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,...
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the infrastructure of the commercial aviation in Ukraine, and specifically in Kyiv region, is very undeveloped and outdated as compared with EU and Russia.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...
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...
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...
Although in the past, the rail line was a mean of connection, the disused railway acts more as a divider due to its challenging location on the dyke, which impedes the circulation from one side of the tracks to the other. The current proposal will reuse the rail line to connect the different parts of the city in a sustainable way by creating a green corridor for b...
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...
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,...
The architects answered a few questions about the project. What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? In 2002, the city announced its intention to create a number of new parks in São Paulo, proposing this site as one of them. Establishing a partnership with Grupo Abril, a publishing house founded by Victor Civita, this public-private ...
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...
Partners Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi actually live nearby, and maybe that proximity allowed them to craft a building that appreciates the existing characteristics of the place while still looking to its future. The serpentine building beautifully transitions from city to garden, all the while carefully balancing architecture and landscape to create a special hybrid...
The 2.7-acre Pier 55 has been given final consent by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Hudson River Park Trust announced last week, after the project overcame a lawsuit earlier this year. Heatherwick Studio's $130-million (£89 million) design features white mushroom-like stilts that emerge from the river to support the undulating landscape. Located 50 metres off th...
Created by Rising Realty Partners, the Patrick Blanc-inspired vertical garden stretches over 80 feet tall and uses the modular and flexible LiveWall Green Wall System. The vertical green wall and pocket park are located on the east side of the PacMutual Campus, the city’s only historic building to receive LEED Platinum certification. The vertical green wall was design...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Water towers are everywhere and often offer a stunning view on the surroundings that remains otherwise inaccessible to the public. The one located in Sint Jansklooster in the Netherlands differs from the others on that point. It has been transformed into a watchtower of the weirdest kind by Zecc Architecten. The Dutch architecture firm has designed a spectacular staircas...
In 2010, a small, rural community in Portugal launched an international architecture competition. The historical town, located just north of Lisbon, was looking to integrate a technological park that would house innovative start-ups and serve as a public space for the community. Portuguese architect Jorge Mealha won the competition and set about exploring ways to create ...
Markthal Rotterdam is the Netherland’s very first covered market. Located in a historical corner of the Dutch city, Markthal regroups a veritable mini-village within the larger urban setting. Local firm MVRDV was asked to create a building that was closed and protected from inclement weather, but a building that would also be an extension of the surroundings, includin...
In 2010, BIG Architects was solicited to create a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen. True to their forward-thinking style, the firm did not simply envision a plant that turns trash into electricity. They wanted to contribute something greater, something that would involve the community and bring awareness to the environmental problems that we are facing. The project br...
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...
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...
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...
Public swimming pools could be described as a cesspool of microbes drowned in chlorine. Yes, sharing a single basin of water with dozens of strangers can be a less than appealing, but this public pool renovation in the Parisian suburbs might win some converts. Dominique Coulon & Associés modernized the pool’s existing structure by adding an exterior extension that inc...
Playgrounds are a quintessential part of childhood, but adults are left out of the equation. Too big to play on the child-sized structures, adults are often relegated to tediously waiting around on benches. The 10Cal Tower by Thai architects Supermachine Studio bridges the playground gap by creating a structure upon which both adults and children can play. The labyrin...
