In the 1970’s architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, both unknown at the time, collaborated and erected one of the most famous and radical buildings of our time, Centre Georges Pompidou. The cultural center in Paris, France turned our world inside out, literally. It all began with Georges Pompidou, President of France from 1969 to 1974, who wanted to construct a cultural center in Paris that..
Architect: DLR Group Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA Owner: Phoenix Union High School District #210 Engineer: DLR Group Contractor: Adolfson & Peterson Construction Project Year: 2007 Area: 345,000 SF; 51 Acres Photographs: Mark Boisclair Challenge Adapt a school district’s commitment to the Small Schools Movement within a new 2,400 student urban high school. Beginning in 2000, the Phoenix Union High..
In 1954 Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill were commissioned to design the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. Located in El Paso Country, Colorado, just outside of Colorado Springs, the chapel is of the training center for officers of the United States Air Force which is a large self-contained community. At an elevation of 6500 feet on the East of the Rocky Mountains, the 3,000 acre Academy ..
Here’s another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier stories here and here) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting this week in South Africa. Above photograph by Bruce Sutherland Called Green Point Stadium, the project is located in Cape Town and has a capacity of 68,000 on three tiers. Once the 2010 FIFA World Cup is over 13,000 of these seats will be removed and repl..
Industrial designer Alvaro Uribe has created the Celebration Lamp. Celebration Lamp is a project aimed to transmit to the world the most profound spirit of Latin American culture; the celebration of life through dancing. Dance, is the one human activity where conjunctively we get together to rejoice about our existence. Through dance, our senses are activated, our bodies stretch, our eyes and ea..
Architects: C+C04STUDIO Location: Cagliari, Italy Collaborators: Ing. S.Pusceddu, Ing G.Meloni Contractor: Edilizia Bandini snc Budget: € 400,000 Project Year: 2005 Photographs: Pierluigi Dessì / Confinivisivi The building is located in the hinterland of Cagliari, in one of the smaller towns developed in the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century and lacking in the quality of construction and form..
Architects: Laurens & Loustau Architects Location: Toulouse (31), France Project Team: Marc Laurens, Pierre Loustau, Elsa Hiernaux, Joanne Pouzenc Client: S.A Cogemip, Région Midi-Pyrénées Engineer: Iosis Sud-Ouest Project Area: 1,493 sqm Project Year: 2006-2008 Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau The building displayed is the new INP gymnasium, situated on the universuity campus of Toulouse-labège, ..
Architects: Laurens & Loustau Architects Location: Toulouse (31), France Project Team: Marc Laurens, Pierre Loustau Client: S.A Cogemip, Région Midi-Pyrénées Engineer: Ingénierie Studio Project Area: 2,810 sqm Project Year: 2002-2004 Photographs: Damien Aspe All the area devoted to the pole of graphic arts at the Lycée Jolimont takes up a whole plot of land along an athletic track. The ground-fl..
Architects: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Location: Sydney, Australia Landscape: FJMT Cost Consultant: Davis Langdon Australia Structural & Civil Consultant: Taylor Thomson Whitting Mechanical & Electrical Consultant: Lincolne Scott Hydraulic Consultant: ThomsonKane Environmental consultant: Advanced Environmental Concepts Acoustic consultant: Arup Acoustics Facade Engineer: Connell Mott MacDonald..
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the world’s first Ferrari theme park and largest attraction of its kind, has announced that it will open its doors to the public on October 28, 2010, three weeks ahead of the second Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will pay tribute to the passion, excellence, performance, and technical innovation that Ferrari has established over th..
