A Culinary Art School, which was designed by graciastudio , was situated in Tijuana, Mexico. The school building was housed two volumes, which functioned as the main characters. The school design consisted of the materials like exposed concrete, steel, garapa wood, glass and metal structure, which were combined. It created a transition space: the grand [...]
The Client was Londonewcastle. The Programme was Mixed use residential building. The Area was 16,220m². The Status was Submitted for planning March 2011 by Londonewcastle (Shoreditch Ltd). The Architect was AL_A. The Principal was Amanda Levete. The Project Director was Ho-Yin Ng. The Project Team was Matthew Wilkinson, Alice Dietsch, Frederick Pittman, David Flynn, May [...]
This stone house located on a hillside in Nas Montanhas de Fafe was built between two giant rocks. There’s no symmetry in this house design, but we still can find the door, the windows, and the roof, just like ones in traditional house. The unique design of this house, complemented with beautiful view of grass-covered [...]
The building is in Istanbul, Turkey in 9,100 m² (98,000 sf) areas. The building is purposed for a Turkish fashion house headquarters. The headquarters building consist of offices, showrooms, conference rooms, auditorium, museum, and dining hall—as well as the television studios, radio production facilities, and screening rooms of its media sister-company. The design is innovative [...]
3GATTI Architecture Studio of Rome and Shanghai had won a competition to design an automobile museum in Nanjing, China. An external concentric ramp allowed visitors to drive around the exterior of the museum in their own car, past the exhibits to a roof-top car park. Visitors then descend through the museum on foot via an [...]
This is the building project for an office renovation in Shanghai, China. The building is is situated in the former Shanghai French Concession, and original features such as timber joists and structural walls have been left exposed. This office building was designed by Chinese firm The building will accommodates a shop for retailer Design Republic [...]
This is a 244 unit housing property, built in 1991 in the Kashi District of Fukuoka, Japan. This building consists of three stories high form two blocks. Each house in this high rise building has a private courtyard to let the light come into the center. The major material used for this Nexus Housing are [...]
The Project title was Perimetral building and Temple of Diana environments. Mérida, Spain. It was located in Romero Leal and Santa Catalina street, Mérida, Spain. It was constructed on November 2009 – February 2011. The Total floor area was 2158,19m2. The Budget was 5.000.847,90 €. The Architect was José María Sánchez García. The Team were [...]
– August 4, 2011
Official opening of the Masdar Institute campus, first solar powered building at Masdar City . Lessons which had evolved over centuries of traditional Arabian architecture were incorporated by the masterplan of Foster + Partners. The first building of its kind to be powered entirely by renewable solar energy was the Masdar Institute. For the sustainable [...]
– May 9, 2011
The project was Greenland National Gallery. The client was Nunatta Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivia. The size reached 3000 m2. It was located in Nuuk, Greenland. It collaborated with TNT Nuuk, Rambøll Nuuk, Arkitekti, MIR, Glessner Group. The partner in charge was Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Pedersen. The project leader was Jakob Henke. The team was Daniel Selensky, Ji [...]
– March 16, 2011
This school building was located in Novelda, a small town near Alicante (Spain). It comprised in a renovation of an old school building ant its yard to allow new public uses. A work about the reuse of old buildings and their adaptation to contemporary needs was this proposal. In this sense, the Casal de la [...]
– March 4, 2011
Taking the river as inspiration and twisting it with contemporary design created the perfect combination of form and function at Raffles City Hangzhou UNStudio’s design designed the mixed-use Raffles City development. It was situated near the Qiangtan River in Hangzhou which was one of the most famous and prosperous cities in China. Raffles City would [...]
– February 3, 2011
The Chengdu Contemporary Art Centre was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. It was the largest cultural building in China. It was located in Chengdu in Sichuan Province. The contemporary design consisted of three auditoria, an art museum, exhibition space and conference centre, plus restaurants, bars and shops. To provide shade from the sun, the facade [...]
– January 13, 2011
The apartment tower with overhanging floor plates and terraces was designed by Herzog and de Meuron for Beirut, Lebanon. Created as part of a wider masterplan to regenerate this area of the city that included a marina, the building design would comprise five different modular floors to create a mixture of overhangs and terraces. The [...]
– December 24, 2010
The Interlace consists of thirty-one apartment blocks. Each block has six floors and the length is identical. These blocks are stacked in a hexagonal arrangement around eight large-scale open and permeable courtyards. This contemporary residential building is located on an eight-hectare site in the verdant Southern Ridges. The site area is 81,000 m2 for these [...]
– January 7, 2010
This unbuilt design has won the 2008 Honor Award of AIA Chicago. Studiogang Architects designed this project as the challenge of contemporary practices of residential construction in China. For that reason, in the design there is ‘courtyard fabric’ as the respond to environmental conditions such as sun and wind, and to maximize social and recreational [...]
– December 8, 2009
EMERGENT has designed Huaxi Urban Centre Tower in Guiyang, China. This project is created for Hualong Investment Group Ltd. as the client. This contemporary high-rise building is 110 M. Office Tower with 20,000 m2 floor area. The shroud of the building is made of perforated sheet metal. It acts as a sunscreen during the daytime, [...]
– November 19, 2009
This housing design is a highly rational and logical approach for a prototype living space for people clustered in the city. Located in the center of Osaka, Japan, this Glashaus faces Utsubo Park, an oasis of nature in the heart of the city. Designed by Waro Kishi and K. Associates, this housing complex has double-skin [...]
– October 12, 2009
The Building Design of Barceloneta Market with a Glass Facade by MiAS Architects
The Building Design of Casal de la Juventud de Novelda in Spain by CrystalZoo
The Regnum Tower Design for Residential and Office
The Design Idea for Singapore’s Garden
Mixed-Use Building in First Avenue Seattle