Sunday, September 29, 2013





"Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay in Singapore by London-based Wilkinson Eyre Architects is the winner of the 2013 RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the best new international building. This is the second year running for Wilkinson Eyre, who also won the prize last year for Guangzhou International Finance Center in China.
The Lubetkin Prize trophy was presented at a special ceremony this evening in London where the RIBA also announced the winner of the prestigious Stirling Prize...
Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay are the biggest climate-controlled greenhouses in the world and a key project in the Singapore Government’s vision of transforming it into a ‘City in a Garden’ to find out more...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013





"The armed conflict that has persisted for decades in the Karen State of Myanmar results in a daily flow of refugees and migrants into neighboring Thailand. In the Thai town of Mae Sot, a few kilometers from the Burmese border, numerous learning centers and orphanages offer accommodation and education.  One of these learning centers, the CDC School (Children Development Centre) under the tutelage of the community based organisation Mae Tao Clinic, hosts more than 500 students...
The interior layout ensures an open and airy space that offers semi-privacy and includes storage space for each student. The main cost of the buildings is the timber structure, which represents 70% of the total cost. Bamboo, thatch and eucalyptus are used for walls, floor and roof. Though these materials are not prepared to last over two years without any previous treatment, they are all easily available every season and the cost is affordable and stable for the local people..."
to find out more...
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Friday, September 13, 2013



"The forthcoming National Stadium of Japan by Zaha Hadid Architects is now set to become the main sporting venue for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games, following the news that Tokyo will be the host city.
The new 80,000-seat stadium will host the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2020 games, as well as athletics, football and rugby events..." to find out more... 
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Friday, September 6, 2013




"Japanese architect Kengo Kuma conceived this primary school in north-west Tokyo as the modern equivalent of a traditional Japanese schoolhouse with timber-clad walls ...
The Teikyo University Elementary School comprises a row of twelve connected classroom buildings that Kengo Kuma and Associates also compares to a row of terraced houses...
By changing its length and height of eave, roof can create multiformity to respond to its environment and different programs..." to find out more...
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Sunday, September 1, 2013



"Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au has landed a commission to design a winter sports resort and water park across an abandoned cement-mining quarry and lake near Changsha, China. Located at the Dawang Mountain Resort outside the city, the Deep Pit Ice and Snow World will be constructed from cliff to cliff across the old quarry, which itself will be transformed into an artificial landscape of islands, pools and pathways..." to find out more...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013





"Since its completion, the new Law Center received awards from the US Green Building Council Maryland and the Building Congress & Exchange of Metropolitan Baltimore. Additionally, it was shortlisted for the international World Architecture Festival and recognized by the high-profile Energy Performance + Architecture Award from France this year. The building will also be presented at the upcoming SCUP 48th Annual International Conference.
Aside from its eye-catching exterior, the 192,000 sq.ft. (17,837 m²) structure at the urban center of Baltimore is full of revolutionary features—like its sustainable technology and its numerous state-of-the-art educational facilities—as described in the official press release below.
The building form consists of three interlocking L-shaped volumes which articulate the functions of the building program – classrooms and offices, the legal clinic, and the law library – and define a narrow atrium, a "green stalk" rising up through the heart of the building and connecting the three volumes. In addition to its function as the connective tissue between program spaces, the atrium also captures the lobby, two coffee bars (forum level and Level 6) and informal work and meeting spaces..." to find out more...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013








"The Jury of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station competition was unanimous in the highly anticipated selection of the final winner: the beautiful vaulted roof-scape designed by Australian/Swiss team HASSELL + Herzog & de Meuron with London-based Purcell as heritage consultants. The entry by Eduardo Velasquez, Manuel Pineda and Santiago Medina was announced as Winner of the People's Choice Award.
The project will turn the station into a modern 21st century transport hub while retaining its best known heritage features and buildings.  It transforms the site into a new civic precinct with a major public art gallery, a public plaza, an amphitheatre, marketplace, and a permanent home for arts and cultural festival organisations..."
To find out more...
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Friday, August 9, 2013





"Warped skyscrapers keep trending: global architecture firm Aedas announces its recent competition win in Shanghai – the Xuhui Binjian Media City 188S-G-1 Tower and Podium.
The tower has a very dynamic and unique shape.  It begins with an extruded rectangular plan. Going upward, the west wall is gradually warped to accommodate the subway setback that cuts off the corner of the otherwise square project site; and the north wall is warped to the east to acquire a desired view of DreamWorks sites and other neighbouring blocks..." to find out more...
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Monday, August 5, 2013




"Hohei Shigematsu, director of OMA New York and lead designer, commented: “Our ambition was to contribute to Santa Monica’s diverse network of public spaces, from the recreational plazas at the Pier and Palisades Park to contained commercial centers like Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Place. Our design provides residents, tourists, and entrepreneurs a dynamic new public realm – a stepped building that achieves a strong interaction between interior program and exterior environments...” to find out more...
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Monday, July 1, 2013



"The Songjiang Hotel is designed by UK architecture firm Atkins, who won the competition bid in 2006. Construction has just begun and will take up to three years, although the hotel could open in 2015. This  hotel resort will nestle into the 100 metre-high rockface of an abandoned water-filled quarry outside Shanghai.A huge waterfall will pour down from the roof of the 19-storey hotel complex, which will have part of its body built into the cave and two of its floors submerged beneath the water..." to find out more...
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Saturday, June 29, 2013



"This Tokyo five-storey townhouse by Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa is fronted by a stack of gardens...
Located in a dense commercial district, the building provides a combined home and workplace for two writers. The site was just four metres wide, so Nishizawa designed a building that has only glass walls to avoid narrowing the interior spaces even further...
he entirety is a wall-less transparent building designed to provide an environment with maximum sunlight despite the dark site conditions..." to find out more...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013






"Through the Looking Glass which is conceptualized around the idea of a "building like a bookcase." The design was a collaboration between French architecture firms AAKAA andMARS Architectes.
"The traditional library is the container of a precious and invisible cognition. It resemble a vault whose boundaries seem jealously kept hermetic to the world. This fortress appears to protect its sacred and timeless spaces from an invasive exterior. The vast and silent distances it holds paralyze the pleasure of exchanging, their immensity affects the simplicity of a gesture to the other....escaping from its fortifications, reaching the town in a mutual desire of communion and generosity: a library in the city, a city in the library...." to find out more...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013


"OMA has been announced as winner of the design competition for Tors Torn in Stockholm. The proposed pair of towers with its facetted facade was designed as the third tallest twin skyscrapers in Sweden. OMA Partner Reinier de Graaf and OMA Associate Alex de Jong were in charge of this submission which emerged victoriously from a field of four competing practices. The project is scheduled to break ground in 2015...
 OMA's design proposes the introduction of a "rough skin" formed through a striking, alternating pattern of protruding living spaces and introverted outdoor spaces...
OMA's design challenges the expected uniformity and homogenous façade treatment that is often assigned to tower structures. Instead, it extends the skin to expose the individuality of the separate living units in the two blocks - a true vertical, urban agglomeration..." to find out more...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013



"Scandinavian firm C. F. Møller has revealed proposals that could see the world's tallest timber-framed building constructed in Stockholm.
As one of three shortlisted proposals in a housing design competition, the 34-storey Wooden Skyscraper is presented by architect C. F. Møller, architect Dinell Johansson and consultant Tyréns as a vision of future housing that would be cheaper, easier and more sustainable than typical steel and concrete constructions..." to find out more...
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