This public building is the contemporary approach to libraries as meeting spaces, rather than just book storage. Actually this two floors building consists of two boxes connecting with a box with wide openings. The compact mass of the building has a façade details that is unique.

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 [...]

Opening of Xi’an Expo
 Press Release Xi’an International Horticultural Expo had officially opened, after the Beijing Olympics and Shanghai Expo with a projected 12 Mio visitors for the coming 6 months.

In 1987, maverick French architect Jean Nouvel solved onto the international scene with a new headquarters for the Arab World Institute in Paris, one of President François Mitterrand’s Grands Projets. With mechanized oculi and veils of glass and steel, the apartment building was welcomed as an unconventional masterpiece that encouraged people to not only accept [...]

CITY OF LONDON’S LATEST LANDMARK DEVELOPMENT UNDERWAY The construction became one of the most iconic buildings in London’s Square Mile, British Land and Oxford Properties’ The Leadenhall Building. Following an announcement in late December 2010 on the completion of a joint venture partnership between British Land and Oxford Properties for the 610,000 sq ft development, [...]

The REX architecture firm has designed an extension building to an existing art museum in Zurich, Switzerland. The extension building from Kunsthaus Museum includes the galleries for French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, international art since 1960, and temporary exhibitions; education and event spaces; central hall and visitor services; offices and workshops; and art warehousing. All [...]

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 [...]