Auditoria Park Barcelona, Diagonal Mar

Auditoria Park Barcelona, Diagonal Mar

Like the Yokohama Ferry Terminal also by Foreign Office Architecture this intervention fuses landscape with sculpture to make architecture: flowing and undulating tessellated strips run along the seafront to make ‘man-made dunes’.

Parkview Green Beijing building design

Parkview Green Beijing building design

Parkview Green Beijing, China building design by Winston Shu of Integrated Design Associates architects – Chinese capital mixed-use development

SSM Concert Hall, Istanbul Building, Turkey

When Nevzat Sayin, NSMH started working on a ‘concert hall for chamber orchestra’ in this area, to be located on a museum campus situated almost immediately on the shore of the Bosphorus, they knew that they had to design an invisible building.

Northern Harbour Copenhagen: Nordhavn

Nordhavn København - Design by COBE with SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll

With 200 ha, Copenhagen’s Northern harbor is today used as harbor, but expected to be transformed into a new Copenhagen neighborhood within the next 40 to 50 years. Fully developed, it will provide the living environment of 40.000 residents. 40.000 people will work there.

Federation of Korean Industries, Seoul

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture announce that it has designed the new head office building for the Federation of Korean Industries in Seoul, South Korea.

China Diamond Exchange Center Shanghai building

China Diamond Exchange Center Shanghai Building

The China Diamond Exchange Center, designed by Goettsch Partners (GP), recently opened in Shanghai. Commissioned by Shanghai Lujiazui Development Co. Ltd., the 535,500-square-foot office building is located on Century Avenue.

Trinity.EC3 London office building

Trinity.EC3 London office building

Trinity.EC3, City of London project for Beetham Organization: Mansell Street design by Foreign Office Architects, London crystal-shaped buildings, property

King’s College Neuroscience Institute, London

A new £45m Neuroscience research facility for King’s College London (KCL) Denmark Hill campus in Southeast London, designed by Devereux Architects and Allies and Morrison Architects, received planning approval this week.

Esplanada Forum Building Barcelona

Esplanada Forum Building Barcelona

Sculptural concrete with simple plane of photovoltaics floating off four fair-faced concrete supports. The Pérgola fotovoltaica na esplanada Fórum also contains at the lower level a series of timber structures that were closed when I visited.