Mirrored Skin Contemporary Museum Acts As Catalyst For Public Space
New Contemporary Art Museum for Buenos Aires, Argentina, designed by Batay-Csorba Architects, surely takes advantage of the long but narrow dockside of the renewed waterfront. Building’s skin is...
View ArticleVertical Velocity Or How the Major League Gaming Headquarters Reach Zero Balance
Vertical Velocity is an experiment in conceiving and organizing a piece of architecture solely based on the climatic parameters of the site. This is achieved by investigating three basic types of heat...
View ArticleJyvaskyla Music and Art Center / Ocean North + Achim Menges
Competition entry at first, Ocean North’s design for Jyväskylä Music and Art Center was later, in phase 02, redesigned for Venice Architectural Biennale. Second phase was a joined venture of Ocean...
View ArticleMAD’s Cultural Center In Harbin Is Taking Shape
Back in the 2010, MAD Architects won the competition to design the cultural center of Harbin. Recently, in August 2013, the structure of the Cultural Center was completed and the project finally began...
View ArticleDancing Art Museum For Buenos Aires
Exciting in form and amusing in the way the wrapping is twisted along the building, the new Art Museum for Buenos Aires, Argentina. Designed by former Austrian architectural studio PRECHTECK and now...
View ArticleTaichung City Cultural Center
In order to bolster Taichung’s cultural industry after the merger of Taichung City and Taichung County, Taichung City Government planned a new cultural park in the Gateway City district. Taichung City...
View ArticleCompact Proposal for Taichung Cultural Center
RTA Office’s proposal for Taichung Cultural Center Competition is rooted in the idea of the container – with the special attention paid to low impact development and directions of the sustainable...
View ArticleWalking on Clouds: On Space Time Foam By Tomas Saraceno
On Space Time Foam, a project by Tomas Saraceno created for Hangar Bicocca in Milan, Italy, is a multi-layered habitat of membranes suspended 24 meters above the ground that is inspired by cosmology...
View ArticleKnitting A Building: My Thread Pavilion for Nike
Have you ever wondered if you can knit and braid a building and if it could be lightweight as air? The myThread Pavilion by Jenny Sabin was commissioned by Nike Inc. for the International Nike FlyKnit...
View ArticleContemporary Doll’s House By Zaha Hadid Architects
Inspired by the dolls’ house that Edwin Lutyens designed for The British Empire Exhibition in 1922, twenty British architectural practices were invited to design a contemporary doll’s house in aid of...
View ArticleVoguing: Shadows And Their Reflections
“Voguing: Shadows and their reflections / Dancing with the self” is the title of thesis special by Sara Gaskari, done at SCI-Arc. The history of the word vogue clearly shows how the meaning can...
View ArticleMultiplication vs. Unification / Junfeng Wang
Multiplication vs. Unification is a final thesis project by Junfeng Wang, done at GSD Harvard. The starting point of this addition design was to identify a geometric system in the existing building –...
View ArticleThe Ballart Regional Integrated Cancer Center
The Ballart Regional Integrated Cancer Center by Billard Leece Partnership is ambulatory facility that supports a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to patient care. The addition – new glazed...
View ArticleShell And Shadow For Nordpark Railway Stations In Innsbruck, Austria / Zaha...
Shell & Shadow by Zaha Hadid Architects, a project for Nordpark Railway Stations in Innsbuck, Austria, is a unique architectural statement which is inspired, in its fluidity, by natural ice...
View ArticleVolcano: A Proposal For A New Opera House, Stockholm / Joakim Wadenholt
Volcano is a B.Arch thesis project by Joakim Wadenholt, done at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. This proposal investigates how to make the opera in Stockholm popular again by making a...
View ArticleArdmore Residence In Singapore Completed / UNStudio
In recent years high-rise residential towers is Asia have undergone a significant transformation. No longer only mass replicated tower blocks dot the skyline of most Asian cities, a new generation of...
View ArticleDining Room Wrapped In Faceted Aluminum Sheets / Billard Leece Partnership
Billard Leece Partnership recently completed the La Trobe University Wodonga campus student accommodation which provides residential support for students studying in rural and regional areas in order...
View ArticlePure Tension Volvo Pavilion Is A Portable Charging Station / SDA
The “Pure Tension” Volvo Pavilion is a joint venture of Synthesis Design + Architecture, Buro Happold and Fabric Images. This tensile structure is a lightweight, rapidly deployable, free-standing...
View ArticleBilbao BBK Headquarters Under Construction / Zaha Hadid Architects
BBK Bank Headquarters in Bilbao, Spain, by Zaha Hadid Architects is under construction. This 25,000 square meter tower represents the future headquarters for a socially-conscious savings bank and it...
View Article3xLP Wins SKIN Digital Fabrication Competition
3xLP by Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia has finally been announced as the winner of SKIN – the international digital fabrication competition, organized by TEX-FAB Digital Fabrication Alliance....
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