MVRDV and ADEPT win Copenhagen high-rise competition with ‘Sky Village’ design The municipality of Rødovre, an independent municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark, announced today MVRDV and co-architect ADEPT winner of the design competition of the Rødovre Skyscraper. The 116 meter tall tower accommodates apartments, a hotel, retail and offices. A public park and a plaza are also part of the private..
Architects: Akihisa Hirata Location: Tokyo, Japan Program: Shopping Design Year: 2006-2007 Construction Year: 2007 Site Area: 538 sqm Constructed Area: 851.5 sqm Photographer: Akihisa Hirata This is a set of commercial tenant building in Daikanyama, Tokyo. From legal condition it was demanded to build several small volumes in narrow site, and we decided to make several volumes that seemed to be ..
Well, here we have another skyscrapper in Dubai, this time in the shape of a giant wind turbine. When I saw this, i thought it had this turbine to generate eolic energy, but actually it’s a structure that holds a panoramic restaurant in the glass capsule at the top of the building, as you can see on the further images. The 2,15 feet (655m) tall tower includes a mixed use developement with ret..
Foreign Office Architects have unveiled their design for the redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station in Birmingham, UK. The metal-clad station features digital information boards at the entrance and is designed to handle over 52 million passengers per year. The £600 million project, titled New Street New Start is due to be completed in 2014. See also our story on Meydan shopping square by..
Las obras mínimas suelen condensar lo mejor de un arquitecto. Suelen también acabar entre las obras preferidas y mejor recordadas por sus autores. Ocurre esto, muchas veces, a pesar de ser tales obras las menos rentables, las que más trabajo han costado, las menos divulgadas. XXS disfrutará, sin duda, del lado bueno de ese destino. Located in Krakovo, the very centre of Ljubljana, a historical v..
Durante el proceso de diseño de la biblioteca se reinterpretaron los edificios existentes, construidos en base a plantas estandarizadas y repetibles. El proyecto tomó conceptualmente dichos edificios como punto de partida, girándolos, haciéndolos interactuar entre sí hasta obtener un esquema que vagamente recuerda al sembrado de edificios existentes. La planta está compuesta por barras que colap..
b720 architects won the competition for the World Trade Center at Igualada, Spain. The complex will articulate the existing industrial city with the residential zone, completing a new zone of infrastructure for this developing city. The complex consist of 4 buildings with a total area of 53.000 sqm, including 530 underground parking spaces. This project will hold offices, retail spaces. Retail s..
Peter Thuvander and Martin Hedenström of Swedish design group Muungano have won the Swedish Library Bus of the Year award for this library bus. The library bus, designed for the town of Kiruna, won the award from the Swedish Librarian Society. The bus incorporates a library, small cinema, computer games, a sofa for listening to music and internet access. The graphics were designed by Fredrik For..
Architects: Gigaplex Architects Location: Woodland, Utah, USA Client: Jonathan “Earl” Stein Project year: 2006 Constructed area: 147 sqm Photographs: Gigaplex Program: Our charge was to design a house for a newly single man with two grown daughters from whom he expects multiple grandchildren. Earl, the client, is foremost a sound engineer, but also a screenwriter (of course), director and produc..
Architects: Kristin Jarmund Architects Location: Oslo, Norway Project year: 2005-2008 Project Team: Kristin Jarmund, Leif D. Houck, Børge N. Anfinsen, Gunn Andresen, Nora Müller, Arild Eriksen, Aud Randi Astad Client: Bertel O.Steen Constructed Area: 23,500 sqm Photographs: Leif D. Houck Functionally the building is a combined office building, car salesroom and workshop. Formally we worked with ..
