This is a five-star hotel, located in the Knightsbridge district of London, owned and managed by Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. Housed in an historic, Edwardian-style building, the hotel originally opened its doors to the public as the Hyde Park Hotel in 1902
Shell Building London, England, one of the two central offices of oil major Shell, on Belvedere Road in Lambeth – photos, architect, architecture images
Lloyds of London architecture, City office building design by Richard Rogers Partnership, architects – Lloyds London photos: skyscraper
Royal Ontario Museum Toronto: Michael Lee-Chin Crystal building design by Daniel Libeskind architect: the program provides a wonderful opportunity for dramatic new architecture and the creation of a great public attraction.
Gelsenkirchen Stadium, Veltins-Arena building, FC Schalke 04 – by architects Hentrich, Petschnigg und Partner: Gelsenkirchen football stadium: Veltins-Arena
Van Gogh Museum building, Amsterdam, Holland design by Kisho Kurokawa architect – Netherlands, Dutch architecture: images of modern building
Horden Cherry Lee Architects, HCLA – buildings designs by this UK architecture firm – London architects office, England: British architect studio projects information and photos
Aarhus Harbour buildings, Danish waterfront architecture competition design by UNStudio & 3XN Architects – Denmark design contest news
The international consortium with UNStudio and 3XN, headed by architects Ben van Berkel and Kim Herforth Nielsen, creates a beautiful and versatile urban area on Aarhus Harbour together with Gehl Architects, comprising the tallest building in Denmark
World Business Center Busan, Korean building design by Dutch architects, UN Studio – new South Korea architecture, architectural news & images
Constructed to facilitate the orchestration of traffic flows, this Dutch bridge design is inspired by, and in turn reflects, the industrial character of Rotterdam, adding to the narrative of the city.
Luciano Pia Architect, Italy – Piedmont architecture practice, buildings: architect studio in Turin, Italy – Luciano Pia Architetto, building office
Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park (New Haven, CT) designed by Steven Holl Architects has been chosen as one of the Top Ten Green projects for 2007 by the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment (AIA/COTE).
The new Faculty for Economics and Management is part of the Kasbah zone, a wide strip of low, introvert, and high dense buildings.
Grandiose architecture, at odds with the historic texture of the city in both planning terms and in terms of materials – apparently highly praised as good new civic architecture, but the large scale feels alien when compared to the tight-knit streets and alleys that along with the canals make Amsterdam’s streetscapes so popular.
Shin-Marunouchi Building, Japan: tallest development in Tokyo financial centre – design by Hopkins Architects – 198m ‘skyscraper’ in the Marunouchi district.
Borneo-Sporenburg, a former harbour area along the shores of the IJ near Amsterdam’s inner city is intended to resemble in its density the Jordaan, a lively Amsterdam inner city quarter. The developers, however, requested a suburban programme from the municipality.