This high rise building is two apartment blocks with 2x 8.600m2 floor area. De Brink Apartments sited in intersection of two canals near historic center. This building is designed by OMA architects and the development completed in 1988. This building consists of 80 apartments; split into two thin slabs gives a greater transparency in the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This bridge design by Zaha Hadid has stood up 40 competitors and thanks to the sustainability of the used materials like fibreC. The composition of this glass fiber reinforced concrete out of degradable, purely mineral raw materials entirely complies with the current trend of natural, environmentally-friendly and sustainable material. The bridge itself is the new [...]
This unique building is located in a town at the hillside of Mount Fuji in the Yamanashi prefecture, Japan. Hoto Fudo Restaurant was designed by Japanese architect, Takeshi Hosaka Architects. The building takes a site in corner lot, near the highways. The Hoto Fudo restaurant is unique with dome-shape and half-circle doors and windows. With [...]
This contemporary building is Villa K which is located in a breathtaking natural environment in Nagano, Japan. The Villa K is a hilltop residence from Mutsue Hayakusa Cell Space Architects . The house was designed with the high consideration of the connection between indoors and exterior. There are large windows in the house so the [...]
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 [...]
Technical Programme: 4 departments for the four major disciplines taught were • Department of Design, • Department of Fashion and Textile, • Department of Printing and Digital Media, • Department of Multimedia and Internet Technology. The Competition was Prize winning project, 2006. The Client was Vocational Training Council Hong Kong. The Architect was CAAU / [...]
– September 5, 2011
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 [...]
– May 31, 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 planning was Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky + Wolfdieter Dreibholz. The design principal was Wolf D. Prix. The project partner was Helmut Holleis. The project team was Volker Kilian, Luzie Giencke, Alexander Ott, Marcelo Bernardi, Claudia Buhmann, Daniel Kerbler, Markus Tritthart, Penny Rüttimann, Markus Wimmer, Hannes Wohlgemuth, Matthias Eckardt, Quirin Krumbholz, Robin Heather, Sergio [...]
– April 15, 2011
There were four wings and two pyramid-like chimneys in the red concrete museum, designed to exhibit paintings, drawings and etchings by artist Paula Rego. White covered the interior with flooring made from local marble. The building design was not only consisted of the galleries, but also a shop, cafe and 200-seat auditorium. Incoming search terms [...]
– April 14, 2011
Richard Meier & Partners third building broke ground in Prague, Czech Republic and receives LEED Platinum pre-certification Richard Meier & Partners Architects announced the construction of City Green Court which had recently started last September 2010. It denoted RM&P’s third building within the Master Plan of Prague 4- Pankrác that began almost a decade ago [...]
– March 4, 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Building Design of Haifa University Student Centre in Israel by Chyutin Architects
The Building Design of Masdar Institute campus powered by solar energy by Foster + Partners
The Building Design of Parc de la Ciutadella sports centre in Barcelona by Batlle i Roig Arquitectes
The Extension vB4 House by dmvA
The Building Design of NRGi’s Headquarters in Denmark