Shanghai New Towns – Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis. Edited and written by Harry den Hartog. With contributions by Li Xiangning, Jiang Jun, Laurence Liauw, Mari Fujita, Marijn Nieuwenhuis, Zhou Jing.
The plan of a house with a small beauty shop on the first floor. A house for a family of four: the young couple running the shop, their 3 year-old girl, and their newborn.
Cox Richardson Architects are contributing to vertical urban living in Chatswood with three residential towers above Chatswood Station. This transport-oriented development takes advantage of the of the trains, shopping, bars and restaurants all available in the one location below the towers.
Broadway Malyan’s corporate fit out for HSBC in Singapore has completed and the project has been awarded a Green Mark Platinum rating by Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority.
Ruthin Craft Centre in rural northeast Wales this building by London architects Sergison Bates was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2009 and is a major centre for contemporary crafts.
Two Slovenian architectural offices – Arhimetrics and Enota – joined to win invited competition for Herman’s Square Building in Celje.
Redevelopment of Slussen masterplan to transform this central Stockholm area into one of the city’s most dynamic civic destinations.
WT Architecture are award-winning contemporary Scottish Architects, based just outside Edinburgh in South Queensferry, led by William Tunnell architect, Scotland, designers of White House, Griffipol, Isle of Coll
The Augustinermuseum in Freiburg im Breisgau is being refurbished according to the plans of the architectural practice of Prof. Christoph Mäckler.
John Keenen and Terence Riley, founding partners of K/R Architects complete the master plan for the 100-acre (40-hectare) Parque de Levante in Murcia, Spain – new landscape in south-eastern Spain, this Spanish park design reinvents the concept of a museum-park.
In Abu Dhabi, the famous London architects Foster + Partners are building the Central Market, a complex of shops, offices, hotels and apartments. The key feature of the 500,000 m² complex is a shopping mall based on the example of a typical Arab Souk, a traditional market.
The copper Loggia is the formal ceremonial backdrop, panoramic window, and shelter – it is the hub for Veterans and Memorial Day celebrations, and daily provides an intimate experience with its bronze poem wall and seat at the ends
The BITEXCO Financial Tower is an iconic symbol of the development of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s economic capital.
The site has an elongated shape with a width of about 9m and a depth of 20m. While the front road is relatively wide, with a sidewalk, one might get a feeling of oppression due to the small size of the site surrounded as it by shops and houses of from 2 to 3 stories.