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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Car Park, Fluid form, Hong Kong, White
“Sky Stree” is the proposal by the Polish desingers Hugon Kowalski, Adam Wiercinski and Borys Wrzeszcz, designed for Hong Kong Alternative Car Park Tower competition which was held by AC_CA organization. The main concept of this project was to create parking space as extension of the street. Typical city-street with traffic lane, parking spaces, sidewalk [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Greece, Waterfront architecture
Designed by Raptaki Iro, Plastirasn Nikolas, Paschalidis Stavros & Klepkos George, the proposal of Water Cube was listed among the 20 finalists in the National competition “designing the upcoming public water-transport stations / Thessaloniki“. The competition brief asked the participants to design 4 stops in the city of Thessaloniki in Greece, in order to be used by waterbuses [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Airport, Georgia, Iconic architecture, UNStudio
UNStudio‘s design for the new Transfer Terminal and Air Traffic Control Tower for Kutaisi Airport was officially presented yesterday by the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who personally demolished one of the walls of the old airport yesterday announced, We will build an international airport here, which will take aircraft from [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Transportation Tags: A-001 Architectural Workshop, Bridge, Iconic architecture, Italy
A-001 Architectural Workshop has designed the Museum-Bridge in Venice, Italy. The arch as a string instrument that inspires the structural melody of a bridge in Venice, two points of tension and multiple lines that distribute the forces. This project is the alternative of an uncommon solution: proving that the equilibrium, does not require symmetry. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Airport, COR-TEN, Foster + Partners, Landscape architecture, Mexico
Located in the desert-like landscape of New Mexico, Spaceport will be the first building of its kind in the world. Its design aims to articulate the thrill of space travel for the first space tourists while making a minimal impact on the environment. Viewed from space, the terminal evokes Virgin Galactic’s brand logo of the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected, Transportation Tags: Concrete, Damilano Studio, Folding architecture, Petrol station, White
Damilano Studio Architects have recently completed the GAZOLINE Petrol Station location in Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy. The design of a service station is a strong reference to the idea of travel, short or long-distance routes interrupted only by a few stops and then back on the road. A break for refueling, or just to stretch a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: China architecture, Fluid form, Margot Krasojevic
Designed by Margot Krasojevic, the project is for the design of 2 cable car stations along the edge of the Gobi desert, starting from Ordos city the trail leads into the deserts sand dunes, a major tourist attraction. The form optimises the use of dichroic and holographic film in glass cladding, which helps to adapt [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: Austria, Bridge, Glass, SOLID architecture
SOLID architecture designed a bridge that is enclosed on all sides to connect the two buildings Rennweg 44 and 46 at the fifth upper floor, 17 metres above the Kleistgasse in the third district of Vienna. The bridge with a span length of 22 metres was completed in May 2009. Architecture In reference to its [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Architectural video, Bridge, LED, Lighting concept, Sanzpont
DSSH Bridge is designed by sanzpont [arquitectura] for the Building to Building Pedestrian Bridge International Challenge. DYNAMIC SHAPESHIFTING HELIX BRIDGE DYNAMIC REACTION: Being a flexible tensile structure, by applying more tension to different points, a technological dynamic deformation can be achieved in response to the people crossing the bridge. It becomes a living element that [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: Airport, b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Color architecture, Folding architecture, Spain
The programme of requirements includes a terminal building, a control tower, and two spaces for storages. Given their size, none of these elements were obvious candidates to represent a new airport. The strategy pursued therefore seeked to link the three programmes by means of a common visual element that avoids the impression that a strange [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Foster + Partners, Green architecture, Hong Kong, Terminal, Waterfront architecture
Foundation stone laid at Hong Kong’s new cruise terminal A foundation stone laying ceremony, attended by the Chief Executive of HKSAR, senior government officials and representatives of the architects Foster + Partners and Dragages team, has been held today to mark the start of construction of the new Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Folding architecture, Landscape architecture, Malmström Edström, Sweden
Malmström Edström were along with three other architectural firms invited by to a parallel assignment to create a concept for future railway installations and maintenance buildings. The aim of the assignment was to find a design concept with a high architectural standard. Jernhusen – the client – owns and develops stations, maintenance depots and freight [...]
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