Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the sleek and sinuous structure serves as the new flagship hotel for the City of Dreams resort. The $1.1-billion architectural icon is one of the last projects that architect Zaha Hadid worked on before her untimely death.Morpheus Hotel is the latest addition to Macau’s City of Dreams, an integrated resort that includes a casino, two th...
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...
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects win international competition to design world's largest waste-to-energy plant in Shenzhen, China The team of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects has won an international competition to design the largest waste-to-energy plant in the world. Located on the mountainous outskirts of...
Thelibrary,which is locatedin the heart of the campus, will have a new auditorium for 430 students.It will include 650 reading and working places forstudents, as well as a study and examination rooms, administrative and storageareas.At the moment the library holds a collection of over 4 million information carriers. The design fulfils the requirements of a 21st century ...
In June 2017 Moscow based Architectural bureau AI-architects won an international competition for architecture and design of a new metro station "Sheremeryevskaya", which will be built in 2020. Anyone who had ever entered the underground transport artery of the Russian capital could appreciate the extraordinary breadth of variants of architectural-artistic appearanc...
A project designed by a team under the direction of the Brno based studio Chybik+Kristof has recently won the international competition for the new administrative centre of the Czech Forestry Commission in Hradec Králové. The winning proposal is a two-storey building on the edge of an existing forest, that uses wood extensively as construction material – as requested wit...
The project includes the People’s National Assembly, the National Council (Senate), the Chamber (Congress), and a residence for legislators. Algeria’s new parliament is a project that must meet the highest standards. The building needs to embody the idea of democracy in action, the Algeria of the future, freedom, peace, strong but deliberative power. The architectur...
Amsterdam's airport has more than tripled its capacity in the past 20 years. The airport is now an airport city. Benthem Crouwel NACO was co-author of the masterplans to develop it and is responsible for the urban design, the complex of terminal buildings and the piers. All designs take clarity of organization as their stepping-off point. Boarding, arriving and transferr...
Commercial aviation flights were allowed rather recently, on June 2010. However, the infrastructure of the commercial aviation in Ukraine, and specifically in Kyiv region, is very undeveloped and outdated as compared with EU and Russia. There are only one international airport "Boryspil", airport "Zhuliany", airfields in Svyatoshyn on “Aviant” air plant, Tchayka, Gostome...
The realization of the proposed connection, spanning 7 km of open sea, is the response to the needs and requirements of the metropolitan center of Thessaloniki and to the necessities of its inhabitants. While becoming part of the freeway “Via Egnatia” the project aims to improve the highway infrastructure system of the city. The new highway that will connect “Via Egnati...
The new Brent Spence Bridge will cross the Ohio River next to downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The new interstate will accommodate multiple lanes for both I-71 and I-75 and will be vital to long-distance state and national commerce. The bridge will be a double deck cable supported structure that will clearly announce the entrance to the city from a distance. The main clear spa...
CONCEPT - Slope-Walk: Our Eco Bridge proposal is based on a simple and pure concept: to recreate the link that once existed in the current situation of the infrastructural void with a spatial structure that would be atmospherically reminiscent to a pictorial passage through the southern slopes of the two discontinued mountain peaks of Mt. Umyeon and Maljukgeori Pa...
A collaboration between Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond known as Team A has won an invited competition to redesign Assen Station in the city of Assen, north-east Netherlands. The winning design, chosen from a shortlist of five, connects the provincial capital at both local and national levels, and represents Team A’s first station project. The assignment Commi...
The scheme will deliver a new terminal building, boarding gates, concourses and a multi-function building, along with transport infrastructure. The practice, working alongside Taiwan engineering firm CECI, saw off competition from Foster + Partners and UN Studio to win the project. The jury said that it had been impressed with the ‘innovative planning and design’ submitt...
Commissioned by charity organisation The Naomi Milgrom Foundation as its fifth annual MPavilion, the newly unveiled origami-like design will be erected in the city's historic Queen Victoria Gardens from 8 October 2018 to 3 February 2019. It features an open geometric configuration assembled in two distinct halves supported by a central steel portal frame. Its two s...
The skyscraper spans 80 storeys and reaches 1,079 feet (329 metres) high, making it currently the second tallest building at the redeveloped World Trade Center site. External construction work in complete – as celebrated at an event yesterday, 11 June 2018 – but many of the interior spaces are yet to be fitted out. Also known as 3WTC, the building is surrounded by ...
The Boring Company's scheme was selected by the Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT) as the winning proposal bidding for the O'Hare Express service, the city's mayor Rahm Emanuel revealed yesterday. Called Chicago Express Loop, it will provide a super-high-speed underground connection between O'Hare International Airport's Terminals 1-3 and Block 37 in Downtown Chicago,...
Designed by Gerber Architekten, the dune-inspired transit hub will be topped by a palm tree-lined landscape and go 30 meters underground to accommodate retail and two subway lines. Slated for completion in 2018, the palm tree-covered transit hub has just entered the excavation stage and is hot on the heels of yet another dune-inspired metro station, Zaha Hadid’s King Abd...
Dubbed the Chicago Skyline, the cable car would transport passengers from the city's Navy Pier to the Riverwalk and Millennium Park, right by the downtown district known as The Loop. Renderings show glass-walled capsules suspended from a wire. "The Chicago Skyline is a sophisticated, environmentally friendly aerial cable car that will be a unique urban experience," sa...
Dutch architecture firm Benthem Crouwel Architects has completed a raised park and pedestrian bridge for the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. The Paleisbrug, as the bridge is called, connects the old city center with the newly developed Paleiskwartier. ‘s-Hertogenbosch is characterized by a large area of undeveloped green space, called the Gement, whose urban...
The sixties are back in tact and more beloved than ever. LAX Airport was practically obligated to refurbish its outer layer to match the city’s glamour, and its existing 1960’s Theme Building was inspiration enough for a radical completion of phase one. Since its unveiling on June 20, 2013, the one mile roadway area separating the parking structures from the eight termin...
The Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport was officially inaugurated on November 28th. Designed by much lauded architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, the airport is a vital addition to Shenzhen which is one of the fastest growing cities in all of China. The terminal covers 500,000 square meters and is 1.5 kilometers long. It will be able to handle up to 45 million p...
The list of extraordinary architectural projects in Baku, Azerbaijan, keeps growing. From HOK’s Flame Towers to BIG’s proposed Zira Island and the recent Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center by Zaha Hadid Architects, interesting architecture is popping up left and right. Perhaps it’s no wonder since it is estimated that the Azerbaijani government is investing $6 billion in arc...
Public architecture can’t please everyone at once. Too many people want to have their say: users, the local community, politicians and, in this case, nature. Building a three-kilometer-long walkway in Tasmania while preserving, or even improving, the natural beauty of the place is not an easy thing to do. But in the end, it was the key to pleasing everyone. Australian...
When you think of the subway in a city as big as New York City, the first images that come to mind are pretty dark and gloomy. To tell the truth, it’s a bit the same in every subway (except in Stockholm). Once you get down the stairs, you don’t expect to see the light until you get out of there. The American architecture firm Grimshaw decided to change that for the Fulto...
While Africa’s population expands rapidly, the continent’s infrastructure remains underdeveloped, hampering the delivery of goods and services. A possible solution is on display at the Venice Architecture Biennale—vaulted drone ports. The domed structures built of a brick/tile hybrid combine traditional materials and forms with high-tech substances. Renderings show the l...
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 ...
Located on the public quay that extends into Salerno’s working harbor and marina, the new maritime terminal designed by Zaha Hadid Architects continues the city’s relationship with the sea and connects Salerno’s rich maritime traditions with its historic urban fabric. The new maritime terminal is composed of three primary interlocking components: administration offices ...
Clad in innovative and transparent photovoltaic glass, the solar bus shelter is capable of generating 2,000 kW-hours per year—equivalent to the amount of electricity needed to power the average London home. Designed by Polysolar in collaboration with hard landscaping and street furniture supplier Marshalls, the Canary Wharf solar bus shelter proves that urban infrastr...
the collaboration resulted in an organic and rational tram for the next generation of alstom ‘citadis X05’ citywide tramways. the shape is designed to slip through the historical town paving a new wave of contemporary urban infrastructure. each tram is designed to summarize the architecture of the city, with matching colors of the sumptuous place massena or villa mat...
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...
Amsterdam-based UNStudio has spent almost two decades working on the transformation of the city's transport interchange and the surrounding area, in collaboration with engineering firm Arup. At the centre of the masterplan is the new transfer hall, which includes all of the waiting areas and facilities for trains, trams and buses, as well as a variety of shops and res...
Proposed with engineering firm Elliott Wood, the 184-metre bascule bridge is designed to open in the middle to allow boats to pass through – similar to the landmark Tower Bridge further upstream. The bridge would be the first opening bridge to be built on the River Thames since Tower Bridge in 1894, and the first dedicated pedestrian and cycle bridge to cross the rive...
once complete, the span will carry the city’s new metro line, connecting the center of rio with barra de tijuca — the area which will host the olympic park and village during the summer games of 2016. supporting the bridge’s deck, an inclined parabolic pylon — a gleaming white steel arch — rises 70 meters above the banks of the canal, generating a striking contrast w...
“Cirkelbroen celebrates pedestrians. It reflects the daily life and intimacy that you find around the canal in the Christianshavn neighbourhood, its houseboats and sailing boats, the unique life on the ramparts. Copenhagen’s harbour was once a centre of maritime activity, and Cirkelbroen is a testimony to that history. While working on the bridge, I remembered the fishi...
