The Kaohsiung Port Terminal scheme designed by Asymptote combined terminal with public facilities including exhibition and event spaces for the people of Kaohsiung as well as for national and international visitors. The port terminal design features two 14-storey towers connected by a levitating terminal hall. Below this terminal hall is an open public plaza. At [...]
The Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office created Japanese house. It had a studio supported above the residence on two mounds of crushed marble. Mountains and Opening House was a home and studio for a footwear designer. The house design was a design room for a Japanese sneaker brand as well as a residential house. The [...]
The smokey town houses were designed by Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects . The Smokey Town House was elemental and egalitarian, designed with a hard shell and a warm heart. A series of staggered brise-soleils protect the interior of the single-storey home from exposure to the sun. Angular terraces extend out from each shaded area. It [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This building complex will be built in the heart of Ljubljana, between the park and main Ljubljana pedestrian commercial street in Slovenia. The mixed use building will accommodate boutique shops, caffe and residences. The building areas are divided in 5.474 m2 for commercial program and 3.222 m2 for the apartment blocks Incoming search terms for [...]
New York practice Reiser + Umemoto designed a terminal building for the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The building design showed a series of undulating horizontal structures, each with glazed facades at the ends. It would be combined together towards the centre. It rose to form a tower at the opposite end. The terminal architecture would [...]
This is one of the nominees of the 2010 eVolo skyscraper competition. This project which was designed by 4th year student , got a special mention in the eVolo sky scraper competition. The concept design from the duo of Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak (H3AR) is comprised of a system of gutters to catch as [...]
– March 15, 2010
This high rise building in Taipei, Taiwan will accommodate the activities of theater and observation tower. This building design is an entry for an opera competition in Taiwan which was designed by Visiondivision collaborates with Markus Wagner, a member of Svensk Standard. By raising the building up, it is possible to create a public space [...]
– March 11, 2010
Park Associati has desigmed the high rise building, named as Regnum Tower in Onur sk, Istanbul, Turchia. This tower has 145 m of height that will be functioned as residential and offices. The Regnum Tower consists of 27 floors for residential units and 9 floors for offices. This building take on 5400 sq/m project area, [...]
– March 10, 2010
MAD architects have designed this building model that will be located in Chonquing, China. This high rise building is not the ordinary rigid building design; it is an innovative idea in bilding design. This futuristic building connected by a core cylindrical structure, each floor has been placed a little off the centre, giving the building [...]
– March 7, 2010
The rapid China’s growth population needs the availability of economically housing. This under construction project is one of architectural innovative solution. The Fake Hill is a residential apartment building which is located on a waterfront site in Beihai, China. The building will provide residential, office and hotel facilities in 492,369sqm building area on 109,203sqm site [...]
– March 6, 2010
Located in Seine Left Bank Urban Development Zone Paris 13th Arrondissement, France, this high rise building is named as 79 Logements PLUS. The facede of the building performs decorative coating Terrastyl polychrome, raw concrete finish, and Ultra high performance concrete. The outside flooring uses Serpentino Verde stone while the inside flooring uses Polished Serpentino stone [...]
– March 3, 2010
This high rise building was designed by C. F. Møller Architects and Norwegian firm Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter. Located at Norways most important traffic hub in central Oslo, this high rise block is intended to be a landmark for Oslo. This modern tower design provides fantastic views of the waterfront and fjord-landscape beyond. The tower has [...]
– February 27, 2010
The Ascent with 22 stories which is including one lobby, secure parking level, amenities level and 19 floors of luxury condominiums provides a dynamic addition to the Cincinnati’s skyline. Studio Daniel Libeskind has designed this high rise building in curving crescent form and sloping roof line to allow the maximum vistas from the building to [...]
– January 23, 2010
This building design has won the international design competition and the construction will begin at the end of this year. This high rise building comprised eight-story and it was designed by Samoo Architects PC. This building will be located on East 32nd Street in Midtown, Manhattan and will serve administration offices, exhibit space, gardens, artist [...]
– January 17, 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 high rise building design features three interconnected mixed-use towers. De Rotterdam has complex programs in 160.000m2 gross floor area. This mixed-use building accommodates Offices 72,000m2, 220 apartments 35,000m2, hotel (280 rooms / conference center / restaurant) 19,000m2, parking 25,000m2 (approximately 650 parking places), retail / public program 6,000m2, fitness 2,000m2, central lobby 700m2, loading [...]
– January 6, 2010
Shin Takamatsu, the Japanese architect has designed this high rise building on 4,500 site area of a sharp triangle around the Yangtze River in Jukei, China. The Sunshine tower has 46 floors with simple program for commercial facilities, offices, and hotels. The symbolic design is required by this Beijing-based company and the result is the [...]
– January 2, 2010
Sustainable design is encouraged in this 1900 First Avenue Hotel and Apartments. A diverse set of sustainable solutions are utilized in this mixed-use building including green roofs, PV panels, rainwater harvesting, day-lighting and natural ventilation as well as minimizing energy usage. Exactly, this high rise building located at First Avenue and Stewart Street in downtown [...]
– December 31, 2009
Singapore will also have a beautiful high rise building with its EDITT Tower (Ecological Design in the Tropics). This project will be built with the financial support of their National University. This tower design consists of 26 floors with photovoltaic panels. The skyscraper building will use organic local vegetation to wrap the building which is [...]
– December 29, 2009
This high-rise building was built in Seattle as the urban infill project to be a modern addition to the community. The mixed-use building comprises ground-level retail (Cupcake Royale), five levels of condominiums, and two underground parking levels. The condominium provides nine-foot floor to ceiling windows and open-plan layouts while the kitchen is partially enclosed. The [...]
– December 28, 2009
This high rise building was designed for the Otto Bock HealthCare Company in Berlin, Germany. The building comprised six levels of floor in the organic-dynamic design. The façade of the building was designed to be soft in look as the effort of design principle that is harmony between human and technology. The company building was [...]
– December 22, 2009
Mainly, this five storey building is designed to facilitate the famous “Bebek Bengil” restaurant in Ubud, Bali. Bebek Bengil has known widely as the tourist destination because of its crispy fried duck menu and unique location on the rice field. This mixed use building designed to be contextual to its site which is between a [...]
– December 20, 2009
The site of this Class A office complex surrounded by railroads, bridges, and infrastructure. This office building is standing at the gateway to the North Pearl District, Portland, Oregon. The high rise building has 12-story office tower in concrete structure with 700-vehicle parking garage in four levels. To conserve energy and increase occupant comfort, a [...]
– December 17, 2009
Penang Global City Center designed by Asymptote in Malaysia. The design of Penang Global City Center accommodates two iconic sixty story towers. These two high rise buildings include luxury residential units and five-star hotels. Beside the two towers there are the Penang Performing Arts Center (PenPAC), a high-end retail and entertainment complex, an observatory, a [...]
– December 11, 2009
This is one of high rise buildings in Abu Dhabi. The prestigious tower with a forty-story of luxury residential building is designed to be a powerful landmark on the Al Dana precinct’s skyline, signifying the future of Abu Dhabi as a vital city in the UAE rising alongside Dubai. Named as Strata Tower, this luxurious [...]
– December 10, 2009
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
Izquierdo Lehmann has designed Cruz del Sur Building in Santiago, Chile which is 43,129 sqm project areas on 3,987 sqm site area. The project consists of an office tower with a commercial complex in the base, located at the intersection of Apoquindo Av, main axis of Santiago, and Americo Vespucio Av, the capital’s circular beltway. [...]
– December 5, 2009
Aqua Tower is a mixed-use high rise building sited in Chicago’s urban environments that must negotiate small view corridors between existing buildings. This high rise building designed to catch particular views as the responds to the urban environments. Aqua Tower has 82-storys that include a hotel, apartments, condominiums, parking and offices in over 1.9 million [...]
– November 29, 2009
Located in the old centre of Hamburg, the project “Steckelhörn 11” replaces a ruinous building and fills the gap between two historic premises. The lot site has triangular-shaped that stretches across the city block. That condition gives the impact to the design so the building has a narrow façade of about 1.3 m width facing [...]
– November 28, 2009
Rafael de La-Hoz, the Spanish base architectural firm has completed the two cylindrical white towers. This high rise building is called as Torres de Hercules, located in the Bay of Algeciras in Southern Spain. This mix-use building will accommodates office space, although some of the floors will have commercial space and services, such as: coffee [...]
– November 22, 2009
The Building Design of Moritzburg Museum Extension in Germany by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
The Building Design of Kunsthaus in Zurich
The Building Design of Moses Mobhida Stadium in South Africa
The Building Design of Hotel City Garden
The Design Proposal for Winter Olympic Complex