New Hierarchies Of Space / The Kaufhalle Bremen Am Brill By Barkow Leibinger
The Kaufhalle Bremen am Brill in Bremen, Germany, dating back to the early 60’s resists easy categorization. It is neither a historical monument nor a particularly outstanding work of architecture, as...
View ArticleBlue Tape Wins Dubai Architecture School Tower Competition
“Blue Tape” by architecture graduates Evan Shieh and Ali Chen is the 1st-prize winner of the Dubai Architecture School Tower competition. In the single-phase ideas competition, participants had to...
View ArticleBetween Earth And Sky: Sculptural Cloud Gate To Shenzhen Southern University
Between Earth and Sky Gate by Penda Design is the design for an entrance sculpture to the Shenzhen Southern University of Science and Technology. It is a metaphor of formal contrasts to design a...
View ArticleFloating City By AT Design Office Is A Proposal For A New Sustainable Metropolis
AT Design Office has developed sustainable concept for an ocean metropolis, as a healthy alternative to destroying the earth’s valuable countryside. The existing landmass on earth has been built up so...
View ArticleOle Scheeren Reimagines The Petronas Towers Site With Three Distinct New Towers
Angkasa Raya is situated directly across from the well-known Petronas Twin Towers in the heart of Kuala Lumpur City Center. The new tower by Ole Scheeren presents a new typology in high-rise...
View ArticleNew Iconic Spiraling Skyscraper For Taichung
The team of HMC Architects and HOY Architects and Associates, led by HMC’s Raymond Pan, was among the five finalists selected for the Taiwan Tower International Design Competition. Their proposal was...
View ArticleTranslucent Prisms For The Kinmen Passenger Service Center
Tom Wiskombe’s proposal for the Kinmen Passenger Service Center is based on the idea that the buildings are not simply a piece of infrastructure, but also a cultural intervention. In order to achieve...
View ArticleNational September 11 Memorial Pavilion Opens
The National September 11 Memorial Pavilion opened May 21st. Snøhetta was commissioned to design the only building on the memorial plaza at the World Trade Center site. The program has changed several...
View ArticleExtra Fabrica 2014: Summer Design Build Workshop In Taipei
DEZACT is pleased to announce Extra Fabrica 2014, a design & build studio-based workshop in Taipei, Taiwan from 28th June 2014 to 09th July 2014. ExtraFabrica2014, a workshop on digital design and...
View ArticleAcapulco Chair 60th Anniversary Limited Edition
Acapulco Chair 60th Anniversary Limited Edition The Acapulco Chair is one of the most iconic chairs of the 20th Century. This year The Common project is celebrating the chair’s 60th Anniversary with a...
View ArticleLa Tour Bioclimatique: Luxury Sustainable High-Rise For Paris
La Tour Bioclimatique office tower by UNStudio was designed as an organizing element for the previously disconnected programmatic clusters within the Issy-Les-Moulineaux area of Paris. In order to...
View ArticleMiami’s Multi-Modal Transportation Hub Is The First Of Three To Connect South...
SOM’s design for All Aboard Florida’s new multi-modal hub for Miami is finally revealed. In addition to the Miami hub, SOM is also planning and designing All Aboard Florida’s passenger stations in...
View ArticleBeijing Scitech Mixed-Use Redevelopment / UNStudio
The Scitech mixed-use redevelopment by UNStudio is located on a crossing point of traditional and modern developments in Beijing, China. The site is adjacent to the city’s east-west central axis...
View ArticleApertures By Baumgartner + Uriu Challenges The Notion Of An Architectural...
Apertures by B+U. photo: Joshua White Within the discipline of Architecture, the discussion of fields, networks, and smooth transitions has dominated the dialogue over the past 15 years. Rooted in...
View ArticleNomadic City / Unplugged Architecture
Inspired by Ridley Scott’s 1982 “Blader Runer”, Patrick Soares and Indra Alam, students at the Florida International University in Miami, envisioned a future plagued by after affects of war and...
View ArticleOromia Bank Tower
In an era which could be defined by dominant need of representation of the power and by inevitable environmental awareness on the other side, LAVA’s concept for the Oromia Bank Tower in Oromia,...
View Article3D Printed Structural Steel
Arup engineers pushed the boundaries of 3D printing – by using the latest techniques – additive manufacturing – the team has created a design method for critical structural steel elements for use in...
View ArticleStainless Steel Parametric Archipelago Pavilion
The pavilion at Röhsska Museum of Design in Göteborg, by students Marcus Abrahamsson and Benoit Croo is entirely built out of precision cut stainless steel. With perforations that shift the light and...
View ArticleBIG’s Spiral Addition To Maison Des Fontadeurs
BIG’s addition to the Maison des Fondateurs will be located among of the historical complex of workshops and factories in Le Brassus, Switzerland, in the heart of La Vallée de Joux. Its organization...
View ArticleJeju Hills Hotel Resort Mimics Surrounding Landscape / LAVA
LAVA- Laboratory for Visionary Architecture designed Jeju Hills Hotel Resort for Korea – the island will house a luxurious hotel designed as another landform. JeJu is a mountainous volcanic landform...
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