Palm Island Dubai Property, UAE Houses

Palm Jumeirah Dubai UAE island

Dubai Palm Island will include a huge amount of new property – 2,000 villas, up to 40 luxury hotel buildings, shopping complexes, cinemas and the Middle East’s first marine park.

EXPO-2017 Astana, Kazakhstan Buildings

EXPO-2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan

The Expo in this former Soviet republic, equivalent in size to Western Europe, opened on June 10. Construction of the $3 billion, 18 million-sqft ‘city’ has taken just four years to complete.

New Vardheim Health Centre in Randaberg Building

Vardheim Healthcare Centre building in Norway | www.e-architect.com

The New Vardheim Health Centre in Randaberg is inspired by the old type of Norwegian vernacular building typology called a grend, where a small cluster of houses creates a micro community. The centre will accommodate various healthcare programmes and, with its green courtyards.

Swansea City Centre Regeneration

Swansea City Centre Regeneration design

Design: ACME, Architects: outline planning permission for a major new leisure, retail and residential quarter in the centre of Wales’ second city. Swansea Central will re-establish a network of pedestrian streets and squares aligned to the historic character of the city centre.

Battersea Power Station Designs, Nine Elms

Battersea Power Station Designs

Third Phase Designs Construction Manager news. The designs by Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners for £8bn redevelopment third phase of the iconic building will deliver a cluster of ‘wavy and wonky’ buildings for over 1,300 homes plus a high street of shops and a hotel. Sir Robert McAlpine appointed.

New Manila Bay City of Pearl Project

New Manila Bay - City of Pearl Project | www.e-architect.com

Hong Kong architecture firm hpa announce its largest and most innovative project, envisioned as a self-sustainable, revolutionary and eco-nouveau city in the capital of the Philippines

Wuxi Mansion of Canal

Wuxi Mansion of Canal | www.e-architect.com

Evergrande awarded BREEAM ‘Very Good’ Certificate for this residential development located on the bank of the ancient Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The project incorporates a large trade centre, a passenger transportation centre and metro hub.

SASSEUR Eco-tourist Village Chongqing City

Sasseur Eco-Tourist Village

Architects: HEIM Design. The Chongqing delegation to the National People’s Congress suggested that the city of Chongqing be the start of the Silk Road economic belt and the hub of a 21st century maritime Silk Road, connecting the Chinese interior with the rest of the world.

Carlsberg City District Masterplan Copenhagen

Carlsberg City District Masterplan

Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen. The former industrial site renowned for its rich architectural legacy has been re-emerging as a new sustainable city district: a dense city structure with attractive urban spaces, public transport, and new buildings that complement the existing historical structures.

Liverpool Waterfront: Peel Waters Masterplan

Liverpool Waters Plaza 1821

Residential tower of around 85,000 sqft: the multi-storey apartment block in Princes Dock will be built by Peel as the company’s first Private Rented Sector development project and bought by Liverpool-based Regenda.

Centrala Lindholmen in Gothenburg

Centrala Lindholmen

Architects: Henning Larsen. The vision is to turn Lindholmen into an area full of contrasts where students, business people and inhabitants can benefit from each other within the neighborhood.

Nevskaya Ratusha Masterplan St Petersburg

Nevskaya Ratusha

Design: TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten. Equal building heights, scales and interspaces altogether create a harmonic pattern connecting with the surroundings. Each building offers a two storey-high arcade towards the square as covered walk.

Tall Building Designs in Paris

Paris High-Rise Building Design

Building upwards in Paris: hyper-urbanisation of world cities requires new solutions for housing construction. Building permit figures in Paris show a growing interest in building upwards.

Wirral Waters Pop Up Village, Egerton Square

Wirral Waters Pop Up Village

OMI Architects selected to advance their competition winning designs for ‘Pop Up’ village at Egerton Square next to Wirral Metropolitan College, provide amenities for emerging Four Bridges quarter.