Italian architect Cino Zucchi Architetti and Park Associati designed the Salewa Spa Headquarters in Bolzano, Italy. The project is now on site and scheduled to complete on 2011. + Project description courtesy of Cino Zucchi Architetti + Park Associati The new Salewa Headquarters, one of the most prominent manufacturers in Bolzano, is situated in an exceptional location [...]

San Francisco-based designer Joanna Borek-Clement has designed the Tafoni Floating Home located in Sausalito, California. This is a conceptual house designed to promote a new type of residential design, living and lifestyle. It is also a multi-purpose living pavilion that serves as a permanent house, a weekend retreat, a relaxing summer destination or a place [...]

Washington-based dbd Studio recently has completed an organic bookshelf specifically designed and built for a condo in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington DC, it stretched from floor to ceiling and overhead, and terminated at the existing bulkhead. + Project description courtesy of dbd Studio dbd Studio has recently completed a custom bookshelf specifically designed and built [...]

DSO-PLEX Information Technology & Electronics Mall by Austria-based Söhne & Partner Architekten, it was designed to express the image of modern and advanced technology, the skin was made of glass and solar panels in various colours, to give different visual expressions in different weather conditions and viewing angles. + Project description courtesy of Söhne & Partner [...]

Athens-based KLAb Architecture (kinetic lab of architecture) recently has completed the Wunderman Offices in Athens. It was designed using a linear dynamic fluid space that creates sculptural walls playing with patterns, red colour and 3dimensional transparencies and opacities. + Project description courtesy of KLAb Architecture Wunderman’s new offices in Moschato, Athens, were designed using a linear dynamic [...]

Italian architects De8 architetti and 2 architetti recently have completed the Belvedere project which is situated on the Pirelli Skyscraper in Milan, Italy. It is a refurbishment project following the restoration of the building after the tragic airplane accident in 2002, acting as a multi-functional space for public and local government events. The project generates from [...]

California-based DRDS, in collaboration with Ilshin Architecture and Engineering have won the Invited National pre-qualified competition to design a broadcast headquarters and cultural media facility – KNN Media Center. The project aims to become a new landmark in Busan’s Centum City, which to house a broadcast and news studio, office condominiums, retail, and [...]

In Suwon – Korea, Dutch architectural practice UNStudio designed a showroom to exhibit the residential urban and façade design for I-Park City development which covers approximately 33.5 ha and includes 88 apartment buildings. + Project description courtesy of UNStudio The Model House for I-Park City is a showroom to exhibit the residential urban and façade design for [...]

Zaha Hadid Architects has designed the Jesolo Magica shopping mall and office complex located in town of Jesolo, Italy. The project was divided into two zones that situated half way between Jesolo town center and waterfront. + Project description This year, ZAHA HADID is the leading guest architect for “Barbara Cappochin” International Biennial of Architecture with a [...]

Designed as the concept of Fluid – Amphibian Pavilion, is the submission project by Australia-based Peddle Thorp Architects for the international competition for the Thematic Pavilion of the world expo 2012 in Yeosu, Korea. The pavilion is resolved as a vessel – a floating exhibition space that can be sailed to other cities. It aims [...]

Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini recently has completed the Ferrari Factory Store located in Serravalle Scrivia, Italy. The color, form, and graphical style has been carefully designed to transmit the architectural idea to identify the ‘Ferrari’ image. + Project description courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini Ferrari Factory Store of Serravalle Scrivia, entirely designed by Iosa Ghini Associates, [...]

Japanese Tori-Tori Restaurant in Mexico City by Mexico based architect firm Rojkind Arquitectos in collaboration with Esrawe Studio is now under construction. The building features the organic façade and landscape that become an extension of the restaurant to create a strong relationship between the inside and the outside. + Press release courtesy of Rojkind Arquitectos Considered one [...]

UNStudio’s New Amsterdam Pavilion unveiled today in Battery Park, New York. The New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion, commissioned by the Battery Conservancy, is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour of 400 years of friendship. + Press release courtesy of UNStudio September 9, 2009, NEW YORK, NY Today the official unveiling ceremony of Ben van [...]

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 [...]