A Directory of Great Architectures
A Directory of Great Architectures
The design of ‘Italian Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010’ shown here is the 3rd prize winner. The architect, BiCuadro Architects, trying to express Italian city: ‘the historic city layered’ by exposing a split casing in a series of plates “stratigraphy”.…
The 1KL can be called as a high-end building as it utilizing fingerprint sensor (as you can find on high-end laptop) to match the resident with his room. Designed by SDA Architects, this high-rise building will stand 155 tall. And…
Designed by Torofu, a Tokyo-based architect, this family house is located in Yokohama, Japan. It has uncommon 3D mass especially on it roof. This one-storey house is constructed with cast concrete. The house being one-storied, we were able to form…
The new faculty building for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan has been awarded as the first World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture 2008 in Barcelona last week. According to the Festival director Paul Finch, the…
Foster + Partners has won the best ‘New and Old’ category for its Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard during WAF (World Architecure Festival) 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. The judge mentioned the Smithsonian Institution as ‘an exquisite example’ of the insertion…
Situated in New York City, the 23 East 22nd Street Residential High-Rise building is the first OMA’s tower in the city. The construction is expected to be completed in 2010 and it will rise to 107m high which offers views…
Designed by Morphogenesis, the Pearl Academy of Fashion is created as a sustainabale building by combining traditional technic and modern technology. From the outside, the building look simple with cubic shape. It’s located in Jaipur, India and adopting the traditional…
Jægersborg Water Tower was converted into a mixed-use building, an interesting idea. The architect who had responsibility to design the project was Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps as a result of a competition in 2004. It’s sited on 5,370 sqm of…
