Metaform

A neglected warehouse, has been transformed by METAFORM architects to create a light-filled, collaborative office space.

We're delighted to share some shots here with you

We renovated the former warehouse in Steinsel to create the new headquarters of DSL, a company specialised in IT solutions.

“The main emphasis of the project was to bring in more natural daylight, creating an efficient, clean and bright office space where people and communication take center stage.” explains Shahram Agaajani, founder of METAFORM architects.

 Inside, a central statement staircase made from oak doubles as a common area. This creates a mix of semi-private, informal work and social areas maintaining an open-plan layout.

The building contains 1.950 square meters of office space.

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Together with METAFORM architects, POST Luxembourg celebrates the topping out ceremony of its future headquarters at Place de la Gare in Luxembourg. Also present was the Minister of Economy Franz Fayot.

Traditionally, on this occasion, an evergreen tree is perched on the top of a newly constructed building. These trees are known as “topping trees”. They’re associated with the raising of a building’s highest beam or structural element (hence the name of the rite: the topping-out ceremony.) They celebrate the safe completion of the skeleton of a building structure. For some in the construction industry, they also represent a symbol of good luck and prosperity for the future occupants of the building.

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TUNE IN! April 19th at from 13:30 to 15:30

Shahram Agaajani is delighted to speak at this year's ‘Meet the Zebra’s” webinars celebrating creativity and innovation (an event managed by Luxinnovation GIE).

What to expect? Inspirational keynote speakers, project presentations and round table discussions tailor-made for each creative sector.

Aim? Inform, inspire and foster business opportunities between creatives and other sectors.

Register here: https://lnkd.in/d5FZTkw

In the third video of our "Talking Architecture" video series, Architect and Partner GG Kirchner, explains some of the key highlights of the Luxembourg Pavilion created for #EXPO2020 Dubai.

METAFORM architects is excited to have been awarded 1st prize in the Dubai EXPO2020 Competition for the creation of the Luxembourg Pavilion. The EXPO2020 will take place in Dubai. Some 200 countries and international organisations will feature their ideas around the Expo’s theme “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”. This year’s focus is on Opportunity, Mobility and Sustainability.

As Kircher explains in the video, the Luxembourg pavilion’s shape is based on the idea of the Möbius stip, an infinite form, like the circular economy, but also symbol of openness and dynamism.

Client:  GIE LUXEMBOURG | EXPO2020DUBAI

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Size: 2100 m2

“Talking Architecture” is a short video series in which METAFORM architects reveal the stories and concepts behind their unique builds around the world.

In the second video of our “Talking Architecture” video series, Ljiljana Vidovic (Associate Architect and Head of Conceptual Design) reveals the ins and outs of the new POST headquarters in Luxembourg.

METAFORM architects was awarded 1st prize in the international architecture competition. Since the original building no longer met current requirements for safety standards and energy saving, it was decided that the building should be rebuilt. The 27,700m2, eight-storey space will feature the public post office area on the ground floor and offices on the other floors. The adjacent Accinauto building, dating back to the 1940s, is a listed building, and its façade will be preserved.

As one of the biggest employers in Luxembourg, it was important to improve the functionality of the POST headquarters building. It was key to bringing the teams together, enhancing communication and improving the daily lives of employees. “We aimed for a design that would feature a relaxed, friendly working atmosphere” explains Vidovic.

Client:  POST Luxembourg

Typology: Office building
Size: 25 700 m2

“Talking Architecture” is a short video series in which METAFORM architects reveal the stories and concepts behind their unique builds around the world.

METAFORM architects chisels out a new housing typology and here to tell us all about it is Shahram Agaajani, (architect and founding partner) in this the first video of our video series “Talking Architecture”.

Only too often do residential apartment buildings equate to “life in a box” implying a lack of space, a lack of natural light and under par acoustics. In this video Agaajani explores how our vision for a new collective housing typology addresses these issues.

The design intent behind the “Fifteen” project is to improve social interaction, to build a sense of community and yet still to preserve ones privacy.

Award:  Nominated for EU Mies Award, GADA awards 2019, Bauhärepräis 2020 - Prix Spécial du Jury

Client: ASARS Construction
Size: 2000 m2
Location: Luxembourg, Dommeldange

“Talking Architecture” is a short video series in which METAFORM architects reveal the stories and concepts behind their unique builds around the world.

We are thrilled to announce that our project 'Fifteen' has been selected among the best in the world in the category: Multi Unit Housing -​ Low rise (1-4 Floors) for the Architizer A+Award. 

The public voting, open until Friday, July 31st, is taking place via the link: 

https://vote.architizer.com/PublicVoting#/2020/architecture/residential/multi-unit-housing-low-rise-1-4-floors

Thank you for your support!

Even more so in these difficult times, unusual collaborations happen unexpectedly and all of a sudden, this time with Atelier de maquettes Christine Franck and Dr. Laurent Meyers. Together we developed, produced and delivered 100 bio-compatible key elements to integrate with the new respirators for the Ministry of Health. The fight against Covid-19 continues, and we do what we can to help with our skills and knowledge.

Since schools in Luxembourg are soon going to re-open for young children, as parents, architects, designers we decided to re-think the existing safety medical face shield, and re-adapt it to be placed on the kids’ hat. 

The protective shield is not a substitute for a mask. The main goal is to reduce the frequency a child touches his/her face, outside the classroom, in the school hallway, courtyard, from school to home. To dedramatize this new situation and to reduce the potential anxiety in kids and parents, we introduce a creative add-on, which kids can personalize, and wear and exhibit proudly.

Feel free to share and download the file for 3d printing and the templates. The documents are open source and available for anyone who wants to produce the protection shields.

Link to download the pack: https://we.tl/t-5t9bf6tEDt

Hi everyone.
After an amazing response from our followers and their peers concerning our 3d printable face-protection gear, we would like inform you can drop the face-gear you  created at our Luxembourg offices ( rue Goethe) so we can make sure they go to the right hands in need.
Please contact us beforehand and preferably in 10er boxes.

The files for 3d printer format (.stl .3dm .gcode) are to be downloaded on this wetransfer link :
https://we.tl/t-hL2kLAY8eT

Contact  us know on Facebook or email us on protectionshield@metaform.lu

Article about the mask also published by Paperjam :
https://paperjam.lu/article/protection-imprimable-en-3d?index=4

From sunny Dubai to a cosy winter in Luxembourg
Metaform Architects' team wishes you a wonderful festive season 2019/2020

Luxembourg's journey to the 2020 Dubai's Expo has started
and here you can see with a  30 minutes interval the progress on site.

The luxembourgexpo2020dubai.lu website also provides
you with a lot of additional information about the Pavilion and the Expo.

Metaform Architects is proud to announce that it published a second Metaform Book called ‘Fifteen’.
In this new book, the project showcased is nothing less than the award-winning Dommeldange Residential building which was also nominated for the Nominated for EU Mies Award 2016.
This 58 page book will tell you everything you want to know about the project
If you are interested in a copy, just contact us at the offices in Luxembourg.

After our first scenography last February at the Mudam museum for the painting of Jutta Koether, Metaform Architects entered a new collaboration with Studio Anri Sala for the The Anri Sala's exhibition which can be viewed till January 2020. We hope to see you enjoying his first monographic exhibition in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in an ambitious installation. An ensemble of new and recent works juxtaposed with older pieces, will be accompanied by a major work, The Last Resort, a sound installation of thirty-eight snare drums originally created for the Kaldor Public Art Projects in Sydney and now presented for the first time in Europe.

An interesting Q&A with Céline Coubray, editor-in-chief at 'Archiduc',Stefano Moreno 'Moreno Architecture' and our very own Shahram Agaajani.
Enjoy !

Recently we have been invited to develop a scenography for an exibition at Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. The exhibition called 'Tour de Madame' is a retrospective dedicated to the painting of Jutta Koether.

'Long associated with writing, music and performance, Koether’s painterly oeuvre shown in this densely sweeping presentation highlights her pictorial and conceptual approach to painting over four decades. Koether’s painting constantly confronts the conditions of its own production, as a site of reflection on the act of looking and the perspectives such an act might bring to bear according to who is looking, how and when. The exhibition crucially highlights the historical significance of Koether’s oeuvre as a counter-history to the (male-dominated) canons of modernism and post-modernism, and the understanding of painting in our contemporary world as part of a dynamic set of historical, cultural and social relations.'

The exhibition is open from 16/02/2019 until 12/05/19. 

We are very excited to announce that together with BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group we have won a competition to design The Skypark Business Center South at Luxembourg Airport. 

The new office building is the first development within the Airport City, planned beside Terminal A. The construction is expected to start at 2019. More information via the link.

We are thrilled to announce that we have won an international competition to design the first Velodrome in Luxembourg, together with Mecanoo! The program entails a velodrome, a multi-sports hall and aqua center, and is scheduled for construction between 2020 and 2023. 

Thank you to our consultants Pohl Architekten, Latz + Partner, Transsolar and Werner Sobeck. 

More infromation about the project coming soon!

Recently we have finished a small and inspiring installation project for SES, of telling 30 years of history and success of Luxembourg national company. 

It is our great pleasure to announce that this spring our project has been selected as the winner of the international competition to design and integrate an urban plaza in the industrial heritage of Belval. The project is a result of a close collaboration with our partners Latz + Partner Landscape Architects and HLG Structural Engineers. 

You can find out more information about the competition following the link below:

https://archiduc.lu/a/detail/news/les-laureats-de-la-place-des-bassins-devoiles/179078#pid=1

We are excited to announce that our proposal for the Post Headquarters in Luxembourg City won the 1st prize! The project counts 27 700 sqm of office spaces, it is currently estimated at 100 000 000 EUR, and is scheduled for completion in June 2022! 

We would like to thank our partners T6 - Ney & Partners, Goblet Lavandier and VS-A, and we are looking forward to this new challenge ahead! 

More information about the project will be available soon in our project section. 

We are pleased to announce the opening of our new office Metaform Middle East in Dubai!

The inauguration of the office took place in Dubai, at the Burj Khalifa, on February 11 2018. We had a great honor to present our local partners WME, and to host many respected guests from both Luxembourg and Dubai, including H.E. Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider, H.E. Mrs. Elisabeth Cardoso and Mrs. Maggy Nagel, and others. The office itself is located in the Boulevard Plaza Tower 1, Downtown Dubai, and at first will focus mainly on the development of the Luxembourgish pavilion for the forthcoming World Expo in 2020. 

We are excited to announce that we have won a 1st prize in housing competition in Belval, Luxembourg, organized by AGORA. 

The project consists of retail area in the ground floor, office spaces in the 1st floor and housing on the upper floors. 

Metaform won the competition to design the Luxembourg pavilion for Expo Dubai 2020. More information about the project coming soon!

We are very honored to have our housing project in Dommeldange nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2017! 

More information about the award can be found at www.miesarch.com

Square mile is our biggest project thus far, situated in Belval, south of Luxembourg. It is a mixed-use building, containing retail, offices and housing. We are proud to see its progress and what has been accomplished over the last 2 years!

For the last couple of years we have been working on three single family houses in Hostert. This is a quick preview of one of them.

Hint: it's not a painting. 

The construction of one of our most recent projects is coming to an end! The new residential building in Dommeldange consists of several offset volumes, with specific triangular geometry that follows the orientation and sun exposure. 

Soon there will be more information and more photos, so keep track with our projects section! 

After only a few months of hard work, tight deadlines and cold weather, our project in Bridel, Luxembourg has finally seen the light of the day! We are very happy with the final outcome, it was a real challenge, but it was worth it! Another mission accomplished.

Check out our projects section for more information about the project. 

Earlier this year, we had a great honor to present one of our housing projects on ARTE, as a part of their 'Ma ville' series. It was our pleasure to work with BuiltBy.TV and ARTE team, and we look forward to the future collaborations! 

Our house project in Goeblange, Luxembourg seems like a perfect setting for a fashion shoot. Architecture and beyond. 

Our project, the Centre for Renewable Energy and Industrial Maintenance in Praia, Capo Verde has finally seen the light of the day! Here are some photos from the inauguration ceremony, in presence of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and Jorge Carlos Fonseca, the president of Capo Verde. Thank you our partners NLA for collaboration and execution!

Location: Dudelange, Luxembourg
Year: 2014
Typology: Residential
Size: 600 sqm
Status: Completed

We are excited to announce the completion of works on our latest student housing project. More images of interior coming soon! 

Location: Kirchberg, Luxembourg
Year: Construction scheduled 2014-2015
Typology: Concert Hall
Size: 3500 people
Status: In progress

Structural engineers: Schroeder & Associés

Location: Dommeldange, Luxembourg
Year: Construction scheduled for spring 2014
Typology: Residential
Size: +++
Status: In progress

Structural engineers: Simon & Christiansen
Technical engineers: Sit-Lux

Location: Belval, Luxembourg
Year: 2012-
Typology: Mixed-use containing housing, retail and offices
Size: 16,000 sqm
Status: In progress

Metaform took part at the exhibition Houses of the world 2013 at Kongresni Trg in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The exhibition showcases our housing project in Cessange, Luxembourg.   

For this competition we thought of a different interpretation of the standard water tower program. We chose to play with typologies while incorporating the vibrating surroundings in the design itself. Unfortunately, the jury did not share our enthusiasm.

Location: Kirchberg, Luxembourg
Year: February 2011 – July 2012
Typology: Residential
Size: 1,200 sqm
Status: Completed
Client: ASARS Constructions
Photographer: Steve Troes Fotodesign

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Our pedestrian bridge in Esch is going to be printed on a stamp!
Credit for the design goes to the artist Christian Frantzen.

Congratulations to our clients! They have been awarded by the OAI Luxembourg for Bauhärepräis 2012. We would like to thank them for the support and trust.

For more information please visit: www.oai.lu/fr/376/oai/bauhaerepraeis-2012

Location: Belval, Luxembourg
Year: 2012-
Typology: Residential
Size: +++
Status: In progress

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Our housing project in Cessange was chosen as the 'Building of the Year 2011' in the category "Housing" among hundreds of international projects. This is a second time that our projects has been selected, since last year our pedestrian bridge in Esch-sur-Alzette was rewarded with this prize in the category "Public Facilities". This competition is organized by Archdaily on yearly bases.

Thanks everyone for your continued support and encouragement!  

For more information please visit: www.archdaily.com/building-of-the-year/2011

The publication is the first in a new series created by Metaform, with the aim to showcase the most significant current and future projects in our office. 'metaform01' is focused on the housing project in Cessange, Luxembourg. The goal is to promote continuous communication and mutual trust between the client and the architect.

At a time when architecture is becoming increasingly divided into various specializations, mastering architecture as a whole has become rare…and even rarer are the architects who accept a project from the concept phase on through to the integration of a multidisciplinary team (engineering consultants, artists..).

Architecture can please or displease. Regardless one’s personal opinion, we believe it should become the object of an open broader debate with the purpose of enriching our building culture.

ISBN 978-2-9599728-5-0

Order here: www.maisonmoderne.lu/eshop/metaform01

Location: Cessange, Luxembourg
Year: September 2010 – November 2011
Typology: Residential
Size: 370 sqm
Status: Completed
Static Engineer: INCA s.à.r.l.
Client: Immo Due, Area Immo
Photographer: Steve Troes Fotodesign

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Thanks to everyone who despite the cold weather shared this special moment with us!

Location: Niederkorn, Luxembourg
Year: 2010 - 2011
Typology: Public space
Size: 3,600 sqm
Status: Completed

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Metaform has won an honorable mention in the international competition for the Olympic Games pavilion in London (organized by AC-CA Architectural Competition).
For more information please visit: www.ac-ca.org/en/london01mentions

Pedestrian bridge in Esch has been nominated for the Steel Design Award 2011.
For more information please visit: www.infosteel.be

Graffiti | Just before its demolition, an old house in Gosseldange got a new and the last breath on June 13. Sumo and his colleagues, Stick and Spike, dressed the derelict house from the inside to the outside. A unique artistic interpretation based on the brutality of a demolition (mundane to our eyes). The transformation of spaces inhabited for decades into a singular and ephemeral object was quite challenging.

Thanks Steve!

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Our pedestrian bridge in Esch is the winner of Archdaily's "Building of the year 2010" which recognizes the best buildings featured on their website during 2010.
Thanks to everyone who voted to make METAFORM the winner!

More information can be found at: www.archdaily.com

A super coverage apropos our pedestrian bridge in Esch. Thank you Fabrizio, and your magic wand!
fabriziomaltese.com

It has been announced that Metaform together with NLA are the winners of the international competition for a new bioclimatic and energy efficient training center in Cape-Verde, Praia. The project is focused on renewable energies and industrial maintenance (ERMI PSC). The competition was organized by Lux-Development.

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The project is a result of collaboration between Metaform and Pierre Blondel architects.

Thanks to:
Energy-efficiency consulting: Niederkorn, Luxembourg
Rendering: Kostohryz & Schrapnell

Location: Weimershof, Luxembourg
Year: +++
Typology: Residential
Size: +++
Status: Completed

This is what happens when you let a photographer work alone... :)

Some of the new urbanization programs imply replacement of churches with the new shopping malls. Today, commercial zoning policy is one of the government’s major concerns, given that the trade is still one of the essential requirements when it comes to the development of cities. As each city has its own specific history and morphology, the new pattern of urbanization must consider various factors that are included in the process in order to maintain a balanced development.

Download this document (pdf file FR)

This document is available free of charge at the Foundation for Architecture and Engineering. 
www.fondarch.lu

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Thank you Paulo Mira from Esch for this amazing photo we have just discovered!

Thank you Fabienne for the great work!
www.fabiennedelafraye.com

Metaform has been announced as a winner of the housing competition in the district of Grünewald, Lot 19. The competition was organized by 'Fonds d'urbanisation et d'aménagement du Plateau de Kirchberg'.

Location: Grünewald, Luxembourg
Year: 2009
Typology: Residential
Size: 4,500 sqm
Status: Competition
Client: ASARS Constructions
External Collaborators: Boshua & Shrapnel 

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