CONTACT
05/2016
Austria
german
"JETZT ABER ALLE: OUT OF THE BOX!"
Golden Nugget
NEW CONSTRUCTUION OF AN OFFICE AND DWELLING HOUSE IN GRAZ
- Exterior Architecture
- Engineering
- Interior Architecture
- Interior Design
- Lighting Design
- Site Supervision
- Project Management
- Project Development
INNOCAD´s built identity / linking two neighboring buildings / becoming a city´s landmark / playful in its open and closed building-fronts
What happens when INNOCAD offers a powerful architecture symbol kitty-corner to a key throughfare in a town center? Using design as a context to make a statement and accommodate structural (high fire walls of 19th Century housing blocks) and philosophical issues (contemporary architecture in a conservative, historic cityscape), INNOCAD sought to fill what was a gaping hole in the street scene for many years. The new building brings to light the gap of what is missing in the Graz cityscape. By filling this void, the architecture and building achieve “permeability” allowing a glimpse of the spatial depth and to some extent providing a glance through it while also allowing light to shine through. The first three levels houses the office space of INNOCAD and 13&9 Design with five apartments on the upper floors. The inward-looking, closed areas are linked together through their stories to a complex body floating between the fire walls. Semi-transparent lightweight sheets create the facade which is dampened by the neighboring nineteenth century buildings and creates a visual link with its surroundings. Every effort was made to ensure that the transition at the building’s crown between the different roof heights of the neighboring buildings would actually benefit from a differentiated design which integrates the buildings through a continuous silhouette. The old building was retained and renovated on the courtyard side in line with the ASVK survey and is linked with the building ensemble both functionally and formally. The stairwell that projects from the façade, as in the neighboring buildings, is not intended to be closed, but is a delicate spiral sculpture implemented without side walls or support structures and thus achieves maximum transparency.
- project name: Golden Nugget
- function: Mixed Use, Office, Residential, Best of
- location: Graz, AUSTRIA
- client:
- GOLDEN NUGGET project development
- floor space: 570 m²
- number of floors: 6
- number of units: 9 (office: 4 units / residential: 5 units)
- construction start: 06 / 2004
- completion: 07 / 2005
- construction cost: EUR 810.000
- project team:
Martin Krammer
Alexander Gruber, Bernd Steinhuber, Clemens Luser, Martin Lesjak, Roland List
- photographer: Paul Ott
H.O.M.E. Magazine
10/2015
Germany
german
"Portrait: Gut Ding braucht Seele", Martin Lesjak im H.O.M.E.-Interview, S. 192 ff.
PAUL OTT
Photography About Architecture
Fotografie über Architektur
G40
GOLDEN NUGGET
ROSE AM LEND
Springer publishing
224 pages
hardback, 290 x 236 mm
german/english
ISBN-10: 3709108209
Infill
New Houses for Urban Sites
GOLDEN NUGGET
Annabel Biles, Adam Mornement
Laurence King Publishing
England, 2009
hardback, 250 x 226 mm
240 pages, 400 images
english
ISBN-13: 978 1 85669 558 9
EXTREM
40 spektaktuläre Wohnhäuser
GOLDEN NUGGET
Annabel Biles, Adam Mornement, Callwey (Hg.)
Germany, 2009
239 pages, 400 illustrations
hardback, 235 x 260 mm
german
ISBN-10: 3766717766
ECOLA 2008
European conference of leading architects award for the use of render/plaster in architecture
GOLDEN NUGGET
ESMERALDA
(Hrsg.) Alexander Koch GmbH
Germany, 2008
hardback, 280 x 220 mm
377 pages
german / english
ISBN: 3 87422 816 9
METALLFASSADEN
Vom Entwurf bis zur Ausführung
GOLDEN NUGGET
Christian Holl, Klaus Siegele
DVA Architektur,
Germany, 2007
144 pages
hardback, 204 x 176 mm
german
ISBN-10: 3421035830
Kleine Wohnungen ganz gross
Spannend gestaltet und geschickt genutzt
GOLDEN NUGGET
G40
Thomas Drexel, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
Germany, 2007
160 pages
hardback, 254 x 238 mm
german
ISBN-10: 342103527X
Innovative Apartment Buildings
GOLDEN NUGGET
Carles Broto, Links International Verlag
Spain, 2007
german
hardcover, 240 pages
242 x 284 mm
ISBN: 978 84 96263 85 7
KONTRAST
02/2007
Slovenia
english
GOLDEN NUGGET
"Creating NEW in Architecture"
Mies van der Rohe Award
Nomination for GOLDEN NUGGET
jahrbuch.architektur.HDA.graz/05/06/
Yearbook HDA 05/06
GOLDEN NUGGET
Verlag Haus der Architektur Graz
Austria, 2006
160 pages,
28,8 x 22,4 x 1,2 cm
german/english
ISBN 978-3-901174-62-9
A10 Magazine
#07, 2006
Netherlands
english
GOLDEN NUGGET
"Graz's Golden Nugget"
Architektur & Bauforum
Architektur und Bauforum
12.06.2006
Austria
german
GOLDEN NUGGET
"Gebaute CI in Gold"
a+u Magazine
Architecture and Urbanism
06:01, #424
Japan, 2006
english/japanese
GOLDEN NUGGET
"Architects’ Offices"
DBZ Magazine
Deutsche Bau Zeitschrift
02 / 2006
Germany
german
GOLDEN NUGGET
"Bauen im Bestand - Golden Nugget"
WOHNEN
02/03 2006
Austria
german
GOLDEN NUGGET
"Alles, was glänzt, ist Gold"
AIT Magazine
1/2 2006
Germany
german/english
GOLDEN NUGGET
"Schmuckkästchen"
DOMUS
#888, 01 / 2006
Italy
italian/english
GOLDEN NUGGET
"INNOCAD - Golden Nugget"
International Velux Award
for GOLDEN NUGGET
Architektur.Aktuell
landmarks
12/2005
Austria/Germany
german/english
GOLDEN NUGGET
"Ohne Sentimentalitäten / No sentimentality"
TECU Architecture Award
for GOLDEN NUGGET
Architektur & Bauforum
20.11.2004
Austria
german
GOLDEN NUGGET
"Tischlein deck dich, Goldesel streck dich und Knüppel aus dem Sack"
a+u Magazine
Architecture and Urbanism
04:10, #409
Japan, 2004
english/japanese
G40
GOLDEN NUGGET
Feature Austria East "The INNOCAD System", "G40"
