Waalse Krook Gent: Belgian Library Building

Waalse Krook Gent Belgian library building design

Based on the functional organisation the volume is lifted in order to create public space around the library. In conjunction with the promenade along the quays, this results in interaction with the surrounding water and thereby the revival of the Waalse Krook

Birmingham Library Building: Mecanoo Architecten

The ambitious project located in Centenary Square Birmingham will connect the Library of Birmingham with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre to create a major new cultural destination opening in 2013.

Kaohsiung Maritime Center: Culture & Pop Music

Kaohsiung Maritime Culture & Pop Music Center Entry

Kaohsiung Maritime Culture & Pop Music Center, Taiwan: Taiwanese Architecture Competition – design by Kubota & Bachmann Architects – “She’s like a rainbow”…..Color is joy, color is love and color is Pop…

Clapham House, Southwest London Property

Clapham House, South West London Property twisted wood

The house centres on a living room flowing effortlessly out into the garden (& vice versa) – its rear glazing dissoluble, its roof supporting a second garden above, providing a patio at the feet of the master bedroom.

Cluster Complex Dubai, UAE Building

Denton Corker Marshall’s design for a commercial tower/mixed use complex in Dubai has won the Tall Buildings category in the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards.

Mestia Airport Building – Georgia

Mestia Airport Building, Georgia Building, Image, Architect, Project, Proposal, Design, News Mestia Airport Building Georgia Mestia Airport Building: Architecture Information – design by J. MAYER H. Architects 1 Feb 2011 New Airport Building in Mestia Georgia English text (scroll down for German text) The new built airport is part of Georgia’s ambitious plans to develop … Read more

Stoke Newington House, Northeast London

Stoke Newington House the woven nest stairs

Stoke Newington House in Northeast London, UK, design by atmos: the roof-form deploys a double-pitched butterfly roof, angling upwards from low flank walls to greet the arriving visitor with taller walls at the central stairwell.

Cosmic Communist Constructions Photos

Frédéric Chaubin, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed Book, Soviet architecture publication, by TASCHEN – CCCP Book – Hardcover, 312 pages: Soviet architecture book, Frédéric Chaubin publication

St John’s College Kendrew Quadrangle, Oxford

St John’s College Kendrew Quadrangle, Oxford Building

The building surrounds a magnificent beech tree and is adjacent to listed buildings and listed walls within a conservation area. These features have fundamentally informed the design and construction.

Tripoli Congress Center Libya: Tabanlıoğlu

Tripoli Congress Center Building

Tripoli Congress Center building design by Tabanlıoğlu Architects: following the economic revival, an intensive urban and architectural movement began in Libya; new innovative and prestigious buildings in Tripoli started to signify the development, power and contemporary style.

Worms Culture & Conference Center: Wormser

Worms’s new Culture and Conference Center – designed and built by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) – along with the refurbished Spiel- und Festhaus theater will open with a special festival week marking the end of nearly three years’ construction.