World Architectural News July 2009, Buildings across the Globe, Design Images

Global Architecture News July 2009

Architectural Design Developments in Jul 2009 – World Built Environment

Global Architecture News in July 2009

World Architectural Projects in Jul 2009
This is the e-architect archive page for Architecture News July 2009.

The Standard Hotel, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Todd Schliemann, Polshek Partnership
The Standard Hotel New York
Sculptural piers, whose forms clearly separate the building from the orthogonal street grid, raise the building fifty-seven feet off the street, allowing the horizontally-scaled industrial landscape to pass beneath it and natural light to penetrate to the street. The two slabs are “hinged,” angled to further emphasize the building’s distinction from the city’s grid and its levitation above the neighborhood. The low-scale environment affords the building unique visibility from all directions and unobstructed 360° views of the city from the building.

US Capitol Visitor Center, Washington D.C., USA
Design: RTKL
Aspire Tower Doha, Qatar added : Hadi Simaan and AREP

image from architects office
Aspire Tower Doha
The exterior lighting scheme for Aspire Tower in the Sports City was inaugurated at the opening of the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar on December 1st 2006. Kevan Shaw Lighting Design won an international design competition for this project in September 2005. The project team is led by a Joint Venture between Midmac & Sixco contractors.