Eiffel Tower History, Paris, France

Eiffel Tower Paris architecture design

On March 26, 1888, the first floor level was finished, 57.63 metres above the Champ de Mars. The sixteen hydraulic jacks with a power of 800 tonnes each were then removed after the first platform was set exactly level.

Strata Hotel Sesto, Italy: Plasma Studio Building

Located on a steep hillside in the Italian Dolomites, this newly-built hotel was developed as a free-flowing topography–indexed and organized by a series of timber strips–and the serial sequence of apartment units perpendicular to it.

Almere Shop Building, Holland Store: Dutch Retail

Almere Shop Building, Holland, Architect, Netherlands Retail Design, Picture, Project, News Almere Retail Architecture Dutch Retail Development in The Netherlands – design by Geen Punt Architecten 19 Mar 2008 Almere Shop Beating heart of the residential area Date built: 2008 Design: Geen Punt Architecten The centre of a residential area in Almere (NL) contains a … Read more

Inverness Airport Business Park development news

Inverness Airport Business Park Development

A masterplan by Make architects for the largest business park development in the Highlands of Scotland is about to be submitted to The Highland Council for outline planning consent by Inverness Airport Business Park Limited.

Waterfront City – OMA Dubai Building, UAE

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has completed the Masterplan of Waterfront City, a city to be built from scratch by Nakheel in Dubai. Waterfront City will form a vibrant centre for the larger 140,000,000 m2 Waterfront development.

Madrid Civil Courts of Justice Building: Zaha Hadid

Campus de la Justicia Madrid by Zaha Hadid Architects

Due to the high demand for office space within the new masterplan that contains the Civil Courts of Justice, public space within the development has shifted from being a potential destination to becoming residual, fragmented and dispersed.

Medway Building Chatham, Kent University

The unique, brass–clad Medway building designed by RMJM has won a 2008 Civic Trust Award. It was praised by the Civic Trust judges as “the flagship building for the University of Kent.”

Warsaw Museum of Modern Art Competition

Warsaw Museum of Modern Art Competition: Warszawa MoMA

The Crystalline Container is an austere transparent parallelepiped protecting and revealing a strong dynamic space holding the many activities of the museum.

Multiplex Europalaces Gaumont Rennes building

Multiplex Europalaces Gaumont Rennes

This project forms part of the general development of the Charles de Gaulle esplanade that was given to the Nicolas Michelin team in April 2003. Between the Charles de Gaulle esplanade and Gambetta avenue, the project is structured according to the concept of an immense criss-crossing hall that offers two levels of theatres.