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The bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle. Footbridges complement the landscape and can be used decoratively to visually link two distinct areas or to signal a transaction. It can be both functional and beautiful works of art [...]
Call to Rotterdammers: Make Rotterdam The 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and architecture firm ZUS launched the first project of ‘I Make Rotterdam’. To ensure our cities remain habitable in the future, we must conceive, design and manage them differently. That is the message of the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR): Making City. It [...]
Part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme “The Bullhorn” International design competition invites architects to improve the living environment of urban dwellers. Cembrit, a company specialising in the manufacture of fibre cement based building materials, is organising an international architecture competition. The theme of the competition being urban transit areas. Cembrit invites architects [...]
Research by Think Brick Australia in collaboration with The University of Newcastle’s faculty of engineering has shown that Brick is officially the most thermally efficient building material. + Press release The Research Data is in: Brick is officially the most thermally efficient building material New research undertaken by Think Brick Australia, in collaboration with The [...]
The exhibition ‘Lumiere‘ will illuminate Durham’s historical buildings, streets and bridges for four nights; including a special exhibition of the interactive light artwork ‘Liquid Space‘. Lumiere 2011 Artichoke, 17-20 November, Durham UK. LIQUID SPACE 6.0 is an interactive space that becomes physically bigger, smaller, and brighter in relation to human behavior. As an organic fusion [...]
MDO recently collaborated with Janis Leonard Design Associates for the new Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMOCA) Lounge space- lounge grand opening is just before Halloween – October 28. A redesign of existing gallery space- the client needed an area that would serve to contrast yet mirror the modernity of the art on the walls, [...]
Installation Design by Zaha Hadid Creates Dynamic Setting for Exhibition of Her Recent Product Designs Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion (September 17, 2011 – March 25, 2012) Exhibition Gallery, Perelman Building Zaha Hadid, one of the most innovative architects of the twenty-first century and the first woman to receive the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize in [...]
Melbourne-based architectural practice Lyons has brought together a panel of leading architects and designers to discuss the central theme of this year’s Melbourne Architecture Annual, What makes a home? The panel discussion, “Talking Homes“, will take place at Lyons’ Bourke Street office on 25 October and will feature; Jill Garner, Victoria’s Associate Government Architect; Dr [...]
In Tokyo Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art will held a solo exhibition of Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati. Elegantly combining daring forms and simple plans, Valerio Olgiati (b. 1958) is now attracting attention not only in Switzerland, his homeland, but also of architects around the world. This show illustrates his view of the world [...]
On the occasion of the 7th FESTIVAL OF THE LIVELY ARCHITECTURES (click here for past festivals) in MONTPELLIER, Champ Libre association sends a call for applications to realize 10 interventions. The Festival is at the heart of Montpellier city; it will take place in the city centre more specifically in the courtyards of certain town [...]
The Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea, designed by Wolf D. Prix/COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, the new home of the Busan Film Festival (BIFF), was inaugurated with a grand opening on 29 September 2011 in the presence of the president of South Korea. The innovative building combines open space, cultural program, entertainment, technology and architecture in a [...]
Congratulation to Spanish architectural studio Diaz and Diaz Architects, who has been awarded the LEAF Awards 2011 under the category of Public Building section. + Check it out our earlier story about the Building of Control CCS Ferrol.
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
