Site Visit

Saturday 8th of October we went to a few open houses. I really enjoyed this day, it is nice to actually see that works are getting built, instead of always just drawing imaginary projects ;)

Henry J. Lyons Architects 

Reception desk.

This image is illustrating very well the way the architects have been able to join the two buildings and use them to the full without doing anything with the facade of the protected structure.

I love the concrete walls with wood panel patterns. It gives a modern and stylish look, but keeps the warm feeling you would only get with the wooden structure.

Another very interesting way of texturing walls

These skylights that are already below ground level lights up the meeting rooms down in the basement.

This room is 8 meters below ground level, still it is the room with the best natural light source. 

An interesting design for the employee kitchen which is used for lunch hours or staff parties. Bespoke workbench in corian and stainless steel. Very nice with almost invisible jointing between steel and corian.



Later this day we went to see the Criminal Courts of Justice

Because of security reasons we were not allowed to take any pictures within this building, but we got a nice tour, and a very interesting talk about the building. There are three completely different infrastructure systems within the building, so that the Client, the Jury, and the Judge will never have to meet outside of the court rooms. 
We learned why things are designed the way they are, we learned that the building is meant to last for a 100 years, and how the architects went about solving that. All in all a very interesting tour, and the most interesting building I have visited in a while.