Design Initiatives

Profile of Design Initiatives, headquartered in United States. Seven projects submitted by Design Initiatives have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: Vlado Valkof – © Design Initiatives

Principal

Vlado Valkof

Brief description

Design Initiatives is innovative, award-winning architecture practice based in Los Angeles, California and Sofia, Bulgaria, EU founded in 2009 by Vlado Valkof.

For two years, after Vlado Valkof [or just Valkof] graduated with Master’s degree from UACEG, Sofia in 1998 he had worked as free-lancer. In 2000 he relocated to Southern California first to do his internship in Morphosis and than his post-grad at SCI-ARC. After that he had gained extensive experience in several Los Angeles offices over complex commercial, institutional, mixed-use, residential, and interior projects throughout the US, Europe, Russia and the UAE. In 2009 Valkof had a chance to re-establish his practice under the name of Design Initiatives.

Valkof is a Laureate of The International Academy of Architecture [IAA] and got awarded with The Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation [ICIF] Prize. His work won Second Prize from The United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] Competition and participated in Beyond Media Festival in Florence, Italy.

Published projects

: Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Centre by Design Initiatives Our intention in the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Centre Competition is to organize a joyful, integral space where man...

: New Taipei City Museum of Art by Design Initiatives Inside the Cloud: Our attempt in the New Taipei City Museum of Art competition is to find the essence of art and to materialize our notion of art; to redefine...

: CSKA Sofia Stadium by Design Initiatives This is a remodeling project of the club stadium of the Bulgarian football club CSKA Sofia to meet Category four of UEFA stadium standards. It mainly includes...

: Maribor Art Gallery by Design Initiatives This is an entry in international competition for 17,800 m2 new building of the Maribor Art Gallery in Maribor, Slovenia. The complex and heterogeneous program...

: Modular House by Design Initiatives The Modular House overcomes the main disadvantage of prefab typology, its rigidness by amplifying sustainability and adaptability to various sites and needs...

: The Crowd in the Cloud by Design Initiatives Our project responds to the context which is planned to be build by the time the project is completed, and to the dynamically twisted site. Our attempt is to...

: A Room for London by Design Initiatives A Room for London is a competition for temporary demountable hotel room for up to two guests on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London during the Olympic...