Italian architect Cino Zucchi Architetti, in collaboration with One Works and Buro Happold London to design the Central Pasila Tower Area in Helsinki, Finland. The goal of the project is to unite the often separated issues of sustainability and urban quality, donating a new living landmark to the city. + Project description courtesy of Cino Zucchi [...]

Denmark-based Hvidt Arkitekter has completed the new headquarters for the American software company ‘ESRI’ (Environmental Systems Research Institute) located in California, USA. + Project description courtesy of Hvidt Arkitekter HVIDT ARKITEKTER BEHIND NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR ESRI – CALIFORNIA, USA The new headquarters of the American software company ’ESRI’ in Redlands, east of Los Angeles, California, has been [...]

Mexican architect Arquitectura en Proceso has completed the Darcons Headquarters in suburbs of Delicias City in the Chihuahua state of Mexico. + Project description courtesy of Arquitectura en Proceso The site is located at a suburban lot of a middle size city in northern Mexico. As one drives towards it and away from de city, the building [...]

California-based DRDS, in collaboration with Ilshin Architecture and Engineering have won the Invited National pre-qualified competition to design a broadcast headquarters and cultural media facility – KNN Media Center. The project aims to become a new landmark in Busan’s Centum City, which to house a broadcast and news studio, office condominiums, retail, and [...]

Danish architectural studio 3XN recently has completed the head office for Danish law firm Horten in Copenhagen, DK. The project has been developed as an energy saving building which is featuring the three dimensional façade in fiberglass and travertine, it acts as a screen against the sun while still providing a view to the water. + [...]

IT-Fornebu Portal building is a winning project in 2004 designed by Norway-based architectural firm A-Lab, the project is recently completed to house the business and incubation centre for information technology companies. The main concept was to strip and divide the program into independent architectonic elements, clearly defined by function, in order to gain maximal flexibility and [...]

Tessiture Nosate office building by Italian architectural practice Frigerio Design Group is the extension project for a leader textile factory in Milan outskirts. + Project description courtesy of Frigerio Design Group Woof and Warp For the extension of a leader textile factory in Milan outskirts we focused on the character of the main, south facing, elevation. A delicate [...]

Zaha Hadid Architects has designed the Jesolo Magica shopping mall and office complex located in town of Jesolo, Italy. The project was divided into two zones that situated half way between Jesolo town center and waterfront. + Project description This year, ZAHA HADID is the leading guest architect for “Barbara Cappochin” International Biennial of Architecture with a [...]

Paris practice LAN Architecture has designed a 142m high the Tower 486 Mina El Hosn, the ‘mirror-tower’ for Beirut, Lebanon. The exterior skin consists of sliding perforated sheet stainless steel panels with a mirror finish, ideally to reflect and symbolize the history and culture of the city within a heterogeneous context. The Cluster Houses materialize the [...]

Palazzo Grossi,  is the recent completed project by Italian architectural firm HOF for the new head office for the Municipality of Perugia in a former school building. + Project description courtesy of  HOF Design The project of the conversion of a former school building in the historical city centre of Perugia into the new head office of [...]

Mexico-based architecture firm Plataforma de Arquitectura recently has completed 151 SA project. + Project description courtesy of Plataforma de Arquitectura The project was conceived from the will of building a space of multiple relationships between interior and exterior, maintaining the intimacy of two design studios. The program is defined by the spatial needs of an architecture studio [...]

Designed by Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Norwegian firms DARK Arkitekter AS. The construction for DnB NOR Headquarters has been started in this year September and scheduled to be completed in 2012. The pixelated design adapts to the urban context and combines an efficient and flexible internal organisation, based on small-scale working entities, with a [...]

Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar have won the first prize to design sustainable skyscraper – Shenzhen International Energy Mansion in Shenzhen, China. The façade is conceived as a folded skin that shades the office complex from direct sunlight and integrates solar thermal panels, reducing the overall energy [...]

Spain-based Rafael de La-Hoz Architects has designed the Rafael del Pino Auditorium Building next to Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana. The facade of the building stands out for its metallic arboreal structure that supports the structure of the building on both sides. “It is about transforming a garden into an inhabited garden” Rafael de La-Hoz Architects + Project [...]