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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, Art Gallery, BIG, Competition, Fluid form, Greenland, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti have won the competition to design Greenland‘s New National Gallery. The Danish functionalistic architecture in Nuuk is typically square boxes which ignore the unique nature of Greenland. We therefore propose a national gallery which is both physically and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Belgium, Iconic architecture, Religious architecture
TOWER 2.0 designed by PLANCONTROL wins the first prize at the “A_TA 2010 Architecture Annual” with the contest solution for Antwerp cathedral’s second tower. Tower 2.0 is therefore very much present on its user’s minds, yet it remaining absent for those who chose not to look at it. Daniel Tellman, PLANCONTROL + Project description by [...]
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Category: Installation Tags: Atelier Oslo, AWP, Glass, Iconic architecture, Norway, Pavilion, Wood
French-Norwegian team AWP + Atelier Oslo has won the SANDNES / LANTERN international competition. It was opened on the occasion of Stavanger (NO) being european capital of culture, and further nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe prize. The Lantern proposal displays an open roof of such dimension that it becomes the symbol of this [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Iconic architecture, New York, Skyscrapers, USA, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture
Durst Fetner Residential selects BIG to design 600-unit residential building on W57th Steet in Manhattan, New York. The building is conceived as a cross breed between the Copenhagen courtyard and the New York skyscraper. The communal intimacy of the central urban oasis meets the efficiency, density and panoramic views of the tall tower in a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: Glass, Iconic architecture, KGP, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, USA, USA architecture
We’ve featured the Bicycle Transit Center by KGP Design Studio few days ago, here is supplemental information, including full project description, credits, images, drawings and diagrams shared by architect. If you missed our previous post, let’s check it out here. + Full description by KGP Design Studio Summary At the cusp of a livable cities [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Henning Larsen architects, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture, Nigeria
Danish architectural firm Henning Larsen Architects has won the international architectural competition for the new Calabar International Conference Center in the southeastern part of Nigeria. The Calabar International Conference Centre consists of four adjoining, sculptural volumes which are situated on top of a hill and has a panoramic view from the foyer. We visited the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: Glass, Iconic architecture, KGP, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, USA, USA architecture
Washington-based architectural firm KGP Design Studio recently has completed the Bicycle Transit Center (BTC) at Union Station, Washinton DC. It is designed to store 150 bicycles as well as a locker/shower and a repair rental store. While “differentiating” itself from Union Station itself, the Center does merge with its surroundings adapting the vocabulary of the bronze [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Color architecture, Concrete, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Multiplan, OFIS, Refurbishment / Extension, Slovenia, Stadium
OFIS Arhitekti, in collaboration with Multiplan Arhitekti has designed the extension of the football stadium in Maribor, Slovenia. + Project description by OFIS Arhitekti The plot that was used as a multi-functional sport field and is located in the centre of the city. In the sixties a small tribune was built along one side of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: Iconic architecture, Korea, Mass Studies, Penthouse, Skyscrapers, White
In Seoul, Korea, S-Trenue: Bundle Matrix was developed from the L-shaped podium tower by Mass Studies. Externally the tower is expressed by three slim vertical forms, composed of the central core, and two sides of unit towers, it continues extended to the podium and forms an “L” that as one element. With the core tower [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Architecture Award, C. F. Møller Architects, Competition, Copenhagen, Denmark, Iconic architecture, Random pattern, Skyscrapers, SLA, Stair
The Science tower and urban park in the heart of Copenhagen is the winning proposal for the extension of the University of Copenhagen’s Panum complex designed by C. F. Møller Architects, in co-operation with Rambøll (Engineer) and SLA (Landscape), and together with the following consultants: aggebo&henriksen, Cenergia, Gordon Farquharson and Innova-tion Lab. The expansion will [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Abu Dhabi architecture, Foster + Partners, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture, Museum
The design of Foster + Partners for the Zayed National Museum have been officially unveiled today by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Conceived as a monument and memorial to the late [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, DP Architects, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, School, Singapore, UNStudio
The world-renowned architect UNStudio / Ben van Berkel’s design has been selected from a shortlist of five practices to design Plot A of the SUTD (Singapore University of Technology and Design) campus. The main aim of the design for the Singapore University of Technology and Design was to create a campus that celebrates both teaching [...]
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