Build Architecture Awards

Build Architecture Awards 2015 26 egistered in 2004, ARHI GRUP is a company on the rise. We are a young and dynamic enterprise with extensive project experience, taking a limited number of jobs at one time in order to provide lead- ership continuity for each of them. This ensures our commitment to both excellence in design and technical integrity, which in turn are beneficial for each and every detail of our projects. Our clients usually are mid-scale to up-scale devel- opers that are looking for performance in design, commitment for deadlines and consciousness of construction budget. Since 2004, ARHI GRUP has been committed to a number of significant projects which challenged us and enriched our know-how and experience re- quired for all major architectural programs, namely residential, office and retail segments. All the projects were successfully managed and developed by ARHI GRUP, while maintaining outstanding relationships with our clients. Our position on the market has enabled us not only to be highly competitive, but also cost effective. Nevertheless, the standard of our services – seen precisely through the above-mentioned corporate value of superior quality in design and planning – places us in a class of our own. We aim to add value to each project we undertake by designing highly functional buildings which inspire beauty, while also demonstrating fiscal accountability and sustainability. Architecture as creative act it’s become as dynamic as the technology, which in fact determined this dynamism. There a lot of good –designed buildings today, in almost each corner of the world. But, of course, apart from being beautiful a building also has to satisfy many other criteria, and we believe that this might make a difference. The research, the story, the philosophy be- hind a building, could improve the final de- sign and could also dramatically influence how a building is assimilated by the city. One of our latest projects, Hotel Mercure Bucharest City Center is such an example. Situated in a historic and eclectic neigh- bourhood, but very central, we’ve had several attempt to find means of stylistic expression, until we decided that the fu- ture building must contribute synergistical- ly to the character of the area, which led to a contextual approach. Architectural contextualism defines a set of values that once applied to a new building grafted on a historical tissue, makes it not an scratchy and foreign object, but a regenerative element that communicates harmoni- ously with the surroundings. The new hotel facades have taken and reinterpreted architectural and symbolic elements from the immediate vicinity, so as to emit a cultural message, both urban and stylistically consistent. We are talking about arched windows alternated with rectangular ones, a porch with arches ceded to public space and last but not least the collage on the main facade of Best Architectural Services Company 2015 – Romania ARHI GRUP ARHI GRUP is a Romanian based enterprise providing complete design services specialising in architectural, structural and electro-mechanical designs. George Mihalache talks us through the group’s ethos and how they have come so far as to win such a prestigious award. R