Dutch architects Mecanoo have unveiled their masterplan for a new business centre in the Longgang district of Shenzhen, China. The development will include 8,000 residences and 400,000 square metres of commercial space including a hotel, shopping mall, offices and small businesses, linked by boulevards, promenades and squares. Here’s some text from Mecanoo Architecten: – Masterplan Longgang City..
The winners of the first ever FormShift Vancouver have been selected. In the Vancouver Primary category, honors go to a submission from Calgary-based Sturgess Architecture. The Vancouver Secondary choice is Romses Architects (Scott Romses) – Vancouver. In the third and final category – Vancouver Wildcard – the nod goes to Go Design Collaborative (Jennifer Uegama and Pauline Thimm) of Vancouver. ..
The team composed of graduates of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and headed by Cesar Perez Becerril, has been announced winner in a national competition for a memorial to commemorate the Bicentennial of Mexican Independence. The design proposes a vertical height of 104 meters of coated quartz and slender, which eliminates the role and obstruction of reform. “It’s simple and effecti..
Belgian practice BURO II designed some new projects around this historic site with a great importance to the city of Ostend. This is, amongst others, determined by its location: the proximity to the sea the Royal Galleries and the historically important Thermae Palace. The former racecourse for horse racing was turned into a collection of projects, and a crossroads of activities, which bring a n..
xian horticulture expo, courtesy serie architects xian horticulture expo, courtesy serie architects serie architects have just sent images of their 'xian horticulture expo masterplan' that was awarded a 2nd prize in xian china. like the xian city wall, this new structure, named the 'five climates crossing' will mark the centre of the park and simultaneously act as a connector, linking the entran..
Since March 12, the City of Oslo exhibits the 40 contributions for the Munch Area and the Deichman Axis architecture competition (previously on Bustler). The list of invited architects includes names like Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, and Foreign Office Architects. Among the prequalified architects are Diller Scofido Renfro, Sauerbruch Hutton, and Kengo Kuma Associates. The Munch Area will have the ne..
The Australian suburb was born out of our dependance on the car. With Peak Oil rapidly approaching the epoch of the automobile with soon come to an end and with it so will the Australian outer suburb. Where will suburbanites live when there is no other means of circulation to their homes? What will we do with our abandoned and decaying suburbs? And most importantly, what will we do with the 50% ..
On September 17, 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy marked the inauguration of “La Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine”, the visionary plan for a new ‘Grand Paris’, by stating his wish for international consultation on a “new comprehensive development project for Greater Paris” which would bring together the professional expertise of ten architecture and urban planning agencies. The consu..
Just a few days ago, we reported on drdharchitects’s winning proposal in the international competition to design a new library and concert hall in Bodø, Norway. Here is another exciting proposal for Bodø’s new cultural center that made it into the shortlist, by London-based Langdon Reis Zahn in collaboration with 4B Arkitekter and Gullik Gulliksen Landscape Arkitekter. This is how the architects..
The project explores how new forms of habitable infrastructure might be extrapolated from a geopolitical agreement – in this case, materializing architectural form from the legal interstices of the Oslo Accords. The result is a fantastic example of architectural speculation: genuinely massive – and impossibly cantilevered – bridges used as transport links, aerial housing, and skyborne agricultur..
