A Directory of Great Architectures
A Directory of Great Architectures
With a focused look at sustainability, the Hong Kong-based architecture firm lO has been developing a series of research projects aimed at improving the quality of the built environment. One project, the Indigo Tower, takes an active stance and addresses…
[Google-translated from Spanish] The city of Valencia is suffering an economic and cultural development very important in recent years, which is resulting in a recycling process model and growth of the city. Among many other projects, perhaps the most ambitious…
The Sliced Porosity Block—the Raffles City development designed by Steven Holl Architects in Chengdu—celebrates its topping out at 123 meters. Located just south of the intersection of the First Ring Road and Ren Min Nan Road, the 3 million square…
van der Architects, a Tokyo-based architect firm, shared with us their latest project called “Opportunity Squared”. This is a parking tower with a penthouse at the top, to be built in central Tokyo in 2012.
[Google-translated from Spanish] The history of skyscrapers “The Llum” has its origin in September 2001, in response to international architectural competition that aims to management of lower Manhattan in New York as a result of the disaster a year ago.
This multifamily housing project consisting of 84 high level apartments, plus four luxury penthouses was constructed on a densely wooded site that included eighty-foot tall pecan trees. To protect as much of this site as possible and to take advantage…
Neighbor to the Hollywood landmark Cinerama Dome, Sunset Vine Tower is a conversion of a 22-story office building into a 63-unit apartment building. This adaptive reuse project stands atop street-level retail. As the tallest building in Hollywood, Sunset Vine Tower’s…
Sarpsborg, May 31, 2011 – Sarpsborg is a green, flat and calm piece of South Norway and a traditional stopover for travellers on the route to and from Sweden. In 2004, the Norwegian Highway Department together with the Regional Government…
