© Alexander Severin/RAZUMMEDIA, Images Courtesy Two Trees Management Co. LLC
Architects: TEN Arquitectos
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Client: Two Trees Management Co. LLC
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Alexander Severin/RAZUMMEDIA, Images Courtesy Two Trees Management Co. LLC
Courtesy of Christian Müller Architects & Krill Architecture
In collaboration with Christian Müller Architects, Krill Architecture and Archilos Plan Development, Basement project development, who commissioned the project, realized a sustainable holiday park in contrast to holiday parks that promise nature but deliver suburbs. The developers approached the architects to come up with a scheme that allows for contemporary and luxury living as part of the surrounding nature in the German Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
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Architects: Loos Architects
Location: Schoten, Belgium
Project Year: 2006
Project Area: 2,375 sqm
Photographs: Allard van der Hoek
Courtesy of GAD Architecture
Designed by Istanbul and New York based company, GAD Architecture in collaboration with Dara Kirmizitoprak, NLF is a high-rise luxury residential project, located in the Nilüfer district of Bursa, one of the largest and most developed cities in Turkey. The project site is on the main road serving as an axis connecting Bursa and Nilufer to the east and west. This corridor also accommodates the railway system, and is characterized by a number of other shopping centers in the vicinity. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Courtesy Synarchitects
Synarchitects has shared with us their forward thinking design for Ningbo Digital in Ningbo, China. A skew of images can be seen after the jump in addition to a brief description from the designers.
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© Mariela Apollonio
Architects: OBR
Location: Milan, Italy
Project Area: 27,400 sqm
Photographs: Marco introini, Mariela Apollonio, Maurizio Bianchi
© Tom Arban
Maple Leaf Square will create a bold and energetic 24 hour sports, entertainment and residential precinct in downtown Toronto. Situated between the Toronto Financial District to the north and Harbourfront to the south, and anchored by the adjacent Air Canada Centre, the new complex will consolidate this precinct into a vital sports and entertainment district in the city.
Architect: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB) Architects
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Project Area: 1,135,431 sqf
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Tom Arban
Courtesy of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Chicago-based firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture recently announced that it has won an international competition to design the Wuhan Greenland Center, which will likely be China’s third-tallest building, and the fourth tallest in the world, when completed in about five years at 606 meters (1,988 feet) high. Construction is scheduled to begin this summer in Wuhan near the meeting of the Yangtze and Han rivers.
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SPEDstudio has won second place for the Casa della Memoria Design Competition in Milan, Italy. Casa della Memoria, with an area of 185.80 sqm, will house the headquarters of some of the associations involved in the preservation and dissemination of “memory” of the conquest of freedom and democracy in Italy, as well as multi-purpose areas and exhibitions.
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Architects: meier + associés architectes
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Project Year: 2006
Collaborators: S Braun, M de Dompierre, I Iussi, M Jaques, AI Pepermans, M Perret
Project Area: 5,070 sqm
Photographs: Jean-Michel Landecy
Rendering
Construction of Schweger Associated Architects‘ Dubai Pearl is continuing. The groundwork, foundations, basements and lower grounds floors of the four towers which form the central section of Phase 1 of the development is now complete. A total of 3.5 million man hours have so far been spent since work started on site and over 60,000 cubic meter of concrete has been poured on one of the largest construction projects still being developed in the UAE.
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Architects: EMBA – Enric Massip-Bosch
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Pedro Antonio Pérez & mylapse
courtesy of Mark Tyrrell Studio & Daniel Griffin
Sydney based Tyrrell Studio has collaborated with Daniel Griffin to create a first prize winning entry to the 2011 international design competition Ideas on Edge Parramatta. The competition received over 150 entries, 40% international and the remainder from around Australia. There were 3 equal winners. Images of the winning entry and a narrative from the architects after the break.
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Architects: Pickard Chilton
Location: Chicago, USA
Civil engineer: Epstein
Developer: Hines
Acoustics: Cerami & Associates
Lightning: Quentin Thomas Associates, Inc.
Landscaping: Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc.
Structural engineer: Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Alan Karchmer, Peter Aaron, Pickard Chilton
Park form the south / © KCAP
KCAP Architects & Planners present their vision today for NEO Brussels, the redevelopment of the Heysel plateau, , to the political arena, the press and the public. The team, KCAP working together with advisors Arup and Fakton, won the international design competition in September 2010. The area is one of the most strategic locations in the Brussels Metropole Region. The design for NEO Brussels aims to strengthen the significance of the Heysel, and to qualify it within a framework for sustainable development. More images and complete press release after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Goettsch Partners
A master plan by Goettsch Partners (GP) has been selected as the winning scheme in the design competition for a prominent site in the new Pazhou district in Guangzhou, China. The Pazhou Masterplan will consist of three urban parcels that form a triangular site, which is planned for seven buildings totaling 428,000 square meters. The client and developer is Poly Real Estate (Group) Co., Ltd., China’s leading state-owned real estate company.
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Architects: JUNGLIN Architecture
Location: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Client: Kyungbang
Site area: 44 sqm
Photographs: Park Wansun
Courtesy of AMA
By courageously connecting the design of the building with the territory, in constant dialogue with the urban texture, nature and its limits, Architetto Matteo Ascani (AMA) enhances the position of the new Beton Hala Waterfront Center within the city of Belgrade. Through their concept, the building becomes a mixed use area that blends culture, shopping and outdoor activities. Thanks to its strategic location served by the tram line, the Passenger river port and the main road Vojvode Bojovica Boulevard and Karadjordjeva a network of connections is created where the Beton Hala Waterfront Center is turned into an intermodal hub. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Courtesy ATKINS
ATKINS Shanghai has recently completed the design concept for a future skyscraper/mixed use center for the future central business district of Zhangjiagang, China. Additional renderings, plans and a description from the architects can be found after the jump.
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Courtesy of Latitude Studio
The Wangfujing Center in Beijing, China is a mixed-use space designed by Latitude Studio. The intention of the proposal is to design an architectural solution that provides a container for an endless possibility of experiences. To achieve this, Latitude Studio considered the role of the atrium in Roman architecture, which injects the space with light and air.
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Color Light Time + Scale / Steven Holl
Last week, we received copies of two of Steven Holl’s… newest publications, Scale and Color Light Time. Published by Lars Müller, the books examine Holl’s preoccupation with light and color as ways to inform the shaping of space. Holl’s architecture has consistently
Writing About Architecture / Alexandra Lange
We recently received a book we wished we had earlier, Writing About Architecture. …Lange’s book pulls from “lessons learned from her courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts.” ”The book offers works by some of the
Imperfect Health / Giovanna Borasi & Mirko Zardini
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