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Mixed-Use ■ Retail ■ Entertainment Matrix / TFO is headquartered in Arlington, VA with offices in Annapolis, MD, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, CA. “Ghost Street” Beijing, China
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Mixed-Use ■ Retail ■ Entertainment Matrix / TFO is headquartered in Arlington, VA with offices in Annapolis, MD, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, CA.
“Ghost Street” Beijing, China Located in an urban area defined by a large concentration of international government embassies and adjacent to the Beijing Workers' Stadium, this district of the city is home to approximately 250,000 foreign residents. It has become a favorite spot for both western and local style nightlife in Beijing. The narrow streets and alleys of this neighborhood host an array of indigenous small, street front bars, cafes and retail stores creating a pedestrian friendly environment. The colloquial endearment for late-night entertainment seekers is translated as “ghosts”. The development plan is organized around six three-level retail buildings with a variety of outdoor garden courts between. Shops, restaurants and bars front the street and court spaces directly, encouraging activity to spill out of the storefronts and into the public realm. Circulation to upper levels is via a series of broad outdoor stairs that lead to intimate terraces overlooking the street below. Above the restaurants and retail are three single-loaded, twelve-story office buildings. Folded glass curtain walls with office circulation behind add further animation to the (east) entertainment street-alley side of the site.
“Ghost Street” Beijing, China Designed by Richard Orne, AIA
Kintex Seoul, South Korea This urban mixed use project forms a connection between an important park corridor in Seoul and a major convention center. The program, consisting of 2 hotel towers, retail and dining, and a health spa, focuses on facilities devoted to physical and mental well-being. A roof garden and retail atrium connect on the upper levels between the business center levels of the hotels and the spa. The atrium is designed to provide a natural ventilation system. The retail component floating above the plaza incorporates a large LED screen devoted to convention center content and plaza events.
Kintex, Seoul, South Korea Designed by William Taylor, AIA & Steve Fierce, AIA
Universal CityWalk Orlando, FL As Vice President of Planning and Design for Universal’s Creative division, Richard Orne, AIA coordinated the design aspects and implementation of Universal’s 850 acre, $3 billion dollar resort expansion in Orlando. The expansion included CityWalk. With it’s 350,000 square foot collection of entertainment gateway, five resort hotels, two 10,000 car parking structure an 18 hold golf course, competition tennis facilities, all the infrastructure and area development and an interface with the new “Islands of Adventure”: a second gate theme park. Emeril Lagasse’s “Emeril’s” , Bob Marley’s and the Downbeat Jazz Clubs’ Hall of Fame are but a few of the destination attractions this entertainment village contains. Designed while at the Jerde Partnership.
Universal CityWalk, Orlando, Florida Designed by Richard Orne, AIA
Taichung Fushing Shopping Center Taipei, Taiwan The project is located in a dense urban setting on a city block of approximately 90m x 110m. The 11 story building rises up around a crescent shaped atrium of the same height and is surrounded by cascading escalators an anchored by feature elevators . It offers and exciting shopping environment with a multiplicity of uses all fronting from this strong central space. Strong graphic identity and vigorous massing make this project a destination shopping location.
Taichung Fushing Shopping Center, Taipei, Taiwan Designed by Craig Purcell, AIA, LEED AP while with FRCH
Victory Plaza Dallas, TX Centrally located in downtown Dallas, Texas, VICTORY is a 72-acre development located immediately adjacent to the existing American Center sports arena. It includes a mixed-use program of office, a ‘W’ hotel and residential towers, as well as an integrated network of urban street retail, all on seven contiguous parcels. A select set of static, digital and broadcast media elements and architecturally integrated in an interactive network that will pair new visual-display technologies in the environment with a media platform for branded messaging, live events, product launches, art & collection exhibits, hospitality and banquet events. The ground floors of both buildings will be animated with street retail and restaurants. A 25 foot high, transparent storefront with oversized and industrial glass doors will reveal the activity within while engaging the surrounding streets. The outermost facades of these two buildings are intended to mirror each other and define these urban edges. The ribbon windows of the office floors above are shielded by a layered sunscreen of fine metal mesh -- setting a horizontal unification of these street facades.
Victory Plaza, Dallas, TX Designed by Richard Orne, AIA