In the first public presentation of one of the biggest challenges in French urban development of the last 50 years Finn Geipel presents LIN’s vision for the Metropolis of the future at Palais de Chaillot in Paris
Design Team Appointed to improve Chorley’s Green Spaces. The design team who are going to help spend £364,250 rejuvenating Chorley’s green spaces has been selected following a four month competition.
Four one meter thick parallel walls, built in reinforced concrete colored red with pigment constructed as rough, untreated surfaces give the space the building form, like the ruins of an old battery, at the same time defining structure and shape
RIBA and Cassina are currently presenting a reconstruction of Le Corbusier’s beach hut Cabanon, which is designed and built in 1952 for his holidays at Cap-Martin.
The new Oceanographic Museum OZEANEUM is located on the city’s historic waterfront immediately adjacent to the historic centre which has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has unveiled designs for a new 300,000m² ski jump and sports complex in Russia’s historic city of Nizhny Novgorod, a training facility and reserve site for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Tortona 37 Milan – design by Matteo Thun & Partners: the transformation of Via Tortona, which was started by the businessman Alessandro Cajrati Crivelli back in the 1990s, is continuing, revealing its full potential for redeveloping and reinterpreting some of the most interesting urban spots in the metropolis.
Clifton Wharf, Gravesend Building, KPF English Project, Picture, News, Design, Property, Image Clifton Wharf, Gravesend Building Development in Gravesend, Kent, England, UK – design by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) 17 Mar 2009 Clifton Wharf Development KPF wins planning approval for Gravesend riverside renewal project Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (London) have won planning approval for … Read more
The new kindergarten in Sesvete is one of more poetic projects in recent Croatian architecture, according to the architects Radionica arhitekture
Adelaide Oval is widely regarded as the most picturesque Test cricket ground in the world, with St Peter’s Cathedral rising behind the elegant Edwardian scoreboard and Moreton Bay fig trees at the northern end, the Mount Lofty Ranges to the east, and nearby city skyline to the south.
Erdos Museum, Gobi Desert building, Inner Mongolia – design by MAD Architects – Gobi Desert masterplan: Erdos Museum building, Mongolian architecture
The principal factor in the design is the optimisation of views to the sea and harbour for all tenants. The orientation of the apartment tower is therefore set on the radial axis of the harbour.
UK-based international architectural practice RMJM has provided the architectural concept design for a new onshore substation for London Array, the largest consented offshore wind farm in Europe.
Throughout China’s ultra-rapid urbanization, attention has been focused on set-piece architecture: opera houses, museums, stadia. However these would-be icons are the exception rather than the rule. The vast majority of development in China’s new cities takes the form of residential schemes, often standardized and cheap to guarantee a quick return for the developer. Is it possible to build high-density, economically viable housing which is also architecturally innovative?