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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, China architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Green architecture, Skyscrapers
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar have won the first prize to design sustainable skyscraper – Shenzhen International Energy Mansion in Shenzhen, China. The façade is conceived as a folded skin that shades the office complex from direct sunlight and integrates solar thermal panels, reducing the overall energy [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Mixed Use, Office, Selected Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Europen architecture, Iconic architecture, Kristin Jarmund Architects, Norway, Skyscrapers, Waterfront architecture
C. F. Møller Architects and Norwegian firm Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter cooperate to design a new landmark for Oslo. A high-rise development, located at Norways most important traffic hub in central Oslo, and with fantastic views of the waterfront and fjord-landscape beyond. The project is expected to be completed within 3-5 years. + Project description courtesy [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office, Residential, Selected Tags: Netherlands, Rem Koolhaas OMA, Restaurant, Skyscrapers, Waterfront architecture
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has designed a mixed-used development – De Rotterdam ‘Vertical City’ located in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with approximately 155.000 m2 floor area and 150 meters high, scheduled to be completed in 2011. + Project description courtesy of OMA Part of an effort to regenerate the Kop van Zuid area of Rotterdam, these [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office Tags: Costa Rica, ESD design, Green architecture, Iconic architecture, Moho Architects, Skyscrapers, South American architecture
Mixed use tower in San Jose de Costa Rica, designed by Spanish firm Moho Architects which is currently in schematic design stage and is expected to be completed in 2012. + Project description courtesy of Moho Architects Rising above the skyline of San Jose in Costa Rica, this mixed use tower will be a new [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Residential, Selected Tags: Europen architecture, Glass, Green architecture, Park Associati, Skyscrapers, Turchia
Italy-based architect firm Park Associati has designed a 145 m high Regnum residential and office tower located in Istanbul, Turchia. The sinuous form of the tower consists of three main elements united around a central transparent volume and its various façades change according to the position of the viewer. + Project description courtesy of Park [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Mixed Use, Office, Residential Tags: Balcony, Construction, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Studio Gang Architects, USA architecture
Aqua Tower by Studio Gang Architects in Chicago has a beautiful vertical topographical pattern which is defined by outdoor terrace projections. These outdoor terraces gradually change from floor to floor over the height of the building that presents a sculptural appearance to the city. + Project description courtesy of Studio Gang Architects Aqua Tower is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: China architecture, Competition, Contemporary architecture, ESD design, Features, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers, Theater, Visiondivision
A young Sweden based architecture firm Visiondivision believes in strong concepts and constantly re-investigating their role as architects by always pushing the limits of their field of work and the strategies of their design. Tornado, is an entry for an opera competition in Taiwan which was a collaboration with Markus Wagner, a member of Svensk [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: 3XN, Competition, Contemporary design, Denmark, Europen architecture, Random pattern, Skyscrapers
3XN Architects has proposed a futuristic bridge tower that over-arch the Copenhagen Harbor, the CPH Arch. The idea is to create a city gateway and a tower bridge that links Marmormolen with Langeliniekaj. Due to the city development movement towards water, the tower and bridge is formed, reinforced and become part of the movement in [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Mixed Use, Office, Residential Tags: Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Glass, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers
Ian Bryan Architects designed a 14 storey tower in Walter Jinonice Development that will act as a visual focal point and landmark for the whole development. The incredible tower ideally inclined towards highway is to expose the visual connection to the public
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Office, Residential Tags: Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Features, Iconic architecture, MVRDV, Skyscrapers
Dutch architects MVRDV and Danish co-architects ADEPT have won a competition to design the Rødovre Skyscraper in Copenhagen, Denmark. By creating a tower that is basically a grid structure with a minimal pixel size, any configuration can be imagined and filled in.
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Office, Residential Tags: Abu Dhabi architecture, Cladding, ESD design, Glass, RMJM, Skin, Skyscrapers
Another new iconic building for Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Capital Gate rises in 160 metres and 35 storeys tall, is the tallest structure in the Capital Centre development, that to house a 5 star hotel Hyatt International with various exclusive offices. The hotel will open in 2009 and will be the first Hyatt operated hotel [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Hotel Tags: 3XN, Denmark, Glass, Iconic architecture, Skin, Skyscrapers, White
Project: The Bella Center Architect: 3XN architects Location: Island of Amager, Denmark Area: 31,000 m2 (Phase 1 16,000 m2 + Phase 2 15,000 m2) Team: Kim Herforth Nielsen, Bo Boje Larsen, Jan Ammundsen, Marie Hesseldahl Larsen, Maiken Schmidt Nielsen, Børge Motland, Svend Roald Jensen, Jørgen Søndermark, Bodil Nordstrøm images © 3XN architects 3XN architects have [...]
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