Iran Pavilion Expo 2015 in Milan. This is a clever design that extrapolates the traditional filigree screen – the pattern is an abstracted deduction of Persian art which is called “Karbandi” in the historical architecture of Iran – by moulding it upwards to form percolated facades, removing the basic pattern from its symmetry.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat convened its Height Committee on November 8th in Chicago to evaluate its criteria for determining the official height of buildings, and to rule on the official height of One World Trade Center in New York.
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New house in leafy suburb of Baddagana Pita-Kotte. Modern home uses materials such as pre-cast RCC floor slabs, pressed cement tiled open to sky terraces, terrazzo machine cut Titanium Cement floors, Kumbuk timber decked floors
The legendary corner of St-Catherine and St-Laurent – at the heart of Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles – is now permanently illuminated by a Moment Factory multimedia facade.
With a program of simple apartments, the project deals mainly with the horizontal stacking of slabs from which projects a series of specifically shaped brises-soleil, creating a constant play of shadow on the façade, itself composed of a semi-structural glazing of sliding panels.
Aarhus Harbour Landmark Building – Dorte Mandrup Architects wins the competition for a new tower in Aarhus Harbour. The tower will be a landmark for the new city district being developed in Aarhus, the 2nd largest city in Denmark.
Designed by Werner van der Meulen of Nico van der Meulen Architects, the house’s striking rectangular structure makes the house stand out from every angle.
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Western Trust’s Southwest Acute Hospital picked up another top design award at this year’s Building Better Healthcare Awards – winner of Best Inpatient Facility in the Building Design class.
This project is located in a one way street with a main urban access in Tehran. Which is in fact, an interior design reconstruction of a store in a way to make a new definition of a brand new restaurant.
The main, and largest building, in the town is Sorø Klosterkirke – Sorø Abbey Church. It was founded by Danish archbishop Absalon and built by Cistercians in the period from 1161-1201
Xi’an Jiao tong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture hosts design charette with Scottish Masters students. Seven postgraduate students from Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen, arrived at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) to take part in an ideas-sharing evening between Chinese and Scottish architecture students.
Elizabeth Beach, a small secluded beach on the mid North coast of NSW, Australia, is a small village with a mix of approximately half holiday houses and half permanent residences. The climate is temperate and the surroundings largely unspoiled. The site is located opposite a remnant littoral rainforest, situated midway between the estuary of Wallis Lake and the Pacific Ocean.
An international team led by BIM Academy, has won a virtual design competition for a new convention centre in Sydney, Australia, ‘Build Sydney Live’. BIM Academy is a collaboration between Northumbria University and Ryder Architecture established in 2011 as an international centre of excellence for Building Information Modelling (BIM).
Islington is a gritty inner-city suburb of Newcastle, traditionally working class, which is experiencing demographic change as young families move into the area. The site is located 30m from a fortified motorcycle gang clubhouse, and has a site area of only 283m².
Denton Corker Marshall together with OCT Art & Design Gallery and Exhibition Curator Professor Zhi Wenjun, have collaborated to produce an architectural exhibition as part of the 2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture in Shenzhen, China.