Blåparken (The Blue Park) is an exciting project which will see the existing site completely rebuilt, some existing trees being preserved, and some very large trees replanted. Geographically, it is at the ends of a wide walking and cycling path which runs through the quarters of Fyrklövern. It is also the lowest point in the planning area, and the focus on the program an...
Two decades, seven stations and ten kilometres in just 15 minutes: Benthem Crouwel Architects’s new North-South metro line for the city of Amsterdam has finally been completed. Each station has its own unique design, yet are all unified under the same guiding principles: to act as an underground extension of public space, and to create the shortest possible connection be...
[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 expansive Avianca Lounges occupy 37,673 square feet (3,500 square metres) of El Dorado International Airport, creating rest and relaxation spaces for passengers on Colombia's national carrier. Francesc Rifé Studio designed the interiors for the lounge, which is divided into three areas: Enjoy your meal, Stay connected, and Resting. Corridors and service areas h...
Urban Nouveau has designed the scheme in response to Lidingö Municipality's plans to tear down the Gamla Lidingöbron bridge, which links the Swedish capital to the island of Lidingö, and replace it with a modern structure. Urban Nouveau proposes turning the deck of the existing bridge into a linear park and building 50 apartments underneath, within the steel structure...
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...
The local architecture firm's development was chosen as the winning entry in the contest to execute a phased development of high-density mixed-use towers in Helsinki's Pasila district, north of the city centre. Named Trigoni for the three-sided plans of the towers, the first phase of the Lahdelma & Mahlamäki's development will consists of one 180-metre tall and one 15...
inside the terminal, mecanoo has designed an undulating vaulted ceiling that comprises a series of aluminum fins displaying a large abstracted 1877 map of the region, measuring 110 x 70 meters. within the station hall walls and columns are adorned with a contemporary reinterpretation of delft’s famed blue tiles. the halls are separated with a glass wall and two further v...
international architecture firm Aedas has been awarded the design and construction of the new yantai international airport terminal 2 in china. the project is part of the second phase of the airport’s expansion project. as the lead design architect, Aedas is part of an international team consisting of CSWADI and ‘new era airport design institute.’ the new 167,000-square-...
as part of the six-station toronto-york-spadina subway extension, IBI group has completed two stations, finch west and pioneer village, based on a scheme developed with late british designer will alsop. the stations’ design is defined by a fluid, continuous connection from both surface-level entrances down to the platforms, embodying playful, free-flowing movement. warm ...
architecture firm UNStudio has partnered with hardt, a european technology company, to present a vision for the ‘station of the future’. the plans would see hyperloop used to provide transport between amsterdam and frankfurt in just 53 minutes. ‘the hyperloop is not only a realistic and viable alternative to flying, it is going to revolutionize travel,’ says ben van berk...
These movable pavilions can be used for numerous functions. They can serve as playground equipment for children, art objects, meditation rooms, arbours, small rest spaces, public furniture or sheltered seating. In a group of three cubes that recall typical Japanese spaces such as tea houses, they have an impressive impact in public spaces. One section of each cube has be...
Cassidy's project, Productive Landscapes, proposes the construction of the first seed vault south of the equator, as part of a farming research institute set in fertile farmland on the western ascent of the mountain. He developed the concept while studying for a masters on the Architecture and Extreme Environments course at KADK, the architecture and design school at ...
Ozer\Urger Architects designed the Akyokus pedestrian bridge as a white, bold structure overlooking the city of Konya. The structure, consisting of two curved girders containing a cantilevered walkway, soon became a lively public space thanks to its panoramic terrace. The bridge is part of a larger redevelopment plan aiming to intensify the connections between the urb...
The pavilion designed by Studio Weave in London is part of a larger redevelopment project, with several interventions from Lambeth Bridge to Battersea Park, on the southern bank of the Thames. The general strategy, designed by the Churchman Landscape Architects, provides for the creation of gardens along the river and the reconnection of uneven spaces between them. The f...
Mezzo Atelier has completed a temporary pavilion for Walk&Talk, an interdisciplinary festival held every year in the Azores. The project is inspired by forms and proportions of the traditional Azorean houses. Its structure consists of a series of portals and, like a church, has a free central nave and a perimeter walkway. The wooden frame allows the "house" of the festiv...
The Rabat-based studio Groupe 3 Architectes has recently completed the airport of the city of Guelmim, in southern Morocco. Often referred to as the Gateway to the Desert, Guelmim is located between the Anti-Atlas mountain chain and the Sahara desert. The 7,000 sqm terminal consists of two double-height halls, divided by a central patio providing light and ventilation...
Studio Weave’s projects are representative of a somewhat typical approach to architecture, playful in its shapes while very engagé in its cultural and social ambitions, which they share with other “young” Brits, such as multi-award winning collective Assemble. Therefore, also in the case of the pavilion that they design in the garden of Northolt’s Belvue School, no refle...
The massive riverfront pier site suffered from neglect even before the cyclone hit, but its potential was steadfast. Architectural firm Woods Bagot is at the forefront of the renovation of the pier and adjacent structures and is intent to restore the two-story landmark back to the community hub it once was. Not only will the pier be overhauled and upgraded, the site w...
At The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, 2020 is the year for achieving a carbon neutral campus, and an important element in fulfilling that goal is the Biomass Heating Facility, designed by Centerbrook Architects and Planners. The plant burns sustainably harvested wood chips from regional forests. More importantly it does this job under an undulating green roof that make...
Located in the heart of the European Quarter, in between the main institutions of the European Union, Place Schuman constitutes the entrance to the EU. The project transforms a heavily trafficked roundabout into an urban space and meeting point. Inspired by the shape of the European Parliaments’ hemicycle, a reflective roof covering an urban agora unites all citizens and...
With a vision to promote a wellbeing community, La Reserve Residences is set within a global health and wellness destination – Dubai Healthcare City Phase 2, the world’s largest healthcare free zone. The development, totaling circa 40,000 sqm GFA, provides holistic amenities from open terraces, outdoor activity areas and pedestrian trails, to running tracks, pools, gyms,...
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...
The city’s unique location and heritage make it a significant viewing point for Marsdiep, the North and Wadden Sea. MVRDV were selected as winners by Zeestad, an independent organisation in partnership with the municipality of Den Helder in the international competition to create a new symbol for the city to help it develop a sense of identity, and establish a renewed co...
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...
Conceived as space interventions and built out of wire mesh, Tresoldi’s sculptures are designed in a hybrid language of classical archetypes and modernist forms. Embodying the convergence of sculpture, scenography and architecture, they transcend the corporeality of these firmly material crafts by incorporating a fourth, elegiac dimension centered on absence. Their trans...
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...
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...
Dubbed the Taichung Green Corridor, the project will reuse the former rail that traverses Taichung’s downtown and stretches over a mile in length. The project aims to preserve the area’s strong historic character while spurring urban revitalization and improving the area’s biodiversity.Set to begin construction later this year into next year, the Taichung Green Corridor ...
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...
The masterplan for the Battersea Power Station – a Grade-II listed, large former electric power plant along The River Thames – aims to create a mixed-use sustainable development offering commercial and retail functions as well as residential, cultural, and event spaces interspersed with community facilities and a zero-carbon energy plant for the adaptive reuse of the pow...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
