amos goldreich architecture
Following graduation from the Architectural Association in London in 1999, I worked for a variety of high profile London-based design practices. Diverse projects in the UK and abroad at different scales provided me with experience in the residential, commercial, cultural, and educational projects. These included public buildings at David Chipperfield Architects, high-end retail projects at Stanton Williams, and at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios I was central to the team that designed and oversaw the construction of a RIBA Award-winning secondary school. In my view, architecture should be about people; the particular end-user - not simply about a preoccupation with a preferred style. My ambition is therefore that each project achieves an individual response to the client’s, and I mean in the broadest sense and not simply the commissioning body’s, requirements and aspirations. As such, I believe in establishing an empathetic relationship and genuine sense of co-creation for projects. While I strive for enduring designs, and they can be at any scale, I see innovation e.g. the use of new and sustainable materials or the inventive employment of traditional ones, as essential to any progressive approach. Whilst at present Amos Goldreich Architecture is principally involved with private residential projects, it is also pursuing other types of projects locally and internationally. These currently include competition entries and collaboration with a charity on a project abroad. Amos Goldreich Architecture is a RIBA Charted Practice and a member of the Architects Registration Board
Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial Competition This Holocaust Memorial aims to be a landmark for Peace. It offers a place for visitors to isolate themselves from the strong dialectic caused by the juxtaposition of the Memorial and the existing boardwalk of Atlantic City, and to focus on the Memorial始s significance, that we are all members of the human family and that these atrocities should never happen again. The Memorials form relates to geometries derived from the Star of David and is to be materialised in Corten steel to create the monolithic envelope. That is then carved out to reveal the space of the interior and to lighten its presence on the boardwalk. The interior comprises six chapels embedded in the pointed folds to the north and south. These six represent the inhabited regions of the world; N. America, Europe, Asia, S. America, Africa and Australia. Surrounding the central space of global congregation
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The Equator, Herzliya, Israel Urban Planning Ideas Competition - third place
Herzliya’s coastline has not been designed as a cohesive sea front, but as a haphazardly thrown-together collection of urban features, such as car parks, intermittent pavements, benches and fences. This status quo does not serve to highlight the attractive panoramic views of the seaside and conceals its natural and cultural treasures.
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The equator is invisible, but its presence is powerful. It defines territories, divides and connects at the same time. Although it is an abstract entity, its effect is palpable.
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The creation of a local equator along the coastline will define the connection between sea and city as one continuous uninterrupted strip. This will consist of elements – variable in character and resonance – that change at a steady pace and are rooted within the existing infrastructure. The aim is to strengthen and underscore the place’s own character.
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The project’s design was inspired by the topography of the coastal line and cliffs. The selection of materials was aimed at creating a unified design vocabulary that will harmonise with the vistas.
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The traffic of private vehicles along the main road that runs along the seaside will be restricted and redirected to parallel streets. Motorised transport along the main coastal route will be supplied by public electric vehicles. These tram-like vehicles will offer transportation at a frequent rate from the city centre and main parking areas and along the coastline. A continuous pedestrian lane will be based on the existing pedestrian routes that run along the cliffs and beach. Sections of this route will be shadowed by day and lit at night, providing their users with opportunities for rest and refreshment. Bicycle and skating lanes will run parallel to the pedestrian route’s southern section. Tributaries from this lane will lead down to the beach.
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The Rabin International Peace Forum, Tel Aviv International Ideas Competition - shortlisted Current Condition : Image, Identity, Scale Rabin Square in its current condition suffers from its naked barrenness. harsh and unyielding in its exposed existemce, without very much else to recommend it beyond its convenient location, availability, size and its city hall neighbour. Devoid of civic monumentality, its identity is embedded in its history of public events: peacful or violent, political, commercial, social or cultural, festical, demonstrations etc. It is devoid of any identifiable urbanity or civic significance, commonplace or symbolic. Proposal - To make the existing a place where civic functions and urban life coalesce, where govering and community are joined in an environment of urban pride, where concern for community life and action is evident and manifest. - To join, enhance and reiforce the connections fo the square with the city hall, seeking to create a natural extension and sequence of incorporation and identity. - To redefine, articulate and clarify the boundaries and thresholds of the urban space between the built and the non-built, the exclusive and the open. - To eliminate the ‘island’ characteristics of the present condition by leveling the surface edges of the square to that of the surrounding city levels, allowing the urban infrastructure to join in, ebrace and fully share the space. This will not only incorporate the visual and physical presence for both, it will also connect the surrounding buildings with the square and with one another and turn their exterior facades into the interior wall of the space of the square. - To provide an active and weightly edge to the southern boundary, to act as a built balancing element to the dominant city hall at the northern end. This building is envisioned to be a Peace Pavilion raised above the ground level, allowing the space of the square and beyond to flow freely, creating a shaded open air forum. A place to be. To be quiet and still. A place to hold forth. A sheltered, shaded place for person, persons and ideas. On a modest human scale, a centre for the culture of peace.
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Private House, London NW8 Client Commissioned Completion Services
Private Residential September 2007 September 2009 Full Architectural Services
The brief for this private residential project included the addition of an attic storey and the enlargement and optimisation of the ground and first floors to provide a large, open plan family house. The client’s principal wish was to make this fairly typical semi-detached house into a bright and spacious home. The location of the house within the St. John’s Wood Conservation Area, combined with a number of site constraints required innovative design solutions that will maximise both space and light whilst ensuring that energy efficiency is optimised.
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Existing Ground Floor Plan
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Completed Ground Floor Plan
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Before and After
Dining room (before)
View from living room (before)
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New Dining room with view of new kitchen
View from living room (after)
South elevation (before)
South elevation (after)
Existing First Floor Plan
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Completed First Floor Plan
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Completed Loft Plan
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View of loft bedroom and joinery
Internal window from kitchen
Living room with view of garden
Master bedroom
Play room with view out to garden
Skylight above stairs to loft
New kitchen
View from play room to living room
View from Living room to play room through transparent cupboards
Dining room with view of kitchen
Private Penthouse, London W8 Client Commissioned Completion Services
Private Residential 2008 December 2009 Full Architectural Services
Originally built in the 1980’s, this penthouse was acquired as a shell and entirely re-desinged and refurbished. The large reception areas flow into each other to allow for continuity and visual links. They can also be sub-divided into separate units to create more intimate social spaces. A new minimal staircase has been designed to connect the two floors of the penthouse.
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Existing Level 8 Plan
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Completed Level 8 Plan
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View of staircase from top floor
View of staircase with glass balustrade
Living room
View from living room across the loby
Master bathroom
Guest en-suite
View across the living room and stair loby
Detail of staircase
Timber and steel staircase with glass balustrade
View across staircase towards kitchen
Existing Level 9 Plan
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Completed Level 9 Plan
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Northampton Academy Client Construction Value Completion Services
The United Learning Trust £19,750,000 December 2005 Full Architectural Services
Designated Roles
- Packages Architect (For Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios) - Structural co-ordination - Site supervision
This is a new 1420 pupil secondary school on the site of an existing upper school. The aim of the project was to deliver an extended school agenda providing both curricular and extra curricular facilities for the pupils and wider community, with specialisms in Sport, Business and Enterprise. We wanted to create a visually permeable environment with an emphasis on clear and effective circulation. Linked pavilions follow a subtle non-orthogonal geometry around a sloping central courtyard providing a social focus for the internal school community. The interaction of primary spaces, circulatory routes, and views out to the surrounding landscape across changing levels, create a stimulating and dynamic character to the heart of the school. Learning spaces are grouped around double height circulation voids in sections of the school which each accommodate the equivalent of a year group of pupils, easing timetabling issues, and reducing pupil movement across the school between periods. Over time the learning spaces around each hub could be changed to create either smaller rooms or open plan learning zones. A shared aspiration of both the Sponsor and the Design Team was to make the project not just environmentally “friendly” but “progressive”. The concrete frame and soffits are exposed, utilising thermal mass for cooling via natural ventilation from windows and vents operated by the BMS system. An emphasis on high quality natural daylighting is articulated by large clerestory rooflights above each faculty hub and circularrooflights of varying diameters bring natural light deep into spaces where needed. A large solar shaded glazed screen divides courtyard and dining hub. A constraint was imposed by the Environment Agency to restrict surface water run-off. This required the use of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems and surface water attenuation measures including a long swale. Gardens were located between each faculty and a specifically allocated science garden and pond forms part of the water managment system. Awards – Civic Trust Education Award 2007 – RIBA Award 2006 Text by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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St Mary Magdalene Academy Client Construction Value Completion
London Diocesan Board for Schools and DCSF £27.7 million September 2008
Designated Roles
- Packages Architect (For Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)
This new 1360 place City Academy is an all-through school taking pupil’s from the early Years Centre through to sixth form. The through school provides a continuity of education within one facility, where it is important that individual areas should have their own sense of identity, whilst still benefiting from the common culture. The school illustrates our interest in the relationship between the internal spaces – autonomy yet also coherence, providing pupils with the best possible opportunities to share the widest range of facilities. It is also an example of maximising the external space on a tight urban site. The site’s character, its dimensions, topography, shape, boundaries and orientation are the main generators for the design of the building. St Mary Magdalene Primary School forms part of the new Academy. Architecturally, and from the perspective of the personal experience of very young children, it is important that this school is not subsumed within the larger mass of the Academy. The integration of the Early Years Centre within the envelope of the Primary now allows for very positive connections between the two and makes the scheme more architecturally cohesive. The two school halls provide an impressive frontage on to Liverpool Road, with the public community facilities relating to St Mary Magdalene Church and gardens across the road. Awards 2009 RIBA Award 2009 BCSE Awards - Inspiring Design (shortlist) 2009 AJ100 Building of the Year (shortlist) Text by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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Selfridges & Co’s . Manchester Client Construction Value Completion
Selfridges & Co’s £45 million 2003
Designated Roles
- Packages Architect (For Stanton Williams)
The new department store for Selfridges was designed within a re-configured existing building originally designed by BDP. The four storey building is now enhanced with a double height internal street and a dramatic atrium entrance. A cantilevered restaurant penetrates the north facade, opening up the space to daylight and giving views over Exchange Square. The detailed interior design for the second floor women’s department uses the textures and colours of the merchandise to provide the focal point against a simple but dramatic palette of materials. Four elements are identified: Arrival - Main point of arrival from escalators - Lifts are secondary Adjacencies - Natural links between adjacent areas - All related to the centre Circulations - Natural progress through areas Views - Restricted views in rooms to create intimacy - Long views for orientation and to encourage movement
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Curriculum Vitae
Architectural Qualification 2003
RIBA/ARB Part 3
Architectural Education 1993-1999 July 1999 July 1996
Architectural Association School of Architecture AA Diploma and RIBA/ARB part 2 RIBA/ARB part 1
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Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry Tender Information
2001 – 2002
Professional Experience
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2010 - Present Amos Goldreich Architecture Owner
1999 – 2001
2007 - 2009
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Private House, London NW8 (On site) Private House, London NW8 (Work in progress) Penthouse, London W9 (On site) House, London SW1 (Work in progress)
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Ryan von Ruben Architects Associate Architect
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, London Architect
Kent BSF. Bid Stage Paul Street, London Mixed use student housing and office development. Planning Application Wellington Place, Leeds Mixed use housing and commercial development Stage C St Mary Magdalene Academy, Islington Tender Information Northampton Academy (Conception – Completion) Queen Mary Student Housing, London Tender Information
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Stanton Williams Architects, London Architectural Assistant
Selfridges, Manchester Central Tender Information David Chipperfield Architects, London Architectural Assistant
Bliss Spa, Sloane Avenue, London Ansaldo City of Cultures, Milan, Italy Palace of Justice, Salerno, Italy San Michele Cemetery, Venice, Italy
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Haworth Tompkins Architects, London Architectual Assistant
Zvi Hecker Architects, Berlin Architectural Assistant
Jewish Community Center, Duisburg, Germany Offer Residence, Bnei Zion, Israel New Synagogue, Dresden, Germany Industrial Design project, Valli&Valli, Italy
Competitions 2010 2002 2001 1996
Holocaust Memorial, Atlantic City, USA Coastline Urban Master Plan, Herzliya, Israel Commendation The Rabin International Peace Forum, Tel Aviv, Shortlisted Israel Electrical Board Showroom, Tel-Aviv, Commendation
Published Architectural Work 2010 2010 2002 2002 2002
Mark magazine, No. 28, October/November Article on competition entry Architects’ Journal, 26.08.2010 Practice Profile Perspective, Israeli Architectural magazine, article on competition entry. Zman Hasharon, daily newspaper, Israel, article on competition entry. Studio, Israeli Art and Design Magazine, no. 131, article on competition entry .
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