New ICT Park at Konza There are 4 regions that compromise the Nairobi Metro Region area. The city area of Nairobi measures 684 sq kilometres alone, with the larger metro area covering 3,000sq. km. The land of Nairobi’s region falls from the edge of the Rift Valley in the west at an elevation of 2,300 metres, to 1,500 metres to the east of the city, with the centre of the city standing at 1,700 m..
Carving out a gigantic void in the middle of Copenhagen’s City Hall Square, Larry Hill’s conceptual approach for a new metro station calls attention to the activity of passengers as well as the trains. “The project aims to put the public in the City Hall Square, as well as on it. The void and the metro machine is thus a seamless part of the city,” explained the architect. The scale-less amorphou..
Jeffrey Durkin, founder of Breadtruck Films, has documented the ongoing efforts of the architect + developer movement to revitalize San Diego’s urban waterfront. In a city where a tree, let alone a patch of grass, is hard to come by, architect Lindsay Brown has proposed a public park along the edge of the city to break the monotonous hardscape of buildings and highways that dominate the area. Th..
Dutch practice Maxwan architects + urbanists wins first prize in the competition for a new cultural center and park in the city of Ostrava, Czech Republic. Ostrava is bidding to become the 2015 Cultural Capital of Europe. Every year, the European Capital of Culture is designated to act as catalyst for the cultural development and the transformation of the chosen city. The focus of the competitio..
SWA Group announced this week that its plan for a transformative 7-kilometer swath of Yangtze River waterfront of the Hexi New Town in Nanjing, China, was selected as the winning entry among the four finalist teams and will begin detailed design in July toward anticipated initial construction beginning in 2011. Nanjing is one of China’s most ancient metropolitan centers dating back 2500 years an..
Amsterdam-based studio FABRIC won the most important prize for Dutch young architects. The Prix the Rome is more than 200 years old and is awarded once each four years. Last Tuesday, June 8, the jury chaired by Aron Betsky, selected FABRIC as the winner. FABRIC’s proposal ‘Slabs, Fabrics and Open Space’ wins Prix de Rome 2010 FABRIC’s winning design introduces Free Zones for planning, open publi..
Foster + Partners to create the world's first zero carbon, zero waste city in Abu Dhabi The first project as a result of the Masdar Initiative is a new 6 million square meter sustainable development that uses the traditional planning principals of a walled city, together with existing technologies to achieve a zero carbon and zero waste community. Masterplanned by Foster + Partners and launched ..
Henning Larsen Architects has won third place in the competition for the ’Nairobi Greater Metropolitan Region’ together with the Niras Consultants and the local partner ETC. The objective of the extensive planning assignment was to strengthen the identity of the Kenyan region thereby creating the basis for growth and development in the area. An important focus area has been to find solutions for..
The Permanent Secretary for Transport and Housing (Transport), Mr Francis Ho, said at the prize presentation ceremony last week that the superb quality of entries for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB)‧Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities (HKBCF) International Design Ideas Competition had provided lots of valuable creative concepts to serve as reference for the detailed design of the HKB..
Yesterday, we announced the Professional Group winners of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB)‧Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities (HKBCF) International Design Ideas Competition. Following is the stunning proposal ‘Ephemeral Roof Exchange’ by Austrian architects Steven Ma Tze Chung, Wendy Fok Wei Yue and Dominik Strzelec that was awarded the Second Place in the competition’s Open Group. 2..
