The design mimics the natural process known as “inosculation,” in which two trees merge together as they grow. Covered in cedar shingles and shaded by the trees, with bird houses built into their roofs to avoid displacing urban wildlife, the pods collect their own rainwater and use a bio-digester to handle waste. These urban treehouses would be built around the tree trun...
Rising to 720 feet high, the 68-story building has cemented the title as the tallest building in Brooklyn. Construction is progressing on schedule at Brooklyn Point and first closings are slated to commence in early 2020. The tower offers a new level of luxury living in the borough and an unmatched 25-year tax abatement. It is the first and only for-sale building at City...
Of course, this map was utterly useless. This meditation on mapping and empire seems increasingly prescient today, as every last plot of the Earth becomes represented and possessed in cartography, in satellite imagery, in Google Street View, and through intricate digital models. Enter Cityzenith, the Chicago-based startup where the CEO’s reported mission, according to th...
Luxury rodeos and casino joints start cropping just east of Osceola County, where I’m greeted by the spectacular sight of Yeehaw Junction—a chaotic trucker spot just off the Florida Turnpike that looks exactly like it sounds. 18-wheelers piled high with citrus barrels cross the intersection, horns blaring, loose oranges falling akimbo. As the miles keep coming, Florida c...
Dubai-based Holding Company, Meraas, is committed to enrich Dubai’s tourism industry by rejuvenating Dubai Creek into a new tourism destination – Al Seef. 10 DESIGN is the Design Architect for the Contemporary District of Al Seef, leading the project from concept design all the way through to construction supervision. The contemporary area spans around 670m of the Dub...
envisioned as a unique dutch initiative for future urban living, the scheme proposes a flexible grid system that can be developed according to the needs of the residents, as opposed to a fixed plan. unlike traditional architecture, the project utilizes a step-by-step approach that will see design and construction go ‘hand-in-hand.’ by embracing experimentation and ‘learn...
the mixed-use building, which is part of a development project commissioned by zhejiang xinhu haichuang group, forms the heart of the city’s future tech city in the new technology central business district (CBD). the complex will house a hotel, retail space, lofts and an atrium garden. the 50,000 m2 prism is shaped by two radical oblique cuts through the building envelop...
The London architecture studio's contest submission, called The Kentish Classic, depicts pre-fabricated timber homes that are elevated above water level by 3D-printed concrete platforms. The D*Haus Company developed its proposal to fulfil the brief, which called for Dezeen readers to design a home that responds to the challenges a city might face a century from now. I...
Located in the Amsterdam Brettenzone, directly west of the city’s popular Westerpark, MVRDV’s master plan envisions a neighborhood of approximately 750 homes that will range in size, building typology and price. Westerpark West will also follow an “innovative energy master plan” that combines district heating with seasonal thermal energy storage. Spanning an area of 7...
working together with indian non-profit organization werise, the international design and innovation practice has created the prototype of a portable motherboard system that encourages an open-source approach to design, allowing people to build their own dwellings on top of a prefabricated core. carlo ratti and werise have launched the first pilot of livingboard in the ...
first revealed in 2016, bjarke ingels group’s ambitious proposal for residential project titled ‘KING toronto’ has been approved for construction. new imagery has been unveiled of the mixed-use development which spans nearly 600 feet along a new network of public space that extends from st. andrew’s playground south to the waterfront. together with distinguished developm...
[Mikhail Gorbachev (centre) running in red dressed in red with much nostalgia for green] This is the title and caption of a painting by Emilio Isgrò. The sentence is written underneath a large, all-red rectangle. Seen today, the picture as it hangs in the meeting room of the landscape architects Land in Milan seems to have incredible premonitory powers – not just reg...
The London-based architecture practice has been announced as the winner of the competition to masterplan the Qianhai area of the city. The 1,200 metre sky garden will be suspended over a road, linking together several public transport hubs. Pedestrians will be able to move between the underground rapid transit system to street level then the raised garden, which Roger...
Horticultural Expo 2019 in Beijing is the winner of the tender for the Horticultural Fair and was done in conjunction with the Chinese Company Demage in Shanghai. It is a project of interior design and landscape of 30,000 m2, where the latest advanced Green technology is used, such as hydroponics, bioclimatic and air purification, with an active local plantatio...
VIP – MARINA VARNA ISLAND – Yacht Port, 6 and 5-star Hotel Complex and Sea Park /information about the project/ The Super Varna Project provides for the full opening of the town towards the sea through the building of an international marina Varna with a modern yacht port having a capacity for more than 300 yachts; an international cruise terminal with 5 termin...
Plan looks to the future while paying homage to Emirati culture and heritage Dubai has been chosen as the site of the 2020 World Expo. HOK led the design team that developed the master plan for the Expo, which is expected to draw more than 25 million visitors from October 2020 through April 2021. Dubai’s selection – themed "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future...
Researchers in the university’s Civil Engineering and Biological Sciences department have been salvaging portions of dead coral and recycling them into new structures. They hope that the project will not only protect still-active parts of the reef, but restore it with new life as well.University scientists are collaborating with engineering, science and technology consul...
Architects Leonidas Papalampropoulos and Georgia Syriopoulou designed and presented the regeneration project in the style reminiscent of the early 20th century Garden City movement, pioneered by Ebenezer Howard, which is based on a radial network of patterns with open spaces, public parks and agricultural estates.The project aims to deal with the industrial heritage of t...
On the other side of the world, a nine-member judging panel unanimously rewarded the Italian excellence selecting Rome-based architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas with Guida Moseley Brown Architects to design a new and expanded convention centre located in the heart of Canberra, at one apex of the National Triangle that connects the new complex with the Parliament H...
3. Explanatory Statement. The Purpose of the Draft SEPP is to allow mixed use high density development zones to be established in areas of existing infrastructure ,urban services, transport , energy and water .For urban redevelopment to occur with integrated spacial provision aimed at holistically servicing the communities spacial needs for Housing specifically low cost ...
Previously, the plaza consisted of the residual space between four vehicular roads. By sinking the core of the plaza and re-attaching two sides of the plaza to pedestrian thoroughfares, we created an urban ‘living room’ which shelters public activity from the busy streets. The primary entry to the plaza consists of an integrated ramp structure which gives the plaza the q...
Designed by Aedas, Chongqing Xinhua Bookstore Group Jiefangbei Book City Mixed-use Project is a dynamic complex that encompasses a sky cultural plaza, retails, apartments, offices and a boutique hotel in the Jiefangbei Central Business District, the heart of downtown Chongqing. Aedas draws design inspiration from an ancient Chinese prose ‘Knowledge brings wealth’ to inte...
Liuzhou Forest City will be built in the north of Liuzhou, in the mountain area of Guangxi, in the southern part of China; in an area that covers 175 hectares along the Liujiang river. The new green city, entirely wired, will be connected to Liuzhou through a fast rail line used by electric cars and will host various residential areas, commercial and recreational spaces,...
designboom was a main media partner of reSITE ACCOMMODATE, which took place in prague earlier this month. at the event, zdena zednickova — a reporter at archiweb and a professor at the faculty of arts and architecture, technical university liberec — interviewed fujimoto, who discussed a range of topics including the relationship between his architecture and nature, and h...
As sea levels rise, more and more construction projects are going to sea. These include homes in New Orleans designed to float in case of flooding, houseboats in London and a floating school in Lagos. Though the latter was destroyed by a storm, another waterborne school in Copenhagen is on the drawing boards, as is an entire eco-sensitive city intended for the waters off...
London-based ZHA – whose figurehead passed away earlier this year – won a competition in 2014 to redevelop the derelict 22,000-square-metre site, in response to the city's need for more office accommodation. Its plan is for a series of curved mid-rise structures interspersed with public plazas, aimed at stitching together Prague's Districts 1, 3 and 8, and creating a ...
Eight years after the competition launched by the City of Paris for a complete reconstruction of the Forum des Halles, the center of gravity in Paris has “The Canopy” by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti. The site of the central market place that Zola called “the belly of Paris” was demolished during the 1970s, creating a hole that was called for several ye...
the plans have been drafted by OMA new york, led by partner jason long, in collaboration with DC-based program management team, brailsford & dunlavey. located in the district’s southeast corridor, the transformational vision for the RFK campus seeks to leverage the region’s waterfront, provide neighborhood amenities, and connect the current site with increased and sustai...
the scheme was originally part of a restricted competition organized in 2012, before the project was abruptly cancelled in mid-2014. the vast 25,220 square meter development includes a symphony hall for 1,700 people, the headquarters for the ‘orchestre national des pays de la loire’, a congress center, a hotel, and a terraced restaurant. the congress center is positi...
Portions of the terminal's roof started to let in water earlier this month. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is overseeing the project, said the leaks had been caused by work on the Richard Rogers-designed Three World Trade Center tower above. The transit terminal, whose design was first unveiled in 2004, is still under construction. It consists of...
Known as Project: Under Gardiner, the design proposes the transformation of four "forgotten" hectares under the city's Gardiner Expressway to create a series of public spaces. The initial concept was conceived by local urban designer Ken Greenberg, along with Marc Ryan and Adam Nicklin of Public Work, a Toronto-based landscape architecture firm. Their design featur...
formed in the shape of a flower, the distinctive and irregular building offers 15,000 m2 of grade A offices and once fully finished in 2016, will include 9 more office buildings designed also by the firm located on top of the aedas-designed shopping center. providing a total of 110,999 m2 of rentable office space, the building rises as four towers which fuse together ...
To emphasize on this, ambs architects have envisioned a gravity defying gateway for basra, where visitors are greeted by a grand entrance of suspended preponderant ocular arches, connected by bridges. capable of expanding or detracting, a framed modular flexible grid acts as the façade, evoking the presence of a stage. referenced by the abstract and naturally occurring g...
the vast scheme hopes to work with the natural beauty offered in the location- uniting contemporary living with the scenic landscape. the proposal is shaped by the rivers that weave through the district where simultaneously, the design is meant to compliment the water-orientated nature of doumen. along with a mixed-use residential and commercial office space, there will...
The tree mass, with more than 1,280 square meters, was created as a continuation of the square in the existing development across from this land, forming a broad, pleasant area, with landscaping by Gil Fialho. With the intention of creating an open block environment, without fences, this space considered the integration of a restaurant, open to the public and already ...
As a testimony to the vision of the late Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the building stands proudly over Dudley Square. It was Menino who decided the City of Boston would develop the vital plot of land by consolidating 500 civil servants from the BPS into a new municipal office building for education, in conjunction with a community centre and retail space. The building’s secon...
