Architect: 1100 Architect Location: New York, USA Principal: Juergen Riehm, David Piscuskas Project Architect: Christine Harper Project Managers: Bo Lee, Sebastian Kaempf Designer: Jessica Spiegel MEP Engineer: ESC Consulting Engineers Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates General Contractor: Hunter Roberts Construction Group Exterior Consultant: Israel Berger Project Year: 2008 Construc..
statoilhydro office, norway eco office, a-lab eco office, sustainable architecture, green design, energy-efficient architecture, green building This stunning energy-efficient office recently won a competition to design the 2012 location for Norway’s oil company StatoilHydro. Conceived by Oslo’s A-lab, the modern and flexible office compound took the winning bid from a pool of some 40 entries. Th..
KHR Architects wins competition for new school, leisure space and library in Ørestad City KHR architects won the competition for a new school, leisure space and library in Ørestad City with consulting engineers WSP Group Cenergia Energy Consult and Bisgaard Landscape Architects ApS. They won over Witraz architects and architects Henning Larsen. The reasons for the choice of architects KHR for th..
dutch firm cie architects recently received first prize in the competition to design the tianjin urban planning museum, china. the building is composed of 3 distinct sections: urban planning museum and offices, new year's painting gallery and studios, and a conference centre totaling 29,000 sqm including parking. the conceptual framework for the project emerged from superimposing different urban..
RECENT CBD’S... Many recent Central Business’ Districts (CBD) consist of series of more or less straightforward office towers without much coherence, each of them celebrating individuality over the collective. These developments are leading to very similar CBD’s. Is this desirable? Or can we find a way to combine individuality with more collective urban qualities? Can there be a more distinguish..
Architects: Babel Architecture / Sharon Rotbard, Dan Hasson, Yuval Yasky Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Collaborators: Shira Gleitman, Jessy Feng, Igor Shevchenko, Amit Mandelkern, Omer Barr Structure Consultant: Itzhak Rokach, Rokach-Ashkenazi Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Cons..
Danish practice schmidt hammer lassen architects (SHL Architects) has won an international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia. The €228 ($288) million scheme, located in Aarhus, Denmark, will become a new visual and cultural focal point for the city whilst pioneering the next generation of library design. SHL Architects was announced the winner on..
Evoking the space of a forest, or of a group of bamboos on a surface of water, has been the main aim of the project. On the one hand there is a desire to create a building mechanism able to generate incredible possibilities from the point of view of energy logic and environmental awareness, an essential and symbolic aspect for the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exposition of Zaragoza. But..
Arquitecto: Anonimous-Led - Alfonso Jimenez Ubicacion: Queretaro, Mexico Diseno de interiores: Maru Enciso, Alfonso Jimenez Equipo: Jorge Plascencia, Noemi Diez Marina, Ainare Urien, Heliana Echavarria, Raul Cordoba, Jose Carlos Villarreal, Alicia Lopez Construccion: Anonimous (Jorge Plascencia), Raul Cordoba, Jose Carlos Villarreal, Alicia Lopez Fotografia: Maricarmen Chavez Galas Dos cajas de ..
Secretary of State for Cultura Media and Sport Andy Burnham, will officially open Alison Brooks Architect’s Quarterhouse Performing Arts and Business Centre in Folkestone, located in the Kent district, England. The ceremony will take place in March 5. The building is the centrepiece of the city’s arts-led regeneration programme spearheaded by client The Creative Foundation. The 1550 sqm includes..