RIVA 1, a new office and private apartment complex at Phoenix lake in Dortmund offers luxurious living along a lakeside setting. Architects Schamp and Schmaloer have created simple, elegant cubic forms to characterise what will be an expanding district. Artist Michael Stratmann has interwoven a modernist interpretation on Moorish art to form one of the entrance ways to the complex. Combinations of galvanized steel and galvanized and powder coated steel help to define the entrance.
Architect: Schamp and Schmaloer
Posted on July 24, 2015 by untitled
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