19th BuildExpo Kenya 2016

OPPEIN will participate in the 19th BuildExpo Kenya Exhibit that is held in the Dome, Nairobi, Kenya from June 4th to 6th, 2016. Now OPPEIN is warmly inviting you who serve in furniture field to attend this important show. Welcome to OPPEIN booth!

 

OPPEIN Booth Info.
Booth NO.: B169-2
Contact: Allen Zhou – Regional Sales Manager | Africa
Email: allen@oppein.com
Tel/WhatsApp: 0086 15920543662
Inauguration:
12:00 Hrs on 4th June, Saturday
Exhibition Timings:
10:00 Hrs – 18:00 Hrs
Exhibition Venue:
The Dome, Carniovore Langata Road, Near Wilson Airport PO Box 56685, City Square 00200 Nairobi, Kenya

OPPEIN Website in Africa:

http://www.oppein-africa.com/

 

 

OPPEIN Booth in 19th BuildExpo Kenya

Why OPPEIN attends 19th BuildExpo Kenya?

1. For the enormous influence of BuildExpo

Buildexpo Africa is the only show with the widest range of the latest technology in building material, mining machines, construction machinery and heavy equipment. At the 19th edition of Buildexpo, East Africa’s largest building and construction fair, it brings exhibitors from over 40 countries and about 14.3 million business prospects during the three-day event.

2. Kenya & Africa are important markets for OPPEIN
Since from 2010, OPPEIN has attended at least two exhibitions in Africa. Through these years of effort and hard work, OPPEIN furniture brand has attracted many fans and clients. OPPEIN finished over 200 projects per year in Africa and took these good quality cabinets into over 60000 families.

OPPEIN sales team feels honored and glad to attend BuildExpo, we regards it as important event. OPPEIN has taken part in it since from 2013 which was held in KICC. Kenya is under rapid development in its infrastructure, economic zone, commercial and residential building. OPPEIN also built a office in Kenya for starting more businesses there.

Kenya Office
Sun Apartments Plot 2070/1, Parklands 1st Avenue, Kenya

 

OPPEIN Pictures of Past Exhibitions

What OPPEIN will show in Exhibition?
During the period of exhibition, Oppein not only brings attendees pamphlets and catalogues, but also bring the real furniture model, like kitchen cabinet,wardrobe, door samples.
These real exhibits make the local people see its type, including closet with swinging doors, walk-in wardrobes, closet with sliding doors and modular kitchen cabinets. Besides, they can also get to know these samples’ raw materials, finish and crafts.
For this time, OPPEIN will show one modern red high gloss lacquer kitchen cabinet. For getting more detail information about it, you’d better to come to exhibition to feel and operate it.

Exhibit Model Info.

Product Code: OP15-L37

Carcase Material: Particle Board

Countertop: Quartz Stone

Introduction: High gloss red is striking enough to bring focus to the kitchen, which make the kitchen appears passionate. The open cabinet near the oven is a smart and artistic design that offer you more places to put your frequently-used things.

Model in 19th BuildExpo Kenya

With development of 20 years, OPPEIN has become the largest cabinetry manufacturer in Asia. We own about 4000 showrooms in China and over 110 showrooms in overseas. OPPEIN has cooperated with builders, contractors, architects and many construction companies from Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, etc. OPPEIN made become gradually recognized, and many clients know OPPEIN products because their friends recommend it. OPPEIN has a dream that is to help everyone to build their ideal home and every OPPEINer is fighting for it. Welcome you to join in us!!

DS+R Reveals Design for the University of Chicago’s Rubenstein Forum

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has unveiled its design for the David M. Rubenstein Forum at the southeast corner of Woodlawn Avenue and 60th Street on the University of Chicago‘s campus. The 90,000 square foot (8,500 square meter) facility has been devised as a place of intellectual, institutional, and educational exchange, fulfilling a variety of campus needs for meeting spaces. A collection of block-like volumes, the building’s two-story base is anchored by a narrow 165-foot (50 meter) tower, with the exterior materials and structure reflecting the programmatic divisions within.

The facility has been designed with complete focus on the user experience, placing an emphasis on reliable technology, quality foodservice, and informal spaces for more spontaneous meetings. Natural light is employed wherever possible, and transparency allows for users to establish connections with the University’s campus, surrounding communities, Downtown Chicago, and the Lakeshore.

“We composed the tower as a stack of ‘neighborhoods’ with meeting and communal spaces of all sizes—both formal and informal, calm and animated, focused and diffuse,” explains DS+R’s founding partner, Elizabeth Diller. “The building prompts its varied populations to cross paths with one another where possible to enhance intellectual exchange. The lower floors of the Rubenstein Forum are porous and dynamic with connections to the campus and the community in all directions. As one climbs the building, there is a progressive retreat from the everyday to more contemplative spaces with dramatic views ofChicago and Lake Michigan.”

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The building is broken up by what the University is calling “signature spaces,” which are denoted by the bronze cladding in the renderings. On the building’s ground floor, the tentatively named University Room is a flexible space for large lectures, panel discussions, or seated dinners, with accommodations for up to 600 people. Directly above the base in the building’s tower is a 285-seat auditorium being called the Presentation Hall, which will provide tiered-seating options for keynote presentations, panel discussions, film screenings, and performances. At the top of the tower, and tentatively named the Lake View Room, is a space meant for large departmental receptions, symposia of 50 to 75 scholars, or other activities.

According to the University Executive Vice President David Fithian, “For those of us involved every day in convening groups on campus and in organizing meetings and events for guests from around the world, the Rubenstein Forum fulfills a critical need for the University. Too often events hosted by the University are held in other parts of Chicago, and our guests are denied the opportunity to experience the intellectually dynamic and beautiful campus that we have in Hyde Park.”

The Rubenstein Forum is named for University Trustee and alumnus, David M. Rubenstein, JD’73, co-founder and co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, in recognition of his ongoing generosity to the University.

• Architects

  Diller Scofidio + Renfro

• Location

  6005 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States

• Architect in Charge

  Diller Scofidio + Renfro

• Area

  8500.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro

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Characteristics

• Operation:

  sliding

• Material:

  glass

• Technical characteristics:

  acoustic

• Use:

  for offices

Description

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For this, the MOVEO and MOVEO Glass ranges offer partition systems that harmoniously combine transparent and sound-insulating room concepts.

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NIA PDW002-2016 AKWA IBOM – PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

Dear Distinguished Member,
Please find attached the NIA PDW002-2016 Akwa Ibom Workshop Flier for
your Information.
This is the first announcement flier for the 2nd PDW in Akwa Ibom State.
Workshop Fees are as follows:

1.  Financial Members – NGN 25,000.00
2.  Non-Financial Members – NGN 45,000.00

Please make this a date and plan to attend.

Thank you.

Abimbola Ajayi, fnia
HONOURARY GENERAL SECRETARY
NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
+234 803 326 1959

Venice Biennale 2016 Winners: Spain, Japan, Peru, NLÉ & Gabinete de Arquitectura

UNFINISHED / curated by Carlos Quintáns & Iñaqui Carnicero. Spanish Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu

Alejandro Aravena and the jury for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia have just announced the winning participations.

The Golden Lion for Best National Participation went to Spain for UNFINISHED. The jury cited Carlos Quintáns & Iñaqui Carnicero’s “concisely curated selection of emerging architects whose work shows how creativity and commitment can transcend material constraints.”

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Gabinete de Arquitectura. Image Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

The Golden Lion for Best Participant in the International Exhibition, Reporting From the Front, went to Gabinete de Arquitectura. The award was granted to Solano Benítez, Gloria Cabral, and Solanito Benítez (all from Paraguay) for “harnessing simple materials, structural ingenuity and unskilled labour to bring architecture to underserved communities.”

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NLÉ’s Makoko Floating School at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Image Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

NLÉ received the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition Reporting From the Front for his Makoko Floating School. The jury cited, “a powerful demonstration, be it in Lagos or in Venice, that architecture, at once iconic and pragmatic, can amplify the importance of education.”

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“OUR AMAZON FRONTLINE” / curated by Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse. Peruvian Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Image Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

Japan and Peru took home the Special Mention in the National Participations category. For Japan, the jury particularly appreciated “the poetry of compactness to alternative forms of collective living in a dense urban space.” They congratulated Peru for bringing architecture to a remote corner of the world, making it both a venue for learning as well as a means for preserving the culture of the Amazon.

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en : art of nexus / curated by Yoshiyuki Yamana. Japanese Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Image Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo of Italy received Special Mention for her contribution to Reporting From the Front, which demonstrated “perseverance in using the rigours of her discipline to elevate the everyday into timeless works of architecture.”

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Paulo Mendes da Rocha, winner of Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Image © Lito Mendes da Rocha

As it was announced in May, Paulo Mendes da Rocha received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

We will continue to post updates and images.

Dispatch from the Venice Biennale: Uruguay’s underground, Germany’s construction site, Britain’s housekeeping and more from the national pavilions

“The New Zocalo” by Pita & Bloom at the US Pavilion. Photo by Andrea Dietz.

May 26, 2016

Aravena’s Biennale for architecture to give a damn might imply a specific kind of project, but, after one day on the ground, it is clear that there is no one way for it to respond. For one thing, there is a truly incomprehensible quantity of material to cover. The volume alone speaks to the complex of energy and passion coming worldwide from the discipline. After an incomplete first pass around the Giardini and a tactical visit to the Arsenale, Venice’s two main Biennale sites, I am struck by the inconsistency and individuality across and within these many contributions. Noteworthy trends may, at some point, emerge from the crowd, but, for now, I can list a few, non-representative soundbites only:

The US Pavilion, “The Architectural Imagination,” gives us architecture as we have come to expect it. Through twelve proposals for four Detroit sites, it posits the speculative as the instrument of societal uplift, offering up wild thinking as the means of igniting change. It does so, however, as a collection of wall-mounted visuals and pedestaled scale models (see below). Within each team work, there are stand-out features; they are just masked by format.

In “Home Economics,” the British Pavilion stages abstractions of domestic space, reducing the residential to elemental associations oriented by time. It breaks out the basic needs and conditions assumed by the (sub)urban, middle-class, western notion of living—by hour, day, month, year (see below), and decade—in a bid to reconsider housing models. The experience that the installation provides is immersive and well-executed, but its relatability may be limited in demographic.

The Germans, reacting to the radical population shifts precipitated by the ongoing European immigration crisis, are grappling with unfamiliar informalities. “Making Heimat. Germany, Arrival Country” is a literal and figurative opening up to the possibility of new realities. By cutting substantial holes into the walls of their permanent pavilion and populating their exhibition space with rough graphics of data, profiles, and queries and everyday objects—including the materials that will be used to restore the pavilion to its whole form at the close of the Biennale—they are acknowledging the messy, preparatory efforts that go into self-reinvention.

The Russian pavilion, “V.D.N.H. Urban Phenomenon,” is a fantastically bizarre reminder of the histories and consequences of conflating ideology, culture, and form—or of suppressing one for the other. A sequence of distinct environments, it contains a funhouse of aesthetic, representational, and communication approaches. The digital black box becomes sculpture gallery becomes multi-media surround becomes contemplative hall—all in service to unfolding the narrative of an emblematic, national landmark.

Perhaps the most invigorating pavilion personally, Uruguay is, in “Rebootati,” making—without a budget—their exhibition through ruses, clever acts of appropriation and manipulation. In a news pamphlet, they disclose that they have found a tunnel (above) dug through and under their pavilion. The pavilion, meanwhile and gradually, is accumulating objects “taken” from other pavilions and Biennale attendees—by poncho cloaked agents and volunteers. These architectures, base components of survival, ultimately will journey to Montevideo (through the tunnel?) to take on new life.

Also notable, “The Work of Aires Mateus,” part of Aravena’s REPORTING FROM THE FRONTshow in the Giardini’s central pavilion, (re)asserts the aim for beauty as profoundly humanitarian. Their dark, quiet room, subtly lit from within deep, elegantly sculpted wall fissures, gifts a poignant refuge from the outlying excitement.

schmidt hammer lassen Designs Mixed-Use Development in Central Stockholm

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has won the international competition to design a new mixed-use development in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden: Hästen 21. The new development will comprise retail, office and residential spaces, creating a “central artery” for the area with a strong visual presence adapted to the history and skyline of the existing city.

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By interpreting the characteristics of building volumes and heights in central Stockholm, the building seeks to capture the city’s essence. A modern, glazed façade is framed with natural stone to create a relationship with the adjacent buildings. Following a tradition of city-centre buildings, the corners are rounded.

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The building connects with the city through retail on the lower levels, simultaneously providing new paths through the building and creating shortcuts on the block. The introduction of an entrance plaza and street pocket enhances the integration between building and city, improving the pedestrian experience.

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Offices on the upper levels have been designed to maximize natural light, with views to the Stockholmskyline. On multiple levels, tenants can access green-roof terraces as well as meeting and conference rooms. On a separate, vertical volume, the apartments are placed, improving visibility within the city. Balconies facing the street allow residents to enjoy the evening sun.

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“The project itself is exceeding the limits of the site to be more as a full urban revitalization of a central area of Stockholm that was not really working on a pedestrian level. Historically, there used to be streets going through and between the buildings at the site, our proposal aims to bring this city life back. We are introducing small passages, shortcuts and pocket parks even at the top of the building. This way, we are creating a new neighbourhood that will be open 24/7 and not just during office hours from Monday to Friday,” explains Kristian Ahlmark, Senior Partner at Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects.

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The developers and architects hope to create a building flexible enough to continue to grow with the city of Stockholm over its lifetime, as changes occur in both the urban fabric and in the commercial market.

• Architects

  Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

• Structural Engineer

  Tyréns AB

• Mechanical Engineer

  PO Andersson AB

• Electrical Engineer

  Mats Ström berg Ing. Byrå AB

• Fire Consultant

  Brandkonsulten AB

• Elevator Consultant

  HissKonsulterna

• LEED Consultant

  SWECO

• Project Manager

  Forsen Project AB

• Client

  Pembroke Real Estate

• Area

  43128.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Courtesy of schmidt hammer lassen architects

Competition Proposal by Preliminary Research Office Thinks “Outside the Box”

Exterior Rendered View. Image Courtesy of Preliminary Research Office

Preliminary Research Office has revealed their entry to a competition to design the new civic center for the city of Ryde, Australia. The project uses a series of boxes at different scales to inform the organization of both the building and the public spaces. Following a competition of 175 entries from 49 countries, the project did not make the shortlist. However, its approach addresses the fundamental needs of a civic center to be dynamic, flexible and human-scale.

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Exterior Rendered View. Image Courtesy of Preliminary Research Office

The competition called for an iconic project that would “encapsulate the urban identity of the area.” Located at the entrance to the municipality, the 16,500 square-meter site has a frontage of 260-meters along a six-lane road, and is located 12km west of Sydney, sitting on the crest of a ridgeline. The proposal was required to include civil and administrative offices, a public plaza/open space, commercial activities and housing.

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Program Diagram. Image Courtesy of Preliminary Research Office

The building is organized into two tall boxes, stacked atop three large, flat boxes, with four smaller boxes situated at ground level. Each box houses different civic and public programs, with the human-scale of each box creating a miniature “village” for citizens and visitors to explore.

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Exterior Rendered View. Image Courtesy of Preliminary Research Office

The tall boxes house administrative and residential program, with more specific programs, like the CivicCouncil Chamber, Committee Meeting Rooms, Offices and Residential units stacked on top of each other. The space between these programmatic areas act as a “breathable double-skin,” with vertical openings enhancing natural ventilation throughout the building.

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Exterior Rendered View. Image Courtesy of Preliminary Research Office

The flatter boxes on the ground level orient themselves according to their relationship with the surrounding context. They serve as foyers and receptions for the taller boxes, as well as housing more public programs like performance spaces, community meeting rooms and commercial spaces. In between the boxes is a pedestrian circulation area, combining paths, green landscape and a public plaza.

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Each box unfolds, its flaps connecting it with nearby boxes, acting as canopies to semi-outdoor spaces underneath, and extending the design metaphor to be “outside of the box”

See the four shortlisted entries here.

• Architects

  Preliminary Research Office

• Location

  Ryde NSW, Australia

• Design Team

  Yaohua Wang, Dingliang Yang, Sam Sun, Tianci Han, Yifan Wang

• Area

  16000.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Preliminary Research Office

Mar Adentro / Miguel Angel Aragonés

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• Architects

  Miguel Angel Aragonés

• Location

  San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico

• Architect in Charge

  Miguel Angel Aragonés

• Design Team

  Miguel Ángel Aragonés, Juan Vidaña, Pedro Amador, Tadeo López, Rafael Aragonés, Alba Ortega.

• Area

  47082.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Joe Fletcher

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From the architect. The first time I visited this property and took in the desert and the diaphanous, clear water running along a horizontal line in the background, I felt the enormous drive of water under a scorching sun. This piece of land, located in the middle of a coastline dotted with “All Inclusives,” would have to be transformed into a box that contained its own sea –practically its own air– given the happy circumstance that the universe had created a desert joined to the sea along a horizontal line. It was the purest, most minimalist landscape a horizon could have drawn. On either side, this dreamlike scenery collided with what humans consider to be aesthetic and build and baptize as architecture. I wanted to draw my own version, apart from the rest.

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I believe that the greatest virtue of architecture is the generation of sensations through space on a series of planes that are found within the realm of sensitivity. I believe this capacity becomes still greater when your surroundings allow you to meld into them, forming thus part of your own space; in this sense, I wanted to take that horizon and bring it into the foreground. The water is an event that borders the entire project; all of the volumes open up toward the sea and turn their backs on the city, which is all that remains of the original surroundings, burdened by noise. Mar Adentro is a kind of Medina that opens out onto the sea. Each floating volume contains interiors that form, in turn, independent universes. Each room visually contains a piece of the sea; no one can resist gazing out at it.

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For a long time, I have felt that construction has failed to evolve on a par with other endeavors: the automobile, for example, in a hundred years went from being a wagon to what we know today. And yet when I look back at the Pavilion by Mies Van Der Roe, it is in essence very similar to what we see today in architecture, albeit transgressed a bit perhaps through involution. We see unnecessarily complicated, but relatively non-complex structures scattered around the world. There are some risky proposals that form part of the current panorama we refer to as modern or contemporary, but they have not been very evolutionary.

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Each room was built in a factory. Poliform was our ally. We built the entire interior structure and sent it in boxes across the sea to its destination, where it was assembled on site by local hands. In a question of days the first room was ready, of a quality subject to the tyranny of a machine and the wisdom of hands dedicated over the course of a lifetime to construction. There was no room for improvisation, and yet the room was fashioned with intelligence, imagination, and dedication. I learned from those German and Italian manufacturers what we sometimes fail to intuit from schools or books over the course of many years.

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Our project can be constructed entirely through this process, employing a module whose versatility allows it to be divided or added onto, thus becoming autonomous or dependent on another structure. Our main module, for example, is a kind of loft divided in half in order to create two rooms, as simple as that. In summary, the module is a two-, three-, or four-bedroom apartment; a house can be formed by adding on two or four more modules. The important thing is the versatility of this structure, one that can be entirely factory-made then raised on site in a friendly manner.

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