The massive bunker was originally used to launch anti-aircraft fire at enemy planes, but has since been occupied by a number of businesses. The space has been home to a popular nightclub, a music school, retail spaces, offices, etc. The new project would see the space continue its mixed-use atmosphere, but topped with a massive public rooftop garden with walking trails. ...
Completed in 2016, the Perry World House is a 17,400-square-foot academic center that combines a historic house built in 1851 with a new limestone-clad structure. As a center for global and multidisciplinary engagement, the building offers a wide range of spaces including classrooms, meeting rooms, 14 offices, a 50-person conference room, and common rooms open to affilia...
According to the architects, the tower design is a smart building concept for the future; a solution for cities looking to address massive urban growth while simultaneously trying to reduce their ecological footprints. The green building materials and sustainable features would make the tower design a “marketable, serviceable, economical sustainable, environmental, ecolo...
The Spirit of Detroit Plaza takes over one block of Woodward Avenue between Jefferson Avenue and Larned Street in front of the statue, which has adorned the area since 1958. The space boasts tables and chairs, colorful paintings on the sidewalk, lights, and planters. It will go through a 90-day trial this summer to see how pedestrians and traffic respond to the newly-cre...
Architecture studio EFFEKT designed the Camp Adventure Treetop Experience, a unique destination that aims to reconnect people to nature by elevating them high above the treetop canopy. Located in the preserved forest Gisselfeld Klosters Skove, the Treetop Experience aims improve accessibility to the forest while minimizing landscape disturbance.EFFEKT unveiled their desi...
Located in Beijing’s Dashilanr district, the hutong featured a traditional Siheyun layout with various historic buildings arranged around a central courtyard. Although many of these centuries-old areas have been demolished to make way for new construction, Arch Studio’s design sought to use the existing layout to create the ultra-modern living space as an homage to the s...
Palestine suffers of a misuse of stone as a structural material: while it was an abundant material used for structural purposes in the past, it is now used as a cladding material only and the know-how of stone building is disappearing. The research aims at including stone stereotomy – the processes of cutting stones – construction processes in contemporary architecture. ...
The intersection of Piedmont Avenue and 10th Street in Atlanta’s Midtown is considered a hub for the LGBTQ community in the city, so Reed said it was fitting the location should feature the rainbow flag. He announced the decision one year after the shooting in Orlando, Florida in which 49 people lost their lives. Reed said in a statement, “For the past year, Atlanta h...
Mies van der Rohe died in Chicago on 17 August 1969, five weeks after the death of Walter Gropius, four years after the death of Le Corbusier, and ten years after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright. Another 35 months were to pass before 15:32 pm on 15 July 1972, when the Pruitt-Igoe complex by Minoru Yamasaki was demolished by dynamite in St. Louis, Missouri, prompting Char...
The Moulin de la Forge offers a surprising experience to its customers with a conference and meeting room built on stilts, over water. It was designed by architect Bernard Desmoulin whose work relies essentially on the search for an architecture in perfect unison with the site. PUBLICITÉ Bernard Desmoulin Architecte, Conference room on a lake, Le Vaumain, France, 201...
Punta Sottile is the southernmost point of Italy, an extreme strip of the island of Lampedusa where the land gently turns to sea Here, in a fairly distant past, the jagged bank of rock was hewn to supply construction stone. The human hand unknowingly shaped a mystical and archaic place, removed from historic time. A stone’s throw from the cliff, the earth sinks into a s...
located within the chaoyang district of beijing, ‘big family’ is a vibrant community centre completed by research and designs studio MAT office. right before the upgrade, the structure consisted of a vacant underground space. but through this transformation, the government hopes to create a public space which responds to the residents’ demands.with a site area of about 3...
As the world’s first airport building to achieve the BREEAM Excellence sustainability rating, the renovated Oslo Airport boasts an array of energy-efficient strategies as well as on-site energy harvesting systems. The most notable energy-saving measure is the airport’s collection and storage of snow for reuse as coolant during the summer.The recent expansion is a continu...
Working within the confines of such harsh conditions, reforming the mountain refuge proved to be an uphill battle at every turn. The first hurdle was working under the restrictions imposed by the area’s protected UNESCO World Cultural Heritage status. Additionally, the extreme weather conditions meant that the project team could only access the site – the 4th highest she...
The design team also teamed up with Austrian nonprofit Echo100Plus to launch a crowdfunding campaign that hopes to donate the first-ever Maidan Tent to the Ritsona refugee camp in Greece.Most refugee camps are only designed to meet the basic necessities of survival, with public gathering spaces often overlooked. The Maidan Tent design team wants to fill this gap with the...
Scaling up from his tree-clad Bosco Verticale skyscraper, Boeri created a blueprint for new cities in China that will be blanketed in greenery to fight air pollution. The first implementation of the nature-filled city will start in the city of Liuzhou, with construction expected to begin later this year.Stefano Boeri’s Forest City masterplans are envisioned as models of ...
The green “jungle” building is a prime example of green living and will set a new sustainability standard for Vietnam building practices. Besides its green exterior, which helps insulate the building, the tower is equipped with numerous sustainable features. Under the lush greenery, the interior and exterior walls are made of eco-friendly cellular lightweight concrete bl...
Engineer Toby McCartney came up with a solution to that waste of natural resources and the growing plastic pollution problem. His company, Scotland-based MacRebur, lays roads that are as much as 60 percent stronger than regular asphalt roads and last around 10 times longer – and they’re made with recycled plastic.Our city roads require a lot of maintenance over time as w...
The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway along the East River between East 61st to East 53rd Street could be developed with City capital money. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, United States Coast Guard, and Army Corps of Engineers have already granted initial approval and designs for the esplanade will be sketched out this year. The city hopes const...
So now the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is proposing a $5 million bridge over I-80 that will provide wildlife a safe transit zone.Locals from Park City, Utah grew concerned over the high number of animal deaths on the nearby freeway, and in 2015 started the nonprofit Save People, Save Wildlife. Their first goal? Wildlife fencing. They raised around $50,000, a...
completed in 1982, ‘les espaces d’abraxas’ remains the landmark building of marne-la vallée — a new town built near paris in the 1960s. conceived as an ‘urban monument’, architect ricardo bofill insisted that the housing development needed to have a ‘monumental and symbolic character’ to ensure that it formed a strong point of reference. since completion, the project, an...
in the netherlands, moederscheim moonen architects has completed a ‘park and ride’ facility that allows commuters to securely store their cars before traveling. located in zutphen, 30 kilometers north-east of arnhem, the garage has been sited next to the town’s railway station, which in recent years has suffered from a lack of parking facilities. importantly, the design ...
developed by related companies, the new spaces will accommodate a range of domestic and international institutions. the paul kasmin gallery, founded in soho and now occupying three locations in west chelsea, will anchor the collection with a 5,000 square foot gallery and an additional exhibition space in the ‘high line nine’. spaces in zaha hadid’s 520 west 28th will ope...
vargo nielsen palle, a recently established practice, has been chosen to design the new aarhus school of architecture — holding off competition from firms such as BIG and lacaton & vassal in the process. the danish institution will now begin the process of relocating from its current out-dated premises, which have been referred to as the school’s ‘temporary’ home for mor...
The mountain-shaped structure draws inspiration from the surrounding Song mountains in central China with a site-sensitive design that respects the environmental and historical context in the birthplace of Zen Buddhism and Kung Fu.A blend of East meets West, the Shaolin Flying Monks Temple is an amphitheater and platform for artistic performances. Austris Mailītis receiv...
Located in Billund where the LEGO brick was invented, the LEGO House has been seven years in the making and is designed to bring the toy brand’s story to life with ample activities for play and learning. The 12,000-square-meter center will accommodate an estimated 250,000 visitors annually with free and paid activities. To keep the center open to the community, the large...
The site in the Franklin Mitte neighborhood of Mannheim has a long history; first as a trading city, then an industrial center, and finally a US Army barracks, which closed in 2011. The closure was a shock to the area, severely damaging the local economy. To keep local families from moving elsewhere, city officials decided to look for ways to breathe new life back into t...
ReActor is located at Ghent, New York, just over half an hour south of Albany, at the Omi International Arts Center. The 44-foot by 8-foot house made of concrete and wood rests atop a 15-foot tall column, and can rotate a full 360 degrees. The house moves depending on the movement of the inhabitants, or the wind and weather. According to an Omi International Arts Center...
For a startup’s New York City headquarters, Snøhetta retrofitted a 12,000 SF space on the top floor of an 1880’s landmarked building in Lower Manhattan’s NoHo/East Village neighborhood to provide a versatile, sunlight-filled office. The design of each of Slack’s offices around the world aims to integrate elements of their local context, and Snøhetta’s design for a new NY...
The design is focused on presence, efficiency and functionality. The bridge is characterized by a lay-out in a single clear, open gesture with a high degree of recognizability and a natural presence. The concept consists of an elongated, raised esplanade with a high level of user appeal and ambiance, achieved through aspects such as form, materialization and detailing an...
The urban design firm has unveiled their vision for the city’s future FAB (First and Broadway) Civic Center Park, which includes a two-acre tree-filled expanse and an events center covered with undulating strips of green turf. The competition, which is part of the city’s 50 Parks Initiative, encouraged proposals for the FAB Civic Center Park, a $12 million public park...
However, if anyone still has doubts, they should take a stroll through the Kayashima train station in Neyagawa, a northeastern suburb of Osaka. The train station was carefully constructed around a massive camphor tree that has stood on the site for 700 years. The Kayashima Station opened in 1910 and was built next to the large tree, whose exact age goes back before lo...
White Arkitekter‘s winning proposal for an anonymous competition, the building combines an expressive form with accessibility, and provides a series of public spaces for citizens, visitors and employees. The 150,000-square-foot wooden structure is topped with an elegant, sloping roof that ensures lower energy consumption. The three main entrances connect these spaces ...
Working in collaboration with project Taste Aarhus, a culinary initiative geared to celebrating the city’s role of European Region of Gastronomy 2017, Impgaard designed the hut to resemble a seed as a metaphor for the new initiative, which seeks to make the city “sensuous and palatable”. The gardening space will be open for two years to serve as the headquarters for Tast...
The pavilion is located in a residential condominium near São Paulo in Brazil. Surrounded by a lush rainforest with a running stream nearby, the building had to be elevated from the ground in order to avoid flooding. Metal connections were used to assemble the wooden elements, including large pivot doors that make up the facade. Interspersed wooden slats facilitate a ...
The project is part of a larger initiative to improve beach facilities in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, the capital of Galápagos Province located on San Cristóbal, the easternmost island of the archipelago. The shelter, which provides shade and open air showers to users of Playa Man, was built in two weeks using locally-sourced bamboo, wire ties and concrete stoppers. The ...
