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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Foster + Partners, Iconic architecture, Kazakhstan, Nigel Young, Tensile structure, Theater
The grand opening of the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre was recently held in Kazakhstan. It is the world’s tallest tensile structure designed by UK-based architectural firm Foster + Partners. The project is located at the northern end of the new city axis and soars 150 metres from an elliptical base to form the highest peak on [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Kim In Cheurl, Korea, Library, Random pattern, Refurbishment / Extension
CAU Central Library: Overlap is a refurbishment project designed by Kim in-cheurl+archium. It was restructured on the existing library which was built in 1959. Architecture is an identification of place, a creation of individualism that makes it unique to anything else in the world. The place thus creates a memory with time. The meaning of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Concrete, Iconic architecture, Kim In Cheurl, Korea, Perforated, Skyscrapers
Korean architect Kim In Cheurl designed the innovative Urbanhive tower located in Seoul, South Korea. Urbanhive is a 17 levels of 70 meter high tower with white exposed concrete and contextually sits on the corner of the street within the urban matrix, featuring the perforated architectural façade. The holes in the skin are designed to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Fluid form, Landscape architecture, Spain
Spanish architectural studio peña ganchegui y asociados recently has completed the Urrezkoenea House in Getaria. The house is located in the steep site overlooking the Cantabric sea. + Project description courtesy of peña ganchegui y asociados URREZKOENEA: A VILLA ON THE CANTABRIC COAST In a plot with a steep slope towards the North, aligned to [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Concrete, Green architecture, McGregor Coxall, Public square
The Sydney-based landscape design studio Mcgregor Coxall as the lead designers designed the Ballast Point Park sited on the Birchgrove Peninsula in the inner reaches of Sydney harbour, Australia. + Project description courtesy of Mcgregor Coxall Ballast Point Park This 2.8ha park is located on a contaminated former industrial lubricant production site on the Birchgrove [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education, Selected Tags: Canada, Library, Saucier + Perrotte architectes
The St-Hubert Library proposal by Saucier + Perrotte architectes was the competition finalist for City of St-Hubert in Canada. The building is beautifully sited in the wooden context and presented as a bold horizontal form in respect to its surrounding tree line, and finally punched through by a roof top feature where is reached via [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Construction, Glass, Iconic architecture, Modular design, REX, Turkey
The internationally-renowned architecture and design firm REX recently has completed the Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center in Istanbul, Turkey. The project will serve as corporate headquarters of Vakko (Turkey’s preeminent fashion house) and Power Media (Turkey’s best-known music and television network). It was built based on the existing abandoned hotel’s structure, REX divided [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Industry, Office, Selected Tags: Concrete, Italy, Lattice screen, monovolume
Blaas general partnership project by monovolume architecture + design is a new head office for the company Blaas in Bolzano specializing in electro-mechanics. It is a three storeys building with a basement designed to accommodate the sales division, repair service and administration office. The interplay between glass and sun shading are specially designed for the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Ake E.son Lindman, Courtyard architecture, Elding Oscarson, Minimalism, White
Sweden-based studio Elding Oscarson has designed a minimal style townhouse on a narrow site in Landskrona, Sweden. Our intention is to use small means to create an array of different spatial experiences in this very small project. Elding Oscarson + Project description courtesy of Elding Oscarson The narrow site is sandwiched between very old neighboring [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Architectural membrane, FIFA World Cup 2010, gmp architekten, Iconic architecture, South Africa, Stadium, Structure, Tensile structure
In Durban, South Africa, the 70,000-seater Moses Mabhida Stadium by gmp architekten has an unique architectural feature inspired by the South African flag. With its grand arch design, the two legs of the arch on the southern side of the stadium come together to form a single footing on the northern side, symbolizing the new [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Architectural membrane, FIFA World Cup 2010, gmp architekten, South Africa, Stadium
For the 2010 World Cup, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium by gmp architekten is a 46,000 seater stadium situated on South Africa’s south-east coastline, Port Elizabeth. The stadium has an eye-catching, unique roof structure and a spectacular view, overlooking the North End Lake. The geometry of the roof is tailored to local conditions, and protects the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Architectural membrane, Concrete, FIFA World Cup 2010, gmp architekten, Iconic architecture, South Africa, Stadium, White
The 68,000 spectators Green Point Stadium designed by gmp architekten, is one of the major stadiums to host the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. With its horizontal facade expression and the curving contours, the architectural design was intended to enhance the horizontal line of Table Mountain, and appeared as an iconic building in [...]
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