The Vanke (one of China based developer) Sales Pavilion designed by CL3 architects, based on the principle of Chinese Courtyard house with an entry court, front garden, main pavilion, side pavilion with support facilities and back garden that leads to show units.
Munich-based Henn Architekten has won the competition proposal for the China Life Insurance Research & Development Center on the rural outskirts of Beijing. The design concept was developed from a traditional Chinese courtyard architecture and translated into highly technologically developed, forward-looking design. The complex for China’s biggest insurance company consists of a main building, a [...]
LA architect, Morphosis, led by Pritzker Prize 2005 winner Tom Mayne makes a debut to China, a Campus for Giant Group Pharmaceutical. By its sinuous shape, the proposal has been dubbed “The dragon”. The executive offices are organized in the ‘dragon head’ section while the ‘body’ contains remaining program elements including additional offices, a boutique [...]
Project: Bridge Tea House Architect: Fernando Romero (Mexico) Location: Jinhua Architectural Park, Jinhua, CHINA images © Iwan Baan / Fernando Romero Further to the previous post of ‘children playground’ house, Final Wooden House | Sou Fujimoto Architects. Here again a oddly shaped tiny building, Bridge Tea House, designed by Mexico architect Fernando Romero. The Bridge [...]
Type: Competition, 3rd prize Project: Italian Pavillion for Expo Shanghai 2010 Architect: BiCuadro Architects Location: Shanghai, China Images © BiCuadro Architects The first prize winner of the contest: “Better City, Better Life” for Shanghai Expo 2010 was BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group – Denmark Pavillion. Here again the 3rd prize winner Italian Pavillion, designed by BiCuadro [...]
Type: Competition, First Prize Project: The Danish Pavilion Architect: BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group Size: 3,000 m2 Client: Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority Location: Shanghai, China Completion: 2010 all images © BIG BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group has won the design competition for the Danish Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, in collaboration with Arup [...]
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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 [...]
