Easter Sculpture Museum by EXIT ARCHITECTS
The Easter Sculpture Museum project was the result of an ideas competition organized by the Hellín Municipality. The rules of the competition considered refurbishment of the old Casa del Conde house and construction an extension on the plot area which had been earlier occupied by some small service buildings of the house. EXIT ARCHITECTS’ winning...
Cross # Towers in Seoul, Korea by BIG
BIG’s residential towers in the Yongsan International Business District revitalize the Han riverfront into a new commercial and residential center for the citizens of Seoul. Situated at the south-east edge of the Yongsan master plan designed by Studio Libeskind for the Korean development group Dreamhub, BIG’s Cross # Towers will contribute to the developing skyline of...
The Trianel GmbH Corporate Center in Aachen by gmp Architekten
First prize in Aachen: the jury of the competition for the Corporate Center of the Trianel municipal utilities network has selected the submission by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) as the winning entry. The new building is located along a major road next to the Tivoli stadium. From 2013 on it is to...
BIG contributes to Vancouver skyline
The 490-foot-tall Beach and Howe mixed-use tower by BIG + Westbank + Dialog + Cobalt + PFS + Buro Happold + Glotman Simpson and local architect James Cheng marks the entry point to downtown Vancouver, forming a welcoming gateway to the city, while adding another unique structure to the Vancouver skyline. BIG’s proposal, named after...
Kimball Art Center in Utah, USA by BIG + Architectural Nexus
BIG + Architectural Nexus + Dunn Associates + VBFA + Envision Engineering + Big D design the winning proposal for the renovation and expansion of Kimball Art Center in Park City, projected for completion by Mid-2015. The Kimball Art Center, home to Sundance House during the Annual Sundance Film Festival, invited an international group of...
BIG unveils a ski resort in Lapland
BIG wins an invited competition for a 47,000 m2 ski resort and recreational area in Levi. The future Ski Village will transform the existing Levi ski resort into a world class destination, offering top quality accommodation and leisure services for skiers of all levels and demands. The proximity to the Kittilä airport ensures easy access...
BIG + OFF win the competition to design a research centre in Paris
BIG + Paris-based architects OFF, engineers Buro Happold, consultants Michel Forgue and environmental engineer Franck Boutte is the winning team to design the new 15.000 m2 research centre for Sorbonne’s Scientific university Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. The new multidisciplinary research centre, Paris PARC, located between Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe and...
‘Moses Bridge’ by Ro&Ad Architecten
The West Brabant Water Line is a defence-line consisting of a series of fortresses and cities with inundation areas in the south-west of the Netherlands. It dates from the 17th century but fell into disrepair in the 19th century. When the water line was finally restored, an access bridge across the moat of one of...
RAKE visningsrom (RAKE Showroom) in Trondheim, Norway
The showroom RAKE is the latest addition to Trondheim’s art landscape. It is the result of a student workshop in which thirty students from the architecture schools of Trondheim, Oslo and Bergen joined forces to design and construct this new exhibition space for art and architecture. A majority of the materials used in the construction...
Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) by Boeri Studio
Milan-based architecture studio Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra) have designed an outstanding project that was entitled Bosco Verticale or Vertical Forest. Bosco Verticale is a project for metropolitan reforestation that contributes to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory. Bosco Verticale...
Compact living:: PACO by Sschemata Architecture Office Ltd.
We have recently written about the one 3x3x3 metres house. This time we would like to feature one more house with the same dimensions. It has been designed by a Tokyo-based studio Sschemata Architecture Office Ltd. and titled PACO. From the outside, PACO is a compact twenty-seven cubic metres white box. But, despite its tiny...
Unique multi-storey office building by NEAPO
A Finnish building company NEAPO has reported about an outstanding sea voyage. Its new three-storey office building, 33 metres long and 12 metres tall, was transferred in one piece by water to its plot on Hirvensalo Island near Turku, Finland. The voyage of this 220-tonnes construction from the shipyard to the island took just under...
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