Walkeshwar School
A new 2,050sqm addition to the existing Walkeshwar School in Mumbai is to be proposed in a tight void sandwiched between a rock cliff and the existing school. In such a tight and constrained site, the...
View ArticleV Office
At present in Mumbai, the proliferation of curtain walls in fast paced, speculative office buildings have reduced the role of the architect to elevation dressers. This phenomenon is blanketing the city...
View ArticleGuiyang Huaxi Urban Centre
In 2008, Serie was invited alongside nine other young architectural practices from across the globe to participate in the design for a new urban centre in Guiyang. The masterplan, developed by MAD...
View ArticleBluefrog Music Club
The strategies of hybridisation of the 90s, more often than not, resulted in the smooth blending of one tectonic surface with another. Accompanying this tendency was the belief that the formal...
View ArticleThe Tote
A series of disused buildings from Mumbai’s colonial past set within the Mumbai Race Course are to be converted to form a series of restaurant and bars. The conservation guidelines call for the...
View ArticleRuzinov Housing
This high density, middle income housing, to be built on a very tight budget, posed two fundamental and enduring problems of mass housing: How can monotony be avoided or reduced as the result of the...
View ArticleXian Horticultural Masterplan
It is often assumed that the idea of the city is contradictory to the idea of landscape and nature. Thus more often than not, for landscape architecture projects worldwide today, we witness the endless...
View ArticleMeswani House
Meswani House is a project that deals with the possibility of utilising a ceiling to capture space and indicate programmatic assignment without resorting to complete vertical enclosures. Located in...
View ArticleVornado Masterplan
Neighborhood as Archipelago: The creation of 4 distinct neighbor hoods as independent clusters allows for the expression of diff erence between them without compromising on the coherence of the Master...
View ArticleXin Tian Di Factory H
In March 2010, Serie, alongside Grimshaw of London and Pysall Ruge Arkitekten of Berlin were selected to renovate and design four large disused factories in Hangzhou, with Serie and Pysall Ruge...
View ArticleAarvli Resort
Aarvli Resort is situated close to Goa on the Konkan coast, part of the western coastline of India. Featuring rugged hills and a dramatic coastal views this region is designated an area of outstanding...
View ArticleYan ZhenQing Museum
Yan ZhenQing museum displays works from the important calligrapher of the same name who lived in Shandong Province in China during the 8th century. His work introduced an element of vertical rhythm...
View ArticleBohacky Residential Masterplan
Today’s so-called ‘luxury’ housing development is confronted by two paradoxical ambitions: how to create a sense of exclusivity for each villa and how to maximise the land for a profitable...
View ArticleThe Monsoon Club
Serie Architects were invited to convert the Terrace Gallery at the Kennedy Centre into a live music performance venue and club for the duration of the Maximum India Festival. Named the Monsoon Club,...
View ArticleGoswami House
A House Inside a Gallery Amidst Nature A house is more than a dwelling, it is a philosophical enquiry. The plan, in delineating the particular rooms in the house, maps the contours of human...
View ArticleBavarian History Museum
It is a necessary requirement that a new museum in the centre of a famous historical city is respectful of the extended history of its privileged setting. This does not imply, however, the building...
View ArticleWeihai Cultural District
The Wei Hai Cultural and Industrial park will form a new cultural heart of the city. This proposal reflects a concerted effort to rethink fundamental notions of what a city is and what makes it...
View ArticleSingapore Subordinate Courts Complex
The Singapore Subordinate Courts have announced the winning design for a new courts complex after an open competition process that started in September last year. The design, by London-based Serie...
View ArticleBMW Olympic Pavilion
The British have a particular fondness for the Victorian bandstand. Not much more than a lightweight roof supported on slender columns the idea of the bandstand is to get close to nature by stripping...
View ArticleWisma Geylang Serai
The project develops the typology of the communal roof. The continuous roof references Malay culture in three ways. First, the pitched roof is an abstraction of the iconic Malay roof form as...
View ArticleTampines Funeral Parlour
Contained within a tight plot, the funeral parlour is designed as a series of stacked rooms that are naturally ventilated. This is in response to the customs of attending wakes in Singapore, which are...
View ArticleAstana Expo
For much of modern times we have taken for granted the provision of power. We plug our appliances into the wall and expect them to light up not questioning where the energy comes from or what the...
View ArticleJameel Art Centre, Dubai
The Jameel Art Centre Dubai (JAC) is an art centre, artist residence, and creative enterprise incubator, located at the tip of Dubai’s Cultural Village, overlooking the Dubai Creek.This 4,150 m2 art...
View ArticleSienna House at Royal Wharf
Sienna House is part of the Royal Wharf development near the Thames Barrier in East London. The block positioned on the north bank of the River Thames includes 120 apartments over 11 storeys. Serie...
View ArticlePunggol Neighbourhood Centre and Polyclinic
This proposal is a demonstration in architectural form of one of the key visions for Punggol: the close integration of community and landscape. Our design is about the successive framing of community...
View ArticleNine Elms Bridge
Serie participated in the invited competition to design a new pedestrian and cycle bridge for the thames to connect the Nine Elms development on the south side with Dolphin Square and Pimlico on the...
View ArticleMALI Contemporary
Serie’s design for the new extension for contemporary art at the MALI museum is a physical manifestation of the line between art and the city, a new axis for Lima, an artline that gives urban space for...
View ArticleNodeul Island
Casting Nature A wild island in a metropolis, a piece of nature cast off from the city, floating in the dreams of its dwellers. This is how we envision Nodeul Island’s past and future: a place where...
View ArticleSchool of Design & Environment, NUS
The National University of Singapore’s extension for the School of Design & Environment will be the first net-zero energy building in the tropics. With a gross floor area of 8,500 sqm the building...
View ArticleRCA Battersea South Campus
Serie Architects have proposed a design for the Royal College of Art’s new Battersea South Campus. The scheme was one of seven proposals for the site submitted as part of an invited competition process...
View ArticleOther Histories: Chicago Architecture Biennale 2017
To make new history, we need to look at other histories. If the primary source of derivation for modern architecture is classicism, what would an architecture that is derived from a non-western...
View ArticleLausanne Ecoquartier
The long thin nature of the site suggests a single linear building block with apartments on both sides of a central corridor looking out over the street. A proposal such as this would be too atomising,...
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