MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects

MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects [MJMA] is a Toronto-based design practice with over 20 years of experience making buildings that form the civic anchors of neighbourhoods across Canada. As a leader in civic architecture, MJMA works closely with clients to create buildings that positively contribute to the built environment, elevate the public realm, and celebrate the spirit of community in all its diversity.

Martine De Maeseneer Architects

Since 2008 Martine De Maeseneer Architects exists 20 years. This is celebrated by the realisation of their (first) public building of a certain scale, the Bronks Youth Theatre, in the centre of Brussels, which was recently one of the 6 finalists in the prestigious European Mies van der Rohe Prize 2011
So far their journey followed a limited edition of realisations of private houses, office buildings, social housing, all of them extensively published.
Martine De Maeseneer Architects is not a compulsive builder. The practice mediates between 'theorisation' and 'realisation'. How can we build in 'differance' (with an 'a') in our practice as a selfregulating machine? It is a question about quantity (also), but then of a different order. In order to reach this, we started looking for a medium that isn't preoccupied with form, image and Gestalt.

Mole Architects

"Mole Architects is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary architecture practises working in Britain today. Founded by Meredith Bowles in 1996, the practice has won a number of awards, the most significant of which is the RIBA Manser Medal, awarded to Mole in 2004 for the design of a house in Cambridgeshire (the Manser Medal is awarded for the best one-off house by an architect in the UK). Mole Architects are particularly interested in producing designs appropriate for their local context, combining traditional materials and techniques with a more contemporary attitude to design and building."

Matt Hidalgo Nácher

Matt Hidalgo Nácher (Castellón de la Plana 1980) Architecture from the School of Architecture of the Vallès (2006). He has worked in various offices in Castellón, Rome, Madrid, Rotterdam and Barcelona, including the release of Anton García Abril and the Elias Torres and Jose Antonio Martinez-Laperriere.

Since 2006 he works as a freelancer working on their own or in cooperation in various competitions and rehabilitation projects, urban planning and construction.

Mario Bellini

Mario Bellini was born in 1935 and graduated in 1959 at the Politecnico di Milano. He lives and works in Milan. His activities range from architecture and urban design to furniture and industrial design. His fame as a designer dates from 1963.
He is internationally renowned as an architect and designer, and is winner among others of 8 Compasso d’Oro and prestigious architecture awards including the Medaglia d’Oro conferred on him by the President of the Italian Republic. He has given talks in the greatest centres of culture in the world and was editor of Domus. His work can be found in the Collections of major Art Museums. MoMA in New York, which dedicated a personal exhibition to him, has 25 works of his in its Permanent Design Collection. He has had countless exhibitions in his name in Italy and abroad.
From the 1980s onwards, he has designed projects such as the Portello Trade Fair quarter in Milan, the Exhibition Centre in Villa Erba on Lake Como, the Tokyo Design Center in Japan, Natuzzi America Headquarters in the USA, the Trade Fair in Essen in Germany, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and the Headquarter of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. Projects getting under way at present include the new Cultural Centre in Turin, the only example of its kind of a public library in Italy; and the renovation and restyling of Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan

Manasc Isaac

Manasc Isaac adopted the 2030 Challenge and remains at the forefront of this ambitious global architecture and building initiative to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from buildings through the design of new and renovation of existing buildings. It was under the presidency of Vivian Manasc that the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada adopted the 2030 challenge, over 5 years ago.

mayer sattler-smith

mayer sattler-smith has developed an approach that is responsive to the specific conditions of the alaskan climate, culture and building technology,creating uniquely sensitive places for human occupation. all projects are a result of collaboration between the principal partners and the respective clients,including varied stakeholders and users.among our recognized work are the house for a musher, ideal house, international gallery for contemporary art, solcab and urban memory forest. the firms‘ work has been published in several international books as well as magazines, including wallpaper*, dwell, azure magazine,western interiors and design, on site review, art matters, the globe and mail, the anchorage daily news and anchorage press.

Metropolitan Workshop

Metropolitan Workshop is an internationally known practice of architects, urban designers and master planners with a portfolio ranging from complex visitor attractions, green buildings, transport interchanges to campus plans and regional tourism development strategies.

The team has worked in Norway, Ireland, Holland, Jordan, Libya and Sudan and in each case has
designed to suit the specific cultural, climatic and regional context. We often work along side local
consultants and regularly lead multi-disciplinary teams on large scale projects.

We have a track record of delivering complex public buildings in historic cities. Regenerating inner city
estates, designing complete university campuses and district centres for new towns. Our recent inner
city urban regeneration experience is demonstrated in the design of major buildings for the cities of
Dublin, Durham, and Derry as well as and our experience in the 80’s and 90’s in London and several cities and towns in the UK.

MAS Study · ARCHITECTURES

Since 2001, the MAS Study · ARCHITECTURES offers an integrated set of services, architectural design, interior design and construction, with a commitment to providing efficient service and quality, adapting our activities to the needs of our customers.

Michael Jantzen

Michael Jantzen is an internationally known artist/ designer whose work has been featured in hundreds of articles in books, magazines, and newspapers from around the world. His work has also been presented on various TV and radio programs, and in many galleries. Some of his designs have been exhibited at the National Building Museum, the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Union of Russian Architects, the Harvard School of Design and Architecture, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Marcus Beale Architects

Marcus Beale Architects deliver successful and imaginative solutions for sensitive buildings and sites, applying principles of conservation, sustainability and listening to create new, lively environments over a wide range of building types, energy efficient and popular in use. Established in 1991 the practice specialises in difficult sites including inner city areas, Grade I Listed buildings and landscapes, Conservation Areas, Scheduled Ancient Monuments and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Built results are project-specific, well researched and sustainable. MBA has a particular interest in acoustics and the audible experience of space. Services include: master planning, conservation and management plans, the design and construction of: homes, theatres, teaching spaces, lecture theatres, libraries, offices, student accommodation, health, urban landscape and social spaces. In 2007 our specialist conservation arm Stow&Beale Conservation Architects LLP was formed to focus on the repair and conservation of important historic buildings, monuments, gardens and heritage structures. We think laterally for successful built results, listen to clients and users, assemble appropriately skilled construction teams and lead them to deliver successful buildings with maximum professionalism and impact, minimum fuss.

Miyahara Architect Office

"It is easy to become immersed in preconceived ideas called "common sense" and "experience." But these can at times hinder the creation of truly natural and comfortable spaces. It is therefore essential to keep an open mind. Pure design work is a process that involves identifying what is truly needed, and placing the necessary quantities in the necessary places. Architecture, whether it be a small house for a single family, is the accumulation of this fundamental work process, outweighing all elements of purpose, scale, method of construction, or structure. This is the very essence of my design."....Miyahara Architect Office

MR Architecture + Decor

MR Architecture + Decor is a 20-person studio led by founding partner David Mann, in collaboration with associates William Clukies, Robin Corsino and Robert Fuller. Based in New York City, the firm’s scope of work extends from ground-up construction and renovation to interior architecture, design and decoration for residential, retail and other commercial spaces. The MR aesthetic is characterized by diversity and unified by an essential clarity. Design evolves out of intimate dialogue: between the client and the architect, between the architect and the site. The results reflect clients’ needs and desires, their unique characters as filtered through the MR vision; and reveal a beautifully calibrated balance between form and function. With no singular mandated style, MR is free to take on widely disparate clients and projects. The common denominator throughout is a disciplined aesthetic that focuses on revealing the poetry in the most rational approach to space, proportion and light.

Maasland Architecten

The link between sustainability and architecture all came during the trial of founder Gideon Maasland. The ecological projects in early nineties saw little of architectural and uninspiring. Convinced that it could better Maasland threw himself on the possible symbiosis between sustainability and architecture.

DKV Architects Maasland expanded research on sustainable architecture. Some pilot projects and inspiring lectures stressing the relationship between sustainability and architecture emphasized were the consequence of it. In KCAP Architects & Planners, an international operating agency for architecture and urbanism, Maasland expanded his research further and he has a special working group. For (international) projects in the areas of housing, schools and offices, Gideon Maasland his knowledge of architecture and sustainability in practice managed to bring.

Now seeing more sustainable projects are architecturally good. Therefore, shifting the focus of current investigations, architecturally inspiring to a more practical side. What techniques are best to combine, and which works specifically against each other? What techniques have the greatest gain at the lowest investment? What is the latest information on sustainable materialization?

Prestigious projects we work with BREEAM, an international standard for durability calculations. For smaller projects, we GPR building work perfectly. Both programs calculate in various fields (energy, water, materials etc) a durability factor making it possible to a scientific way to compare apples with pears. This sustainability certificate plays an important role in decision-making and publicity.

MiAS Arquitectes

" Sometimes I tell that every project, competition, assignment we do is like a specific exercise of classic gymnastics. This is the reason why in our office we use the word exercise more the project. We say projects or definitely buildings only when they strike a balance with reality and leave the paper. Until then they are exercises because this way they make possible to develop a parallel activity of personal, intellectual, independent investigation with very peculiar interests, which can later be or not included in the project. We check them continuously.
Drawing is the basic element to measure the potential of each proposal. We draw and redraw, again and again, and every new sketch must produce a new possibility, to be formalized in a three-dimensional construction, a model. As far as they create new chances the project will move forward, going to and fro, frantically.
This gymnastic exercise gives consistency and lucidity to our work.
We verify that every project-exercise should form part of the successive, providing new opportunities. Also the disposition of our desks in the space we work makes the projects mixing and getting “tainted”. This way we confirm that we are always doing the same project."
MiAS Arquitectes

Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio

Kazuya Morita

1971 Born in Aichi pref. JAPAN
1994 Bachelor of Architecture, Kyoto University
1997 Master of Architecture, Kyoto University
1997～01 worked for the restoration site of heritages in Kyoto as a craftmanof traditionl plaster. 2000 established Kazuya Morita Archtecture Studio
2007～2008 The POLA Art Foundation Fellowship (SPAIN )

MARGE ARCHITECTS

Marge Architects was founded in 2002 by Catherine Basis Sell, Louise Masreliez, Pye Aurell Ehrström and Susanne Ramel and quickly became recognized as one of the young office that represents a contemporary architectural developments in Sweden. The office has a detailed and extensive reference portfolio of both private, commercial and government projects. Marge Architects is published in national and international press and exhibited in Sweden and Europe. Today, the office of 13 employees.
Marge Architects working with contemporary architecture based on an analysis and programming work leading to the strong strategic and conceptual solutions. The analysis is a tool to zoom out and in a broader sense to examine the site based on physical and social factors. The goal is that by strong architectural ideas to create the conditions for social as well as ecologically sustainable environments.
Marge Architects working on architecture of all scales - from urban planning, housing and commercial buildings for interior and product design.

Morphogenesis

Morphogenesis is a design practice engaging in a critical dialogue towards bridging the boundaries of art, architecture, urbanism and environmental design in India. Founded in 1996, Morphogenesis is an association of architects, designers, urbanists and environmentalists. The Morphogenesis approach to creativity is inspired by the evolutionary processes in nature to create built form which is optimized for the built environment and the community. Design is viewed as a result of different stimuli, ranging from climatic conditions, urban fabric, local traditions, and human activity. At Morphogenesis, sustainability is a core creative value and is practiced in the evolution of the design. The practice considers the widening scope of sustainability to be all inclusive; to include social, cultural, financial, technological and environmental sustainability. It is this inclusive nature of design that, Morphogenesis believes, will define the new emergent Indian architecture. Issues within the architectural realm of Morphology and Sustainability are investigated and tested within the research laboratory to re-define the conceptual and the contemporary framework of design practice. The think-tank delves deeply into socio-economics, culture and identity, exploring new models and approaches to architecture and design, whilst operating in the factual domain simultaneously. The work of the practice has been exhibited at several venues internationally including the Gallerie ROM in Norway and the Royal Institute of British Architects in London in an exhibition titled ‘Critical Projects’. The practice has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including the Best Learning Building, World Architecture Festival Awards 2009, The Economic Times ACETECH Award 2009, Green Good Design™ Award-The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum 2009, The Architectural Review Cityscape Awards for the Best Environmental Design internationally and the Residential (Built) category, Project of the Year in The AIQ Awards (Israel), The A+D Spectrum Award for ‘The Young Enthused Architect’, Indian Institute of Interior Designers- MK Award and the JIIA (Indian Institute of Architects) Award for excellence in architecture amongst others. The work has also been extensively published in both national as well as international publications including Architectural Design, Domus (Italy), Architecture Record, Spaces (UK), The Atlas of Global Architecture (Spain), Art 4D (Thailand), Contemporary Indian Architecture, The Guardian (UK) and 10+1 (Japan).

MVS Architects

Minifie van Schaik ( MVS Architects) is a globally recognised, award-winning and widely published architectural practice based in Melbourne, Australia.

Our reputation has been earned over a decade, designing buildings and environments that embody our clients’ needs and aspirations. Using thorough briefing and research processes we explore the ecological, economic, physical and experiential potentials of each commission and layer them into the architecture of each project.

We have designed an array of projects. These include a display case veterinary hospital for Australian wildlife, a colourful student hub for RMIT University, a luxury hotel in Bangkok, a Centre for Ideas at the

Victorian College of the Arts, a chain of confectionary stores, apartments in Melbourne’s central business district, a house for Mildura’s very own celebrity chef and a ten storey retail / multiple residential building in Grocon’s Carlton Brewery “New City Living” development.

We received awards from The Australian Institute of Architects for the Victorian College of the Arts Centre for Ideas, Southbank in 2004, and for theAustralian Wildlife Centre, Healesville Sanctuary in 2006 which subsequently received the Premiere’s Award for Cultural Architecture at the 2009 State of Design Festival. MvS is profiled in the 2005 international compendium of notable architectural design, 10 x 10, and the firm’s principals actively participate in public design forums. We have been invited to give lectures in cities across Asia, Europe the United States and all Australian state capitals.

Previously known as Minifie Nixon, we re-branded as Minifie van Schaik in 2010 reflecting changes to directorship made in 2007.

MAKE architecture studio

MAKE is a young & innovative design studio that strives to create individually crafted buildings. Our strong focus on quality, and a passion for good design, means all aspects of the building process are carefully considered. Our approach to projects is one of close collaboration with our clients to ensure the design brief is met to the highest standard. A sustainable ethos, responsible social agenda and a site responsive design process is part of every project. We pride ourselves on our friendly and open communication skills. Both directors are involved in architectural education across RMIT, Melbourne and Swinburne University’s. The combination of teaching and practice ensures a fresh and creative approach to design. The commitment to the education of young architects through teaching and within the practice is an important aspect of the studio. The studio is located on the Yarra River in Kew next to the award winning ‘River House’. The open plan studio encourages a creative & collaborative work space.