Nanjing Zendai Thumb Plaza, China. Exhibit at BI-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2013 in Shenzhen, China – design by MAD. Ma Yansong presents its work, ‘ Shanshui Experiment Complex’ in the Border Warehouse of BI-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2013 in Shenzhen. This is an artwork in-between architecture model and landscape installation, created based on MAD’s latest project, ‘Nanjing Zendai Thumb Plaza’.
Launch of International Design Ideas Competition
Aesthetic Overhead Line Structures for the UK Rail Network
RIBA Competitions are delighted to announce the launch of a new international ideas competition which asks competitors to consider new, aesthetically pleasing designs for the gantry and cantilever structures on the UK rail network which could play a part in the way Britain’s railway implement future electrification schemes.
Business of Design Week, Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, China. BODW 2013 wraps up with Culture & The City. Asia’s leading annual design event wrapped up its 11th edition with a final day of seminars at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Recent anderson bell + christie buildings + designs – William Quarrier Scottish Epilepsy Centre, Govan + St Beya Gardens project, Millport + Bhaltos Outdoor Education Centre, Isle of Lewis + Tyne Tees site, Newcastle + East Pollokshields Health Centre
Joel Solkoff – on disability issues relevant to architects. Daniel Libeskind, master architect to rebuild Ground Zero, watched the original World Trade Center being built in the 1960s. Libeskind’s father worked in the neighborhood.
The building known as “Palazzo Campari” was designed in the 1960s by Ermenegildo and Eugenio Soncini in the heart of Milan and was one of a series of buildings that emerged during the economic boom years, representing a new aspect of corporate identity for Italian industry.
Air Traffic Control Center (ATCC) Slovenia, Airport Ljubljana building design by SADAR + VUGA. It appears as a monolithic shell, opening towards outside only when necessary. The building is wrapped in belts of glazing and combined aluminium parapets and brise-soleils.
Tintin Building, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, design by NL Architects. Nieuw-Crooswijk is a residential area in Rotterdam, strategically located near the city center and Kralingse Bos, a beautiful park, everything within 10 minutes. Large parts have recently been demolished and will soon be reconstructed
Mumbai City Museum Competition, India. Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) is delighted to announce a two-stage competition to find a design team for a new north wing to the Mumbai City Museum, also known as the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum. One of India’s leading cultural institutions, it is in the process of creating a new dynamic identity for itself as a cultural hub in Mumbai.
Çanakkale Antenna Tower Competition, Turkey. Architects Shortlist News: Team FR-EE & KOTU+MAPmx Studio & Werner Sobek are selected to proceed in the international competition to design a 100m tall Observation & Broadcast Tower in Çanakkale.
Joel Solkoff – on disability issues relevant to architects
The new Renzo Piano Whitney overlooking the Hudson River, adjacent to a really fun public park, has brought to near completion, another magnificent new Piano. Within the Gallery is the original photograph Edward Steichen took of Marlene Dietrich in 1931. The Whitney will soon be launching a new Exhibition of Steichen’s work.
London Heathrow Airport Redevelopment
Heathrow: worth more dead than alive
London – Today London Britannia Airport’s promoters, TESTRAD (Thames Estuary Research and Development Company), have released new concept images and surface access plans outlining the key economic and regenerative benefits that could be realized from a £45bn development value, should an Estuarine Airport be one of the proposed schemes selected for further consideration by Sir Howard Davies Aviation commission recommendations next week.
Cultural Center in Castelo Branco, Portugal, design by Josep Lluís Mateo: The Cultural Center, built in phase two, though part of the original project, floats on two piles over the plaza, like a bridge, freeing up at its base a covered ice-skating rink, and giving continuity to this large public space, to the plaza and to the adjacent park.
Hefei ID Mall Development, China design by Broadway Malyan: Planning approval secured for 170,000 sq m retail and office development featuring a 150 m tower, in Hefei, eastern China