World Architecture Festival Awards Shortlist 2010

World Architecture Festival Awards Shortlist 2010 - Andersen Garden Beijing

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

Mirage Dance Hall, Falsterbo Building

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

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.

Haj House Complex, Lucknow Building, India

Haj House Complex, Lucknow Building, Images, Architect, Design, Plans Haj House Complex Lucknow : Indian Architecture Contemporary Lucknow Building Proposal in India – design by AGi Architects 9 Aug 2010 Haj House Complex Lucknow Architects: AGi Architects SL, Madrid, Spain Haj House Complex MEMO “The first being created by God was light”. (…). The great … Read more

GMS Grande Palladium Mumbai, India Building

The uniqueness of this project is that it operates on multiple levels. On one hand it uses technology and intelligent design to improve the working environment of its inhabitants, while working inclusively in an urban context.

Gunesli Tower, Istanbul Building

Gunesli Tower Istanbul interior design

This office building was designed for a location in the west of Istanbul, on the Basin Ekspres Highway which connects Highway D-100 to TEM Highway. The fact that the site was on this road and how it would be perceived were important inputs for the development of the project.

Vali-Asr Office Building Iran: KELVAN Architects

Vali-Asr Office Building

Architect: KELVAN. The present building is a commercial-office building located in a rectangular site which has approximately 15 meters of frontage along the west side of Vali Asr Avenue between Fatemi and Zartosht junctions.