Zaha Hadid Architects Released Images for the Newly Designed Southbank Tower Lobby – ArchDaily

Zaha Hadid Architects Released Images for the Newly Designed Southbank Tower Lobby

Zaha Hadid Architects partnered up with Southbank Tower, for the company's first interior refurbishment project, in order to renovate the buildings lobby. The office structure, designed by Richard Seifert in 1972, had already gone through massive renovation works, led by KPF in 2015.

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With construction scheduled to start in early 2020, and finish by the end of the summer of the same year, the 200 square meter lobby of the repurposed tower is the first in a series of brand partnerships for Southbank Tower on behalf of the investment firm which acquired 37 apartments within the building in early 2018.

Back in 2015, the building was transformed from a 30-story office building into a 41-story mixed-use tower that incorporates two and three-bedroom apartments. With ZHAs intervention, the lobby will welcome a new mezzanine and lift, concierge desk and novel lighting scheme.

The design has evolved from our work reinventing the spaces of art museums and galleries around the world; creating immersive spatial experiences for the Southbank Towers lobby that enhance the materiality and volumes of the original structure. -- Helmut Kinzler, ZHA project director.

Inspired by the organic flow of flower petals, the design conceals the lobbys lighting scheme, through a composition of overlapping elements. Fluid curves generate the towers concierge's desk on the ground floor, before peeling back at the top to reveal a new mezzanine level which serves as an additional lounge for residents and guests. With marble and concrete, walnut and leather, the space uses the same color palette as the existing building.

Moreover, produced from glass fiber reinforced gypsum, the crafted architectural petals are cut in an off-site studio using 3D digital fabrication. The marble furniture pieces were also created to precision using the same method, in order to minimize the duration of works in the lobby and disturbance to residents.

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