Kaufhauskanal Housing, Hamburg Building by BIG

Kaufhauskanal Housing, Hamburg Building Project News, Design, Property Images Kaufhauskanal Housing Hamburg Hamburg Residential Development design by BIG in Germany, Europe 11 May 2009 Kaufhauskanal Hamburg English text (scroll down for German): Design: BIG The IBA Hamburg is a building exhibition which is running in Hamburg until 2013 and has as its mission to develop … Read more

10 Trinity Square, London Hotel Building

10 Trinity Square, London Hotel Building, Project, News, Design, Property, Image 10 Trinity Square London Hotel Development + Spa + Apartments England – design by Woods Bagot 6 May 2009 10 Trinity Square CITY GIVES PLANNING CONSENT FOR LONDON’S MOST LUXURIOUS NEW HOTEL Design: Woods Bagot The restoration of one of London’s best known buildings … Read more

Delft Student Housing, Dutch Building by Mecanoo

Student Housing Delft, Holland Building, Dutch Project, Photo, Design, Image Student Housing Delft Holland : Architecture Information Delft Residential Development – design by Mecanoo in The Netherlands 3 Apr 2009 Student Housing Delft Date built: 2009 Design: Mecanoo Architecten Shortage The numbers of students enrolled at the Technical University of Delft has increased dramatically in … Read more

Clifton Wharf, Gravesend Building, England

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

Beihai Fake Hills: Chinese residential development

Beihai Fake Hills design by MAD Architects

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?