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16 October 2024

132 tons of steel and 140 tons of wood!

The German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka combines 132 tons of steel and 140 tons of wood to demonstrate sustainable construction methods. "Every design decision follows the goal of creating a tangible example of this," explains Christian Tschersich, architect of the German Pavilion at LAVA.

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PHOTOS: German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka / Hotaka Matsumara

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28 September 2024

Fantastic night shots of the German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka taking shape!

16 September 2024

We just hosted a compelling talk “Make, Use, Adapt, Repeat,” by Edoardo Tibuzzi, Design Director, and Alessandro Margnelli, Technical Director, from AKT II at our Berlin office. 

Edoardo and Alessandro offered valuable insights into the hashtag#synergy between practice and research.  Their presentation highlighted both past and current projects of AKT II and provided a forward-looking perspective on the role of AI in AEC. 

An inspiring session that sparked great discussion with our team!

12 August 2024

We are pleased to announce that LAVA has won the King Salman Charter for Architecture and Urbanism Award 2024 for our Innovation Tower for the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Riyadh.

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30 June 2024

Tobias Wallisser recently spoke at the 'Shapes of Future' talk series organised by DAC | Design Architecture Communication at Zorlu Center in Istanbul. He joined Anlam Arslanoğlu de Coster and others.

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18 June 2024

Pavilion construction under way! The German Pavilion on Yumeshima Island, the Expo 2025 Osaka site. 

30 May 2024

Christian Tschersich will be speaking on architecture and the metaverse at this upcoming event by The ZukunftsWerkschau XR.Factor on June 13 from 6:30 p.m. in the  DesignWerkschau in Munich's Schlachthofviertel.

Under the motto VIRTUAL. PLAN. DESIGN. VISUALISE., four speakers face the future in their professions. They won't just talk through various subject areas from architecture, real estate, design and research, participants can also test things out. Delve deeper into the understanding behind today's planning.

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10 May 2024

What is the future of timber in architecture and circularity?

Christian Tschersich spoke on how the German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka responds to these questions at a forum at Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory last week.

 There was an open tour of the exhibition 'Woods Up!' where each exhibition architect presented their project, followed by a podium discussion split into four thematic sessions. 

Watch the talks here: WATCH HERE (video by Reframe)

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Photo: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

9 APRIL 2024

"Wood's Up! has opened at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin.

On display is our German Pavillon design for EXPO 2025, Osaka, Japan.

The exhibition presents 16 realised and planned timber buildings of different typologies exploring the use of timber and hybrid timber construction to conserve resources and reduce CO2 emissions. The projects at different scales demonstrate timber's flexibility, load-bearing capacity and prefabrication capabilities, and advantages in terms of thermal insulation, health and aesthetics.

More details here: READ MORE

Photocredit: Lukas Kronawitter

26 March 2024

What is the hotel experience that GenerationZ will seek in the 2030s? What will the hospitality revolution look like in the coming decades? How does a room feel?

Listen to Alexander Rieck at the 2nd Edition Hospitality Innovation Summit - Saudi Arabia & UAE! His speech is "Future Hotel: LAVA Projects from Research to Design".

WATCH HERE

26 March 2024

"Buildings are not merely structures but potential powerhouses that could redefine the landscape of energy storage."

Archdaily explores the future of energy - can buildings become reservoirs of power? Our Heidleberg Energy Storage Tower is a glowing example.

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15 March 2024

The design for the Kuwait Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka Japan was announced recently.

Designboom says: "The Kuwaiti delegation unveils the pavilion design for World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan. Picking up on Kuwait’s characteristic landscape and traditions, the structure features a distinctive silhouette with two symbolic wings inviting visitors inside. High ceilings, transparent roofs, and layered spaces complete the architecture, while premium materials are seamlessly integrated with lush greenery and state-of-the-art technology."

LAVA's partners on the project are: NUSSLI Group construction, insglück content concept and exhibition design, with schlaich bergermann structural design, Japanese architect of record Tokuoka Sekkei and Japanese construction company Mugishima Construction.

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1 March 2024

Alexander Rieck will be speaking at this upcoming seminar on "RESEARCH TO DESIGN: LAVA's innovative global projects" on 6th March from 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM Dubai Time a Linkedin Live event with 'Global Business to Business'.

"A scientist and designer who seamlessly blends intuition with research to anticipate the future. He leads innovative projects globally, with a focus on the GCC market. With years of experience in architecture and research, Alexander is shaping the future of construction and urban development."

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17 JANUARY 2024

LAVA's Christian Tschersich and Andreas Horbelt from facts and fiction presented the German Pavilion Expo 2025 Osaka as part of the Circular Cooperation Network Days in the Circle Lounge at imm cologne. 

The Pavilion is a project of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, and will have a circular design, a living exhibit for sustainable practices.

The panel discussion shared ideas on promoting circular practices in the construction industry.

22 DECEMBER 2023

We wish all our staff, partners and clients a very happy Christmas.

4 DECEMBER 2023

Tobias Wallisser is speaking at this event on 6 December "Future Districts Summit."

AI will decisively change the way we plan, implement and supply urban living and working spaces. But how? This is what experts will explore together at the Future Districts Summit 2023. The focus is on the opportunities and risks of #AI in the life cycle of residential, commercial and mixed-use districts. 

22 November 2023

Chris Bosse talks about grwoing up with an Architect father and his career with buildings with Vladimir Belogolovsky on Archdaily.

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8 November 2023

Tobias Wallisser is participating in this seminar "Taste Is the Lack of Appetite: 25 Years of GRAFT – Hybrid Approaches to Architecture" on 15 November 2023, 18.30 at Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin

MORE INFO: https://lnkd.in/gEStj9Pp

23 OCTOBER 2023

Nikolai Zaitsev from LAVA speaking at the first Metaverse Architecture Biennale which brought together design firms experimenting with design in alternative worlds and using them to test their real-world projects.  https://lnkd.in/gbfDD_rC

15 OCTOBER 2023

Last week, the Wa! Germany project team gathered in Berlin to discuss the latest progress and LAVA presented the schematic design and the open space planning with plans and floor plans. We looked at the plant list, planting plan, and tree placement. And material samples, which making the vision of the project more tangible. A 3D animation brought to life the restaurant, shop and VIP area. 

28 September 2023

Tobias Wallisser is speaking on "More with Less — Architecture after the Anthropocene" at this conference FAIR DESIGN 2023 | EMOTIONS in Warsaw on 30 September.  The conference aims to show different perspectives on emotions: psychological, sociological, neurobiological, historical, philosophical, and of course the design perspective.

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14 September 2023

Christian Tschersich is on the jury for The BrandEx Award in the category ARCHITECTURE.

He says: "At the interface of zeitgeist and technological possibilities, architecture forms the framework for social action and at the same time always expresses an attitude. The BrandEx Award offers an exciting and relevant platform for exchange on spatial concepts with a focus on communication and experience and forms the framework for taking stock and looking into the future."

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The International Festival of Brand Experience (BrandEx) includes the BrandEx Awards which recognise the year’s best projects in the areas of live marketing and brand architecture.

20 AUGUST 2023

In the latest episode of The Creative Insider Podcast Chris Bosse talks about how to start an arcchitecture office. Through a competition? Thats not the way LAVA started. 

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1 AUGUST 2023

LAVA was so pleased to host the Creative Days Stuttgart OPEN ATELIER!!

The founders of CreativeDays Stuttgart, Poonam Choudhry and Martin Bargiel, poonamdesigners Studio welcolmed the full house and Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck spoke about LAVA projects, the future of cities and architecture and the smart and sustainable designing and AI. 

Image @Creative Days

3 July 2023

The Zhejiang Gate Towers project (now renamed the "Wisdom Towers') has been recently completed. 

LAVA's original design of the two towers was based on the Chinese characters for ‘gate’, and featured a shimmering façade of fins. Working with our partners SOL and ZIAD we submitted our designs in 2014/2015.

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20 June 2023

Our Heidelberg Energy Tower recently featured on the TAGESSCHAU German TV News.

The report was on the "Energiewende" (turnaround in energy policy) and Heidelberg Tower appears from 12:25 onwards.

WATCH HERE

31 May 2023

Our Stuttgart office is hosting an open atelier evening on 14th July from 7-9pm for CreativeDays Stuttgart.

CreativeDays Stuttgart is an interdisciplinary platform which promotes an international exchange in design, arts, architecture and urbanism. One of the focus countries is India. It takes place every July and was founded by Poonam Designers.

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25 May 2023

LAVA has a virtual pavilion in Cityx Venice at the Venice Architecture Biennale - a virtual exhibition of new and recent work connecting research, design and practice by leading architects and designers from around the world.

Exhibition runs until November 26th.

The virtual LAVA pavilion on CityX:

https://lnkd.in/gc7376Mw

Cityx website:

https://cityxcomms.org/

6 APRIL 2023

We're super excited to announce that facts and fiction (creative agency) and GL events (construction) with LAVA has won a Europe-wide tender for the German Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.

The winning concept was chosen by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK), the ministry responsible for German participation at Expo 2025. 

Watch the live stream of the winning concept design on 13 April – 10:00 CET WATCH HERE

3 April 2023

On Thursday 11th May, during BERLIN DESIGN WEEK, Archivibe will be visiting some of the most influential architecture firms in Berlin to discover their ethos and their commitment to create a better built environment. LAVA is one of them.

15 March 2023

Chris Bosse recently spoke about the many new and planned buildings in Sydney, and the changes to the cityscape in recent decades on SBS.

LISTEN HERE IN GERMAN

7 MARCH 2023

MIPIM-Fair in Cannes is about to start and LAVA will be there!

We look forward to showing you our latest projects at this major event. 

25 FEBRUARY 2023

Alexander Rieck discusses the prevalence and advantages of VR in architecture.

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15 DECEMBER 2022

The German Pavilion is one of the projects in this new publication "Brand Experience & Trade Fair Design Annual 2022/23" under the heading "nation branding".

It says: "The trade fair is not dead, the trade fair is changing!" 

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5 DECEMBER 2022

Chris Bosse writes about the impact of the last few years on practice in the Architecture Bulletin, journal of the Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter. 

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26 NOVEMBER 2022

Launch party of the LAVA Book "What If"  in Berlin.

Great to see our clients, LAVA staff, colleagues and the book’s contributors celebrating together 15 years of our work across the globe.

A fun night talking about the future of architecture. Plus some live-coded electro music and heating up the dance floor.

LAVA's book explores "What if research, science and architecture were merged"? Architectural and sociological thinkers elaborate on Cities of the Future, Biodiversity, and Energy and Sustainability – creatively, speculatively, and thoughtfully. 

Get your copy HERE

20 NOVEMBER 2022

Amazing image of our new energy storage centre in Heidelberg!!!  The pretensioned cable net which supports the helix staircase which leads to the roof of the 56m high structure. Wait till you see the views over the city!

15 NOVEMBER 2022

Chris Bosse will be delivering a presentation titled "The Façade: Window to the Soul of the City" at Zak World of Façades Vietnam edition on 24th November in Hanoi.

Visit the link for more information on the conference and lineup of speakers. READ MORE

25 OCTOBER 2022

Photographer Marc Goodwin documents the office facades of 25 German architecture firms ... including our Stuttgart office! 

Looking at what makes them similar and what makes them unique.

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7 OCTOBER 2022

Alexander Rieck was part of a recent discussion with philosopher Richard David Precht and Wolfram Putz, GRAFT at Campus ROMA. 

Review in Augsburger Allgemeine.

"Rieck leans on the greatest builder of all, nature - in an effort to keep the ecological footprint as small as possible. His office created the German Pavilion at the Expo in Dubai ... 96 percent of the installed elements can be reused."

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30 SEPTEMBER 2022

Six key themes are explored in LAVA's new book.

Each topic is presented through a series of thought-provoking essays, features, interviews, and LAVA projects, underpinned by the curiosity of the authors who unravel these themes, each with the same question: “What if?“  

Future cities, biodiversity, energy transition, and the social impact of architecture are joined by two other urgent topics: new digital processes and the evolution of the workplace.   

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20 SEPTEMBER 2022

Are German solutions in sustainable planning and construction in demand on international markets? 

This was the question at a recent symposium with Tobias Wallisser on the podium at the recent "Go for Green – Global Solutions". 

Other speakers were Dr. Tillman Prinz, Federal Managing Director of Bundesarchitektenkammer, Martin Reuter, Ulrich Weidemann, Nicole Pillen, Michaela Joas. 

22 AUGUST 2022

Coming soon to a good bookstore near you!

Published by Birkhauser LAVA's new book questions: What if research, science and architecture were merged?

The three core themes of the book are Cities of the Future, Biodiversity, as well as Energy and Sustainability.

With contributions by Amy Frearson, Georg Vrachliotis, Giovanna Carnevali, Maria Aiolova, Gilles Retsin, André Wilkens, Marjan Colletti, and Raoul Bunschoten.

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8 AUGUST 2022

Interesting article on the Heidelberg Storage Tower.

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29 JULY 2022

This is what the German Pavilion looks like now.... 

Expo 2020 Dubai ended just four months ago and already a large part of the pavilion has been dismantled. 

The various building components will largely be reused or recycled. The sandwich panels of the façade, for example, will be reused, the concrete will be recycled. 

16 JULY 2022

Great progress - installation of helix stair and cable net has commenced.

Turning a functioning storage tower into a public attraction! LAVA's Energy Storage Tower in Heidelberg. 

10 JUNE 2022

Tobias Wallisser interview on good architecture.

" Gute Architektur sollte …... niemanden kalt lassen und emotionalisieren. Und dadurch genau das darstellen, was Architektur immer ist, eine Integration von Technik und Emotionen. Auf welches Gebäude trifft das zu? (Nachfrage der Red.) Das Opernhaus in Sydney. Jeder kann da etwas drin sehen und sich angesprochen fühlen. Es hat einen ganzen Kontinent auf die Weltkarte der Architektur gesetzt."

Bilder: Markus Eichelmann

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31 MAY 2022

Join Chris Bosse– Director from LAVA, Troy Donovan – Principal Facade Designer, Prism Facades, and Tilt Industrial Design's Tim Phillips on Thursday 9th June at 10.30am as part of Indesign Media Asia Pacific CPD-Live Façade Innovation – The Pathways & the Pitfalls.⁠

This live online session highlights the technological developments that have come to façade design and explores how architects can navigate design challenges associated with façade innovation. Register here: READ MORE

24 MAY 2022

Congratulations to our partners facts and fiction and NUSSLI Group for winning one silver and two bronze awards in the Art Directors Club für Deutschland (ADC) for the German Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai!

Silver for Exhibition > Museum/Pavillon

Bronze for Event > Public

Bronze for Exhibition > Exhibition Craft > Public Participation 

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15 MAY 2022

Front page of latest issue of "Transition" magazine of the German Energy Agency (dena) - LAVA's vision for the Karl-Marx-Alle Berlin.

The topic? Innovation, energy transition, future mobility. How can we change?

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1 MAY 2022

Chris Bosse director of LAVA is speaking at this seminar "Façade Innovation – The Pathways & the Pitfalls" at 10:30 AM, 9th June 2022 as part of CPD-Live by Indesign Media.

Featuring insightful topics over two days on the industry’s latest advancements the CPD online program offers virtual presentations for CPD points. Presented by Tilt Industrial Design

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18 APRIL

Christian Tschersich senior architect LAVA will be speaking at the SHARE Athens 2022 International Architecture and Engineering Forum on 12th May at the Benaki Museum in Athens.

The event sees world leaders present innovative technical solutions for large-scale projects, addressing sustainability through design and the future of urban living. 

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8 APRIL

"A prime example of circular construction is the Campus Germany at Expo 2020 Dubai. We spoke to the architect of the sustainable building, Christian Tschersich, about closed material cycles in construction and the German Pavilion."

Great interview with Christian Tschersich on the circular economy and the German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai.

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28 MARCH

Only 2 more days left to go before Expo 2020 closes!

2 March 2022

"Beauty Brought to Life by the Creative Community in 2021" features LAVA'S Ecokindi - in Interior Design magazine NY. 

"The natural forms of trees inspired the plywood ribbing around columns at Eco Kindi, a kindergarten school in Vinh, Vietnam."  ECO KINDI

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22 February 2022

The wonderful LAVA team visted the German Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.

9 February 2022

LAVA's Stuttgart office designed the 6,000 square metre marketplace for the new Terminal 3 at Frankfurt Airport, currently under construction. It features organically-shaped ‘island’ seating areas and a sculptural ceiling of aluminium tubes bringing daylight deep into the area.

Explains LAVA director Alexander Rieck: “In 2016 LAVA started work on the atmospheric design. We based it on our research into the natural flow of passengers and the process of way-finding and shopping”.

“Like islands in a fast-flowing river, lounge areas allow rest and relief from the movement of people. Located under the sculptural cloud tubes, they allow travellers to receive the full spectrum of natural sunlight. This is important for wellbeing and allows people to readjust their biorhythm according to the actual time.”

“The design of the reflective cloud itself is also informed by the flow of passengers and on fabrication algorithms.” 

Have a look at the website: https://terminal3.frankfurt-airport.com/en/highlights-of-terminal-3/a-great-place-for-passengers-to-spend-time

Construction update on the project: https://terminal3.frankfurt-airport.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Videos/_CLIPS/20211205_Clip_THG_Marktplatz_EN_NEU.mp4 

3 February 2022

Exciting to see progress on our Energy Storage Centre in Heidelberg!

The tower glowing in the morning sun and the elevator shafts under construction. The crown has been completed! Next will be the panoramic restaurant! 

Shots taken in January by Miriam Gruber

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21 JANUARY 2022

Fantastic image of the Digital Origami Tigers at Battersea Powerstation's Light Festival in London!! 

The Light Festival 13th January - 27th February 2022 features six spectacular installations on display in London’s riverside neighbourhood, and on the banks of the River Thames. 

The tigers have toured the globe - starting in Sydney in 2010, then to Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, Singapore, San Francisco, Lausanne, Toronto and Amsterdam. 

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Image: Light Festival at Battersea Power Station | photographer @s_nappe_r 

6 JANUARY 2022

LAVA's office is one of 12 'Famous Architecture Studios' in Berlin featured in this Archdaily story. 

Shot by Architectural photographer Marc Goodwin for his 'Atlas of Architectural Atmospheres, Archmospheres', the project seeks to capture famous architecture offices from around the world.

11 DECEMBER 2021

Chris Bosse was one of the judges again (10th time!!!) at the 2021 edition of the World Architecture Festival.

The digital event saw three days of live conference programmes, awards, and fringe events, with talks by leading global architectural thinkers and industry personalities from 1 to 3 December. 

Follow the link for an exclusive view of the on-demand sport category crit room at WAf 2021. WATCH HERE

This category was judged by Chris Bosse, Anna Noguera - Anna Noguera Arquitectura; and Ben Vickery - Vickery Hyett Architects.

5 DECEMBER 2021

We've recieved some great media coverage for our German Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.

Some of the pieces: 

4 Reasons Why The Germany Pavilion Ups The Ante For Sustainable Design At Expo 2020 Dubai. With 95% of the pavilion slated to be recycled once Expo 2020 comes to a close in March 2022, the Germany Pavilion is model of conscious creation.   https://www.admiddleeast.com/architecture-interiors/architecture/expo-2020-dubai-sustainale-design-germany-pavilion

https://www.designboom.com/architecture/lava-laboratory-visionary-architecture-german-pavilion-expo-2020-dubai-11-30-2021/

https://www.archdaily.com/972718/german-pavilion-expo-2020-dubai-lava?ad_source=unverified&ad_name=project

https://revistaestilopropio.com/el-diseno-del-german-pavilion-expo-2020-encarna-el-mensaje-de-sostenibilidad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=el-diseno-del-german-pavilion-expo-2020-encarna-el-mensaje-de-sostenibilidad

https://www.stirworld.com/think-columns-expo-2020-dubai-will-be-remembered-for-its-architectural-richness

https://trama.ec/web/noticias/el-diseno-del-pavellon-aleman-en-la-expo-2020-encarna-el-mensaje-de-sostenibilidad

16 NOVEMBER 2021

Humans and machines! Alexander Rieck is speaking at this upcoming event on how man and machine can build the future together. READ MORE

10 NOVEMBER 2021

Tobias Wallisser is on the panel of Raumwelten 2021, the platform for scenography, architecture and media. It takes place in a hybrid format from November 17 to 19, 2021 with the theme “Room for Coincidences”. 

At his architecture panel for discussion: the relationship between chaos and chance: How can the unpredictable arise in design? Has the absence of predictability become controllable by means of computer-based processes? And what are the effects of factors that were not initially planned or that could not have been foreseen?

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1 NOVEMBER 2021

Exciting to see construction on our energy storage tower for Stadtwerke Heidelberg GmbH is well under way!! Great to see the top being reached!!

Great collaboration with Transsolar KlimaEngineering and schlaich bergermann partner sbp.

15 OCTOBER 2021

"In the context of a broad-themed Expo, some (pavilions) are there to tell us stories of the circular economy, global designers and critical interpretations of the contemporary."

LAVA's German Pavilion is one of six featured in this story in Domus about designs tackling the big issues.

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15 SEPTEMBER 2021

Christian Tschersich LAVA project director for the German Pavilion spoke at INTERNI magazine's "Design the change", a series of talks organised by INTERNI magazine as part of their Creative Connections event in Milan on 9 September. 

The panel included designers of various pavilions at Expo 2020 Dubai at the Università degli Studi of Milan. It was part of INTERNI's activities organised for FuoriSalone 2021, Milan Design Week, (4 - 19 September 2021).

WATCH HERE

10 SEPTEMBER 2021

LAVA's future Berlin concept is the cover for an issue of PM magazine on the future questions of living. READ MORE

25 August 2021

Christian Tschersich, LAVA's project director for the German pavilion, will be speaking at "Design the change", a series of talks organised by INTERNI magazine as part of their Creative Connections event in Milan on 9 September. 

The panel includes designers of various pavilions at Expo 2020 Dubai at the Università degli Studi of Milan. Its part of INTERNI's activities organised for FuoriSalone 2021, Milan Design Week, (4 - 19 September 2021).

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2 AUGUST 2021

In Baviera un ostello sostenibile (e sicuro)! Thanks Hotel Domani Italy for featuring our youth hostel. 

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12 JULY 2021

Chris Bosse is judging for the WAF China online award on 21 July. You can watch it live! Read more

1 JULY 2021

Expo 2020 Dubai opens in October! The German Pavilion is in the final stages of installation. We can't wait to share the final images with you.

Christian Tschersich, LAVA senior project architect, speaks with Michiel Raaphorst from V8 architects, architect of the Dutch Pavilion in this chat. Listen here

13 JUNE 2021

Wallisser leads the architecture discussion on intelligent design at this online event. watch here

5 JUNE 2021

Eco Kindi featured in Germany's LICHT magazine, June print issue.

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And in Thailand’s @room magazine specialising in houses, gardens and design.  READ MORE

18 MAY 2021

Some interesting stories on the German Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.

Tobias Wallisser and Christian Tschersich talk about the design in this article in "Souq", magazine of the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry.  READ MORE

What is the German Pavilion "Energiewende" (energy transition) initiative?? Gulf News explains the background.  READ MORE

The pavilion promises to be a 'moving' experience says Ambassador Peter Fischer in this article in the Khaleej Times READ MORE

And watch this drone footage showing the German Pavilion from a bird's eye view
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14 APRIL 2021

Great to see our creative writing centre for kids "Dream Lab" in Sydney featured in this new book "Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire" - the world’s most welcoming and wild spaces for young minds.
DREAM LAB
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30 MARCH 2021

Listen to this great conversation betweeen the architects of the Italian and the German Pavilions at #expo2020dubai.

Featuring Christian Tschersich Senior Project Architect LAVA and Carlo Ratti from CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati!!

LISTEN HERE

20 MARCH 2021

Some interesting recent and upcoming talks.

Tobias Wallisser will be a guest at "ReFraming Architecture" from stilwerk and talking to presenter Kristien Ring (German Architecture Centre) on the subject of "Future & Sustainability". In advance, Wallisser reveals more about his beginnings, heroes and style in #einefragedesdesigns.   LISTEN HERE

Stuttgart meets Mumbai - Tobias Wallisser spoke at a symposium "The Future of Cities.Beyond Architecture" as part of the Festival StuttgartmeetsMumbai.  https://lnkd.in/gtZs5JS

Alexander Rieck spoke at the “Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung – Megatrends in der Architektur“ at the Villeroy & Boch Innovation Days 2021. https://lnkd.in/gmSRMAv

3 MARCH 2021

How do you design a building that can cope with hot desert heat?
Located in the challenging environment of Dubai our goals for the German Pavilion @expo2020 were to be sustainable, reduce resource consumption and increase circularity.
In close cooperation with climate engineers Transsolar we developed a concept of graded temperature zones. Combining a human centred design perspective with energy efficiency, the building unfolds with the graded temperature zones creating a transition from the exterior climate to the fully air conditioned spaces. This avoids heat stress for visitors - a new approach to conditioning indoor climate that helps to save energy.

15 FEBRUARY 2021

The German Pavilion has achieved structural works completion, marking another construction milestone. An average of 166 construction workers have been on the site every day since August 2019, clocking up around 472,000 hours.

The theme of Expo 2020 Dubai, “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”, is divided into three subthemes, each with its own district: sustainability, mobility and opportunity. The German Pavilion, in the sustainability section, has a prominent position on the main thoroughfare of the Expo, very close to the host United Arab Emirates Pavilion and Al Wasl Plaza, which forms the heart of the Expo site. 

Its eight months to go until Expo 2020 Dubai opens in October 2021.

1 FEBRUARY 2021

Tobias Wallisser and Christian Tschersich on site at the almost complete Pavilion.

15 JANUARY 2021

Here's a timelapse showing the incredible progress last year.

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18 DECEMBER 2020

LAVA's latest project in Berlin is a four level building pioneering a new creative hot spot near the former East German broadcasting centre.

The transparent cube features a light-flooded atrium - a way to create community right from the start.

Nalepaland will have highly flexible office spaces with up to 5,000sqm units per floor – an inspiring working environment for innovative minds.

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2 DECEMBER 2020

Interview with Chris Bosse! “Epicenter” is a podcast for 'conversations with people who are working to change the world' with hosts Trey Goff and Max Medina. With Spanish subtitles.

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17 NOVEMBER 2020

Berlin in 2050 - "Berlin's future has already begun - in the minds of planners and researchers."

The Berliner Morgenpost shows what this looks like in a new series thats starts with our vision: "This is what the city of tomorrow could look like - here the view along Karl-Marx-Allee towards the television tower. LAVA / Fraunhofer IAO developed this vision for the Morgenstadt innovation network."

“Rent caps, expropriations, land speculation, redensification in the city centre and new large estates on the outskirts … but how do we really live - and how will living in the city change? In a multi-part series, the Berliner Morgenpost will take a close look at this question, talk to experts .. The prelude is a look into the future.”

https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article230886508/Berlin-im-Jahr-2050-Wie-wir-in-Zukunft-wohnen.html

2 OCTOBER 2020

Chris Bosse will be speaking online at BAU Congress China in the Resilient Architecture session on Friday, October 30, 2020.

https://cade.bauchina.com/en/category/event-list/detail!BCC2020-2?#tab-Schedule 

The international building technology conference is an exchange on the challenges facing the construction industry, such as sustainable development and urban renewal.

20 SEPTEMBER 2020

Alexander Rieck is speaking at a virtual event "Digital Leaders in Architecture" on 24 September. In German

WATCH IT HERE

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7 SEPTEMBER 2020

Join Chris Bosse and graphic designer Vince Frost as they discuss life journeys, design processes and challenges in a podcast with The Business of Architecture and Design.

https://www.australiandesignreview.com/podcast/

21 JULY 2020

The design for Heidelberg's new pedestrian and cycle bridge has won first prize! 

‪Tobias Wallisser says: “Its LAVA’s first major bridge and a great continuation of our efforts to make infrastructure of high public value contributing both to liveability and sustainability.”

“We are part of an incredible team – congratulations to schlaich bergermann partner and Latz + Partner.”

The IBA competition saw 14 groups in the first stage and five groups in the second stage.    

More info and images in German: https://iba.heidelberg.de/de/veranstaltungen/online-ausstellung-rad--und-fusswegbruecke-ueber-den-neckar-2-stufe

And in English https://iba.heidelberg.de/en/projects/neckar-cycle-and-footbridge

3 JULY 2020

Some great media coverage from all corners of the globe!

Eco Kindi

Baunetz in Germany https://www.baunetz.de/mobil/meldung.html?cid=7218399

“A daily does of nature whilst learning” said Frame magazine in the Netherlands https://www.frameweb.com/news/ecokid-kindergarten-lava

Two great stories in Korean print magazines - MARU (Monthly Magazine of Interior Design) published a ten page story on Eco Kindi in their May print magazine. And an eight-page page story appeared in Archiworld July issue (AW302). www.archiworld1995.com

The project also featured on American website Education Snapshots - "the world's best educational architecture projects" https://educationsnapshots.com/projects/11027/ecokid-kindergarten/

Eco Kindi on Dwell https://www.dwell.com/article/eco-kindi-lava-module-k-ac8b9ce8

Central Park

Lexus Taiwan Magazine featured the concept in a cover story on the "City of the future", published in June, 2020. Lexus magazine (www.lexus.com.tw)

German Pavilion Dubai

The latest issue of Italian magazine "Topscape" included a ten-page overview of the Dubai Expo pavilions. https://www.paysage.it/index.php?page=paysage_topscape_archivio

6 June 2020

Visitors interact with our Life Hamburg project on display at the exhibition "Public Architecture – Future for Europe" in Moscow earlier this year.

Life Hamburg features a variety of educational spaces for people of all ages in the German city of Hamburg. 

LAVA joined forces with Cityplot, an urban agricultural collective, to design a project that combines spaces with different functions, from platforms for applied learning to secluded places for reflection.
Photo credit: Sara Danieli, Zoltan Bodo

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10 May 2020

Great to have a chapter in this new book "NATURE DRIVEN URBANISM" published by Springer.

Chris Bosse is one of several "leading thinkers in urban design, city development and landscape urbanism" who give their perspectives. 

Edited by Rob Roggema, Professor Spatial Transformations Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, The Netherlands.

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030267162

5 April 2020

Some nice stories on our projects from around the world!

Our German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai design featured in Archpaper - "AN has rounded up a selection of the most striking, interesting, or technologically advanced pavilions". https://archpaper.com/…/expo-2020-dubai-pavilions-showcase…/

The Pavilion was also in Constructionweek: “We see the building as a campus, so it is not composed of a single volume, but an interplay of different volumes,” Christian Tschersich, LAVA.  https://www.constructionweekonline.com/…/264586-expos-campu…

And Central Park HCMC design: Wallpaper* says: "Vietnam’s new biophilic architecture is going wild ...here is the architecture that is making its mark on Vietnam". https://www.wallpaper.com/…/vietnam-biophilic-new-buildings…

Whilst designboom featured Eco Kindi https://www.designboom.com/…/lava-ecokid-kindergarten-viet…/

1 March 2020

Tobias is speaking at LIFECYCLES in September in Ghent! It’s at a secret location! “Life-cycle thinking is a holistic approach, vital for any future-proof design and construction process.” https://stretchtwenty4.com

Agile workplaces - Alexander Rieck was recently involved in this workshop unpacking broader questions around the changing needs of the workplace.  "Chaired by Moving Walls CEO Patrick Frick and featuring industry leaders such as Sevil Peach and Alexander Rieck, the session tasked the 40-strong group with outlining: what do we actually need an agile workplace for?"

https://www.frameweb.com/ne…/agile-workplaces-orgatec-fa2020

5 February 2020

Our project to renovate Central Park in Ho Chi Minh City was selected as the Future Project of the Year by an annual architecture award contest - one of ten award categories of the Ashui (Architecture, Sustainability, Housing, Urbanism, Interior) Awards in Vietnam.

https://tuoitrenews.vn/…/ho-chi-minh-city-downto…/52430.html

24 January 2020

LAVA has three projects (under construction in Germany and China) in INTERNI's special monograph "Architecture Work in Progress Worldwide 2019".

105 international firms with 180 projects are featured. 

https://we.tl/t-1p79sbAvkm

 And South Korean "Maru" magazine has featured our Life Hamburg project

6 January 2020

Thanks for a great 2019 and we look forward to working with you in 2020!

Check our awards and new commissions on this video: https://vimeo.com/382990118

12 DECEMBER 2019

Article on encounters - what direction, which encounters are relevant for LAVA, our team, our work, our architecture? 

Tobias Wallisser talks to Touch PUNKTE magazine about exchanging ideas at the personal level, virtual reality and social sustainability.

https://points-of-contact.com 

1 December 2019

Tobias Wallisser will be talking at this event In January 2020 in Hannover.

https://ait-xia-dialog.de/ait-dialog-them…/2020-domotex-en/…

15 November 2019

LAVA is one of the "best architecture firms in Germany you should know".

Thats according to Architectours, educational tours for architects, students and design professionals.

https://www.architectours.it/best-architecture-firms-in-g…/…

2 NOVEMBER 2019

Caves, waterholes and campfires. These are the diverse spaces for intergenerational learning in a new purpose-built campus in Hamburg, Germany.

LAVA joined forces with urban agricultural collective Cityplot to design LIFE Hamburg, a new figure eight-shaped building of three levels that is energy self-sufficient, and brings inside and outside together into one continuous landscape.

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25 October 2019

Chris Bosse is speaking at a seminar on DISRUPTION AND THE FUTURE The Business of Architecture and Design Conference in November in Sydney. The inaugural event is all about looking to the future. Changes in technology, new business models and where investment is coming from and going to.

And was recently the key speaker at IDCON in Malaysia with a "lively presentation on the inspiration behind his best works and his perspectives about technology and design. In his presentation Bosse presented an inspiring series of cutting-edge typologies comprising hotels of the future, schools of the future, homes of the future and more." 

https://www.australiandesignreview.com/architecture/lead-boad-chris-bosse/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ADR_25_October_2019_ID27260&fbclid=IwAR1QO4qwVKjpNJScBZlcdZhVA-fi28zdvLdSAlHD45ny-rIGR4Gp8LVupuw

22 August 2019

LAVA's Dream Lab is on the Shortlist for the Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the Public Space category.

The IDEA awards celebrate Australian interior and product design across 13 categories and five Special Awards.

Winners announced at the IDEA Gala Party in November.

https://www.idea-awards.com.au/2019/dream-lab/

2 August 2019

LAVA, with partner ASPECT Studio, has won the international competition to design the 16 hectare Central Park in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with construction due to start in 2020.

Gently elevated curving pedestrian walkways are patterned on 19th century railway tracks built by the French. Sunken gardens provide performance and play spaces and connect to an underground shopping area linking to the new metro station. Artificial trees provide shelter and harvest water and energy.

20 July 2019

Korea's ARCHIWORLD magazine has featured the German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai in its latest July issue in an eight page story.
www.archiworld1995.com

7 July 2019

LAVA has won an International Architecture Award for ‘Technical and Research’ for its Urban Production 4.0. 

The vision is for a modern productive working environment, the transformation with a design that embodies innovation, inspiration, precision and responsibility, made visible through its iconographic, sustainable architectural concept.

Urban design principles integrate city and workplace, which offers quality work-life and a flexibility for future developments within the city.

The masterplan acts as a network in which four atria are arranged around the inner avenue, which connects all public entrances to their respective zones.

It’s one of 120 projects recognised in the global awards organised by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

https://www.chi-athenaeum.org/the-2019-awards/2019/06/25/urban-production-4.0-berlin-germany-2017/?fbclid=IwAR3KyBlUvd4vTVGd8qTLZxjdQIEm7RKGrFgivPFtydrjUvW63coUs9M17vM

https://www.chi-athenaeum.org/assets/PRESS_KIT_IAA/IAA2019_PRESS_RELEASE.pdf

20 June 2019

"What is exciting for architects is that they no longer see space as a static element, instead they perceive it as a dynamic system where they can influence people directly." 

Alexander Rieck talks abut dynamism and .. bathrooms in this blog.

https://www.mezmalanka.com/details.php?blog_id=8

23 May 2019

LAVA with A24 Landschafts GmbH have won a competition for the Synergy Park Lühn in Lingen, a new trade and technology park to be built on ten hectares. LühnBau announced a two-phase international architecture competition seeking: Innovation; Synergy; and Work-life balance.

Preparations for the issuing of a building permit are underway together with the master plan. LAVA will start the building design in June.

https://luehnprojekt.de

27 APRIL 2019

Latest construction shot of the KACST headquarters. Its finished on the outide!

20 MARCH 2019

We're excited to be on the short list for the 16th annual Australian Interior Design Awards in the Public Design category. Our Dream Lab is one of 19 projects shortlisted.

https://architectureau.com/articles/2019-aida-shortlist-public-design/

5 MARCH 2019

LAVA's German Pavilion is featured in this story on CNN "Expo 2020 Dubai plans to bring sustainable architecture home".

Journalist Tom Page says: "as Dubai prepares for Expo 2020, national pavilion announcements show a revival of low-tech sustainability is underway."

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/dubai-expo-2020-pavilions-sustainability/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2pXYoUMCB6K8FgY7wUU2-6qcwXM-qv7J1flceAeOtDTIdNH3LO6WAF5iw

20 February 2019

"STORE DESIGN: Experience-Based Retail" published by Images Publishing Group Shanghai Co., Ltd. features our Martian Embassy. 

https://imagespublishing.com/…/edited-by-brendan-macfarlane/

5 February 2019

Happy Lunar New Year 2019 to all our colleagues and clients - the year of the pig!

16 January 2019

Chris Bosse discusses the upcoming opportunities for 2019.

14 January 2019

Great progress on our Energy Storage Centre! Its reached about 1/2 of its total height and we're currently testing colour options. 
image is the lower part, the future tank.

2 January 2019

LAVA's Youth Hostel has been selected as one of the Best on Archilovers 2018, upholding "high standards for aesthetics, functionality and creativity"! 

It is one of the most 'loved' out of the 50,000 projects published last year. 

https://www.archilovers.com/projects/226172/youthhostel.html

https://www.archilovers.com/albums/235/projects

#Bestarchilovers2018!

5 December 2018

Janet Laurence’s "Inside the Flower Pavilion" with LAVA is the cover story in GREEN BUILDING #56 magazine published in December 2018.

GREEN BUILDING is a Taiwan-based printed architecture bimonthly focused on green building, green landscape and issues of the environment www.ta-mag.net/green

29 November 2018

 Tobias Wallisser with the Raumwelten and students of architecture at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and the Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences designed this temporary, pneumatic structure.

https://www.raum-welten.com/english/pavilion/

https://www.mfg.de/aktuelles/…/1022-erfolg-auf-ganzer-linie/

Photo: Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH / Daniel Fuchs

20 November 2018

LAVA was recently interviewed in md magazine on the Bayreuth youth hostel.

https://www.md-mag.com/people/architekten/lava-jugendherberge/?fbclid=IwAR3Rx2T1DEPPlLpCEiaCP13XG0ebOq_zhVLhUdxzWG_gwsDK0blkaR6uN4g

3 November 2018

Latest image from the Energy Tower under construction in Heidelberg!

8 October 2018

Tobias Wallisser will be speaking at Raumwelten 2018 – Platform for Scenography, Architecture and Media - from November 16 in Ludwigsburg.

In the architecture panel "Spatial Sense' curator Tobias Wallisser talks about the most fundamental task of architecture - the creation of spatial environments that have to be thought not only constructively, but also visually, acoustically, tactile or olfactorily. The focus is on different resources - from natural building materials through the creative appropriation of found building materials to the use of ephemeral elements such as light and fog to create recognisable spatial impressions.

https://www.raum-welten.com/programm/raumwelten-kongress/

24 September 2018

First site visit of the team for the Expo 2020 German Pavilion with the German Ambassador to the UAE, the General Commissioner, the directors of the pavilion and our planning partners.

15 September 2018

LAVA's Energy Storage Centre in Heidelberg is one of 100 winning projects from 31 nations in the 2018 International Architecture Awards.

The group of buildings and urban planning projects selected by the jury will be premiered at Contemporary Space Athens opening on 28 September and continuing through October, 2018. The exhibition is scheduled to travel in Europe through 2019. 

https://www.internationalarchitectureawards.com/award-details.html?award=32579

14 August 2018

Our Story Factory Parramatta project is fast taking shape - our client imagining the future space via virtual reality glasses!

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2 August 2018

LAVA' s new kindergarten is under construciton in Vinh Vietnam. Our partners are Module K.

EcoKid Kindergarten features an indoor-outdoor playful, safe and fun environment for the next generation of Vietnamese children. A 5,000 sqm series of buildings create indoor and outdoor spaces that are playful and safe while making an architectural statement. The buildings form three courtyards and playgrounds with a forest in between, with breezes from the adjacent lake adding to the natural experience. World-class interiors will educate, challenge and entertain children.

14 July 2018

Hamburg's "Office Inspiration" features inspiring office projects and ideas from the workplace environment.

The site featured our Philips Lighting headquarters.

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4 July 2018

Its LAVA's 11th year anniversary today!

Back in the day with one of our first projects ..

18 June 2018

Tobias Wallisser presented LAVA's EZS project at the IBA (International Building Exhibition) in Heidelberg. IBA celebrates projects that move from planning to building stages with an exhibition and special events.  https://iba.heidelberg.de/english/

Photos Thilo Ross LAVA's Kindergar 

MORE INFO ON THE ENERGY STORAGE TOWER

4 June 2018

Tobias Wallisser is speaking at a symposium 'Shaping the Future – Frei Otto’s Cultural Legacy' which will examine the way key aspects of Otto's research, design, planning and construction processes will transform the future. 

The symposium take splace on 25 June  at Wilkhahn, Bad Münder, near Hanover

More info: https://blog.wilkhahn.com/die-zukunft-gestalten-frei-ottos-ideelles-erbe/ 

29 May 2018

Four page story on our Youth Hostel appears in Tasarim Magazine, Istanbul 

16 May 2018

LAVA has won an award in the fourth annual Architecture Awards by Build, UK for "Recognised Leaders in Office Architecture & Design 2018 - Western Europe"

https://www.build-review.com/2018-architecture-awards-2018  

3 May 2018

Chris Bosse is in Hanoi to sign the design contract for the Grandeur Palace Pham Hung, a new mixed use complex for living, working, shopping and leisure.

A skydeck connects three towers and provides communal facilties such as pools and barbecue areas, jogging tracks and cafes and waterfalls.

10 April 2018

Tobias Wallisser will be on stage with Fritz Auer, co-founder of Auer+Weber, and Jorun Ragnarsdottir, co-founder of LRO in June at "Architects, not Architecture" in June Stuttgart. www.architectsnotarchitecture.com

Chris Bosse will be speaking in Bangkok at the RSU Research Conference and visiting the Architect Expo 2018 (ASEAN's Largest Building Technology Exposition) 1-6 May 

5 March 2018

Tobias Wallisser will be speaking at the Instituto Arquitetos Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, on LAVA's work.

In English, the conference arises from an IAB meeting and a partnership with LAMO - Laboratório de Modelos e Fabricação Digital / PROURB, FAU-UFRJ that will open at the conference.

1 FEBRUARY 2018

Alexander Rieck recently spoke at the Future Office Talks in Frankfurt am Maim, while Chris Bosse spoke at the Anthology Architecture and Design Festival in Manila, and Tobias Wallisser was a guest critic reviewing IoA, Institute of Architecture - University of Applied Arts Vienna Studio Hani Rashid. 

19 DECEMBER 2017

The LAVA team wishes our wonderful clients, partners and supporters merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

We’ve won some great awards in 2017 – the WAFX Award [World Architecture Festival’s tenth anniversary] Future Project for Heidelberg Energy Park; Sydney Design Awards for Olio Kensington Restaurant Sydney; Australian Institute of Architects for Philips Lighting Headquarters; the Corporate LiveWire Architecture awards for Innovation in Environmentally-Friendly Urban Planning. And were shortlisted for the IDEA Awards for the Philips Lighting Headquarters and "Out of Hand' exhibition, Powerhouse Museum.

And attracted some wonderful media coverage for our Garden Island redevelopment concept in Sydney, a future forest city in Malaysia and Janet Laurence/LAVA "Inside the Flower" installation in Berlin, amongst others. 

And we have some great projects underway across the globe: our Heidelberg Energy Storage Centre has broken ground; the Youth Hostel in Bayreuth is complete; Zhejiang Gate Towers in Hangzhou is underway; university headquarters at KACST in Riyadh is almost finished; and a new children’s writing centre in western Sydney is currently in planning. Our work in Vietnam is going strong with some major announcements coming up in the new year.

We look forward to working with you again next year. 

12 NOVEMBER 2017

LAVA is excited to be working with the Sydney Story Factory on its new site in western Sydney!

It’s a heritage-listed cottage built in the late 1830s. During the 1840s and 50s it was the family home of Count Lucien de Broel Plater. A wealthy nobleman who had served in the army, the Count fled Poland after helping to lead an uprising against the Russians. He lived there with his 10 sons and daughters, and opened a confectionary shop.

We are working with Berents Project Management and The Glue Society on the design. More to come soon! 

11 OCTOBER 2017

LAVA's plans for a reinvisioned Garden Island in Sydney are in Sydney's 'Daily Telegraph' newspaper.

"THIS could be the stunning new look of Sydney Harbour if plans to open up Garden ­Island come to fruition. The revamp is the brainchild of an award-winning Sydney-based architect", says the Tele.

“It is an opportunity to .. create a new city precinct on the waterfront, something like the Tate Modern in London,” LAVA director Chris Bosse said.

“The idea is that we return Garden Island to garden with green technology and naturally cooling buildings.”

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4 August 2017

BREAKING GOOD - BEACON OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

LAVA's new energy storage tower for Stadtwerke Heidelberg (SWH) in Heidelberg, Germany has broken ground.

LAVA’s design will transform the new water tank, a cylindrical-shaped storage centre, into a dynamic sculpture, a city icon, a knowledge hub on sustainable energy, fully accessible to the public, a strong symbol of the transition towards renewables.

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19 July 2017

LAVA has won a Commendation in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2017 International Chapter Architecture Awards for our Philips Lighting Headquarters.

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2 June 2017

LAVA’s membrane pavilion showcases a new installation, ‘Inside the Flower’, an experiential medicinal garden by Australian artist Janet Laurence at the International Garden Exposition (IGA) Berlin.

LAVA collaborated with Janet Laurence to materialise her laboratory-like space of discovery, an exhibition of medicinal plants, showcasing the diversity and ambivalence of botany.

Taking Laurence’s concept design LAVA created the sculptural pavilion based on the geometric structure of a medicinal plant, a fabricated cellular environment inspired by plant anatomy.

A transparent mesh membrane made of natural cotton is wrapped around the outside of the pavilion structure. The stainless steel cupola has twelve ribs to support a central ring, with two industrial perspex skylights forming a lens. This inflated translucent water bubble connects with tubes and hanging vials of plant fluids. Five rings of curvy shelves house cellular clusters to display the plants. 

Both botanical display and performative space it allows visitors explore the plant world from the inside. 

The Pavilion is on display until 15 October 2017.

10 May 2017

LAVA has won a prize in the UK Corporate LiveWire 2017 Architecture Awards for companies who have shown "excellence in their work, continuously shown dedication and outperformed others in the industry".

The award is for Innovation in Environmentally-Friendly Urban Planning

www.corporatelivewire.com 

2 May 2017

Alexander Rieck, LAVA director, is on the Judging Panel of the 3rd edition of the Laka Competition.

The Laka Foundation is a non-profit architectural organisation which holds an annual international competition for socially responsible architecture - “Architecture that Reacts”.

https://lakareacts.com/competition-2017/

24 March 2017

Le Parisien Magazine + Aujourd’hui en France Magazine (weekly supplements of the daily newspapers Le Parisien and Aujourd’hui en France) have published a story on our Forest City design in Malaysia.

http://www.leparisien.fr/magazine 

14 March 2017

LAVA is at the German Pavilion at MIPIM again this year.

MIPIM is on 14–17 March 2017 at the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France.

MIPIM

4 February 2017

A great article on our Phillips Lighting Centre in UK's Architectural Record magazine.

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27 January 2017

LAVA's design for a new restaurant, Olio Kensington Street, in inner Sydney, is inspired by the ingredients of Sicily.. luscious green olive oil, a leisurely stroll in the afternoon. 

LAVA created a passeggiata, using Sicilian tiles, that flows through the restaurant and connects the kitchen, bar, dining and rooftop areas. This circulation system subdivides the floor area, separating serving spaces and served spaces and is also expressed in the ceiling with a layered green ribbon reflecting the layout.

Two pieces of ‘furniture’, free flowing joinery elements for kitchen and bar, and soft, dripping, LED-lit lines on the joinery, interpret the idea of flowing oil.

The restaurant is an exciting new addition to the transformation of the Chippendale area.

20 DECEMBER 2016

Our Tivoli Terrace kitchen is one of "8 Simply Amazing Kitchens" in Interior Design NY December, 2016 

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30 NOVEMBER 2016

The November 2016 issue of Interior Design NY magazine features LAVA's Philips Headquarters in a story on new office projects

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7 November 2016

Sydney Design Awards!

Russ the Bus

Tivoli Terrace

Kyoto Restaurant

Sydney Airport Duty Free Shop

7 November 2016

LAVA judges at World Architecture Festival again in 2016!

Tobias Wallisser and Chris Bosse are judges at the WAF awards in home territory Berlin, Germany from 16 - 18 November 2016.

"We are looking forward to sharing our city with the worlds architects. LAVA has been judging at the WAF since Barcelona in 2009. We were shortlisted with MASDAR, we've given talks with Foster, presented our own projects including the Addis Stadium and have been on numerous different juries."

12 OCTOBER 2016

Beacon, knowledge centre, tourist attraction and … energy storage centre.

LAVA’s winning competition entry for an energy park and energy storage building in Heidelberg, Germany for the Stadtwerke Heidelberg Energie, will commence construction in 2017.

The existing cylindrical-shaped storage centre is turned into a dynamic sculpture, a city icon, a knowledge hub on sustainable energy and fully accessible to the public with city views.

4 OCTOBER 2016

Tobias Wallisser is giving talks at:

ORGATEC in Cologne - VitrA Projekt-Werkstätten: Architektur und Design erleben. His topic: "LAVA – from master-plans and urban centres to homes made out of PET bottles."

INNOVATIVE URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING FOR MEGACITIES IN CHINA. The Network for Architecture Exchange (NAX), an initiative of the Federal Chamber of German Architects (Bundesarchitekten- kammer - BAK), will host the congress to be held on October 13th 2016, at the Tsinghua University Architectural College in Beijing.

9 SEPTEMBER 2016

LAVA has been selected as the 2016 Laureate of the prestigious European Prize for Architecture.

"The European Centre presents Europe's most influential architects nominated for The European Prize for Architecture. The European Prize for Architecture recognises  those influential architects that have changed and challenged the direction of contemporary architecture today and who have blazoned a more humane and intellectual approach to architecture."

Previous Laureates include: Bjarke Ingels (Denmark), Graft Architects (Germany), TYIN Architects (Norway), Marco Casagrande (Finland), Alessandro Mendini (Italy), and Santiago Calatrava (Spain/Switzerland).

Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, President/CEO of The Chicago Athenaeum said: “We are delighted to present The European Prize for Architecture to this young, inventive, and exuberant architecture firm that stands at the crossroads in their aspiring career.  The European Prize for Architecture is not a ‘lifetime of achievement award,’ but rather serves as an impetus to support new ideas, to encourage and foster more challenge-making and forward-thinking about buildings and the environment, and to prompt the pushing of the envelope to obtain an even greater, more profound result.”

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CENTRE MEDIA RELEASE

29 July 2016

LAVA’s new  ‘regional products duty free area’ has opened at Sydney International Airport.

Its an abstract representation of Sydney Harbour with headlands, inlets, coves and beaches. Featuring living Australian bush, the cave-like shelves create an experiential showcase for regional Sydney products.

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7 July 2016

LET THERE BE (INTELLIGENT) LIGHT

LAVA's design for the recently completed Philips Lighting Headquarters in Eindhoven, The Netherlands features a welcoming atrium with intelligent lights in a parametric designed ‘tree’ to generate different scenarios, boosting communication, interchange and wellbeing for staff and visitors.

LAVA, with partners INBO and JHK, designed the adaptation of the mid 20th century building for the new headquarters. The aim was to design public and work spaces that embrace the innovative, people-centric values of the lighting technology company.

“The atrium, originally the central courtyard of the 1950s building, was designed as a place of welcome, way finding, branding and staff interaction, and therefore had to be strong spatially,” said LAVA director Alexander Rieck.

“Light was obviously the main driver but LAVA’s design goes beyond just showcasing technical solutions – it explores a deeper understanding of the nature of light. Light is only visible to the human eye when it reflects on something, so the sculpture gives shape and visibility to light. Light is used for information, visualisation, emotion and enabling - our tool to create a volume of space.”

LAVA's design of the office spaces fosters innovation with special environments created for different work situations – from concentration to communication, activation to relaxation. 

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16 June 2016

LAVA Berlin team at the Topping Out ceremony of the Bayreuth Youth Hostel! 

4 June 2016

LAVA's digital origami monkeys are swinging in the trees in Chinatown, Sydney for Vivid Festival from 3-12 June.

“LAVA has previously created digital origami tigers and elephants. We were invited by the Market of Lights organiser Haymarket Chamber of Commerce to create the monkey light sculptures (in celebration of the Chinese New Year of the Monkey) to hang from the eight trees in the heart of Chinatown for local and international festival visitors of all ages to enjoy,” said Chris Bosse, director of LAVA.

The monkeys combine ancient Chinese lantern making methods with cutting edge digital design and fabrication technology, bringing east and west together through tradition and innovation.

The life size monkeys are made of a lightweight fully recyclable lampshade material, polypropylene. Low energy LED lighting bring the sculptures to life.

“LAVA is pleased to be working within the historical and culturally diverse area of Haymarket through the language of art and light with this installation. A popular figure in Chinese culture, many of the world's monkeys, apes and other primates are in danger of becoming extinct, so we also hope to draw attention to their plight,” he added.

LAVA worked with lighting designer Michael Day, Lecturer, School of Design, UTS, to create the installation.

The installation was launched during the Vivid Light Walk which features more than 60 spectacular light art installations, large-scale illuminations and mesmerising 3D-mapped building projections.

26 MAY 2016

 Tivoli Terrace has been shortlisted in the Sydney Design Award.

Awards Trophy Presentation will be held 7th September. Winners will be announced 4th August. 

21 MAY 2016

Tivoli Terrace has been shortlisted in the NSW AIA Awards in the Interior Architecture category. Winners will be announced on Friday 1 July in Sydney. 

http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/news/shortlist-revealed-2016-aia-nsw-architecture-award?mid=33dfbab7e8&utm_source=Cirrus+Media+Newsletters&utm_campaign=34c7ba23b5-Architecture+and+Design+Newsletter+-+201&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe913f1856-34c7ba23b5-59523353

17 MAY 2016

Chris Bosse’s 'Last Word' has featured in the current issue of Home Design Magazine.

17 MAY 2016

Tivoli Terrace has just featured in habitusliving

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2 MAY 2016

PLEASE join us this Thursday for an exciting talk: Space and Community : DESIGNS FOR NOT FOR PROFITS

5 May 2016 

Cosentino, 30/69 O'Riordan Street Alexandria SYDNEY

5:30 pm Registration

Three Sydney architects, Chris Bosse, Stephen Collier and David Anderson, will be sharing their thoughts and experiences on the challenges, joys, rewards and opportunities of bringing design excellence to community groups - from earthquake victims to school kids to literary festivals to rural villages. 

These internationally known designers regard it as refreshing to put effort and time in working with non-profit organisations. Serving the broader community through good architecture brings efficient, sustainable and beautiful design to those most in need. And their own creativity is sharpened and extended through thinking about design within limited budgets and for basic needs, for people in other cultures, places and spaces.

And have a rare opportunity to inspect LAVA’s RUSS THE BUS FOR THE SYDNEY WRITERS FESTIVAL PARKED OUTSIDE THE VENUE

Cost $20 [all proceeds to Architects Without Frontiers] 

More details on the link - 

http://www.alainhchazelles.com.au/#!5may16space-and-community-designs-for-/c1ybk 

7 April 2016

New snapshot of construction underway on our Bayreuth Youth Hostel.

Tobias Wallisser, Berlin director, says: "The beam around the staircase was a difficult piece of engineering as this is an upstand beam that wraps around a void. The concrete work is done - all looks great. Now the woodwork has started."

READ MORE HERE ABOUT THIS PROJECT

30 March 2016

Our Rinascente project has been published in this new book by Artpower International Publishing of Hong Kong.

http://artpower.com.cn/

30 March 2016

Our Tivoli Terrace was in Italy's national daily la Repubblica on the weekend

http://ricerca.repubblica.it/…/quel-loft-di-sydney-in-fuga-… 

9 March 2016

LAVA will be on display at the German Pavilion at MIPIM, Cannes 15-18 March - the world’s biggest real estate fair. We're one of 26 German offices presenting.

State Secretary Adler will inaugurate the German Pavilion.

MORE INFO

6 February 2016

Our Hainan Ocean Flower Hotel has featured in the UK magazine 'Resorts'  RESORTS MAGAZINE

READ MORE ABOUT THE RESORT

5 February 2016

LAVA's Sydney harbour-inspired 'regionals' area for Heinemann at Sydney International Airport is now open!

Its the regional products duty free area and the design is based on the eroded sandstone rock faces of Sydney harbour. 

12 January 2016

Archkids has featured our bus of books... MORE HERE

And so too has Archello .. MORE HERE

For more info on the mobile book library CLICK HERE

12 January 2016

Our Masdar project was featured in the book "The Greening of Architecture: A Critical History and Survey of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design" by Dr. Phill Tabb, Professor of Architecture, Texas A&M University. 

https://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409447399 

21 December 2015

Half of the concrete works for our new youth hostel in Bayreuth are done!

READ MORE

17 December 2015

Our Classroom of the Future appeared on the cover of Owl, a Canadian based magazine for school kids.

Read More

11 December 2015

Our Square3 project in Berlin was awarded winner in the European Property Awards in two categories: Best Mixed Use Architecture Europe and Best Development Marketing Europe.

READ ABOUT SQUARE3 HERE

MORE INFO

24 November 2015

LAVA has designed an installation of 145 digital origami elephants for the Thailand (Small) Festival of Light which opens on 15 December, 2015. The festival will commemorate the 2015 Bangkok bombing.

The elephants will be installed on one of the skywalks that run up above street level at Ratchaprasong Junction, in the heart of Bangkok, site of the bombing. 

16 November 2015

"A perfect example of how to make a tiny space sing. Architect Chris Bosse .. takes one itty-bitty Paddington terrace and opens it up to create a gloriously fresh, spacious and sunny home."

So say the editors of the Sun Herald: READ MORE HERE

And here's the full page story they are talking about: READ MORE HERE

More details on the project: TIVOLI TERRACE

7 November 2015

Chris Bosse' Sydney terrace house is one of four winners in the AIS Smeg competition - the winners go on a tour to the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.

6 November 2015

Russ the Bus is now on the road taking books to kids across western Sydney. LAVA transformed an old bus into a vibrant reading space.

More images soon.

Photo: Prudence Upton

30 October 2015

Construction has started on our high rise towers in Hangzhou, called the Zheijang Gate. 

25 October 2015

Talks, talks, talks. LAVA directors are sharing their expertise across the globe.

Over the next few weeks Tobias Wallisser will be giving talks at the Asia Pacific Road Conference in Singapore More info and the Symposium Digital Design at RMIT Singapore and the 3-rd ETEM Facade conference in Sofia on facade engineering More info.

And Alexander Rieck is speaking at the PLDC [Professional Lighting Design Convention] in sunny Rome. More here  He'll have the opportunity to attend a special excursion to the Sistine Chapel, which recently received a new LED lighting solution. And MAXXI, Rome's national gallery of contemporary art and architecture designed by Zaha Hadid. 

Meanwhile Chris Bosse will be on the jury for the sixth time at the World Architecture Festival, to be held in Singapore from 4-6 November, its 50th year. Key topics for this year’s festival include cities and urbanism, imaging the future and designing for tomorrow. MORE INFO

7 September 2015

Soap bubbles, champagne bubbles, water bubbles. Who doesn’t love bubbles?

LAVA is excited to be part of BEAMS Festival in Chippendale with a bubble installation on Saturday 19 September 2015. 

‘BEAMS Bubbles’ will fill up a terrace house, stairwells and a new office block in the Kensington Lane precinct. Made from inflated latex, the installation fills hundreds of cubic metres of space, is air supported and uses only 1 kg of material – its highly efficient, creating a big impact with limited means. MORE WITH LESS – something LAVA is passionate about.

More than mere form, the bubbles are activated by coloured LED lights, the installation is animated with a dramatic play of light, reflections with refractions in the full colour spectrum, just like the rainbow light on soap bubbles.

http://beamsfestival.com.au

29 July 2015

LAVA's concept to revitalise a brutalist residential building in Sydney is in today's Sydney Morning Herald.

"Rather than freezing architecture for an eternity, I think it's much better to adapt it to current circumstances," Bosse.

READ STORY HERE

17 July 2015

An official breaking ground event was held with to mark the beginning of construction of the Bayreuth Youth Hostel in Bavaria Germany.

LAVA unveiled renderings, perspective sections, elevations, diagrams of toilets, showers and guest rooms, and showcased a mock up of rooms at the official construction ceremony.  LAVA directors and team members plus the Lord Mayor of Bayreuth, the president and the directors of the Bavarian chapter of the German Youth Hostel Association and members of the Bavarian Parliament attended the event.

The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

Pictured are Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel).

VIDEO

25 June 2015

LAVA's Solar Charging Station is featured in this month's issue of DETAIL magazine. 

READ MORE

19 June 2015

FDN and LAVA's Bosse Bridge - a sustainable modular ultra high strength concrete bridge - has been awarded another prize! This time its the Dutch Concrete Award 2013/2014.

5 June 2015

Tobias Wallisser lectured at the Indesem Delft in a session on "NEW AESTHETIC MATTERS" at a workshop week at TU Delft exploring robots in architecture. The talk and the discussion was about new aesthetics related to new digital tools. There were about 100 students, the Dean of TU Delft and Greg Lynn with whom Wallisser studied at Columbia.

Listen to Tobias' talk "the medium is the message" here: [at 27.4] LISTEN

21 May 2015

Alexander Rieck at a Parliament Magazine event on modern cities and the future of the high street. 

"Rieck highlighted that the urban situation is becoming increasingly complex, and that many key features of city life are changing, including, 'energy providers, construction, while mobility is set to be a main game changer'.

MORE INFO

19 May 2015

Chris Bosse will be speaking at ICONOPHILIA: SPECTACULAR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, a Symposium on 30 May at CURB Centre for Architecture and Urbanism in Macau SAR China. The conference is organised by the Department of Architecture and Design at the University of Saint Joseph.

12 May 2015

Chris Bosse will lecture at several universities in Taiwan in the first week of June.Come along if you are free.

14 April 2015

Jochen Paul has written a review in BAUWELT on our VISIONAREALITY exhibition at Architekturgalerie Munich.

14 April 2015

Alexander Rieck and Tobias Wallisser spoke recently at the Van Alen Institute meeting. The series of discussions were held at the MIPIM conference and explored critical questions such as What are the biggest design challenges of the future? How to select the right architect for your job?

LAVA joined the Insitute last year.

Other participants included Kim Herforth Nielsen of 3XN, Monica Schmallensee of White, Kai-Uwe Bergmann of BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, Cor Zadelhoff of Zadelhoff Group, Sasa Radulovic of 5468796 Architecture, David West of Studio Egret West, Edward Lalonde of Olson Kundig Architects, Jay Berman of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Claire Fellman of Snøhetta, and Francesco Veenstra of Mecanoo architecten.

3 MARCH 2015

Our Tigers are the opening act in this new book "Animal Kingdom' published by Sendpoints with an eight page story.

SENDPOINTS

3 MARCH 2015

Construction of the new Headquarters of Philips Lighting in Eindhoven, designed by LAVA, is nearing completion. Just 5 kilometres of steel wire and 1500 panels still to hang!

4 FEBRUARY 2015

“RING FREI!” - AN ARCHITECTURAL DISCUSSION ABOUT HOSTELS AT ARCHITEKTURGALERIE MUNICH

GRAFT vs. AUER+WEBER vs. LAVA

As part of the exhibition "LAVA - VISIONAREALITY", the 3rd round of Architekturgalerie’s format “RING FREI!” will take place on Tuesday 10 February at 7 pm.

Wolfram Putz, Achim Söding, and LAVA Partners, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Chris Bosse, will question each other in regard to their hostel projects. "A verbal slugfest - bluntly and directly!"

SPEAKERS:

Wolfram Putz, GRAFT, Hostel Munich

Achim Söding, AUER+WEBER, CAN in Stuttgart Bad-Cannstatt

LAVA Partners, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Chris Bosse, Hostel Bayreuth

REFEREE: Nicola Borgmann, Architekturgalerie München

LOCATION: Architekturgalerie München e.V., Türkenstr. 30, 80333 München

12 January 2015

VISIONAREALITY opens on 20h January 2015 - 14th February 2015 

Architektur Galerie, Munich

http://www.architekturgalerie-muenchen.de/

25 November 2014

LAVA teams from Stuttgart and Berlin gathered recently for an inspirational weekend full of workshops, presentations, good food and culture in Germany's capital Berlin! A total of 40 team members shared knowledge at LAVA’s offices in Berlin-Mitte, enjoyed lunch at creative project space Agora, visited architecture forum AEDAS, toured the former airfield of Tempelhof and walked along the Lichtgrenze: a light installation celebrating the 25 years of the Fall of the Wall.

And Chris Bosse joined the meeting via web stream giving a visionary update from down under. 

24 SEPTEMBER 2014

The letter ‘Y’ is the shape of a new youth hostel in Bayreuth, Germany.

LAVA’s design is a yardstick for the sports hostel of the future through innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities.

LAVA chose the letter ‘Y’ shape because the geometry creates a building shape that interweaves interior and exterior space and generates a connective and beautiful central space offering expansive views and multiple openings to the sport fields and gardens. The central atrium is a hub for offline and online entertainment, interaction and communication. Here a skylight provides natural daylight to a central amphitheatre that connects the different levels, whilst horizontal and diagonal sightlines direct guests to different building functions.

There are flexible room walls with contemporary modular ‘built-in furniture’ elements; and rooms, grounds and sports fields are all wheelchair accessible. 

Construction on the new 180-bed hostel starts in early 2015.

22 SEPTEMBER 2014

Chris Bosse will be speaking at the IDCON conference in Kl in early October.

16 SEPTEMBER 2014

Tobias Wallisser will be one of the curators for an international symposium in Ludwigsburg in October. "Raumwelten" examines Scenography, Architecture and Media: How do spaces influence the “user” and stimulate encounters between people? Which messages, narratives, and emotions do spaces evoke? The Raumwelten Art & Research stream sees international experts, creatives and curators present trends and developments of communication in space in different panels. Wallisser will curate - “Beyond Construction – Innovative approaches to space production".   MORE INFO

There is also a transcript of the talk Tobias gave on the ‘city of the future’ at the re:publica conference here: MORE INFO

14 September 2014

Chris Bosse will take the Manly entrepreneur group MAD on a journey from the award-winning Beijing Olympics Watercube to a small no-budget writing centre for young people in Redfern named the Martian Embassy, to the sustainable city of the future in Abu Dhabi via a series of adventures such as an artificial island in South China, a tower for Michael Schumacher, an interactive bookshelf for an art gallery in Paddington and the joy of running an office in 3 time zones.

The talk takes place on Wednesday, September 24, 2014, at Berrins 40 East Esplanade, Manly

More info:http://www.meetup.com/ManlyEntrepreneurs/events/205097232/

14 September 2014

Chris Bosse will be judging again at the WAF World Architecture Festival Singapore 2014.

For the 5th year in a row Chris is delighted to be part of the illustrous circle of judges for the WAF festival.

"it is always a pleasure to look at new work from around the world and debate it with the fellow judges from all walks of life. The atmosphere of WAF is amazing and the quality seems to be getting better every year."

Chris will also be speaking on Game-changers – getting to the next level at the Festival Hall Stage on Friday 3 October 2014.

2 September 2014

The changing lights of the red planet that feature in our Martian Embassy have captured the gaze of Germany's Licht Magazine which has published a nice two page story. 

http://www.lichtnet.de/

1 August 2014

Thanks to our partners with the Greenland Centre: Brookfield Multiplex and UTJ Interiors. Good to work with you! And of course PTW!

15 July 2014

There's an eight page story on our stadium in Addis Ababa in 'Pioneer Architecture-Frozen Culture' just published by Hong Kong Architecture Science Press.

http://www.hkaspress.com

15 July 2014

'An organic Cocoon' ... Harmonies Magazine in Lebanon has published our Greenland Display Centre.

http://www.harmoniesmagazine.com/

23 June 2014

Last week we signed a cooperation agreement with Hubei Province government and industry. 

23 June 2014

Spheres and voids .. Our Green Void project is featured in Arhitext, a thematically focussed magazine published in Romania for the last 20 years.

http://www.arhitext.com/2014/01/cuprins-nr-42013-sfere-si-viduri/

13 June 2014

Chris Bosse recently spoke at the ‘Architecture and Urban Tourism’ at the 2nd International Architourism Conference
29‐30 May at Mashhad, Iran.

He reports: 'the conference was a fascinating event with international guest speakers as well as local experts and urbanists'.

Chris's talk explored how Iran can connect 6000 years of cultural and architectural heritage and history with contemporary tourism infrastructure. Challenges: everything from visas to transport to accommodation. 'Tourists are looking for an authentic Persian experience but with all the comforts they are used to'. Strong emphasis was made in not copying other tourism strategies of Dubai or Las Vegas but embracing the Iranian past and present to provide a sustainable touristic future.

Mosques, squares, murqanas, play of coloured lights, reflection ponds and consideration of religion.

http://rayahb.com/en/

27 May 2014

If you’re in Venice for the Biennale in June why not pop into the “Alpitecture Meets Biennale – Topographic Structures” exhibition at the Palazzo Bollani to see LAVA’s installation?

Inspired by "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, LAVA's creative solutions are featured in a ‘spatial hollow’ made of cardboard boxes, a layered, topographic structure with information at various scales.

Three mirrored canyons feature images, geometric patterns based on nature’s systems, mirrors and cardboard that can be choreographed by the viewer. Every move creates a new visual perception fusing contextual relationships and dynamic conditions - a trademark of LAVA’s projects.

Featured inside the hollow are some of LAVA’s key green projects: a research and innovation campus for KACST in Riyadh, the mixed-use development THE:SQUARE in Berlin, Bonn’s Green Climate Fund and the Jeju Island resort in Korea.

LAVA is one of 11 internationally renowned architectural firms featured in the exhibition, which also includes Hadid, GRAFT and BLAURAUM ARCHITEKTEN.

Alpitecture Meets Biennale, 04 - 08 June 2014, PALAZZO Bollani - CASTELLO 3647, VENICE, near the Arsenale.

15 May 2014

"Vision: Intelligenter Turm."

Our Bionic Tower features in the current issue of Saturn magazin published by Austrian Weekend Magazin Publishing House (www.weekendverlag.at)

13 May 2014

EPHEMERAL - they wow us for a while but then they disappear - exhibitions, advertising, events, shows.

So we're very happy to have our Green Void and Digital Origami projects in the latest book 'Ephemeral' by Barcelona publisher Monsa. 

Monsa says: 

"an overview of the latest design trends in ephemeral architecture. ..They have been built to disappear, but its symbolism is such that [they] end [up] remaining in time."

MORE INFO

18 March 2014

Our Greenland Display Suite, with PTW, has just been short listed in the 2014 Australian Interior Design Awards in the Installation Design category. Only one third of entries made it through this first phase.

The awards will be announced at a gala presentation dinner in May and are a partnership event of the Design Institute of Australia, designEX and ARTICHOKE.

More info: AIDA

9 December 2014

It’s a long way from vision to reality. LAVA showcases that journey in a new exhibition "visionAreality" featuring its major German and global projects at the renowned Architektur Galerie in Munich.

The projects featured are in varied states of construction giving visitors an opportunity to experience LAVA’s vision for the world of the future, a world where the interface between man, nature and technology is merged.

The exhibition showcases LAVA’s latest projects ranging from a research campus in Saudi Arabia, innovative small scale projects in Australia and Germany, facade prototypes for high-rises in China, to a new generation of hostels in Germany. The show runs parallel to the BAU fair in January 2015.

VISIONAREALITY LAVA

15th January 2015 - 14th February 2015 

Architektur Galerie, Munich

http://www.architekturgalerie-muenchen.de/

27 FEBRUARY 2014

Our sustainable modular concrete bridge in Rotterdam has been given a 'Special Mention' at the 2014 fib Award for Outstanding Concrete Structures.

Dubbed the 'Bosse Bridge' by our partner FDN Engineering and Construction, the bridge references LAVA's branching structures in its railings.

The 19m long bridge is made from nine cubes of concrete. 

FDN’s demonstration project aims to show that ultra high strength concrete bridges with a very thin concrete deck are possible. It can carry a twelve tonne vehicle and the modular system means a bridge 30m x 5m can be transported in twenty-foot containers around the world economically.

More info: FIB AWARDS

28 January 2014

Neue deutshe Welle...

LAVA is featured in the German AW magazine piece on "young German architects" with nice two page story.

10 December 2013

LAVA has designed a display suite for a new mixed-use tower in Sydney that merges natural materials and fluid harmonious space with high tech fabrication technologies. The freeform furniture and curvy walls and ceilings take the visitor through a journey of the new building. 

The marketing suite design combines LAVA’s creativity and innovation with PTW’s longstanding track record in the delivery of world-class buildings.

9 December 2013

Our Digital Origami Tigers are on display at the Amsterdam Light Festival until 19 January.

The globetrotting tigers have travelled from Sydney to KL to Berlin to Singapore to San Francisco, and now back to Europe! 

The Amsterdam Light Festival is a winter festival lighitng up the historic centre of Amsterdam in the darkest months of the year.

AMSTERDAM LIGHT FESTIVAL

More info on the tigers: Tigers

26 NOVEMBER 2013

Luke Scully, a year 9 student, made a model of our Classroom of the Future for a school project.

He writes: "I was very interested in all of the things that were implemented into the building to make it efficient and reliable as well as still effective and able to be a classroom. I made a model of the building, using the pictures you have on your website as well as looked into the building and all it has to offer and simplified and expanded all of the information so that other people can understand it better. P.S. It was extremely hard to make it with all the curves.." 

Well done Luke! 

4 NOVEMBER 2013

Tobias Wallisser will be participating in the International Scenography Biennial, an international platform on scenography, architecture and design to be held in Ludwigsburg from 7-10 November.

Dance, installation, performance and architectural spaces will be discussed at the inaugural event, entitled THE ART OF HOLISTIC DESIGN, curated by Uwe R. Brückner and Céline Kruska.

Scenographic spatial design .. utilises ‘theatrical, cinematic and artistic means to create unequalled spatial dramaturgies’. 

Wallisser will moderate a session on ARCHITECTURAL SPACES – PHYSICAL MORPHOGENESIS.

MORE INFO

9 NOVEMBER 2013

Italy's RAI TV were at the Martian Embassy in Sydney on Friday morning interviewing LAVA Australia's four Italian-born team members and LAVA director Chris Bosse - in Italian!

Shown here is Alessandra Moschella being inteviewed by Rocco Contini.

Interview coming soon!

15 OCTOBER 2013

ID View magazine, China, has published two page stories on the Martian Embassy and the Emergency Shelter in its latest issue.

LAVA's Martian Embassy is the home of the Sydney Story Factory, a creative writing centre for kids, and has already won several design awards.

A scale model of the digital origami shelter featured in the 'Emergency Shelter' exhibition that explored solutions for housing people in the wake of disaster.

“International Decoration View” is a bi-monthly magazine presenting trends and achievements in the design industry to 5,0000 readers in the main cities in China.  See the whole magazine here:IDVIEW

30 SEPTEMBER 2013

The Martian Embassy is a finalist in the BPN Sustainability Awards, with the winner announced on 21 November.

More details: BPN

4 SEPTEMBER 2013

Our 'RE-LOVED PANTON CHAIR' features in a new arts and design magazine from India - Arts Illustrated 

LAVA sliced up the 1967 Panton chair for the 'Re-loved: designer stories exhibition' at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, in 2010. Represented as slices, similar to an MRI scan, made visible the Panton chair’s complex three-dimensional geometry. LAVA was one of several designers commissioned by the Powerhouse to use a pre-loved chair to tell a story about a piece of furniture they love. LAVA chose Panton's design classic because it relates to current design and manufacturing techniques.

Arts Illustrated is published bi-monthly across 12 key cities in India. AI

4 SEPTEMBER 2013

OUR AWARD WINNING EMBASSY IN NEW BOOK

An eight page story on the Martian Embassy is in the recently published  'Fashion Shop - New Cases of International Interior Design' by CIP publishing China

CIP

19 July 2012

Chris Bosse discusses why LAVA believes that 'one day all cities will be like Masdar City@UAE' in Surfaces Reporter magazine, India.  

4 JULY 2013

LETS GO TO MARS .... Five page story on the Martian Embassy in China's a+a July issue. Bimonthly a+a Magazine (Architectural Society of China) was established in 1981.

9 JULY 2013

US/UK based Arch2o website recently interviewed Chris Bosse on coffee, inspiration, favourite music, latest book and advice to young architects...

Bosse suggests: Breathe. Relax. Then draw.

interview

9 JULY 2013

CLOUD CITY, CUSP, CASULA

LAVA director Chris Bosse's CLOUD CITY is in the CUSP EXHIBITION at CASULA POWERHOUSE, SYDNEY until 1 September 2013

CUSP: an exhibition exploring the potential of design in our lives features 12 Australian designers who 'generate ideas that could change the way we inhabit the world.'

AUSTRALIA-WIDE TOUR 2013-15: Sydney, Launceston, Adelaide, Dubbo, Port Macquarie, Brisbane and Mornington Peninsula

Hear Chris Bosse talk about the project: INTERVIEW

17 June 2013

Chris Bosse is one of 12 Australian designers exhibiting in CUSP: Designing into the Next Decade at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, 6 July - 1 September 2013.

Bosse’s Cloud City: An urban ecosystem is a sculptural metaphor for the future city - a soaring stretched membrane-cloud anchored to the ‘city’ on the gallery floor by high-rise towers that have been re-skinned and revitalised. 

More info and watch an interview with Bosse about his vision: CUSP

17 June 2013

Chris Bosse and Tobias Wallisser will give three presentations in China this week.

They will speak at a Building Technology Innovation Forum in Beijing on Wednesday; present ‘Digital Cathedrals and the City of the Future – Case Studies’ at the 3rd Annual Facade Design & Engineering in Shanghai on Thursday; and lecture at Tongji University on "FORM FOLLOWS FICTION, If everything is possible, what do we want?" 

The presentations will be a journey through LAVA's projects, the concepts of 'green is the new black' and 'more with less', and nature and technology to create high quality environments for the 21st century.

28 June 2013

LAVA’s Martian Embassy has won two more design awards - the Premier’s Award and a Commendation in the Small Project category at the NSW AIA awards 2013.

The Martian Embassy is the home for the Sydney Story Factory, a creative writing centre for young people. The design, a fusion of whale, rocket and time tunnel, aims to awaken creativity in kids. The immersive space of oscillating plywood ribs is animated by red planet light and sound projections.

Chris Bosse, director of LAVA, said: “LAVA is honoured to receive both the prestigious Premier’s award, chosen from the entire field of entries across all categories, and the Commendation from our peers.”

Bosse said: "This project is not only about architecture. It is about storytelling, and fostering creativity." 

"We worked with an amazing team of creatives from Will O'Rourke and the Glue Society to fulfil the brief, and dreams, of our very inspired clients. And with the help of many professionals such as Redwood Projects and Berents Project Management and many, many volunteers."

The Premier’s prize is awarded by the NSW Premier from a shortlist of architectural projects selected by the NSW Government Architect which ‘are of benefit to the people of NSW and provide public enjoyment – educational, cultural, transport or accommodation facilities’. The Small Projects category is for design solutions 'often constrained by space or cost restrictions, but which have achieved a level of invention, creativity and craftsmanship beyond those constraints'.

The Embassy has previously won the Sydney Design Award and the Australian Timber Design Award.

More information:      http://architectureau.com/articles/2013-nsw-architecture-awards/  

3 May 2013

A new book on paper art, PARADISE OF PAPER ART, features six pages on LAVA projects detailing the Christmas Windows installation at la Rinascente department store in Milan and the Digital Origami workshop in Sydney. There are 66 designers and 1000 works in 512 pages.

More details: DESIGNER BOOKS

28 May 2013

Chris Bosse has designed a ‘chocolate’ lounge for Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum ‘Eat the Collection’ event.

‘Eat the Collection’ explores the interaction of design, food and technology - in chocolate. Bosse and nine other designers were commissioned to re-mix a favourite Museum object. Their designs will be printed in chocolate using a 3-D printer, with the edible designs on show at the ‘eat-in’ on 30 May 2013. 

Bosse’s Chocolate Coral Lounge is inspired by the museum’s contemporary furniture collection, in particular Marc Newson’s 1988 Lockheed Lounge, and its coral artefacts. 

Bosse will speak at the sold out event.

POWERHOUSE MUSEUM 

3 May 2013

LAVA is one of six practices shortlisted in the SMALL PROJECTS CATEGORY of the NSW AIA awards.

From Architecture and Design: "NSW Chapter President Joe Agius said that .. "the juries were confident that the shortlist for this year’s Awards represented the best in current architectural practice from across the state" ..... Notably .. the Martian Embassy by LAVA is in the running for the small project architecture award.'

The 2013 NSW prize winners will be announced on 27 June.

More details: ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

NSW Awards AIA awards

18 April 2013

The Australian's monthly Wish magazine has featured the Secret Garden project in Berlln. Bosse says of the surprise discovery of the 1905 cabaret by Berln developer Dirk Moritz: "It was like finding a train station in Sydney's CBD that no one knew about." 

31 May 2013

Three LAVA projects are featured in 'Display and Space' Vol 2 - Myer Shell Set, the Sherman Bibliotheca and the RAIA Bar.

GSD books

21 March 2013

"The international architectural firm LAVA has been entrusted with the planning of the revitalisation project entitled "Secret Garden"."

Our Secret Garden project in Berlin has been featured in DETAIL Magazine.

READ HERE

21 March 2013

CHIC HAUS magazine in Mexico features Martian Embassy in its March issue. 

Chic Haus online

And LAVA's shell set for the 2011 Myer fashion show is featured in 'Landscape Design'.

Both magazines recently published by Dallan University of Technology, China.

Plastic House, LBBW Immobilien Headquarters, Masdar city centre and Mexico resort each have double page spreads in this great new book published by INTERNATIONAL NEW ARCHITECTURE, China.

And we’re on the front cover too!

22 October 2012

Urban Landscape Furniture, published by Hi-design International Publishing (Hong Kong), features the Emergency Shelter on the front page and a four page story. Plus a two page story on the Digital Origami Tigers.

HI Design

28 November 2012

LAVA is creating the new interior spaces for an old cabaret theatre dating from the roaring '20s. The abandoned 1920s cabaret theatre has been recently uncovered in the heart of Berlin.

The music hall theatre has been buried in 30 tonnes of rubble since 1934 when it closed, perhaps as part of a crackdown on the cabaret scene by the Nazi regime.

Discovered by accident by Dirk Moritz of the Moritz Gruppe, the three level musical hall and restaurant was a cabaret venue and featured a grand ballroom, a theatre, beautiful wall paintings and vaulted stuccoed ceilings.

Project developers, MORITZ GRUPPE, will renovate the three story building, called the SECRET GARDEN, which will comprise spaces for small scale performances and exhibitions, studios, meetings and conferences, and luxury apartments for short term and executive rental. 

They asked LAVA to work with them on the design of the spaces. 

WORLD ARCHITECTURE NEWS previews the project: WAN

22 November 2012

LAVA has won the Interior Design - Public/Institutional for the Martian Embassy at the Sydney Design Awards. 

The red planet team: LAVA, Will O'Rourke, The Glue Society and our fabulous client The Sydney Story Factory.

SYDNEY DESIGN AWARDS

4 October 2012

Four page piece on the Martian Embassy in Thailand's B-1 design magazine September 2012

B1 magazine

28 September 2012

LAVA's Martian Embassy for the Sydney Story Factory has won an award for excellence in timber panelling at the Australian Timber Awards.

TIMBER AWARDS

4 September 2012

LAVA is one of 30 international firms on show at the Global Design NYU in London frrom 20 September - 19 October as part of the London Design Festival. 

Global Design NYU is a five-city exhibition and speaker series entitled Elsewhere Envisioned that brings together leading architects, landscape architects, designers, urbanists, historians, and scientists to forge new links to address global climate concerns and to reformat architectural education.  'The GLOBAL [Global Local Open Border Architecture and Landscape] design initiative seeks Global yet still Local design that can Open the sociopolitical Borders that all too often separate Architecture from its Landscape.'

The GDNYU is a partnership of New York University and Gallatin School with New London Architecture at The Building Centre on Store Street, London and is part of a multi-year project hosted by NYU campuses at New York, London, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi.

GDNYU AT THE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL

watch a video of last years event in NY

7 September 2012

Germany's Stadionwelt INSIDE features a four page story on the stadium in Addis Ababa .. article and interview with Chris Bosse.

18 September 2012

ASK Magazine in Cairo presents the 'top five architectural projects that have made their debut on a global level'.

The four page story features two projects by LAVA.

The ADDIS ABABA STADIUM is a 'structure made to capture the soul of the African spirit'. LAVA won the competition for the new stadium with our partners DESIGNSPORT and local Ethiopian firm JDAW.

And ASTANA RAILWAY is 'a new push for redefining design for transportation facilities'. 

ASK MAGAZINE

25 July 2012

Glocal Design Magazine, Mexico, showcases LAVA's design for the German Government's bid to host the headquarters of the Green Climate Fund.Glocal

19 July 2012

The latest issue of Dorogoy magazine features LAVA's Masdar project. The magazine is read in Central Asia, Kazakhstan and UAE.

Dorogoy 

3 May 2012

Chris Bosse has been appointed as a jury member for the 2012 WAF. World Architecture Festival jury members

And Bosse was interviewed by Open Space Moscow on hybrid art. Interview

http://www.openspace.ru/

8 June 2012

LAVA's mini digital tiger is in the Architecture for Humanity's Spring Auction 

You can bid from June 19 - June 29

Ebay

More details:

ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY AUCTION

19 June 2012

Football and athletics-loving Ethiopians will have a new FIFA and Olympic-standard 60,000 seat stadium in Addis Ababa thanks to a competition winning design combining local identity with new

technology.

LAVA and DESIGNSPORT collaborated with local Ethiopian firm JDAW to win the international architecture competition for a national stadium and sports village, awarded by the Federal Sport Commission, Ethiopia.

Construction is due to start in 2014. 

6 June 2012

Three page story on Classroom of the Future in 'Walls and Roofs' magazine, South Africa.

15 May 2012

The 'Tomorrow Never Dies' catalogue is now available from Amazon. This hardcover 130 page book accompanied an exhibition of LAVA projects at the Wechselraum Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany. Lots of colour images and plans give an insight into a variety of current projects by LAVA.

In his introduction Dieter Ben Kauffmann describes the LAVA work process:

'With effervescent motivation, the team embarks on new discoveries in constant flow – always using the heat to trigger a dynamic process. Today we plan for the future – because tomorrow never dies.'

Publisher: Avedition Gmbh 2012

Language: English and German

AMAZON

10 May 2012

Casas Magazine in Peru features Berchtesgaden Youth Hostel.

CASAS

10 May 2012

LAVA's plan for the city centre of Masdar UAE features in a Berliner Zeitung story on cities of the future.

The story also apeared in the Frankfurter Rundschau.

"Die Metropolen der Welt haben mit gewaltigen Problemen zu kämpfen. Deshalb suchen Forscher die ideale Stadt - und arbeiten an Konzepten für die Stadt von morgen. Auch Deutschland will dabei stärker mitmischen."

BERLINER ZEITUNG

13 April 2012

Chris Bosse is the inaugural speaker in a new hybrid arts lecture series in Moscow as part of Lexus Hybrid Art project 2012.

1,000 guests will attend the lecture on 19 April and 10,000 on-line viewers are expected to tune into this launch event entitled “Digital Cathedrals and the city of the future - man, technology, nature: synergy in the urban environment”.

Bosse was selected as a ‘leader of the new generation of environmentally responsible architects’ and ‘probably knows what the future will look like because he is building it himself’, according to the organisers marka:ff.

‘I’m really excited about my first trip to Russia. I’m keen to experience first hand the legacy of Russian suprematist and constructivist art and architecture and an extraordinary culture that seems to have undergone significant transformation over the past ten years,’ said Bosse.

‘I look forward to sharing how we intend to develop the urban environment in the coming decades through LAVA’s vision of MORE WITH LESS: more (architecture) with less (material/ energy/time/cost) and meeting  members of the local design industry who share LAVA ideas.’

Lexus Hybrid Art, established two years ago, features, in 2012, public lectures by the leading minds in the hybrid world, grants for Russian artists working at the crossroads of art and science, and an international exhibition of hybrid art.

The lecture on April 19^th is at ARTPLAY Design Center, a hotspot for contemporary art in Moscow and is free to the public.

There will be a live stream of the lecture at www.LexusНybridArt.ru on April 19 at 9:15 p.m. [EST 03:15 am 20 April]

More details: http://lexus-hybrid-art.tumblr.com

12 March 2012

Chris Bosse is a speaker at the 3rd Annual Building Envelopes Asia 2012 in Singapore.

On 25 April he’ll be talking about LAVA projects, building envelopes and skins, and in particular the UN partnered-Zeroprize award-winning reskinning proposal of the UTS tower in Sydney.

16 March 2012

Tobias Wallisser is a keynote speaker at ALPITECTURE SUMMIT 2012 on 23 March in SÜDTIROL.

Alpitecture is alps, technologies and architecture - the platform for communicating new ideas, methods and models for dealing with architecture in the Alps. 

Your Link

14 February 2012

LAVA designs a learning environment "from Mars" for The Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit creative writing center Redfern, Sydney.

http://sydneystoryfactory.org.au/

Due to be open in mid 2012 the project includes a spaceship like portal system that oscillates through the length of the interior to a leafy rear courtyard. State of the art lighting, sound and fabrication animate a display, shop and writing workshop for up to 30 students and staff. The design also allows configuration of the space to support launches, talks and events that support the not-for-profit program of the space.

 11 January 2012

LAVA welcomed 20 students from the UTS DISCOVER ARCHITECTURE summer school in the office today.

Gavin Perin led the group year 11 high school students who are keen to learn more about the profession of architecture into LAVAs laboratory in surry hills to discover the different facets of architecture.
Chris gave an overview of the different activities related to design, such as webdesign, animation, computational design, documentation, model making, masterplanning etc.
the afternoon concluded with a short lecture about LAVAs recent work around the world, adressing topics of sustainability and design and innovation.

29 November 2011

LAVA and ARUP received a ‘Jury Special Mention’ in an Australian competition to design relocatables - classrooms for the future.
LAVA and ARUP`s proposal was one of 116 submissions exploring diverse ideas for future proofing relocatable learning spaces.
Relocatables are the decades old, utilitarian solution to changing demographics, remote community needs, and disasters such as fires, floods and cyclones. However often they are perceived as cheap, dull, unattractiveand unpleasant spaces.
ARUP and LAVA want to turn this idea upside down and create prefabricated spaces, that are sustainable, practical, cost-effective and at the same time fun and exciting to be in.
The aim of the ideas competition was to produce effective spaces for 21st century learning that are sustainable, integrate with the landscape and connect with the school environment, suitable for prefabrication and mass customisation.
The exciting solutions are on show from 12 – 22 December 2011 at the Wunderlich Gallery, University of Melbourne.
The Future Proofing School competition was funded as an Australian Research Council Linkage Project. 

http://www.msdincubator.com/gallery/

3 November 2011

 Just spent the day judging 15 entries in the leisure category.While most of the entries were of outstanding quality, including Australians Kerry Hill and WOHA, and a resort in Tasmania, the Prize went to Indian firm The Lotus Praxis Initiative for the Raas Jodhpur, a luxury boutique hotel in the old city of Jodhpur, which brilliantly combined old and new, showing a new way for contemporary architecture in the existing context of India.A mention went to the Master Isay Weinfeld from Brazil for his resort in Uruguay and Tham & Videgård Arkitekter for their outrageous Treehouse, combining hi-tech and nature lifestyle.Domenic Alvaro blitzed the residential category with his small house in Surry Hills, Sydney – I was on the jury with Howard Tanner and Genevieve Lilley that gave this project an AIA award.

http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/news-detail.cfm?newsId=209

3 October 2011

LAVA’s digital origami emergency shelter is at Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle during the 2011 Sydney Architecture Festival

(www.sydneyarchitecturefestival.org ) from 20th-30th October.

29 June 2011

LAVA's award winning reskinning technology for the UTS tower hit the Australian media this month with stories on Channel Ten News (Sydney).

And on page 3 of the Sun Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/how-to-transform-an-ugly-university-just-dont-call-it-the-condominium-20110618-1g8un.html?from=smh_sb

And in the Straits Times Singapore, and The Star Malaysia:
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/8/3/business/9218006&sec=business

June 29, 2011

LAVA’s competition design for a new airBaltic terminal in Riga integrated Latvia’s provincial beauty with the future of air travel.

Inspired by regional imagery - linden trees, amber and ladybugs - it is infused with global concerns: sustainability, ease of movement, environmental efficiency, commercial viability, connectivity and leisure.

The terminal’s ovoid form recalls the Latvian ladybug and appears to float above the landscape. Two thirty-metre high amber-coloured ovoid windows flank the main entrance that face stands of oaks and linden trees.  Nature and artifice meld in the central courtyard with its grand oak tree.

The geometry of the terminal structure is based on surface tension. Services are located centrally, below the building, designed with long-term operation and maintenance in mind.

Sustainable features abound: low-carbon, geothermal heating/cooling, tri-generation, water collection and circulation for re-use, maximized natural light, passive design principles, flexible solar roof and even resident bees are used as environmental indicators.

This Hub of the Future embraces cutting edge technologies for the 21st century, with a design like a 'piece of amber on the forest floor catching a stray sunbeam'.

LAVA collaborated with Dale Jones Evans and Aspasia Sagiotis on the design.

1 June 2011

LAVA won a Commendation, Installation Design for two projects: Digital Origami Tigers and Myer Fashion Set with Gloss Creative.

www.australianinteriordesignawards.com

 June 1, 2011

Alexander Rieck accepted LAVA’s Special Mention award in the Sustainability Category of the international Well Tech Award, announced at the Milan Design Fair.The prestigious award, in its 10th annual edition, recognises materials, products, and technologies that bring innovation in sustainability, accessibility and quality of life.LAVA won the award for its Masdar UAE city centre project. LAVA won the international competition to design the centre of the 50,000-person city, parts of which opened last year. The city centre will include a hotel, shopping centre, cinema complex and a conference centred on a plaza of the 21st century.LAVA's model of Masdar was on display with other winning designs at Palazzo Isimbardi, Milan.

www.well-tech.it/award

August 2010

Summer, sand and seashells were the inspiration for the set designed by LAVA`s Chris Bosse and Amanda Henderson Gloss Creative for the Myer Spring Summer11 Collections Launch in Sydney Australia last night.
The giant seashell set was a sand-coloured plywood installation 18m long and 5m high, digitally designed and CNC cut and consisted of 2000 pieces put together like a puzzle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-VnyeIj4CY

“We essentially used the geometry of a triton shell which is strictly mathematical but occurs in many beautiful manifestations. We digitised the idea and sliced it into buildable components. The models moved through the shell and then onto the catwalk,” said Bosse.
The three-dimensional installation is another collaboration between Chris Bosse and Amanda Henderson. They worked together on the award-winning bubble Melbourne Cup Moet Marquee in 2005.

January 2010

What will the city of the future look like?
Carbon-neutral, no waste, no cars - a city that relies entirely on solar and other renewable energy sources. This is a visionary project that is now becoming reality. In the desert of Abu Dhabi, urban planners, architects and researchers are building the world's first eco city: Masdar City.

ARTS.21 went to take a look.

December 2009

Tobias Wallisser and Ken Hensley talk about the digital revolution in architecture and music at the Creativity World Forum 2009.Distinguished participants from a broad range of creative sectors will be attending the Creativity World Forum in Ludwigsburg, Germany on the 1st and 2nd of December.Tobias Wallisser will be offering insights into the possibilities offered by digital technologies for new designs and spatial concepts. In his opinion, people no longer need the same spaces they did fifty years ago, an idea that becomes apparent in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart where he acted as the project architect. Wallisser teaches digital design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design 

June 2009

Watch Future Hotel on BBC >>>

25 September 2024

Director Chris Bosse (WAF judge) recently participated in a seminar to support Australian architects to showcase their projects in the best light at the upcoming World Architecture Festival, in Singapore from 6 to 8 November 2024. 

AJC Architects hosted a World Architecture Festival (WAF) shortlist practice event and Paul Finch, the programme director of WAF, introduced the night live from London. The  event attracted over 80 guests, including prominent figures from leading architectural firms, who gathered to present their innovative projects and receive expert feedback.

20 September 2024

Director Alexander Rieck will be speaking at this event "Vision, Innovation, Precision",  on 15 October in Munich. How can vision, innovation and precision can set new standards in façade design?

Other speakers include Jesper Bork Partner and Studio Head at 3XN/GXN, Gerhard Ploner CEO Frener & Reifer and Michael J. Purzer Business Development Frener & Reifer.

https://lnkd.in/d7UqTYPK

Event organization ap35 and FRENER & REIFER

12 September 2024

The German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka taking form! 

28 July 2024

Our two pavilions for EXPO 2025 in Osaka Japan have been mentioned in recent media stories on the most exciting pavilion designs.

Archdaily did a piece on the German Pavilion citing the circularity theme visible throughout the entire design. READ MORE

Global Design News has written up the German Pavilion saying: "The pavilion’s architecture and spatial design utilise seven round wooden structural elements, immediately conveying the theme of circularity." READ MORE

My Modern Met previewed "15 Incredible Pavilion Designs for Osaka Expo 2025". The Kuwait Pavilion is the first national pavilion mentioned one of 15 "architectural jewels".    READ MORE

24 June 2024

Our LAVA team in Vietnam!

10 June 2024

The Kuwait pavilion at Expo 2025 is garnering media attention.

The Kuwait pavilion is featured in Dezeen in its overview of "the thirteen most interesting national pavilions that will form Expo 2025 Osaka in Japan"  READ MORE and in Global Design News READ MORE

14 May 2024

LAVA's director Tobias Wallisser talked about pool design, LAVA's projects and approaches for the 4a Architekten discussion on the exhibition "SWIMMING IN ATMOSPHERE – WATER WORLDS II"

The POOL Talk: Dive in – Dive in – Free swimming

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart 

MORE INFO

10 APRIL 2024

LAVA particpated in the ground breaking ceremony for the German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka. 

From left to right:

Thomas Quemin GL events; August Keller GL events; Christian Tschersich LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture); and Andreas Horbelt facts and fiction GmbH

Photocredit: German Expo Pavilion / Tasseer Badri

2 APRIL 2024

LAVA is participating in a new exhibition "Wood's Up! – The Rise of Timber Buildings" at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin.

On display will be our German Pavillon design for EXPO 2025, Osaka, Japan.

The exhibition presents 16 realised and planned timber buildings of different typologies exploring the use of timber and hybrid timber construction to conserve resources and reduce CO2 emissions. The projects at different scales demonstrate timber's flexibility, load-bearing capacity and prefabrication capabilities, and advantages in terms of thermal insulation, health and aesthetics.

Other firms on display include: David Chipperfield Architects, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Wolf D. Prix & Partner and Snøhetta. 

Opening is Saturday 6 April.

More details here: READ MORE

26 March 2024

Our energy storage tower in Heidelberg feeds energy into the grid at night or at times of high demand in order to cover peaks in demand. Like a giant thermos flask, it stores heat by storing hot water from the district heating network. And visitors will enjoy an integrated viewing platform at the top.

Watch this video by crane hire company Scholpp - WATCH HERE

25 March 2024

Chris Bosse is a judge for the World Architecture Festival awards to be held in November in Singapore.

This is his 13th time! He joins 140 judges representing 68 countries judging entries from around the globe - "the architecture industry’s power-players".

READ MORE

8 March 2024

LAVA will be at Cannes again in 2024 for the annual MIPIM with Network for Architecture Exchange NAX from 12-15 March.

MIPIM2024 is the world's leading trade fair for the realestate industry, with a theme "Going Beyond" in 2024.

We'd love to see you at the German Pavilion!

20 FEBRUARY 2024

Our Heidelberg Energy Storage Centre will be on display in a new exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum "Transform! Designing the Future of Energy" from 23 March – 1 September.

"The exhibition shines a light on the transformation of the energy sector from the perspective of design: from everyday products that use renewable energy to the design of solar houses and wind power stations; from smart mobility systems to futuristic visions of self-sufficient cities."

Read about LAVA's energy storage centre here: READ MORE

1 JANUARY 2024

Here's to a new year full of fabulous designs!

18 DECEMBER 2023

Tobias Wallisser in action at the recent Future Districts Summit 2023 at the Fraunhofer IAO in Frankfurt.

"With AI, we can not only optimise processes, but also innovate" - these were his closing words. With over 80 participants, the role of #AI as a game-changer was discussed.

READ MORE

30 November 2023

Chris Bosse is on the jury at World Architecture Festival ... again! 

20 November 2023

The role of the architect in the Metaverse - the experience of Zaha Hadid and LAVA

https://www.architettiroma.it/notizie/architettura/il-ruolo-dellarchitetto-nel-metaverso-le-esperienze-degli-studi-zaha-hadid-e-lava-architects/

WATCH INTREIVEW HERE

5 November 2023

Christian Tschersich of LAVA together with Shajay Bhooshan of British firm Zaha Hadid Architects will be speaking at the international conference “Architecture and Metaverse,” which will be held in Rome at the Casa dell’Architettura (Piazza Manfredo Fanti 47) on Monday, 13 November, 2023, from 3 to 7 p.m.

What will be the future of architecture and the role of the architect in the Metaverse? What challenges and opportunities for designers? The vision of Zaha Hadid Architects and LAVA will foster discussion and create an opportunity for dialogue and professional exchange between Italian and international context.

The meeting, supported by the Casa dell’Architettura and the Rome Chamber of Architects, with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Italy and the sponsorship of ARAN World Group. Curated by Arianna Callocchia  

READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/geNVHbBY

2O OCTOBER 2023

LAVA was part of the HSG Alumni | Universität St.Gallen Conference 2023 in Stuttgart  at the Mercedes-Benz Museum over three days. LAVA was one of several Stuttgart-based engineering and architecture firms working on groundbreaking projects who took part in the program.

12 OCTOBER 2023

Tobias Wallisser spoke at the Architecture Talks in Zurich, together with Peter Pichler of Peter Pichler Architecture giving insights into their work. The evening was dedicated to sustainability with different approaches highlighted whilst pursuing the same or similar goals. A review and additional impressions of the event can be found at: https://lnkd.in/e2jAQkjJ

22 September 2023

Virtual worlds are freeing designers from physical limitations, rules and financial constraints. And transforming how we experience spaces.

LAVA’s exhibition at the Metaverse Architecture Biennale explores the potential of virtual worlds in reshaping real-world architecture. 

Just as Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism discarded notions of "top," "bottom," "left," and "right," architects operating within the metaverse are uniquely positioned to return to the foundational elements of spatial design. 

LAVA’s exhibition centres on crafting a space using a minimal surface to serve as both an internal-external boundary, a delineator of vast and intimate spaces, and a conduit for circulation. Simultaneously, this surface adopts a closed configuration, akin to a Möbius strip, enabling the continuous looping of space, enhancing its functionality, and introducing a novel dimension of quality. 

Multiple levels within the structure are interconnected by a single surface, which, as it gracefully twists at its zenith, enables the utilisation of both sides, while seamlessly transforming the path into an endless curve. 

LAVA Team: Benedikt Boschert, Christian Tschersich, Nikolai Zaitsev

More details: READ MORE

1 September 2023

LAVA's Reloved Panton chair is on show at a new exhibition '1001 Remarkable Objects' at the Powerhouse Sydney. Also on show nearby - Marc Newson’s Lockheed lounge, Zaha Hadid shoes and Philip Starck lemon squeezer!

LAVA was one of several designers commissioned by the Powerhouse in 2010 to use a chair to tell a story about a loved piece of furniture. LAVA sliced up the 1967 Panton chair - it anticipated the digital revolution by 30 years and was the first freeform, organic moulded piece of furniture. LAVA represented this shape as slices, similar to an MRI scan, in order to make visible its complex three-dimensional geometry. The chair is metaphorically and physically carved out of a sliced box.

Read about LAVA's chair here: READ MORE

Read about the exhibition: READ MORE

15 AUGUST 2023

Save the date - 21 - 24 September. Looking forward to showing you LAVA's reimagining of the future - a journey into the future of architecture at the 1st Metaverse Architecture Biennale.

LAVA is one of several design studios worldwide to showcase their innovative and creative projects for the Biennale. "Each participant stands at the forefront of the digital design avant-garde, shaping the future of architecture in the Metaverse". The virtual landscapes will explore the intersection of technology, art, and imagination - a realm where reality and digital innovation are blurred. 

25 July 2023

Arte Europe Weekly program on Arte Journal (European TV Network based in France and Germany) looked at urban heat and city design recently.

LAVA's design for a Berlin of the Future stars at 16.04 as an example of tomorrow’s urban planning in big cities - with all the ecological challenges that await us.

WATCH HERE

30 June 2023

LAVA is currently participating in a temporary virtual exhibition "Metrotopia Metaverse" with its "Contract of Fiction Gallery".

Metrotopia, a collaboration between Zaha Hadid Architects and ArchAgenda, is a virtual exhibition at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. The display immerses visitors in a digital realm where they can explore and engage with contemporary architectural designs.

‘We invited leading firms to feature their most future-oriented work inside Metrotopia. Some of us noted that recent Biennales diverged from presenting the major architectural designs of our time. Our idea therefore is to foreground architecture’s actual contribution to urban development, in its most advanced incarnations,’ described Zaha Hadid Architects principal Patrik Schumacher in a story on Designboom: https://lnkd.in/gEEip9Hp

READ MORE

8 June 2023

Yes! LAVA loves bicycles.

A recent article in BauNetz on the 'Day of the Bicycle' drew on several project by architects around the world working to make cycling infrastructure more extensive, safer and more comfortable worldwide. LAVA's first prize design for Heidelberg's new pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Neckar River was one of them. HEIDELBERG BRIDGE

According to the United Nations, the bike is a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally friendly means of transport. A symbol of sustainable transport that conveys a positive message for sustainable consumption.

READ MORE

26 May 2023

The concept for the German Pavilion Expo 2025 Osaka: an ensemble of cylindric buildings reflects on the motto “Mutually shaping a circular world”. 

13 APRIL 2023

The concept for the German Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan was revealed at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in Berlin. The pavilion, entitled "Wa! Germany", will showcase the concept of circular economy for a more sustainable society. 

Together with our partners GL Events and facts and fiction the pavilion seeks to be a truly circular experience, from the architecture and the exhibition, to the garden and the surroundings. We follow the formal language of the circle in the logo, exhibition and architecture. The guiding metaphor is in every aspect of the design: circularity. 

The concept is out now – more information read here

6 April 2023

Come and work for us in Berlin! We are looking for:

- senior architects, junior architects and interns to work on a schematic design phase. Knowledge of parametric design and Revit is required.

- an architect or designer with knowledge of material design.

- a German-speaking senior architect with experience in LPH 5 and knowledge of Revit.

If you are interested, email your CV and portfolio to office.ber@l-a-v-a.com by 28 April.

Please include the position you are applying for in the subject line.

We look forward to hearing from you.

30 March 2023

It was a grey and windy day when 20 architects and engineers from LAVA and Wenzel + Wenzel gave the 286 steps of the helix staircase of the Heidelberg Energy Storage Centre a good workout! 

In one hour, quickly going up and down three times they each took 1716 steps - equivalent to 100 floors - testing the staircase vibrations in real time. A real time check with a moving load.  They got great exercise and enjoyed wonderful views ... The next stage as the project takes further steps towards completion.

More details:

The vibration test was a special event - it is often done with bridges or church towers, but normally covered by a DIN norm or not done at all for other buildings. It was a first experience for many of the architects.

Commissioned by PFEIFER Group (which celebrates its 444 jubilee year this year) Professor Goldlack from the University of Wuppertal set up site sensors directly connected to a computer.  The 20 participants quickly walked up the staircase with heavy steps, at one arm length distance from each other, without stopping until they reached the top. Three times!!! On the way down they continued the fast pace, to simulate the speed of people fleeing the building.

And yes, good news of course - the staircase passed.

10 March 2023

Great to be in the latest edition of FuturArc, in an issue devoted to mobility and transport, with our 1st prize competition entry for Central Park HCMC.

Read more about our concept with ASPECT Studios here: MORE

1 MARCH 2023

Nice piece in Silverkris, the Singapore Airlines Magazine, on our design for Central Park in HCMC.

READ MORE

7 FEBRUARY 2023

LAVA's Heidelberg Tower is featured in this special edition of Bauwelt Insight, in a publication about the IBA Heidelberg.

Read more

15 JANUARY 2023

One of our first projects - Bionic Tower 2007 - is featured in a book by Roberto Secchi, professor of architecture at the University of Rome. 

'"Architettura. Bisogno di sognare" looks at the value of utopia in architecture, especially in historical moments of crisis and looming threat.'

Published by tab edizioni, an Italian publishing house for scientific and academic books.

30 NOVEMBER 2022

Decor Design has done a piece on LAVA's Stuttgart office featuring Mark Goodwin's pics. READ MORE

25 NOVEMBER 2022

Tobias Wallisser is speaking at this event on "Future Thinking. How to Make Things Better." ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin.

How can architecture act as a tool for betterment? This public Lab Talk will showcase Australian and German examples of strategies for planners and designers- but also politicians, academics and industry partners- to form new networks mapping a better future in our urban and rural spaces.

18 NOVEMBER 2022

Campus Germany has been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Awards Honourable Mention by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Excited to receive this for our Campus Germany at Expo 2020 Dubai. 

Huge congratulations to LAVA staff and our partners for this amazing project and well deserved acknowledgement!

READ MORE

26 OCTOBER 2022

Alexander Rieck participated in this recent symposium "Visionary architecture in the city of the 21st century - requirements for the construction industry". 

Rieck discussed planning and building in the areas between decarbonisation, digitisation and demographics.

READ MORE

12 OCTOBER 2022

"(LAVA's) driving motivation is less about creating shiny, curved buildings and more about creating comfort for humans". Tobias Wallisser quoted in this great story in Sleek magazine.

Urban Utopias: how cities can shift towards decentralised micro mobility structures, greener cities and increased food security.

READ MORE

1 OCTOBER 2022

The contents page of our new book gives an idea of the fantastic issued canvassed.  

The chapters Future Cities, Planning with Nature, Designed to Connect, Digitising the process, Energy Transition and Creativity at Work shape the lens through which LAVA, as well as visionaries from architecture and adjacent disciplines, ask questions about the built environment and its future. 

We hear from Maria Aiolova, Raoul Bunschoten, Giovanna Carnevali, Marjan Colletti, Caia Hagel, Amy Frearson, Riya Patel, Gilles Retsin, Georg Vrachliotis, André Wilkens, and others.

READ MORE

28 SEPTEMBER 2022

What If?

What if research, science, and architecture merged? This question drives LAVA.

Rather than looking back on LAVA’s 15 years of major global work, LAVA’s new book looks to the future of architecture––and life on earth. 

READ MORE

25 AUGUST 2022

What will living together look like in the future? 

Alexander Rieck is speaking next month with Richard David Precht and Wolfram Putz GRAFT Architects Berlin at the Roma Forum in Burgau.

READ MORE

15 AUGUST 2022

Alexander Rieck talks about the German Pavilion and sustainability in an exclusive expert discussion with Network for Architecture Exchange NAX and its partner GEZE GmbH. Coming soon at https://nax.bak.de 

3 AUGUST 2022

Chris Bosse spoke at a seminar "Limits are non-existent in the metaverse", part of the Metacity + Van Lang University Vietnam partnership.

More info: https://lnkd.in/gecKrKEF

27 JULY 2022

Chris Bosse was in Singapore discussing LAVA's Vietnamese projects at a recent industry event.

LAVA has been in Vietnam for the past seven years. Significant projects include the design of the 16ha Ho Chi Minh Central Park, together with Aspect Studio. In Da Nang, LAVA designed DXMT’s mixed-use scheme Marie One Complex, the luxury apartment towers was inspired by the Marble Mountains and caves near Da Nang.

Held at Space Furniture Asia Hub, the event was jointly organised by Dat Xanh Mien Trung and EdgeProp Singapore .

READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/gafwwysQ

18 JUNE 2022

Tobias Wallisser will be speaking at the SMART CITY PLAZA forum on June 23-24. There will be eight panels with world renowned speakers on green building, technology, architecture, real estate and mobility. 

Urban Beta and Drees & Sommer will collaborate during GREENTECH FESTIVAL to bring ideas on sustainable building, future mobility and circular construction. 

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8 JUNE 2022

LAVA's Green Climate Fund concept is front cover of M2 magazine. It also features an interview with Tobias Wallisser on ‘ARCHITECTURE NO LONGER HAS TO OPPOSE NATURE’.

QUADRATM²ETER #07, MAGAZIN FÜR RAUMGESTALTUNG

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2 JUNE 2022

Thanks to md magazin for the great event on 'Planning Sustainability' held in May at the @Hospitalhof Stuttgart.

LAVA's Christian Tschersich was one of the speakers.

Read about the event here: READ MORE

18 MAY 2022

The German Pavilion at Dubai 2020 Expo received an Honourable Mention in the EXHIBITOR Magazine's World Expo Awards competition!

"..no small accomplishment considering there were more than 200 pavilions on display at Expo 2020 in Dubai. So kudos to these runners-up, who inspired our judges, editors, and readers alike with their experiential design, sustainable strategies, live presentations, immersive activities, and more."

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10 MAY 2022

MD Interior magazine has featured a review of the German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai in its April/May issue.

"Normally we show projects for eternity at this point. Not this time, because the German Pavilion at Expo Dubai is currently being dismantled. Complete dismantling was one of many criteria for the LAVA concept. The interactive Facts and Fiction exhibition also gives visitors a playful understanding of the topic of sustainability. We were there – you can find the detailed report at info.md-mag.com/lava."

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23 APRIL

Join our office in Vietnam!

Send your application to: lava.vietnam@l-a-v-a.net

15 APRIL

Architectural brilliance! Squareyards applauds the "architectural marvels which were the focal point of [the Expo] existence. Here's a rundown of our ten favourite pavilions in Expo 2020, flawless in their execution." 

Germany is one of them! "LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) has outdone themselves in creating a freeform roof that circumscribes floating cubes."

Expo 2020 Dubai attracted over 24 million visitors over six months, making it the ‘world’s greatest show,’ even amidst the pandemic.

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7 APRIL

The German Pavilion has won GOLD in the "Theme Interpretation" Category A (larger than 2,500m2) of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), Expo 2020 Dubai Awards.

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8 March 2022

LAVA will once again be at MIPIM "Driving Urban Change" held in Cannes, France from 15-18 March. 

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25 February 2022

LAVA's Berlin office was featured as the lead image in a story in Dezeen! 

British photographer Marc Goodwin shot behind the scenes at 12 architecture studios in Berlin, including LAVA, in this series exploring where architects work.

'Goodwin described the experience as "Vorsprung durch Technik" – referring to the famous slogan of German carmaker Audi, which translates as "progress through technology".'

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20 February 2022

Global Design News has done a great piece on the LAVA/Cityplot design for a sustainable educational building, a "new self-supporting and net-positive-energy building in a holistic, ideal environment for life-long learning". Life Hamburg

Global Design News is published by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.

The project was awarded a 2021 International Architecture Award and LAVA was the 2016 European Prize for Architecture Laureate. 

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4 February 2022

"Today we see the emergence of digital craftsmanship, the combination of technology and local traditions."

Interview with Tobias Wallisser and other German and French architects in this story in Italy's Design Diffusion News (DDN) with the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI). 

The piece looks at the role of culture and heritage in design work and processes in Europe.

31 JANUARY 2022

".. architecturally successful, ecologically exemplary .."  That's how Tagesspiegel describes our German Pavilion!

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10 JANUARY 2022

We're excited to see our Digital Origami Tigers being part of the Battersea Powerstation's Light Festival in London!! 

The Light Festival 13th January - 27th February 2022 features six spectacular installations on display in London’s riverside neighbourhood, and on the banks of the River Thames. 

"LAVA's 'Digital Origami Tigers' will also be the perfect selfie spot to celebrate Chinese New Year on 1st February."

The tigers have toured the globe - starting in Sydney in 2010, then to Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, Singapore, San Francisco, Lausanne, Toronto and Amsterdam. 

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20 DECEMBER 2021

Interni magazine has done a great two page piece on the German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai. 

In the December print issue of Interni. READ MORE

10 DECEMBER 2021

Christian Tschersich senior architect LAVA will be speaking at the SHAREarchitects conference in Bucharest (along with UN STUDIO and HENNING LARSEN).

The title of his talk will be: "MORE WITH LESS - concepts and technologies for the anthropocene".

More info and program:READ MORE

20 NOVEMBER 2021

Indesignlive Singapore has done a story on LAVA's eco- kindi.

"Architecture has the power to impact society and change the way people live. EcoKid Kindergarten is one such attempt to change the lives of future generation by encouraging holistic learning through environmentally conscious architecture."

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12 NOVEMBER 2021

Over 800 participants were at the recent forum "Building Envelopes in Focus". All the lectures including one by Tobias Wallisser are now available online. WATCH HERE

8 NOVEMBER 2021

Another great image of the energy storage tower for Stadtwerke Heidelberg GmbH!! 

Great to see the beautiful colour!! 15 of the 16 steel columns are installed, each between 11 and 15 m long.

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25 OCTOBER 2021

CNN Travel features the German Pavilion as one of the most spectacular pavilions.

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1 OCTOBER 2021

LAVA directors Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck with Pavilion Project Director Christian Tschersich at the opening of the German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai!!! 

LAVA's other director based in Sydney, Chris Bosse, couldn't make it due to covid restrictions!

Exciting moment for the whole LAVA team and our partners facts and fiction, NUSSLI Group and Koelnmesse GmbH.

13 SEPTEMBER 2021

LAVA director Alexander Rieck was a panelist on this workshop looking at AI-based, parametric planning tools and how they can create optimised office space plans based on corporate culture and individual workplace goals. Hosted by BUILTWORLD, an event platform for the construction industry.

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1 SEPTEMBER 2021

Fantastic image of the German Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai - almost finished and just a month to opening.

18 August 2021

The Reinventing Architecture competition - architects rethink Helmut Jahn. UNI in association with The Curatorial Project, New York invited architects from around the world to submit their ideas to reinvent The JR Thompson Center. 

The competition was evaluated by an internationally distinguished jury including Chris Bosse.

Image is the winning entry.

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18 JULY 2021

Tobias Wallisser will be speaking on "Nature & Technology" at this 5th Kupil Architects' Day 2021 on 6th October.  READ MORE

8 JULY 2021

Christian Tschersich, senior architect at LAVA, will be speaking at SHARE Bucharest International Architecture and Engineering Forum, in November.

The forum will discuss advanced building design and innovative architecture technologies.  Read more

29 JUNE 2021

Tobias Wallisser recently spoke at the International NEXT Facade Summit. Tobias joined planning and architectural firms Ron Arad Associates (London), Cyrus Moser Architects (Frankfurt) and Henning Larsen (Copenhagen) giving insights into their daily work with facades.  Watch here

10 JUNE 2021

Chris Bosse is the designer of a new kitchen "Timeless" for kitchen company Alustil. It references his design for Tivoli Terrace, Sydney, with its one continuous plane of kitchen elements, pops of LAVA green and cloud light. 

Chris Bosse is the designer of a new kitchen "Timeless" for kitchen company Alustil. It references his design for Tivoli Terrace, Sydney, with its one continuous plane of kitchen elements, pops of LAVA green and cloud light. 

The kitchen won a Golden Design Award in the A’Design Awards. Read more

31 MAY 2021

Chris Bosse was recently a judge in the Rethinking the Future Awards. 
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And Bosse was a guest exploring - How do you balance creativity with the day-to-day running of a business - learning business skills, mentoring and disruption - in this podcast with graphic designer Vince Frost. "The Business of Architecture and Design" is a podcast series to help architectural and design practices run their businesses better. LISTEN HERE

22 APRIL 2021

"German Engineering is highly regarded in the Arab world, but at the same time speed, flexibility and local contacts are required." Tobias Wallisser talks about LAVA's more than 13 years of experience in the Arab world in the #NAX report.

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7 APRIL 2021

LAVA's Life Hamburg features in a story on the "Eco-Friendly Future" in Taiwan Sotheby's International Realty 'INHERITAGE' magazine Spring issue.

https://lnkd.in/g-S7WkK

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27 MARCH 2021

We've had soem nice media coverage from around the world.

From Italy's "Landscape First" a piece on our concept design for Shenzhen Jungle Plaza.  READ MORE
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And from Turkey an interview with Chris Bosse in Istanbul's "Istandist" magazine on Russ the Bus. READ MORE

13 MARCH 2021

NY magazine Interior Design has done a story on our Eco-kindi with Module K - "nurturing a lifelong love of smart, friendly, and environmentally responsible design."

https://lnkd.in/g6_uXcX

1 MARCH 2021

Another milestone with the bike and footpath bridge over the Neckar! The Heidelberg Municipal Council decided to commission the first-placed team from the two-stage competition – schlaich bergermann partner, LATZ UND PARTNER LANDSCHAFTSARCHITEKTUR and us – with further planning services up to approval planning. If all goes well, construction can begin in 2023.

Our second IBA (international Building Exhibition) project in Heidelberg.

To the project page and online exhibition of the IBA: https://lnkd.in/eDA8qAv

11 FEBRUARY 2021

From sketch to building: the key idea behind our design for the German Pavilion was clear from the earliest concept sketches: its an ensemble rather than a single-building body.

The interconnected building blocks not only refer to the EXPO2020DUBAI motto "Connecting minds, Creating the future", but also embody the central theme of CAMPUS GERMANY representing Germany as a platform for fostering the exchange of views and ideas, networking and communication.

CONCEPT TO COMPLETION

20 JANUARY 2021

We are about to finish the #CAMPUSGERMANY building!

With eight months to go until Expo 2020 Dubai opens in October 2021, structural work on the German Pavilion site is almost finished.

An average of 166 construction workers have been on the site every day since August 2019, clocking up around 472,000 hours as they erected CAMPUS GERMANY under the supervision of construction firm NUSSLI Adunic.

The German Pavilion has a prominent position on the main thoroughfare at the Expo, very close to the host United Arab Emirates Pavilion and Al Wasl Plaza, which forms the heart of the Expo site.

10 JANUARY 2021

Happy new year from all of us at LAVA!

10 DECEMBER 2020

Tobias Wallisser spoke in an Arup podcast #5 Regenerative Cities with Dr. Jan Wurm, Arup and Florentin Steininger, Animalesque. In German - LISTEN HERE

Alexander Rieck was part of a DBZ Deutsche BauZeitschrift expert panel on digitisation. Findings on DBZ soon

And Tobias also spoke at the ADC Design Experience in Stuttgart focussed on our "departure" into an uncertain future. How can design provide answers for a society that is focused on the essentials as a result of the Covid 19 pandemic? READ MORE

And Chris Bosse is a judge in a competition "Ignite - Reinventing the Thompson Center, Chicago" which invites proposals to reimagine the 17-storey steel and glass structure dated 1985. Home to offices, the Thompson Center was designed by Chicago architect Helmut Jahn and is in danger of being razed. READ MORE

25 NOVEMBER 2020

Tobias Wallisser was interviewed for Baumeister about the “Raumwelten 2020 2.0 - Please Install New Spatial System Now!”. The ninth edition of Raumwelten, the platform for scenography, architecture and media, took place from November 18 to 20, 2020. Tobias was the Raumwelten curator.

Wallisser chose “Install New Utopia” as the title for his Raumwelten panel. "Especially in times like these, when certainties evaporate, there is a great deal of uncertainty and you don't know exactly how things will continue, we need utopias, especially in architecture. We have to talk about how architecture deals with the social situation. For that we need visions.”

“Urban mining and recycling… is currently a relevant topic for architecture… You open up new design options by minimising the consumption of resources. It’s not about a defensive stance, i.e. using as little as possible, but about making something new out of something that is no longer needed. It's a much more active attitude. "

https://www.raum-welten.com/en/2020/11/20/the-highlights-on-friday-20-november-at-raumwelten/

Article in German:
https://www.baumeister.de/raumwelten-2020-szenographie/

https://www.nxt-a.de/news/raumwelten-online-only/

1 NOVEMBER 2020

Chris Bosse: New Technologies for Contemporary Structures

Chris Bosse is interviewed by students of the Faculty of Architecture of UFM, Guatemala, and shares some ideas on the vision of LAVA's work, background and trajectory in organic architecture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh8aLudws2o&feature=youtu.be

24 SEPTEMBER 2020

Exciting to see our concepts for mediated outdoor living in a desert (our Masdar City Centre project) featured in the Oxford University Press publication for primary aged kids Geog.2. The chapter sees kids exploring the creation of a new ideal city.

https://global.oup.com/education/product/9780198393030/?region=international

LEARN MORE ABOUT MASDAR HERE

10 SEPTEMBER 2020

Chris Bosse is speaking at this virtual event - the LEAF forum (Leading European Architecture Forum) "Creating the Circular City" on 15 October.

For its 20th edition the forum will be exploring international initiatives and examples of urban planning that are pursuing the concept of circularity within the built environment.

https://www.arena-international.com/leaf/speakers/

1 AUGUST 2020

Tobias Wallisser is one of the team of curators for Raumwelten Congress November 2020. Raumwelten examines the interfaces between scenography, architecture and media. Visionary architecture meets with brand communication, digital media with live communication, exhibition and museum design.

Co curators are Jean-Louis Vidière, Janina Poesch, Sabine Marinescu and Charlotte Tamschick.

https://www.raum-welten.com/2020/07/23/das-motto-von-raumwelten-2020-steht-fest/

17 JULY 2020

Our Eco Kindi in Vietnam has won a Commendation for Educational Architecture in the International Chapter Architecture Awards, AIA.

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22 June 2020

Tobias Wallisser talks about the design of the German Pavilion in Dubai. The challenges and implementation of this gigantic project. And to what extent the trade fair concept is current. In German.

https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/27-der-deutsche-pavillon-auf-der-expo-2020-in-dubai/id1455357271?i=1000457794234&fbclid=IwAR35Cg_nPRdMsNq78U-MLOl8zuMEkREnNjkVQMnfl-rTcFKoiIYpYWOSMdY

22 May 2020

LAVA's Central Park in HCMC has received a GOLD Award in the 2020 GOV Design Awards under Architecture - Community & Civic.

"The GOV Design Awards celebrate the courage of both commissioners and creators to design projects within the government, community and public sectors."

https://drivenxdesign.com/GOV20/project.asp?ID=19723

25 April 2020

Hear Tobias Wallisser in this talk as part of New Functions of the Surface part of The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory (ANCB) programme.  In case studies, the façade was documented as a multi-level test space and the function of the building shell as a communication element was explored through experimentation and interpreted as an interface for various aspects of urban design".

Tobias' talk is Part 4 at 12.12

https://www.ancb.de/sixcms/detail.php…

5 March 2020

We've just had the topping out ceremony of the German Pavilion EXPO 2020 Dubai. A traditional wreath with ribbons is lifted up, completing the topping out ceremony.

Great interview by Tobias with Art Papers on the German Pavilion at Expo 2020 - and all things LAVA.

Art Papers is an Atlanta-based magazine - the interview first appeared in ART PAPERS “Energy Structures” Spring/Summer 2019 edition.

https://www.artpapers.org/tobias-wallisser-expo-2020-lava-…/

© Deutscher Pavillon EXPO 2020 / Björn Lauen

21 February 2020

Super excited to see our first LAVA book! 

Published by prestigious Italian publisher Hachette as part of their I MAESTRI DELL'ARCHITETTURA COLLECTOR'S EDITION.

The series has featured Hadid, Foster, Piano, UNStudio etc

https://www.hachette-fascicoli.it/i-maestri-dellarchitettur…

1 February 2020

LAVA was thrilled to be part of the “Public Architecture - Future for Europe” at the Schusev State Museum of Architecture

21 January 2020

Tobias Wallisser will speak at a Europe of the Future Symposium on January 31st in a panel on “Landscape in movement, Current and future connections between Nature and Architecture”.  The moderator will be Renato Turri, World-Architects (CHE) and other panel speakers include Sixten Rahlff (3RW Arkitekter, NOR), Hans-Petter Bjørnådal (Bjørnådal Arkitektstudio, NOR) and Christoph Hesse (Christoph Hesse Architects, DEU).

The symposium is organsied by the European Cultural Centre (Russia and Italy) in conjunction with the exhibition “Public Architecture - Future of Europe” at the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow (31st January -10th May 2020). The exhibition presents realised/unrealised projects for the future of public architecture in Europe and LAVA is one of 40 architect firms featured.

More info and full program: https://ecc-russia.eu/press/press

15 DECEMBER 2019

Sinous seating softens hospital entrance.

Installation shot of our new seat at Blacktown Hospital in Sydney.

The playful sculpture is made from marine plywood. The curved form and flowing lines allow for multiple seating positions and encourage interaction, communication and relaxation. The seat measures 4 m and was manufactured by FINO Joinery. The seat by LAVA was commissioned by HARC for Stage 2 of the hospital redevelopment.

In 2016 Bosse designed an 80 piece glass eel chandelier for the Hospital foyer of Stage 1 in collaboration with Leanne Taubin and glass artist Ben Edols. See: https://lnkd.in/g98AiyU

3 DECEMBER 2019

Nice piece on LAVA's edcuational projects in local Sydney newspaper. Thinking outside the box on education for future generations with our projects ranging from creative learning centres to eco-kindis to a multigenerational campus.

Read it here:
https://issuu.com/easternsuburbslife/docs/esled152020small…

30 NOVEMBER 2019

KACST construction update! The interior taking shape.

MORE INFO

6 NOVEMBER 2019

Great night at our exhibition "Nature Meets Technology" opening!

Come and see it yourself - on show at Architektur Galerie Berlin until 14 December 2019.

https://en.architekturgalerieberlin.de/exhibitions/l-a-v-a/

Photos by Tilman Budde

25 October 2019

How can nature and technology co-exist?

That’s the theme of a new exhibition Nature Meets Technology featuring LAVA's projects currently under construction in Germany at Architektur Galerie Berlin from 1 November  — 14 December 2019.

The exhibition shows how LAVA projects apply inspiration from nature and clues from technology to create unique architectural projects. Such as an energy storage centre in Heidelberg, transforming the infrastructure project into a new landmark. Terminal T3 at Frankfurt Airport, the ceiling of the passage reacts to the flow of visitors’ movements, controls light, and creates recreational areas. And the German Pavilion at EXPO 2020 in Dubai includes an adaptive facade that opens or closes the interior depending on weather conditions, thereby minimising energy consumption.

Opening 31 October @ 7 pm

And on 12 December @7 pm Georg Vrachliotis + Chris Bosse / Alexander Rieck / Tobias Wallisser will discuss “Natur und Technologie”. 

https://en.architekturgalerieberlin.de/exhibitions/l-a-v-a/

7 September 2019

GOLD! GOLD! 

LAVA has won two Golds in the 2019 Sydney Design Awards:  

Central Park Ho Chi Minh City - under "Architecture - Proposed - International"

Eco Kid Kindergarten Vinh - under "Architecture - Public or Institutional" 

And Silvers for other projects as well!

https://drivenxdesign.com/SYD19/winners_list.asp

And - another GOLD in the New York Design Awards! For our Central Park design HCMC!!

14 August 2019

Excited to be a finalist in the 20th Australian Timber Design Awards for our Dream Lab children's writing centre in western Sydney.

Australian Timber Design Awards 

Peoples’ Choice Voting – Vote Now!

Presentation Dinner 17th October 2019 

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24 July 2019

Construction progress on Hainan Ocean Flower Resort!

http://www.l-a-v-a.net/projects/hainan-ocean-flower-resort/

15 July 2019

Our Dream Lab in Parramatta, for the Sydney Story Factory has won a Good Design Award. It's the 2^nd kids writing centre for the Sydney Story Factory. The Glue Society were our creative partners on the project.
https://good-design.org/projects/dream-lab/

25 June 2019

Alexander Rieck will be speaking at a BIM SUMMIT @ LAVA Stuttgart
https://www.dreicad.de/…/veranstalt…/detail/bim-summit-lava/

And Tobias Wallisser wil be speaking at CreativeDays – "The Future of Cities – German and Indian Perspectives" with Rohan Shivkumar, Mumbai; Dita Leyh, Stuttgart on 16 July.

More info:  https://www.world-architects.com/…/creativedays-stuttgart-2…

And Christian Tschersich, Senior Architect at LAVA Berlin will be speaking at SHARE X – Conference for Advanced Architecture (the 21st edition) in Bucharest in November.

"SHARE is one of the essential networking platforms for the construction-related fields in Central and Eastern Europe." It will have 3 major themes: Disruptive Technologies, Innovative Materials and Advanced Building Skins.

https://share-architects.com/share-x-about/

30 May 2019

LAVA, with schlaich bergermann partner and Latz + Partner, are through to the 2nd round of a competition to design a new foot and cycle bridge over the Neckar River. Commissioned by the City of Heidelberg and the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Heidelberg the aim is to create a comfortable, fast and safe route with open and green spaces along the bridge.  

The minimalist design is a restrained bridge, coming from the Ochsenkopf along the eastern edge of the gneiss over the tops of the trees. Above the Neckar, the bridge widens to a seating landscape with balconies on the northern shore leading directly over the water. The ramp to the bridge, which climbs on a rampart, protects the middle of the Gneisenauplatz square from the street and the pedestrian and cycle paths are consistently intersection-free. The design sensitively integrates urban and green spaces. 

A second competition stage due in March 2020 will again include citizen participation. 

Image credit:  
schlaich bergermann partner / Laboratory for Visionary Architecture / Latz+ Partner  

6 May 2019

Tobias Wallisser: "Architecture lies between art and technology"

Read More: https://www.ideenwerkbw.de/tobias-wallisser-raeume-neu-denken/

23 APRIL 2019

The German Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai has broken ground!

At the Groundbreaking Ceremony: Tobias Wallisser LAVA; Dietmar Jähn (Mitte) facts and fiction; Harald Dosch NUSSLI Adunic.

More info: 

https://www.expo2020germany.de/en/media/press-archive/groundbreaking-ceremony-in-dubai

17 MARCH 2019

Alexander Rieck at MIPIM 2019 talking the Modern Working Environment – Open Space and Co-Working at the German Pavilion with Dr. C. Bergmann from Hadi Teherani, Jessica Borchardt from BAID, and J. Zschornack from Koch + Partner Architekten und Stadtplaner mbB.

28 February 2019

LAVA's Tivoli kitchen is featured in Interior Design (NY) latest story on 'Minimal and industrial-inspired kitchens'.

These "pared-down kitchens combine simplicity and sophistication."

https://www.interiordesign.net/articles/16076-20-sleek-and-modern-kitchens/?fbclid=IwAR2pEuGOddUGa6814mTydLquMMp_pnYKGJiqK5bnFNuCEyEJr_Nw1QHPudM

Other recent coverage includes Swiss landscape architecture magazine "anthos" latest issue is dedicated to forest cities. And includes this great piece on LAVA's Forest City. 

www.anthos.ch

15 February 2019

LAVA will be at MIPIM in March.

https://mipim.german-pavilion.com/en/home/

25 January 2019

LAVA is excited to be named as one of the top ten German architect firms on the avontuura website, “the architects guide to travel”!

".. contemporary German architecture [has a] strong emphasis on technical design solutions that are equal parts beautiful and functional. The Top 10 is a collection of what I believe are the best firms in the country..."

https://www.avontuura.com/the-top-10-architecture-firms-in-germany/?fbclid=IwAR3QRkkfJlM6XnHf-n1sdZuLO9N9d9bRuvOT5GYATEGsWpp9puCct5MhOTA

16 January 2019

Our Hainan Ocean Flower island is blooming from the air

Check out the project here: READ MORE

5 January 2019

Latest article on LAVA in dbz.

https://www.dbz.de/artikel/dbz_Zukunft_ja_nur_welche__3283601.html

19 December 2018

Chris Bosse has been at Art Basel Miami checking out latest architecture and arts projects .

3 December 2018

Chris Bosse has been speaking at the Colores del Futuro, Universidad de San Pedro Sula, Usap, Honduras.

Bosse was interviewed by Honduran Iconosmag: "Para Chris Bosse, la arquitectura no se limita solamente a la proyección de sus ideas en el papel, sino más una actividad que fusiona ideas abstractas y concretas en creaciones atractivas."

https://iconosmag.com/categoria-estilo_de_vida/chris-bosse-en-honduras/?fbclid=IwAR1k_eP7lKnWAfB9eWxXrHbiYsMsEbVOrwiGojhaQuC4nePUS2E1Yw6UHOI

25 November 2018

Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck are featured in two recent publications.

Wallisser is quoted in "Slumber Party - What do Millennials want?' published in Cladbook 2018 issue 1 which examines the impact of millennials on hospitality design. ‘Social media savvy, discerning, environmentally aware and hungry for experience, .. millennials are travelling more than any other demographic."

http://www.cladglobal.com/architecture-design-features?codeid=32928&ref=n&fbclid=IwAR0AV4yFI0Pdy0ywV5YDxk-FtF6INBmrKjnCo1_7Lh4NLCbOt1GPE6Ha69Q

Rieck is quoted in the Villeroy and Boch e-book on the hotel (bathroom) of the future. Individuality, health, sustainability and biophilic design. "The bathroom of the future is adaptive ... bathrooms will become 'transformer bathrooms', changing to suit the situation and user."

The e-book can be downloaded here:

https://www.architonic.com/en/story/villeroy-boch-the-hotel-of-the-future-or-is-the-future-already-here/20000896?fbclid=IwAR1dwGyo_V02vRM_QYMsM3uldez1NCof60X6qcAMrf984QpR3a7fdhgTVFk

13 November 2018

LAVA was recently invited to imagine how the Pyrmont peninsula in Sydney could look by 2040. 

LAVA propsoed a mixed-use precinct with an entertainment and mixed dining flavour that would complement the new Barangaroo development on the opposite side of the water.

“At the moment there are just scattered buildings. What is needed is a way for them to be connected,” LAVA director Chris Bosse was quoted in the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

“Pyrmont is so close to the city. There is enormous potential for residential, entertainment and hi-tech businesses all to be developed just five minutes from the CBD.”

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/…/859514108fea33c6122d1b3…

25 October 2018

LAVA has won an international competition for a five star hotel, 250 luxury condotel and 300 apartment apartment tower in Hanoi for the Nam Cuong Company.

2 October 2018

Alexander Rieck recently spoke on how construction will change in the digital age at Aquatherm BIGGEXCHANGE International Symposium and Networking Event in Attendorn, Germany. 

Photo credit Nadia Askar/RJ 2.0

22 September 2018

Campus Germany EXPO 2020 was just launched in Dubai – LAVA is proud to be part of an outstanding team to represent Germany.

MORE INFO

20 August 2018

LAVA is thrilled to be part of the winning team for the German Pavilion at the 2020 World Expo in Dubai, UAE!

Our partners are Cologne-based agency facts and fiction, Swiss construction company ADUNIC, and pavilion manager Koelnmesse.

Visuals and concepts will be revealed at a media conference in Cologne on 4th September!

http://www.koelnmesse.com/…/W…/Einstiegsseite-Dubai-2020.php

 

Yesterday we had a big official event at Bayreuth for the new youth hostel. The ‘Y’ shape 180-bed sports hostel will feature innovative spatial configurations, sustainability at environmental, and structural and social levels, and integrated sporting facilities and include facilities for wheelchair athletes.

The event included breaking ground to mark the beginning of construction and LAVA members who took part at yesterdays event were Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck, Julian Fahrenkamp (project leader of the youth hostel) and Angelika Hermann (construction planning, youth hostel

28 July 2018

“Build digitally with artificial intelligence” says Alexander Rieck, who will be speaking at ORGATEC 23-26 October in Cologne. ORGATEC is an international trade fair for the modern working world featuring visionary concepts for a new work culture.  http://www.orgatec.com/ORGATEC/index-2.php 

And also in October he will be speaking at the Der KfW-BAK Energiekongress 2018 http://www.kfw-bak-kongress.de/workshops-2018.html  

And also at Lüftung und Klima Das Symposium in September 2018 http://www.tab.de/news/trox-symposium-2018_3194581.html 

18 July 2018

Alexander Rieck was one of the speakers the Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. (IBU) Annual General Meeting recently.

Prestigious Speakers Set the Tone for the IBU Annual General Meeting - For a society to become aware of its environmental responsibilities, it must have visionaries and pioneers – including from among its business community.

Rieck said: “In the area of digitisation, the construction industry still needs to catch up” .. We see artificial intelligence being used everywhere, but not in construction”.

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11 July 2018

Dear Magazin story on the Otto Symposium

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And a report on the Frei Otto symposium at which Tobias Wallisser spoke two weeks ago. 

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21 June 2018

"Architecture is a tool that allows us to create new possibilities." 

Tobias talks about the responsibilities of architecture. Asking the right questions, using technology to answer, with inspiration from nature.

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13 June 2018

LAVA's Kindergarten in Hanoi with our partners Module K is fast taking shape...here's a walk through from a recent site visit.

 https://veer.tv/videos/vinh-kindergarden-lava-and-modulek-site-visit-june-2018-177083?utm_source=url

1 June 2018

Alexander Rieck will be speaking on "Wie sich das Bauwesen im digitalen Zeitalter ändern wird" at the IBU-Mitgliederversammlung 2018 RAHMENPROGRAMM on June in Berlin, 9.30 – 13.00 

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And at the 2nd Knauf Forum Baukultur on 14 June in Iphofen on "Digital planning and construction, the future and vision of building in the age of digitisation."

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25 May 2018

Excavations have started for the Future Energy Tower in Heidelberg!

In the coming months, the 2m deep foundations for the storage tank, which will have a diameter of 30m, will be built.

8 May 2018

Four page story in the March issue of Boutique Design Magazine NY

20 April 2018

LAVA is on show at the NAX-Exhibition "CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE. MADE IN GERMANY" at the Tianjin International Design Week in Tianjin/China. Over 100 projects from 34 other leading German architects and planners are also on show from May 11th -16th 2018.

10 April 2018

Our youth hostel in Bayreuth is one of 100 nominated buildings on the longlist of the DAM Award for Architecture in Germany 2019.

The German Architecture Museum (DAM) awards the DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany annually. A special exhibition at the DAM accompanies the German Architecture Yearbook. http://www.dam-preis.de/de/

And LAVA has been nominated for the 4th edition of the 2018 Architecture Awards hosted by BUILD, UK.  https://www.build-review.com/2018-architecture-awards-2018-…

12 February 2018

LAVA is celebrating the Lunar New Year by announcing new projects in Vietnam. We've have recently won two international competitions - for a mixed-use development Tien Bo City and the Detech company headquarters. And we’re designing a residential/office tower in Van Phu, an experiential Dilmah tea shop, and, with our HCMC-based design partner Module K, a series of kindergartens.

29 January 2018

LAVA's Youth Hostel has recently opened in Bayreuth, Germany.

It’s the new generation of youth hostels - beyond just a clean shower and bed.

LAVA’s concept for the sports hostel is:

1. International - the design creates a feeling of the place and combines it with modern design elements 

2. Innovative – a new spatial configuration of the whole sports facility, individual room modules, material use and design.

3. Integrated – inclusive ‘barrier-free’ building, grounds and facilities

LAVA chose a ‘Y’ shape for the 180-bed hostel because it cleverly generates a connective central space and interweaves the interior and exterior spaces, offering expansive views and multiple accessible openings to the sports fields and gardens.

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30 NOVEMBER 2017

"What if architecture could provide sustainable living environments?" This is the talk by Christian Tschersich for TEDxKIT

As senior architect in the Berlin LAVA office Christian Tschersich deals with buildings as complex systems. His work as a lecturer focuses on generic parametric design. His talk is about how a more comprehensive understanding of the main factors of our (built) environments can lead to high-performing architecture that meets future demands. Drawing on examples, he demonstrates which innovative projects are – and could be – possible.

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12 OCTOBER 2017