Tag / Urban
Master Planning
-
![DROO - Da Costa Mahindroo Architects]()
Suspended gardens
Floating, hovering, suspended gardens… How to make a garden fly? At the heart of our Paris Gateway project, our suspended garden aimed to resolve conflicting constraints. The very valuable « ground plane » needed to be used for transport whilst other underground infrastructures occupying the whole site made it impossible to plant. Simultaneously, the elevated…
-
![DROO - Da Costa Mahindroo Architects]()
A memory in stone
Born of our investigations into material reuse, the Castle Lane was at his inception a opportunity to study of a special brick aggregate. Giving a second life to the demolished building, we studied the solution composed wit aggregate panels made of the crushed brick from the site itself. One of expectations when working in an…
-
![DROO - Da Costa Mahindroo Architects]()
Incarnating the void
Reflecting on the current small retail surplus in light of designing XXL ones in Asia and other thoughts informing our cyclical proposal for FAIRE. We’ve seen a progressive crisis of space emerge over the last 10 years around retail space in the city; this has very suddenly become a crisis of all types of commercial…
-
![DROO - Da Costa Mahindroo Architects]()
Growing Within
We try to design to exemplify in its richest way the ability to use new technologies to re-think how to better our built environment, how to use less material, build with better materials, prolong the life our buildings and cities and aim always to reduce our footprint right down to the typological decisions we make…
-
![DROO Architects - FAIRE 2020 Finalist]()
DROO finalist for FAIRE 2020
DROO is a finalist for FAIRE 2020, the Paris accelerator for innovative architectural and urban projects. We are delighted to be selected for the final round for our post-pandemic urban revitalisation project. “FAIRE platform invites multidisciplinary teams to propose innovative research and experimentation in the face of major urban challenges: climate, materials crisis, new technologies,…
-
![]()
DROO’s Smithfield market
DROO’s Smithfield market competition entry for Landlease reflects on the future of Birmingham tying to its historical trades as a civic place of gathering. Under a single roof, it carefully unearths historical layers to seek new paradigms and inform new “virtuous cycles”.
-
![]()
Temporary Cathedrals
DROO’s City Approach project underway in Shoreditch, London. The “maisonettes” project by Da Costa Mahindroo architects is there by absence, illustrated by the vast void in waiting of the temporary scaffolding cathedral. More …
-
![]()
DOMUS
DOMUS magazine features DROO architect’s VI Castle Lane in Westminster, London. “While following strict constraints to respect the historical heritage, London studio Droo has created an apartment building with markedly contemporary forms.” For this project, Da Costa Mahindroo architects “carefully examined the composition and details of the surrounding facades and interpret a classic element of…
-
![]()
Attitude
Portuguese Attitude magazine features DROO’s Harrington project “Pure Tranquility”. For this project, Michel Da Costa Goncalves and Amrita Mahindroo created a “spaces of meditative calm”, characterised by “the chiaroscuro effect of light and shade”. More …
-
![]()
New year New name
New year, new name, RARE architecture becomes DROO short for Da Costa Mahindroo Architects. Expanding now into the southern hemisphere with Melbourne joining our main offices in London and Paris.
