Bazil-based architectural firm CHN arquitetos has won the International Public Competition for the Architectural Project of the Exploratory Science Museum – Campinas, Brazil. The surface of the facade is created from the idea of infinity: a reference to the essence of its form, recognizable from its cosmological scale to its most minimal. CHN arquitetos + Project description courtesy [...]

Peter Pran & Jonathan Ward of NBBJ recently has completed the Akerselva Atrium mixed-used building located along the Akerselva/Aker River in Oslo, Norway. The project composed of two distinct architectural forms split by the central lift core with a dramatic striking color glass atrium, where the entrance of the project is defined. One part of [...]

This golden structure is a temporary pavilion designed by Germany practice architect modulorbeat, use of striking color for perforated skin has successfully drawn our attention, while creating a new street images to the city. + Project description below provided by architect, modulorbeat switch+, a golden pavilion for sculpture projects muenster 07 The switch+ information centre, a temporary structure [...]

The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi is targeting an opening in this coming October, 2009, designed by New York-based practice architect Asymptote Architecture. This is really an beautiful iconic building located in the site of Formula 1 on Yas Island, comprised of two towers linked by a bridge spaned over the Formular 1 track. The [...]

Los Angeles practice architect Morphosis (led by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne) has designed the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology, located in Pasadena, California. The Cahill Center conceptually acts as an astronomical instrument, pierced by a vertical volume, tilted its lense to maximize the penetration of natural daylight [...]

Ao-Di Next Gene 20 Villa, by German-based Graft Architects. The villa is sited in the “Northeast Coast National Scenic Area”, approximately 50 minutes from Taipei city, Taiwan. Situated in the Snow Mountain range, with a great view of the Pacific Ocean. The villa was designed to be embedded in the landscape with panoramic view under [...]

Germany-based architecture and planning firm Behnisch Architekten has designed a very large public aquarium in the German city of Stralsund – Ozeaneum German Oceanographic Museum. The new museum is an open structure flooded from all sides by light, similar to the way stones in the sea near the water’s edge are flooded by the surrounding [...]

Copenhagen architects BIG and Mexico practice Michel Rojkind architect have won cultural competition in Mexico. The New Tamayo Museum will sit on steep hillside with large cross-shaped roof-top platform overlooking Mexico city. + Project description provided by architect, BIG New Tamayo Museum overlooking Mexico City – BIG and Michel Rojkind win cultural competition in Mexico. Set upon a [...]

Los Angeles based architect Studio 0.10 Architects has designed a house - Mush Residence for a small family in Los Angeles. Vertical spatial organization in relation to circulation is the key feature for Mush Residence. + Project description provided by architect, Studio 0.10 Architects A single-family residence designed for a couple and set in a postwar subdivision, [...]

UK practice architect Foster + Partners has designed a new five-star hotel close to Heathrow Airport – Riva Hotel which to accommodate 577 hotel rooms. The Riva hotel features a distinctive layered glass shell, which floods the public spaces with daylight and contributes to a highly efficient energy strategy. The glass envelope is to act [...]

Located in the southwestern part of Inner Mongolia, in Ordos City, the Kaokaoshina New District is an emerging art and cultural district organized by Ai Wei Wei. Kaokaoshina is positioned to be a thriving tourist destination, in anticipation, the development calls for a series of villas for people to live and visit to experience this [...]

Third project submitted by Pascal Arquitectos is the Pedregal Shopping Center. This project featured the laminated glass box intersected with a box covered by irregular perforation. + Architect’s statement, provided by Pascal Arquitectos This project comes to set a new architectural statement in the Pedregal area of Mexico City which has been neglected, because nothing new and [...]

This design recalls me Toyo Ito’s design that completion in 2004, Tod’s Omotesando. Structurely and architecturely the Tod’s building is wrapped in a skin of criss-crossed concrete braces and glass that mimics the trees lining the street. Whether or not the same approach, a house for clubhouse and boathouse Nordwesthaus, [...]

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 [...]