04/10/2008
kenanga
Kenanga Wholesale Centre, is Malaysia's new single largest centre specialising in wholesale textile distribution and trade, located near the city centre. The 11 storey structure comprise elevated 5 car park floors providing some 1200 spaces, and also 6 storeys of retail lots, totalling altogether nearly 1 million sqft of gross floor area. The project is now undergoing piling and substructural works. Blockwork is used extensively to evoke the era of simple honest and affordable buildings of the sixties, at the same time echoing and resonating with the spirit of the place, reminiscent of the surrounding architecture. The facade has a ribbed and collared brow to distribute water discharge, whereas the rooftop acts as insulator for the open and naturally ventilated retail floors. Here will be placed 2 levels of elevated floors with glass bridges, most of the structure is steel, with a metal roof.
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point92
point92 is an iconic structure, it is like a gucci handbag with windows or an scaly armadillo in white, it is the new speculative offices. with adequate budgets it can achieve visual impact and status without great olympian expense, pun intended. the vast opportunities for planning the interior is immediately respected and conciliated. the key to this project lies in its execution and intent, although the concept is one of workplace, of making it more possible to transcend typology and embrace the new philosophies surrounding the new genius loci accorded to offices of the new era. we no longer want offices which do not provide break out areas, visual stimuli, external awareness, sense of openness, visual connectivity between floors, transformable spaces, third spaces and so forth. this new typology transcend and develops ideas around the work and theory put forth by hertzberger, foster and ken yeang.
©2008.huatlim
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24/12/2007
barbara cappochin award
zlgdesign is proud to receive the 2007 International Barbara Cappochin Foundation Special Prize Award for their BOH Cameron Highlands Visitor Centre. The building is located in the Highlands Tea Estate of Malaysia.
The International Biennial “Barbara Cappochin” Prize for Architecture is launched in Paris. The purpose of the Foundation is to remember Barbara, a young student of the Faculty of Architecture I.U.A.V of Venice by promoting high quality architecture. This quality can only be obtained if the three essential figures, the Contractor, the Designer and the Constructor, work together to identify that thin line that connects life and architecture, by focusing on choices, ideas and materials in order to attain high quality results. This is the objective of the Foundation.
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24/07/2007
astro
Image of Astro new look office, designed to promote Astro’s philosophy of work, of solidarity, symbolic in the way the facade shows two building materials coming together, one transparent, and the other more solid. A concept that drives the plan form as well as the section, two spaces meeting in the centre where the courtyard breaks into a garden, with many natural elements. The dark cement and the panar glazing on the facade locks into each other as a clasping hand, the interlocking floors give each level a view of the the next one either above or from below. A humane and completely intimate internal environment that encourages external awareness and as ens eof connection to light and landscape.03:23 Posted in astro | Permalink | Comments (1) | Email this | Tags: astro, offices, zlgdesign, competition, projects
09/07/2007
beijing showroom: entrance to new offices, HQ
Canopy detail made from polished mirror stainless steel. Wires adorn the "invisible" roof, made to support decorative items during festive events or for effects at night. Project completed within 8 months of ZLG's appointment. Located in Beijing's art district, for China's premier lighting company ZHONGTAI Holdings of Shanghai.
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14/12/2006
duyong: restaurant in terengganu
The detail here shows a close study of the site elements, in this case we embrace the fishermen's boat ribbed structure as a reference for the partitions, for this restaurant, recently launched in the east coast of Malaysia, state of Terengganu, a traditional boat building locality. More details of this proejct can be seen in the link below:
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Infinity Pool
View of House sold to private owner, located in Kuala Lumpur, taken from the pavilion.
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13/12/2006
Aqualive Showroom
This is a retail project for a boutique client in the water business. Aqualive is a showroom facility with a sales office and project room, centered around a display of various products marketed by the Client. Columns of light receive guests and visitors on approach, marked also by fine stainless steel wires to give intimacy to this space.
Concept: Huat LIM
Team: Umi K, Fauwaz, OTP, Koh, Soh Siew Ping
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Kenny Heights
This is a parcel within a masterplan, located in Kuala Lumpur. Kenny Heights is carved out of the land, and the retail link here is remarkably a simple envelope, with a small incision on the roof, to let daylight in deeper into the plan of this development. Arguably very different from anything else seen for a retail project, this link will prove to be very edgy and yet accessible for this new suburbia community.19:40 Posted in architecture, Blog, Conceptual Projects, Offices, residential, retail design | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: kenny heights, parcel 4, masterplan, retail planning
09/11/2006
Corner Lights
Corner detail of one of many rooms redesigned and reconfigured for one of our clients. Frame-less glass window opening brings in the greenery outside and gives this otherwsise bare room a fantastic sense of awareness of the landscaped courtyards.
Project Designer: Susanne ZEIDLER
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Strip Ceilings
Project: Digi Telecommunications Shah Alam Malaysia
Art Direction and Concept: Huat LIM
Project Architects: Bernard LIM, Julia PAGEL, Wenke WEISS, ONG Shi Yi
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Digi Folding Browns
A series of benches and shelves form a wall sculpture along the outside passageways of this office boardrooms. Made for purposes of giving staff somewhere to read whilst waiting for meetings to commence. The black receding ceilings are appointed with ZLG's signature bell lights.01:45 Posted in digi telecommunications | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this
Digi Mirrors
The extensive use of mirrored finish for this space exudes a sense of absence. of minimalism without loss of character. The desk is made by Shinwa Metals of Malaysia, exemplary workmanship and articulate detailing. Mirrored finish columns make them disappear, and provide views out to the lush landscaped fields beyond.01:25 Posted in digi telecommunications | Permalink | Comments (1) | Email this
DiGi Crystal
This is one of twenty break out areas assigned to the new Digi Telecommunications Offices Headquarters located in Shah Alam, some twenty minutes from Kuala Lumpur, part of the Zen Minimal Concept floor, one of three zones created for the Interiors.01:20 Posted in digi telecommunications | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this
08/11/2006
new brownies to collect!
ZLG now has the new brownies [named after their close colour match to the famous W Hotel Brown] to collect for our faithful and loyal friends. After the first volume [soon running our of stock] we now have more images to stimulate and inspire the aspiring architects, designers and artists. Made from the best recycled quality paper we will publish sketches and products from our collection of work over recent years. This will be a Limited Edition production.08:04 Posted in Publications | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this
01/11/2006
Kiara II
Quite simply a new direction for apartment reception design, somewhat intentionally corporate, not necessarily cold, given the tropical materias used for benches and loose furniture. The white is well balanced against naturally darker wooden elements. Overhead glazing is softened by means of white film to reduce unpleasant contrast from external daylight.
Design: Susanne ZEIDLER
Managers: Fun Soon KIT, Bernard LIM
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Tunku House 2
A very satisfying proejct, in both senses of a good appreciative Client, as well as a Project that is so challenging given the terribly confusing and disorganised interior when we first saw the house. All materials employed are all kept tropical, yet exotic in their execution to the extent where we manufactured 'new skins' and fabricated partitions that would not mormally be as functional if the materials were not as we have specified.
Design: Susanne ZEIDLER
Project Managers and Assistants: Bernard LIM. Fun and Tracy LIM
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Tunku Residence
Not many of our Clients survive this stark and severe aesthetic treatment and utterly uninterrupted delivery but for being one of our best, this has brought much satisfaction to the office. We love this work, and hats off to those who appreciate our simplicity for want of better use of space, materials and technology.
Design: Susanne ZEIDLER
Project Assistants and Managers: FUN and Tracy LIM, Bernard LIM
Art Direction: Umi K
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Maldives White as Sand
Approach view of the Maldives chalet designs. Platform access is limited to serving no more than say four chalets for luxury and top of the class privacy design. Possible internal mini courtyard define the interior world of this chalet..extending the experience to include not only views and the water body, but also the intimate relationship between the envelope and the interior elements.21:02 Posted in Leisure | Permalink | Comments (1) | Email this
31/10/2006
maldives take 2
Another reconstruction of the chalets for the maldives entail the resolution of the enitre superstructure, therein extending all of the elements connected to it from the framework rather than built separately from it. The soft insides are luxuriously furnished fabric and leather comforts, in contrast to a stark, somewhat aggressive exterior. Distinctively zlg formula in execution.03:05 Posted in Leisure | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this