续的、商业成功的设计。
September 4, 2015
The Buchan Group design leaders are sharing their experience and expertise across numerous sectors at a number of conferences over the coming weeks. Key events include:
Principal, Harvey Male, will present at the Trueventus Apartment Conference held from 9-10 September at the Crown Promenade in Melbourne.
Entitled ‘Integrated design to achieve synergy of apartment living in a mixed use environment,‘ Harvey’s presentation will explore lifestyle in a mixed use environment and bringing apartment living to life. He will consider unlocking and balancing the components of multiple uses; place activation to create lively and attractive public spaces; and designing a mixed use project to cater to higher density.
More on Apartments Conference
The Buchan Group’s London team will attend The British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC) Conference 2015 in Manchester, U.K, on 16-17 September.
The showcase event brings together some of the industry’s leading retailers, property owners/investors, developers, agents and professional consultants to discuss current and emerging sector trends and establish new partnerships.
The Buchan Group will be represented this year by Principal, Simon Gregory and Associate, John Watson. They can be contacted on the details below:
Simon Gregory
Mobile +44 (0) 7786 436 742 or
Email simon.gregory@buchangroup.co.uk
John Watson
Mobile +44 (0) 7765 206 267 or
Email john.watson@buchangroup.co.uk
More on BCSC Conference
Principal, David Macleod, will present at the Property Council of Australia’s The Changing Face of Retail conference on the 23rd September at The Hilton South Wharf in Melbourne.
As a specialist in the design of large-scale retail developments, David will join a panel of retail experts to share their views on the current and future landscape of shopping centres; the impact of online retail on retailers and shopping centres; how landlords are growing the value of their retail assets; and how retailers innovate the service experience.
September 2, 2015
The $70M Cloisters on Hay redevelopment, for Perth Diocesan Trustees, was recently honoured in acknowledgement of the outstanding revitalisation and innovative design achieved for the new and existing buildings completed on the site.
The project was named WA’s Best Project for 2015 at the annual Master Builders Association of Western Australia (MBAWA) Excellence in Construction Awards and also took out the awards for Best Office Building and Best Steel Building.
At the recent 2015 WA Architecture Awards, announced by the Australian Institute of Architects, the project also received a Commendation for the Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture.
The redevelopment of this significant property in the heart of Perth’s CBD comprised the transformation of the existing two level office and retail building into a 10-storey retail and office tower, over a functioning carpark.
The Buchan Group’s principal design philosophy in transforming this unique heritage landmark was to create a vital and energising public domain. The new office consists of a simple stepped rectangular office volume that maximises net lettable areas, flexibility and daylight access for office floors.
The design of the new retail centre incorporated frameless glass shopfronts to a realigned arcade, providing a direct vista from Hay Street to St Georges Terrace, dramatically improving ease of circulation and legibility. The Cloisters retail centre was fully leased at the time of opening in mid 2014.
The AIA jury was impressed with the innovative use of steel in the project, citing that its use as a structural system “generated 25% more floor area, contributing to a very cost-effective urban renewal project.”
Congratulations to the dedicated design team for conceiving an integrated dynamic development which contributes positively to the public and private realm.
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Lalaport Fujimi | Toowong Village | Dandenong Plaza | Wellard Square | Cloisters | Everton Park | 2015 AIA Qld Awards | Barrie Stevens 27 Little Collins Street
September 1, 2015
Wellard Square was recently announced as the Winner of the 2015 John Septimus Roe Award for Urban Design at the Australian Institute of Architects’ WA Awards.
The new main street retail development comprises a market style 3200m2 Woolworths and 23 specialty retail tenancies. The development has pioneered a new concept of small scale retail delivering a high quality neighbourhood centre.
The Buchan Group Associate Director, Anna Meszaros, said “the ethos was about creating an environment with a ‘fine urban grain’ constituted by a network of intimate and detailed streetscapes which blend and blur the boundaries between the public and private realms.”
The jury was impressed with the remarkable attention to detail and materiality creating sensory pleasure. They cited that “the architects have been diligent in forming and detailing the building’s stimulating streetscape experience to a pedestrian human scale.”
The jury was also pleased with the use of durable and cost effective materials throughout the project, stating that their innovative and purposeful use “has created a sense of visual interest, generosity and richness that is not typical of middle-suburban retail developments.”
Congratulations to the team on a truly outstanding project!