The Tryon Street Bridge is an important point of entry into uptown Charlotte. There is a sense of theatrical splendor that radiates from the assembly of high rise buildings seen from the bridge.
The void. A physically powerful identity and a strong sense of a space are given to a place when it contains a clear void. It is the void that connects people.
gmp • Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners win competition for a sports complex and urban re-design in Lausanne (“Métamorphose – Prés-de-Vidy”)
Alliance Française de Toronto (AFT) celebrates 110 years of service to the Toronto community. To meet the growing need for educational, cultural and programming space, the AFT is planning a new facility designed by renowned Canadian firm Hariri Pontarini Architects.
The new housing complex appears at the site of the Hotel Estoril-Sol, a building of 20 floors from the 1960s, which was demolished to make way for this new construction.
LOGOWINES’s winery located in part of the Herdade da Pimenta in Évora: with a rectangular configuration of 110m by 27m, it is composed of a volume coated with cork panels, intercepted by three gray “boxes”, that organize the main functional areas of the winery.
The Center for Architecture is a destination for all interested in the built environment. It is home to the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation, vibrant nonprofit organizations.
For almost 120 years, the Municipal Art Society has fought for and fostered intelligent, thoughtful urban planning and design in New York City, producing studies, providing expert testimony, hosting conferences and forging coalitions.
Conscious of view and transparency, the shiplap and cementboard-clad residence rests comfortably on a foundation of predetermined size.
Nun’s Island’s urbanization followed the opening of the Champlain bridge in 1962 under an ambitious master plan carried out by Metropolitan Structures, a real estate giant who had built numerous projects in Chicago with the collaboration of Mies van der Rohe.
The Netherlands Architecture Institute, NAi Rotterdam, reopened the renewed building of architect Jo Coenen on June 30, 2011, photos © Ton Hermans.
This project is a two-storey school center that arises as a rehabilitation of a pre-existing structure, which is expanded in order to meet the needs and programmatic space, with the addition of three volumes.
Woods Bagot has recently completed the ballroom refurbishment of the InterContinental, Hong Kong. Inspired by the hotel’s unique position on Victoria Harbour, the design for the refurbished ballroom glistens, yet bestows a feeling of understated and refined luxury.
An oil silo is a storage container for compressed liquefied petroleum gas. There are approximately 49,000 oil silos in over 660 oil refineries worldwide! As the human population increases at an exponential rate, oil discovery decreases at an exponential rate
The fractured tectonic of the Santiago Ydañez Museum, in the town of Puente de Génave expresses the relationship between the work of the artists, the site and the building program.
ALEF Office Building. To avoid demolition and the transportation of the remains, ART Arquitectos worked in the renovation of a functionalist building in the Cuauhtémoc district in Mexico City.
The house was built in the early 80’s and is located west of Mexico City. The remodeling made by Claudia Lopez Duplan was a total renovation of both space and image.