Arup and Dr. Ing A. Aas-Jakobsen AS (Aas-Jakobsen) have been appointed to carry out the independent design verification for the Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey, set to become the world record holder for the longest suspension bridge in history. The record breaking length of 2,023m and tower height of 318m will connect the Asian and European […]
The renewed Woerden town hall and Regional Historic Centre Rijnstreek and Lopikerwaard will be festively opened.
UNStudio was recently selected as the winner in the competition for the first ever cross border cable car, which will carry passengers across the Amur River to connect Russia and China.
City Circuit Purpose “promoting daily sports activities and integrating the local community” Project’s main emerging direction is to get a “center” that have sincere connection with its environment. Having this idea on hand, utilizing international standards for sports facilities for both disabled and non-disabled is essential and crucial point to achieve the goal as mentioned […]
CRA wins the international competition for Reinventing Cities with the design of a new research center under a 200-meter-long vineyard, connecting the street level to the rooftop with a seamless footpath. The project, developed for real estate group Covivio, adds a new public space to one of Milan’s most vibrant neighborhoods, close to the new […]
Immeuble de l’Union is a rare modernist gem in Beirut: its renovation by architect Karim Nader represents a homage to the golden age of Lebanon, that inspires a new approach towards the architectural heritage of the city.
The base is located at the southwest corner of the intersection of San Tai Shan Road and Hu Pao Road of West Lake District in Hangzhou.
The firm Ropa & Associés Architectes has just delivered the AGORA in Metz. An ambitious and innovative program for France, it gathers under one roof a media library, a social center and a digital work space.
The firm Béal & Blanckaert architectes urbanistes recently delivered new offices in Lille’s burgeoning district of Lomme-EuraTechnologies.
An Architectural Future History from Big Bang to Singularity explores how the world around us has taken shape – and has been given shape – from the past to the present, with 71 BIG projects as glimpses of and gifts to our future. The show is on view until January 5, 2020. The 1,350 m2 […]
As part of UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda, floating cities non-profit OCEANIX, the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, BIG and partners propose a vision for the world’s first resilient and sustainable floating community for 10,000 residents: Oceanix City.
MoederscheimMoonen Architects designed a transparent retail pavilion above train tracks next to Utrecht Central Station.
The bow tie-shaped National Theatre of Albania designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Theatre Projects is a 3-in-1 cultural venue tailored to Tirana’s thriving theatre and performance art scene.
Arata Isozaki, distinguished Japanese architect, city planner and theorist, has been selected as the 2019 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award that is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
The Stgilat Aiguablava villa, designed by Enric Ruiz-Geli/Cloud 9, is a pilot housing project based on ‘smart’ Mediterranean architecture.
Henning Larsen was chosen for the expansion and renovtion of Opéra Bastille, the largest opera house in Paris.
Africa’s largest urban developer, Rendeavour, in partnership with the Lagos State Government, broke ground on a new city development in the Lekki Free Zone. The master plan carried out by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP Europe is designed to boost foreign direct investment in Nigeria and create tens of thousands of jobs. Alárò City […]
Built on a former industrial site of Esch-sur-Alzette, the campus of the University of Luxemburg Faculty of Sciences is laid out over the remains of the old steelworks, dominated by its blast furnaces.
Construction has been completed on the Tianjin Binhai Exploratorium, a 33.000-square-meter museum structure in Tianjin, China. Designed in 2013-2014, the Exploratorium is set to open in Fall 2019.
In the middle of nature at Vinkeveense plassen, i29 interior architects and Chris Collaris designed a tiny holiday home.
Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation (BCF), a non-profit foundation formerly known as Fairholme Unlimited, has announced the designs for its innovative new art space in Miami.
The 16th Istanbul Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, and sponsored by Koç Holding, will take place from 14 September to 10 November 2019.
The architecture studio Espinet / Ubach has completed a project consisting of 26 social housing units situated next to the emblematic old textile factory Can Batlló in Barcelona.
Situated between two lakes and within the community of Christiania, the new Noma is built on the site of a protected ex-military warehouse once used to store mines for the Royal Danish Navy. Imagined as an intimate culinary garden village, guests are welcomed to experience a new menu and philosophy that will redefine Noma for years to come.
In a vast forest area in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Taller Héctor Barroso has built five weekend houses, which adapt to the site’s topography.
In 2022, an entirely new Natural History Museum will open its doors in Copenhagen.
In 2022, an entirely new Natural History Museum will open its doors in Copenhagen. Dutch design agency Tinker imagineers won the international tender to design the new scenography for an area of almost 4.900 m2 netto. The exhibition budget is 22 million euros, and the collection consists of more than 14 million objects.
The 96.000 sqm office development for the state-owned Shenzhen Energy Company is designed to look and feel at home in the cultural, political and business center of Shenzhen, while standing out as a new social and sustainable landmark at the main axis of the city. The volume and height of the new headquarters for Shenzhen […]
Eystur Town Hall is designed by Henning Larsen.
A special transformation has recently taken place in Zutphen. The characteristic Old “IJssel”-bridge has been renovated and expanded with a spacious and more comfortable pedestrian and cycling area. The extension was much needed in order to ensure an improved, safer and more aesthetic passage across the bridge. The project is part of the program “River […]
Asia’s most popular entertainment destination, Macau welcomed more than 32 million tourists in 2017, with visitor numbers increasing every year. Located in Cotai, Macau, City of Dreams is a leading integrated resort including casino, two theatres, shopping district, 20 restaurants and four hotels.
Text description provided by architectural office: In a Nutshell The site is neighboured by huge houses. We were asked to provide the family with ‘just the right amount of space’. By creating large openings and generous connections to the garden we aimed to make this modest-sized house feel abundant and broad. The result is a […]
King Bill is a love letter to Fitzroy. King Bill is a collage of Fitzroy’s built history, its textures, its forms, its order and its chaos.
The site decided on for the ‘Théodore Gouvy’ theatre is the Place des Alliés, in Freyming-Merlebach. The municipal authorities were keen to give a new boost to this evolving sector, which is close to the town centre and next to the new town hall and a shopping centre. It is a prominent location, with sufficient parking capacity for the use of audiences.
Professor Balkrishna Doshi, of India, has been selected as the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award that is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
The project occupies the former social club “Pau i Justícia”, deeply rooted in the memory of the neighbourhood Poblenou, a space where long ago neighbours had celebrated marriages, first communions and parties, which was abandoned for many years.
Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial will be held from 22 September to 4 November 2018. Curator Jan Boelen announced the concept and open call at a press meeting held on Thursday, 12 October at Salon İKSV.
Jan Boelen has been appointed as the curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, to be held from 22 September to 4 November 2018 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV).
LOG IN BANDIRMA PARK – Logistics Innovation and Design for Community Transformation The port city of Bandırma strikes with countless relationships together with the variety of production and exchange of goods amongst diverse prevailing natural features that also accelerate human mobility. Bandırma is more than the sum of its parts; the peninsula, the sheltered Marmara Sea […]
COBE’s project in Denmark gives a new look to Nørreport Station, one of the busiest stations in the country.
Copenhagen Zoo, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, Schønherr Landscape Architects and MOE have collaborated on a new yin and yang-shaped Panda House that resembles the Panda’s natural habitat and creates a peaceful environment for one of the world’s rarest mammals. The new Panda House is scheduled to open in 2018, just in time for the arrival of […]
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have been selected as the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award that is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
Located in Saint-Louis (Alsace, France) in the “Three Borders” region and in the inner suburb of Basel, the “Forum” dedicated to replace the old “Palais des fêtes” of the town, is a cultural facility designed to host associative, sporting and cultural events.
The new sports centre De Koog recently opened in Koog aan de Zaan (Municipality of Zaanstad), the Netherlands. The complex was designed by MoederscheimMoonen Architects, with Vaessen Algemeen Bouwbedrijf bearing responsibility for the contract as a whole.
Nestled in the privacy of a hemlock forest, FAHOUSE presents an amazing building that seems to emerge from a children’s story. Exploiting the contrasts between opacity and light, the architect Jean Verville develops a graphic assemblage, which rises like two giant conifers, intensifying the dreamlike aspect of this architectural proposal. Derived from the archetypal figure of the house, the double triangular prism perfectly illustrates childhood characterizing the whole development of this project.
A unique installation in the main square in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, was inaugurated recently. It is dedicated to Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André. A series of colored sails fluctuate in the sky, in the center of this small town. The light and ever-changing installation is designed by Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners together with Renzo Piano, who conceived the early idea.
Snøhetta’s expansion to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reimagines SFMOMA as a new art experience and gateway into the city of San Francisco.
Alejandro Aravena of Chile has been selected as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, Tom Pritzker announced today. Mr. Pritzker is Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the prize. The formal award ceremony for what has come to be known internationally as architecture’s highest honor will be at United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 4, 2016.
Güney Kore’de bulunan, Star Wars filminden esinlenilen evi Moon Hoon Architects tasarladı.
In Toulouse, near the airport and the river Garonne. A housing development that seeks to optimize the living conditions of each of its cells. The whole is broken down to prioritize the meeting with the domestic rather than insisting on the abstraction of the idea.
Housing, migrant workers’ hostel and technical spaces.
The Docks school in Saint Ouen is in a strategic urban location, in the middle of the Zac des Docks mixed development area, which an exemplary case of sustainable urban development.
Mateo Arquitectura’nın tasarladığı konut Barselona şehir merkezinde, küçük bir sokakta.
The library is located in Zadní Třebáň/CZ/.
3XNs interior for NOMA Restaurant’s food lab unites the creative worlds of gastronomy and architecture in a modern expression of the Nordic aesthetic.
Tripoli Convention Hall signifies the spirit of its homeland and claims to establish a physical relation with the global community. As an outcome of intensive urban and architectural movement in Libya, new innovative and prestigious buildings in Tripoli started to signify the power and contemporary style. Open to the world cultures and where diverse languages […]
ORT is a mixed use complex currently under construction in the Istanbul neighborhood of Ortakoy. The project consists of two buildings; one building is residential and the second is commercial and retail. Nestled next to a hillside, the project will be an iconic step forward in the modernization of the area. The project’s form, façade […]
The design strategy behind the refurbishment of the historic fish market in the central Istanbul district of Besiktas was based on improving infrastructure and hygiene while organizing the stall and shop owners in a more contemporary retail environment. The seafood stalls of the many new supermarkets and shopping malls that had recently been constructed in […]