Following the success of Architect in the Store at Habitat in England during Architecture Week 2002, we are delighted to announce the event is coming to Habitat Edinburgh store as part of Architecture Week 2003.
Scottish Design Awards in 2003, a major architectural prize in Scotland – winning buildings + architects results news – winners : architecture award given by the Carnyx Group, UK
Ketil started with a long section on Norway’s reduction in tourist numbers, enough to lift us Scots from our own gloomy situation. He maintained that Norway’s identity related to nature and suggested architecture could save the ‘brand’
Scottish architecture – info about major architects and buildings in Scotland, plus photos – contemporary Scottish architecture tour: new building reviews.
Tokyo Ginza Shiseido Building design by Ricardo Bofill architect: In Ginza, Tokyo’s most prestigious district, an emblematic building has been constructed for the Shiseido cosmetics firm founded in 1872, a 56-m high tower block.
Pyramid Building London using Ugitop material by ArcelorMittal – UK capital city building images, England architecture news, development design project
The Belvedere St. Christophe is the sublimation of years of research and innovation in the social housing sector. The units have become perfectly efficient functional layouts with double orientation to optimize sun exposure, cross-ventilation and view variation
Loisium Hotel & Spa, Langenlois, Austria, Steven Holl Architects, Design, Award Loisium Hotel Austria : Spa Langenlois Vienna Hotel Building : Austrian Architecture – design by Steven Holl Architects Loisium Hotel & Spa, Langenlois Austria Award info from Steven Holl Architects: Steven Holl Architects wins European Hotel Design Award with a Hotel and Spa for … Read more
The property is focused on a narrow square with a beautiful water feature. As an architecture student in Manchester the landscape with its clever mirrored water styling was an influence, and a frequent reference point.
Hong Kong buildings photos taken by architect Adrian Welch in 2003, HK architecture images of skyscrapers, offices and public spaces around the city
Refreshing for Hong Kong skyscrapers this tower is circular and its main mass is quite attractive due to well-designed rhythmic fenestration. Echoing James Bond movies it has a swimming pool at the top and a revolving restaurant!
Located in the historic centre of Hong Kong by the harbour this 50-storey skyscraper was the tallest building in Hong Kong from 1972 to 1980. It lost the title of Hong Kong’s tallest building to the Hopewell Center.
The new office building was finished on 18 November 1985. At the time, it was the most expensive building in the world. Architectural style: High-tech architecture.
Hong Kong skyscrapers photos, tall buildings Hong Kong, architects: discover the tallest HK buildings, Wan Chai architecture designs info & images
The Center is located in centre of Hong Kong business district, rather tacky reflective glass tower based on square plan with smaller 45 degree rotated square within and expressed.
Curious building shaped like a Wok on two legs, designed to look good on the skyline this is an early ‘icon building’. I felt that the place was a bit tacky and that the circulation was tight and confusing – and simply took in the magnificent view.
Hong Kong guides tend to be by tourists, or inhabitants, but this is by neither. Written by a temporary worker – architect and writer – on a two month secondment from the UK, the guide takes an offbeat look at every day life in Hong Kong rather than the tourist sites.