It has risen from the shores of Victoria Harbour like a beetle emerging from the ground, and now the finishing touches are being put on West Kowloon Station. When it opens at the end of 2018, it is expected to serve more than 109,000 passengers a day, making their way to the mainland on a fleet of new high-speed trains. By now, almost everyone in Hong Kong has heard of t...
This new development is in fact located at the juncture of beautiful Haussmannian buildings aligned around Square des Batignolles and the new Parc Martin Luther King. Fully aware of the break in scale imposed on the new ZAC (joint development zone), one of the aims of this project was to ensure a gradual transition between these two centuries through a modulation of volu...
KCAP + Felixx developed the ‘Triple dike strategy’, a multifaceted dike system that allows for an integrated approach towards the climate adaptive reorganization of the shore. Water safety strategies are connected to eco-development and nature restoration. This creates a resilient framework for social and economic growth. For 32 kilometers of coastline, KCAP + Felixx is ...
The team’s winning project for “Jardin Mécano” (“Mechanical Garden”) creates a new urban ecosystem by preserving the site’s remarkable industrial heritage while adding an abundance of green, nature-based public spaces and carbon neutral architecture, creating a socially sustainable urban development for the heart of the 18th arrondissement of Paris. The programming o...
Developed as a kit of parts, the AmeniTREES are designed for easy transportation, assembly, customization and maintenance. Each curved, steel-framed pavilion will be clad in hot-formed metal panels and glass and then topped with a native green roof with a tree system add-on. To tap into cost-saving opportunities, the pavilions feature an integrated digital screen protect...
Developer Brandywine Realty Trust recently unveiled designs for the pair of towers — dubbed the East and West Towers — designed by global architecture firm Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU). The glass-enveloped buildings will combine modern design elements with historical references, from color palettes inspired by the traditional materials common in the area ...
In addition to careful site placement and building massing, the architects will add shading elements and an abundance of greenery to create a cool microclimate to encourage use of outdoor space and community building. The project, which has yet to be built, was recently selected as the 2019 Architizer A+ Awards Popular Choice Winner in the Residential Multi-Unit Housing ...
In recent years, young professionals, artists, and students have started to rediscover Oak Park as an affordable community close to downtown Sacramento, with new art galleries, independent coffee shops, and small businesses in tow filling abandoned storefronts throughout the area.Oak Park Housing is one of the neighborhood’s first new residential developments since the i...
passed in 2014, singapore’s landscape replacement policy requires that any greenery lost due to development must be replaced with publicly accessible greenery in equal area within the new building. this obligation, coupled with the constrained, V-shaped site defined by market street and robinson road, directly influenced the architects’ approach. designed by KPF in coll...
receiving honorable mention in the evolo 2019 skyscraper competition, the modular, prefabricated waste-management and waste-to-energy megastructure proposes a solution to the global environmental and energy crisis.to achieve the goal of cleaning up our oceans while also providing a green source of energy, honglin li has designed the FILTRATION skyscraper to contain sever...
located within the heart of the xuanwu district, ‘nanjing galaxy world’ is formed with a U-shaped layout. comprising of 7 ‘containers’, each one is created as a living space for the kids and provides for a variety of activities. with a vast site area of 58,125 ft2 (5400 m2), the architect‘s goal was to create a city in miniature for the children, one which stimulated ...
commissioned to develop an urban study outlining a holistic concept that would incorporate landscape, infrastructure and housing, the basel-based firm proposes to transform the historically listed 19,000 sqm landmark building from the 1960s into an urban, inner-city quarter with a mix of housing, business premises and spaces for social and cultural activities. unveile...
a conglomerate comprising foster + partners, FR-EE (fernando romero enterprise), and NACO (netherlands airport consultants) won the international architectural competition in 2014. the trio have designed what could become one of the world’s largest airports with up to six runways and a 560,000-square-meter terminal (read more). AMLO, who the election by a landslide o...
the proposal for the seoul maru competition 2019, personifies a typical korean garden, by giving it a new meaning and function. the colors and shapes evoke associations with plants, stones, and hills, which form the basis of the theory of harmony in the traditional gardens. however, this garden is unusual, sknypl transformed it under the influence of new qualities def...
the development, which is characterized by a ‘carved’ void in its center, is the late architect’s first project in dubai and is located in the city’s burj khalifa district. new images of the opus, taken by photographer laurian ghinitoiu, illustrate the scale of the scheme. linked by a ground level atrium and an asymmetric three-storey bridge at its upper levels, the ...
masterplanned in conjunction with bjarke ingels group (BIG), the ambitious project is called ‘qiddiya’ and is currently under construction just 45 kilometers (28 miles) outside of riyadh, the country’s capital city. the masterplan offers visitors a range attractions, including a theme park and a potential formula 1 motor racing circuit. the 334 square kilometer (129 squa...
the project, which boeri designed with local partner shimaa shalash and landscape expert laura gatti, will see the realization of three ‘green cubes’ in egypt’s new administrative capital city — currently under construction in south east cairo. according to boeri and SBA partner francesca cesa bianchi cairo can ‘become the first northern-african metropolis to face the b...
as the name suggests, the house is designed for a rural location, with grass covering parts of the walls and roof structure, seamlessly blending into the countryside context. the conceptual project also makes reference to deconstructivism, much like ‘pentahouse‘ – the previous work from wamhouse studio.greenhouse is designed by wamhouse studio with a total usable area of...
Designed to serve the municipality of Eystur, the town hall is located in the small town of Nordragota on the eastern coast of the Faroe Islands – a self governing archipelago in the North Atlantic that is part of Denmark. This administrative area was formed by the merging of Leirvík and Gøta in 2009. The building stands across the mouth of the river that divided the ...
Sleepbox has 16 bookable nap rooms that are available for hire for a minimum of one hour, to offers travellers a place to rest in privacy. The 1,200-square-foot (111-square-metre) space in Washington Dulles International Airport, located post-security in the international concourse A, is filled with two rows of the bookable Sleepbox nap rooms.The box-like units were o...
BG Studio founder Francesca Bucci designed the Celebrity Flora project for Celebrity Cruises. It is the first-ever cruise ship custom-built for the Galápagos Islands. Since nothing could be directly sourced from the protected island chain, the team referenced textures and silhouettes of diverse fauna, colours of the endemic flora, and the unique volcanic geology. "...
Survivors of such events often find themselves without some of the most basic necessities of daily life, including access to supplies. Which is why engineers at Hiroshima University in Japan developed a portable bridge that can be used to traverse rugged terrain or rivers, and then folded up like origami when it’s done. Dr. Ichiro Ario and his team created the Mobile ...
The pool has transparent sides that go directly to the sides of the building. The pool bottom is also transparent, providing those underneath a view from below.But, looking at the images leaves you wondering how you’re supposed to get into the pool with no stairs or ladders anywhere in sight. Swimming pool designer and technical director Alex Kemsley explained, “We faced...
This would allow variation in elevation, profile, and structural performance. The overall form is inspired by a continuous shell structure to create uniformity in its mass and morphing. The podium levels are bases that have been articulated by varied curvatures to create multiplicity and unique spaces for exhibition and retail. The form fluctuates to create cavities...
The large operable doors, dubbed “guillotine doors,” are located on the north and east elevations of the structure. When lifted, they allow the central performance space, or the McCourt, to effectively function as an open-air pavilion. The structural steel for the doors was fabricated with predrilled mounting for the glass facade and was assembled on site with kinetic...
Designers have abandoned the traditional design approach of relying on finished entertainment facilities, and rebuilt a perfect consumer experience which fully considers and meets the psychological needs of diverse target groups. The MELAND Club has become not only a large parent-child indoor playground, but also a dreamland that breaks through the imagination boundary b...
Commissioned for the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney 200th Bicentenary celebrations, The Calyx, a new world-class center for horticulture, science and education, houses the largest living interior green wall in the Southern Hemisphere. Constructed by TPR GROUP, a distributor of GSky Plant Systems Inc, the largest green wall developer in North America, the GSky Versa Wall™...
the sculptural project expresses a rhythmic dynamism within its profile that transforms when viewed from different directions throughout the city. designed as a formal duality of aesthetic beauty and geometric logic, the concept allows inhabitable spaces to be attached to the whole of the tower’s core. while the endeavor requires advanced engineering techniques both in t...
designed to reside within the exposed concrete walls of the renovated building – which was previously an abandoned public bath facility – the concept behind the project aims to create the appearance of a piece of fabric blowing in the wind.shaped between the exposed concrete walls of the museum, the metal sheeting creates an intriguing visual contrast against the bare st...
unless we rethink the nature of our built environment, urban areas will continue to become increasingly unsustainable. with this in mind, SPACE10, IKEA’s global research and design lab, and EFFEKT architects present ‘the urban village project’ — a vision for the design, build and habitation of future homes, neighborhoods and cities. presented at the 2019 democratic desig...
Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly, in collaboration with the landscape architects at OLIN, is set to transform a California shopping mall into a mixed-use project that will boast the world’s largest green roof. Called “The Hills at Vallco”, the development will overhaul the existing Vallco Shopping Mall, which is located in Cupertino, California, near the new Apple 2 cam...
Once upon a time, water fountains were a central gathering space for entire communities. Socially (and physiologically) speaking, water fountains represented a source of life. For many communities, this is still the case. Fountain House is the modern interpretation of an age-old idea. Fountain House is not located in an idyllic country location but rather in a busy ur...
MAD's design for Harbin Airport Terminal Three would increase the capacity of the airport serving the capital of Heilongjiang, China's most northern province. The airport terminal is designed to serve 43 million passengers on 320,000 outgoing flights per year.MAD chose the five-fingered fractal shape as a nod to the airport's setting in snowy Harbin, where its winters...
Karle Town Centre (KTC), which will be built alongside the Manyata Tech Park, is designed to be an attractive place for workers and their families to live in Bangalore, dubbed the Silicon Valley of India. Buildings with distinctive rounded edges will be painted with white paint developed by UNStudio and Monopol Colors, which has been developed to reflect heat. Call...
STGK designed landscape, furniture, artwork and signs for this condominium project.
Understanding, symbolizing the landscape, restoring its architectural and town-planning integrity in subordination to existing cultural heritage sites, based on historical research and modern approaches in creating a comfortable urban environment is the basis and frame for the transformation of the territory of the center of Kursk. The complex, majestic layering of epoch...
