A Directory of Great Architectures
A Directory of Great Architectures
Located in Hangzhou, China, the Raffles City Hangzhou is a 60-storey building designed by UNStudio. The mixed-use building covers retail spaces, offices, housing and a 5-star hotel with a total floor area of almost 300,000 square metres. Due for realisation…
Sited in the heart of downtown Toronto’s financial core, Bay Adelaide Centre West has been certified substantially complete since July last year. The 51-storey building was designed by WZMH Partners and built to achieve the LEED Gold standard (Leadership in…
Consisting of one tower and two wing building, the Hamburg BSU Office Building is due for completion in 2013. The project was designed by Sauerbruch Hutton with main concept of combining passive and active measures to reduce the building’s energy…
Designed for optimal solar orientation and community interaction, the SANY Beijing was poroposed by Perkins+Will with the help of Urban Design group, Corporate + Commercial + Civic architecture group and the Shanghai office. With design concept of “in harmony with…
Wow, thanks to the internet that make it possible and easy to share anything. I found the reproduction of Eiffel’s original designs that originally published in the book “The 300 Meter Tower”, Lemercier publications, Paris 1900. I’ve never visited the…
The design of Faroe Islands Education Center was porposed by BIG with the help of Fuglark, Lemming & Eriksson, Sámal Johannesen, Martin E. Leo and KJ Elrad. The project is located on a hillside, 100 m above the sea level…
Located on the banks of the River Tees, UK, the new biomass power plant will be built to produce 49.3MW of power. This man-made mountain power plant is designed by Thomas Heatherwick, and is beleived to decrease carbon emissions by…
Designed by Zaha Hadid (one of famous architects that I like most), the construction of Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum is reported to begin in March 2010 and is due for completion two years later. Encased with glass and…
