Bruce Ratner originally looked to Frank Gehry to design the Atlantic Yards’ basketball arena, a 22 acre development project in Brooklyn. Gehry’s scheme looked promising as the arena and surrounding buildings were carefully categorized in different zones and then reassembled to create “startling urban moments.” When Gehry was fired early in the summer and replaced by Kansas-based firm Ellerbe Bec..
London practice Amanda Levete Architects have completed the facade of an office building off Oxford Street in London. Work on 10 Hills Place is now complete. Amanda Levete Architects has harnessed high quality ship hull technology to create an ingenious sculptural facade for a new office building just off London’s Oxford Street. Lack of daylight in the narrow streets around this major retail art..
John Wardle Architects and Office dA have been named the winners of the competition to design the landmark new Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning site at the University of Melbourne. Winning design for the new Architecture Faculty Building of the University of Melbourne by John Wardle Architects and Office dA The building will include dedicated spaces for research into sustainable pr..
The future well being of cities around the globe depends on mankind’s ability to develop and integrate sustainable technology. LAVA designed the Masdar City as the city of the future; positioned at the forefront of integrating sustainable technology into modern architectural design. Rome, Athens, Florence; most great historical cities have had the plaza, forum, or square at their epicentre – whe..
Architect: BIG Client: Kazakhstan Presidential Office Collaborators: ARUP AGU Size: 33.000 M2 Location: Astana, Kazakhstan Partner-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels Project Leader: Thomas Christoffersen Team: Amy Campbell, Jakob Henke, Johan Cool, Jonas Barre, Daniel Sundlin BIG was recently awarded with the first prize on an open international design competition for Kazakhstan’s new National Library in ..
Danish designers Oluf Lund and Eva Paarmann will introduce new furniture designs at CODE09 during Copenhagen Design Week, between August 27th and September 6th, 2009. Below are some of their new designs: from contemporist
Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects have won the competition for a new clubhouse in Fælledparken. The new clubhouse will be common to the four soccer clubs in Fælledparken; Heimdal, Viktoria, ØIF and HB. It was important to create a building that in scale blend in with the local area and Fælledparken. The building is designed as one large unit and carefully placed with perfect view over the park and or..
i.M.A.D.E is an institute within Ball State University, focusing on digital design and fabrication techniques for both industry and education related to architecture and allied arts. It acts as an effective link between the academy and the manufacturing industry, with all the benefits this alliances bring: the fresh ideas on one side, and the technical capacity on the other. With strategic indus..
Korean architects Hohyun Park and Hyunjoo Kim have completed Z-House, a residence in Gwangju Si near Seoul. Situated at the top of a steep hill, the building is surrounded by woods to the west and has views across the surrounding mountains to the south. The Z-shaped roof is made of black zinc and wraps around the upper level of the house. The upper level is clad in red cedar wood in contrast to ..
The Austria Pavilion designed by Solid Architecture for the Expo Zaragoza 2008 was an extension of the popular 19th-century “cyclorama” art form. The viewer platform in the center of the panorama and the plastically designed historic panorama architecture in the foreground merge into a white landscape marked by contour lines, which will serve as the pavilion’s exhibition space. This abstracted l..