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Surya Sun-Responsive Shield For Dallas / REX
Surya represents a solution for Dallas – an option which didn’t require changing the construction of Museum Tower or the Nasher, due to intense “hot spot” caused by the tower’s very reflective skin....
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Novel Mode Ff Climate-Responsive Architecture / HygroSkin – Meteosensitive...
The project HygroSkin – Meteorosensitive Pavilion by Achim Menges explores a novel mode of climate-responsive architecture. The project uses the responsive capacity of the material itself instead of...
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OMA’s De Rotterdam Finally Completed
On November 21 OMA finally marked the completion of De Rotterdam, mixed-use vertical city on the river Maas. Efficiency has been very important or even central design parameter from day one, as they...
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Subnature Blurs The Boundary Between Clean And Contaminated
Subnature is special thesis project, done at Pratt Institute, by Carla Lores and Michael Yarinsky. The project aims to blur the boundary between what is considered clean and contaminated, synthetic...
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Cristal Riviera Urban Development In Historical Rennes, France
Cristal Riviera is a competition proposal by French firms Périphériques Architectes, a/LTA architects and Hamonic & Masson. It is a response to current developing renovation and regeneration...
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Blindspot Initiative
The ‘Blindspot Initiative‘ is a group exhibition in Los Angeles, being funded via a Kickstarter campaign. The exhibition will showcase work by cutting edge interdisciplinary designers based in Los...
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Grand Cancun Is The First Net Zero Energy Luxury Eco-Turism Resort
Grand Cancun designed by Richard’s Architecture + Design will be the world’s first luxury eco-tourism resort that responds to our energy crisis and local fossil fuel dependency of the city. This is a...
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Avis Magica Skyscraper For Miami
Avis Magica in Latin means “the magic bird”. The term “magic” comes from the city of Miami which is known as “the magic city”. Considering that the population grew from 1,000 to one million residents...
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Center For Glaciology Is Liquid In Form
The Center for Glaciology is diploma project by Matthias Sütterlin. The design aims to provide the visitors with the real happening in the eternal ice. Glaciers polarize – they tell stories of ancient...
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Instant City Lafayette, Louisiana
Today the name Main Street represents the only geographical location of the passageway with no true meaning of its centrality to Lafayette’s urban organization. An exemplar of a suburban city, the...
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Aedas Creates A Sense Of Drama For An Award Winning Private Residence In Hong...
Located at a hillside on the Hong Kong Island, this nine-storey private residence is set within an urban yet relatively low density area. Aedas designed a sculptural staircase that resembles three...
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Yongsan International Business District
Hollywood, CA architectural firm, 5+design, conceptualized the retail and civic areas for the 3.3 million square metered Yongsan International Business District, a project that represents the largest...
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Aedas Designs A Postcard Building For Novotel Hotel In Shanghai
Anchoring at the southern end of the main commercial street at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Changning Linkong Park, Aedas-designed Linkong 16-1 Novotel Hotel is a 220-key hotel occupying a block in the Linkong...
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Landmark Building In The Heart Of The Australian Tropics
The building designed by Woods Bagot gives concrete expression to James Cook University’s aim to become one of the world’s leading research universities in the tropics. As a repository of regional...
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Flo[bot] Field Release
Technology and society are co-evolutionary processes. As members of the creative vanguard of society, architects and designers are in the position to influence the direction of technology through...
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Cars-Tomized Identity Offers Innovative Car Manufacturing
Cars-tomized Identity is the title of final thesis project by Pei Ern Ho and Angelika Irawan, done at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia. It proposes a challenge...
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Prototype Zipcar Dispenser / Moskow Linn Architects
A cross between a vending machine, PEZ dispenser, and automated parking structure the Zipcar Dispenser inserts architecture into the implementation of high density shared automobile technologies....
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Made in Sandnes Or How To Develop An Inner City Wasteland
Made in Sandnes is special thesis project by Eivor Davidsen and Espen Vik which tries to answer how to develop an inner city wasteland. As cities are inevitably getting bigger, there is a tendency of...
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Jakarta’s Pertamina Energy Tower: World’s First Super-Tall Tower Whose Design...
SOM’s Pertamina Energy Tower for Jakarta, Indonesia is the dramatic centerpiece of a new consolidated headquarters created for the Indonesian state-owned energy company. The tower will rise more than...
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Linz Castle Addition / HoG Architektur
The Linz Castle has been home to the Upper Austrian National Museum since 1965. and recently it faced requirement for the enlargement of the exhibition space and new construction of the Southern wing....
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