Category: Transportation

SKY STREET – Hong Kong Alternative Car Park Tower competition \ Hugon Kowalski + Adam Wiercinski + Borys Wrzeszcz

SKY STREET – Hong Kong Alternative Car Park Tower competition \ Hugon Kowalski + Adam Wiercinski + Borys Wrzeszcz

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| January 7, 2012 | 1 Comment

“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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National competition “designing the upcoming public water-transport stations / Thessaloniki”

National competition “designing the upcoming public water-transport stations / Thessaloniki”

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| November 30, 2011 | 2 Comments

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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New Transfer Terminal & Air Traffic Control Tower for Kutaisi Airport \ UNStudio

New Transfer Terminal & Air Traffic Control Tower for Kutaisi Airport \ UNStudio

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| November 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

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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Puente de Venecia \ A-001 Architectural Workshop

Puente de Venecia \ A-001 Architectural Workshop

Category: Architecture, Culture, Transportation Tags: , , ,
| November 15, 2011 | 0 Comments

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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Dedication ceremony for the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space

Dedication ceremony for the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space

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| October 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

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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GAZOLINE Petrol Station | Damilano Studio Architects

GAZOLINE Petrol Station | Damilano Studio Architects

Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected, Transportation Tags: , , , ,
| August 3, 2011 | 1 Comment

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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Dichroic Illusion Stations | Margot Krasojevic

Dichroic Illusion Stations | Margot Krasojevic

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| July 30, 2011 | 1 Comment

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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Skywalk Rennweg 44 – 46 | SOLID architecture

Skywalk Rennweg 44 – 46 | SOLID architecture

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| July 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

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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DSSH Bridge | Sanzpont [arquitectura]

DSSH Bridge | Sanzpont [arquitectura]

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| July 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

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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Lleida-Alguaire Airport | b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

Lleida-Alguaire Airport | b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

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| June 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

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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Kai Tak Cruise Terminal Building | Foster + Partners

Kai Tak Cruise Terminal Building | Foster + Partners

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| April 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

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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The Maintenance Depot Of The Future | Malmström Edström Arkitekter Ingenjörer

The Maintenance Depot Of The Future | Malmström Edström Arkitekter Ingenjörer

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| April 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

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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