Belzberg Architects designed The Kona Residence. The natural wondrous beauty of Hawaii was applied to the residence design with sculpturistic geometric architectural elements flawlessly. With photovoltaic panels equipped the residence for solar energy, CNC milled ceilings, so, its carbon footprint was minimized. The modern residence had also a system for rain water collection. It’s mammoth [...]
The SO Architecture, Israel-based architect firm has designed the Umm el-Fahem Museum for Contemporary Arab Art. The design of the museum had redglass pyramid at the Louvre, the Pompidou museum, the Guggenheim museum in New York, Bilbao, and others. The flow of the of the public in the building is circular. Incoming search terms for [...]
The futuristic bridge design proposed by Planning Korea is called “Paik Nam June Media Bridge”. The bridge will incorporate a museum, library, and IT centre. The structure will accommodate cars, pedestrians, and cyclist across the Han River. It will connect Dangi-Li Power Plant (which will be soon redeveloped into public cultural space) in the North [...]
WORKSHOP KYMENLAAKSO UAS, KOUVOLA Architect’s short description (by Teemu Tuomi) A part of Kymenlaakso UAS campus, was workshop building. Placing relatively large workshop spaces at the campus area consisting of old army barracks without disturbing the hierarchy of the built environment was the task. The building design was designed for students studying design and restoration. [...]
Again, we present for you a beautiful building in Shanghai Expo 2010. Here is the Danish Pavilion which is designed by Copenhagen-based Bjarke Ingels Group. The building represents the capitol of Denmark, Copenhagen which is known for some attractions such as the city bike, the harbor bath, the playground and the picnic. Incoming search terms [...]
Medical Centre in Milagro, Navarra (Spain) The promoter was Town Hall of Milagro (Spain). The architects were Borja Izaguirre Larrañaga, Cristina Arregi Gonzalo, Silvia Echeverría Echeverría, and Beatriz Gil Rodríguez. It was located at parcel nº 782 of the polygon nº1, between the street Profesor Turrillas and San Juan Avenue, Milagro, Navarra (Spain). The constructed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
– January 5, 2011
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 [...]
– January 2, 2011
For 56 Leonard Street was designed by herzog and de mueron, their first residential tower in New York City. The building design was designed with each floor stacked on top of one another, each one slightly askew to create dramatic cantilevers. The building design was designed the relationship between private tower and public streetscape with [...]
– December 27, 2010
The Central Pasila Tower Area was designed by Cino Zucchi Architetti, in collaboration with One Works and Buro, Happold London. It was located in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of the project was to unite the often separated issues of sustainability and urban quality. It was also to donate a new living landmark to the city. [...]
– December 26, 2010
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
Aeroport Lleida-Alguaire was designed by Fermín Vázquez of b720 Arquitectos. . It was located at Aeroport Lleida-Alguaire. The building was 41 metres tall. It had a Corten steel-edged platform that snakes over the roof of the base and up each side of the tower. The roof of the base and sides of the tower was [...]
– December 23, 2010
This building is located in HuaiNan city, AnHui province in China. The main purpose of the project is to house the headquarters for a technology park. Beijing studio Sunlay Design have designed this building in two structures – a tower block and a two-pronged cantilevered building – which will be connected by a glazed walkway [...]
– December 15, 2010
David Kohn Architects built “Skyroom” above the Architecture Foundation’s London offices. The Skyroom was a rooftop event space that had steel structure enclosed by copper mesh walls, larch flooring, and topped with transparent plastic (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene/ETFE). The structure and materials used had been chosen for their lightness and variety of transparency: the white steel structure [...]
– November 9, 2010
UNSTudio Tower, with 82.5 m height, is a 21-storey building located in the Maher urban complex, Amsterdam. The tower contains 21 floors of office space and a ground floor with mezzanine. The façade of the tower design introduces horizontal and vertical articulation. The horizontal one is the white aluminium bands with varying size, depth, and [...]
– November 6, 2010
This building is unique. The Psi Tower, what is the building called, was designed by British Hong Kong based designer Michael Young who has lived in Hong Kong for several years. The tower has faceted surfaces that will change according to weather and lighting conditions. Incoming search terms for the article:lego tornado hong kong building PSI tower [...]
– October 5, 2010
This building is a 142 m high mirror tower in Beirut, Lebanon which is designed by LAN Architecture. Incoming search terms for the article:high rise building design 486 mina el hosn mina el hosn flat mina el hosn floor plans
– September 25, 2010
This new vertical campus is a courtesy of VOA Associates , the new feature in Roosevelt University. The vertical expansion is the only solution for this existing campus layout. The new campus has 32 storey building in quite slim in profile with its wavy glass façade which provides a distinguishing aesthetic touch. Incoming search terms [...]
– September 13, 2010
The Mexican studio Rojkind Arquitectos has deisgned the R432 skyscraper building which is about to commence construction in Mexico City. This high rise building unites 12 plots of land and will extend 52 floors into the air. The restaurants and shops are placed on the first three floors, while the residential apartments are housed above [...]
– July 23, 2010
Daniel Libeskind has designed the Reflection towers at Keppel Bay, Singapore. The towers situated at the entrance to Singapore’s historic keppel harbor. The project design sits approximately 84,000 sq metres of land with an extensive shoreline of 750 metres. Incoming search terms for the article:reflection singapore singapore buildings singapore building reflections singapore the reflection singapore singapore tower reflection reflexion Singapore building design keppel bay [...]
– May 9, 2010
This stone towers building was designed by famous woman architect, Zaha Hadid for the client Rooya Group. The building comprises 525,000sqm office and retail complex which will be built in the stone park district of Cairo, Egypt. The stone tower will also completed with a five-star business hotel with serviced apartments, retail with food and [...]
– May 6, 2010
IT-Fornebu Portalbuilding is a business centre and offices at the former Oslo Airport in Norway. The building will accommodate information technology companies and forms an entrance to the main terminal building. The Oslo studio A-lab has designed the Portal building in four glazed office blocks and four stone-clad towers flank a structure clad in red [...]
– April 30, 2010
This design is a renovation proposal for the Hill of Water and Sculpture. The project takes a site in Ichihara city, Chiba, Japan. The Japanese architects, Suppose Design Office have designed this sculptural and tower project in an industrial area along Tokyo bay. Actually, the design exploits the existing structures by changing them into individual [...]
– April 29, 2010
Actually, this building is a building complex that houses a hotel and mixed-use development in Guangzhou, China. The building is located in the central of an existing exhibition zone. The building was designed by Aedas , and the design was intended to be unique and iconic for strong character of the surroundings. The lower level [...]
– April 28, 2010
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 [...]
– April 20, 2010
This housing block building has 22 floors of dwelling unit with retail shops on the ground floor. This social housing project in Madrid called as 132 Social Housing Block was designed by Spanish office Estudio Entresitio. The private units are hidden from the outside because the building is clad in zinc tiles and windows are [...]
– April 5, 2010
Russia Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 was designed to perform a comfortable city like a fairy-tale world. This pavilion will be built on a 6,000-square-meter site area. The design was inspired by traditional Russian women’s costume which is symbolized in 12 white towers. Incoming search terms for the article:who is designer for russia [...]
– March 31, 2010
This project located in the area around the van Hasseltweg in Amsterdam Noord. The project de Albatros is a residential building which was reconciling the confrontation between the scales of the new large developments and that of the surrounding housing. In order to solve this challenge, the building was designed to “break it up”. Incoming [...]
– March 30, 2010
The Altis Belém Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal was designed by RISCO Architects. The hotel located in Belém, on the waterfront to the east of the Bom Sucesso Dock and opposite the Belém Cultural Centre. The Altis Belém Hotel is a 5-star hotel with 50 rooms and a number of facilities intended to support water sports. [...]
– March 20, 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
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