NDA Planning, part of NDA Design Associates, an international French-based architectural practice, creates new ‘Balanced City’ concept that wins international urban masterplan competition in Dalian, Northern China.
The assignment was to rehabilitate a 50’s house and integrate a new building to achieve, overall, the highest number of square meters for office rental.
Following the international competition held in 2006, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) were chosen to create initial conceptual proposals for the Civic Centre of the City of Elk Grove, California, a fast-growing suburb of Sacramento.
The building combines compact, efficiently organised serving area with a spatious and open living area.
The realized building consists of the simple stacking of two – diametrically opposed – concepts of space. The ground floor level is designed as a flat sandwich-space, which opens up completely to the surroundings thanks to the glazing on all sides.
The sleek 24 storey building named ‘Silvertree’ is wrapped with coloured panels on 2 sides, which provide not only solar shading but also the electrical power from embedded photo voltaic panels and solar water heating
Mies van der Rohe’s modernist masterpiece Farnsworth House will join the LEGO Architecture product line that celebrates the past, present and future of architecture through the LEGO brick
The new City of London Information Centre introduces a dynamic contemporary structure to an area of exceptional architectural and urban heritage.
Notting Hill Penthouse Interior Design. The new Penthouse is situated on the top of two adjacent 1930s apartment blocks in London’s Notting Hill. The Brief asked for a breathtaking open living space that would maximise the available views and be a showcase for cutting edge technology.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier has designed two new W Hotels for Starwood in Mexico. The W Santa Fe in Mexico City and the W Retreat Kanai on the Riviera Maya are scheduled to open in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
In the proposed design, a 79-story tower known as PetroVietnam Tower will contain the company’s headquarters and a luxury hotel. This building will be the centerpiece of the development and the city’s tallest building.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier has designed two new W Hotels for Starwood in Mexico. The W Santa Fe in Mexico City and the W Retreat Kanai on the Riviera Maya are scheduled to open in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
In the French city of Lyon, the Croix-Rousse Hospital is to be extended. Its actual organization has set up a “classical grandeur”. Located at the top of a hill, the institution overviews the city’s landscape, major and reassuring presence
CasaArt is composed of a number of distinct parts. It will be perceived as an accessible, permeable culture organism within the city, a cultural “medina”. The presence of CasaArt on the large rectangle of the square appears as a structure composed of pavilions, containing cafés and bookshops.