Higashi Honganji Founders Hall, Kyoto
Traditional wooden temples in Japan are constructed by using natural materials that and allow easy disassembly. By extending their life through periodic repair, wooden temples produce low environmental loads.
Lookout tower house, Uaymitun Property
Located in Uaymitun, Yucatán, Mexico, The “lookout tower house” is the first house within a set of summer villas in a lot that is placed between the sea and the “ciénega” (swamp).
Madrid Design Center, San Sebastian de los Reyes
This direct commission called for the development of a new hybrid concept between a design-museum typology and a commercial and services exchange centre, entirely dedicated to domestic interior design.
Global Visions Group Building, Ljubljana, Slovenia
This building is located next to a 1950s turbine factory on the outskirts of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Housing the largest super computer in the region, it enters surrounding space as a herald of new era of paradigms – a new centre of very large extent of data, connected to people and events all around the planet.
Jeonbuk Region LH Corporation Headquarters
Winning 1st Prize in the architecture design competition for the new Jeonbuk region Korea Land Housing (LH) corporation headquarters in Jeonju, Korea, DA Group has been commissioned to execute the design of this new office complex, and completed the project in 2010.
One Shelley Street, Macquarie Group Sydney
One Shelley Street vision was to reframe the requirements and performance of the 21st Century office. On behalf of the Macquarie Group, Clive Wilkinson Architects, as design architect and Woods Bagot as executive architect.
Garak Market Development Seoul: Samoo
Garak Wholesale Market plans to transform itself from a neglected place that draws many criticism and cynicism due to its ever-present traffic congestion, smell of leftover vegetables and inefficient logistics system designed a quarter century ago.
Nature Centre Copenhagen: Hareskoven Center
The building is designed in a simple gesture. The star shaped roof is a lifted landscape creating a series of panoramic rooms looking on into the forest.
World Architecture Festival Awards Shortlist 2010
Projects that range from a church in England to a prison in Norway, will go head to head at the Festival, which is designed to celebrate the aspirations and concerns of the international architectural community.
Mirage Dance Hall, Falsterbo Building, Sweden
When designing we always work with our manifesto which puts focus on people, needs and context. In special projects we write several short stories describing what could take place in the building.
Museum of Image and Sound Rio: MIS
The building, made up of 5 blocks housing the museum functions and grouped according to usage affinities and public traffic, rises from a ground floor crossed by an internal passageway connecting Atlântica Avenue to Aires Saldanha Street.
LightNing Tower, Maranello, Modena
The thirty metres high tower has an aerodynamic design that becomes a landmark, an element that wrapping as the bodywork of a car around the bearing structure of the engine.
Yesil Vadi Mosque Istanbul building, Turkey
The circle form represents the universe and infinity (The symbol of infinity is formed by twisting a circle!). At the same time circle is the symbol of unity. Centric planned Ottoman mosques are circularized, permitted by extent of construction
Zorlu Center, Istanbul Building, Turkey
The Zorlu Center site is just at the junction of the Bosphorus Bridge European connection and the glamorous Büyükdere axis that connects the city center with the great business district Maslak.