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Design: MVRDV
Construction has started on the Cheung Fai building in Hong Kong which transforms a former warehouse into offices for creative companies.
The building is in Kwun Tong waterfront in the business area of East Kowloon. It aims to create a luxurious loft style working environment by replacing everything but the primary concrete structure of the building with glass and stainless steel infill.
Design: Estudi Josep Cortina
The architecture forms a dreamlike scene inspired by a forest turned into geometric shapes, capturing the essence of the organic and taking it to an industrial environment.
Wood and iron blend in a reflection of the tension between the industrial, the geometrical and the cold on one hand; and the organic, the curved and warm on the other. The dining area becomes a big stage where the great show cooking takes place and fills the place with dynamism and vitality.
Design: Wiel Arets Architects (WAA). The Allianz Headquarters is a hybrid-office and the pinnacle of a master planned mixed-use district on the edge of Zürich’s city center. Comprised of a 20-story tower and a 5-story annex, these two components are externally linked by a series of four bridges, and vertically linked by numerous interior voids and staircases.
Design: 3XN
A 3XN designed IMAX theatre, retail and creative offices complex will be an iconic contribution to the 15 billion yuan (USD$2.4 billion) DreamCenter entertainment district on Shanghai’s West Bund. The DreamCenter building is being developed by DreamWorks Animation together with partners, CMC Capital Partners and Hong Kong developer Lan Kwai Fong Group.
Fairmount Avenue Townhomes is an 18 unit, LEED Platinum certified, affordable townhouse development, design by Hefferlin + Kronenberg Architects. The buildings are designed for the Chattanooga Housing Authority and provide low income housing in the desirable North Chattanooga Neighborhood.
Design: 3LHD Architects
Amarin Apartment Village is located north of the city of Rovinj, surrounded by lush vegetation. Next to the existing 272 apartments, the old substandard ones were removed from the site and 190 new were built in their place. The new buildings location is partly determined by the existing pedestrian paths that continue into the new project; and by the plots gentle slope from north to south. The Village was conceived to have a high quality intimate outdoor space that accompanies each apartment as well as a comfortable interior.
Design by J. MAYER H. Architects
In 2013, J. MAYER H. designed MobiVersum as a new interaction surface for young visitors to Autostadt Wolfsburg, integrated as part of the overall context of Autostadt “People, Cars, and What Moves Them.”
Design: KAMJZ, architects. The reborn state of Libya needs now all the efforts to address the negative legacy of the past decade.The Central Bank of Libya as one of the key institutions in the country could act as a showcase of a successful transformation in a new economic system with stability, independence and safety as the key words in this process. This building proposal focuses on implementing them in the core of the design.
BIG + Bollinger+Grohmann + Man Made Land +Topotek 1 + Kardoff Ingenieure + Wenzel+Wenzel are winners, along with Buro-OS and OMA, of the new Media Campus for AXEL SPRINGER in Berlin, Germany, on the site of the former Berlin Wall
Architect: 10 Design. This mixed use office and retail development sits centrally within the new Danzishi Central Head Quarters in Chongqing, that sits on the banks of the Yangtze River. The brief was to create an interactive retail environment that would interact and reflect with the rich topography that Chongqing is renowned for.
Design: PARAVANT ARCHITECTS with SAAR Arquitectura. This building was planned as a retirement residence for a client from Hollywood, California: the design focused on creating a home that is harmoniously integrated into the landscape of the surrounding Costa Rican mountains.
Design: Nizio Design International. Multimedia museum exhibitions, Poland’s most modern spaces dedicated to culture, visual arts, and family entertainment are but a part of the plans to develop the Old Mine in Wałbrzych.
Design: Fraser Brown Mackenna Architects. A new state-of-the-art music studio designed for Goldsmiths, University of London: officially launched by Radiohead’s producer Nigel Godrich
Design: Elenberg Fraser. A while ago we introduced Igor Kebel, the new Design Director for this architecture studio – the time has come to introduce his first project, which represents a dramatic shift in the Elenberg Fraser design process into a completely parametric environment. Eq.Tower is a teaser for Melbourne’s urban future.