Subterranean architecture, underground buildings

MAAVC Building Portugal - Subterranean Architecture

The recently completed Easter Sculpture Museum by Exit Architects and the Museum of Art & Archaeology of the Coa Valley (MAACV) by Camilo Rebelo + Tiago Pimentel, located in Spain and Portugal respectively, share a quality that one might describe as `a subterranean aesthetic’.

Suzhou New District Commercial Plaza

Suzhou New District Commercial Plaza, China

The project is located in the core of the new development area next to Suzhou City. The aim was to create an attractive public urban plaza for the emerging center of the new district.

Tryon Bridge Beacons: Public Art in Charlotte

Tryon Bridge Beacons Charlotte

The Tryon Street Bridge is an important point of entry into uptown Charlotte. There is a sense of theatrical splendor that radiates from the assembly of high rise buildings seen from the bridge.

Placebo Architecture: Architectural Welbeing

Maggies Gartnavel Glasgow - Placebo Architecture

“Architecture implies building beautifully and well. Great architecture can be profoundly moving, can stir us more deeply than any other of the visual arts, for it is a three-dimensional art into which the beholder may enter and of which he may feel himself to be an integral part.”

Swiss Cottage Park, London Landscape

Swiss Cottage Park, Images, Architect, Building, Picture, Design, Centre, Project Swiss Cottage Landscape Photos of New London Park, England – design by Gustafson Porter Landscape Architects Swiss Cottage Park – photograph © Adrian Welch, taken on 17 Sep 2011: Information from Gustafson Porter Apr 2006 Swiss Cottage Park, London Design: Gustafson Porter, Landscape Architects Swiss … Read more

Globalized Architecture: Globalization & Building

New Waitomo Glowworm Caves Visitors Center Building Globalized Architecture

Nature is the first thing ignored during the age of globalization and can also be considered a victim of economic growth. The green movement has tried to present nature as the most considerable heritage of humankind; to revere the nature, to blossom in every single moment

Contextual Architecture: Roland Wahlroos-Ritter

Hamburger Hof Berlin Contextual Architecture

The Hamburger Hof in Berlin is a sensitive yet audacious intervention into and renovation of an 200 year old building ensemble. The project continues the historic programatic mix of culture, crafts, housing and offices and inserts dramatic new volumes strategically to retain spatial qualities.

Maria-Theresian-Straße: Innsbruck Street, Austria

Maria-Theresian-Straße: Innsbruck Street, Austria

After five years’ planning and construction, the car-free zone of Maria-Theresian-Straße in Innsbruck, Austria, is now completed and will be opened to the public with a street party starting at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 6, 2011

King’s Cross Square London – Public Realm

King’s Cross Square, Urban Landscape Design, Building Project News, Property King’s Cross Square London Public Realm Development in London, England, UK – design by Stanton Williams 22 Jul 2011 King’s Cross Square REVEALED: DESIGNS BY STANTON WILLIAMS FOR LONDON’S NEWEST PUBLIC SQUARE AT KING’S CROSS Plans to create a new public space for London by … Read more