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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: China, China architecture, Glass, Goettsch partners, Skyscrapers
GOETTSCH PARTNERS DESIGNS PROMINENT POLY BUSINESS TOWER IN SHUNDE, CHINA 200-meter-tall building will be a city landmark between Guangzhou and Hong Kong Architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has designed the new Poly Business Tower in Shunde, China. Totaling 110,000 square meters, the project is one of several current assignments between GP and leading Chinese developer [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: Competition, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Fluid form, Stadium
Coop Himmelb(l)au recently has designed the Silk Leaf Stadium. Like a modern acropolis, our concept for the new National Stadium of Japan places the arena on a plinth as a sign in the center of the city. A large plaza is created by the plinth forming the main public entryway. The seating tribunes are conceived [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential Tags: AS/D, Mexico, Perforated
Mexican architectural firm AS/D designed the Casa Alta located on a steep slope within a 1,500 square meter plot with magnificent views to the valley, the main structure of this weekend house consists of a 6 m by 6m module in three levels with just 108 square meters and a roof deck overlooking the valley. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, MenoMenoPiu Architects, New York
Paolo Venturella & MenoMenoPiu Architects shared with us their finalist entry for the LAND ART GENERATOR INITIATIVE in FreshKills Park, New York City. The aim of the “Solar Loop” is to expose more surface as possible to the southern solar rays. The shape comes directly from the solar diagrams, and deals easily with the sun [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: Fluid form, Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, Museum, Waterfront architecture
This proposal for the New Contemporary Art Museum (NCAM) in Buenos Aires embodies the city’s dynamic cultural vibrancy. The building sits along the Rio de la Plata, plugging into the internationally influenced urban context as an architectural artifact representing the city itself. The design provides various exhibition and gathering spaces for both programmed and passive [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial Tags: China, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, White, Zaha Hadid
The Galaxy SOHO project in central Beijing for SOHO China is a 330 000m2 office, retail and entertainment complex that will become an integral part of the living city, inspired by the grand scale of Beijing. Its architecture is a composition of five continuous, flowing volumes that are set apart, fused or linked by stretched [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Australia NewZealand, Competition, Lattice screen, Library
Australian-based architectural studio POC+P architects proposal for a new library in daegu, korea, combines four archetypes across culture to create a new symbol. the square, the verandah, the shrine and the courtyard are merged into a simple but powerful form: the grounded-ness of the square, the sheltered path of the verandah, the sanctity of the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: L3P Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension, Switzerland
L3P Architekten has completed the new replacement apartment house at Glättlistrasse 31 and 33. The Glättlistrasse neighbourhood, located in the Zurich district of Altstett, is a typical 1950s suburban development. The construction brief for this project was to replace four terraced houses and a kindergarten that was no longer needed with a single apartment house [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Gonçalo Campos
Curvas was designed with an elegant profile fully exploring the limits of wood construction. It’s thin and sturdy structure is only possible thanks to great advances in computer controlled machinery, that can precisely shape each part, to be later masterfully assembled by skilled craftsmen. This chair was meticulously shaped, to provide maximum comfort. The elegant [...]
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Category: Architecture, Master Plan, Residential Tags: Aura, Egypt
Egypt-based architectural firm Aura – Better Living by design has designed the Joya residential redevelopment. Joya is a neo-islamic stylized residential complex. The compound’s excellent location and facilities brings its residents the rare opportunity to familiarize with the surrounding. The superb landscape that soothes the residents bound together with the exclusivity and serenity of the complex [...]
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Category: Architecture, Interior, Office Tags: Mexico
Placed on the back part of a terrain, a volume is partially buried leaving the visual depth of the existing backyard free, becoming an extension of it. This volume accommodates two working areas. A service module that contains a bathroom, a storage room and a cleaning area divides them. A manual skylight ventilates the module. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Installation Tags: China architecture, Design video, EASTERN design office, Pavilion, White
This tower is lucid? The visibility of this tower differs in accordance with the very motion of the atmosphere and every change of sky and light. No doubt this tower forgets that it is a tower. Tower of Ring by EASTERN design office from Eastern design office on Vimeo. Building such a lucid tower in [...]
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