Adrian Welch
Article about fire safety in the supertall buildings now being built. “The skyscraper is just about to get a whole lot bigger, with a whole lot more of them around. While the Shard is the tallest building in Europe, it will be dwarfed by the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – the first habitable building to pass the one kilometre mark.”
Design: Coates Design Architects. The Bainbridge Island Gateway, a multi use office and retail anchor on Bainbridge Island, WA, features copper panels crafted by hand in Silverdale, WA using weatherizing technology developed by DMD. The facade is self-healing, and will continue to age over time.
Design: Gerardo Ars Arquitectura. Three House: built on an irregular plot of approximately 22 by 62 feet, this house is located in the town of Boca del Rio, at the Port of Veracruz. “The house is for our children” phrase essential and inspiring of the client that served as the basis for the development of the project.
Design: studioSK, Movares
How to create a meaningful station environment in an era in which the classical station typology is evaporating? Modern travelling, being almost immaterial, has become ‘traveling light’: no need to buy tickets anymore, paying with your cell phone, high frequent intensities of train systems preventing you to wait for long.
Design: A*PT Architecture. Mariners Harbor Library, the newest branch of the New York Public Library, is located on Staten Island. The firm was commissioned for this 10,000 square-foot project by the Department of Design and Construction of the City of New York (DDC). LEED Silver pending.
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Kingdom Tower to be the world’s tallest building. Construction started in April, with foundations completed in March. Building completion by 2018 deadline is highly unlikely at this point.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. With over 5 million residents, Riyadh’s population has more than doubled since 1990. To serve its fast-growing population, the city will build a new public transport system. The building will contain six platforms over four public floors and serve as a key interchange and terminus for 3 lines.
Design: Studio RHE. This is London’s first ever women’s only private members’ club. It is for health-conscious women who want the very best in therapeutic and medical treatments. Members can have workout sessions with celebrity personal trainer, Matt Roberts, or be treated by the Queen’s doctor, Dr Tim Evans.
Design: Allies & Morrison. The iconic 125 meter high 41 story tower will provide 335 new homes, 33,000 sq ft of offices and ground floor retail in one of London’s most important regeneration areas. Views from the upper floors will offer panoramic sweeping vistas across London.
Design: Atelier COLE
Bear Rescue Centre, Cambodia: international design + build workshop creates sustainable natural building for conservation group in Cambodia.
A hands-on participatory workshop organised by Building Trust International educates both Cambodians, local NGO workers and international volunteers on sustainable building techniques, working with natural materials and promoting the importance of quality in good design.
Design: Snøhetta, Norway – this landmark building in the desert 150 km east of Dubai was designed as a gateway to the emirate and an entrance to the new capital city of Ras Al Khaimah. The urban master plan for the city was by architectural practice OMA, The Netherlands.
This manor in the community of Blaricum, in the area of Gooi in The Netherlands was built in the 30-ies and has been owned by one family house during many years.
Design: Geotectura / Axelrod-Grobman Architects / Chen Architects. In a milestone for sustainable building in Israel, the Porter School of Environmental Studies Building has been inaugurated, providing space for environmental teaching, research, exhibitions, conferences and demonstrations of environmental technologies. The EcoBuilding includes a Capsule suspended high over the atrium and the EcoWall, a thermal-solar tubes system for energy production.
Design: Manfred Kielnhofer – Guardians of Time Art Dubai 2013 Installation: “The Guardians of Time” are sculptures created by Manfred Kielnhofer, from Austria. The story behind these mystique illuminated creatures is about observing and protecting the world. They appear worldwide at historically important places.