Foster + Partners are masters of the one-liner. With some of the practice’s buildings you are left wanting some greater complexity or richness, but in the case of the restoration of the Dresden Hauptbahnhof, one of the most impressive late nineteenth century railway stations, the key move is of an apparent simplicity one which belies a complexity that is both surprising and highly effective.
Mero Beach Resort Dominica design by BURO II: development of an exclusive residential resort of 22.000m² is situated along Mero Beach on the west coast of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Marshland Discovery Zone, Purfleet, UK design by Peter Beard_LANDROOM – rusty old sea containers architecture: new Essex building, England
The TV-station will take it’s place in a omni directional web of important newly developed cultural buildings, with the TV-tower to the East, the Opera, the Library, Youth centre and New Museum to the North, the Pagoda to the South.
The plot for the projected Helsinki Seafarers´ Centre is situated by the main entrance to the Vuosaari harbour, on the northern corner of the area.
SZHK Biennale Design: ‘Built to Wear’, A new installation by Ball Nogues Studio for the 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism. Sponsored by American Apparel.
To recognize sustainability as a basic setting, it means to love the world. The Seal of KlimaHotel guarantees that whoever is planning this with the default on construction projects, certain criteria and guidelines follows
On the occasion of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim has invited approximately 250 artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream intervention in Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda.
In the small town Aalborg, north of Denmark, an international competition has called up for an architectural design that gathers a spa and some swimming facilities within the same building.
After Ball Nogues Studio read the article by Diederichsen in Art forum from which the quote above is pulled, they decided to create Spock’s Blocks.
Mulders vandenBerk Architecten of Amsterdam have completed a playground building in a park in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with a Corian façade engraved with images of fairytales from around the world.
The building rises in the middle of the surrounding nature, with its shell structure of intertwined wooden elements, covering a transparent structure of glass and steel.
Baugespann Wijnhaven Concept: Flying Tower in Dordrecht, Netherlands – design by morePlatz architects – visualizes future urban developments in scale 1:1 by an inflated balloon-structure.
The terrain is taken by a lane of araucarias that extends to the neighbors terrains, dissolving the strict character of the urban plot. A couple of philosophers with two children included in the program a library that should have independence and at the same time proximity to others uses.