This proposal identifies a few functional specifications and articulates the space into three main areas, differentiating the central pedestrianized area from the adjacent areas that can be accessed by cars. The central part is the core of the project, it directly accesses the opposite railway station from a car-free area. This pedestrian square becomes the gateway to th...
TK studio has shaped the landscaping for ‘the forestias’, a multi-generational neighborhood designed by Foster + Partners. Located on the outskirts of Bangkok in Thailand, the new residential development prioritizes the wellbeing of residents and features a 48,000 sqm urban forest at its center, designed by TK studio. The ‘forest pavilion’ stands as a gateway to the for...
As climate change continues to wreak havoc on the planet, people are seeking more efficient sources of renewable energy. While new technologies are developed each year to combat the issue, one ancient source of energy continues to surpass them all. That’s right, wind power continues to be one of the most cost-effective and efficient sources of sustainable energy availabl...
Architecture office Kaleidoscope Nordic introduces ‘powered by ulsteinvik’, a concept city proposal in Norway that utilizes local natural resources to generate a pleasing environment for people to live and work in. The future-oriented project takes shape as a ‘smart hub’ with urban functions and various multifunctional facilities right next to the sea. The proposal estab...
Green Connect is being carried out to modernise the station and the adjacent public square, offering improved public spaces and links throughout the city. The redesigned station will form part of the new Rail Baltica high-speed rail network, for which Zaha Hadid Architects is also developing the Ülemiste terminal in Tallinn, Estonia. "Green Connect will be a future-pro...
nowadays, wind power is one of the fastest-growing renewable energy technologies, with its usage increasing rapidly year by year, on a worldwide level. in denmark, wind power is so commonly used that wind turbines are now really part of the local landscape. in fact, wind energy already provides 40% of the energy in denmark, while the danes hope to reach 70% by 2030. ...
OMA has unveiled plans for a 145-meter pedestrian bridge to connect communities in the rural town of jojutla de juárez in mexico. the new ‘jojutla bridge’ will replace a preexisting main bridge and forms part of larger reconstruction efforts by infonavit after a devasting 7.1 magnitude earthquake in 2017. ‘we are beginning to face natural disasters more frequently an...
The landscape ‘corrals’ by DECA Architecture are intrinsically molded by the natural conditions of their sites in coastal Greece. The works seek to sensitive and sustainable attention to the celebrated surroundings, designed with a language that is at once informed by the organic topography and instilled with parametric logic. The corrals harken back to those of antiquit...
The construction industry is one of the most material-intensive and environmentally detrimental human activities. With their pavilion called livMatS, the researchers aim to offer a viable, resource-efficient alternative to conventional construction methods. To do so, they use flax, a naturally renewable, biodegradable material that is regionally available in Central Euro...
Buildings around the world are being constructed with reinforced concrete. However, both the production of steel and cement, an ingredient of concrete, generate large amounts of CO2. 3D printing concrete helps reduce these emissions, as it only deposits material where it is necessary. This project took it a step further by leaving out the reinforcement steel. The Block ...
The proposal, which was ranked second place alongside Sou Fujimoto’s floating tower, embodies the chinese city’s pioneer spirit and acknowledges both its maritime past and its technological future. ‘What is a landmark? does a landmark mark the land? or does it mark its time, its era?,’ asks Snøhetta as part of the project’s design concept. ‘A landmark is a product of it...
Overlooking the olympic sports expo and the Qiantang river, the landmark commercial complex is sited in the core area of the Qianjiang Century city, and draws inspiration from the concept of ‘setting sail.’ The collection of workspace towers suggests an array of billowing sails, celebrating the riverfront site and symbolic of ‘riding a wave of prosperity.’ The podium rec...
New Ecological Axis-Jialing Pearl Riverside Nanbu County, Nanchong is known as the "Second City of Chengdu-Chongqing Circle" in Sichuan." A history of the south, the love of water through the ages", for thousands of years, the water of the Jialing River has been rushing here, nourishing everything, and the people of northern Sichuan have thrived here and compose a glorio...
Aidia Studio designed the perforated roof made from structural steel and glass-reinforced concrete panels to enclose over the platforms and concourse. The geometric grid will be glazed in places to keep out the rain and lined with wood on the inside. The studio designed the station to respond to Tulum's climate. The town is on the Yucatan peninsula, which has a tropica...
A winning competition entry, the sculptural and dynamic work of architecture will stand as a new addition to the evolving area of the chinese city which has recently seen many large-scale developments. Designing the project, which hosts a viewing platform and exhibition space, the team at Sou Fujimoto asks: ‘how can a tower evolve while continuing to attract attention, a...
The park consists of three key spaces, an urban promenade, a water carpet, and a performance gallery. Terraced seating with curved edges provides a place to relax underneath the trees, while the nearby water features that surround pathways create a calming environment. At night, the tiered seating has lighting that highlights the curved edges. Other design elements in...
Called Lakhta Centre II, the 150-storey building would also have the highest occupied floor in the world at 590 metres. The tallest building in the world is the 828-metre-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which was designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and has a top floor height of 585 metres. Lakhta Centre II would sit alongside the Lakhta Centre, the headquarters of ...
BIG envisions the Västerås Travel Center as a hub that brings together all of the city's transport infrastructure under one roof and in one continuous landscape. The building will serve as the central station for trains and buses while providing a bridge between the city centre and the nearby Lake Mälaren — areas currently divided by train tracks. BIG first revealed a ...
The annual platform recognizes and promotes the very best products, projects, services and their creators, in turn spurring global design and creativity to higher levels. 2021 continued this notion with winners spread across 104 different design disciplines, including furniture, decorative items and homeware design; building and structure design; and interior space and e...
Presented by Zuecca Projects, the exhibition will display architectural models, drawings, sketches and videos of the proposed greenhouse. ‘TROPICALIA – architecture, materials, innovative systems’ is curated by Alessandro Possati, director of Zuecca Projects, and Thomas Coldefy, architect and principal of Coldefy, the practice behind the ambitious project. Designed by ...
The proposal is a transparent, transportable, modifiable prototype that generates the necessary climate for the survival of the orchids. Two greenhouses are manufactured, one for exhibition and the other for flowering. Orchids require a microclimate within a very specific range. The temperature, lighting, humidity, ventilation, irrigation and nutrients of the environmen...
The project is located in an agricultural area of the Baba canton - Los Ríos province - Ecuador, over a water channel, surrounded by local flora and fauna. Mr. Pepe, an elderly man, has the habit of drinking a cup of tea and coffee with his family every afternoon and has been doing so for years. The objective was to maintain this tradition within a space that allows the ...
This new apartment building is located on a site previously occupied by a 1920s, two-storey parking garage. The six-storey building comprises basement parking, duplex townhouses, lateral apartments, and a penthouse with its own roof garden. Mediating between the different sizes of the surrounding structures, the inserted volume both respects the scale of the street and r...
In a step that seems to bring it closer to reality, HyperloopTT and Dar Al-Handasah (dar) have revealed images of the first-ever completed full-scale designs for commercial hyperloop systems created with sustainable, responsive architecture and engineering. The complete design by HyperloopTT has been created in collaboration with Dar’s team including sister firms Perkin...
It was designed by Professor Xu Weiguo of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University and built with printing machines and materials developed by the team. It is part of the “Art Bridge Space” in Shanghai, which can be used for book shows, academic discussions, and book sharing sessions. At the same time, it is also “Art Bridge 2021 Annual Figure”-Xu Weiguo’s artwo...
The project stands as the winning competition entry designed by an international team that includes OUTCOMIST, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, PLP architecture, Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) and Arup. In celebration of the industrial legacy of the site, the proposal reanimates disused infrastructure with contemporary, ecologically-minded programming. Most notably, the scheme wil...
The modular multifunctional complex is designed to promote a sustainable, environmentally friendly lifestyle, and encourage residents to integrate the use of outdoor spaces more effectively into their daily routines. The project has been selected as one of ten winners for the ‘cool Abu Dhabi challenge’, a global design competition with more than 1,570 participants from 6...
Turin is now host to Europe’s largest hanging garden, set high above the concrete modernist curves of the Fiat company’s Lingotto Factory. A collaboration between Turinese architect Benedetto Camerana and the botanist Cristiana Ruspa, La Pista 500 is a new public space and urban oasis for Turin. It’s joined by Casa 500, a dedicated exhibition space within the Pinacoteca ...
Designed by NBBJ — the architecture firm behind Amazon’s Seattle spheres — the project’s centerpiece is ‘the helix’, a tower filled with a variety of work environments for Amazon employees. As with ‘the spheres’, the building allows staff to be immersed in nature with lush gardens and native trees populating the entirety of the spiraling structure. ‘A true double heli...
As part of the project, the AZCA area of the spanish capital will be transformed into an open and connected destination for culture and recreation. The team was chosen after a two-stage competition as part of a larger initiative to reactivate public space with the support of the private sector. RENAZCA is a private initiative formed by companies who own buildings in t...
“By connecting to our architectural past through the adaptive reuse of the Farley Post office building, we are breathing new life into New York, and recreating an experience no one has had here in decades.”Laura Ettelman, SOM Managing Partner, continues, “SOM has been working on this project since 1998 - for more than two decades. Our deep commitment to this project has ...
The Bale site, as far as is known, is the only site in the world that hides fossilized remains under the sea, and it is assumed that some are as old as 200 million years. The Paleo Park within Camp Mon Perin is a combination of a themed amusement water park and an educational research polygon with the aim of approaching and popularizing this archaeological site in the...
Copenhill was conceived as an original urban hybrid, combining its core function as a power plant with a park, hiking trail, cafes, the world’s tallest climbing wall and—of course—a 400m ski slope. “The facility becomes part of the city and redefines the relationship between production and recreation,” David Zahle of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) told ArchiExpo e-Mag...
The bridge transforms the Everett waterfront, establishing a new connection between the historical Grand Avenue Park and the city’s developing waterfront district. At the bridge’s recent opening, Mayor Cassie Franklin commented, “It is a beautiful bridge, it is a utility project, and it is going to be part of our city for generations to come. It is a gorgeous new asset.”...
The no.2 bridge is located next to the government of Longgang Central District, connecting Vanke Square Commercial Complex with World Trade Department Store Square, Tianyu Phase II residential area, commercial pedestrian street and so on.Located above Dezheng Road and across Longxiang Avenue, the bridge is a two-story landscape corridor connecting multiple platforms.The ...
Vanke and the project overall planning unit URBANUS selected and convened the design units, and finally determined that the design of the first start-up area of the 05-02, 05-01 plot should be completed through Cluster Design under the guidance of URBANUS. A4+B2 plot Under the guidance of the large-scale planning and land plot guidelines, FCHA undertook the design ta...
