Tensioned Relaxations – Playful Outdoor Structures For New York Street Fair
Tensioned Relaxations by Synthesis Design + Architecture (SDA) is a series of temporary deploy-able outdoor structures, that aim to reinvent the typical street fair tent through their combination of...
View ArticleEccentric Housing – Re-investigating the Potential of an Urban Block
The project of Eccentric Housing is done at SCI-Arc, as a research on an object integrated in a city block. The aim of the authors, Spike Liu and Mark A. Santa Ines was to develop a unit interlocking...
View ArticleSustainable Skyscraper For 505 Church Street, Nashville
Designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture, 505 Church Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, is going to be one of the most energy-efficient and sustainable mixed-use buildings in the...
View ArticleStockholm Skyscraper’s Facade Uses Piezoelectric Technology To Convert Motion...
Sweden based studio Belatchew Arkitekter proposed a concept for the transformation of the Stockholm skyscraper into a wind farm. The aim was to covering the building in thousands of...
View ArticleCloud-Like 2013 Serpentine Pavilion Finally Revealed
This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is the youngest, at 41, to accept the invitation to design one of the most famous...
View ArticleMinimal Environmental Impact: Taichung City Cultural Center By Sériès et Sérièes
Sériès et Sérièes, French-Californian practice, in successful collaboration with engineering partner Buro Happold did a proposal for Taiwan’s Taichung City Cultural Center. The project is rooted in...
View ArticleThe New Painterly Or How To Manipulate 3D Space with 2D Tools
The apocalyptic-ally looking project, done at SCI-Arc, by Austin Samson and Danny Karas, is an investigation on manipulation of the three dimensional space, by two-dimensional drawings or images....
View ArticleUndulating Skyscraper In Dubai / Adrian Smith And Gordon Gill Architecture
1 Park Avenue is a 550-meter, 116-story tower in Dubai, designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture. The development, with a trio of podium buildings as a base, is a signature design for...
View ArticlePalace Of Justice In Amsterdam Is A New Landmark Of Western IJ Docks
The Palace of Justice in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by Claus en Kaan Architecten is designed to be autonomous complex, recognizable in its presence. The exterior walls of this landmark piece are light,...
View ArticleDigitally Fabricated Lamp Generates Energy
This digitally fabricated lamp, named ”Phýllon” by Nikolay Hristov Ivanov, is inspired by the complexity of the leaf’s venation. Completely new process that employs computed simulation is used in...
View ArticleNaves Pavilion for Mons, Belgium | Capital of Culture 2015
Appareil and the team of Edouard Cabay, Elena Poropat, Julie Soulat, Chartotte Arres, and Alexandre Dubor have introduced ”Naves”, to the city of Mons, Belgium, as part of “Mons, Capital of Culture...
View ArticleZira Island Is Central Asia’s First Carbon Neutral Master Plan In Baku,...
Countries all over the world are adopting Carbon Neutral master plans, in an era of rising environmental awareness and energy scarcity. Denmark based BIG Architects, very active architectural office,...
View ArticleThe Sustainable Skins Of The Relief Tower
Daniel Caven of the Illinois Institute of Technology was featured in the American Institute of Architecture‘s Architect Magazine and was a finalist for Schiff Fellowship Award for his Relief Tower....
View ArticleUNStudio’s Theater In Spijkenisse Is Under Construction
The Theater in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, designed by UNStudio, is currently under construction. The greatest issue the architects at UNStudio were dealing with was the placement and the orientation of...
View ArticleHelsinki Central Library Competition Winner
The open international two-stage architectural competition for Helsinki Central Library was launched in 2012, and 544 entries were submitted from all over the world. The six entries selected for the...
View ArticleThe Cultural Cloud: Taichung City Cultural Center / Public Library And Fine...
With arts and culture at the core of Taichung, Taiwan’s urban identity, and the vision to lead in innovation and technology, RMJM’s design proposal seeks to bring together these significant attributes...
View ArticleAmsterdam Workplace VI | Visual Effects Studio
Yaohua Wang from the Netherlands proposes a 21,000 sqm (~226,000 sq ft.) project to support infrastructure for the developing VFX industry. The VFX (short for visual effects) industry is in a stage of...
View ArticleNational Maritime Museum In Tianjin, China | HAO+AI
HAO and AI, along with three other teams, have been invited to participate in the National Maritime Museum competition, situated outside the city of Tianjin in Northern China. The proposal for the new...
View ArticleNew Center For Contemporary Cinema
Designed by Amir Mikhaeil, the new Center for Contemporary Cinema, situated on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Virgil Avenue in Los Angeles, is neither a multiplex nor a museum – it aims to be a...
View ArticleSustainable Synergy Of Form, Energy And Tradition: ARPT Headquarters
Mario Cucinella Architects won a competition to design Algeria’s telecommunication agency headquarters. Exquisitely bold, the proposal is rooted in the traditional Mediterranean architecture and it is...
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