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NEGOK OFFICETEL Urban Agency has been commissioned to design Co-working space and 150 units of officetel building, hybrid program between an office and hotel as a self-contained living environment in the new development area of Negok District of Seoul. We are currently working in the building design permission stag…

Urban Agency latest menswear store in Dublin, Castle & Drury, is on YouTube. Check it out!
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Men's Fashion Trends with Castle & Drury www.rte.ie/ten TEN's Sinead Brennan went down to contemporary menswear store Castle & Drury, Dublin 2 to speak to owner and buyer Conor Rhatigan about the ke...

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DESIGN FOR : O F F I C E #1

The Collaborative Office:
What makes an effective office that can last in our ever changing fast-paced world? Collaboration - it is the concept that is making waves in how we perceive and design offices. Gone are the days of static, single-occupancy, grid-like office cubicles with minimal means for interactions between employers, management and employees alike. Today, open plan, communal spaces are the key design features of the modern day office, encouraging organic encounters, diverse dialogue and limitless free flowing ideas. With a focus on devising a sustainable work environment conducive to happy, healthy, more productive staff - creative design characteristics must be cleverly thought out and implemented such as flexible layouts that can be easily interchanged depending on the project, team or function - why not have a board room double as a yoga studio? Fundamentally, collaboration is about accessing the shared currency of knowledge within the office, giving every individual's input an opportunity to be heard, explored and expanded on through casual conversation, brainstorming and uniting to achieve a goal.

Urban Agency is on Instagram...check it out!

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URBAN AGENCY's competition design proposal published on Archdaily.

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URBAN AGENCY Unveils Proposal for Kronberg School of Music Designed by BEM Architects,URBAN AGENCY,bbz in Kronberg,Germany URBAN AGENCY, BEM Architects and bbz have unveiled their proposal for the Kronberg School of Music, in Kronberg, Germ...

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URBAN AGENCY's Luxury Apartment Design "Twists" French Planning Law Designed by URBAN AGENCY,BET Satge in Montpellier,France Designed by URBAN AGENCY and BET Satge, Le Twist is set to be a series of 10 luxury apartments with a ground floor re...

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Look Out LOOK OUT! By Urban Agency Architects Look out! touches on our relationship with the landscape and, more specifically, the urban landscape. The birth of the…

Check out Urban Agency's piece for the RHA Annual Exhibition. The proposal is entitled " Look out" and deals with the importance of public spaces.

The exhibition runs until 8th August 2015... Don't miss it!

LOOK OUT!
By Urban Agency Architects
Look out! touches on our relationship with the landscape and, more specifically, the urban landscape.
The birth of the new Irish state inspired Irish painters to use the landscape of town and country to promote both modernity and the ‘Celtic’ identity of the new Ireland. The landscape depictions were often imbued with a strong sense of nostalgia, melancholia and emptiness. They were the landscapes of a virtual reality, frozen in time, to look at within a frame but not to engage with physically. This romantic notion of the landscape as a pure, natural, pristine, unchanging space prevailed in the new Irish nation’s sense of itself. Meanwhile, there was little identification with urban Ireland, in so far as it was not seen as being an intrinsic part of an extreme and limited definition of the Irish identity. The result, in the Irish urban context, is a kind of perverse policy of ‘laissez faire’; a complete disengagement with the public space and public realm in general, other than as a place to be used for practical activities and transportation.
This piece, titled Look out!, consists of an antique golden frame that originally framed a still-life painting but that is now framing a film. The film shows the ‘before and after’ life of a man-made urban landscape designed by Urban Agency architects for Copenhagen's new harbour front in Denmark. Look out! seeks to create awareness about the importance of ‘looking out’ at our public space and urban landscape not solely as a place for contemplation, but also as an active place for recreation, exchange, interaction and, to a greater extent, an engine for social and economic regeneration.
Today, more than ever, the urban landscape needs to respond to the challenges of modern urban living. It can no longer just be looked at like a ‘still-life’ painting or used as a service network, but needs rather to be rethought, reworked, reorganized and re-sculpted to celebrate ‘life’, and availed of as a true democratic space for all citizens.

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URBAN AGENCY HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR THE DESIGN OF A NEW PUBLIC SPACE IN DUBLIN

URBAN AGENCY to develop a Public Realm design for Newmarket and its environs in Dublin 8.
Newmarket is a planned and purpose built market space dating from 1670's. Its historic importance has been overlooked in recent times, and Newmarket is dislocated from the commercial area of the Liberties and the rest of the city. The ambition is to develop a new urban destination accommodating new development around the fringes of the space and wider range of new uses including markets, events, performance and outdoor seating for cafes and restaurants.

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Urban Agency was part of the Irish architects represented in the London Festival of Architecture brought together by Dublin-based architect, Emmett Scanlon in an installation called: The Tank.
Urban Agency's contribution shows the concrete artist studio:"Formwork" responding to Emmett Scanlon's theme: workspace.

HYDE & SEEK
Here is our latest project for a new Creche in Dublin!

The awkward shape of the site, the adjacent traffic noise and the need for minimising windows at ground-floor level to prevent overlooking result from the site strategy. The building is placed at the centre of the site to create 3 gardens of various scale at its corners, serving as individualised amenities for the respective age group.

The creche is introverted at ground-floor level, opening into private landscaped courtyards; at first-floor level, windows are created to allow for distant views. The building is organised as a series of 4 small oval volumes that accommodate the various age groups, the administration and ancillaries. A large circular roof caps and unifies the building overall, serving as a vast external playground at first-floor level and also providing a covered multipurpose space at ground-floor level, acting as entrance foyer, event space, dining hall, play area, etc.

The roof playground is designed with a full storey (3 meter) high parapet all around, punctuated with carefully placed windows serving as windscreens, while allowing for a future extension to the creche to be inserted without altering the elevations or appearance of the building. The building and the site boundary wall are finished with red terracotta concrete panels to maintain a visual and architectural dialogue with the surrounding red-brick buildings.

URBAN AGENCY wins 2nd Prize for Shenzhen's new district Qianhai.

URBAN AGENCY in Collaboration with MLA+ and ARUP won second prize in the international design competition for the new heart of Shenzhen's new district Qianhai, a 600,000 m2 mixed used development including office, residential, hotel and retail.
The proposal focuses in the design of high quality and active public space in form a lush and green "Urban Oasis" to maximise usage and footfall while responding to local challenging climate.

Our "Oval House" is rising all around the round...

Urban Agency wishes you a great Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!

Our project Kalvebod Waves won the World Architecture News Awards for the best Urban Design!

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The Kalvebod Waves | Copenhagen | Denmark | Urban Design 2014 | WAN Awards With the opening of the Kalvebod Waves at the harbor-front of Copenhagen, a central part of the inner harbor has finally become accessible and attractive to the public. This new public space on the water gives the harbor a new dimension as re-creational space in the center of the city. When addressi…

URBAN AGENCY has been pre-qualified for the design of a new pedestrian and cycling bridge in the port of Copenhagen. More to come....

Make sure to visit three of Urban Agency's designs this weekend at Open House Dublin!

17—19 October Open House Dublin is an annual weekend of free architecture tours, brought to you by the Irish Architecture Foundation.

Our recently completed "NEST HOUSE" is featured today as one of the 5 amazing properties to must see during Open House Dublin.!
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Five amazing properties to get a peek into during Open House Dublin Homes, beautiful homes.

URBAN AGENCY 's lecture at the NEW NOW NEXT talk series is out! Have a look:

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Urban Agency at NewNowNext The Irish Architecture Foundation and Arup have come together in a partnership initiative to present NEWNOWNEXT, a series of 12 architectural talks over three years,…

URBAN AGENCY PROPOSAL FOR POOLBEG CHIMNEYS TO BECOME
DUBLIN OBSERVATION TWIN TOWERS:

The recent controversial suggesting to demolish the redundant but iconic Poolbeg chimneys by the ESB have seen large protests opposition including the Dublin City Councillor and historian Dermot Lacey to try to preserve them and rightfully.

International observation towers precedents:

There are numerous observations towers around the globe promoting the greatness of the cities where they stand with often much more success that the historical buildings. From modern Toranto’s CN tower to London’s EDF Eye wheel via historical Paris’ Eiffel tower, those city pins all rely on one thing: incredible height to offer breathtaking views. (Toranto CN tower: 457m, Eiffel tower: 324m, London wheel: 135m, Vancouver look out tower: 170m and our Poolbeg twins standing proudly from their 207m.)
All around the world, these city landmarks have proven to be very successful and profitable tourist attractions. (Toranto CN tTower €36 Millions with 1.2M visitors , London eye €50 Millions 3.5M Visitors, Eiffel Tower €5 Billions for 250 Millions while Guinness storehouse cashes €59 for 1.2M visitors).

Urban Agency proposal:

Urban Agency’s proposal wants to celebrate the unique identity and character of the Poolbeg Chimneys as one of Dublin important historical landmark by giving it a new life and converting the chimney into a new city active symbol and destination: Twin Observation Towers.
The proposal consist in adding a light glass “bubble like” structure to each of the existing tower at slightly different height (so they don’t obstruct each other) to create breathtaking views and experience while keeping the chimney’s architectural integrity.

This could include a 180m high observation deck in one and in the other a 160m high restaurant and rental venue for fundraising events, product launches, meetings, press conferences, cocktail receptions, and corporate parties. At the foot of the towers, we propose to have a publically accessible building including an energy museum /education centre, a shop, a cafe and toilet facilities.

This could be one of the most important city attraction with a potential annual visitors of 500 000 to 750 000 people, generating a potential annual turn over of €20 Million and all this for an estimate construction cost of circa 5-7 Millions Euros. The proposal would be commercially and financially sustainable as it would pay for itself in no time! So the chimneys are definitively worth sweeping…

God save the Twins!

Vote for our project Kal Waves, Copenhague for the RIAI Public Choixe Awards 2014!
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Public Choice Award 2014 | RIAI Irish Architecture Awards The annual Irish Architecture Awards feature a public choice award. Vote for your favorite building this year.

Vote for our project Kal Waves in Copenhagen for the RIAI Public Choise Awards 2014!!
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Here is an interview of Greg Dunn for Lyric FM about his Urban Collaborative piece with Urban Agency for the IAF "Everyday experience" exhibition in IMMA.
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RTÉ - lyric fm - Culture File Music, theatre, public art, the visual arts, festivals and everything else you want to find out about in our diverse cultural world.

NEW ARCHITECTURE FIRM URBAN AGENCY FEATURED IN FINAL “NEWNOWNEXT” TALK OF 2013

The Irish Architecture Foundation and Arup opened booking for the fourth and final 2013 event in the successful NEWNOWNEXT architectural talks series featuring current and next generation architects from across the globe.

Andrew Griffin and Maxim Laroussi of new architecture practice URBAN AGENCY will speak at the Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin 2 on Wednesday November 27 at 7pm (doors 6.30pm). The talk, entitled “Strength in Diversity” is free but booking is required: you can book to attend HERE.

URBAN AGENCY, with offices in Dublin, Copenhagen and Lyon, is a young and dynamic practice with extensive international experience. Founded just six months ago by four partners – Maxim Laroussi (FRA/MOR), Andrew Griffin (IRL), Henning Stüben (GER), and Heechan Park (KOR) – this most international group of partners have been working all over the world on projects of various scale and complexity, from a small artists’ studio to the National Stadium of Oslo, for almost a decade.

ANDREW GRIFFIN / MAXIM LAROUSSI – Urban Agency (IRL/DK) Booking open.

Doors open at 6pm. No admission after 6.30pm. All NEWNOWNEXT talks are open to the public and free of charge.

Urban Agency at IMMA

03 November – 26 January
The Everyday Experience
Project Space

Urban Agency will be part of the group-show, curated by Nathalie Weadick, Director of IAF, of national and international architects, designers, artists, filmmakers and writers will reveal how much of our experience of the designed or informal built environment is immersed in the everyday. The exhibition contains work by Pablo Bronstein (Artist AR), Celine Condorelli (Artist UK), Culturstruction (Design Studio IRL) & Renate Henschke (Fashion and Costume Designer AU), Cristian Manzutto (Film-maker MEX), Tom dePaor (Architect IRL) & Peter Maybury (Artist IRL), Ciarán ÓGaora (Designer IRL), John Gerrard (Artist IRL) in collaboration with A2 Architects (IRL), Dominic Stevens (Architect IRL), Urban Agency (Architects IRL/DK) & Gregory Dunn (Artist IRL), Milton & Martin (Designers UK) and Kevin O’Brien (Architect AU). With additional support from the Embassy of Mexico.

LECTURE: "Making Culture", DIT, Bolton Street, D1

Maxim Laroussi, director and Co.founder of Urban Agency will lecture at DIT School of architecture, Thursday, 17th October 2013.

Venue: Room 281, DIT, Bolton street, D1
Time: 5.30pm
Admission: free

All welcome!

ARCHITECTURAL PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERNSHIP

URBAN AGENCY invites qualified people from architecture, history, public relations, marketing or journalism to apply for the position of Architectural PR Intern. Candidates must be creative, innovative and highly motivated. Proven interest in architecture, writing and editing are required.

Interns need to be fluent in English. Knowledge of any of the following languages is an advantage: French, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Arabic and Mandarin.

Successful candidates will be working in GOOD FRIDAY; the think tank and research studio of URBAN AGENCY assisting with the editorial of a variety of tasks connected to book projects, research, presentations as well as conduct extensive research for various , and translate that research into presentable material.

Requirements:
- strong writing and editing skills, preferably with English as first language
- good visual sensibility
- extensive knowledge of research tools online, and confidence with CMS
- excellent communication and organisational skills
- pro-active, self-disciplined and confident in a complex environment
- Internships are for the duration of 3 to 12 month
- European work permit is essential

Please address your motivation letter and CV to: [email protected]

Urban Agency Co.founders and partners Andrew Griffin & Maxim Laroussi to lecture at the coming " NEW NOW NEXT" lecture series organised by the IAF & ARUP
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Great turn up last night at Urban Agency exhibition entitled : "Private" which focus at private domestic project and described thought models, drawings, sketches, and photography.
The exhibition will re-open today from 2pm until 5pm.
All welcome!